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It is the 26th century, and humanity is dying.
Twenty years ago, the backwater colony world of harvest went silent. At first, a single scout ship was dispatched to check up on the colony. Attacks from terrorist groups were not uncommon, and an FTL communications system was a juicy target for such groups. The scout ship arrived, sent a single message to confirm that it was in the system, and then promptly disappeared. Following that, a nearby battlegroup of three warships was dispatched to the planet. A single destroyer and a pair of escorting frigates, a force that was more than enough to find out just what had happened to the planet. Almost two months passed before the fleet returned, when the sole surviving destroyer limped back to the stronghold world of Reach and reported what it had found.
The fleet had dropped out of FTL travel right above the planet. Or what remained of it. The world had been turned from a paradise of green grasslands and blue oceans, to an inhospitable ball of glass and ice. A single ship of alien origin sat in orbit and send only a single message to the human vessels.
"Your destruction is the will of the gods, and we are their instrument."
The resulting battle lasted all of 30 seconds and resulted in the unprepared fleet being decimated. The sole surviving vessel, the destroyer Hercules, only survived the engagement as it's slipspace drive was still spooled up and ready to go. And even then, the battle had crippled it, forcing it to use its backup reactor in order to return to Reach.
This first engagement would set the general trend for naval battles throughout the war. Trial and error would lead to tactics that would give humanity better odds in battle, and the genius of officers like the great Admiral Cole could even achieve a positive kill/loss ratio in certain battles. Massive shipyards mass-produced warships around the clock, and all of humanity's military might was consolidated under the command of the UNSC.
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>>5914295 And in spite of that, humanity is loosing. On average it took 3 UNSC warships to be lost for every single enemy vessel killed. The enemy would be officially identified as "The Covenant" a few months after the first battle of Harvest. This alliance of religiously fanatic aliens had declared a holy war against humanity, and they would not stop until they were wiped out. Over a two dozen worlds had been lost as the alien invaders slaughtered the outer colonies. Each world burned into a ball of broken glass by Covenant orbital bombardment. Victories were still won by the UNSC, but at the cost of great heroes. The last stand of Admiral Cole at Psi Serpentis still burned brightly in the minds of many. Both for the loss of the brilliant admiral, and the sheer number of enemy vessels he was able to take down with him.
And as the alien menace carves their way towards earth, it falls on the shoulders of a select few to strike back against the enemy, no matter the cost.
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>Commander N.Wells, assigned to destroyer DD-457 >Commander N.Wells, assigned to [DATA ERROR] >ERROR STACK OVERFLOW ========================================
First option will result in the quest continuing from the last thread, you’ll have the old MC and the shit from then, but it’s also later in the war.
The second option will be a soft restart, same character but with the option to do stuff differently at a different time in the setting, your choice on when.
The third option will be for a hard reset with a new character.
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>>5914299 >ERROR STACK OVERFLOW Anonymous
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>>5914299 >>ERROR STACK OVERFLOW Ayyyyyy I've missed this
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>>5914299 >Commander N.Wells, assigned to destroyer DD-457 Good to have you back, QM.
One thing I would change is chalk up the final fight we had to sheer luck. Anonymous
>>5914299 Why would it be later in the war now?
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>>5914338 The original start date was 2545, and events in the quest took things forward to 46/47 at the very least. That leaves less than 5 years left before the end of the war, unless something dramatic happens.
Either restart option would give you more time (and battles) to enjoy before the absolute murder fest that would be the end of the war.
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>>5914299 >Commander N.Wells, assigned to [DATA ERROR] Anonymous
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>>5914299 >ERROR STACK OVERFLOW Anonymous
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>>5914299 >ERROR STACK OVERFLOW Anonymous
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>>5914299 >ERROR STACK OVERFLOW >>5914357 Well guess we can try to win again.
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>>5914299 >Commander N.Wells, assigned to destroyer DD-457 Guys if we do a restart as another person we don’t get Dyad back
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>>5914299 >>Commander N.Wells, assigned to destroyer DD-457 Anonymous
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>>5914299 >Commander N.Wells, assigned to destroyer DD-457 As Halo 3 said, finish the fight.
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>>5914357 Thunderhead, can you collate the Wells posts since it’s split between two options?
So maybe it’s
>5 >4 >7 But since the Wells options are 9 in total we go with one of those?
If that’s the way anons go of course
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>>5914299 >ERROR STACK OVERFLOW Anonymous
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>>5914299 >Commander N.Wells, assigned to destroyer DD-457 Or
>Commander N.Wells, assigned to [DATA ERROR] Thunderhead !H2opjANA/2
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>>5914381 Sure, but I'll give it another half an hour before calling the vote to make it fair for the full reset option.
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>>5914299 >Commander N.Wells, assigned to destroyer DD-457 Anonymous
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>>5914299 >Commander N.Wells, assigned to destroyer DD-457 Or
>Commander N.Wells, assigned to [DATA ERROR] Welcome back thunder. Been too long.
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Preparing to send>Norman Wells >Commander >[5%] >[10%] >[15%] >[19%] >2535 >2540 >2545 >Other (write in)
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>>5914430 >Clippy That bastard haunts me in my nightmares
Can someone who knows Halo lore deeper than ‘Master Chief goes hard’ give me the tldr on the significance of the dates?
I came for the ships
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>>5914430 >2540 Missed the first vote, oh well. Glad to see it back, Thunderhead.
>>5914437 Individually the dates don't matter much without more context but on a grand scale of the war, 2535 is the last year of the war before things go from bad to unwinnable as the Covenant begin the siege of the inner colonies instead of just glassing backwaters.
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>>5914430 >>2545 Give me back that elite duel we had......
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>>5914430 >2345 Weird
Alao welcome back !!!!!!
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>>5914437 On top of what this anon said
>>5914446 the earlier you start, the more time you'll have to get promoted up to commanding more survivable ships before things get bad.
The earlier dates give you more outer-colony battles to distinguish yourself in, such as New Constantinople and the glassing of Kholo. With outer colony battles generally being smaller engagements due to the lack of defensive infrastructure around those colonies. Once you start reaching the inner colonies and prepared defenses, the covenant are gonna start bringing out larger fleets, and your ability to swing things on your own merit is gonna start falling off.
On top of that it affects what kind of ships are available. With the fewer and fewer CMA / pre-war vessels being available as time goes on. And that's a big one as the Sins of The Prophets guys made some <span class="mu-i">beautiful</span> CMA and pre-war ships that would just go to waste.
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>>5914430 >2535 Dammit I missed the opening vote. I miss our original character, especially that epic fucking duel.
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>>5914461 SotP has some crazy good models, hopefully you'll get the chance to show some off.
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>>5914430 >2535 Wait, did full restore lose? I would miss the comeback we had against the zealot(?)
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>>5914469 Unless I’m counting wrong continuing got more votes? Maybe the OR options did it?
Compromise between staying as Wells and a full reset I suppose.
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>>5914465 Yeah it was super kino, that moment was pure halo : super harsh mission, no aid and alone, risk of very heavy losses, need to do everything and more for have a chance of winning, and only humans. And gained through good rolls and good thinking, very disappointed it didn't won, is like throwing a legacy of badassery away.
Newcomers don t know what they just missed ........
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Input date:>2535 (soft restart with more time for fights) >2548 (continue from the last run, including the duel with your zealot)
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>>5914499 >>2548 (continue from the last run, including the duel with your zealot)Kino
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>>5914499 >2548 (continue from the last run, including the duel with your zealot) I'd prefer this but either one are fine to me
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>>5914499 >2548 (continue from the last run, including the duel with your zealot) Anonymous
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>>5914499 >2548 (continue from the last run, including the duel with your zealot) I'm a newcomer but it would be a shame to let a legend go uncelebrated.
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>>5914499 >2548 (continue from the last run, including the duel with your zealot) Anonymous
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>>5914499 >2548 (continue from the last run, including the duel with your zealot) RETURN MY PLASMA SWORD
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>>5914499 >>2535 (soft restart with more time for fights)I do think we can use a refresh.
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>>5914499 >>2548 (continue from the last run, including the duel with your zealot) Anonymous
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>>5914499 Honestly though what are your opinions on starting anew or where we left off Thunder? Anonymous
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>>5914499 >2548 (continue from the last run, including the duel with your zealot) Thank god.
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Date reference point set. Please describe military service history.>2 light MAC guns >26 missile pods (variable load) >4 point defense guns >1 Light MAC gun >20 missile pods (variable load) >6 naval coilgun systems >8 point defense guns >1 light MAC gun >28 missile pods (variable load) >4 naval coilguns >6 point defense guns >Cont
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>>5914588 Able class Heavy Destroyer / Destroyer Leader
The first ships in the UNSC fleet to mount a MAC gun as standard -beginning with the first command of the now famous Admiral Cole- the Able class was intended to serve as a destroyer leader style vessel, sitting between the expensive Halcyon class and cheaper frigates in the pre-war UNSC’s lineup. Unlike all other UNSC destroyers, the Ables mount the same heavy MACs as seen on larger cruisers, trading potential rate of fire for raw damage. However, as the largest destroyers in service, these vessels present an obvious target to even the dumbest enemies.
Armament:
>1 heavy MAC gun >24 missile pods (variable load) >6 naval coilguns >8 point defense guns Looking through the options, DD-457 is...
>A Halberd class vessel, mass produced with massive firepower. >A Resolute class vessel, old but not obsolete, especially for EW. >A Hillsborough class vessel, you are the shield of your flotilla. >An Able class vessel, you like big MACs and you cannot lie. Anonymous
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>>5914590 >An Able class vessel, you like big MACs and you cannot lie. Anonymous
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>>5914590 >A Resolute class vessel, old but not obsolete, especially for EW. I like having options.
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>>5914590 >>An Able class vessel, you like big MACs and you cannot lie. Anonymous
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>>5914590 >An Able class vessel, you like big MACs and you cannot lie. Halberd's are cool but Ables are better.
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>>5914590 Actually, are we stuck with only three rounds on the Able? If we're going by the ammo limit I think it'd rather stick with a Halberd or Resolute.
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>A Resolute class vessel, old but not obsolete, especially for EW.
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>>5914590 >An Able class vessel, you like big MACs and you cannot lie. Big guns never tire.
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>>5914590 If we have more then 3 shots,
>An Able class vessel, you like big MACs and you cannot lie. If not,
>A Halberd class vessel, mass produced with massive firepower. Anonymous
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>>5914590 >A Resolute class vessel, old but not obsolete, especially for EW. Anonymous
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>>5914590 >>A Resolute class vessel, old but not obsolete, especially for EW. Anonymous
>>5914588 >Resolute class Destroyer When we can make an order to fill the marines armory with knives, daggers, kukris, machetes, axes, maces and hammers.
Never will be said our men aren't ready for melee's.
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>>5914590 >>A Halberd class vessel, mass produced with massive firepower. Thunderhead !H2opjANA/2
>>5914778 As far as I'm aware, the 3-round issue was only an issue aboard the Gorgon, which was the first ship to <span class="mu-i">ever</span> mount a MAC gun. As that was an experimental mount, so the magazine may have been kept small on purpose while the UNSC evaluated it in service.
Vessels either refitted with or built from the keel-up with a MAC would probably have larger magazines. And as the 2525 refit more than doubled the ship's weapons load -bumping the archer load from 8 silos to 20 pods and 4 howler pods- I'd argue that the anemic MAC magazine would have been expanded as well. I don't have an exact number for the post-refit magazine, but if it follows the refit rate, you'd have at least 9 rounds. Plus one in the chamber.
That being said, I've never been anal about overall MAC magazine sizes as no other ship has a noted magazine capacity. The Strident heavy frigate does have a limited magazine size, but that doesn't have any numbers attached to it either. Besides, while you're naturally gonna have fewer rounds than on other vessels. But there's nothing from stocking extra rounds in your cargo holds, resupplying underway or loading light MAC rounds instead.
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>>5915275 Remind me if i am not mistaken where we looking at choice of upgrades, improvements and research options last time ?
I remember we wanted 4 more squads of marines and an ODST one. And we had many talks of robotics, weaponry and the like.
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>>5915275 Perfect, I'll stick with the Able then. And cool, you didn't factor in hard ammo limits previously but considering the Able is one of the few ships we even have a number for I thought it was worth asking.
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>>5915294 I'm still going through the previous threads to collate the upgrades and unlocks that have been unlocked, so I can't give specifics on that part. The only thing I distinctly remember are the nuclear MAC rounds, but those would come under the overall number of nuclear devices assigned to a ship and that's still up in the air as a few anons weren't happy at being limited to only 3 nukes.
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>>5915327 Fair enough, i consider that quite good.
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>>5914590 >An Able class vessel, you like big MACs and you cannot lie. Anonymous
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>>5914590 >A Resolute class vessel, old but not obsolete, especially for EW. Thunderhead !H2opjANA/2
Need a tiebreaker between the Able and the Resolute.
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>>5915728 Already voted, But I still want Able!
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>>5915736 This is a fairly important vote, so I'd prefer not to leave it up to the dice gods if I can avoid it.
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>>5915728 I’ll switch to Able
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A Resolute class vessel, old but not obsolete, especially for EW.
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>>5915743 Able boys have won!
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>>5915728 >Able I’m so happy this is back
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<span class="mu-g">Vessel identified.</span>>Everyone rolls a 1d20 and nominates 1 name. The 3 highest rolling names will then be selected for a second vote. >Please be serious, stupid names (like the "My Little Frigate" or "Pepe" or "Shipy Mc'Shipface") will be disregarded in spite of whatever they roll. >The two runner-up names from the first naming vote (Ramiel and Samuel B Roberts) are automatically entered into the second vote.
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Rolled 6 (1d20) >>5915823 >Lancelot Anonymous
>>5915823 Per Ardua ad Astra
Means “through adversity to the stars“
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Rolled 5 (1d20) >>5915823 Enola Gay
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Rolled 15 (1d20) >>5915836 Third time’s the charm..
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Rolled 5 (1d20) >>5915823 Heracles
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>>5915846 that goes in the options tab
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Rolled 19 (1d20) >>5915846 Anonymous
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Rolled 15 (1d20) >>5915823 >Humanity Soul I was thinking of the spirit of fire thought about something like this. Old war beast that protects mankind
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Rolled 20 (1d20) >>5915823 >Rolling Thunder Thunderhead !H2opjANA/2
Ok, so the choices are:>UNSC Samuel B. Roberts (smallest ship in taffy 3, stopped a massive Japanese battleship fleet in it's tracks, but was sunk in that action) >UNSC Ramiel (an angel who guided the souls of the dead into heaven, was one of the 20 leaders of the fallen angels who were kicked out of heaven for taking a human wife and teaching forbidden knowledge) >UNSC Per Ardura ad Astra (Means “through adversity to the stars“, a common motto for most commonwealth air forces) >UNSC Longinus (The name attributed to the unnamed roman centurion that pierced Jesus' side with a lance to ensure that he was dead. Longinus would eventually convert to Christianity, and would eventually be venerated as a saint.) >UNSC Humanity's Soul (The soul of humanity. Should be self-explanatory.) >UNSC Rolling Thunder (After a long and drawn out sound of thunder. Also Operation Rolling Thunder, the first strategic bombing campaign of the Vietnam War)
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>>5915896 >UNSC Rolling Thunder Anonymous
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>>5915896 >UNSC Longinus (The name attributed to the unnamed roman centurion that pierced Jesus' side with a lance to ensure that he was dead. Longinus would eventually convert to Christianity, and would eventually be venerated as a saint.) Anonymous
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Rolled 7 (1d20) >>5915823 >>5915896 >UNSC Longinus (The name attributed to the unnamed roman centurion that pierced Jesus' side with a lance to ensure that he was dead. Longinus would eventually convert to Christianity, and would eventually be venerated as a saint.) Anonymous
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>>5915896 >UNSC Ramiel (an angel who guided the souls of the dead into heaven, was one of the 20 leaders of the fallen angels who were kicked out of heaven for taking a human wife and teaching forbidden knowledge) Anonymous
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>>5915896 >UNSC Per Ardura ad Astra (Means “through adversity to the stars“, a common motto for most commonwealth air forces) After the shit we've been through so far? This is the most appropriate.
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>>5915896 >UNSC Rolling Thunder (After a long and drawn out sound of thunder. Also Operation Rolling Thunder, the first strategic bombing campaign of the Vietnam War) Anonymous
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>>5915896 >>UNSC Longinus We have quite the spear of our own.
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<span class="mu-g">Vessel Identity Confirmed</span>>Norman Wells >Commander >35 >31 >UEG Security Liaison >Navigation >Second in command (corvette) >Command (frigate) >Command (destroyer) >Navy and Marine Corps Medal >Purple Heart >Non-Commissioned Officer Development Ribbon >Operation Arcadian Vengeance (following up on Covenant fleet exit vectors after the battle of Arcadia) >Operation Sword Breaker (Reconnaissance and opportunistic strikes against Covenant assets around Camber) >Operation Titan Shield (patrol duties in the Titus system)
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>>5916008 >Operation Arcadian Vengeance (following up on Covenant fleet exit vectors after the battle of Arcadia) Anonymous
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>>5916008 >Operation Arcadian Vengeance Anonymous
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>>5916008 >>Operation Arcadian Vengeance (following up on Covenant fleet exit vectors after the battle of Arcadia) Anonymous
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>>5916008 >>Operation Sword Breaker (Reconnaissance and opportunistic strikes against Covenant assets around Camber) Anonymous
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>>5916008 >Operation Arcadian Vengeance (following up on Covenant fleet exit vectors after the battle of Arcadia) Thunderhead !H2opjANA/2
Current assignment:>6x Halberd class destroyers >3x Able class heavy destroyers >3x Resolute class destroyers >4x DCS Unmanned supply vessels >Cont
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>>5916117 You shake your head between deep coughs, even as your burning lungs are joined by an equally unwelcome pain in your side. A recently healed wound that the doctors had warned you could have some nasty flare-up when coming out of cryo. You nursed your side as you tried to center your groggy mind.
<span class="mu-i">Ship… flotilla… mission… destroyer… destruction… Arcadia… covenant… vengeance…</span>
You slap yourself as your mind continues to tumble, blinking furiously to try and get your vision to sharpen up just that little bit quicker.
“Commander, I don’t think that’s part of the post-cryosleep recovery protocol.” The disembodied voice points out in a lighter, more humorous tone. Your mind finally focuses enough for your to recognize the voice.
“Very funny Diana.” You grumble to your long-suffering AI as you wipe your mouth with the back of your hand, pulling away some of the awful tasting fluids.
You are Commander Norman Wells. And right now you’re cold and not wearing any pants.
>Take a few moments to get your mind in order. You’re not going to do anything with your brain still defrosting. >Find the head, you’re cold and covered in chemicals. A shower will solve both of those issues. >Get up and look around. You’ve just woken up from cryosleep, and you’re probably not the only one. >Other (write in) Anonymous
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>>5916119 >>Find the head, you’re cold and covered in chemicals. A shower will solve both of those issues. Anonymous
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>>5916119 >Find the head, you’re cold and covered in chemicals. A shower will solve both of those issues. Anonymous
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>>5916119 >Find the head, you’re cold and covered in chemicals. A shower will solve both of those issues. And get some clothes on.
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>>5916119 >Find the head, you’re cold and covered in chemicals. A shower will solve both of those issues. Anonymous
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>>5916119 >>Get up and look around. You’ve just woken up from cryosleep, and you’re probably not the only one. Make sure everyone got up ok.
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>>5916119 Get up and look around. You’ve just woken up from cryosleep, and you’re probably not the only one.
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>>5916119 >Find the head, you’re cold and covered in chemicals. A shower will solve both of those issues. Anonymous
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>>5916119 >Find the head, you’re cold and covered in chemicals. A shower will solve both of those issues. Diana better take a picture it'll last longer.
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>>5916119 >Find the head, you’re cold and covered in chemicals. A shower will solve both of those issues. clean up and ready to go mr
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luv our shotgun and knife
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New to this quest OP, loved the universe Halo took place in. Gonna try and catch up.
https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/2019/3217699/ for any other anons looking for the first thread
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>>5916474 i remember most of the stuff but this also helps, so thanks too.
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Usually, you’d stick around to see if anyone else in your bay was being woken up. Standard operating procedure was for multiple personnel to be woken up at the same time, so that the associated support staff and medical personnel only had to be stood up once. And to go alongside that, it was also standard procedure for personnel exiting cryosleep to check on each other to make sure that nobody choked on the bronchial surfactant that covered the respiratory system. But you decide to make haste for the head for a couple of reasons.>Cont
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>>5917113 The deep-set Command Neural Interface had been a part of you ever since getting promoted to running a starship. With the plug installed during the trip to Anchor 5 to collect the <span class="mu-i">Dawn.</span> It was necessary in order to store the highly classified NAV and encryption codes that the UNSC relied upon, along with other things that you didn’t want the enemy to know such as the activation code for the ship’s self-destruct system. And as the device’s internal programming logic was partially based on the host’s own neurochemistry, the entire thing was superbly secure. CNIs were designed so that the information on them couldn’t be extracted via interrogation, coercion, or torture. As the distinct change in the host’s neurochemistry would lock down the unit. And conventional data extraction methods were absolutely pointless as any intruder would be trying to hack into an half of the device, and doing it in a completely unique programming language.
Of course, there were theoretical methods to crack the system, ranging from advanced AI intrusion, to re-implanting the device into a flash-cloned brain and puppeteering it to produce the right chemical signals. But those theoretical methods were exactly that, theoretical. As far as you knew, the only people interested in trying to crack the CNI were its designers, and that was only to find weaknesses to correct in future models. And as the Covenant hadn’t yet found earth or any other major colonies, if they were also trying to crack the CNI system were also failing. In spite of their combination of advanced technology and extreme savagery.
Still, the memory of just how deep the implant went into your skull kept with you as you entered the locker room, and into the adjacent showers. You allowed yourself to enjoy the warm water for a few seconds, before getting to work cleaning off, unconsciously paying attention to the area around your neural implant, and consciously paying attention to your arm and side. It took you a few minutes to rub the phantom pain out of the old wounds, and a few more cycles of rinsing to get rid of all of the chemicals that were stuck to your body. But once that was sorted, everything else fell into order. And soon enough you had dried off, and had gotten dressed in a basic service uniform.
Your revival must have been scheduled, as the uniform was crisply folded and still smelled of washing detergent. The standard officer’s uniform was a gray double-breasted tunic with your surname sewn onto the name board underneath the UNSC emblem. It was joined by a matching jacket and set of trousers, black shoes and belt, and your rank slides. But your more personal touches were also there, such as your pistol holster and a baseball-style cap with the ship’s logo in the place of the peaked cap. You couldn’t stand the peaked cap, it was too close to the formal dress uniform, not the working man’s attire.
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>>5917116 You quickly got dressed, stopping only to inspect the ship’s logo, depicting a Roman centurion holding a spear, looking up in a moment of spiritual awakening.
Longinus -more famous for his lance- was the name ascribed to the Roman centurion that stabbed Jesus to ensure that he was dead after his crucifixion. Personally, you would have thought that stabbing the son of god would be grounds to <span class="mu-i">not</span> become a saint, but apparently you were wrong.
Either way, you keep the cap off while you put on your pistol belt. While the M6 handgun served as a status symbol for officers, and you were required to keep it on you, they were a right pain to handle. Most M6s were the over-sized vacuum-rated models, and yours was no exception. And that added size made them oversized and unwieldy when you weren’t wearing a vacuum suit. Granted, the smart-linked scope made the hand cannon a lot more accurate than it had any right to be. And it had more than enough firepower to deal anything short of an elite, some days you’d just prefer something designed for normal human use.
Still, you finish getting dressed, and make your way out of the cryo bay, your cap hanging idly in your off hand as you made your way deeper into the ship.
>Head to the bridge. If you’re being woken up, then you’re probably not far off from returning to realspace. >Head to your office. You ought to see if anything significant has come in over the secure net while you were out. >Head over to the cafeteria. You never know when you’ll be able to eat once the operation is underway. >Start roaming the ship. You haven’t been called anywhere yet, so you might as well have a look around your ship while you have time. >Other (write in) Anonymous
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>>5917118 >Head to your office. You ought to see if anything significant has come in over the secure net while you were out. Anonymous
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>>5917118 >Head to your office. You ought to see if anything significant has come in over the secure net while you were out. Anonymous
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>>5917118 >Head to the bridge. If you’re being woken up, then you’re probably not far off from returning to realspace. Anonymous
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>>5917118 >>Head over to the cafeteria. You never know when you’ll be able to eat once the operation is underway. Food is fuel, humanity wants to eat, our stomach is empty
Good gun
>Other (write in) Ask Diana whats the current situation, and if the crew is all fine. Small conversation not too important, just checking.
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>>5917118 >Go to the cafeteria WE ARE SO FUCKING BACK I MISSED THIS QUEST
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>>5917118 >Head over to the cafeteria. You never know when you’ll be able to eat once the operation is underway. Anonymous
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>>5917118 >>Head over to the cafeteria. You never know when you’ll be able to eat once the operation is underway. Thunderhead !H2opjANA/2
A quick check via your neural implant confirmed that the Longinus wasn’t slated to drop out of slipspace for another half an hour. Just enough time to either go to your office and make sure that everything was in order, or to grab something to eat. Your duty to your ship, or to your body. You tossed the idea around in your head for a couple of seconds, before choosing the latter. Your decision making skills would be compromised if you didn’t take care of yourself. And with the first leg of your journey already taking you into space that the Covenant was already aware of, the chances of contact would be up from the word go.>Ask Diana about the current situation, is the crew all fine? >Ask Diana about the mission, have there been any changes? >Ask Diana about the scuttlebutt, what’s the rumor mill saying? >Shut up and eat. Diana’s right, you need to be on the bridge. >Other (write-in)
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>>5917330 >Shut up and eat. Diana’s right, you need to be on the bridge. Anonymous
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>>5917330 >>Ask Diana about the mission, have there been any changes? Anonymous
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>>5917330 >>Shut up and eat. Diana’s right, you need to be on the bridge. Anonymous
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>>5917330 >Ask Diana about the current situation, is the crew all fine? Anonymous
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>>5917330 >Shut up and eat. Diana’s right, you need to be on the bridge. aquire energy then work
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>>5917330 >>Ask Diana about the current situation, is the crew all fine? Thunderhead !H2opjANA/2
While you’d love to sit and chat with your AI, Diana is right. You need to be on the bridge for when the ship drops out of slipspace. Outside of the point on how there was a not insignificant chance that you’d encounter Covenant forces lurking around the ruins of Arcadia, there was also the fact that it was commonly expected for a commander to be on the bridge for every time the ship dropped in and out of slipspace. And as first impressions are always important -both to the newer members of your crew, and the rest of DESRON-35- you wolfed down your food, before making your way through the unfamiliar decks towards the bridge tower.>“No thanks to your driving.” >“Slept like a log, thanks.” >“No freezer burn, which is always good.” >Other (write in)
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>>5918433 >“No thanks to your driving.” >Press the button to turn her back around Anonymous
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>>5918433 >“No freezer burn, which is always good.” Anonymous
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>>5918433 >“No freezer burn, which is always good.” Anonymous
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>>5918433 >>“No freezer burn, which is always good.” Hello there wonderful XO
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>>5918433 “No freezer burn, which is always good.”
Still not winning me over the AI this one.
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“No freezer burn, which is always good.” You replied as you walked up onto the command platform. “Enjoying the seat?”>“Nah, mom worked on one of her sister ships. Apparently the hannibal electric units were a pain.” >“Are you insinuating that I don’t keep up to date on the condition of MY ship?” >“No, I’m just in league with the gremlins.” >Other (write in)
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>>5918549 >>“Nah, mom worked on one of her sister ships. Apparently the Hannibal electric units were a pain.” Anonymous
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>>5918549 >“Nah, mom worked on one of her sister ships. Apparently the Hannibal electric units were a pain.” Anonymous
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>>5918549 >“Nah, mom worked on one of her sister ships. Apparently the hannibal electric units were a pain.” Anonymous
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>>5918549 >“Nah, mom worked on one of her sister ships. Apparently the hannibal electric units were a pain." Anonymous
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>>5918549 >>“Nah, mom worked on one of her sister ships. Apparently the hannibal electric units were a pain.” Fucking elated to see Wolfpack back on the board. Was actually getting the courage up to try my own hand at being a QM for a Halo quest when it disappeared. Got a lot more time on my hands since I was transferred to Okinawa. In any case, I'm looking forward to what's in store QM.
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>>5918549 >>“Nah, mom worked on one of her sister ships. Apparently the hannibal electric units were a pain.” Thunderhead !H2opjANA/2
“Nah, mom worked on one of her sister ships. Apparently the Hannibal electric units were a pain.” You clarified with a smile and a small shake of your head. Your mom was a shift manager at one of Tribute’s orbital shipyards, doing odd jobs to take the strain off larger yards around Reach and elsewhere in the inner colonies. Her yard’s most recent project had been refitting some Able class destroyers with more modern systems, and almost every day she’d come home and complain about a new problem. Be it with the ships, management, or the quartermaster’s office.>“Bet.” >“For shame, lieutenant commander. Regulations forbid gambling aboard UNSC vessels!” >Other (write-in)
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>>5918615 >“For shame, lieutenant commander. Regulations forbid gambling aboard UNSC vessels!” >but with a smile. Anonymous
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>>5918615 >>“Bet.” Anything for best gi- ahem, XO.
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>>5918636 How dare you, Diana is best XO.
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>>5918615 >"Bet" We will not be made a fool off around ai waifu and second in command.
Thunderhead !H2opjANA/2
Well, shit. If you accepted the offer, you’d be in breach of at least three UNSC code of conduct regulations right off the bat. But if you turned her down, you’d send a message that the command staff didn’t approve of one of the most effective means of stress relief in the fleet. Short of recreational drinking, binge-watching whatever shows or movies were in a ship’s onboard library, or whatever other effective but frowned-upon methods of relaxation the crew of a star ship could get up to. >Make an announcement (write in, what do you want to say?) >Keep quiet. Right now, you need everyone to focus on the job at hand.
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>>5918689 >Keep quiet. Right now, you need everyone to focus on the job at hand. Anonymous
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>>5918689 >Make an announcement (write in, what do you want to say?) Ladies and gentlemen, time to give those Covie bastards some payback for Arcadia
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>>5918689 >Keep quiet. Right now, you need everyone to focus on the job at hand. Anonymous
>>5918689 Ladies and Gentlemen, we have in front of us a real chance to make the Covie pay for their crimes. Do your jobs well, and give the fucks a lesson they will never forget.
>>5918657 Dyad is an M16 expy, your argument is automatically invalid.
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>>5918725 New art, Newfags
Disgusting.
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>>5918689 >>Keep quiet. Right now, you need everyone to focus on the job at hand. Anonymous
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>>5918725 >>5918689 >>Make an announcement (write in, what do you want to say?) *ahem* Forgot to make the proper vote.
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>>5918689 >Make an announcement (write in, what do you want to say?) All hands, this is Commander Wells. The situation on the other side is unknown, but the Longinus is well armored, well gunned and most of you are well seasoned. If there's a surprise, we're sure as hell going to be ready. As for you greenhorns, you couldn't ask for better company. Stay cool, stay focused, follow orders and remember your training. You'll do fine. Wells out.
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>>5919011 >>5918689 >Make an announcement (write in, what do you want to say?) support this one
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>>5919011 >>5918689 This is good as well. Overall since this is a pretty major op it feels wrong to not make some speech.
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fleet-anon(currerntly adrift-anon) ID:Tof4X2uR Wed 07 Feb 2024 21:52:57 No. 5919451 Report Quoted By:
okay, so i saw this quest, and i personally like halo lore even if i haven't played any of the games. so it took me by surprise when i found 16 fuckin threads on the archive. and i must say thunder, you are a beautiful anon. this is the good shit, and through you're writing you got me interested in possibly actually playing the games. i've read through all of the threads here in the last 2 days. genuinely great shit mate.
Thunderhead !H2opjANA/2
You took your XO’s offered advice, before taking a few seconds to think up a basic speech to give to your crew. While you were usually a fairly confident speaker, thanks to officer training giving you a few lessons on public speaking. You weren’t nearly as spontaneous as some of your classmates, so the final idea only really came to you just before the ship translated back into realspace.
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>>5919461 >Start an active sensor scan! You need to know exactly what’s out there. (roll 1d100-10) >Focus on astrogation! You need to know what system you’re in, and what the lay of the land is. (roll 1d100) >Data-link with the rest of the flotilla! You’re not the only one here, leverage that advantage. >Other (write in) Anonymous
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>>5919462 >Data-link with the rest of the flotilla! You’re not the only one here, leverage that advantage. Anonymous
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>>5919462 >Data-link with the rest of the flotilla! You’re not the only one here, leverage that advantage. Anonymous
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>>5919462 >Data-link with the rest of the flotilla! You’re not the only one here, leverage that advantage. Anonymous
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>>5919462 >Data-link with the rest of the flotilla! You’re not the only one here, leverage that advantage. Anonymous
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>>5919462 >Data-link with the rest of the flotilla! You’re not the only one here, leverage that advantage. Anonymous
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>>5919462 >Data-link with the rest of the flotilla! You’re not the only one here, leverage that advantage. Thunderhead !H2opjANA/2
“Comms, set up a data-link with the rest of the pack. Let’s see what we can get by putting our heads together.” You ordered as the armored shields over the bridge windows silently retracted into their resting positions. Not that it did much to change that you could see. You could parse about as much information from the random smattering of stars as you could from the armored bulkheads.>“Green across the board. What’s the plan sir?” >“We’re doing fine, how about the Iconoclast?” >“Well the front hasn’t fallen off. So that’s always good.” >Other (write-in)
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>>5919669 >“Green across the board. What’s the plan sir?” Anonymous
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>>5919669 >“Green across the board. What’s the plan sir?” Anonymous
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>>5919669 >“Green across the board. What’s the plan sir?” Anonymous
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>>5919669 >“Well the front hasn’t fallen off. So that’s always good.” Anonymous
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>>5919669 >>“Green across the board. What’s the plan sir?” Time to put our game faces on.
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As tempted as you were to be a bit cheeky and comment on how you were happy at how the front hadn’t fallen off, you decided to keep things professional. Now wasn’t the time for jokes. “Green across the board. What’s the plan sir?”>Cont
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>>5919751 As the commander spoke, the various points of interest in the system -the star, the gas giant, and the dwarf planets in the asteroid belt- were all marked out with small text boxes. The live-editing of the map continued as now arrows were added to mark the flotilla’s course through the system. “The plan is simple. As we have enough stellar data to make an in-system jump, we’ll start with the gas giant. Once we’ve cleared it, we’ll do an in-system jump to get us closer to the asteroid field. We’ll then sweep it using standard counter-insurgency tactics. Drones and picket screens up front, larger vessels taking a sector each. That’ll give us the best chance of catching anything while keeping on our toes.”
>“What’s the plan of action for if we encounter the enemy?” >“That’s a lot of space to cover. How is the flotilla gonna break down for this?” >“And after this system? From the looks of things, this place is dead.” >Say nothing, you don’t want to keep this going for any longer than it needs. >Other (write in) Anonymous
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>>5919752 >“What’s the plan of action for if we encounter the enemy?” Anonymous
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>>5919752 >Say nothing, you don’t want to keep this going for any longer than it needs. Anonymous
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>>5919752 >>“What’s the plan of action for if we encounter the enemy?” Anonymous
>>5919752 >“What’s the plan of action for if we encounter the enemy?” >Other (write in) This isn't really a write in but more of a side question.
Is doing a slingshot manoeuvre using the gas giant to enter the inner system an alternative to in-system jumps? Or is something like that simply not feasible with the distances/time involved? The flotilla could potentially split up on the other side of the gas giant and head to different parts of the system.
Just asking because I thought human slipspace jumps lit up like a christmas tree on sensors, putting a bullseye on us for any covenant in the area and ruining any chance of surprise.
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>>5919752 >Say nothing, you don’t want to keep this going for any longer than it needs. Anonymous
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>>5919752 >>“What’s the plan of action for if we encounter the enemy?” Anonymous
>>5919822 >I thought human slipspace jumps lit up like a christmas tree on sensors All jumps do without specialized intrusion equipment, doubly so if you're carrying nukes conventionally which most UNSC ships do. If there are Covenant ships in system they already know we're here.
>Is doing a slingshot manoeuvre using the gas giant to enter the inner system an alternative to in-system jumps? UNSC ships IIRC can accelerate at 50g or so which makes in system transit possible but not the best options when trying to search for potential threats. A slingshot wouldn't be a bad idea but probably not the most optimal.
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>>5919857 Fair. I suppose moving quickly does have its own advantages, especially if we're going with the assumption we've already been detected. In-system jumps would also be considered an unconventional human tactic, so they wouldn't be expecting it.
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>>5919752 >>“What’s the plan of action for if we encounter the enemy?” Need to know
Thunderhead !H2opjANA/2
“What’s the plan of action for if we encounter the enemy?” You asked as your weapons officer finished bringing the Longinus’ weapons grid online. The single MAC was fully charged, your nuclear inventory had been pulled from secure storage and moved to their staging positions, and the missile grid was fully operational. You weren’t carrying a full load of Archers this time. Instead, the Longinus had traded two pods of Archers for streak anti-fighter missiles, and four pods of Howler anti-ship missiles. Giving you a mixed missile load of 648 archers, 96 Howlers, and 80 Streaks.>cont
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>>5920677 “Around six hours for the light emissions, maybe two or three times that for the radiation? It’s hard to say, we don’t exactly have good data on how our signature returns will compare with stellar emissions and local background radiation. Hence why we’re gonna have to rely on an in-system jump to do this quickly.” Trafford replied, before switching the display over to a map of the nearby gas giant. “That brings us onto the first point of interest, the gas giant. It has two moons, one in an elliptical orbit, and one in geosynchronous orbit above the north pole. The elliptical moon appears unremarkable, but we all know that looks can be deceiving. The polar moon on the other hand would be an obvious location for a power and communications hub, assuming that there is other infrastructure in the planetary system. The gas giant would be an obvious host for that infrastructure, probably in the form of helium harvesting stations.”
“We’re gonna want one vessel per moon, one surveying the gas giant, and one on a roaming patrol as a quick reaction force. Who wants what?”
>Investigate the gas giant! Any orbital stations should be fairly easy to pick up. >Investigate the polar moon! It’s an obvious location for any support infrastructure. >Investigate the elliptical moon! If the innies have taught you anything, you can’t discount hiding in plain sight. >Roam around the system! Someone needs to keep an eye on things. >Let the other commanders choose. You’re fine with anything. Anonymous
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>>5920679 >Investigate the elliptical moon! If the innies have taught you anything, you can’t discount hiding in plain sight. Anonymous
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>>5920679 >Roam around the system! Someone needs to keep an eye on things. Fire brigade
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>>5920679 >Investigate the elliptical moon! If the innies have taught you anything, you can’t discount hiding in plain sight. Anonymous
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>>5920679 >Investigate the elliptical moon! If the innies have taught you anything, you can’t discount hiding in plain sight. Anonymous
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>>5920679 >Investigate the elliptical moon! If the innies have taught you anything, you can’t discount hiding in plain sight. Do have experience.
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>>5920679 >Investigate the elliptical moon! If the innies have taught you anything, you can’t discount hiding in plain sight. Anonymous
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>>5920679 >>Investigate the elliptical moon! If the innies have taught you anything, you can’t discount hiding in plain sight. Anonymous
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>>5920679 >>Investigate the elliptical moon! If the innies have taught you anything, you can’t discount hiding in plain sight. Thunderhead !H2opjANA/2
“We’ll handle the elliptical moon. Digging innies out of an asteroid belt is practically no different to digging aliens out of a moon.” You volunteered for one of the more boring jobs. Granted, the other moon and the gas giant would have you doing much the same. But there was a much higher chance that they’d actually find something.>Roll 1d100, best of three
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Rolled 72 (1d100) >>5920991 Scratch one flat-top
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Rolled 96 (1d100) >>5920991 Anonymous
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Rolled 13 (1d100) >>5920991 Anonymous
>96
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>>5921023 From the last thread, you've got the boarding pelican, as that's an easy upgrade to your existing birds. The point defense gun upgrade on the other hand was a specific upgrade to the Halberd, and the Ables have a far better grid as standard. if anyone has an idea on how to solve that missing upgrade, then feel free to suggest it.
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And so, you let the ensign get to work, leaving bridge command to her as she put the Longinus through a pair of high-speed orbital passes. One over the northern hemisphere, and one over the southern hemisphere. Every so often, calling out incremental course corrections to your navigation officer. It took a few hours, soon enough, gave her report. “Sorry boss, no dice. I’m not picking up any thermal, radiological, or other emission sources. The moon’s dead.”>Make another pass. Maybe you missed something. (roll 1d100+5, best of three) >Assist either the Galaxy of the Achilles with their searches. (choose either the gas giant or polar moon) >Join the Iconoclast on security. >Other (write-in)
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>>5921062 >Join the Iconoclast on security. Anonymous
>>5921059 As far as upgrades go maybe either have an extra hanger tacked on for that ONI Sub prowler we had. Say it was an extra add on for our block of Ables to have an extra hanger say near the bridge. Or maybe first round of experimental MAC rounds, a few EMP, Flechette, nuclear, etc each.
OR and I would vastly prefer this one, have it so the next time we board a Covi ship/wreck/base, etc we are guaranteed to get a pair of engineers and our pals in ONI will green light it to see what we can do with them in the field and give us the translation tech to speak to them.
>Make another pass. Maybe you missed something. (roll 1d100+5, best of three) Anonymous
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Rolled 8 + 5 (1d100 + 5) >>5921086 Anonymous
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>>5921062 >>Make another pass. Maybe you missed something. (roll 1d100+5, best of three) Anonymous
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Rolled 83 + 5 (1d100 + 5) >>5921086 >>Make another pass. Maybe you missed something. (roll 1d100+5, best of three) Anonymous
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Rolled 86 + 5 (1d100 + 5) >>5921062 >>Make another pass. Maybe you missed something. (roll 1d100+5, best of three) Anonymous
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>>5921062 >Make another pass. Maybe you missed something. Anonymous
>>5921059 Welcome back, Thunderhead. Missed this quest a lot and just had this feeling today that if I checked for it in the catalog it might be there. Fucking ace, man.
For upgrades, I'd back anything along the lines of what this guy said
>>5921086 . Additionally, we could consider:
Up-gunning the ship's armory for our marine complement so we can better put those boarding pods to effect or raid ground targets with a bit more vigor
Getting a second marine complement
Tacking on some more Howler Pods to increase the pressure on covie pd during missile strikes or for targeting their lighter fighter screens
Additional server banks or upgraded processors for Diana's EWAR mod
Some sort of engine upgrade, since I vaguely recall we aren't bringing the retrofit over from the Dawn
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>>5921059 More marines and fill the armory with more weapons, including melee weapons like here
>>5915104 Maybe one ODST squad too if possible. Otherwise just more marines and more+different weapons in the armory. It would badly help them against enemies.
>>5921062 >>Make another pass. Maybe you missed something. (roll 1d100+5, best of three) If Light flying drones exist they could help, for better scouting and targeting on ground.
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Yes reintroduce in the armory even murderous weapons like flamethrowers (burn bunkers, burn rooms. Make an hole in, chemical fire type enters, cleanse aliens. When the covies are melting on the ground you will not recognize if they are elite or brute, their shields and armors will not protect them. Extremely deserved anyway for them, die die DIE. The marine with the flamethrower might die an horrible death if they hit him, but honestly is a strong weapon that will kill having it on the battlefields is too useful) different ammo like uranium or even poisonous why not. Phosporous, incendiary grenades too. Full war crime, an armory well filled is a good armory.
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>>5921727 My brother in christ we are on a spaceship
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>>5921732 We had missions were we deployed on ground and continued the missions there. Its likely there are going to be more, if our captain keeps bringing home victories.
Our men need some stuff to be on par or above down there. So thats why.
I prefer a room burning with an overgrown ape screaming, than a squad of our men butchered or with severe injuries.
I dont want them going down with the usual, because thats not enough. The usual in Halo, means death for humanity. We need to give them the serious stuff in my opinion.
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>>5921743 I can agree with using them on ground operations, but in space can be extremely dangerous if the life support can’t keep up with the burn rate or there’s enough catalyst in the air to cause a gas explosion. Sticking to more reasonable options in space such as nerve gas, I would be more willing to support - so long as gas masks and the proper filters are provided.
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“Lieutenant Helena, have another look around those craters. Let’s see if they were firing at anything specific.” You ordered after looking at the craters for a bit longer. The tight grouping could easily make sense as gunnery training, but the fact that there were no obvious missed shots made you doubt that conclusion.
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>>5921821 >Take a closer look at the crash site. Even if you find nothing, you’ll have a chance to discharge some static from your own drive. (roll 1d100+10, best of three) >Assist either the Galaxy or the Achilles with their searches. (choose either the gas giant or polar moon) >Discharge your drive into the gas giant. You should probably take this opportunity to clear your static backlog. >Join the Iconoclast on security. You don’t think that you’ll find anything else worthwhile around here. >Other (write-in) Anonymous
>>5921821 >>Take a closer look at the crash site. Even if you find nothing, you’ll have a chance to discharge some static from your own drive. (roll 1d100+10, best of three) Thunderhead !H2opjANA/2
>>5921086 >>5921086 >>5921243 The black cat was loaned to you for an op, it wasn't a permanent assignment.
So just to make sure that I'm good, the selection of upgrades you'd like to look into specifically would be:
>Exotic MAC rounds (EMP, Flechette, Nuclear, etc) >Extra Howler missiles / complete replacement of your Archers with Howlers >EWAR / enhanced electronics and processing suites >Getting the sub-prowler back >Either more marines or ODSTs (>>5921252 ) >A bigger and more varied armory for your marines, including warcrime sticks (>>5921727 ) Anonymous
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Rolled 88 + 10 (1d100 + 10) >>5921823 >Take a closer look at the crash site. Even if you find nothing, you’ll have a chance to discharge some static from your own drive. (roll 1d100+10, best of three) AI, Zoom.
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fleet-anon(currerntly adrift-anon) ID:Tof4X2uR Sat 10 Feb 2024 00:03:22 No. 5921887 Report >>5921827 can we also include into that a possible salvaging team or dedicated "research team" to make salvaging covenant tech more easy?
my idea in mind, being essentially a storage facility within the ship being dedicated solemly to being a "black box" where all covenant tech is stored while we travel, where it is looked over again and again by technicians for if it might have trackers on it. and i especially want more options for tech to be able to be brought back to the UNSC that isn't strictly military tech. like i wanna see agri or industry be able to be brought back and possibly help the war effort in ways that actually change the overall flow of the war (of course, if that is even possible. since that would of course need a herculean feat to be able to be done)
also, that kind of ties into a question i've had since i began reading. this is of course fan fiction, but are events still going to play out the same as they did in the halo games or has the war already irreversibly been altered by our presence? if so, is the war going better or worse in comparison to the cannon?
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Rolled 80 + 10 (1d100 + 10) >>5921823 >Take a closer look at the crash site. Even if you find nothing, you’ll have a chance to discharge some static from your own drive. Anonymous
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Rolled 92 + 10 (1d100 + 10) >>5921823 I think it’s obvious that the ship was being used as a testbed for discovering weaknesses, or maybe testing a new weapon, but theres already two dice on the counter and we need a third.
>Take a closer look at the crash site. Even if you find nothing, you’ll have a chance to discharge some static from your own drive. (roll 1d100+10, best of three) Anonymous
>>5921823 >Take a closer look at the crash site. Even if you find nothing, you’ll have a chance to discharge some static from your own drive. (roll 1d100+10, best of three) >>5921827 I'm in favour of anything that boosts our ship's killing power. How big are Longswords vs Pelicans? Nabing a couple of those might help with scouting/point defence/antiship/antiordinance work.
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>>5921827 I'd actually want like better/thicker armor or some type of layered stuff.
Didn't we capture shield tech in the prior run or something like that? Anonymous
>>5921903 >I'd actually want like better/thicker armor or some type of layered stuff. Armor doesn't mean diddly squat, not even Covenant nano-laminate armor is especially effective against plasma weapons. IIRC the shields we got were a cache of Jackal shield gauntlets.
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>>5921961 More armor, Also didn't the Covenant Nano-laminate actually do rather well against plasma weapons until Cortana fucking super fine tweaked those one?
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>>5921975 It does much better than the UNSC's titty-A armor but not substantially better. It'd be pretty cool if we could do some field expedient up-armoring though with some scavenged plates.
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For the second time, you considered leaving the moon and the mystery ship behind. Commander Trafford was right, you <span class="mu-i">were</span> on a schedule. But at the same time, you couldn’t help but feel as if there was yet more to find. By that point, Diana had finished matching the largest chunk of the Mako’s remains to it’s blocky bow. And enough of it remained that you felt confident that <span class="mu-i">something</span> could be recovered. And even if you came up empty handed, what the hell it gave you a a chance to discharge some static from your own drive.>cont
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>>5921992 Still, the loss of your main sensor grid simply couldn’t be alleviated by the deployment of your entire drone complement to take up the slack, and you couldn’t help but worry about how exposed you were right now. After all, the ship you were investigating was destroyed as they discharged their drives, and you were doing the exact same thing. Thankfully, the departure of your marine salvage squad gave you a small distraction on the way down, and soon enough, the Longinus was holding position a scant few hundred meters above the surface.
“Alright, we’re in position for drive discharge. All stations sound off.” Your navigation officer called out to the room, waiting for and eventually receiving confirmation from his colleagues on the comms and communications stations that the sensitive parts of the ship had been locked down and made safe from the discharge. “All stations report good to go. Grounding the ship, now.”
Although you couldn’t see it, you knew that below you, a massive coil of wire was being unwound from your vessel’s underbelly. The massive wire falling away, and descending in the low gravity towards the surface. You didn’t feel it hit the surface, but you <span class="mu-i">did</span> notice the slight shift in the background noise of the ship’s reactors. The sudden presence of a proper place to discharge the ships grounded electricity finally taking a weight off the reactors themselves. “Line deployed, time to full discharge, around two hours.”
“Commander. The marines have arrived, and are beginning their search.” Dyad reported, having taken responsibility for monitoring the operation in your place. “What do you think they’ll find?”
>“Hopefully some visual data on what killed them. We need to know what we’re facing.” >“Preferably, some of their sensor logs. I want to know how a covenant ship snuck up on them.” >“Some information on just what they were doing out here. Why come here of all places?” >“Data on the innies. It’s not our mission right now, but we need as much intel as possible.” >“How the hell this mako fell into unfriendly hands. I mean seriously, are we just handing them out now?” >Other (write in) Anonymous
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>>5921993 >“Hopefully some visual data on what killed them. We need to know what we’re facing.” Anonymous
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>>5921993 >“Hopefully some visual data on what killed them. We need to know what we’re facing.” Thunderhead !H2opjANA/2
>>5921887 The war hasn't already been massively affected by your actions, but that doesn't mean you haven't already made a difference. Remember that engineer you yoinked back in the 2nd thread? It's doing some neat stuff in the background. That was a lot of the reason behind wanting a soft reboot, as it gives a lot more time to make lasting changes
As for going forward? I'm not sure how to handle it. In the existing lore, a lot of things come together at the same time to shape the timeline. And that leaves things fairly ridged. Granted, we've already kinda spun off a separate timeline already, so moving around some dates or just deleting some stuff outright could give some room to drag out the war. I need to have a bit more of a look at things before committing to a plan though. Though if the timeline remains rigid, and you survive the battle of sol, then there would 100% be scope to extend into the immediate post-war era.
>>5921900 Longswords are double the size of a pelican. Back on the Dawn you had either 1 longsword or 2 pelicans per hangar. Though if you want longswords you're gonna have to carry them externally, like how the SoTP guys figure the Posseidon would do it.
>>5921978 You have repair drones that can weld battle plates. If you can find a more extensive source than the head of a Mako then you could give it a shot.
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>>5921993 >“Some information on just what they were doing out here. Why come here of all places?” >>5922002 >If you can find a more extensive source than the head of a Mako then you could give it a shot. Dank. Any chance we could pull nanolam off potential kills in the future?
>there would 100% be scope to extend into the immediate post-war era. I'd love to see your take on post war stuff. Need 2553+ content that isn't tainted by 343. Also, instead of Longswords couldn't we stock larger quantities of Baselards/Nandao/Broadswords? End war also gives us the option of shielded strike fighters like the Pegasus and Sabre.
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>>5922002 Post-war period will be interesting, gimme all those experimental lasers
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>>5922019 Stripping down kills is 100% an option, just keep in mind that you'd have to ditch the nanolam armor before returning to a UNSC system as it would come under regulations against returning to undiscovered UNSC systems with covenant artifacts.
Smaller fighters are also an option. The Iconoclast has a much smaller hangar than yours and still carries a full squadron of Nandaos. You'd probably only manage to fit half a squadron of larger craft (baselards, broadswords, and sabres) without a hangar upgrade.
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>>5922027 Good to know, general hangar space would be a good upgrade for a solid fighter screen. Also maybe I misread that but aren't Nandaos comparable in size to Pelicans while Baselards and Broadswords are the smaller A/X fighters?
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>>5921993 >“Some information on just what they were doing out here. Why come here of all places?” Thunderhead !H2opjANA/2
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>>5922039 Just checked the dimensions, and yeah I got that completely wrong. I thought that the nandaos were smaller based on how a each of the halberds in Task Force Pantea could carry an entire squadron of them. I guess that means that means that they had hangar extensions.
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>>5922002 Are we on Halsey's radar after that Gamma Pavonis VII excursion from the previous thread, given her interest in the battle and her daughter? Also did the spooks get any useful information from that data we extracted? It's neat to think that our actions may be changing things in the background, even if they don't necessarily affect canon, like for example maybe the data we got contained the location of a human colony world that humans didn't know the covenant knew about, which gives the unsc a chance to evacuate civilians before a fleet arrives to glass them.
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>>5922087 While Halsey would probably know that you were commanding a nearby prowler, that wouldn't be enough to get you on her radar.
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>>5922027 >baselards What did he mean by this?
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>>5922027 How about hijacking vessels via blood, sweat, EW and duct tape?
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>>5922128 S-14 Baselard, it's on the smaller side of space fighters for the UNSC and old as hell but they're cheap and good enough to fill out hangar space. Also, keeping with naming conventions, a baselard is a type of oversized dagger.
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>>5922128 A small, delta-wing space fighter. Basically halo's equivilent of a mirage 2k or something like that.
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“Hopefully some visual data on what killed them. We need to know what we’re facing.” You shrugged as the main display activated, showing you the marine squad as they made final preparations to disembark, checking the combat gear over their vacuum suits. “But I'd settle for some information on just what they were doing out here. Why come here of all places?”>Cont
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>>5922150 “So either it was a front for the innies the whole time, or they snapped it up at a scrapping auction and put her back together. What can we get from it’s nav logs?” You grumbled. Unfortunately, such a story was all too familiar. It’d happened with basically every bit of former CMA equipment that the UNSC had distributed to the outer colony defense forces to try and ward off the covenant early in the war. And all it had accomplished was handing equipment over to the innies.
“Multiple trips between Arcadia and locations in the outer colonies that are behind the lines. The vessel arrived at Arcadia a few hours before the glassing, and jumped out approximately five minutes after the Covenant fleet arrived. After following a series of random cole-protocol compliant jumps, they jumped here and made their way here. They landed to discharge their drive, and attempted to cycle up to full power a few days later. The logs end then.” Diana replied, charting out the vessel’s course. Someone at ONI would be interested in those charts, but you couldn’t see any locations that you could reach without taking a massive chunk out of your limited fuel reserves.
“Do we have any visual data from around the time of her loss? Cameras, other stuff like that?” Dyad asked next, focusing more on the ship’s end rather than it’s origins.
“Child’s play. Coming on screen now.” Diana answered, before turning her avatar to face the screen. You and Dyad did the same just in time to watch the last few seconds of the corvette’s life. The corvette sat inert on the surface, its cameras pointed up into the void. A few seconds later, a familiar blue dot appeared in the sky for a couple of seconds. Just long enough for the cameras to zoom in, and to spot the corvette’s killer. A single, manta-ray-like vessel, with four fin-like antennas mounted beneath its bulbous bow. It dropped out of slipspace, and within seconds detected and targeted the Mako.
That ship was a Covenant cruiser, its flanks glowing hot with super-heated plasma just before it fired.
>Pack up and get moving. If that thing is still around, or if it comes back, you’re a sitting duck. >Keep discharging the drive. The operative word is “IF” it’s still around, even if you missed it, the rest of your wolf pack probably hadn’t. >Other (write in) Anonymous
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>>5922151 >Pack up and get moving. If that thing is still around, or if it comes back, you’re a sitting duck. Ech, cruisers aren't something we want to 1v1 if we can't help it.
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>>5922151 >>Pack up and get moving. If that thing is still around, or if it comes back, you’re a sitting duck. Anonymous
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>>5922151 >Pack up and get moving. If that thing is still around, or if it comes back, you’re a sitting duck. Time to bounce, no way in hell can we tangle with a damn cruiser.
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>>5922151 >>Pack up and get moving. If that thing is still around, or if it comes back, you’re a sitting duck. Anonymous
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>>5922151 >Pack up and get moving. If that thing is still around, or if it comes back, you’re a sitting duck. Anonymous
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>>5921791 Acceptable
>>5921827 Excellent thats the options i am interested, and robots/drones if available
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Maybe some land vehicles too for upgrade, though i think is low priority for us at the moment. Definetly something to have in the future, because we might need them for certain missions. I very much want more jarheads and that better armory first, i consider it an higher priority.
>>5922151 >>Pack up and get moving. If that thing is still around, or if it comes back, you’re a sitting duck. Get all the data we can grab quickly in this ship and move out, the wolfpack needs to fight together against an entire cruiser if its still lurking around. Concentrate fire from the wolfpack might be enough to take it out. If a battle happens that is.
I wonder if there are some survivors that have gone out of the Mako. Very unlikely, the covenant cruiser probably deployed a dozen or more hunt&kill squads and killed any possible human still alive.
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>>5922151 >Pack up and get moving. If that thing is still around, or if it comes back, you’re a sitting duck. >>5922002 well, it of course isn't my decision, but if i can weigh in with my thoughts, id say that there are of course some events that i could imagine that would still happen, like the fact that reach's location is of course still probably on some map within the covenants top secret archives. alot of the same will of course happen. but that doesn't mean, at least to me, that we can't influence what happens later due to our choices.
for example. what if a ship which would later be part of a battlegroup which glasses or fights at a specific battle is killed by us? i could fully imagine given battlegroups, like the one which will attack meridian in the year the story is in currently being partially reduced exactly because of one of the vessels having either to be moved over to another flotilla because we destroyed the previous one. maybe we'll even at some point kill a named ship? who knows. but i definitely think one of the easiest ways things could begin going differently would be through maybe some of the canonical losses becoming either ties or victories though what we've done. or at least i feel better thinking such might be the case.
also, if we indeed were to go up against a cruiser here next, id love to see another salvaging run like we did with the first ship we fought, spoils of war was of course rare because of the cole protocol, but i feel like we could easily make that one of the best parts of a fight. this of course also just goes into kind of meta, but the potential discovery at least for me was one of the things that got me intrigued in the story at first, and it would be a great opportunity to give the
quest character a sense of progression through it.
...also just because i think it's cool, but that's it's own thing. i can have both simple and complex reasons for liking stuff after all.
but anyways, that is just my thoughts on it. if you choose to stay closer to cannon and potentially go into post war in a way that isn't tainted by later halo games, im fully there for it! i just thought as a player here together with everyone, i wanna hear what other people think as well. but this was just my probably too long two cent.
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>Pack up and get moving. If that thing is still around, or if it comes back, you’re a sitting duck.
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>>5922151 >Keep discharging the drive. The operative word is “IF” it’s still around, even if you missed it, the rest of your wolf pack probably hadn’t. Thunderhead !H2opjANA/2
“Damn it. Of all the ships, it had to be a damn cruiser.” You couldn’t help but grumble. Sure, it made sense for one to be dispatched to hunt down survivors. But still, dispatching their equivalent to a Marathon class cruiser against a corvette was a massive amount of overkill.>Roll 1d100-10, best of 3
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Rolled 54 - 10 (1d100 - 10) >>5922751 I'm discharging my staticcccc
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Rolled 77 - 10 (1d100 - 10) >>5922751 Anonymous
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Rolled 17 (1d100) >>5922751 Anonymous
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Rolled 38 + 10 (1d100 + 10) >>5922751 Anonymous
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Rolled 34 + 10 (1d100 + 10) >>5922751 Anonymous
Rolled 31 - 10 (1d100 - 10) >>5922751 How the bloody hell do you roll it with a minus
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>>5922787 Oh, now I figured it out. Sorry for the mess.
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Thankfully, while the mako’s surviving section was three decks tall, and contained a number of rooms, most of the rooms were already open. It only took a quick look for the marines to find that most of them were either gutted by secondary fires induced by the heat transferred into the section by the plasma bombardment, or had never had anything inside worth it. The squad passed over a break room, a couple of rest rooms, and a pantry of sorts that had all been gutted by fire.>Take everything. The innies aren’t gonna need it anymore, and it could give your men an edge. >Take some of the gear. You’re on the clock, so you need to be rational. (hellbringer gear, CQC weapons, stanchion rifle, other [write in]) >Take the CQC gear. You need to make sure that your armory is optimized for close-in naval fighting, not expeditionary warfare. >Leave it all. You don’t have time to waste on minor gains like this. >Other (write-in)
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Have we already decided what the upgrade would be? I'm adamant on picking the EW suite.
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>>5922819 >Take everything. The innies aren’t gonna need it anymore, and it could give your men an edge. Anonymous
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>>5922819 >>Take everything. The innies aren’t gonna need it anymore, and it could give your men an edge. Anonymous
>>5922819 > loot everything, prioritize the exoskeletons, then the flamethrowers, then everything else. >have our AI plot our anti ship missiles and other weapons at the last known Covi exit point and other likely exit points near us. Covi ships need a minute to bring up their shields and weapons after a slipspace jump so if we fire immediately after sending an exit we should be able to kill them with missiles. >send up our long swords loaded for anti ship action and bounce tight beams off them warning about the cruiser and likely Covi listening outpost in area Anonymous
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>>5922819 >Take everything. The innies aren’t gonna need it anymore, and it could give your men an edge. Stanchions are tight as hell.
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>>5922819 >>5922832 Backing this.
Don't think we have longswords, but we really need to let our partner ship and the rest of the pack know about this. Not the loot, so much as the other stuff.
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>>5922819 >>Take everything. The innies aren’t gonna need it anymore, and it could give your men an edge. Anonymous
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>>5922819 >Take everything. The innies aren’t gonna need it anymore, and it could give your men an edge. Thunderhead !H2opjANA/2
“Grab everything, we can sort it out once you get back aboard. Prioritize the hellbringer gear.” You decided after a few seconds. The already small size of the mako’s crew, and the fact that a lot of innie ships tended to be run on skeleton crews, meant that the armory itself was fairly small. So it wouldn’t take too long for the squad to sweep the room clear.>Check in on the bridge crew. You need to make sure that all of them are doing fine. >Check in on your station chiefs. Some of them came with you from the Dawn, but a couple are new. >Check in on your recent upgrade. You need to make sure that it’s not causing any unwanted problems. >Other (write in)
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>>5922980 >Check in on your recent upgrade. You need to make sure that it’s not causing any unwanted problems. Anonymous
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>>5922980 >Check in on your recent upgrade. You need to make sure that it’s not causing any unwanted problems. Anonymous
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>>5922980 >Check in on your recent upgrade. You need to make sure that it’s not causing any unwanted problems. Anonymous
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>>5922980 >>Check in on your station chiefs. Some of them came with you from the Dawn, but a couple are new. Anonymous
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>>5922980 >>Check in on your station chiefs. Some of them came with you from the Dawn, but a couple are new. New friends!
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>>5922980 >>Check in on your station chiefs. Some of them came with you from the Dawn, but a couple are new. Anonymous
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>>5922980 >Check in on your recent upgrade. You need to make sure that it’s not causing any unwanted problems. Thunderhead !H2opjANA/2
When you’d taken command of the Longinus, and had been assigned to DESRON-35, you’d been offered the chance to make a few upgrades to your ship. Both down to the fact that you were taking one of the oldest vessels in the UNSC, and the fact that you were being assigned to one of the most dangerous postings in the fleet. Wolfpack vessels only had an expected service life of a few months before either suffering enough damage to write them off, or being lost entirely.>Cont
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>>5923100 However, ONI had recognized your value to them, and had given you access to another two options, pulled straight from their deep pockets. The first had been a dedicated, on-board salvage team. A staff of ONI engineers and xeno-tech scientists who could help you strip a covenant ship apart, and salvage whatever you wanted. On the condition that you dropped off whatever you got at the nearest ONI black site. The other option being to get your hands on a sub-prowler, a small condor-size prowler that lacked any sort of firepower, but instead allowed you to covertly survey a location before moving in with the ship.
Outside of those, you also had the option to request specific upgrades, and a couple of ideas had crossed your mind…
<span class="mu-s">Pick 3 options</span>
>Exotic MAC rounds >Howler Missiles >EWAR Suite >Armored Citadel >Embarked Fighters >ODST Platoon >Salvage Team >Sub-prowler >Other (write-in) Anonymous
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>>5923102 >EWAR Suite >Salvage Team >ODST Platoon Anonymous
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>>5923102 >Howler Missiles >EWAR Suite >Salvage Team Anonymous
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>>5923102 >Howler Missiles >EWAR Suite >Salvage Team We just got a boost to our marine's weapons, so as much as I want the ODSTs, it's best to diversify our picks. 1 weapon, 1 utility, 1 endurance. My hope with the missiles over the MAC rounds is that we can saturate more targets over a longer period of time. The EWAR suite, will hopefully bump up our rolls and make it more likely to sabotage undetected, and the salvage team lets us extend our time between resupplies by stealing from our kills.
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>>5923102 >Exotic MAC rounds We're a MAC lad at heart, no brainer with our fire control bonus.
>EWAR Suite Our AI is an EWAR specialist, isn't she? This is one of the most optimal options for our capabilities.
>Salvage Team ONI better let us jerry rig plasma torps.
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>>5923102 >EWAR Suite Thenobvious choice.
>Exotic MAC rounds We're in the MAC dessy, let's use it to the fullest advantage.
>Salvage Team We could probably make something work.
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>>5923102 >Exotic MAC rounds >ODST Platoon >EWAR Suite Anonymous
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>>5923102 >Exotic MAC rounds >ODST Platoon >EWAR Suite We picked this ship for the Mac, being able to punch up with EWAR would be awesome and if we had the ODSTs during the last op things would have been so different.
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fleet-anon(currerntly adrift-anon) ID:Tof4X2uR Sun 11 Feb 2024 09:33:26 No. 5923222 Report Quoted By:
>>5923102 >Exotic MAC rounds >EWAR Suite >Salvage Team let's fucking go!
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>>5923102 #>Exotic MAC rounds >EWAR Suite >Salvage Team Anonymous
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>>5923102 >Exotic MAC rounds >EWAR Suite >Salvage Team Anonymous
>>5923102 >ARMORED CITADEL >EMBARKED FIGHTERS >ODST PLATOON Though if nothing else I'd like the ODST Platoon, need some of the boys in black.
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>>5923252 Actually, changing this to:
>Exotic MAC rounds >Salvage Team >ODST Platoon Anonymous
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>>5923102 >ODST Platoon >EWAR Suite >Salvage Team Anonymous
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>>5923102 >>EWAR Suite >>Salvage Team >>ODST Platoon Thunderhead !H2opjANA/2
As far as weapons went, your first choice had been to get your hands on a handful of more exotic MAC rounds. The first type had been a bracket of long-range guided rounds, which could account for an enemy ship’s evasive actions at extreme range, where the difference between the speed of light and the MAC’s muzzle velocity allowed for them to take evasive action. The second type had been a type of flechette round, essentially a canister shot but with tungsten telephone poles rather than smaller fragments. The flechettes could serve as a backup to your standard shredder rounds for anti-ship work, but they were intended for engaging groups of smaller vessels, like Jackal raiders or smaller gunboats. Vessels where a standard MAC round would be overkill, but could still take a large number of archers to kill.>Cont
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>>5923661 Your next two choices had been far less flashy, but were no less important.
The first had been to steal the EW suite of a Marathon class cruiser, and to bolt it to your hull. The Ables had been designed from the start as squadron leaders, and that meant that they were designed with the overhead to support an extensive sensor suite to direct their subordinates.Hell, that’s the fit that most Ables retained, carrying two massive sensor antennas under the keel. But that power could instead be dedicated to a potent EW fit, and you saw a lot more potential in that. It would allow you to disrupt enemy targeting systems, and even attempt direct hacking attacks if they got careless. And with Diana being an EW-specialist AI, you were confident that you could give any Covenant vessels you encountered a real run for their money. Or at the very last, hamstring them enough that you could take them out with your other weapons.
As for the ONI offer… there was only one choice that you could really take.
While the sub-prowler had served you well for counter-insurgency operations. This was anything but that. You simply didn’t have the time to wait for a sub-prowler to slowly burn into place, scan something, and report back to you. Instead, you decided that it would be a lot smarter to instead grab the salvage team. A team of xeno-tech specialists and engineers that worked out of a little black-box that you could only access by having someone run a message in for you. For most other times, they’d be useless, but the second you got a kill they’d swing into action. Allowing you to hopefully strip a covenant ship to pieces, and recover a whole treasure-trove of booty.
All of this equipment and ordinance had been integrated by a specialist team in one of the yards above Reach, and was all running well. There were some minor issues with the EW suite, but Diana was working through them, and calibrating the system as she went.
By the time you were done checking up on your recent upgrades, the Longinus was just coming into visual range of the rest of the wolfpack, where trouble appeared to be brewing.
>Cont Thunderhead !H2opjANA/2
>>5923662 “With all respect, I don’t think that it’s a good idea. The only stellar body we have as a reference point is Canis Minoris Delta Two. If we drop out of slipspace too close to it, we might run the risk of coming out of slipspace too close to it. A continuous burn may take a few days rather than a few hours, but we don’t run the risk of a bad jump.” Commander Buckwood argued, trying to avoid what he felt was a risky FTL jump.
“I understand your concern, but we can’t afford the extra time. A sustained thirty-g burn would take us a little over three days to reach the asteroid belt. In that time, it would be easy for any potential Covenant forces to call in reinforcements. Not to mention that it would waste precious fuel to maintain a burn for that long. A slipspace jump on the other hand would be less than an hour.” Commander Trafford countered, arguing that the pack should stick to his plan, taking a risk to cut down on how long you were in-system for.
>Argue for the jump. If there’s one thing you can learn from the lost Mako, it’s that the Covenant know about this system, and you can’t afford to be caught. >Argue against the jump. Buckwood is right, a poorly-executed slipspace jump could put you inside a star, and that’s bad for your health. Anonymous
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>>5923663 >Argue against the jump. Buckwood is right, a poorly-executed slipspace jump could put you inside a star, and that’s bad for your health. Anonymous
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>>5923663 >Argue for the jump. If there’s one thing you can learn from the lost Mako, it’s that the Covenant know about this system, and you can’t afford to be caught. Anonymous
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>>5923663 >Argue against the jump. Buckwood is right, a poorly-executed slipspace jump could put you inside a star, and that’s bad for your health. Anonymous
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>>5923663 >Argue against the jump. Buckwood is right, a poorly-executed slipspace jump could put you inside a star, and that’s bad for your health. UNSC Slipspace tech isn't THAT accurate.
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>>5923663 >Argue against the jump. Buckwood is right, a poorly-executed slipspace jump could put you inside a star, and that’s bad for your health. Anonymous
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>>5923663 >Argue against the jump. Buckwood is right, a poorly-executed slipspace jump could put you inside a star, and that’s bad for your health. There's plenty of reasons Cole's stunt at Psi Serpentis is an exception to the norm
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“With all due respect, I have to agree with commander Buckwood, our FTL system’s aren’t infallible, and I’d prefer not to take the risk with almost three hundred people under my command.” You picked your side, remembering back to your history on the navigation slot aboard the Hoel. Even aboard a relatively small corvette, with fairly favorable FTL performance, it wasn’t uncommon for your ship to wind up way too close to the stellar bodies that you were dropping out of slipspace around. Hell, it was a major reason behind why standard UNSC regulations called for using planets as reference points, rather than stars.
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>>5923805 >Contact one of the other commanders. What’s their read on the current situation? (Buckwood-Achilles or ???-Galaxy) >Check in on the bridge crew. You need to make sure that all of them are doing fine. >Check in on your station chiefs. Some of them came with you from the Dawn, but a couple are new. >Get some of your paperwork out of the way, you’re in for a long ride. (TIMESKIP) >Other (write in) Anonymous
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>>5923806 >Check in on your station chiefs. Some of them came with you from the Dawn, but a couple are new. Anonymous
>>5923805 >Check in on the bridge crew. You need to make sure that all of them are doing fine. Wow our commander is a dick. And now time for new friends!
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>>5923806 >Check in on your station chiefs. Some of them came with you from the Dawn, but a couple are new. Any of these are good. Gotta keep our house in order.
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>>5923806 >Check in on your station chiefs. Some of them came with you from the Dawn, but a couple are new. Anonymous
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>>5923806 >Check in on the bridge crew. You need to make sure that all of them are doing fine. Trafford is a bitter fuck huh, he should probably look in the mirror to consider why he's stuck at commander
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>>5923806 >>Check in on your station chiefs. Some of them came with you from the Dawn, but a couple are new. Anonymous
>>5923662 Will we at least get the option to add ODSTs to the permanent crew of our ship later?
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>>5923663 >Argue against the jump. Buckwood is right, a poorly-executed slipspace jump could put you inside a star, and that’s bad for your health. Anonymous
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>>5923806 >Check in on your station chiefs. Some of them came with you from the Dawn, but a couple are new. Anonymous
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>>5923806 >>Check in on the bridge crew. You need to make sure that all of them are doing fine. Last thing the enlisted want is the captain up in their business.
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>>5923818 >>5923806 >Check in on your station chiefs. Some of them came with you from the Dawn, but a couple are new. Ahem, misvoted. Changing it.
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>>5923939 I think there will be more upgrades in the future, they will need sometime for request and power. This include more rare and new stuff too. Definitely want to grab ODSTs for next upgrade, a platoon of them is too good to not have on missions. Beyond them i'll probably go for fighters and prowler next, and if not prowler more armor plating for the Longinus.
The gear, equipment and weapons on the Mako CMA where fantastic to grab, very good to have them.
>>5923806 >Check in on your station chiefs. Some of them came with you from the Dawn, but a couple are new. lets check them out, so far the greenhorns on the bridge acted okay so thats good. We will need to look at our papers/mails soon, didn't touch them so far but they can wait lol.
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>>5923989 Hopefully, and if not for the destroyer, then whatever ship we might get next.
Though I have to ask the QM, if we do, will we be getting a light cruiser, or just jumping straight to/having the option to get a Heavy Cruiser? Since iirc the only light cruiser the UNSC has is the Halcyon and that's going to be a big work in progress to get it into good shape, especially if it's one without the internal honeycomb bracing.
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fleet-anon(currerntly adrift-anon) ID:Tof4X2uR Mon 12 Feb 2024 11:51:22 No. 5924036 Report btw something i real quickly want to mention.
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>>5923995 >then whatever ship we might get next. Very low chance we get a promotion and new posting this late into the war without some massive wartime upheaval. It took Key's 1v4ing a Covenant flotilla for his promotion and that was only a few months before Reach.
>>5924036 We might get lucky with our onboard spooks (ONI-XEG team) who'll want whatever the the Covenant are looking for. XEG opens up a lot of doors in universe and just having a team aboard gives our reports a big helping of black ink for redactions. IIRC, XEG actually did manage to get some Forerunner stuff off world but never found the Luminary.
Anonymous
>>5924125 Damn, right, I forgot what year the war ended. Though who knows what'll happen, we could end up doing something similar too.
Anonymous
>>5924150 >we could end up doing something similar too. Wells is BUILT DIFFERENT. Even if we don't make Captain by the end of the war Commanders still get to do plenty of things. Miranda was a Commander for all of Halo 2 and 3, we just need to get a spartan onboard and we're golden. Already got the snarky EWAR smart AI too.
Anonymous
>>5924157 Aren't we already a Captain? We were promoted in the previous threads, we were just given a Destroyer instead of a cruiser iirc.
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>>5924169 The new Chief of Naval Operations (Lord Hood?) reshuffled the ranks. I think because he wanted captains in charge of cruisers, and yeah... there aren't enough cruisers. So we had a choice between being a pencil pusher or taking the demotion back to Commander.
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>>5924169 I don't remember, I'll have to reread them. Right now though we're a Commander with captaincy of a destroyer. As green put it, the new CNO shuffled the captaincy requirements so Jacob Keys should be about a Commander too right now in charge of a Halberd-class destroyer.
Thunderhead !H2opjANA/2
Over the course of the next hour, you decided to check in on your department chiefs. From the Dawn, you’d managed to bring over a little over half of your chiefs, while the other half chose to stick with the Dawn. Those being the quartermaster, the chief of engineering, chief of security, and your chief weapons officer. That left the chief medical officer, chief damage control officer, and the operations chief. As you already had a working relationship with the crew from the Dawn, you decided to contact them first, and to simply call them up. You knew them well enough that you could get away with a simple call.>Cont
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>>5924169 New chief of Navy restructured so that O-6 rates couldn't command a destroyer, so we either had to bump down to O-5 or take a desk job. Even ONI shenanigans couldn't keep us in our previous role, so we were given our old pins by Stanforth.
Thunderhead !H2opjANA/2
>>5924479 With your first round of check-ins handled, you had a choice to make. The last three chiefs were entirely new to you, and you’d usually prefer to meet them in-person and chat with them man-to-man. However, you were required to stay on the bridge. You could <span class="mu-i">probably</span> take a quick leave of absence, but did you really really want to risk it?
>Head out and visit the chiefs, you can afford to take a short break. >Just call the chiefs, you can’t afford to leave the bridge. Not now. >Other (Write-in) Anonymous
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>>5924481 >Head out and visit the chiefs, you can afford to take a short break. Anonymous
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>>5924481 >Just call the chiefs, you can’t afford to leave the bridge. Not now. Anonymous
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>>5924481 >Just call the chiefs, you can’t afford to leave the bridge. Not now. Our 2IC is on a break, we gotta stay on the bridge
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>>5924479 Aw man, there goes the goofy german guy. I'm gonna miss him
At least we still have the engineer
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>>5924481 >Just call the chiefs, you can’t afford to leave the bridge. Not now. Anonymous
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>>5924481 >Just call the chiefs, you can’t afford to leave the bridge. Not now. Anonymous
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>>5924481 >>Just call the chiefs, you can’t afford to leave the bridge. Not now. We can go to their domain for a tour when we don't have a confirmed covenant presence in the AO.
Thunderhead !H2opjANA/2
Well, a video call would work for now. You’d probably have to follow it up with an in-person visit at some point, but only after you were relieved from your post. It’d be bad form to just get up and leave for almost an hour as you bounced between the different parts of the ship. As such, you instead decided to >Read up on your new chiefs, you should see what you’re working with here. >Contact one of the other commanders. What’s their read on the current situation? (Buckwood-Achilles or ???-Galaxy) >Check in on the bridge crew. You need to make sure that all of them are doing fine. >Get some of your paperwork out of the way, you’re in for a long ride. (TIMESKIP) >Other (write in)
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>>5924618 >Read up on your new chiefs, you should see what you’re working with here. Anonymous
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>>5924618 >>Read up on your new chiefs, you should see what you’re working with here. Anonymous
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>>5924618 >Check in on the bridge crew. You need to make sure that all of them are doing fine. Anonymous
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>>5924618 >Read up on your new chiefs, you should see what you’re working with here. Anonymous
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>>5924618 >>Read up on your new chiefs, you should see what you’re working with here. Anonymous
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>>5924618 >>Read up on your new chiefs, you should see what you’re working with here. Anonymous
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>>5924618 >>Read up on your new chiefs, you should see what you’re working with here. they seem okay
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>>5924618 >Read up on your new chiefs, you should see what you’re working with here. Then
>Check in on the bridge crew. You need to make sure that all of them are doing fine fleet-anon(currerntly adrift-anon)
fleet-anon(currerntly adrift-anon) ID:Tof4X2uR Tue 13 Feb 2024 22:12:19 No. 5925280 Report btw i just wanted to mention something kind of cursed. im currently playing through the Master chief collection and im at halo 2. i was just doing a car run while being gunner on a grenade thrower. and the driver commented "i heard you guys taste like chicken" after i killed a jackal. there is a in real game reference to the covenant troops likely having been tasted.
Anonymous
>>5925280 I doubt many humans have tasted jackal flesh outside perhaps some starving troops that had to resort to scavenging what food they could in a prolonged battle, most if not all of whom probably didn't live to tell the tale of how it tasted. Saying things taste like chicken is just a funny expression/cliche in English and using it as an insult against jackals is even more appropriate since jackals have always been compared to birds by humans.
On the other side of things, I remember in one of the books (think it was fall of reach) that grunts/jackals sometimes massacred humans and ate them. Drones too probably. I think Brutes do on occasion as well.
Anonymous
>>5925680 Just looked it up. Draco III in 2545. A bunch of grunts and jackals ate humans. The Covenant used the world as a hunting ground before the Spartans arrived and murdered everyone as payback.
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>>5925280 I think it was just for offend them (both because of being bird like species and also because saying chicken carries also the meaning of cowardice, fitting perfectly for how jacklas operate/act. Humans also call elites zipper mouths/alligators, and apes/gorillas for brutes), humans do not tend to eat covenant or covenant food supplies for that matter. They don't really have the time for doing anything like that, because most human solar systems last at best days, if not at worst hours and minutes.
On top of that no human is going to eat a jackal for multiple reasons (survivability no time to waste gotta move/fight, another sentient being which is kind of disgusting because you are inevitably going to think this alien did the same shit has you and now its in your plate, lowering yourself to same level of some of this aliens [what if one of them ate a human before ?], basic 101 sanitary reasons, actually wasting time preparing and cooking the thing because nobody sane would eat it raw and unprepared), and lastly an human is far far far more likely to find MREs or actual food for them to eat in the human world they were defending/living in.
Covenant on the other hand, have done that especially brutes.
>>5925691 There is a story where a group of brutes soldiers was "playing" around with the humans of a tourism centric human colony, after conquering the world extremely quickly. Hunting them, eating them.
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With the prospect of needing to meet the new chiefs. You figured that you might as well read through their files, so that you could get some bearing on who you’d be working with. And you decided to keep up the rhythm that you’d started in >Cont
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>>5926371 After the first two chiefs, you hadn’t been expecting much from the file on Doctor Blanch, so you were fairly surprised when his file bore the sigil of the Colonial Military Authority on his file, the UNSC’s predecessor for colonial operations. And that set off alarm bells. The only people assigned to the CMA this century were the people that the UNSC didn’t want. And these days, that usually meant people that were unsuitable for combat postings; either due to medical issues, incompetence, or other issues.
You didn’t have to read far to find out why. Doctor Blanch -born in the waning years of the last century, and kept young by virtue of spending a lot of time in slipspace cryosleep- had been a vocal supporter of the secessionist and anti-UEG groups while at university. And even after the Covenant war started, he’d apparently kept most of his convictions, as he’d been transferred to the CMA after graduating from UNSC training. By that point, the agency had been gutted of their combat assets, but they still maintained support assets. And the Doctor had been assigned to an expeditionary medical ship, a vessel that was to a hospital ship what a corvette was to a carrier. There he spent the majority of the war, helping to care for badly wounded personnel as they were transferred from active warzones to specialist treatment facilities. But that changed a few years ago, when his family became refugees following the glassing of Draco III. The doctor requested a transfer to a UNSC vessel specifically to get his family better access to refugee aid, and after a while, he’d been posted to DESRON-35. Where he was one of the few survivors of the massacre of the last squadron.
Around the time that you finished reading the doctor’s file, you felt your stomach start grumbling. A quick check confirmed that Lieutenant Morgan was in the CIC, so you could take a proper lunch break, or you could just grab a premade meal from the secondary mess hall adjacent to the bridge and get some work done as you ate.
>Head down to the mess hall. It’s important for a commander to be seen eating with his men, and you could do with something that’s actually been cooked. >Grab something quick, then contact one of the other commanders. What’s their read on the current situation? (Buckwood-Achilles or ???-Galaxy) >Grab something quick, then check in on the bridge crew. You need to make sure that all of them are doing fine. >Head to the secondary mess hall, and get some of your paperwork out of the way. You’re in for a long ride. (TIMESKIP) >Other (write in) Anonymous
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>>5926372 >>Head down to the mess hall. It’s important for a commander to be seen eating with his men, and you could do with something that’s actually been cooked. Norman's greatest weakness: fine tastes
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>>5926372 >Grab something quick, then check in on the bridge crew. You need to make sure that all of them are doing fine. Anonymous
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>>5926372 >Head down to the mess hall. It’s important for a commander to be seen eating with his men, and you could do with something that’s actually been cooked. Anonymous
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>>5926372 >>Head down to the mess hall. It’s important for a commander to be seen eating with his men, and you could do with something that’s actually been cooked. Anonymous
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>>5926372 >Grab something quick, then check in on the bridge crew. You need to make sure that all of them are doing fine. Anonymous
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>>5926372 >Head down to the mess hall. It’s important for a commander to be seen eating with his men, and you could do with something that’s actually been cooked. Anonymous
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>>5926372 >>Head down to the mess hall. It’s important for a commander to be seen eating with his men, and you could do with something that’s actually been cooked. >Captcha 0SDT a sign to get them next...
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fleet-anon(currerntly adrift-anon) ID:Tof4X2uR Thu 15 Feb 2024 12:24:36 No. 5926686 Report >>5926372 >Head down to the mess hall. It’s important for a commander to be seen eating with his men, and you could do with something that’s actually been cooked. also i just want to mention, when we get to find some covenant weapons, i vote for us to just give every single marine we have a covvie gun istead of the human ones. as of yet every soldier i've given a beam rifle has had a remarkably higher survival time than with any human weapon.
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>be namefag >is retarded
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>>5926686 I appreciate the thought of keeping our marines alive but there's a few issues with that. First being that covenant weapons tend to emit a small amount of radiation during use. While Covenant species have adapted to that in some way or another, we'd have to issue iodine tablets by the bucket to keep our men from developing cancer after prolonged use. Second issue is that It's technically against the law to retain covenant tech outside of extremely narrow circumstances due to the possibility that they could include embedded tracking devices used to map out human colonies.
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>>5926686 We'd likely get court martialed and executed lol
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fleet-anon(currerntly adrift-anon) ID:Tof4X2uR Thu 15 Feb 2024 16:14:05 No. 5926798 Report >>5926714 >>5926721 >>5926743 okay, i might be slightly stupid, buuut important aspect, is the fact that we in fact do have an ONI search team on our ship now, and as it is currently, ONI seems to be able to either waiver the cole protocol, or at the least have individuals be able to break it and look the other way.
also, about the cancer thing. i don't know if it would become a problem or not. since after all the one mention, the singular mention of radiation being made by covenant weapons, is made in the book "halo:evolutions the mona lisa"
the only other real mention of cancer in the halo universe, is the mention that cancer has become so uncommon that nearly no one even knows of it anymore, much less of it being a problem since in the book "halo:evolutions, midnight in the heart of Midlothian" one ODST aboard the halberd destroyer The Heart of Midlothian, get's told he has it, and get's told he's just going to need some surgery, and if i remember correctly that was just because it was so big and problematic that it couldn't just be solved via injections or medicine at this point.
so maybe it could be a problem, but i have yet to see any media actually portrait humans having any negative side effects from covenant weapons, and i think our ONI people could probably say "you good bro" and let us get xeno tech while still being cole compliant.
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>>5926798 >and i think our ONI people could probably say "you good bro" and let us get xeno tech while still being cole compliant. You are actually retarded if you think they'll do this and not take it all for themselves
And for the record, either remove the name or get a trip so people can filter you. You type and sound like an underage so I'm not surprised you are namefagging.
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fleet-anon(currerntly adrift-anon) ID:Tof4X2uR Thu 15 Feb 2024 17:37:45 No. 5926854 Report >>5926839 fuck you. i made this name quite a bit ago back in the unbroken empire quests. i was one of the ones who would suggest fleet compositions and since everyone basically voted me every time, i got the name fleet anon. the adrift part is because newbqm hasn't continued unbroken empire for a while :(
and secondly, im 21 years old and danish, so excuse me for not being perfect at english.
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>>5926686 >>5926798 .... and which people would supply ammo, repair parts and the like, for these covenant weapons ? The ONI wants everything we loot of the covenant and to drop it the nearest ONI blacksites (which we will not be able to see probably, because is ONI assets) when we return from missions. Thats the conditions for get the salvage team. Here :
>>5923102 >The first had been a dedicated, on-board salvage team. A staff of ONI engineers and xeno-tech scientists who could help you strip a covenant ship apart, and salvage whatever you wanted. On the condition that you dropped off whatever you got at the nearest ONI black site. Very simple.
The best option here is to get UNSC weapons with higher lethality, and research new weapons and equipment. And by providing all the loot we gather to ONI we ensure research is faster, helping the war effort.
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>>5926854 And is this the unbroken empire quest? No? Get rid of it then
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>>5926854 >in the unbroken empire quests anon I think you're in the wrong quest
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>>5926871 I will say I agree with you, but that if ONI wants our plasma sword they can pry it from our cold dead hands.
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fleet-anon(currerntly adrift-anon) ID:Tof4X2uR Thu 15 Feb 2024 19:21:28 No. 5926916 Report >>5926871 okay fair. i had totally forgotten that being mentioned at the end of it. thank you for being reasonable here and just mentioning why my reasoning might be wrong.
>>5926884 and i can't choose to keep the namesake for my own choice? there's nothing that says it's against the board rules. though i'll keep in mind that some or many people might be against me using it.
>>5926879 fuck off. i aint doing anything for you. it doesn't hurt you or anyone else. even if i stopped using it then people would still be able to identify me by how i type and the ID i have in this thread.
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>>5926372 >Grab something quick, then check in on the bridge crew. You need to make sure that all of them are doing fine. >>5926854 >>5926916 1. Generally it is considered polite to not namefag. Exceptions to this rule only include QMing and multiplayer games such as risk - wherein you're still a fag for doing so, but there is an understandable reason for it.
2. It makes you look like a hoity-toity egotistical faggot who loves to sniff their own farts. You're craving recognition on an anonymous image board. Just let that sink in.
3. You're right. It's not against site rules. It's not "hurting" anyone but their opinions of your person. People will continue to think you are shit because that's how you're acting - not necessarily by virtue of what you bring to the discussion, but by your incessant need to attach a name to your deeds. However, what you have said about this matter in two posts says to me that you have no ability to self-reflect, and have an insanely thin skin.
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>waaaaahhhh why arre u bulli me for using a name on an anonymous furom waaaaaaaah fleet-anon(currerntly adrift-anon)
fleet-anon(currerntly adrift-anon) ID:Tof4X2uR Thu 15 Feb 2024 21:07:36 No. 5926981 Report okay. im going to set an end to it here then. i get it, many people think im just doing it to be recognized. i don't think so. since i just choose to keep the name for nostalgia. at least i think so to myself. as said. this is an anonymous messaging board. who am i trying to fish for the opinion of?
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Excusing yourself from the bridge, you make your way down to the Longinus’ main mess hall. Both so that you could have some food prepared by actual humans rather than mass-produced ready meals, and so that you could stretch your legs after being sat around for so long. Thankfully, you just about manage to beat out the rest of the crew. By the time you’re grabbing your food, the line behind you is stretching out of the hatch and into the corridor beyond.>One of the new department chiefs (Doctor Blanch, Chief Seph) >Lieutenant Perkins, your long-suffering pelican pilot. >Someone you don’t recognize, but they look like a civvie. >Other (write in)
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>>5927027 >>Lieutenant Perkins, your long-suffering pelican pilot. Anonymous
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>>5927027 >>One of the new department chiefs (Doctor Blanch, Chief Seph) Chief Seph
Hello!
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>>5927027 >Lieutenant Perkins, your long-suffering pelican pilot. Anonymous
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>>5927027 >Lieutenant Perkins, your long-suffering pelican pilot. Anonymous
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>>5927027 >>Someone you don’t recognize, but they look like a civvie. Anonymous
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>>5927027 >>>One of the new department chiefs (Doctor Blanch, Chief Seph) Seph
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>>5927027 >Lieutenant Perkins, your long-suffering pelican pilot. Wew, I’m new to this quest - looks like I have a backlog to conquer
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>>5927027 >>Someone you don’t recognize, but they look like a civvie. Anonymous
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Rolled 2 (1d2) >>5927027 Want to go with one of our OGs, but I also want to get a rapport going with the presumably ONI salvage team.
I'm gonna roll a d2
>Lieutenant Perkins, your long-suffering pelican pilot. = 1 >Someone you don’t recognize, but they look like a civvie. = 2 Anonymous
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>>5927027 >>Someone you don’t recognize, but they look like a civvie. Anonymous
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>>5927027 >Lieutenant Perkins, your long-suffering pelican pilot. >>5926981 namefags get the rope, go fuck yourself
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Lieutenant Perkins. The young man was one of your remaining pelican drivers, and the person in the crew that you had known the longest, by the duration of a pelican ride. He’d picked you up from Anchor 5 and carted you over to your last command, and you’d kept something approximate to a friendship ever since. It had its ups and downs, especially after the incident with Patrol Group Theta. But >Ask Perkins about what he did while you were away. While you had missions and recovery, him and the crew had a decent chunk of leave. >Ask Perkins about the hangar situation. From what you saw, your current system left a lot to be desired. >Ask Perkins about what he knows about the old Noryangs. Last you heard, they’d been wiped out early in the war. >Let Perkins lead the conversation. >Other (write-in)
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>>5927239 >>Ask Perkins about what he did while you were away. While you had missions and recovery, him and the crew had a decent chunk of leave. Anonymous
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>>5927239 >Ask Perkins about the hangar situation. From what you saw, your current system left a lot to be desired. Anonymous
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>>5927239 >Ask Perkins about what he knows about the old Noryangs. Last you heard, they’d been wiped out early in the war. Anonymous
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>>5927239 >Ask Perkins about the hangar situation. From what you saw, your current system left a lot to be desired. Help us optimize!
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>>5927239 >>Ask Perkins about what he did while you were away. While you had missions and recovery, him and the crew had a decent chunk of leave. Anonymous
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>>5927239 >Ask Perkins about what he did while you were away. While you had missions and recovery, him and the crew had a decent chunk of leave. Anonymous
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>>5927239 >>Let Perkins lead the conversation. let's hear
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>>5926890 acceptable, though idk if they didn't just take it anyway regardless, it would be extremely easy for them to do so. Can't remember. Anyway we can't charge it so lol.
>>5926916 ok
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>>5927239 >>Ask Perkins about what he did while you were away. While you had missions and recovery, him and the crew had a decent chunk of leave. Gotta take a breather when we can.
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fleet-anon(currerntly adrift-anon) ID:Tof4X2uR Fri 16 Feb 2024 11:13:19 No. 5927500 Report Quoted By:
>>5927239 >Ask Perkins about what he did while you were away. While you had missions and recovery, him and the crew had a decent chunk of leave. Anonymous
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>>5927239 >Ask Perkins about what he knows about the old Noryangs. Last you heard, they’d been wiped out early in the war. Thunderhead !H2opjANA/2
“So. Get up to anything fun on leave?” You asked before spearing a chunk of meat and potatoes with your fork.>“Yeah, that she’s not lying about how she lost her eye.” >“Nope, and I’m not gonna ask unless it affects her performance.” >“Sorry, that’s classified.” >Other (write-in)
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>>5927953 >“I wasn’t there when it happened, so I wouldn’t know actually.” We were knocked the fuck out, so it’s not a lie, and we got a bet going with our XO besides.
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>>5927953 >"I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you" Anonymous
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>>5927953 >“Nope, and I’m not gonna ask unless it affects her performance.” Anonymous
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>>5927953 >"I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you" >Laugh and smile. Anonymous
>>5927953 Don’t say anything but give him “the look” - as in, “we know very fucking well what really happened but we’re not saying shit and don’t be a dumbass for asking me about classified shit Perkins”
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>>5926981 >I'm not a hoity-toity egotistical faggot!!! But no I'm not getting rid of the name on the anonymous imageboard that I acknowledge as anonymous tee hee >since i just choose to keep the name for nostalgia. Bullshit and you know it, you don't need a name for nostalgia purposes
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>>5927953 >>"I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you" Anonymous
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>>5927953 >>"I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you" Thunderhead !H2opjANA/2
You considered your answer for a couple of seconds as you ate, keenly aware that the general chatter on the tables closest to you had died down. But by the time you’d finished with your mouth full, you’d decided on what to do. You simply looked up at Perkins, and with an innocent smile stated. “I could tell you, but then I’d have to kill you.”>Ask Perkins what he did during his training. You’ve always been a bit curious on if it’s anything like the movies you watched as a kid. >Ask Perkins about the hangar situation. From what you saw, your current system left a lot to be desired. >Ask Perkins about what he knows about the old Noryangs. Last you heard, they’d been wiped out early in the war. >Let Perkins lead the conversation. >Other (write-in)
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>>5928190 >>5928190 >>Ask Perkins about the hangar situation. From what you saw, your current system left a lot to be desired. NOW we talk about this shit.
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>>5928190 >Ask Perkins about the hangar situation. From what you saw, your current system left a lot to be desired. Anonymous
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>>5928190 >>Ask Perkins about the hangar situation. From what you saw, your current system left a lot to be desired Anonymous
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>>5928190 >Ask Perkins about the hangar situation. From what you saw, your current system left a lot to be desired. Anonymous
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>>5928190 >Ask Perkins about the hangar situation. From what you saw, your current system left a lot to be desired. I’m sure we can optimize
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>>5928190 >Ask Perkins about the hangar situation. From what you saw, your current system left a lot to be desired. Lmao the new crew is gonna lose its mind. We've got spooks on board and his 'jokes' is killing his old crew members. Either they think we got some real loyalty or the ''disloyal'' were removed.
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“How are you finding the hangar? From what I’ve seen, it’s a bit anachronistic compared to the Dawn’s setup.” You brought up the hangars, both to move the conversation away from something that could make you run afoul of the office, and because you had your own concerns about the set up.
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>>5929019 >Ask Perkins if he can think of any improvements for the aviation facilities. >Ask Perkins what he did during his training. You’ve always been a bit curious on if it’s anything like the movies you watched as a kid. >Ask Perkins about what he knows about the old Noryangs. Last you heard, they’d been wiped out early in the war. >Let Perkins lead the conversation. >Other (write-in) Anonymous
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>>5929024 >Let Perkins lead the conversation. SotP really outdid themselves with the Able's model.
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>>5929024 >Let Perkins lead the conversation. Let the man speak!
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>>5929024 >Ask Perkins if he can think of any improvements for the aviation facilities. Anonymous
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>>5929024 >Let Perkins lead the conversation. Anonymous
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>>5929024 >Ask Perkins if he can think of any improvements for the aviation facilities. Anonymous
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>>5929024 >Let Perkins lead the conversation. Let the man speak.
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>>5929024 >>Let Perkins lead the conversation. Thunderhead !H2opjANA/2
You’d driven the conversation enough already, so you focus on your food for a short amount of time. Thankfully, Perkins picks up on the sudden dip in the conversation, and picks up the momentum to keep things going. “So, cap. What’d you get up to on leave?>Write in
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>>5929695 >Sitting around a fortress with more SMACs in orbit than the rest of the fleet combined doesn't help the war effort. Doesn't stop innie or Covenant raids from mauling our supply lines. Doesn't stop other colonies from getting glassed. As painful as it is, we do more good out on patrol than sitting in a system. IIRC our original sentiment was something along these lines, right? Been rereading the archive but just got to the promotion to Captain.
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>>5929695 >" I've thought about it more then a few times, but I also know I'm better out here. I would be better off putting a stop to the Covie advance, Then just defending a fortress world which needs more time. Anonymous
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>>5929702 Supporting this nice write-in
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Thankfully, you’d had this argument enough times that you already had your answer prepared and ready to go. “Sitting around a fortress with more SMACs in orbit than the rest of the fleet combined doesn't help the war effort. Doesn't stop innie or Covenant raids from mauling our supply lines. Doesn't stop other colonies from getting glassed. As painful as it is, we do more good out on patrol than sitting in a system.”>Write in
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>>5929758 >Depends I suppose. Any day we don't get vented or atomized is a good day. On the other hand doesn't seem like there's much more out here than dust and echoes. I couldn't help myself
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>>5929758 >>Depends I suppose. Any day we don't get vented or atomized is a good day. On the other hand doesn't seem like there's much more out here than dust and echoes. I get that reference.
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>>5929758 >Depends I suppose. Any day we don't get vented or atomized is a good day. On the other hand doesn't seem like there's much more out here than dust and echoes. Anonymous
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>>5929758 >>Depends I suppose. Any day we don't get vented or atomized is a good day. On the other hand doesn't seem like there's much more out here than dust and echoes. >But if we want to look at it positevly, what we gained from that Mako was quite good. So if there is any aliens here, we have good chances to give them what they deserve. Thunderhead !H2opjANA/2
“Depends I suppose. Any day we don't get vented or atomized is a good day. On the other hand doesn't seem like there's much more out here than dust and echoes.” You replied as you finished off your food. The small meal had gone down well enough, even if there was never enough of it. “But if we want to look at it positively, what we gained from that Mako was quite good. So if there are any aliens here, we have good chances to give them what they deserve.”>Head to your office and contact one of the other commanders. What’s their read on the current situation? (Buckwood-Achilles or ???-Galaxy) >Head to the bridge and check in on your crew. You need to make sure that all of them are doing fine. >Find one of your new chiefs and get those face-to-face meetings sorted (who?) >Head to the bridge and get some of your paperwork out of the way. You’re in for a long ride. (TIMESKIP) >Other (write in)
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>>5930504 >Head to the bridge and check in on your crew. You need to make sure that all of them are doing fine. Lmao, the newbie is nugget.
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>>5930504 >Head to the bridge and check in on your crew. You need to make sure that all of them are doing fine. Anonymous
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>>5930504 >Head to the bridge and check in on your crew. You need to make sure that all of them are doing fine. Anonymous
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>>5930504 >Head to the bridge and get some of your paperwork out of the way. You’re in for a long ride. (TIMESKIP Anonymous
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>>5930504 >>Head to the bridge and check in on your crew. You need to make sure that all of them are doing fine. Anonymous
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>>5930504 >Head to the bridge and check in on your crew. You need to make sure that all of them are doing fine. Anonymous
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Thunderhead, I've been thinking about this since I finished my reread. Did you name our XO after the concept in Pythagorean philosophy? If you did, 10/10 name, if not that's a hell of a coincidence.
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>>5930504 >Head to the bridge and get some of your paperwork out of the way. You’re in for a long ride. (TIMESKIP) Anonymous
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>>5930504 >>Head to the bridge and check in on your crew. You need to make sure that all of them are doing fine. fleet-anon(Unbroken empire enjoyer)
fleet-anon(Unbroken empire enjoyer) ID:Tof4X2uR Tue 20 Feb 2024 16:04:21 No. 5931134 Report >>5930504 >Head to the bridge and check in on your crew. You need to make sure that all of them are doing fine. also kind of a question for everyone. but what do you people think that the lekgolo (hunter worm species) thinks in this entire war? do they even want to support the covenant?
as far as i've been able to read, they seem to generally be pretty passive, but forced into this role as tanks after having been "tamed" by forcing them to do it, or be bombed from orbit. the only reason for their survival of them being that they couldn't all be bombed from that they originally came from a forerunner station which they were inhabiting.
If we were to capture a Lekgolo colony (aka, just a hunter would do) which wouldn't be too out of the question, since after destroying a ship and raiding it, they'd be the most likely to survive inside the wreckage. Lekgolo's being extremophiles after all.
Do you people think they'd stay hostile and not cooperate. Would they just try to fit in in the same way as the covenant made them do, or would they be friendly to humans when not at threat of death? humans being the reclaimers and all of that. with lekgolo's having been work on, if not explicitly made by the forerunners.
Im asking, because at least i've not been able to find on any of the wiki's anything on lekgolo culture, other than them respecting the Sangheili due to a shared warrior culture. and a general disregard of the religion of the covenant.
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>>5931134 AFAIK, the original Lekgolos that all current ones are descended from, are essentially religious fanatics. They were originally taken in because when they burrowed they would avoid forerunner artifacts unlike other Lekgolo colonies.
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I really wish you'd stop dribbling shit all over the thread
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>>5931252 Agreed, but you know what people like him crave.
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>>5931134 Go read the fucking wiki and learn shit you namefag ape.
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Returning to the bridge, you decided to check in on all of your bridge staff -at least, the ones on your shift- to make sure that everyone was doing alright. It also gave you a great chance to appraise yourself fully with the stations on the bridge. While most of the stations were standard across the fleet, there were still changes from class to class that you had to keep on top of.
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>>5932553 >Check in with everyone individually, you need to do this properly (Lieutenants or ensigns first?) >Just do a whistle-stop tour, you don’t want to distract everyone from their work. >Other (write in) Anonymous
>>5932555 >Check in with everyone individually, you need to do this properly (ensigns first?) Anonymous
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>>5932555 >Just do a whistle-stop tour, you don’t want to distract everyone from their work. Anonymous
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>>5932555 >>Check in with everyone individually, you need to do this properly (Lieutenants or ensigns first?) Ensigns.
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>>5932555 >>Check in with everyone individually, you need to do this properly (Lieutenants) Anonymous
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>>5932553 >Just do a whistle-stop tour, you don’t want to distract everyone from their work. Just pop over with a quick "how're you doing, how's it going", etc. and move on after they answer.
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>>5932553 >Just do a whistle-stop tour, you don’t want to distract everyone from their work. Anonymous
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>>5932555 >>Just do a whistle-stop tour, you don’t want to distract everyone from their work. Anonymous
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>>5932555 >Just do a whistle-stop tour, you don’t want to distract everyone from their work. Thunderhead !H2opjANA/2
While you wanted to check in the ensigns, as they were almost all new crewmembers, you realized that now probably wasn’t the best time for one-to-one checkups. You were in hostile territory, so everyone was on high alert and would be focusing on their jobs. Distracting people by going around and individually checking up on them not only took them away from valuable work, but it could also give the impression that you didn’t trust them to do their jobs without oversight.>Cont
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>>5934356 “That’s what I’m trying to figure out. It could be from a natural phenomena, either a reaction of radioactive elements in the oort cloud, or a comet dropping out of slipspace. But given where we are…” Helena trailed off, apparently deciding that it was probably for the best not to voice her true concern. That the translation was from something decidedly artificial, and probably packed full of genocidal murder aliens.
>Get Diana involved, maybe your AI can piece together the issue. >Contact the rest of the flotilla, maybe other sensor operators spotted it too. >Ignore the blip, chances are it’s just a natural phenomenon of some kind. >Other (write in) Anonymous
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>>5934356 Seconds count when it comes to fighting the covenant spaceside. Couldn't hurt to give the other ships a heads up.
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>>5934358 >>Contact the rest of the flotilla, maybe other sensor operators spotted it too. Completely dropped my vote too.
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>>5934356 >Contact the rest of the flotilla, maybe other sensor operators spotted it too. Red flag. No point keeping this to ourselves even if it's nothing.
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>>5934358 >Get Diana involved, maybe your AI can piece together the issue. Anonymous
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>>5934382 Actually no, do both contacting Diana and the rest of the flotilla.
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>>5934358 >>Get Diana involved, maybe your AI can piece together the issue. >Contact the rest of the flotilla, maybe other sensor operators spotted it too. Anonymous
>>5934358 >>>Get Diana involved, maybe your AI can piece together the issue. >>Contact the rest of the flotilla, maybe other sensor operators spotted it too. All hands on deck, things are about to get interesting.
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>>5934358 >>Contact the rest of the flotilla, maybe other sensor operators spotted it too. Anonymous
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>>5934358 >>>5934358 # >>>Get Diana involved, maybe your AI can piece together the issue. >>Contact the rest of the flotilla, maybe other sensor operators spotted it too. Lets check if they are the same cruiser or someone else
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>>5934506 Supporting this. I get the feeling that this whole thing is a bait and ambush scenario
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>>5934358 >Contact the rest of the flotilla, maybe other sensor operators spotted it too. Thunderhead !H2opjANA/2
"How long ago did you pick this up?” You asked the lieutenant and you stared at the readings. The emission levels were technically low, especially given how alpha and beta radiation levels could be interfered with by dust and gas clouds. But it was still high enough that you were confident that they had been produced by something dropping out of slipspace.>Cont
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>>5935130 Commander Trafford simply sighed, making up his mind in a heartbeat. “All right, bring the flotilla up to combat alert alpha. At the same time, I want all ships to prepare for a slipspace jump deeper into the system. The sooner we’re done with our sweep, the sooner we can leave.”
“Commander! I have to protest-” Commander Buckwood began, only for Trafford to cut him off.
“I don't want to hear it Buckwood. We're sitting ducks out here. At least closer in, we can take cover in the asteroid belt.”
“Yes, because jumping us into a star is a quick way to get this mission finished sooner.” Buckwood snapped back, apparently now getting less and less happy with putting up with your de-facto commanding officer's obsession with finishing the operation quickly. “And do I really have to point out how if we can detect a slipspace jump, any ships nearby could as well?”
>Agree with the jump. Trafford is right, the sooner you’re done here, the better. >Disagree with the jump. There are too many issues, with tracking being a major one. Anonymous
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>>5935130 Ahhh shit, that probably roughly aligns with when we were discharging static on that moon. I'm guessing a listening post did catch us or one of the other ships and now we've got some covies lying in wait.
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>>5935139 >>Disagree with the jump. There are too many issues, with tracking being a major one. I'd rather face the covenant at full strength than risk losing some of our number in a navigation incident just for the chance of maybe getting into an asteroid belt. Not to mention it'd be hell for us to try getting a clean shot with our MAC guns if it came to that. Our best hope is trying to overwhelm the covenant ship with as much firepower as we can muster straight out of the gate.
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>>5935139 >Disagree with the jump. There are too many issues, with tracking being a major one. Anonymous
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>>5935139 >Disagree with the jump. There are too many issues, with tracking being a major one. Anonymous
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>>5935139 >>Disagree with the jump. There are too many issues, with tracking being a major one. IIRC Covvie sensors, like everything else they have tends to be a hell of a lot better. We'd be broadcasting our location to them.
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>>5935139 >Agree with the jump. Trafford is right, the sooner you’re done here, the better. Anonymous
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>>5935139 >Disagree with the jump. There are too many issues, with tracking being a major one. Anonymous
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>>5935139 >>Disagree with the jump. There are too many issues, with tracking being a major one. Anonymous
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>>5935139 >>Disagree with the jump. There are too many issues, with tracking being a major one Anonymous
>>5935139 >>Disagree with the jump. There are too many issues, with tracking being a major one. That tracking is too much of a problem. Don't try and be offensive lets cool heads prevail.
Starting to think about a new missile type that instead of hitting covie ships attaches to them, and then tries to dig in their plating with a drill for then create an internal explosion with bombs. The missile will be like three parts
Drill - bombs - engines.
Probably a bit stupid. That and our marines could use more specialized drones and robots for aid and support
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>>5935494 Sorry voted twice lol don't count this vote
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“And let anyone monitoring the system have a pinpoint mark on both where we jumped from, and where we jumped to.” You stated, rather than asking. If someone was watching the system from the oort cloud, then a slipspace jump would be incredibly easy to spot. Hell, the cloud gave a lot of cover, and even then you had a potential signature on your hands.>“Better safe than sorry. We’ll run up to condition alpha, and keep the crew there for at least the next few hours.” >“That’s a fair point. We should stay in condition bravo for now, we don’t want to stress the crews out without a good reason.” >Other (write in)
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>>5936052 >>“That’s a fair point. We should stay in condition bravo for now, we don’t want to stress the crews out without a good reason.” Anonymous
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>>5936052 >“That’s a fair point. We should stay in condition bravo for now, we don’t want to stress the crews out without a good reason.” Commander Trafford is gonna go bald cause of this wolf pack.
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>>5936052 >>“That’s a fair point. We should stay in condition bravo for now, we don’t want to stress the crews out without a good reason.” Anonymous
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>>5936052 >“That’s a fair point. We should stay in condition bravo for now, we don’t want to stress the crews out without a good reason.” Anonymous
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>>5936052 >“Better safe than sorry. We’ll run up to condition alpha, and keep the crew there for at least the next few hours.” Anonymous
>>5936052 >“Better safe than sorry. We’ll run up to condition alpha, and keep the crew there for at least the next few hours.” Crew rotations are a thing and we could always split the difference by having half the ships on condition Alpha while rotating the other two to Bravo as we travel intermittently.
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>>5936052 >“That’s a fair point. We should stay in condition bravo for now, we don’t want to stress the crews out without a good reason.” Need our crew in best condition during the fight.
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>>5936052 >“That’s a fair point. We should stay in condition bravo for now, we don’t want to stress the crews out without a good reason.” alpha is basically general quarters, yeah?
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>>5936052 >“Better safe than sorry. We’ll run up to condition alpha, and keep the crew there for at least the next few hours.” >>5936167 does have a point about crew rotations. It would also be folly to raise concerns about possible hostile contacts and not want to be in a ready state. Anonymous
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>>5936052 >>“Better safe than sorry. We’ll run up to condition alpha, and keep the crew there for at least the next few hours.” Anonymous
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>>5936052 >“Better safe than sorry. We’ll run up to condition alpha, and keep the crew there for at least the next few hours.” Anonymous
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>>5936052 >“Better safe than sorry. We’ll run up to condition alpha, and keep the crew there for at least the next few hours.” Thunderhead !H2opjANA/2
Rolled 1 (1d2) Tiebreakr roll.
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You take a few seconds to consider the unnamed commander’s point, before finally settling back on your original decision. “Better safe than sorry. We’ll run up to condition alpha, and keep the crew there for at least the next few hours. Besides, a few crew rotations at alpha should be fine. At least until we’re sure that the signature was mundane. If it’s the Covenant, they’re not going to wait too long.”>Cont
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>>5937997 “It makes more sense than dropping in while we’re bunched up and en-route. Right now we’re organized and have uncluttered sensors. Once we reach the inner belt we’ll be easier targets.” You shrugged as you went, applying even the most basic amount of tactical acumen to your current situation. Sure, the Covenant liked to rush in when possible, but assuming they were one-trick ponies was stupid.
“Assuming that the signature we’ve just observed is the same vessel, and that it’s just one cruiser. When was the last time we’ve seen them operating alone?” Buckwood pointed out, raising a question that you’d forced to the back of your mind thus-far. What if there was more than one ship?
>“True. They’re either paired or they have two smaller escorts with them. We ought to be careful.” >“If they’re here and not engaging us then it’s because we have an advantage. That’s always a good sign.” >“Given the whole situation, it might be a good idea to avoid relying too much on past experience.” >Other (write in) Anonymous
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>>5937998 >“Given the whole situation, it might be a good idea to avoid relying too much on past experience.” Anonymous
>>5937998 >“Given the whole situation, it might be a good idea to avoid relying too much on past experience.” There's a non zero chance we're both outgunned and about to be ambushed by boarding parties because they want something from us, probably a functioning nav computer. Four destroyers if four chances.
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>>5938014 Supporting
Extra for mentioning they might want our nav computers
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>>5938051 I'm sure it'd be on the mind of any bridge captain at this point in the war. Only reason I brought it up is because there's a story of that happening to a Halberd-class destroyer in Evolutions in 2549.
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>>5937998 >“Given the whole situation, it might be a good idea to avoid relying too much on past experience.” Anonymous
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>>5938054 Still deserves some reiteration
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>>5937998 >>“Given the whole situation, it might be a good idea to avoid relying too much on past experience.” >There's a non zero chance we're both outgunned and about to be ambushed by boarding parties because they want something from us, probably a functioning nav computer. Four destroyers if four chances. Covvies may be dogmatic, but they ain't stupid. They've got people with real tactical sense among them, can't assume that they'll just barge in.
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>>5937998 >>“Given the whole situation, it might be a good idea to avoid relying too much on past experience.” Anonymous
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>>5937998 >“Given the whole situation, it might be a good idea to avoid relying too much on past experience.” >Write in >"Let's entertain the theory of one ship, though for a moment. What's the reason for send one cruiser for hunt a Mako ? They don't really need all of that firepower for take it out. So why ?" They could be alone, they could have a few vessels, they could have a small fleet. Who knows, if we go by the usual conditions there is a very good chance of being outnumbered. These are not usual conditions which is both a negative and a positive. So far we didn't get much intel beside the fact that the Mako was shot by that cruiser, and a cruiser is kind of unusual to send for hunt a Mako. It's usually the head of a fleet or a group, no ? So we can guess it might be someone special on a special duty, maybe more covies spec ops or an elite commander assigned a task by a minor prophet beyond just regular war orders. Perhaps someone did survive from the Mako and its currently in the system holding something the zipper mouths want..... any missing pelicans from the hangar bay of the Mako ? Or escape pods ?
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>>5937998 >“True. They’re either paired or they have two smaller escorts with them. We ought to be careful.” The radiation could have been from a close knit group jumping in
Best to assume worst case scenario
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fleet-anon(Unbroken empire enjoyer) ID:Tof4X2uR Fri 01 Mar 2024 19:47:12 No. 5940565 Report Quoted By:
>>5937998 >“Given the whole situation, it might be a good idea to avoid relying too much on past experience.” to assume anything is to invite death at the moment.
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“Given the whole situation, it might be a good idea to avoid relying too much on past experience.” You cautioned your fellow commanders. “There’s a non-zero chance that we’re outgunned, and about to walk into an ambush. We should keep aware of that, we all know how badly they want a functional nav computer.”>Cont
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>>5940747 You take only a couple of seconds to mull over the few facts that you have. Half a million kilometers is a very long range as far as space combat goes. MAC gun effective range is typically half that, and covenant plasma weapons were shorter than that. Of course, conventional weapons weren’t the only things that could pose a threat to you out here. And a decent part of you simply didn’t want to find out.
>Stand by to evade! At this distance, you stand a decent chance of evading any incoming fire. (roll 1d100, best of three) >Shoot the bastards! You’ve got long range rounds for a reason. (roll 1d100, best of three) >Other (write in) Anonymous
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Rolled 17 (1d100) >>5940749 >Stand by to evade! At this distance, you stand a decent chance of evading any incoming fire. (roll 1d100, best of three) Anonymous
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Rolled 86 (1d100) >>5940749 >Shoot the bastards! You’ve got long range rounds for a reason. (roll 1d100, best of three) I say we pound ‘em
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Rolled 29 (1d100) >>5940749 >>Stand by to evade! At this distance, you stand a decent chance of evading any incoming fire. (roll 1d100, best of three) Anonymous
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Rolled 96 (1d100) >>5940749 >Stand by to evade! At this distance, you stand a decent chance of evading any incoming fire. (roll 1d100, best of three) Anonymous
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Rolled 94 (1d100) >>5940749 >Shoot the bastards! You’ve got long range rounds for a reason. Anonymous
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Rolled 34 (1d100) >>5940749 >>Shoot the bastards! You’ve got long range rounds for a reason. (roll 1d100, best of three) Anonymous
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>>5940749 >Shoot the bastards! You’ve got long range rounds for a reason. (roll 1d100, best of three) Anonymous
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Rolled 86 (1d100) >>5940749 >Shoot the bastards! You’ve got long range rounds for a reason. (roll 1d100, best of three) Anonymous
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>>5940749 >>Shoot the bastards! You’ve got long range rounds for a reason. (roll 1d100, best of three) Why people keep rolling more lol !
>Other (write in) Eitherway activate that E-WAR right about now we need it active and we need it working on making problems to the covenant, and prepare all our weapons. Also ALARM everyone in the ships get ready to kill aliens now !
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“Nav, turn us about. Weapons, load a long-range MAC round and fire as soon as you have a firing solution.” You order your bridge crew, before hitting two buttons on your command chair. The first to hit the general quarters alarm, and the second to activate the ship-wide announcement system. “General quarters! General quarters! All hands man your battle stations. Set for material condition zulu across the ship, prepare for imminent MAC discharge.”>Evade manually! You’ve got the range to make it work. (roll 1d100-10, best of 3) >Use the emergency boosters! You can dodge this attack easily. (negate this attack, 6 uses remaining) >Other (write in)
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Rolled 29 - 10 (1d100 - 10) >>5941966 >Evade manually! You’ve got the range to make it work. Anonymous
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Rolled 45 - 10 (1d100 - 10) >>5941966 >>Evade manually! You’ve got the range to make it work. (roll 1d100-10, best of 3) Anonymous
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Rolled 68 - 10 (1d100 - 10) >>5941966 >>Evade manually! You’ve got the range to make it work. (roll 1d100-10, best of 3) Anonymous
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>>5941966 >Use the emergency boosters! You can dodge this attack easily. (negate this attack, 6 uses remaining) Whelp, time to put our upgrades to the test.
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>>5941966 >>Use the emergency boosters! You can dodge this attack easily. (negate this attack, 6 uses remaining) Anonymous
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>>5941966 >Use the emergency boosters! You can dodge this attack easily. Anonymous
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>>5941966 >Use the emergency boosters! You can dodge this attack easily. (negate this attack, 6 uses remaining) Anonymous
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Rolled 19 - 10 (1d100 - 10) >>5941966 >Evade manually! You’ve got the range to make it work. (roll 1d100-10, best of 3) Anonymous
>>5941966 >Use the emergency boosters! You can dodge this attack easily. (negate this attack, 6 uses remaining) I haven’t read the preceding quests, are we totally fucked here?
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>>5942219 >are we totally fucked here? Not at all. With good pack coordination and decent tactics there's even a very small chance we make it out of here with minimal losses. Two Halberds and two Ables with all four carrying smart AI and at least ourselves with specialty MAC rounds is a pretty lethal formation. Battlecruisers are scary but they're probably the most well known Covenant ship to the UNSC.
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>>5942219 From what I remember, emergency boosters can damage the ship and hurt our crew. This is obviously not ideal, but it's better than the alternative of tanking a hit from the Covenant. Hopefully, we can warn the crew to brace before execution.
We should be all right here, but unfortunately this trick might not work a second time since the enemy will probably be ready to compensate in their targeting since they've already seen it once.
Rolls have generally been fucking terrible in this quest, especially in space. The only real exception was that time where we briefly turned into a supersoldier by critting multiple times in ground combat.
Dice aside, humans are just massively outmatched by the Covenant in space. So don't be surprised if our entire wolfpack, crew and maybe even Wells end up dying, lol
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“Brace! Brace! Brace!” You call over the ship’s PA system, giving your crew at least some heads up about what’s about to come, before turning your attention to your nav officer. “Diana, arm emergency booster units, and get us outta the path of that beam!”>Data-link with the rest of the flotilla! The only way you’re gonna survive this engagement is if you kill those cruisers, and fast. (roll 1d100 best of three) >Fire independently from the flotilla! You’ve got specialist MAC rounds for a reason, better start using them. (specify type [Guided, Nuke, Flechette], specify target [Cruisers, fighters], roll 1d100 best of three) >Take out those fighters! If you let those damn things get close, they’ll cut you apart! (roll 1d100 best of three) >Other (write in)
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Rolled 42 (1d100) >>5942865 >Data-link with the rest of the flotilla! The only way you’re gonna survive this engagement is if you kill those cruisers, and fast. We've weakened one of their shields already. Might as well capitalize on it. Next round should either fire off a nuke or deal with the fighters.
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Rolled 17 (1d100) >>5942865 >Data-link with the rest of the flotilla! The only way you’re gonna survive this engagement is if you kill those cruisers, and fast. (roll 1d100 best of three) Anonymous
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Rolled 27 (1d100) >>5942865 >Data-link with the rest of the flotilla! The only way you’re gonna survive this engagement is if you kill those cruisers, and fast. (roll 1d100 best of three) Teamwork makes the dream work.
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Rolled 3 (1d100) >>5942865 >Fire independently from the flotilla! You’ve got specialist MAC rounds for a reason, better start using them. (specify type [Guided, Nuke, Flechette], specify target [Cruisers, fighters], roll 1d100 best of three) >fighters, Flechette Anonymous
Rolled 29 (1d100) >>5942865 >Take out those fighters! If you let those damn things get close, they’ll cut you apart! (roll 1d100 best of three) >Flechette, fighters Anonymous
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>>5943025 sorry, I misvoted
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>Fire independently from the flotilla! You’ve got specialist MAC rounds for a reason, better start using them. (specify type [Guided, Nuke, Flechette], specify target [Cruisers, fighters], roll 1d100 best of three) Anonymous
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Rolled 37 (1d100) >>5942865 >Data-link with the rest of the flotilla! The only way you’re gonna survive this engagement is if you kill those cruisers, and fast. fleet-anon(Unbroken empire enjoyer)
fleet-anon(Unbroken empire enjoyer) ID:Tof4X2uR Mon 04 Mar 2024 12:52:31 No. 5943101 Report Quoted By:
>>5942865 >Data-link with the rest of the flotilla! The only way you’re gonna survive this engagement is if you kill those cruisers, and fast. (roll 1d100 best of three) "Now that you were in combat, his orders couldn’t be questioned. Even if you doubted his decisions, now wasn’t the time to go do your own thing."
PLEASE don't get us into a court marshal by going against orders.
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Rolled 68 (1d100) >>5942865 >Data-link with the rest of the flotilla! The only way you’re gonna survive this engagement is if you kill those cruisers, and fast. (roll 1d100 best of three) Seems like mediocre rolls on our part
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Rolled 7 (1d100) >>5942865 >Data-link with the rest of the flotilla! The only way you’re gonna survive this engagement is if you kill those cruisers, and fast. (roll 1d100 best of three) Thunderhead !H2opjANA/2
“Weapons, you heard the man.” You order, deferring to command rather than running off and doing something else. Right now, it was a simple matter of working together, or dying alone.>Cont
Thunderhead !H2opjANA/2
>>5943605 Unfortunately, for all this firepower, the results are lackluster. The first volley entirely brackets the lead cruiser, your MAC round simply sailing over the cruiser’s dorsal side. But those rounds were designed to pen the enemy vessel in, allowing the second rounds from the two Halberd class destroyers to slam into the vessel. The shield stays up longer this time, and shifts from a brilliant blue to a darker almost purple as it soaks the rounds. One or two more rounds, and they’ll be down for good.
Unfortunately, The Covenant ships aren’t hesitant to return the favor, and you quickly see the bows and the flanks of both cruisers start to bristle with tiny pin-picks of charging plasma weapons. Your sensor officer calls out the attack a second later. “They’re charging for another volley! Energy projectors are not on us, but they’re launching torpedoes. Fighters are still incoming, about halfway to us!”
With the energy projectors not on you, you have a bit of wiggle room to work with. Quickly recharging the MAC gun could give you a chance to get off another shot, and you had the rounds to make a disproportionate impact. But that would leave you out of place to join the next MAC volley. A missile barrage -either a mix of your ubiquitous Archers and one or two Shiva nukes against the cruisers, or a mix of Archers and Streaks against the fighters- could also be a meaningful contribution to the engagement. But the combined pulse-laser fire of the two cruisers would mean that you’d need to throw a lot of missiles downrange, even against the inbound fighters. But one thing that you had yet to really exploit was your EW suite. Diana was doing a good job with defensive jamming, but maybe now was the time to give her a freer hand.
>Recharge the gun! You can’t afford to waste time or energy on anything else. (specify type [Guided, Nuke, Flechette], specify target [Cruisers, fighters], roll 1d100 best of three) >Fire the missiles! You’ve gont hundreds of the bastards, might as well use ‘em. (specify target [Cruisers, fighters], roll 1d100 best of three) [NOTE: engaging the cruisers will cost 1 of your 3 Shiva nukes to try and take down their shields] >Spin up the EW suite! See how those hinge-head bastards like this. (roll 1d100, best of three) >Other (write in) Anonymous
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Rolled 28 (1d100) >>5943607 >Fire the missiles! You’ve gont hundreds of the bastards, might as well use ‘em. (Fighters) Anonymous
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Rolled 90 (1d100) >>5943607 >Spin up the EW suite! See how those hinge-head bastards like this. Anonymous
Rolled 100 (1d100) >>5943607 >Spin up the EW suite! See how those hinge-head bastards like this. (roll 1d100, best of three) We have an ace in the hole, time to play it!
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Rolled 92 (1d100) >>5943607 >Spin up the EW suite! See how those hinge-head bastards like this. (roll 1d100, best of three) hacker man, I'm in.
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>>5943648 wtf we just hacked the matrix
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>>5943607 >>Spin up the EW suite! See how those hinge-head bastards like this. (roll 1d100, best of three) fleet-anon(Unbroken empire enjoyer)
fleet-anon(Unbroken empire enjoyer) ID:Tof4X2uR Tue 05 Mar 2024 07:10:56 No. 5943737 Report Quoted By:
>>5943607 >Spin up the EW suite! See how those hinge-head bastards like this. (roll 1d100, best of three) >we got a 90, 100 and 92 on electronic warfare >we are using an (oversized for our class) cruiser level E-War suite holy fucking shit. I hope this disables either basically all of the incoming fighters, or is able to disable the cruiser which we haven't been firing at.
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>>5943607 >Spin up the EW suite! See how those hinge-head bastards like this. (roll 1d100, best of three) I think our AI just found their ships battle fleet link which they foolishly forgot to override…..boarding time anyone
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we honestly belong on a prowler, lmao
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>>5943607 >Spin up the EW suite! See how those hinge-head bastards like this. (roll 1d100, best of three) >crit We are doing it again boys.
"Diana, vent their atmosphere into the void. let us see if they can shoot without air"
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>>5943607 >>Spin up the EW suite! See how those hinge-head bastards like this. (roll 1d100, best of three) Diana: I have somehow achieved complete control over the Covenant Data Network.
Thunderhead !H2opjANA/2
“Diana, I think we might need the EW suite.” You admitted as you watched your MAC round fly off into the void, heading of to become someone else’s problem.>Slowly force your way in! The slow knife penetrates the shield after all. >Hit something small! The more you degrade them, the better. (roll 1d100, best of 3) >Hit something big! You need to hit them hard while you’ve got the chance. (roll 1d100, best of 3) >Keep it in your back pocket! A well timed hack could be just as effective as a MAC round. >Other (write in)
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Rolled 23 (1d100) >>5944226 >Hit something big! You need to hit them hard while you’ve got the chance. Anonymous
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Rolled 6 (1d100) >>5944226 >>Hit something big! You need to hit them hard while you’ve got the chance. (roll 1d100, best of 3) Anonymous
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>>5944226 >Slowly force your way in! The slow knife penetrates the shield after all. This is what she’s built for, people. We obviously have a great chance to learn valuable intel here beyond the pure combat applications
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>>5944226 >>Slowly force your way in! The slow knife penetrates the shield after all. Anonymous
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>>5944226 >Slowly force your way in! The slow knife penetrates the shield after all. Anonymous
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>>5944226 >Slowly force your way in! The slow knife penetrates the shield after all. Anonymous
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Rolled 96 (1d100) >>5944226 >>Hit something big! You need to hit them hard while you’ve got the chance. (roll 1d100, best of 3) Anonymous
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>>5944226 >Hit something big! The more you degrade them, the better. (roll 1d100, best of 3) > scram reactors, leave them powerless and drifting Anonymous
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>>5944226 >>>Hit something big! You need to hit them hard while you’ve got the chance. (roll 1d100, best of 3) SUCK VAC ALIEN SCUM
Fleet-anon(currently phoneposting)
Fleet-anon(currently phoneposting) ID:Tof4X2uR Wed 06 Mar 2024 03:52:45 No. 5944449 Report >>5944226 >Hit something big! You need to hit them hard while you’ve got the chance. (roll 1d100, best of 3) Possible plan here.
Make her alter the composition of the atmosphere inside the ships then. Slowly introduce more and more nitrogen into the mixture as she worms her way further into the covenant ships systems. This should basically asphyxiate all But the grunts and enginners. Since grunts have their own breathing aparatus of methane, and the enginners have been described as able to do anerobic respiration. If they are anything like humans, elites then shouldn’t feel the lack of oxygen. They Would all just suddenly feel very sleepy and just Fall over before being able to do anything. Dying in their sleep from oxygen deprivation before they could even do anytihng or even put on any emergency oxygen supply. And after the elites have all died this way, she could continue taking over systems and worming her way furher into the system as the grunts all panic and cower. None of them being high enough rank to fix any of this. And this way we’d also keep the engineers, since if we vent atmosphere it’ll kill the huragok as well.
If we could capture this thing, we could potentially get both an intact interstellar map of the entire covenant Empire. And get an entire cruiser that oni could potentially rip apart and study. It Would be monumental.
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>>5944449 Seconded, way better than my plan of just screaming the reactor. After we kill everyone on board maybe also flip FoF tags so that point defense starts sweating their own fighters and such as well
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>>5944449 Genius plan Fleet. I agree completely.
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>>5944226 >Slowly force your way in! The slow knife penetrates the shield after all. >Write in "And in addition to that, Diana begin looking at the movement of their weaponry, their energy readings, their engines status and the status of their shields. We will know what they do in combat against us and use it"
>>5944449 I don't think it would work exactly like that, because no doubt Covenant ships have alarms for this kind of thing that start blaring no matter what. Air would be stupidly important to keep an eye on in space, an alarm that starts going in any situations would be something i expect from any military.
On top of that covenant armors and equipment should have functions for possibly going out in space outside their ships like in case of boarding, or for the sake of a basic safety measure. Judging by how far more experienced Covenant species are in space and space warfare, this should be quite possible. So it might knock out some of the crew and troops due to the surprise effect, but not all.
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>>5944639 Still, I think it’s a subtle approach and likely to reduce their combat effectiveness even if we don’t pull off a total ship death maneuver.
Even better, it’s not so obvious that our AI would get immediately flagged, so we’d have a second chance to pull data from their systems
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fleet-anon(Unbroken empire enjoyer) ID:Tof4X2uR Wed 06 Mar 2024 14:50:44 No. 5944798 Report >>5944639 I appreciate the feedback and it did make me double check to see if it would be possible. even made me look at stuff like if Sangheli blood would possibly even go for oxygen detection instead of carbonic acid presence in blood evolutionarily. though I think it still is reasonable the plan for these points as counter arguments.
1: indeed, covenant ships would likely have constant atmospherics monitoring. but just like any system able to give false negatives, they could be turned off as part of the cyber attack by being flagged as a false alarm. since it would also be stupid to not have overrides on these systems in cases where the crew deems the ship diagnostics to be wrong. if anything the attack itself could be done by just...saying the oxygen content of the ship is too high to the sensors inside. and letting it slowly flow more and more nitrogen into the ships air as it tries to compensate. not triggering an alarm because it see's it as a normal action done on any other voyage without having a concept of it being a trick. as covenant ships especially aren't used to fighting using electronic warfare. most wars in covenant history have after all been done with massive naval superiority or on ground only.
2: yes, there is indeed EVA suits for covenant, but in looking through any and all mentions of it. basically all combat suits for the Sangheli except the ranger and flight battle harnesses have no mention of being airtight. with most battle harnesses even showing the open mouth of the Sangheli in question. and with the fact that personal shields don't keep air within the users personal space, i think we can safely say that most of not nearly all Sangheli on the ships in question are probably susceptible to asphyxiation if the atmosphere was replaced with nitrogen. only Sangheli which would be left would likely be Fleet security personnel as they would be using Ranger harnesses. but to my knowledge these rangers wouldn't have either the clearance or numbers to be able to do anything inside the ship after nearly all other personnel has fainted. since they were more dedicated to a on board Marine like role than they were like Oni spooks. though indeed they would still be a possible thread. otherwise the kig yar have also been shown to have EVA capable suits and the grunts as well. but these two grounds would also be the ones least likely to both know how to, and have the clearances to helm the ship in case of every Sangheli falling down dead on the floor.
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fleet-anon(Unbroken empire enjoyer) ID:Tof4X2uR Wed 06 Mar 2024 15:26:52 No. 5944818 Report Quoted By:
>>5944639 >>5944798 and my point number three. also my last one.
3: the covenant are actually really bad at war. the designs on their ships haven't been tested on any foe equal to them in size or technology, so they usually never face any problems other than how much firepower they need to bring to a fight. none of the wars they've yet fought have had them need to get creative. the war between the San'Shyuum and Sangheli was won by the use of the forerunner dreadnaught. the Unggoy Rebellion was only planet side, and the grunts weren't able to fight any naval battles. the Kig-Yar when first fought was nothing but pirates and traders and easily choose to become part of the covenant. the Yanme'e as well joined only after quick skirmishes. and the Lekgolo are literally just worms. they did not have ships. the covenant has never really fought an asymmetric enemy. so their ships and naval personnel are also equipped as such.
because of that. their ship philosophy is made with their large scale in mind. i genuinely don't think they have normal EVA suits, because their ships aren't planned to fail enough to need them. their hulls are made of very strong layered composites which are complex enough that nearly no two samples are the same. made in one large go within the assembly forges. and their shielding is good enough that other than being attacked by another covenant ship, the only means of damaging them before the human war was through small battles between ministries. they've never had to manage by just repairing a vessel, and i don't think nanolaminate even can just be fixed just by cutting out the area the hole is and adding new monolaminate. since the ships hulls are supposed to be one large single crystalline metal structure. so their management solution is through cutting off the broken parts. as they employ Modular Dispersal Technology. aka small explosives in parts of the ship to separate pieces of it either to make it fall off of the ship, or separate into smaller ships. their entire ship philosophy is based off of the idea of taking destroyed or broken parts back home, and scrapping the entire ship so that it can be melted back into a new ship in a assembly forge. which i actually only learnt about because you questioned my logic. so thank you. but my point being that Sangheli armorers basically make their ships like apple makes phones. use them and throw them out when it breaks.
pic related. an assault carrier using MDT tech to seperate into two smaller vessels. likely in case one of the parts got damaged.
which is why, i dont think really the ships are made with contingencies and failsafes in mind. and their crews aren't ready for atmospheric changes. since their ships aren't built to need repairs when they do break. the personnel just move to areas of the ship that aren't broken until they get back to an assembly forge and go get another ship.
sorry for the overly long explanation. hope my reasoning is solid :D
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>>5944226 >>Slowly force your way in! The slow knife penetrates the shield after all. Thunderhead !H2opjANA/2
“Go big or go home Diana.” You decide. While a slow attack might serve you better in the long run, you’re running out of time. “How viable would it be to mess with life support?”>Poison the air! Diana’s right, even if this doesn’t get everyone, it still buys you time. >Lock it down! You need that ship out of the fight right now. >Control their guns! If you can either damage or cripple the other cruiser, this engagement becomes much easier. >Blow it up! The best option is often the simplest, and it removes any chance of recovery. >Other (Write in)
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>>5945367 >Blow it up! The best option is often the simplest, and it removes any chance of recovery. Anonymous
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>>5945367 >Blow it up! The best option is often the simplest, and it removes any chance of recovery. While I would LOVE for us to capture a covenant cruiser, Now is not the time.
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>>5945367 >Blow it up! The best option is often the simplest, and it removes any chance of recovery. Anonymous
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>>5945367 >Poison the air! Diana’s right, even if this doesn’t get everyone, it still buys you time. fleet-anon(Unbroken empire enjoyer)
fleet-anon(Unbroken empire enjoyer) ID:Tof4X2uR Thu 07 Mar 2024 06:28:13 No. 5945441 Report Quoted By:
>>5945367 >Poison the air! Diana’s right, even if this doesn’t get everyone, it still buys you time. Anonymous
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>>5945367 >>Poison the air! Diana’s right, even if this doesn’t get everyone, it still buys you time. Anonymous
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>>5945367 >Other (Write in) Set the ship on a collision course with the other cruiser.
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>>5945367 >Poison the air! Diana’s right, even if this doesn’t get everyone, it still buys you time. Anonymous
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>>5945367 >Poison the air! Diana’s right, even if this doesn’t get everyone, it still buys you time. And then once that's finished, control their guns and target the other cruiser.
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>>5945367 >>Poison the air! Diana’s right, even if this doesn’t get everyone, it still buys you time. Anonymous
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>>5945367 >Poison the air! Diana’s right, even if this doesn’t get everyone, it still buys you time. >Entire brige crew and most Yanme'e menials die of asphyxiation. Only a handful of Sangheli, some Lekgolo, the Enginners and a few hundred scared Grunts are left. >"Diana, close all doors within the ship. Lockdown anything you can and begin changing passwords" >Ship is just standing in place. All of the guns on the ship are silent as anyone with authority died sleeping on the job. Engineering and any place they could try and act from is locked down. ONI will need to give us a cruiser after this.
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>>5945367 >>Poison the air! Diana’s right, even if this doesn’t get everyone, it still buys you time. The time for safe plays died with our Home. An entire cruiser in UNSC hands would be of titanic benefit to the war, we have to take the gambit.
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>>5945367 Ah
Can we comms the good news to the rest of the fleet, so they can concentrate fire on the other cruiser and the fighters ? We have far better chances now at least. If we can succeed somehow we probably need to immediately block any of their comms and reactor access.
fleet-anon(Unbroken empire enjoyer)
fleet-anon(Unbroken empire enjoyer) ID:Tof4X2uR Thu 07 Mar 2024 16:04:33 No. 5945659 Report >>5945534 we really should. since we have 3 other smart AI's which could potentially help Diana if they are alerted. even just by helping her do the calculations.
also. i just remembered if we get the battlecruiser. we don't just get the ship itself. we can also hand over everything it's currently holding. if we can get this thing back to ONI they'll fucking cream their pants. if we got one point in bonus for giving them a single Huragok. imagine getting ahold of 2 of them, potentially several hunters, all of the personnel gear of the dead aliens, the ship itself, 50 banshee's. 48 wraith mortar tanks and potentially 150 ghosts. the other ones being questionable since the ships did already send out at least some of those fighters.
my source of this thinking being the numbers as stated on the halopedia.
also a question we need to ask the other ships. what combat personnel do they have? do they all have their full marine troop entourage? does any of them have any Spartans II's or III's? maybe some ODST's? will be pretty important for when we need to board the ship.
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>>5945367 >Poison the air! Diana’s right, even if this doesn’t get everyone, it still buys you time. Importantly this option gives us a chance to maintain Diana’s grip on the enemy system - it’s subtle enough for Diana to keep burrowing into additional subsystems and make extricating her harder
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>>5945659 If we pull it off, it’s probably immediately canon-breaking and this quest becomes a galactic version of XCOM instead of the “we’re fucked” plotline of the Halo games
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>>5945659 >Do any of them have any Spartan II's or III's? Not a chance in hell a patrol flotilla has Spartans aboard. And ODST's are unlikely too given we're a bunch of destroyers on a dedicated fleet action and not planetary or theatre support. The other AIs though could be a good idea, though Diana is specifically made for EWAR.
>>5945743 It'll be a boon for sure but there's going to be so many hoops to jump through that it'll be hell to even get back into UNSC space once ONI get their hands on it. Also, battlecruisers are probably the most prolific capital ships in the entire Covenant fleet and it's second smallest cruiser pattern. It's actual ship-to-ship weapons are pretty anemic too. Instead I'd expect ONI to either fast track Red Flag out of the think tank or entirely strip it down to reverse engineer. Could see early post war tech by 2552 if they do.
Or maybe I'm just being too pessimistic.
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>>5945743 >>5945659 It would still take AWHILE before the stuff is RnD'ed and rolled out. So its not anywhere near breaking as it may seem and we are already quite into the war by now.
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>>5945761 >>5945780 Agree with your thoughts, but even the intel haul from the ship could be plot-breaking. Access to the Covenant milcom network alone could totally shift the tenor of the war
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>>5945790 The Covenant know about ONI's kleptomania and actively take steps to prevent significant assets or data from being pilfered. This late in the war they'll absolutely expect to be boarded if ship is being actively tampered with. And with <400 Marines max across the entire compliment it's just not likely we have the manpower to board and secure the ship before it can be blown up.
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>>5945850 Hmm thanks for your insight Halo-anon, I played the games but haven’t done a deep lore dive
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>>5945869 No worries. I'm not saying it's not worth a try to at least see what happens but to just have tempered expectations. I personally think it's a fruitless effort but any given action for Diana in this scenario will help us win the fight.
And on the off chance it does work and we privateer ourselves a battlecruiser then hot damn we probably just landed ourselves a shitload of brownie points with ONI and FLEETCOM both.
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“Even if this doesn’t get all of the crew, it’ll probably get enough of them to take the ship out of the fight. Diana, poison their air supply of one of the cruisers, whichever one has the greatest chances of success. ” You ordered, taking a gamble on grabbing one of the cruisers rather than trying to split your lone AI’s attention between both of them. “And do whatever you can to lock down the ship. Lock down doors, close hangar doors, the works.”>Hit the last cruiser! One good MAC volley, and it’s outta the fight. (roll 1d100, best of 3) >Take out those fighters! Regardless of what happens to the cruisers, they’ll rip you apart if you give them the chance. (roll 1d100, best of 3) >Engage the torpedoes! The sooner you can thin them out, the better! (roll 1d100, best of 3) >Other (write in)
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Rolled 96 (1d100) >>5946090 >Take out those fighters! Regardless of what happens to the cruisers, they’ll rip you apart if you give them the chance. (roll 1d100, best of 3) Anonymous
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Rolled 17 (1d100) >>5946090 >Take out those fighters! Regardless of what happens to the cruisers, they’ll rip you apart if you give them the chance Anonymous
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Rolled 73 (1d100) >>5946090 >Take out those fighters! Regardless of what happens to the cruisers, they’ll rip you apart if you give them the chance. (roll 1d100, best of 3) Pew pew pew
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Rolled 93 (1d100) >>5946090 >>Take out those fighters! Regardless of what happens to the cruisers, they’ll rip you apart if you give them the chance. (roll 1d100, best of 3) WASTE EM
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>>5946090 >>Take out those fighters! Regardless of what happens to the cruisers, they’ll rip you apart if you give them the chance. Anonymous
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>>5946090 >Take out those fighters! Regardless of what happens to the cruisers, they’ll rip you apart if you give them the chance. (roll 1d100, best of 3) Anonymous
Rolled 65 (1d100) >>5946090 >launch a coordinated MAC barrage at the cruiser while launching anti fighter missiles at the remaining fighters. Have the fighter craft of the fleet form a CAP and prepare all PD grids to give supporting fire. If to many fighters make it through the anti fighter missiles launch a barrage of anti ship and fighter missiles to draw them away from the ships and toward the ship killers to give us more time to thin them out. If possible once control of the cruiser is gained coordinate a Plasma torpedo and MAC barrage to take out the other cruiser and use the Covi AA to take out any CAP or returning enemy craft. Anonymous
>>5946090 >>Take out those fighters! Regardless of what happens to the cruisers, they’ll rip you apart if you give them the chance. >Take out those fighters! Regardless of what happens to the cruisers, they’ll rip you apart if you give them the chance. Anonymous
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>>5946332 >Acidentally copy and paste twice fleet-anon(Unbroken empire enjoyer)
fleet-anon(Unbroken empire enjoyer) ID:Tof4X2uR Fri 08 Mar 2024 13:16:43 No. 5946414 Report >>5946090 >Take out those fighters! Regardless of what happens to the cruisers, they’ll rip you apart if you give them the chance. hey, we already got a good roll.
id also say we should try and use some of our archer missiles to increase our likelihood of surviving the torpedo's as well. specifically by making the missiles target the torpedo's.
Also. i was looking around at things we might be able to ask for from ONI if we get the battlecruiser home to UNSC space. and looking it over i think we should try to upgrade to a point-blank class stealth cruiser. as it seems we've been going more for the irregular style of combat. and this vessel has a much higher potential firepower compared to the Able we are currently in control of. while complimenting our currently more E-war and fighter focused experience. (halopedia link
https://www.halopedia.org/Point_Blank-class_prowler )
Also, if we were to do that. we might even be able to ask for a Hyperscanner array to be installed into the ship. as the Winter-class prowler is currently in development and will be added to service in the next year. so the Hyperscanner is either already in experimental use, or already finished as a project.
it also has a potential 800 fuckin ODST carrying capacity. which is kind of crazy. as some people have mentioned. the ship is DEFINITELY too small for it's capabilities. the paris class frigate we were in before weighs more than the cruiser. but has literally less of everything. it also should have thicker armor than the paris as well. but it isn't really stated anywhere. i've only seen people say it would either have no armor. as that's the only way it could weigh so little. or at least have the two meters of a destroyer or possibly thicker to even count towards it's role as a command center.
it has stealth, it has hacking. it has fuckton of fighters bombers and crew, it has more AND better anti aircraft. and it even has potential to be a small fleet command position. i think it's the direction we should be heading. of course only IF we get the battecruiser back home.
pic related. the stealth cruiser.
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>>5946414 To answer your question, no, I severely doubt ONI would let us have a Point Blank Class, firstly, we aren't a prowler captain, nor are we even IN ONI, secondly, they don't exactly hand those things out like hotcakes. And this isn't even getting into the fucking hyperscanner array. Best we can hope for is a pat on the back from ONI and them bumping us up on the cruiser waiting list.
Honestly this whole "hey guise wouldnt it be cool if we got (unattainable thing) and (unattainable thing) but unironically" only furthers my theory that you are in fact underaged.
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fleet-anon(Unbroken empire enjoyer) ID:Tof4X2uR Fri 08 Mar 2024 15:46:16 No. 5946466 Report Quoted By:
>>5946443 >>5946447 okay. see i can work with that discussion point. because the first response gives me literally nothing to work with and doesn't even give me any idea of why my idea would be wrong.
first. yes be aren't a prowler captain. but prowler captains also don't just spawn out of nowhere. if anything the reason why i thought it would be possible is that a point was made that not alot of captains want to work with ONI any longer unless necessary back in one of the pevious threads. and a split had formed between ONI and fleet command. and with how we have already been rewarded for going out of our way to accept service for ONI. i simply didn't think it's that out of the blue to expect handouts and favours from them in the form of a ship. as it would likely make us be even more under their grasp as an asset. essentially recruiting us by giving us their stuff and becoming part of their network as we've already shown to be a useful asset.
secondly. indeed they dont just give those ships out. but if we were able to come back with an intact covenant ship able to commit to operation RED FLAG and a map of the covenant empire + all of the current covenant military movements. i could at least see it being reasonable that we'd be probably all of us promoted in the wolfpack here. since this is a massive shift for the entire war plan strategically. there are definitely currently cruiser captains out there that have done less impressive things to get their positions.
and thirdly. okay fair. the hyperscanner isn't necessarily something able to be gotten. i was just getting excited because it could've opened up the possibility of using such to go and support the Battle of Meridian, and maybe find the Luminary before the covenant such that earth would stay safe for a while longer. i just mentioned it as a possibility since...yeah. it is a tech that will come out in universe quite soon. relatively at least.
but yeah. that's at least just my reasoning for those thoughts. again i don't claim to know everything. which is why your second reply is infinitely more usable for me because i can actually reflect on WHY i might be wrong and actually reply with my thoughts on it.
i still think it isn't out of the question after all. but your response did temper my expectations about it. since i also do realize im thinking already very far ahead. and that isn't probably a useful use of my time right now. but hey, i just do it because as a person new to the universe. it's fun to explore and talk about it.
also. im still not underage. im 21 and born back in 2002. birthday in august.
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It took you only a second or so to decide on what to do next. The navy man in you demanded to join the rest of the pack in it's MAC barrage to take out the last cruiser as soon as possible. But it was quickly smacked down by your rational mind, which reminded you of all the reasons why that would be a stupid idea. From the simple fact that drawing power away from your EW suite would probably kill your plans for the other cruiser, to the fact that the interference from charging the gun could have an effect on your jammers.>
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>>5946795 But the Streaks had been designed with home-on-jam from day-one, and had been designed to kill things that were moving much faster and maneuvering far harder. And that was before you put them under the care of an AI that apparently knew their stuff.
The EW craft died first, robbing their charges of the electronic protection they needed. The space banshees, void-capable variants of the covenant’s mainline atmospheric fighter, were next by simple virtue of lacking the shields that could have saved them. And even the best-in-class seraph heavy fighters, with powerful engines and strong shields, were cut down by the dozen by the sustained barrage.
Some survived, of course. Most survived through skilled piloting, such as seraph crews turning the narrow sides of their ships to face the missiles and minimizing their profile to the income attack. But a few managed it by sheer dumb luck, such as a handful of space banshee pilots. And they turned back to continue their assaults, but with only a handful of them left there was nothing left for them to do. You’d simply leave it up to the automated point-defense guns, and save the missiles for later.
“Vampire! Vampire! Torpedos are on terminal approach!” Your sensor operator crowed, dragging your attention to the incoming barrage of torpedoes. Sure, you’d perhaps focused on the fighters a bti too much, but the Streaks could never hope to stop those roiling balls of plasma and hate. That being said, you weren’t out of options.
>Shoot them down! The Able and Achilles’ coilguns are the best weapons you have to take them out. (Roll 1d100, best of 3) >Evade! Even if the guns are rated for it, you’d rather avoid needing to use them at all. (Roll 1d100, best of 3) >Other (write in) Anonymous
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Rolled 44 (1d100) >>5946796 >Shoot them down! The Able and Achilles’ coilguns are the best weapons you have to take them out. (Roll 1d100, best of 3) Anonymous
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Rolled 5 (1d100) >>5946796 >Shoot them down! The Able and Achilles’ coilguns are the best weapons you have to take them out. (Roll 1d100, best of 3) Anonymous
>>5946796 >Shoot them down! The Able and Achilles’ coilguns are the best weapons you have to take them out. (Roll 1d100, best of 3) Don't sweat it boyos, I got this
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Rolled 88 (1d100) >>5946807 kek, forgot my roll
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>>5946795 >>5946796 >Evade! Even if the guns are rated for it, you’d rather avoid needing to use them at all. (Roll 1d100, best of 3) Anonymous
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>>5946796 >Shoot them down! The Able and Achilles’ coilguns are the best weapons you have to take them out. Anonymous
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Rolled 63 (1d100) >>5946811 Forgot my bad
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Rolled 84 (1d100) >>5946796 >Evade! Even if the guns are rated for it, you’d rather avoid needing to use them at all. (Roll 1d100, best of 3) Anonymous
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>>5946796 >>Shoot them down! The Able and Achilles’ coilguns are the best weapons you have to take them out. Anonymous
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Rolled 78 (1d100) >>5946796 >Shoot them down! The Able and Achilles’ coilguns are the best weapons you have to take them out. (Roll 1d100, best of 3) Anonymous
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Rolled 87 (1d100) >>5946796 >Shoot them down! The Able and Achilles’ coilguns are the best weapons you have to take them out. (Roll 1d100, best of 3) Anonymous
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>>5946796 >Shoot them down! The Able and Achilles’ coilguns are the best weapons you have to take them out. (Roll 1d100, best of 3) PD guns activate!
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“Weapons, set PD for intercept mode. Nav, move us ahead of and below the flotilla to unshadow the aft turrets.” You ordered, sticking to your role of handling the things that the rest of the flotilla simply couldn’t do as they engaged the trailing cruiser. The covenant vessels had been firing their torpedo silos in waves, sixteen at a time, firing half of their launchers while the other half were reloaded. And with only six turrets at your disposal, you needed every gun available.>Cont
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>>5947881 “Nav, arm emergency thrusters.” You order, making ready to reuse your earlier tactic against the incoming rounds. But even as the words leave your mouth, one of the three torpedoes is shredded in a barrage of tungsten rounds. The second dies soon after, briefly transforming into an amber star as the fuel within the core leaked into the remains of the plasma jacket and exploded. The third coming uncomfortably close before it’d turned into swiss cheese by the combined effort of all six of your turrets. The remaining four rounds in the barrage don’t reach their targets, as the concentrated fire of three destroyers manages to catch the incoming torpedoes before they hit.
The return volley of five MAC rounds on the other hand is far more accurate. Each round slams right into the trailing cruiser, the first four rounds smashing against its shield, before the last one pops it like a grape. Almost instantly, Trafford calls the next fire mission. “The shield’s down! All vessels, set for Archer volley against the remaining cruiser.”
“Nitrogen dump complete, I’m seeing flat-lines across the hacked cruiser’s vitals monitoring network. Is there anything else you’d like me to do?” Diana finally spoke up, illustrating her point with a shot of some room in the Covenant ship, where jackals and elites lay side-by-side on the deck.
>Fire the MAC gun! Now that you don’t need to actively hack the crippled cruiser, you’re free to steal the kill. (roll 1d100, best of 3) >Launch your missiles! Even if the cruiser’s crew is mostly dead, you still want Diana hacking the ship’s systems. (roll 1d100, best of 3 [and say if you want Diana to do something in the meantime]) >Keep engaging torpedoes! As long as that cruiser is still up, it’s gonna keep guiding torpedoes at you and the fleet. (roll 1d100, best of 3) >Other (write in) Anonymous
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Rolled 83 (1d100) >>5947882 >Fire the MAC gun! Now that you don’t need to actively hack the crippled cruiser, you’re free to steal the kill. (roll 1d100, best of 3) Anonymous
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Rolled 17 (1d100) >>5947882 >Launch your missiles! Even if the cruiser’s crew is mostly dead, you still want Diana hacking the ship’s systems. Any chance we could have Diana kill the CIWS network? Also I'm still 100% there's another ship in the system watching us. Sooner we deal with this the better.
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Rolled 29 (1d100) >>5947882 >Launch your missiles! Even if the cruiser’s crew is mostly dead, you still want Diana hacking the ship’s systems. (roll 1d100, best of 3 [and say if you want Diana to do something in the meantime]) have diana begin working on the enemy bridge cutting of their access to the rest of the ship preventing them from remotely jumping or blowing the engine, and after begin locking down the hallways leading to the bridge again cutting them of physically from the ship
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Rolled 53 (1d100) >>5947882 >Launch your missiles! Even if the cruiser’s crew is mostly dead, you still want Diana hacking the ship’s systems. (roll 1d100, best of 3 [and say if you want Diana to do something in the meantime]) KEEP HACKER MANNING DIANA. make sure its clear for boarding soon.
Anonymous
>>5947882 >fire streak missiles mixed with howlers >use the missile ability we have for swarm missiles. Anonymous
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Rolled 97 (1d100) >>5947926 Anonymous
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Rolled 85, 2 = 87 (2d100) >>5947882 >Launch your missiles! Even if the cruiser’s crew is mostly dead, you still want Diana hacking the ship’s systems. (roll 1d100, best of 3 [and say if you want Diana to do something in the meantime]) >Keep engaging torpedoes! As long as that cruiser is still up, it’s gonna keep guiding torpedoes at you and the fleet. (roll 1d100, best of 3) >>do both while balancing power to make sure Diana can keep up the hacks and respond to anything as needed. >> see if she can activate internal Artificial gravity and internal defenses to take out remaining personnel without damaging anything important Anonymous
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Rolled 80 (1d100) >>5947882 >>Fire the MAC gun! Now that you don’t need to actively hack the crippled cruiser, you’re free to steal the kill. (roll 1d100, best of 3) Anonymous
>>5947882 WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU GUYS DOING WE'RE TARGETING THE SHIP WE'RE TRYING TO TAKE
>Target the non-hacked ship with missiles Anonymous
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Rolled 20 (1d100) >>5948032 Right, and I forgot to roll
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>>5947882 >Launch your missiles! Even if the cruiser’s crew is mostly dead, you still want Diana hacking the ship’s systems. Kill or immobilize any remaining covenant inside the ship and lock everything else especially bridge and reactor. The ship must not be allowed to detonate or jump away. Make a total headcount of all covenant dead, uncoscious, lost or alive be crew, troops or officers inside the hacker cruiser this will be crucial.
And if she can order some of the cruiser external guns to fire on the other cruiser
Anonymous
>>5947882 >oh I thought we had just broke their shields and were finishing off the cruiser. >Do not fire missiles into the cruiser. We are boarding it. >Use our AI to tell the others to stop. >Send our oni team and other marines. >>5947926 Change
>>5947882 We want to capture it.
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>>5948160 Idk it's fucking written Weirdly. I just wanted To KILL THE NONE HACKED CRUISER WITH MISSILES.
I want to send marines and oni to the hacked one.
fleet-anon(Unbroken empire enjoyer)
fleet-anon(Unbroken empire enjoyer) ID:Tof4X2uR Sun 10 Mar 2024 18:16:22 No. 5948220 Report Rolled 34, 92 = 126 (2d100) >>5947882 since it seems that the wording on the post is a little confused. I am going to give my answer like this. if other Anons feel the same way just link ones roll to this post.
>shoot the mac cannon at the non hacked covenant vessel, if the power consumption of it won't change the outcomes of any of the other options. if it does then use archer missiles as (i would believe so) they don't require external power from the destroyer. >While this is going on. have Diana continue to hack the currently being hacked covenant cruiser. going first for systems that might otherwise shut off her access to the system. such as passcodes, overrides and redundant systems. afterwards continue to lock down access to the cruiser, especially vital/critical systems. if the reactor is being overloaded or an emergency jump is attempted, focus on those systems immediately. once she thinks everything is secure and locked in place, begin tallying up the dead and the still living. fucking with the living by doing stuff such as trying to close doors on them to squash them if the doors are strong enough. (specifically with grunts) and using the guns on the ships inside the Hangar to fire onto the soldiers locked inside of the hangers. turning off the lights, playing VERY high audio over the speakers and such to disorient them. so to make it more digestible
(hacking>MAC cannon>archer missiles)
but (archer missiles>MAC cannon) if the Mac fucks with hacking.
my first dice is for gun, second is for hacking.
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>>5947882 >>5947910 changing to firing the missiles at the non hacked ship
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Rolled 9 (1d100) >>5948032 Supporting, shoot missiles at nonhacked ship
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Rolled 79 (1d100) >>5948220 Seconded
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Rolled 1 (1d100) >>5948590 Second roll
Thunderhead !H2opjANA/2
Sorry for the poor wording on the previous post, no excuse on my end. The cruiser that you hacked is essentially dead in the water, while the unhacked vessel has its shields down and is the one that everyone is being ordered to fire on.>Cont
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>>5948807 The results spoke for themselves. While the Streaks had been entirely wiped out before entering final approach, and the Archers had lost a good chunk of their numbers, only a handful of Howlers had been taken down even though they outpaced the archers by a good few thousand kilometers. And only a few seconds later, they impacted first, slamming into the cruiser’s bow and upper flank, their savage little swarm intelligence guiding them against the largest clusters of pulse laser batteries.
Their path at least partially cleared, the flotilla’s archer volley hammered home. Explosions blossomed into life from the cruiser's tip to tail. Each missile’s C-12 warhead was powerful enough to blow through the hide of a battleship, and while Covenant armor technology was certainly more advanced than humanity’s, the archers would still chew them up to a fierce degree.
But the 3 kilometer long vessel had the mass to soak those hits, and keep on going even with most of its outer hull broken and burning. Pin-pricks of light along the sides of the ship warning you that the covenant cruiser is about to fire it’s plasma cannons. You’re about to call a warning to your nav officer when the cruiser fires, and over a dozen burning blue comets of energy slam harmlessly into the shield of the hacked cruiser.
“They’re firing on the captured cruiser!” Diana alerts you, her voice carrying an artificial note of alarm. “Shields are holding for now, but I don’t have enough bandwidth to control the weapons suite. I need you to take it out.”
>Hit it with the MAC gun! You can’t afford to let the last cruiser ruin your plan. (roll 1d100, best of 3) >Fire another missile volley! Either Howlers or Archers would work, you just need the shields to hold a bit longer. (roll 1d100, best of 3) >Other (write in) Anonymous
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Rolled 75 (1d100) >>5948808 >Hit it with the MAC gun! You can’t afford to let the last cruiser ruin your plan. Anonymous
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Rolled 47 (1d100) >>5948808 >>Hit it with the MAC gun! You can’t afford to let the last cruiser ruin your plan. (roll 1d100, best of 3) Anonymous
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Rolled 97 (1d100) >>5948808 >Hit it with the MAC gun! You can’t afford to let the last cruiser ruin your plan. (roll 1d100, best of 3) Anonymous
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Rolled 26 (1d100) >>5948808 >>Hit it with the MAC gun! You can’t afford to let the last cruiser ruin your plan. (roll 1d100, best of 3) Anonymous
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Rolled 36 (1d100) >>5948808 >Hit it with the MAC gun! You can’t afford to let the last cruiser ruin your plan. (roll 1d100, best of 3) Anonymous
Rolled 26 (1d100) >>5948808 >Hit it with the MAC gun! You can’t afford to let the last cruiser ruin your plan. (roll 1d100, best of 3) Seems like we are doing pretty well with this engagement
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>>5948808 >Hit it with the MAC gun! You can’t afford to let the last cruiser ruin your plan. (roll 1d100, best of 3) Well is an understatement, with a full captured cruiser this will likely be one of the most significant victories of the war.
Anonymous
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A fleet could show up to ensure the cruiser is scuttled if the other one fails or at least investigate what happened to these guys.
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Rolled 5 (1d100) >>5948808 >Hit it with the MAC gun! You can’t afford to let the last cruiser ruin your plan. (roll 1d100, best of 3) ah fuck they learned!
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“Diana, tell me you’ve got a backdoor ready to get back into the hacked cruiser.” You asked as you weighed up your options. Given how recently the rest of the flotilla had fired their MAC volley, they were probably still in the middle of recharging their gun. That left only your gun in anywhere close to being able to fire on the last cruiser.>Cont
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>>5949529 The massive tungsten round slammed right through into the vessel’s bulbous amidships section, punching clean through from one side to the next with a shower of shrapnel and debris. The sheer force of the impact threw the massive vessel to one side, and shook it further as sections explosively decompressed. A series of brilliant purple-red explosions blossomed across the hull of the ship, as the shock of the hit set off secondary explosions. Fuel, ammunition, and other hazardous materials across the 3 kilometer long vessel suddenly went up. Engulfing the ship's sides in plasma-fueled fire.
“Nailed it! The cruiser’s burning!” Lieutenant Bergen hollered from the weapons seat, earning him a round of cheers from across the room as a vessel nearly twice your mass turned tail to flee.
Unfortunately, that air of triumph was quickly silenced as your sensor operator shouted in alarm. “Energy spike! If my readings are correct, it’s charging its slipspace drive. They’re trying to run!”
>Finish it off! You can’t let it spread the news of its sister-ship’s capture, unless you want a fleet on your ass. >Let it go! You’ll be out of here soon enough anyways, best to preserve your ammo for when you might need it. >Other (write in) Thunderhead !H2opjANA/2
>>5949529 The massive tungsten round slammed right through into the vessel’s bulbous amidships section, punching clean through from one side to the next with a shower of shrapnel and debris. The sheer force of the impact threw the massive vessel to one side, and shook it further as sections explosively decompressed. A series of brilliant purple-red explosions blossomed across the hull of the ship, as the shock of the hit set off secondary explosions. Fuel, ammunition, and other hazardous materials across the 3 kilometer long vessel suddenly went up. Engulfing the ship's sides in plasma-fueled fire.
“Nailed it! The cruiser’s burning!” Lieutenant Bergen hollered from the weapons seat, earning him a round of cheers from across the room as a vessel nearly twice your mass turned tail to flee.
Unfortunately, that air of triumph was quickly silenced as your sensor operator shouted in alarm. “Energy spike! If my readings are correct, it’s charging its slipspace drive. They’re trying to run!”
>Finish it off! You can’t let it spread the news of its sister-ship’s capture, unless you want a fleet on your ass. (roll 1d100, best of 3) >Let it go! You’ll be out of here soon enough anyways, best to preserve your ammo for when you might need it. >Other (write in) Anonymous
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Rolled 34 (1d100) >>5949536 >Finish it off! You can’t let it spread the news of its sister-ship’s capture, unless you want a fleet on your ass. Anonymous
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Rolled 14 (1d100) >>5949536 >>Finish it off! You can’t let it spread the news of its sister-ship’s capture, unless you want a fleet on your ass. (roll 1d100, best of 3) Anonymous
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Rolled 71 (1d100) >>5949536 >>Finish it off! You can’t let it spread the news of its sister-ship’s capture, unless you want a fleet on your ass. (roll 1d100, best of 3) Anonymous
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Rolled 22 (1d100) >>5949536 Piggyback on the combined might of both the Longinus and the disabled cruiser’s systems to make a concentrated hack on the retreating vessel and disable it’s slipspace drive.
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Rolled 17 (1d100) >>5949536 >finish it off Anonymous
Rolled 47 (1d100) >>5949536 >Finish it off! You can’t let it spread the news of its sister-ship’s capture, unless you want a fleet on your ass. (roll 1d100, best of 3) Rapid fire skill use
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>>5949536 >Finish it off! You can’t let it spread the news of its sister-ship’s capture, unless you want a fleet on your ass. (roll 1d100, best of 3) Anonymous
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Rolled 85 (1d100) >>5949536 >Finish it off! You can’t let it spread the news of its sister-ship’s capture, unless you want a fleet on your ass. Anonymous
>>5949536 >Finish it off! You can’t let it spread the news of its sister-ship’s capture, unless you want a fleet on your ass. (roll 1d100, best of 3) HOL UP
Get dianna to record the escape vector while we try and shoot it. Extrapolate that shit to see where it was fleeting towards. Might be useful with the map we might be able to extract from it's currently crippled brother.
While at it. Don't shoot the drive or engines. Just shoot like, the frontal end of it. If we get to kill it and don't need to run for a while. I want to loot the destroyed one as well. Might be able to get it's FTL drive and a maybe still living engineer out of that shit. Since it is currently trying to fly away. The engines still work and we could even cut that shit out, dissasemble it and put it in the stolen ones cargo as well. And if it doesn't all fit, we've got 4 whole destroyers to carry that shit in as well.
Go full on eastern european and just take anything still usable out of it. Then afterwards flee back towards human space with the likely biggest haul of intact covenant tech, the most one sided battle in favour of humans the entire war has seen up until this point and to my knowledge with not a fuckin scratch on our hulls!
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>>5949728 Seconding for the escape vector but I don't wanna chance where we shoot it.
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>>5949728 Whatever we do, can we cackle maniacally when we make the shot?
>>5949567 Support using Rapid Fire. In fact, support using whatever offensive abilities we have (I have forgotten what we have).
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>>5949536 >Finish it off! You can’t let it spread the news of its sister-ship’s capture, unless you want a fleet on your ass. (roll 1d100, best of 3) Rapid fire, this ship gets away we'll likely have a fucking Assault Carrier jumping in to deny us our prize.
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>>5949536 >>Finish it off! You can’t let it spread the news of its sister-ship’s capture, unless you want a fleet on your ass. (roll 1d100, best of 3) rapid fire
fleet-anon(Unbroken empire enjoyer)
fleet-anon(Unbroken empire enjoyer) ID:Tof4X2uR Tue 12 Mar 2024 18:23:46 No. 5949922 Report Quoted By:
>>5949536 >Finish it off! You can’t let it spread the news of its sister-ship’s capture, unless you want a fleet on your ass. (roll 1d100, best of 3) use Rapid Fire. also is it just me or is there a suspicious amount of purple ID's? are we being taken over by the covenant?
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Rolled 10 (1d100) >>5949536 >Finish it off! You can’t let it spread the news of its sister-ship’s capture, unless you want a fleet on your ass. (roll 1d100, best of 3) Thunderhead !H2opjANA/2
You quickly ran through the situation in your head. If the covenant cruiser was already powering up its slipspace drive, you had less than a minute to work with. Your missiles could probably secure the kill, but between the distance and the lack of time, you didn’t rate their chances very highly. So that left only one option, and you gave the order in a heartbeat. “Diana. Dump all remaining power into the MAC system. Weapons. You’ve got another shot, so don’t miss.”
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>>5950293 And that’s it for this thread! Wow, talk about an unexpected turn of events. I did some rolling off-screen once Diana started hacking the cruiser and holy FUCK did that go badly for them. I’m gonna have to call the thread here, as clearing the remaining cruiser and dealing with the aftermath is gonna be it’s own thread. Expect that to come either on Saturday or when this thread drops off the board. Aside from that, sorry about the poor editing on some of the posts, that’s a problem on my end.
In any case, if you have any questions then feel free to ask either here or on my twitter, and I'll answer you as soon as I can. In either case, I'll see ya'll next thread!
Anonymous
>>5950295 How exciting, QM - thanks for running!
What were the chances that we pulled this off so well? Did the Covenant ship forget to replace the default passwords on their systems or something?
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>>5950295 Thanks for running, Thunderhead. Great return thread, happy you came back. And thanks for giving us a mulligan on our ship, Ables are cool as hell.
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>>5950295 Thanks for the thread.
Salvage team must be wetting their pants.
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>>5950295 Thanks for running, and good to have this quest back.
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>>5950295 If we had called for a nuke MAC for the first shot, would we have killed it in the first shot?
Next thread can we get the full list of our abilities please?
Thanks for the reboot epic quest qm. Was a ton of fun.
Anonymous
>>5950295 Thanks for the thread
This is such a victory that i am honestly not sure if it will be made top secret. Between this and killing the zealot in melee is too much propaganda material for certain members of the UNSC. It could actually raise morale and spirit across human space.
I am guessing the aftermath of the battle will be sizeably about what to do with this victory in the wolfpack command ? Especially talking with Trafford and how to bring the cruiser home.
Because the boarding while is important : we can strike hard and fast, when the hammer is still hot and i think all the marines are more than just eager to make the aliens pay. And a well motivated marines force, with AIs control would likely win even if the remnants of the covenant crew and troops on board aren't green. So that would leave the task of bringing the cruiser home.
They are definitely giving us a Spartan and ODSTs after this.
Anonymous
>>5950539 Honestly, this might very well push forward Operation: RED FLAG. It's not a supercarrier, but a battlecruiser isn't nothing to sniff at (a sister to the H1 Truth and Reconciliation actually)
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>>5950541 I don't think it'll be used for the operation but good chance it'll make ONI/FLEETCOM think RED FLAG is a viable operation.
>>5950539 We don't just get Spartans, they're deployed on an operational basis. Not stationed on ships for no reason. Still, this is a pretty big success if we can actually get it home so there's a none zero chance we're white listed for working with Spartans after this.
Anonymous
>the second ship blew up >probably everything on it is slag now
Anonymous
>>5950606 You’re not wrong, but I have to imagine the greater strategic benefit of a Covenant ship capture outweighs whatever the importance of this mission would have been.
I would argue that our little group should split up immediately - one half escorts the captured ship back to human territory and one half remains to finish scouting
Anonymous
>>5950614 I recommend we call the rest of the wolfpacks who went to the other hyperlanes and get into contact with them. That way they could potentially come with more marines or to reinforce us as we check out the system for what the battlecruisers were watching over. Doesn't need to be all of em but getting them on alert and potentially come over with some extra marines and sailors to get the cruiser up and running wouldn't hurt us.
After all, our wolfpack wasn't the only one which few out. We are only 4 vessels but in total 12 destroyers went out on Arcadian vengence. 6 Halberd 3 Able's and 3 Resolutes.
As was mentioned here
>>5916117 sounds good?
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>>5950623 I’m a Halo lorelet - is there any concern that Covenent could have breached our comms? Is Covenant communication instant or do ships need to travel by slipspace to deliver information?
Basically, do we need to sprint back to human space before the Covenant rescue effort arrives, or can we proceed home at a measured and cautious pace?
Anonymous
>>5950628 We'll need to go there sadly. Only after the war is forerunner tech researched enough that not just planets but ships get interstellar communications. With the Infinity being the first. Right now planets in the UNSC can only use wavespace communication.
but. we should know where they went if we ask trafford.
fleet-anon(Unbroken empire enjoyer)
fleet-anon(Unbroken empire enjoyer) ID:Tof4X2uR Wed 13 Mar 2024 15:25:27 No. 5950703 Report >>5950631 >get's asked about covenant communications >answers about human communications huh? you ok bud?
as for your question
>>5950628 no. they very likely wouldn't have had the ability to send a message out. since the covenant use a system called the Proselytization network to send information back and fourth at superluminal speeds. and while they would work between ships generally within system. big ships or support ships would act as relays to send the ships signals back and fourth.
in that way we likely didn't get caught unless we've got a support ship or an inhabited planet in system. or if someone notices they haven't come back from a patrol for a bit. but even then any help would still take a while to respond. not weeks or multiple days like with human ships. but we'd at least have id guess half a day before anyone who could've been alerted could respond. but that's assuming someone is close by, and that they can just leave where they are without the fear of sudden death. since we got two whole battlecruisers taken down. or even can just leave.
id say we should definitely get the fuck out of the system as soon as possible. but more so such that we cant be chased by them while we actually check the ship for moles and shit via our ONU Blackbox specialists. so basically taking over all critical parts of the ship and then jumping to another system (one we think is safe) kill the rest of the resisting aliens and then sit there for a while. let the specialists do their work while the leftover marines and gunnery staff empty bottles of champaign. if we have any. we are definitely bringing out the rest of the beef after this.
Anonymous
>>5950703 If you're going to be a namefag at least proofread your posts and learn some brevity.
fleet-anon(Unbroken empire enjoyer)
fleet-anon(Unbroken empire enjoyer) ID:Tof4X2uR Wed 13 Mar 2024 19:13:50 No. 5950813 Report >>5950801 Fair.
I am just used to writing casually. I forget that there is a different standard since i don't talk a lot on forums or image boards normally. as i just lurk most of the time. That's on me. I will try to write better looking forward. Also on the brevity. i will try, i am not good at not doing it, but i will try. it just feels...robotic to me? i dont know. any time i try it always seems like i write weirdly. but again, i will try.
Anonymous
>>5950813 It's not robotic, it's just limited. Say less with more. And it's a lot better than some stream of conscious wall of text.
Anonymous
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>>5950826 >Say less with more Need to proof read my own posts apparently.
Anonymous
I don't really get why you're bullying the anon. At least he is explaining his reasoning and asking questions and is clearly engaged in the quest.
Anonymous
>>5950854 >bullying What? I told him to write better.
Anonymous
>>5950854 Kill yourself discordnigger
Anonymous
>>5950854 Kill yourself Namefag and Discord nigger.
fleet-anon
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I still should be getting better at my wording and writing. but thanks
>>5950854 I really appreciate knowing that i am not being shit no matter what i do.
>>5950873 And i don't think it's specifically you, but more referencing
>>5926714 and
>>5931252 where the posters don't even say anything else. and just starts hurling insults. Together with the genuine critique can just seem like a lot at once towards a single poster. That is my understanding of it at least.
But yeah. I will get better. And i will be here again next thread. Because i think thunderhead made a REALLY good quest. I have been consuming halo lore and playing the games for the first time the last two weeks because of it. My only big misgiving is these conversations shitting up his thread. I don't even like replying right now because of it. Because it feels like a shitty way to end the thread.
Anonymous
Daily reminder:>waaaaahhhh why arre u bulli me for using a name on an anonymous furom waaaaaaaah
Anonymous
>>5950873 Not you the other cunts
>>5950933 >>5950877 Like these assets.
People forget that some qms require you to have multiposts to be able to vote. And if you're a phonefag your ID changes a lot. So to fix that people sometimes *gasp* name fag so that their votes count instead of constantly relinking to their previous posts.
Anonymous
>>5950970 Grasping at straws+you know that's not the reason he's namefagging
You need to go back
Anonymous
>>5950963 Bro we have nano in our 40k AI quest and he's like the best anon there. Nobody talks shit to him and everyone understands why he does it. It's not to be a fucktard or to get rep for himself. It's so you can understand who the fuck is talking when his ID changes. Especially when he backs tracks on an idea. Or wants to change his position on something. It's literally for organization...
I mean all QMs usually name fag and no one talks shit to them about it.
Anonymous
>>5950971 I know you guys are fucking autistic but God damn. Has fleetanon bullied anyone into backing his ideas? No. Has he sat there and flamed anyone for their ideas? No.
I swear you're demoralization shills at this point.
You're fucking reaching to say he's doing it for some kind of reputation. He's clearly new has said so himself.
This board is dead I don't get why you're trying to keep new blood out. You should be encouraging him or giving him critiques like the other anon so he can better himself.
Anonymous
>>5950972 See
>>5950971 and
>>5926854 And notice how not once has his ID changed in the whole thread
Anonymous
>spook's first day on the job at oni black site >navy drops off a fucking covenant battlecruiser
Anonymous
>>5950976 I am giving him a critique, a critique to not namefag like this is twitter or reddit.
Anonymous
>>5950977 I mean you called me a discord nigger and I'm not even on any discords... like seriously.
Yeah no shit other quests like AI 40k guess what we have several namefags. Which I believe fleet anon is from if I remember correctly. Nobody has flamed anyone there for doing it. I doubt fleet anon even knew it was so looked down upon. Since it literally has never come up there once.
I said there's other reasons to do it. Not that, that was his reason for doing it.
Anonymous
>>5950981 >I doubt fleet anon even knew it was so looked down upon. Which is why I'm notifying him now
>Which I believe fleet anon is from if I remember correctly. Retard-kun, I......
>I mean you called me a discord nigger and I'm not even on any discords... like seriously. >@fleetanon. Really_bro.png
Anonymous
>>5950979 Bro and you made your fucking point. But guess what you're not his dad he doesn't have to listen to you. So stop kvetching about it. You don't have to spazz out like a retard and keep repeating yourself about it then fucking samefag to make it seem like multiple people dislike it.
You can easily not read his shit or respond to it. But kvetching about it just shits up the thread. And makes it so nobody wants to participate in the thread.
Anonymous
>>5950984 You know that shit is from fucking Facebook to you fucking retarded goober.
Like how braindead are you
Maybe I don't like writing "at <insert name here>"
Anonymous
>>5950985 Obviously I haven't made it enough if he's still doing it. And for the record I haven't samefagged once.
Anonymous
>>5950970 >People forget for multi-votes and muh phoneposting. Or you triple nigger can just link your posts and say who you are.
you newfags are the fucking problem.
This quest wasn't about 'namefags' until you started running them. Go to the other quests if you wanna larp with them.
Yall dumb niggers tongue my asshole
Yall dumb niggers tongue my asshole ID:n6nLk5lp Wed 13 Mar 2024 23:43:01 No. 5950992 Report >>5950988 Bro I'm an oldfag
>>5950987 Fucking dumb nigger
Anonymous
>>5950986 Nah, it's from discord
t. used discord when I was a teenager
Anonymous
>>5950992 Any retard can say they're an oldfag it doesn't make them one
I bet you think being here for a year makes you an oldfag doesn't it
Yall dumb niggers tongue my asshole
Yall dumb niggers tongue my asshole ID:n6nLk5lp Wed 13 Mar 2024 23:44:32 No. 5950996 Report >>5950988 Like I'm name fag just to fuck with you dumb cunts at this point. I hope other anons start too. Maybe that'll push you to fix the gene pool by killing yourself.
TKD
>>5950995 2006
You know when moot was still around.
Anonymous
Tourist or fleet-anon samefagging, call it
Nigger tongue my anus
>>5950993 Uh Facebook BTW child came out before discord. How do you hyperlink a Facebook friend in a post... mmmmmm I wonder.
Acting like discord did it first reveals you're underage
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>>5950998 Reread my post and for the record, link me a post from back then that you remember.
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>>5951000 Never used it so I wouldn't know. And stop putting words in my mouth, I never said they did it first.
Yall Trannies
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>>5950999 Your retardation is showing you can check my ID number.
BTW I love fucking with people so enjoy.
Anonymous
Underaged, AND a tourist? Impressive.....
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KYS
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>>5951005 What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I'm the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You're fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You're fucking dead, kiddo.
Also I don't need to prove shit to ya.
Fleet-anon
HOLY SHIT. WHAT DID I END MY LAST MESSAGE ON? Brown id guy. I appriciate you talking for a different perspective at first. But holy shit. What was my last point? my point was i didn’t want to shit up the thread. And you/other people also throwing shit. STOP NOW. And act like What thunderhead deserves for making a Good thread. A thread which is just one in a Line of several. This isn’t just a first thread and nobody here want’s it to be the last. So instead of going back and fourth shittalking each other. DO IT IN THE GENERAL THREAD. Or somewhere Else. Im not even asking you to stop specifically. I just want people to realize the only one here currently being disrespected is thunderhead since this will probably be fuckin archived. So SHUP THE FUCK UP.
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>>5951009 >namefag >I-I don't want to shit up the thread guise! Totally! But I'm gonan keep namefagging for no reason even when I know people dislike it! Anonymous
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>>5951009 "I wont' shit it up, But I'm gonna keep going like the other guy" .t Namefag.
Thunderhead !H2opjANA/2
>>5950304 Going into it? Not good. But getting a 100 on your EW attack gave you one hell of a leg up. And then the rolls that I did for the cruiser's electronic defense failed and things started to snowball.
>>5950347 If you'd used the nuke round, you would have been able to weaken the shields of both ships, or completely strip them from one. Keep in mind that your nuke shells are essentially a half a shiva nuke sailing at near MAC round velocity.
You'll get a full list of skills and available special ordinance by the next thread. Probably in a pastebin link to include the descriptions.
>>5950539 >I am guessing the aftermath of the battle will be sizeably about what to do with this victory in the wolfpack command ? Basically. The other anons in the thread have pointed out already that this is gonna have an effect on not only your flotilla, but potentially the entire squadron. But past the obvious, there's gonna be stuff like forming the prize crew, going over the spoils, the inevitable bloodlust option because you <span class="mu-i">still</span> have that shotgun after all.
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>>5951044 Ah ya, Time to take old Shotty out again. What about his brother, Swishy Mc-Stabby?
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>>5950541 thats nice
>>5950606 the scouting mission can still be done, but this is very important needs to go home.
>>5951044 okay sound good
fleet-anon
Looking it over. We could potentially get a lot of interesting and critical knowledge depending on what we find inside the ship. Since after all they likely weren't ready for an ambush. Much less one so sudden and brutally one sided.
Anonymous
>>5951615 Beta Eridani is another vector to Reach. Rho Barutamee (SupCom of the Long Night of Solace and it's support fleet) found some relics there that pointed him in Reach's direction before Key's got baited with the tracker at Sigma Octanus.
Fleet-anon
>>5951660 Thanks for pointing that out. I was not aware. I still Think there is large potential though. Especially when it comes to the data which still on their nav computers.
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>>5951694 No problem. And It'd be nice to get some big strategic info out of the battlecruiser but with how top down the Covenant are as an organization we shouldn't expect much. Whatever's relevant to the ship and it's immediate command structure.
Anonymous
>>5950295 Don't forget to archive.
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>>5950978 >"How is our dear Commander Wells doing on his new assignment?" >"The fuck do you mean he's captured a cruiser?" Anonymous
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>>5954156 Grow us some sideburns and call us Hazard Perry.
>"I have met the enemy and they are ours." Anonymous
When we hand over the cruiser we should defiantly demand a group of 6 engineers to be personally stationed on whatever ship we are on in the future. Just being able to use them in post battle repairs would be invaluable never to mention how much neat stuff we could get if we just started ripping out Covi tech and putting it and human tech side by side. Say jackal shields and ODST armor then getting armor with light shielding or hard light gauntlets or something
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>>5954263 >6 engineers That's a tall order considering the UNSC's only seen a handful of them by this point. How about some Watershed pocket lint and pat on the head from auntie Parangosky?
Anonymous
Does the Longinus have a motto by the way? Like how most modern navy ships have them. We even have a few canon UNSC ones:
Anonymous
>>5954330 UNSC Longinus (Ego transforo/perforo Prophetas - I stab/perforate Prophets)
Would be fitting for both reasons.
Anonymous
>>5954263 How about we finally get some ODSTs on board instead?
Anonymous
>>5954263 >6 Engineers My Brother in christ, we were the one who captured the first enginner ever found by the UNSC. If we capture the engineers currently on the cruiser, the UNSC would only have three. They will likely be used on the construction of the Infinity. Not on the frontline.
If i want to be ""Reasonable"" about our request, i would say we should ask for that Stealth cruiser. Since i want to see where this hacking warfare style goes. And maybe have the Engineers be let onto the ship and fuck around with the parts on it before the ONIggers take them away. It is a big request. But we might have just given them the fucking golden ticket to warping a Nova bomb directly to high Charity like a pipebomb. I would say that's more than most ONI captains have done to get their positions.
Anonymous
>>5954263 No, anything covenant is sent to ONI for the war effort and research, nothing remains personally stationed on anything we have. Especially alive covenant aliens, actual insane talk. On top of that with Wells being from the outer colonies i really doubt he would even think of this option, there was some good amount of hatred in killing those covenant when deployed on ground.
>defiantly hahaha you are so funny, everyone would probably go "Wells you are such a funny commander ! How about a one way trip to this new ONI facility instead for reeducation :) ? You can't say no !"
>>5954334 good motto
>>5954361 >>5954411 far more reasonable and possible, even if that modification for the stealth cruiser is kind of big
Anonymous
>>5954411 >Since i want to see where this hacking warfare style goes. We can just upgrade our EWAR gear with stuff from ONI without changing out hulls again. We're just going to keep losing more experienced crew if we keep bouncing around new ships.
>>5954418 >even if that modification for the stealth cruiser is kind of big Point Blanks are slightly shorter than Charons. Or if you meant getting a stealth cruiser hull is a big ask, then yeah that's pushing the envelope a little bit.
fleet-anon
I am happy to see there being an interest in the Point-blank as well from others. Personally, I think it's not out of the possibilities. But it definitely isn't a guarantee either. on top of that, I think that the request for the Engineers to tinker with the ship could leave us critically unable to repair the ship afterward. Since our technicians suddenly will have no clue how the hell the new Engineer designs work. So i don't support that.
I will still say we should at the least ask if we could get a bigger ship. But we can't expect everything to just be given to us either. We will just have to see what our options are.
>>5954529 Also on the point-blank being shorter than a Charon. I wanted to find out more about halo ships and how they work. So I got into talking with one of the Devs for sins of the prophets. he said the reason the loadout for the point-blank is so unrealistic for its stated size is because when they made it for the mod, they were doing so with the measurement of it being 1,3km long. Making it meant to be shorter than an autumn class, but longer than a Marathon class. The confusion is because the wiki authors choose to still keep the length from the original (Ghosts of Onyx) book.
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>>5954558 >I will still say we should at the least ask if we could get a bigger ship. Ables are just about the largest ships available to us at the moment until we get promoted to Captain and can command a Cruiser. Limited run refits like the Phoenix-class not withstanding.
>The confusion is because the wiki authors choose to still keep the length from the original (Ghosts of Onyx) book. Ah, that makes sense. I remember seeing it bounce around over the last few years.
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>>5954263 anon if anything we would only need 2 as with enough materials they can build another one as they don't breed they create more of their kind, same for the one we already gave Oni they only need another one to basically gain as many as they want should they give the engineers more building supplies
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As it is right now, I could imagine that if we capture two Huragok and ONI quickly finds out how they "Breed" we would likely see a pipeline of their use. From more costly projects to less costly projects. At least after they have been cleared for use. They are basically just forerunner relics after all.
