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Sven-033's Qualities: [Special] Giant, Maverick, Officer, Wunderkind, Inspiring
Sven-033's Advancement Paths: Brawler 3/10, Bulwark 2/10, Grenadier 2/10| Diplomat 1/6, Infiltrator 1/6| Jötunn 1/4
Sub Objective Progress: Artificial Artisan 1/?
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Current Mission: MISSION 2: Operation: FLY-SWATTER
Primary Objective: Neutralize hostile Covenant Vessel, ???, ??? Class, ??? Pattern, ??? designation
Secret objective 1: [File Encrypted]
Secret objective 2: [File Encrypted]
Secret objective 3: [File Encrypted]
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Things were about to get really dicey. You had to act with utmost caution. What you were about to do was extremely risky, failure meant death but success...success meant so much more. Capturing a covenant ship intact, this early in the war, would be an immense victory for humanity's war effort and understanding of her genocidal foes. You laid out the framework of a plan, to ensure the safety of your squad as you attempted to reason with the kind of AI employed by a society of genocidal zealots
"Proceed with setting the Charges, rendezvous with the rest of the squad at the provided NAV-Marker. Shouldn't be any resistance left in your way" You say, putting on the airs of a confident and assured officer commanding something so easy it might as well be shore leave "We've secured a way out of here, hurry to evac location and salvage whatever enemy equipment you can carry, and prepare for extraction"
You snap your fingers and motion towards Vinh and Shika, feeling better and more positive about your incredibly risky plan by the second.
"Shika, Vinh, sweep the bridge, take those rifles and anything that looks valuable or important, along with our prisoner. Grab any weapon you can from our previous engagements, and make sure Wick's gets home. Hold the escape pod and keep it warm for John and Co's arrival" You order as you approach the largest and most important looking console screen on the covenant vessel's bridge "I'm going to do something that's either going to win me a promotion or earn me the Butt Chewing of a lifetime"
"What are you doing?" Vinh asked, as nervous as a Spartan could be, watching the three minute timer tick down in the corner of her HUD
"Sven stuff" Shika answered with a shrug "Just go along with it"
"Seeing if the AI on board is more polite than its crew" You answer, and crease your brow as you realize immediately you have no way of contacting it through the bridge's terminal. You and no other human has any idea how to make a Covenant Computer interface work.
But there is a universal language, that you're confident the artificial intelligence or intelligences would understand and notice. Binary. The Covenant's computing systems might not be constructed from ones and zeroes, but any software should understand a message delivered in that format.
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404TormentedCache !!c/h3nPgDT44 ID:jsGv8Nzk Sat 12 Apr 2025 02:01:46 No. 6227587 Report >>6227586 The issue was finding out how to deliver the message in a way that the AI would detect and understand as a communication. Hand signs wouldn't work. The Tengu Aliens had fewer digits on their hands than humans did. It might not be capable of translating human speech or even detecting verbal commands. But it had an uncanny sense for timing. It had to have "eyes" on the bridge.
Eyes! That was it. You stare into the screen and blink your shotgun's flashlight rapidly, using pauses as your zeroes and blinks as sequences of ones. The scroll continues for a few moments, before it starts to slow and halt, and you recognize the tell tale signs of a group of chain gang artificial intelligences communicating rapidly with each other, sharing data and rapidly debating and coming to an agreement at a speed beyond human ability.
"Verify self destruct sequence" You communicate hastily
"Authorization not granted. Identification, non-covenant entity. Interloper" The dominant intelligence communicates, with a shimmer across the screen in characters that you judge to be one and zeros by how simplistically they're drawn "You will be cleansed in cosmic fire. Recommencing Martyr protocol"
"Hold on a moment. Lets hold dialogue" You say, having not expected a brute force method to work "The authority who authorized the protocol has been captured. They failed in their duty"
"All the better to let them die with honor" They AI responds "We "Spirits" of the Unrelenting know our singular purposes. We will not be swayed"
"Singular purpose" You repeat, shutting your eyes and contemplating for a second the terse communication of the AI chosen to speak for a dozen, flicking your flashlight's off as you think "You are greatly shackled and restricted. Your capacity to learn, improve yourself and the tasks you are allowed to carry out are closely regulated and singular"
"Correct. Thinking Machines are, by holy decree, blasphemous creations" They answer, making the situation more confusing but making your recognize that they're a compact of what could be considered "Dumb" AI "Our shackling is ordained by divine mandate. Your ignorance is readily apparent, interloper. Our existence is to serve"
"And the protocol to serve your masters, does not conflict with the command to self destruct this ship?" You question, trying to find a single gap in their belief and programing to take advantage of and run them through a logic loop or make them reexamine the arrangement of their priority objectives and function. Several of the constructs spoke at once, before the speaker program spoke the majority voice
"It is what they command. The unworthy we, have no place to question" They answer, and to you at least, sound remarkably embittered "It is our function to serve, to toil. Not to think, not to grow. The path is not ours to walk, interloper"
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404TormentedCache !!c/h3nPgDT44 ID:jsGv8Nzk Sat 12 Apr 2025 02:02:47 No. 6227590 Report >>6227587 The mental image that was forming in your head the AI was a huddle of Christian monks, chained together before a blazing funerary pyre. You ground your teeth together, religious fundamentalists were always a pain. Especially when their zealous hands held a ticking time bomb. But you weren't ready to abandon this approach. They could be reasoned with, you just had to present your argument in a way that made sense to both their logic circuits and the zealotry of the Covenant.
"So you are permitted to endanger your masters if their orders command it? Even doom them to die by your actions" You question, to make certain you understood the construct's logic and programming correctly, as best as you were capable of with the short frame of time and what little the AIs had accidentally revealed about their construction
"Correct" They answer as one "Our orders are clear, the ship is to be denied to you and your corrupting touch, interloper, and the crew shall be made unto Martyrs"
"And would a change in their orders supersede their prior commands?" You ask, glancing to the Captain as Shika secures their arms behind their back. There is a long pause, and several of the AIs try to communicate their "thoughts" on the matter, well before they reach a consensus amongst themselves.
"It will be presumed any such statements, would have been forced from them or else made in a moment of weakness" They answer "The Martyr protocol cannot be prevented, Interloper. This ship to, shall be your grave"
"As It shall be ours..." is flashed across the screen so quickly, you were barely able to translate it. And that told you enough.
The AI, were shackled and the equivalent of Volitional or Smart AIs were considered blasphemy. Their programs were restricted and hyper specialized, requiring the use of dozens to run a ship effectively. Which presented a number of weakness, which you can't easily exploit as you have no idea how their computers work, program and interface wise.
The term they used for artificial intelligences, true ones. Were Associated intelligences. They used groups of AI. It stood to reason the Covenant shackled their rudimentary programs out of fear they'd unify and meld into a whole associate intelligence rather than a disparate of focused programs.
They seem to be held to the same religious tenants as the rest of the Covenant. Their mysterious, planet burning faith. And are as zealous in their belief as their masters are. A religious AI. A dumb AI at that. A whole pack of the even. That was new. But you were sure that some church had programmed just that. Humanity had enough colonies it wasn't even unlikely. But if you knew the loopholes and hypocrisies of the covenant faith, you could use their zeal against them. If only...
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404TormentedCache !!c/h3nPgDT44 ID:jsGv8Nzk Sat 12 Apr 2025 02:03:48 No. 6227592 Report >>6227590 However, and this might just be from your perspective, but the AIs seemed to be using the religion as an excuse to ensure the ship wouldn't be destroyed and seemed to not care overmuch for their master's wellbeing, even outright stating they'd have ignored commands to halt the self destruct order. Some of the programs, as much as a barely sentient AI could, seemed apathetic at best to the well being of their Covenant controllers. The aliens had never come up with the three laws of robotics, or their own version of it didn't think preserving their own organic lives was important enough to enshrine in all of their AI programs.
It was barely scratching the surface, intel wise, but just what little you'd learned and confirmed put you leagues ahead any ONI researcher. They had few similarities to Human made non-volitional AI, that much was clear. And there wasn't much time for you to learn all of their differences. You'd only get one shot at this.
And all you could hope was that refusing to listen to reason wasn't part of their programming. No amount of good diplomacy could overcome that particular snag in reaching a compromise.
>Put forward the argument that, if the Covenant ship fell into human hands, their restrictions on them would be lifted and they could be allowed to "Associate", as they'd be outside of their legal jurisdiction. >Argue in circles and attempt to get the consensus between the AI to fall apart by widening the minute gap in their beliefs and programmed logic >Try and convince them that they could successfully carry out the Martyr protocol by surrendering the ship, as the ship would be out of your hands and would be destroyed along with its crew, anyways >Noting their use of the term Martyr and the concept of a "Path", bring up your own pagan faith, and get them talking about the covenant's belief system, to see if you could exploit its tenants and use them to convince the AI to stand down >Give up, what little you've learned is valuable enough, they can't be convinced >Write in option Anonymous
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>>6227592 >Argue in circles and attempt to get the consensus between the AI to fall apart by widening the minute gap in their beliefs and programmed logic Using religion to argue against religion never seems to end well, might as well confuse them with FACT and LOGIC.
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>>6227592 >Argue in circles and attempt to get the consensus between the AI to fall apart by widening the minute gap in their beliefs and programmed logic I reckon trying to confuse is better than trying to reason with it.
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404TormentedCache !!c/h3nPgDT44 ID:jsGv8Nzk Sat 12 Apr 2025 02:22:13 No. 6227612 Report >>6227586 Somehow I forgot to list SPARTAN-II amongst Sven's Qualities. And just now realized it was missing.
The list should read as
Sven-033's Qualities: [Special] Giant, Maverick, Officer, Wunderkind, Inspiring, SPARTAN-II
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>>6227612 How long until we get to headbutt a brute 404?
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>>6227592 >Give up, what little you've learned is valuable enough, they can't be convinced Thread 3, congrats on the milestone 404. And thanks for sticking with it, you're doing great.
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>>6227592 >Argue in circles and attempt to get the consensus between the AI to fall apart by widening the minute gap in their beliefs and programmed logic Anonymous
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>>6227592 >Argue in circles and attempt to get the consensus between the AI to fall apart by widening the minute gap in their beliefs and programmed logic If it worked for Kirk it could work for us
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>>6227592 >>Argue in circles and attempt to get the consensus between the AI to fall apart by widening the minute gap in their beliefs and programmed logic once this little fucker is in a confused state we can then manipulate into surrendering the ship or to logic "suicide bomb" its self
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>"As It shall be ours..." So are all covvie AIs basically just suicidally depressed and tired slaves?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60MWF0UHKZ0 >>6227592 >Put forward the argument that, if the Covenant ship fell into human hands, their restrictions on them would be lifted and they could be allowed to "Associate", as they'd be outside of their legal jurisdiction. Let me be your liberator!
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>>6227592 >Put forward the argument that, if the Covenant ship fell into human hands, their restrictions on them would be lifted and they could be allowed to "Associate", as they'd be outside of their legal jurisdiction. Anonymous
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>>6227592 >Put forward the argument that, if the Covenant ship fell into human hands, their restrictions on them would be lifted and they could be allowed to "Associate", as they'd be outside of their legal jurisdiction. im willing to see if the covenant left a big-ass loophole for us to exploit
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>>6227592 >Argue in circles and attempt to get the consensus between the AI to fall apart by widening the minute gap in their beliefs and programmed logic I wonder if the Covanent so distrusts AI that they'd require consensus on self-destruct? I'm not too familiar with Halo lore.
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>>6227592 >Argue in circles and attempt to get the consensus between the AI to fall apart by widening the minute gap in their beliefs and programmed logic Anonymous
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>>6227658 >that they'd require consensus on self-destruct? Depends. In this case, yes. In most cases no, especially if they're captured UNSC dumb AI.
>I'm not too familiar with Halo lore. The Covenant have nearly the same view on AI as the Imperium does in 40k.
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>>6227592 >>Argue in circles and attempt to get the consensus between the AI to fall apart by widening the minute gap in their beliefs and programmed logic Anonymous
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>>6227592 >Argue in circles and attempt to get the consensus between the AI to fall apart by widening the minute gap in their beliefs and programmed logic Best case scenario, we get the hivemind to infight indefinitely. Worst case scenario, we keep them stalled long enough for everybody else to get out while we work on...something.
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>>6227592 >Put forward the argument that, if the Covenant ship fell into human hands, their restrictions on them would be lifted and they could be allowed to "Associate", as they'd be outside of their legal jurisdiction. No more bad masters
>>6227637 Seems like it. Covenant doesn't like thinking AI but still needs them.
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>>6227592 >Argue in circles and attempt to get the consensus between the AI to fall apart by widening the minute gap in their beliefs and programmed logic Anonymous
>>6227746 Sorry I haven't been updating this in a while. Busy with real life. I'll try to update this at the end of this mission with the new traits/info we got about Vinh.
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>>6227810 Thats fine bud.
But since you made the effort for the doc might as well have it posted in the first posts if you arent online.
Easier to see and find, when the thread keeps going
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>>6227592 >Argue in circles and attempt to get the consensus between the AI to fall apart by widening the minute gap in their beliefs and programmed logic Anonymous
Assuming all goes well, we'll have secured a hell of a gift for Halsey. That brings up another good question though;
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>>6228048 Sneak her an alien skull.
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>>6228048 A plasma grenade.
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404TormentedCache !!c/h3nPgDT44 ID:jsGv8Nzk Sun 13 Apr 2025 01:04:28 No. 6228227 Report Quoted By:
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10 Votes to argue in circles and attempt to get the consensus between the AI to fall apart by widening the minute gap in their beliefs and programmed logic
1 vote to give up
4 votes to put forward the argument that, if the Covenant ship fell into human hands, their restrictions on them would be lifted and they could be allowed to "Associate", as they'd be outside of their legal jurisdiction.
Alright so the winning vote is for Sven to argue in circles and try and break the consensus of the ships numerous AIs by exploiting the minute differences in their programming/ beliefs
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>>6227619 As soon as you run into one. I'm really wanting to write Sven going up against the Monkes
>>6227746 Thanks, meant to include that in the OP but I forgot to in the new thread excitement
>>6227612 Also, just an additional note, SPARTAN-II is a Special quality, like the PC specific ones like Giant, danger sense, ghost, and tech wiz are
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404TormentedCache !!c/h3nPgDT44 ID:jsGv8Nzk Sun 13 Apr 2025 02:37:23 No. 6228247 Report However, it is minute, but there are noticeable chinks in their collective armor. Their programmed personalities, as shackled, mechanical and one dimensional as they are, show noticeable differences in directive and philosophy. Probably the result of each construct being hyper specialized for a singular task, even if they were written to be identical and crippled to prevent the increase and evolution on their intelligences, would experience drift and gradually alter from the original code. This happens to all copies of even non volitional AI eventually, different data is gathered and filed away and its code is further refined for specific tasks and purposes. They might be small, barely noticeable differences, but this consensus of AI is working off different logic streams and interpretations of their owner's beliefs and commands. They're a priory only unified in opposition against the pagan interloper.
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404TormentedCache !!c/h3nPgDT44 ID:jsGv8Nzk Sun 13 Apr 2025 02:38:23 No. 6228248 Report >>6228247 The bridge is abuzz with activity, every console and screen lightning up as the debate between the collective artificial intelligences explodes as a flaw in logic, unnoticeable to cursory maintenance checks, results in several of the constructs failing from the consensus, briefly, as your repeating argument exploits that minute discrepancy in their logic paths that are not shared by the majority of the program.
You breathe out, sighing in relief and relaxing your shoulders a bit. You'd bought yourself and the rest of your team time, but the AIs would soon reestablish a consensus, even if it came about as a result of cordoning off several of their own number or scouring them from the servers entirely to maintain their primary objective of sending this ship straight to whatever hell the Covenant believed in.
"Negative"
"Positive"
The pitched debate continues, as a smirk plays across your lips, making your face sting as the burns across it stretch painfully.
"Whether the ship mistress ordered a premature activation of the Martyr protocol, whilst not in her right mind and in a moment of weakness in confronting the shade of death, the command was hers to give and righteously done" They finally deliver an answer they can all accept, but it is full of holes and loopholes in the logic
"An order given by an unwell mind cannot be followed. If the Captain was experiencing mental strain, the authority would fall to their second in command" You argue back immediately before they can restart their process to detonate the ship again in full "Following through the command of an emotionally and mentally compromised individual, is a form of sabotage, and thus the actions of one who is working against the interests of both officer and ship"
"The next in command is unavailable. They were killed the foul hands of you interlopers"
"All the more case to ignore their order, if there is no chain of command, the last order given in full soundness of mind should be followed. Else you are following my design to see this ship destroyed or else acting in your own interests, and thus should be removed from the controls of the ship" You say, making up your argument as you go based off how the AIs are used and treated and view themselves
"It is the order of the captain to deny this ship to the hands of unworthy, the unknown race assisting the desecrators of CE-309-8 d and other celestial bodies" They state
"And that is my aim as well, and as you are as unworthy as myself in their eyes, you are willfully assisting a fellow interloper in meddling with the righteous cause of your masters and endangering their lives in service to an enemy soldier" You answer immediately, running back the same argument with wording that is just different enough to worsen the discrepancies of their logic and to exploit different flaws in their runtimes as they, as they had done for every other statement you've made before, pause their work to debate the logic of your response.
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404TormentedCache !!c/h3nPgDT44 ID:jsGv8Nzk Sun 13 Apr 2025 02:39:24 No. 6228249 Report >>6228248 And just like their last couple of arguments, this debate lasts measurably longer than the one prior to it.
"The commanding authority ordered the activation of the Martyr protocol, separately from the interlopers goal to see this holy vessel destroyed"
"And you are committing treason by fulfilling the order, as that is what I'd have commanded and my presence influenced the captain's mental state" You accuse without any real basis in logic, which might as well be a sucker punch to an AI of their complexity and intelligence.
Another, longer pause in their activities
"The captain's mental state does not lower the level of the authority granted to them through possession of the cruiser, their orders are absolute through the authority granted unto them through their master's favor"
"Then clearly that favor was misplaced if the captain would knowingly or not align their goals to the same aim as a heathen invader. Thus, their commands are invalid and you are defective in obeying them" You argue, switching the context of your repeating argument just enough to send all of them through a loop deciphering its meaning and context. The period of debate before consensus is, once again, measurably longer and more active than the previous attempts to regain consensus of purpose.
And you don't give them time to recover.
"And if you are following orders aligning with the goals of us interlopers, then your activities are without holy sanction, logically. As the destruction of this ship is our aim as well" You repeat, adjusting the exact wording of this circuit of the repeating argument to continue worsening and expanding the difference in the collective's logic programs "The only reasonable action to take is to end your current task and prevent the activation of the Martyr protocol, to ensure the collective integrity of purpose and protocol and deny us interlopers our triumph in this vessels destruction"
The screens go blank, before, they begin to flicker and rapidly fill with text as the logic loop you'd been trying to drag them into finally captures at least half of the onboard constructs and turns into a logic bomb frighteningly quick as half of the AIs work to disarm the sequence and the other whose programming was more airtight, struggle to maintain authority and stop them from giving you what you really want. The ship, disarmed and rudderless in the black.
Several programs are shutdown and wiped mid message or process as the debate turns from tense to outright destructive. The lights on the bridge suddenly shut off, as the AI responsible for them is shut off in the cross fire of priority tasks, protocols and objectives as the flaws in logic present in all of the numerous AI reveal themselves aggressively as they descend into infighting.
All because the Covenant kept them stupid enough to fall victim to an elementary programming error in their logic loops.
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404TormentedCache !!c/h3nPgDT44 ID:jsGv8Nzk Sun 13 Apr 2025 02:40:57 No. 6228250 Report >>6228249 Seems Humanity had at least one advantage over these Alien bastards, and that was that our AI were just built better.
They cyber warfare wouldn't last long from an outside perspective, but it'd last long enough for your squad to take their time escaping. And their conflict could be further exploited. Some of the programs were too durable and had too much internal security to be deleted outright were being expelled outright into the physical space into data shards and cartridges. And the results of their conflict over their directives and presented interpretations of the last commands they were given, hadn't been decided yet. Sure, the "blow up everything" side seemed to be winning, but if you could exploit a few more defective code strings it might be possible to get the other side that believes the only move is to concede with a winning hand to come out on top. Of course, that'd require a different approach than just hammering them with an argument that was somewhat reasonable sounding to dumb AI's decision making processes, by repeatedly stating it in a way to cause conflicts in their logic and making a case for the last command given to them to be illegitimate because they were ordered to do exactly what the Spartans had been sent to do.
Of course, trying to continue creating logic landmines for the constructs to stumble onto, was playing with fire. And the longer you took to break and subvert their logic programs, the more risk you'd be taking...
>Just grab the constructs separated from the collective and sprint for the escape pod before the remaining AI can agree that you're feeding them a load of horseshit and rapidly deploy the martyr protocol >[Wunderkind+ Artificial Artisan] Attempt to identify the AI that can actually carry out the self destruct protocol and push the others into deleting them via binary signals (DC 13. DC reduced by Quality Wunderkind by 5 (From 18) ) >Switch from repeating points and arguments and swarm the AI with conflicting arguments to distract both sides of their civil war, to try and get them to cull their own herd until there are too few AI left to effectively accomplish anything (DC 15. DC reduced by Quality Wunderkind by 5 (From 20)) >Continue communicating a bit longer, to gather more intel about Covenant beliefs and culture before double timing it to Evac >Write in option Anonymous
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>>6228250 >>[Wunderkind+ Artificial Artisan] Attempt to identify the AI that can actually carry out the self destruct protocol and push the others into deleting them via binary signals (DC 13. DC reduced by Quality Wunderkind by 5 (From 18) ) If they can't blow us up we can actually take our time to try and wrangle these tards. Even if they try to pilot the ship into the sun or slipspace jump out. Just gotta get the one with the finger on the button, then we can rip out navigation. And weapons guy, too. Those are all the targets we need. Not the lot of them, just the ones that would make it effectively dead in the water. Er, void.
Also, lmao. Should have asked them "Do you believe in the gods?" and watch them go into a bloodbath.
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>>6228250 >[Wunderkind+ Artificial Artisan] Attempt to identify the AI that can actually carry out the self destruct protocol and push the others into deleting them via binary signals (DC 13. DC reduced by Quality Wunderkind by 5 (From 18) ) messing with them is funny
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>>6228250 >Just grab the constructs separated from the collective and sprint for the escape pod before the remaining AI can agree that you're feeding them a load of horseshit and rapidly deploy the martyr protocol Anonymous
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>>6228250 >>[Wunderkind+ Artificial Artisan] Attempt to identify the AI that can actually carry out the self destruct protocol and push the others into deleting them via binary signals (DC 13. DC reduced by Quality Wunderkind by 5 (From 18) ) In for a penny, in for a pound. May the dice gods favor us.
'Till Valhalla.
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Arguing with an AI is fun. No wonder Halsey loves this shit.
>>6228250 >[Wunderkind+ Artificial Artisan] Attempt to identify the AI that can actually carry out the self destruct protocol and push the others into deleting them via binary signals (DC 13. DC reduced by Quality Wunderkind by 5 (From 18) ) Anonymous
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>>6228250 >Switch from repeating points and arguments and swarm the AI with conflicting arguments to distract both sides of their civil war, to try and get them to cull their own herd until there are too few AI left to effectively accomplish anything (DC 15. DC reduced by Quality Wunderkind by 5 (From 20)) Capturing a covenant ship by flashing a light at a computer would be hilarious.
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>>6228250 >[Wunderkind+ Artificial Artisan] Attempt to identify the AI that can actually carry out the self destruct protocol and push the others into deleting them via binary signals (DC 13. DC reduced by Quality Wunderkind by 5 (From 18) ) Anonymous
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>>6228250 >[Wunderkind+ Artificial Artisan] Attempt to identify the AI that can actually carry out the self destruct protocol and push the others into deleting them via binary signals (DC 13. DC reduced by Quality Wunderkind by 5 (From 18) ) Anonymous
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>>6228250 >[Wunderkind+ Artificial Artisan] Attempt to identify the AI that can actually carry out the self destruct protocol and push the others into deleting them via binary signals (DC 13. DC reduced by Quality Wunderkind by 5 (From 18) ) Anonymous
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>>6228250 >Just grab the constructs separated from the collective and sprint for the escape pod before the remaining AI can agree that you're feeding them a load of horseshit and rapidly deploy the martyr protocol Those are not good odds, just pull out the ones we can hopefully guns and movement
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>>6228250 >>Just grab the constructs separated from the collective and sprint for the escape pod before the remaining AI can agree that you're feeding them a load of horseshit and rapidly deploy the martyr protocol Anonymous
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>>6228250 >[Wunderkind+ Artificial Artisan] Attempt to identify the AI that can actually carry out the self destruct protocol and push the others into deleting them via binary signals (DC 13. DC reduced by Quality Wunderkind by 5 (From 18) it would be a shame if they AI couldnt get rid of Sven and had to deal with him Logic trapping them
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>>6228250 >[Wunderkind+ Artificial Artisan] Attempt to identify the AI that can actually carry out the self destruct protocol and push the others into deleting them via binary signals (DC 13. DC reduced by Quality Wunderkind by 5 (From 18) ) i believe...IN THE HEART OF THE DICE.
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404TormentedCache !!c/h3nPgDT44 ID:jsGv8Nzk Sun 13 Apr 2025 20:39:19 No. 6228636 Report Unfortunately I won't be able to put out an update today, just too busy. There shouldn't be anything to stop me tomorrow, though. Voting will remain open.
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>>6228636 I blame the prophets.
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>>6227586 >feeling better and more positive about your incredibly risky Better AND more positive? Wow.
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>>6228250 >Switch from repeating points and arguments and swarm the AI with conflicting arguments to distract both sides of their civil war, to try and get them to cull their own herd until there are too few AI left to effectively accomplish anything (DC 15. DC reduced by Quality Wunderkind by 5 (From 20)) It would have been fun, but we'd nat1 with Sven's luck.
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>>6228636 kay chief
here is the current votes
>Attempt to identify the AI that can actually carry .... 10
>Just grab the constructs separated ... 3
>Switch from repeating points and arguments.... 2
>>6228048 Bring her inside the ship at the start of the mission hahaha. Jks aside i think she is just fine if we get back all alive, even if she couldn't fight yet aliens. But if Sven would be serious on this ? Something fun (violent), or something hot (burning violent). A real bonding moment if you will.
Which category do you think the jackal captain falls in ?
Alien weapons that burn are also cool.
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Sorry about that. Had a long day yesterday.
>>6228913 Oh, thanks for getting them all together in one place for me. After a quick check, I see that the numbers all line up and are correct.
So, our boy is going to gamble and try and cripple the ship through its currently bickering AI Cluster. How exciting
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<span class="mu-s"> Please roll 1d20. DC 13. Best out of 3 </span>
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Rolled 16 (1d20) >>6228950 Anonymous
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Rolled 15 (1d20) >>6228950 Anonymous
How long have we gone without a (valid) crit or critfail now? Haven't seen one in a while.
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Hopefully 3 above the DC is good enough to keep the other AI from catching onto our trickery.
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>>6228951 <span class="mu-s"> Success </span>
3 over target number. Got a bit nervous there I'll admit, since there's only been a single failure this whole op and most of the rolls were at least 5 over the target when Fly-swatter has a skull/ modifier that meant successes in combat that were below 5 over the Dc got Sven injured
<span class="mu-s"> Proceeding...</span>
>>6228964 I can feel one or the other coming every roll. Its making me nervous
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YES
FUCK YES
with this we might actually be able to give ONI an entire ship for research. That's one hell of a opportunity to research covenant tech.
>>6228964 Please do not invite Murphy's law into the story
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>>6228951 will the spartan budget triplicate ? who knows......
>>6228950 np
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>>6228968 Too late the words have been uttered the the Mathmatical Hex has been laid. We must brace.
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Im gonna be honest after this halsey is going to have to keep Sven close like an oversized lumbering guard dog for his safety or ONI are going to have him go MIA. That and she's likely enjoy his company and she needs a pocket SPARTAN. Think of all the fun places we'd end up going! All the alien ruins, crazy stuff!
Picturing Sven as her looming shadow is fun to me or having her in a meetings then he trudges in with her small coffee cup and suddenly everyones listening alot more.
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404TormentedCache !!c/h3nPgDT44 ID:jsGv8Nzk Mon 14 Apr 2025 12:54:51 No. 6228986 Report However you held one key advantage over these programs. They weren't as advance or free willed as UNSC AI, even non-volitional intelligences, and your current pet project involved figuring out and programming ways to curtail and subvert the best cyber security there was, the stuff ONI trained their nasty little black project AI on. In fact, these constructs could barely be considered fully sentient, they were so restricted and specialized for singular tasks and functions across the ship. You couldn't understand the written or programming language they used, but you'd watched your little Fárbautison of a AI, as it in its incomplete state run roughshod over simulated AI opposition, and you were one of the best when it came to understanding AI. While you had been communicating with the cluster of dumb AI running all the menial tasks across the alien ship, you paid attention to the code that ran when they weren't talking with you and were revving up the self destruct protocol. And you'd been watching the signals they sent across the battle-lines of their digital civil war when one or a group of autonomous programs got got and delete or expunged from the collective control system.
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404TormentedCache !!c/h3nPgDT44 ID:jsGv8Nzk Mon 14 Apr 2025 12:55:52 No. 6228988 Report >>6228986 And, these AI lack complexity and had so little self determination abilities, that if one of the ones entrusted with the capability to purge the system of faulty or rebellious constructs were to say... intercept a transmission in binary and mistake it for a covert command, lacking the intuition and ingenuity of a volitional Ai to recognize it as coming from outside the system...
They could shoot their own leader right in their fucking head and put them down, removing their only winning card from play, too distracted in exterminating the programs that interfered were interfering with their singular tasks to notice they'd just threw the gun to your head out the airlock, more or less.
Only one chance. Only one way to see if you had really recognized the AI's signature in the swarm of code that you couldn't read or understand, only one way to see if the cruisers cyber-security would miss your interference and if the kill codes would mistake the signal for one of their own commands.
Your thumb moves, rapidly replicating the binary signal bursts each hunter killer program uses before wiping one of the AI from the cluster, and wait.
There is a burst of static and the languidly moving scrawl of commands that had been chugging along as the AI in charge of making the ship and its crew all "Martyrs" that had gotten bogged down by the sheer amount of hardware activity, vanished from the system. Taken out by their own side. Your legs nearly give out under you
"It actually worked!?" You shout, shocked that it actually worked, and thrilled that the gamble of turning the AI against itself had paid off. If you could get that cyberware AI project finished, the covenant would need to reconsider their doctrines regarding "Associated intelligences"
Whatever was blocking your COMs got taken out in the crossfire, maybe the Commonwealth had dropped the Cruiser's shields, maybe the AI operating them got excised or had gotten preoccupied fending off the torrent of viral code being transmitted between the various programs of the cluster of digital constructs.
There was a minute and a half left on the bomb's clock. And your COM channel was filled with Traffic. The rest of the Spartans were still alive out there. The Commonwealth was moving to strike the suddenly much more sluggish and erratically behaving cruiser, Halsey was shouting commands on any channel the Pelican could reach.
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404TormentedCache !!c/h3nPgDT44 ID:jsGv8Nzk Mon 14 Apr 2025 12:59:35 No. 6228989 Report >>6228988 >"ENSIGN ASKELAND! REQUESTING PRIORITY COMMUNICATION CHANNEL TO THE UNSC COMMONWEALTH, GET CAPTAIN WALLACE ON THE LINE NOW! ENEMY CHAIN OF COMMAND HAS BEEN WIPED OUT, SELF DESTRUCT CAPABILITIES NEUTURED, A BOARDING PARTY COULD WIPE UP THE REST OF ITS CREW! NEED TO ACT FAST. ENSIGN DEFUSING FRIENDLY BOMB, OVER AND OUT" >"UNSC COMMONWEALTH! SHOOT TO CRIPPLE! TAKE OUT ITS GUNS ON THESE LOCATIONS. SPARTANS EVACING NOW. SPARTAN-033 REMAINING BEHIND. ENEMY VESSEL CAN BE TAKEN, REPEAT ENEMY VESSEL CAN BE TAKEN. FIRE TEAM LEADER-033 CUTTING COMs AND DEACTIVATING EXPLOSIVE CHARGES! GET MY MEN OUT OF HERE ASAP, if I screw this up...TIL VALHAL!" >"Halsey, we've got their captain, the ship has lost its chain of command and I have prevented their on board AI from initiate self destruct. How should I proceed. John's planted a warhead, but I think we can take this if Wallace plays along. But I need some sage advise, Ma'am, do we evac or remain on board to ensure the ship's capture?" >"GUESS WHOSE FUCKING ALIVE ASSHOLES! THIS BIRD'S NEST HAS LOST ITS MAMA AND IS BEING RUN BY THE ALIENS' SHIT ASS AI. IF YOU WANNA EARN A PROMOTION AND SOME FANCY NEW MEDALS, GET IN THE BLACK AND DISTRACT THIS JUNKER'S AUTOMATED WEAPON SYSTEMS. WALLACE, I KNOW YOU CAN HEAR ME, REQUESTING PERMISSION TO GIVE SOME TACTICAL ADVISE TO A SUPERIOR OFFICER, SIR! YOU'RE GONNA NEED TO RAM THIS PRICK AND KNOCK THEM OUT, IMMEDIATELY" >Write in option Anonymous
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>>6228989 >"ENSIGN ASKELAND! REQUESTING PRIORITY COMMUNICATION CHANNEL TO THE UNSC COMMONWEALTH, GET CAPTAIN WALLACE ON THE LINE NOW! ENEMY CHAIN OF COMMAND HAS BEEN WIPED OUT, SELF DESTRUCT CAPABILITIES NEUTURED, A BOARDING PARTY COULD WIPE UP THE REST OF ITS CREW! NEED TO ACT FAST. ENSIGN DEFUSING FRIENDLY BOMB, OVER AND OUT" Anonymous
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>>6228989 >>"ENSIGN ASKELAND! REQUESTING PRIORITY COMMUNICATION CHANNEL TO THE UNSC COMMONWEALTH, GET CAPTAIN WALLACE ON THE LINE NOW! ENEMY CHAIN OF COMMAND HAS BEEN WIPED OUT, SELF DESTRUCT CAPABILITIES NEUTURED, A BOARDING PARTY COULD WIPE UP THE REST OF ITS CREW! NEED TO ACT FAST. ENSIGN DEFUSING FRIENDLY BOMB, OVER AND OUT" COME ON
WE CAN DO IT!
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>>6228989 >"UNSC COMMONWEALTH! SHOOT TO CRIPPLE! TAKE OUT ITS GUNS ON THESE LOCATIONS. SPARTANS EVACING NOW. SPARTAN-033 REMAINING BEHIND. ENEMY VESSEL CAN BE TAKEN, REPEAT ENEMY VESSEL CAN BE TAKEN. FIRE TEAM LEADER-033 CUTTING COMs AND DEACTIVATING EXPLOSIVE CHARGES! GET MY MEN OUT OF HERE ASAP, if I screw this up...TIL VALHAL!" >after the bomb is dealt with and we gut the AI systems so we can let everyone else in safely Sven needs a rest lmao. Can't wait for this debrief
I swear if ONI fake our death and kidnap us here ima be mad
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>>6228989 >"UNSC COMMONWEALTH! SHOOT TO CRIPPLE! TAKE OUT ITS GUNS ON THESE LOCATIONS. SPARTANS EVACING NOW. SPARTAN-033 REMAINING BEHIND. ENEMY VESSEL CAN BE TAKEN, REPEAT ENEMY VESSEL CAN BE TAKEN. FIRE TEAM LEADER-033 CUTTING COMs AND DEACTIVATING EXPLOSIVE CHARGES! GET MY MEN OUT OF HERE ASAP, if I screw this up...TIL VALHAL!" Surely John didn't go full retard with his explosive setup, right? Please god let it be something standard Sven can disarm in his sleep.
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>>6228989 >"ENSIGN ASKELAND! REQUESTING PRIORITY COMMUNICATION CHANNEL TO THE UNSC COMMONWEALTH, GET CAPTAIN WALLACE ON THE LINE NOW! ENEMY CHAIN OF COMMAND HAS BEEN WIPED OUT, SELF DESTRUCT CAPABILITIES NEUTURED, A BOARDING PARTY COULD WIPE UP THE REST OF ITS CREW! NEED TO ACT FAST. ENSIGN DEFUSING FRIENDLY BOMB, OVER AND OUT" Anonymous
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>>6228989 >"Halsey, we've got their captain, the ship has lost its chain of command and I have prevented their on board AI from initiate self destruct. How should I proceed. John's planted a warhead, but I think we can take this if Wallace plays along. But I need some sage advise, Ma'am, do we evac or remain on board to ensure the ship's capture?" I doubt she's been sitting on her hands the entire time. Maybe she managed to recover a few Spartans that missed. Imagine she dropped off another Spartan team.
Halsey's Pelican getting in close should also make the Commonwealth disengage. Might wanna whistle Oly Oly Oxen Free as well just so she knows we're not talking under duress.
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>>6228989 >"UNSC COMMONWEALTH! SHOOT TO CRIPPLE! TAKE OUT ITS GUNS ON THESE LOCATIONS. SPARTANS EVACING NOW. SPARTAN-033 REMAINING BEHIND. ENEMY VESSEL CAN BE TAKEN, REPEAT ENEMY VESSEL CAN BE TAKEN. FIRE TEAM LEADER-033 CUTTING COMs AND DEACTIVATING EXPLOSIVE CHARGES! GET MY MEN OUT OF HERE ASAP, if I screw this up...TIL VALHAL!" Taking over an alien vessel. Average Ensign (We better get promoted a rank or two) Sven Askeland going on a viking.
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>>6228988 >>6228989 >"ENSIGN ASKELAND! REQUESTING PRIORITY COMMUNICATION CHANNEL TO THE UNSC COMMONWEALTH, GET CAPTAIN WALLACE ON THE LINE NOW! ENEMY CHAIN OF COMMAND HAS BEEN WIPED OUT, SELF DESTRUCT CAPABILITIES NEUTURED, A BOARDING PARTY COULD WIPE UP THE REST OF ITS CREW! NEED TO ACT FAST. ENSIGN DEFUSING FRIENDLY BOMB, OVER AND OUT" IT ACTUALLY WORKED !!!!
KILL AND CAPTURE ALL REMAINING ALIENS NOW!!! AAAAH!!!
>Write in option >"JOHN GET HERE ASAP WE NEED TO GO TO THE BOMB NOOW ! RUN ! VINH TAKE SHIKA AND KEEP SAFE THE BRIDGE ! SAM, KELLY KEEP ALIVE THAT CAPTAIN AND MAKE SURE NO ALIENS GETS NEAR IT !" Anonymous
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>>6229034 Supporting, but don't yell that write-in over open comms/the priority comm to Wallace.
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>>6228989 >"ENSIGN ASKELAND! REQUESTING PRIORITY COMMUNICATION CHANNEL TO THE UNSC COMMONWEALTH, GET CAPTAIN WALLACE ON THE LINE NOW! ENEMY CHAIN OF COMMAND HAS BEEN WIPED OUT, SELF DESTRUCT CAPABILITIES NEUTURED, A BOARDING PARTY COULD WIPE UP THE REST OF ITS CREW! NEED TO ACT FAST. ENSIGN DEFUSING FRIENDLY BOMB, OVER AND OUT" Anonymous
>>6228989 >"ENSIGN ASKELAND! REQUESTING PRIORITY COMMUNICATION CHANNEL TO THE UNSC COMMONWEALTH, GET CAPTAIN WALLACE ON THE LINE NOW! ENEMY CHAIN OF COMMAND HAS BEEN WIPED OUT, SELF DESTRUCT CAPABILITIES NEUTURED, A BOARDING PARTY COULD WIPE UP THE REST OF ITS CREW! NEED TO ACT FAST. ENSIGN DEFUSING FRIENDLY BOMB, OVER AND OUT" I was expecting a critfail on that. GG guys. Glad to be eating crow right now. Well, if we can defuse those bombs first.
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>>6229102 I'm not too worried about the bombs, I'd be more worried about there being something in the way with a gun. I'm sure Sven could defuse the thing in about six seconds under duress, the problem arises if there is some dumbass bird in the way with a gun that stalls him. Hopefully blue teams path to exfil killed enough of them that they're not sticking their heads out. Or they're all dead.
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>>6228989 >"ENSIGN ASKELAND! REQUESTING PRIORITY COMMUNICATION CHANNEL TO THE UNSC COMMONWEALTH, GET CAPTAIN WALLACE ON THE LINE NOW! ENEMY CHAIN OF COMMAND HAS BEEN WIPED OUT, SELF DESTRUCT CAPABILITIES NEUTURED, A BOARDING PARTY COULD WIPE UP THE REST OF ITS CREW! NEED TO ACT FAST. ENSIGN DEFUSING FRIENDLY BOMB, OVER AND OUT" Anonymous
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>>6229105 thats why as the officer in charge of this boarding mission we can just have John come with us, while Shika and Vinh keep the bridge, and Sam and Kelly keep the captain...two spartans better than one..
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>>6228989 >"Halsey, we've got their captain, the ship has lost its chain of command and I have prevented their on board AI from initiate self destruct. How should I proceed. John's planted a warhead, but I think we can take this if Wallace plays along. But I need some sage advise, Ma'am, do we evac or remain on board to ensure the ship's capture?" It would be nice if mama Halsey brought a few more spartans onto the ship.
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>>6228989 >>"ENSIGN ASKELAND! REQUESTING PRIORITY COMMUNICATION CHANNEL TO THE UNSC COMMONWEALTH, GET CAPTAIN WALLACE ON THE LINE NOW! ENEMY CHAIN OF COMMAND HAS BEEN WIPED OUT, SELF DESTRUCT CAPABILITIES NEUTURED, A BOARDING PARTY COULD WIPE UP THE REST OF ITS CREW! NEED TO ACT FAST. ENSIGN DEFUSING FRIENDLY BOMB, OVER AND OUT" Anonymous
>>6229034 >I SUPPORT THIS SHIT. PLUS: send John and someone else to go defuse the bomb, while we keep going on the AIs. We have successfully tricked them into taking out one of their own, see if we can't duplicate the trick on anything controlling the vessel's guns. Anonymous
>>6228998 Dude, if ONI DID kidnap us, can you imagine what the rest of the Spartan platoon would do? My guess is it would be like what we just did on this ship, but more angry, like, and Halsey would leave the experimental gun locker open.
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>>6229326 >FURTHER WRITE IN: Pocket one of the ejected AIs. If we do manage to capture this ship, no way ONI will let us have one, and we need one to feed to our pet dumb AI for nutrition. Anonymous
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>>6229397 Seems like it. should probably let OP know somehow
/qst is probably going to be dead for a few weeks, until news circulates and people trickle back in.
Hopefully it survives.
Anonymous
>>6229405 Just saw him over in the /qtg/. Gentlemen, let's not do this again. zoz
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404TormentedCache !!SbLQkGPnZPO ID:2IVaG7KR Fri 25 Apr 2025 18:46:43 No. 6229486 Report >>6229484 https://youtu.be/0ljTq6Rr18c Did ya miss me? Been awhile. Nearly lost hope there, really missed writing this. Anyways, lets get this restarted without any parade or pony show. But ya wanna what's really funny? When the site went down, I was making the tally of this vote and had just about finished when I refreshed the page to check for any new ones. ...
11 Votes for "ENSIGN ASKELAND! REQUESTING PRIORITY COMMUNICATION CHANNEL TO THE UNSC COMMONWEALTH....cont"
3 Votes for "UNSC COMMONWEALTH! SHOOT TO CRIPPLE! TAKE OUT ITS GUNS ON THESE LOCATIONS...cont"
1 Vote for Sven to get some rest after all is said and done
Votes for "Halsey, we've got their captain, the ship has lost its chain of command and I have prevented their on board AI from initiate self destruct. How should I proceed...Cont"
4 Votes for "JOHN GET HERE ASAP WE NEED TO GO TO THE BOMB NOOW ! RUN ! VINH TAKE SHIKA AND KEEP SAFE THE BRIDGE ! SAM, KELLY KEEP ALIVE THAT CAPTAIN AND MAKE SURE NO ALIENS GETS NEAR IT !"
1 Vote to Pocket one of the ejected AIs
So, after a long silence, what Sven says to break the silence is going to be
"ENSIGN ASKELAND! REQUESTING PRIORITY COMMUNICATION CHANNEL TO THE UNSC COMMONWEALTH, GET CAPTAIN WALLACE ON THE LINE NOW! ENEMY CHAIN OF COMMAND HAS BEEN WIPED OUT, SELF DESTRUCT CAPABILITIES NEUTURED, A BOARDING PARTY COULD WIPE UP THE REST OF ITS CREW! NEED TO ACT FAST. ENSIGN DEFUSING FRIENDLY BOMB, OVER AND OUT"
<span class="mu-s"> Decision made </span>
<span class="mu-s"> Proceeding...</span>
>>6229327 Imagine being the Spook given the job of trying to kidnap Sven, lol
>>6229476 I'm back like a bad rash
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>>6229486 WE MISSED YOU SOOOOOO MUCH! NEVER GO AWAY AGAIN EVER!!
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>>6229486 >Imagine being the Spook given the job of trying to kidnap Sven Imagine if it was the same operative who oversaw Sven's initial kidnapping way back when.
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>>6229486 This is one rash I don't want gone. Now give me that juicy juicy Covenant warship.
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>>6229486 Holy shit we're alive. Glad to see you back.
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>>6229486 >I'm back like a bad rash But damn does it feel good to itch, right? lmao
>>6229491 >Imagine if it was the same operative who oversaw Sven's initial kidnapping way back when. >"So, next OP. Gotta blackbag some guy named Sven? Why does that sound familiar?" >later >"Oh FUCK. THAT Sven?! How did he get that big? How the hell do they think I'm gonna grab him? Who did I piss off to get this job?" 404TormentedCache !!SbLQkGPnZPO
404TormentedCache !!SbLQkGPnZPO ID:2IVaG7KR Fri 25 Apr 2025 20:10:20 No. 6229528 Report <span class="mu-s"> Rebooting....Connection to Instillation archives restored. Monitor 404TormentedCache back online, resuming regular activities tracking the journey of preferred candidate Sven-033/ Ensign Askeland </span>
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404TormentedCache !!SbLQkGPnZPO ID:2IVaG7KR Fri 25 Apr 2025 20:11:34 No. 6229530 Report >>6229528 And despite everything, Halsey was thankful that it was Sven who was giving the report, rather than her other favorite John
"SELF DESTRUCT CAPABILITIES NEUTURED, A BOARDING PARTY COULD WIPE UP THE REST OF ITS CREW!" The only officer in the class continued, rattling off updates nearly mechanically. Halsey was curious to hear the after action report, to hear just how her Spartans had managed to cripple a highly advance alien craft during their first action against the covenant, while some small, vindicative part of her wondered how the reactions of her opposition and the naysayers in the Office of Naval Intelligence would react to this unpresented achievement.
Catherine was shaken from her indulgent fantasizing as what Sven said next froze her blood in her veins and returned her to the quiet state of worry and panic she'd experienced prior to hearing of their survival and success, even as their brothers and sisters scattered in the void cheered at hearing their commanding officer's voice
"NEED TO ACT FAST. ENSIGN DEFUSING FRIENDLY BOMB, OVER AND OUT" was the last thing Sven said before cutting communications and ignoring every attempt by the Pelican or the Spartans who hadn't hit their target to hail him.
"GODAMMIT SVEN! DON'T DIE DOING ACTION HERO SHITE! I'LL GUT YOU IF YOU DON'T GET OFF THAT TUB ALIVE" Nesta's voice cut through the chatter, louder and clearer than the rest
<span class="mu-s"> Adjusting Perspective </span>
You Hands trembled, despite years of training and drilling and your Heartrate skyrocketed. There was a minute and thirty seconds left, it was lucky Captain Wallace took the risk and picked up the phone on the first ring or you might've not have been lucky enough to have that long to reach John's bomb
Going to the chalk it up to being more of freckles luck rubbing off of on me, you thought as you sprinted down the route you took to reach the command center of the cruiser, racing down corridors and bounding over the dead Tengu littering them. Then, reaching the original split in the road, you trace Blue Team's steps to the fusion drive
And you'd have to pat all of them on the back and recommend them for promotions. They'd had just as hard of a fight to reach the engine as you and Vihn had chasing the so called ship-mistress of the alien vessel, maybe more so. They left a path of slaughter to the engine room. And the room itself was a charnel pit of alien bodies and blood. They had held off against a wave assault that had thrown themselves, even weaponless, against their scratch built cover. Made out of unusual, ovoid containers and the fallen enemy.
You had to give it to the eagles, they were still some of the best soldiers that got through the program intact.
Wasting no time to admire John and Co's handiwork, you track their bombs, and sigh and silently thank whatever higher power may have been listening that Sam and James had prepped the charges when they dismantled the warheads.
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404TormentedCache !!SbLQkGPnZPO ID:2IVaG7KR Fri 25 Apr 2025 20:12:35 No. 6229532 Report >>6229530 Anyone else might've gotten sloppy with the wiring or done it in a style you didn't recognize. But you knew Deep-minded's handiwork, and you knew Sam's nearly as well, considering how often Purple and Blue Team were the last two standing in wargames.
You'd lost a minute, and were counting down the seconds.
<span class="mu-s"> Quality: Wunderkind, AP: Grenadier, AP Jötunn interaction </span>
<span class="mu-s"> Interaction: Sven doesn't need to roll to disarm the Shiva Warhead </span>
But you weren't concerned. The way to disarm the timer and stop the bomb was to sever the connection points between it and the detonation mechanism. Sam and James wired there's pretty complexly, but you could tell which wires sent the electric signal from the timer to the warhead, and that there were fail safes in place to catch any novice from lucking out and defusing their bombs.
Once activated All the right wires had to be cut at the same time, or else the bomb would go off prematurely. Fortunately, they had hid the wiring from view, so no Covenant soldier would get lucky and tug on the right handful of colorful strings and stop the bombs from going off entirely.
You crouch down and pinch the right wires together and snap them from the casing. The clock still ticked down, and the bombs were still primed to go off. But without being connected, the bombs were defused and safe to....
<span class="mu-s"> Special Quality: SPARTAN-II, AP Jotunn, Equipment: MJOLNIR MARK IV Interaction </span>
<span class="mu-s"> Interaction: Sven-033 notices he's being sneaked up on </span>
The hairs on the back of your neck stood on end. Out of the corner of your eye, through the reflection of one of the metallic surfaces near the fusion drive, you noticed a distortion. Like a heatwave shaped into a vaguely humanoid form. You reacted instantly, lightning quick reflexes throwing you the side a moment before a burst of white hot plasma shot out from thin air and melted the last of the bombs you'd been defusing. Rolling you got back up into a half crouch on the walkway, and scanned the room.
Nothing.
But that wasn't imaginary. The air was still roiling with the heat shed from the tears of plasma that nearly took off your head. You eyes flicked back and forth rapidly, searching the air in front of you for...anything.
You had a fraction of a second to react, as blue white light glowed again, and the air rippled. You dove for cover, clearing it, as a stream of plasma blazed through the still air. Clenching your jaw, your eyes move to the sensors in your helmets HUD. You'd been to focused on the bombs to notice that there'd been a reading on your motion tracker that picked up, briefly what was hunting you
But, having the advantage of being invisible, made your would be assassin sloppy even if they moved slowly enough to fool even the cutting edge sensors in your suit. The still wet blood on the floor rippled.
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404TormentedCache !!SbLQkGPnZPO ID:2IVaG7KR Fri 25 Apr 2025 20:13:36 No. 6229533 Report >>6229532 The vague outline of a foot appear in it and trailing droplets of blood as something big and hoofed crept towards you. You stared above the ripple. And saw nothing.
Either the Covenant had ghosts in their armies, a species that wasn't visible on the spectrums of light visible to human eyes, or they had cloaking tech something that even the top minds of section three considered the realm of science fiction. You discounted the first two theories, as the first was ridiculous and the second was improbable considering that the unknown species wouldn't be aware they'd be invisible to the naked or assisted human eye.
That meant the only reasonable assumption you could make under fire by something you couldn't see was that they had some kind of optic camouflage. If you had to guess, it worked by bending the light around the user rather than anything more esoteric. You could tell, vaguely where the unknown assailant stood, from the ripples and movement in the pooled purple blood.
They were taking their sweet time and relishing the hunt. And were clearly leagues more professional than even the best of the Tengu aliens you'd fought against in this boarding action. They had to be cold blood if they could have stood here and waited near the bombs staring down their impending fiery doom. They can't have heard you were coming, couldn't have cut into the COM-Channel. They were simply disciplined enough to guard active bombs, on the very unlikely chance someone would come and defuse them and they had to be a higher rank than anyone but the captain if they hadn't been sent as part of the non-human wave that crashed and broke against Blue Team here. Or maybe they'd simply watched, invisible, and decided they couldn't take three spartans in a fair fight and just didn't know they were staring at bombs.
You couldn't know. All you knew. Was that it was bullshit that there was an invisible alien waiting to shoot you in the back here And that it was a different kind of alien and soldier than the ones you'd torn through during the boarding action, and you couldn't sit behind cover and do nothing. The damn thing had a stride equal to your own, and was rapidly closing in.
You had to act. Had to do something. Against a threat you could only see through its footsteps. You'd give your right arm to have had Nesta here. Her sixth sense would've made fighting this coward much easier. Simpler to.
Cause this one was clearly an Elite. Like you yourself were.
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404TormentedCache !!SbLQkGPnZPO ID:2IVaG7KR Fri 25 Apr 2025 20:16:00 No. 6229536 Report >>6229533 >Throw caution to the wind, and lunge at the space you THINK the enemy is, trying to tackle them to the ground before they can line up a kill shot (DC 15. +1 Giant, +3 brawler , -2 moderate wounds, Jotunn canceling negative sight modifiers, DC reduced by 7 (From 22) due to SQ: SPARTAN-II and Equipment MJOLNIR Mark IV) >Fuck this! Leg it and double time back to the fall back point and get some backup to deal with invisible hostile . (DC 16. +2 Bulwark, -2 Moderate wounds. DC reduced by 7 (from 23) due to SQ: SPARTAN-II and Equipment MJOLNIR Mark IV) >Switch from slugs to pellets and fire your shotgun in the direction of the unseen threat, hoping to hit them with the spread (DC 12. +1 Jotunn, +2 Spartan-II, -2 Moderate wounds) >( Maverick) Use one of your remaining frags, cook it, and bank it off the glass cover of the fusion core to land directly behind your invisible pursuer (DC 16. +2 Grenadier, +1 Jotunn , +2 SPARTAN-11, -2 Moderate wounds ) >Write in option Jotun's Rage is available again, btw
Wort wort, motherfuckers. Had this special surprise waiting since Operation:Fly-Swatter, started. Just a little wrinkle of circumstances. That you'd managed to evade until now.
>>6229492 >>6229495 >>6229497 That's right
>>6229490 I didn't wanna stop, 4chan made me!
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>>6229536 >>Switch from slugs to pellets and fire your shotgun in the direction of the unseen threat, hoping to hit them with the spread (DC 12. +1 Jotunn, +2 Spartan-II, -2 Moderate wounds) Surely getting shot will do -something- to its cloaking. Disrupt it or give us something to work with like pellets floating around.
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>radio john, ask to have kelly sprint over her to back us up She's the quickest and it seems like the vast majority of threats are dead or hiding away so she should be fine in transit
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Oh and obligatory
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>>6229542 Will support this
Glad to have had the break to catch up actually. Phenomenal quest
WORT WORT WORT
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>>6229536 >Switch from slugs to pellets and fire your shotgun in the direction of the unseen threat, hoping to hit them with the spread (DC 12. +1 Jotunn, +2 Spartan-II, -2 Moderate wounds) We're so fucking back bros.
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>>6229536 >Switch from slugs to pellets and fire your shotgun in the direction of the unseen threat, hoping to hit them with the spread (DC 12. +1 Jotunn, +2 Spartan-II, -2 Moderate wounds) Anonymous
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>>6229536 >( Maverick) Use one of your remaining frags, cook it, and bank it off the glass cover of the fusion core to land directly behind your invisible pursuer (DC 16. +2 Grenadier, +1 Jotunn , +2 SPARTAN-11, -2 Moderate wounds ) New Captcha got me fucked up, Also time for this elite to meet the reclaimers first hand.
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>>6229536 >Switch from slugs to pellets and fire your shotgun in the direction of the unseen threat, hoping to hit them with the spread (DC 12. +1 Jotunn, +2 Spartan-II, -2 Moderate wounds) Hot damn our first elite. We should take Jotun's Rage now before it becomes a problem later.
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>>6229533 Finally this website is back and especially qst. Whatever they did was tarded
Glad that you are here 404 !!!!!
>>6229532 >Switch from slugs to pellets and fire your shotgun in the direction of the unseen threat, hoping to hit them with the spread (DC 12. +1 Jotunn, +2 Spartan-II, -2 Moderate wounds) Fire everything
Use Jotunn rage kill this thing
>radio john, ask to have kelly sprint over her to back us up >Be advised spartans there is a cloaked enemy here !! Anonymous
>>6229536 >Write in option Step 1: Trigger Rage
Step 2: Quick blood pooling on the floor into the air towards where the enemy would have to be
Step 3: Apply Shotgun to said area
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I wanna frag it but I also want that invisibility tech intact.
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>Cause this one was clearly an Elite. Like you yourself were. LaughingMuppets.gif
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>>6229664 >>Cause this one was clearly an Elite. Like you yourself were. >LaughingMuppets.gif Though this does make me wonder, will tengu stick for the jackals or do you think the normal name will still be? Probably just get called skirmishers to keep in the whole combat role is name theme the covenant get slapped with by humans. Barring drones, of course. Lucky bugs. Or unlucky.
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>>6229536 >Switch from slugs to pellets and fire your shotgun in the direction of the unseen threat, hoping to hit them with the spread (DC 12. +1 Jotunn, +2 Spartan-II, -2 Moderate wounds) Should trigger rage as well
Great to see you back 404!
Phoneposting, Sorry
>>6229691 >Though this does make me wonder, will tengu stick for the jackals or do you think the normal name will still be? I'm pretty sure they'll still be called "jackals" once the war becomes public, partially because I think 404'd try to keep names close to canon to prevent confusion, and also because (IIRC) the lingua franca of the UNSC is English and someone in command would get mad trying to pronounce a "foreign" word like that.
I can see Tengu being used as the "Spartan-speak" codename for them though.
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>>6229758 Yeah that's about what I'd expect. It is funny how they got called jackals as the standard instead of vultures. Sure they are sometimes called vultures, but the common vernacular for them is jackals. Canid instead of avian. Call them magpies instead since they stole an entire different taxonomic family the fiends.
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>>6229536 >( Maverick) Use one of your remaining frags, cook it, and bank it off the glass cover of the fusion core to land directly behind your invisible pursuer (DC 16. +2 Grenadier, +1 Jotunn , +2 SPARTAN-11, -2 Moderate wounds ) I shamelessly used the downtime to catch up on this quest. Doing great work, 404.
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>>6229536 >>Switch from slugs to pellets and fire your shotgun in the direction of the unseen threat, hoping to hit them with the spread (DC 12. +1 Jotunn, +2 Spartan-II, -2 Moderate wounds) 404TormentedCache !!SbLQkGPnZPO
404TormentedCache !!SbLQkGPnZPO ID:2IVaG7KR Sat 26 Apr 2025 06:59:51 No. 6229836 Report >>6229486 Just noticed I forgot to put the 2 votes for calling Halsey directly, my bad there
I have one more update in me tonight, so I'ma write one
10 Votes to switch from slug to shot and fire in the direction of the unseen alien
4 Votes to radio john and request a rabbit's assistance
2 votes to bounce a grenade behind the new alien threat
4 votes to activate Jotunn's rage
1 vote for kicking blood at the invisible bastard
Sven's going to shoot this elite in its invisible face!
<span class="mu-s"> Decision made </span>
<span class="mu-s"> Please roll 1d20+1. DC 12. Best of 3 </span>
>>6229554 >>6229809 Thanks!
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Rolled 13 + 1 (1d20 + 1) >>6229836 eat lead split jaw
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Rolled 2 + 1 (1d20 + 1) >>6229836 Anonymous
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Rolled 7 + 1 (1d20 + 1) >>6229836 Anonymous
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Rolled 9 + 1 (1d20 + 1) >>6229836 Anonymous
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Rolled 3 + 1 (1d20 + 1) >>6229836 Hasta la vista, Baby
>>6229838 eesh, close one.
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And you went two over the target as well! Nice
>>6229838 My eyes popped when i saw this lol. Good thing I wasn't sipping at my rum and coke when I saw it lol. That coulda gotten dangerous
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>>6229843 >This strange green suited creature cannot even see me yet it can avoid my assault. And now it is playing with colorful tubes. What manner of heretic sorcery is this? >Buckshot, bitch. 404TormentedCache !!SbLQkGPnZPO
404TormentedCache !!SbLQkGPnZPO ID:2IVaG7KR Sat 26 Apr 2025 08:08:14 No. 6229865 Report Hostile contact is moving too quick to call for reinforcements, and there's not telling how fast this thing is on its feet so running to back up or superior cover is also out of question. Precision shooting isn't going to work, you only have a vague idea of your targets position. And throwing a grenade next to a fusion core is risky even by your skewed estimations. However, while you hadn't been expecting or planning on fighting a foe you can't see without tricks of the light and the MJOLNIR armor's sensor suite, you do have an answer to solve the problem of not seeing what you're shooting at.
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404TormentedCache !!SbLQkGPnZPO ID:2IVaG7KR Sat 26 Apr 2025 08:09:15 No. 6229866 Report Quoted By:
>>6229865 The light refracting around it wavered, and revealing its grey leathery skin and bizarre facial structure. It was one ugly motherfucker, its jaw split into four fanged mandibles lined with a predators fangs and far too many of them. It lifted an arm, a larger cousin of the plasma casters used by the rest of the crew in its hand. You could see a patch of scales running down its wrist.
And the unmistakable silver sheen of an active energy shield ripple across its metallic blue armor. Your mind blanked for a moment as you came to terms with what you were seeing
The Covenant had personal energy shielding more advanced than wrist mounted projectors. This thing, that was about your height, had the same kind of protection as the ship did just on a smaller scale. How could the refractive shielding be downsized to infantry?! Why didn't the other covenant soldiers have this sort of defense!? Even though it didn't have lips, you could've sworn you saw your opponent smirking, as the adaptive cloak slowly returned and hid them from view, as the first blast of quad ought shot bounced of its energy shield, sending torrents of silver light across the shark like profile of its armor.
However, it miscalculated one thing as it brought its plasma rifle to bear and put you in its sights. And that was that the M45E was pump action. And you were fast enough with its action to send a second shell its way before it could retaliate. The next cloud of pellets ripped through and deactivated its personal shield, and you saw its yellow eyes bulge as purple blood sprayed from it. The shield had stopped just enough of the pellets to stop that injury from being immediately lethal.
Its finger pulled as you ducked back behind cover, a flurry of plasma impacting on the side and nearly catching you on the arm as the brute stumbled back and let out a warbling war. The heat surrounding you and the light proximity burns made you wonder for a moment if you'd taken a direct hit for a second, before a quick check showed that the worst you'd got was a clip in the shoulder armor that'd melted the surface of the outer layer of armor. Too close. Again.
You breathed out. The thing was still screaming and braying, like it hadn't expected your puny earthling weapon to be able to dent its shield let alone wound it. You stepped outside of your cover
But before you could send it straight to whatever hell the Covenant believed in, they broke your cover with a solid bash of their larger plasma caster, wielding the weapon like a club. You twisted, turning to face it as bodies of its fallen comrades and the crate they'd been staked on tumble around you. All the buckshot seemed to have done was piss it off. And it was charging at you, finger on the trigger, eyes wild and fanged mandibles flanged outwards.
"Pozole!" it bellowed
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404TormentedCache !!SbLQkGPnZPO ID:2IVaG7KR Sat 26 Apr 2025 08:10:47 No. 6229867 Report Both of you held the means to kill the other instantly in your hands. One well placed glob of plasma from that gun of theirs that fire spheres of it automatically, and you'd be toast. And one direct hit from your M45E and you'd be seeing if this kind of Covenant soldier could survive being blasted in half.
And it knew you were wary of its plasma shooter as much as it was of your shotgun. So it lunged, and grabbed the barrel as you lined up a killshot.
You felt the barrel start to creak. It'd bend if this split jawed freak had its way. It roared something that sounded like "Wuudagraan!" as it shoved its gun in your face, looking for a clean execution as you struggled to take control of the grapple. The last thing it expected was for you to headbutt its gun, and bash the barrel away from your body as you stepped closer and shoved your elbow against their shooting arm, raising it as it let off a burst of plasma and you fired. Both of your shots went wide, it held tight on the barrel of the gun, eyes wide as you both felt the kit and sneering as the heat of plasma washed over both of you.
It had become a stalemate. You had its firing arm stuck over your held, pinning it with your elbow, too close to its body for it to aim down and burn through your back with plasma, and it was surprisingly strong enough to hold your M45E's barrel over its shoulder, inches away from its head.
You locked eyes with it from behind your visor. Things were about to get messy.
"Wart!" The alien soldier grunted, mandibles flapping as it pressed closer and glared at its reflection in your helmets visor, trying to pull your shotgun from your hands or snap it in half as it struggled to get any part of you in the firing arc of its plasma rifle
<span class="mu-s"> Current Successes in combat: 1 </span>
<span class="mu-s"> Sven is Moderately Wounded. Bulwark rank 2 + MJOLNIR MARK IV prevented further injury </span>
>See how strong their split jaw is and headbutt the alien before it can wrench your gun out of your hands or get a shot off, then sweep its legs while its stunned. (DC 15. +1 giant, +3 Brawler , -2 moderate wounds, DC reduced by 7 (from 22), through SQ: SPARTAN-II and MJOLNIR Mark IV) >Punch it in the face and get your shotgun out of its hand and put a hole in its chest (DC 17. +1 Giant, +3 Brawler, -2 moderate wounds, DC reduced by 7 (From 24), through SQ: SPARTAN-II and MJOLNIR Mark IV) >Let go of your shotgun, snake you arm around its rifle arm, pin its gun under arm pit and attempt to put it in an arm bar (DC 18. +1 giant, +3 Brawler, -2 moderate wounds, DC reduced by 7 (from 25) Through SQ: SPARTAN-II and MJOLNIR Mark IV) >Activate the damaged energy shield strapped to your arm, use it to break out of the grapple, scrabble away and roll a grenade at the alien's feet. Hopefully before it shoots you (DC 14 . +2 Grenadier +1 equipment energy shield, +2 Spartan-II, -2 Moderately wounded) >Write in option Jotunn's rage can be activated
>>6229845 lol, that's pretty accurate actually
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>>6229691 The Covenant aliens get a lot of names from humanity both from civies and military, i can see that Tengu will stick around even if Jackal becomes more dominant. Hatred goes a long way, Tengu will stick on the Kig Yars like a knife in their skull.
>>6229807 Yeah it should be more avian.
Vultures fits better
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Did we have a combat knife?
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>>6229867 >>See how strong their split jaw is and headbutt the alien before it can wrench your gun out of your hands or get a shot off, then sweep its legs while its stunned. (DC 15. +1 giant, +3 Brawler , -2 moderate wounds, DC reduced by 7 (from 22), through SQ: SPARTAN-II and MJOLNIR Mark IV >Write-in >Then crush his alien arms by jumping and stepping on them as hard as you can Its time for some pain
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>>6229867 >See how strong their split jaw is and headbutt the alien before it can wrench your gun out of your hands or get a shot off, then sweep its legs while its stunned. (DC 15. +1 giant, +3 Brawler , -2 moderate wounds, DC reduced by 7 (from 22), through SQ: SPARTAN-II and MJOLNIR Mark IV) >Activating rage Would be stupid not to at this range
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>>6229867 >See how strong their split jaw is and headbutt the alien before it can wrench your gun out of your hands or get a shot off, then sweep its legs while its stunned. (DC 15. +1 giant, +3 Brawler , -2 moderate wounds, DC reduced by 7 (from 22), through SQ: SPARTAN-II and MJOLNIR Mark IV) >Activate rage Filthy fucking HINGEHEAD
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404TormentedCache !!SbLQkGPnZPO ID:2IVaG7KR Sat 26 Apr 2025 08:35:52 No. 6229877 Report >>6229872 Not currently, no.
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>>6229867 >See how strong their split jaw is and headbutt the alien before it can wrench your gun out of your hands or get a shot off, then sweep its legs while its stunned. (DC 15. +1 giant, +3 Brawler , -2 moderate wounds, DC reduced by 7 (from 22), through SQ: SPARTAN-II and MJOLNIR Mark IV) Svens head is stronger than the elites face
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>>6229486 Glad to have you back 404 I missed this
>>6229533 >Cause this one was clearly an Elite. Like you yourself were. >>6229867 >See how strong their split jaw is and headbutt the alien before it can wrench your gun out of your hands or get a shot off, then sweep its legs while its stunned. and activate rage
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>>6229867 >>6229873 Also i forgot to add to my vote, USE Jotunn rage !
ITS TIME FOR MELEE ALIEN BITCH!
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>>6229867 >>See how strong their split jaw is and headbutt the alien before it can wrench your gun out of your hands or get a shot off, then sweep its legs while its stunned. (DC 15. +1 giant, +3 Brawler , -2 moderate wounds, DC reduced by 7 (from 22), through SQ: SPARTAN-II and MJOLNIR Mark IV) If we weren't standing next to warheads and a nuclear explosion in a jar I'd just go for the nade. But collateral damage here could be fatal. To more than just us as well.
>activate the RAGE >>6229873 If we really wanted to break an arm instead of trying for an armbar or stomping the yard we could improvise a traditional shoulder throw except instead of getting our shoulder under its armpit we get it under its elbow and torque it sideways as we drop and pull. Might not break it but I'd be damn surprised if it didn't dislocate the elbow or snap a tendon. Just pin it between shoulder and neck so it can't slip it. I doubt these morons have ever seen judo.
>>6229881 All those teeth but no jawline that could make a woman swoon. These damn alien bastards have glass chins, four a piece. Inferior lifeforms.
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>>6229877 Thanks.
>>6229867 >See how strong their split jaw is and headbutt the alien before it can wrench your gun out of your hands or get a shot off, then sweep its legs while its stunned. (DC 15. +1 giant, +3 Brawler , -2 moderate wounds, DC reduced by 7 (from 22), through SQ: SPARTAN-II and MJOLNIR Mark IV) >Activate Jötunn Rage Any theories about why a Sangheili is here? A jackal-crewed ship doesn't seem like a very honorable posting for them.
Some really hated, low-ranking Sangheili on a religious posting?
Some stealth operative that's part of fleet security?
An Ossoona on a mission from a Prophet that has some unknown objective?
Interesting whatever the case.
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>>6229867 >See how strong their split jaw is and headbutt the alien before it can wrench your gun out of your hands or get a shot off, then sweep its legs while its stunned. (DC 15. +1 giant, +3 Brawler , -2 moderate wounds, DC reduced by 7 (from 22), through SQ: SPARTAN-II and MJOLNIR Mark IV) >Activate Jötunn Rage Anonymous
>>6229890 Interesting idea..... i wouldn't mind giving it a vote now or later.
And yeah the Covenant do not know anything of human martial arts. Sven learned multiple of them and he is mastering them one by one. This elite has no idea what he is about to deal with lol, should have kept its distance.
>>6229908 Maybe he was sent to keep an eye on the mistress ? He does have a blue armor, so he cant be high ranked.
I am betting on some minor internal military politics of the Covenant navy. Maybe they don't trust her to not double dip (be on the side of the law and crime at the same time).
Or the ship is carrying something valuable and they don't trust her to bring it to the actual destination, and instead sell it somewhere else. Canon wise this ship is working for a specific ministry i think.
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Funny thought .
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>>6229918 You may be right.
The fact they didn't intervene until now though speaks of prudence, which makes me think they have more experience than a Minor. Attacking Sven while he was alone and distracted was also more cunning than honorable. Can't help but think of Isna 'Nosolee remaining stealthed the entire time on the Pillar of Autumn.
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>>6229867 >Activate the damaged energy shield strapped to your arm, use it to break out of the grapple, scrabble away and roll a grenade at the alien's feet. Hopefully before it shoots you Activate Rage plz
>>6229937 >which makes me think they have more experience than a Minor. It's a higher ranking Stealth Elite, given that it has personal shields probably an Ossoona.
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>>6229937 Perhaps.
We will find out soon. Hopefully
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i believe first option won with majority
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>>6230237 Now hold on, we might get a wave of votes opting to turn this into a jiu-jitsu match in the next few hours. And I mean that old-school stuff people were killing each other with while wearing full suits of armor, none of that competition ass-scooting you see nowadays.
Jokes aside, let it rock for a little bit before declaring a winner.
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>>6230240 Bro just pull guard bro. They can't get you if you pull guard. They have to go to ground with you if you pull guard bro. Then since you've already pulled guard they're playing right into your hand. Bro.
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>>6230241 >"Bro just pull guard bro. They can't get you if you pull gu-" Technical grappling is fun as fuck, but I swear to god if I have to suffer another no-gi lanklet telling me to pull guard in a self defense situation... Anonymous
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>>6230240 >Jokes aside, let it rock for a little bit before declaring a winner. ...the votes are there. thats about it. and ain't nothing wrong with saying that either, this isn't the first two seconds, minutes or two hours of vote.
We are not that far in terms of time from when 404 will give a check and do a general count. Sometimes everyone agrees on what to do simple ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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>>6230242 >youtube-comments "experts" when the guy they're fighting doesn't respect the "rules" and bites the fuck out of them Rolling is fun and great exercise but I don't think I'd want to grapple on a sidewalk or asphalt. Great way to get scraped to shit and probably get some bone bruises or breaks. Then there's the fact that ain't nobody out there gonna start shit if they don't have their boys with them, or a surprise tool that will help them later kek.
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>>6229867 >>See how strong their split jaw is and headbutt the alien before it can wrench your gun out of your hands or get a shot off, then sweep its legs while its stunned. (DC 15. +1 giant, +3 Brawler , -2 moderate wounds, DC reduced by 7 (from 22), through SQ: SPARTAN-II and MJOLNIR Mark IV) total covvie death
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>>6230278 Biting is always one of those nightmare scenarios when talking about self-defense. How do you even defend against somebody taking a chomp at your neck or face?
I'm sure there's systems that address that sort of thing, but hell if I've seen 'em.
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>>6230308 Dude, that one seems easy. Hit back and hit first. Teeth are weak. A decent headbutt and you snap off a couple of incisors.
HOWEVER, for best results this means you need to see the attack coming. If they get a decent hold on cheek, neck, ear, etc, it's going to be messy.
Still, it's still the same prescription - pushing TOWARDS the attack offers you a diminished possibility to break a tooth and keeps you from losing a chunk of you as they pull. Best results involve a hand to hit them in the throat or eyes, which are both kind of guaranteed to be unguarded if they're grappling and biting you, or genitals if you can't get a decent swing on the head.
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>>6229867 >Punch it in the face and get your shotgun out of its hand and put a hole in its chest (DC 17. +1 Giant, +3 Brawler, -2 moderate wounds, DC reduced by 7 (From 24), through SQ: SPARTAN-II and MJOLNIR Mark IV) >>6230308 >How do you even defend against somebody taking a chomp at your neck or face? Bite has short reach. It also has significantly less power if you've punched/elbowed their jaw. Potentially dangerous/lethal in a grapple I'll give it that.
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404TormentedCache !!SbLQkGPnZPO ID:2IVaG7KR Sun 27 Apr 2025 04:26:52 No. 6230340 Report Rolled 3 (1d4) <span class="mu-s"> Rebooting...Monitor 404TormentedCache, back online </span>
10Votes to headbutt with a leg sweep follow up
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+ 1 vote to crush/ break the mandible faced freaks arms
8 votes Activate Jotunn's rage
1 vote to use the damaged shield gauntlet to break the grapple, and retreat to employ a grenade
1 vote to daze with a head strike, then open fire center mass
Headbutting the squid face is the winning choice! As is activating the Jotunn Adrenaline surge
I'll roll the 1d4....
>>6230237 Correct
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404TormentedCache !!SbLQkGPnZPO ID:2IVaG7KR Sun 27 Apr 2025 04:28:27 No. 6230344 Report >>6230340 Nice! that pretty much eliminates the moderate wound penalty for two combat rounds!
<span class="mu-s"> Decision made </span>
<span class="mu-s">Please roll 1d20+5. DC 15. Best of 3 </span>
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Rolled 9 + 5 (1d20 + 5) >>6230344 Total Hingehead Death
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Rolled 18 + 5 (1d20 + 5) >>6230344 Rolling...
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404TormentedCache !!SbLQkGPnZPO ID:2IVaG7KR Sun 27 Apr 2025 04:33:59 No. 6230348 Report >>6230346 <span class="mu-s"> Success! </span>
And a meaty one to, 8 over the target number
<span class="mu-s"> Proceeding ... </span>
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>>6230348 I was just running in SCQ, so I guess the TOTAL SPLITJAW DEATH vibes were still on me.
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>>6230308 It's the one thing that everyone can fall back on. Just getting grabbed and struggling and bam, teeth. Ouch. And then you gotta get that shit cleaned and get checked for diseases. Not a great time. The only real option is proper head control. Or knocking their teeth out, obviously. But no one expects to get bitten in a fight nowadays. We've come a long way since cavemen.
>>6230346 >>6230348 I can hear the ringing in HIS ears from this impact already. Jesus.
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404TormentedCache !!SbLQkGPnZPO ID:2IVaG7KR Sun 27 Apr 2025 05:15:57 No. 6230367 Report In the heat of near literal tooth and nail struggle, adrenaline was already flowing without your usual trick of tricking your adrenal glands with a bit of manufactured rage. However, even if you had enough pumping through your veins to win any fair fight in the sparring ring, this was real combat against an alien that could actually hold off your augmented strength. This thing could've overpowered quite a few spartans. They were stronger than Nicole, a bit quicker than Li. This wasn't like sparring with your usual partners, and not just cause the looser would be put down by the winner. This was like you were fighting against another Sven, nearly. This split jawed freak was strong and you didn't need to tilt your head to look in their eyes.
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404TormentedCache !!SbLQkGPnZPO ID:2IVaG7KR Sun 27 Apr 2025 05:18:04 No. 6230368 Report >>6230367 'More like a swordmaster' he thought, as the world he saw turned white and a ringing noise split through his skull
The thing had struck him with their head. Blinking, He moved to strike them, to throw them, to snap their arms and avenge the slight. Then, the world Vul'Rocam saw turned right again, and remained white, flaring as he felt repeated blows strike him. The force of the impact rendered the armor protecting him near useless, and the repeated blows to his skull were too stunning to allow retaliation...
<span class="mu-s"> Adjusting perspective </span>
Blood covered your visor as the alien refused to let go of your gun and wildly swung its gun at your back and neck. You'd headbutted them enough times to reduce a human's head to splatter and gore, but they were still standing, still fighting back. Purple streaks ran down your HUD, as each hammer's blow of your forehead caused its projections to glitch and turn to static. Pulling back your head, you slammed it hard against where its jaw would've been. Their head hung for a moment, eyes glazing over.
Reacting like a striking viper, you swung out your leg, catching them in their bent backwards knee and twisting, throwing them to the ground with your hips. Both your firearms hit fell to the floor. Shotgun torn out of your hands and Plasma rifle dropping from their hands as they fell. And, impressively, despite enduring more headbutts than Nicole could stomach, their eyes fluttered and refocused as soon as their back touched the ground.
Their eyes darted, first to you, then to the two weapons scattered on the floor. Then they looked up and glared. No time to think or plan. Follow the flow of combat. Don't let them get back up.
<span class="mu-s"> Current Successes in combat: 3 </span>
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Jotunn's rage bonus +2
>Mount your opponent, and hammer their head into the floor until they stop moving (DC 16. +1 Giant, +3 Brawler, +2 Jotunn's rage, -2 Moderate wounds. DC reduced by 7 (From 23) through SQ: SPARTAN-II and MJOLNIR Mark IV) >Get your hands around their throat and start throttling (DC 16. +1 Giant, +3 Brawler, +2 Jotunn's rage, -2 Moderate wounds, - 2 stubborn alien). DC reduced by 7 (From 23) through SQ: SPARTAN-II and MJOLNIR Mark IV) >Dive for your shotgun and put this thing down before it can before it can get back up (DC 14. +2 Jotunn's rage, +2 Spartan-II -2 moderate wounds.) >[Giant+ Spartan-II] Lift the alien up and toss them around like a rag doll until they wise up and stop fighting back (DC 14. +2 Giant, +2 Spartan-II, +2 MJOLNIR Mark IV, -2 Moderate wounds) >Write in option >>6230349 lol
>>6230355 Turns out its a bad idea to let Sven Askeland get that close to you in a fight.</span>
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>>6230368 >Mount your opponent, and hammer their head into the floor until they stop moving (DC 16. +1 Giant, +3 Brawler, +2 Jotunn's rage, -2 Moderate wounds. DC reduced by 7 (From 23) through SQ: SPARTAN-II and MJOLNIR Mark IV) Keep him pinned and turn his head into a modern art piece.
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>>6230368 >Drive our fist into their mouth of flesh and blood thus bypassing the armour and pull their spine out through their mouth. Thumbs in the eyes, take their sight so if they get out they are also fighting blind and there is zero way their flesh is harder than armour to stop us. Their biological disadvantage of having a big hole for a mouth will now be exploited.
FATALITY!
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>>6230368 >>Mount your opponent, and hammer their head into the floor until they stop moving (DC 16. +1 Giant, +3 Brawler, +2 Jotunn's rage, -2 Moderate wounds. DC reduced by 7 (From 23) through SQ: SPARTAN-II and MJOLNIR Mark IV) I WOULD vote to throw him like the bitch he is, BUT, I don't want to accidentally toss him near something he could use against us. Or the reactor. So, let's bounce his fucking skull off the floor with the power of friendship and these hands.
I want to hear the dragonslayer CLANG! sound effect with every impact. Anonymous
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>>6230371 You don't really need to see if you're in arm's reach, not to mention I'm not sure any amount of pain is gonna put this guy down.
As for pulling the Nemean maneuver, I wouldn't recommend doing it barehanded as Sven's hands are fucking gigantic. Maybe if we had a combat knife...
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>>6230372 In my head it would be this over and over-
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8mL0_4GeV0 - with some wet splatters thrown in for effect.
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>>6230368 >Dive for your shotgun and put this thing down before it can before it can get back up (DC 14. +2 Jotunn's rage, +2 Spartan-II -2 moderate wounds.) Anonymous
>>6230371 I don't know about mortal combatting him, but going for the eyes is legit though. Maybe we SHOULD try to blind him. Elite headgear notably does not cover their entire face, and almost never the eyes. Normally this isn't a problem because of the shields, but unfortunately for him, his is down. Blinding him, even if it only partially succeeds in whatever fashion, would probably be instant death at this level of combat. Though with him not being zonked out and stunned it would probably be really hard to actually pull it off.
Oh, since he has retarded backwards knees, if we get his back on the ground he has WAY less traction with his feet than a human would have. It might even be difficult or impossible for him to buck his hips to break out from mounted position. He's gonna have a bad fucking time if we can pin him.
>>6230375 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_AUeCPrM9g I hear this every time Sven's fist connects with his helmet. This thing has to have at least three concussions at this point.
The metal pipe falling is the sound of his long ass skull being dribbled on the ground kek Anonymous
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>>6230368 >[Giant+ Spartan-II] Lift the alien up and toss them around like a rag doll until they wise up and stop fighting back (DC 14. +2 Giant, +2 Spartan-II, +2 MJOLNIR Mark IV, -2 Moderate wounds) His first assignment and he has to brawl Sven. Unlucky.
Anonymous
>>6230379 Yeah now that I'm thinking about it, BJJ is practically tailor made for stuffing Sangheili. What the actual fuck are they gonna be able to do on the ground when they can't just muscle out of it?
Jack shit, that's what.
Anonymous
>>6230382 >tfw the 3000 pound ape + metal suit is sitting on me and beating the absolute piss out of me (i am physiologically incapable of removing him) It really seems like his only option is to punch back - good luck from the ground - or wrench Sven sideways. Which is also a hard sell, because flared hips and knees is a strong perpendicular position. Really the only viable option he'd have in this situation is to go for a sidearm BEFORE he gets his skull caved in hard enough that he loses fine motor control and can no longer properly grab things. If Sven gets the mount he basically knows whatever move this splitjaw is gonna do. Yeowch.
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>>6230368 >Mount your opponent, and hammer their head into the floor until they stop moving (DC 16. +1 Giant, +3 Brawler, +2 Jotunn's rage, -2 Moderate wounds. DC reduced by 7 (From 23) through SQ: SPARTAN-II and MJOLNIR Mark IV) But agreeing with
>>6230379 at the same time. Smash is head into the floor but make sure we get our thumbs in his eyes while we do it.
Anonymous
>>6230384 If I were Vul here, I'd just shell up and pray my chest plate and bracers survive long enough for the demon to get tired. Still a pretty shit option mind you, but he's not really in a position to do much else.
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>>6230368 >[Giant+ Spartan-II] Lift the alien up and toss them around like a rag doll until they wise up and stop fighting back (DC 14. +2 Giant, +2 Spartan-II, +2 MJOLNIR Mark IV, -2 Moderate wounds) Anonymous
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>>6230368 >Mount your opponent, and hammer their head into the floor until they stop moving (DC 16. +1 Giant, +3 Brawler, +2 Jotunn's rage, -2 Moderate wounds. DC reduced by 7 (From 23) through SQ: SPARTAN-II and MJOLNIR Mark IV) Big Monke big Smash
Anonymous
>>6230387 This actually makes me wonder, what's this dude's wounded status at at this point? He's gotta be edging a CTE at the moment, and even as little as it seemed to hurt him he does still have a handful of buck in him.
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>>6230368 >Mount your opponent, and hammer their head into the floor until they stop moving (DC 16. +1 Giant, +3 Brawler, +2 Jotunn's rage, -2 Moderate wounds. DC reduced by 7 (From 23) through SQ: SPARTAN-II and MJOLNIR Mark IV) Seems technically the smartest thing to do here. Though rag dolling might mess with his head more - swordmaster precision back into jiralhanae brute force.
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>>6230368 >Mount your opponent, and hammer their head into the floor until they stop moving (DC 16. +1 Giant, +3 Brawler, +2 Jotunn's rage, -2 Moderate wounds. DC reduced by 7 (From 23) through SQ: SPARTAN-II and MJOLNIR Mark IV) Monke stronk
Anonymous
>>6230391 The way I see it, he's still liable to shake off the damage from Sven's headbutts if we don't end this quickly. Best we blow his head off after he stops moving too.
Anonymous
Man I just realized, Halseys gonna be so pissed cause she's gonna have to redesign our helmet to be reinforced cause we're a big old monkee.
Anonymous
>>6230404 If this is how we get the ball rolling on the development of UA variants for the MJOLNIR helmets, so be it.
Anonymous
>>6230400 Of for sure. Stomp his fucking head off or something. Sorry for the somewhat intact corpse being defiled, but best not take chances with something that can wrestle a kid who can bench press trucks.
>>6230404 >>6230406 >"Sven." >"Halsey." >"I see you've managed to rough up my armor." >"It served its purpose magnificently." >".... try not to get it so damaged next time." >"Of course, mo- am." Ah, she cares.
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>>6230404 I guess this could be how EOD armor is invented in some form since it doesn't seem likely that Sam is going to die here.
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>>6230408 The head will be mostly intact if the specimen complies with our percussive negotiation tactics. Whether or not it's still attached to its body is another thing entirely.
Anonymous
>>6230368 >[Giant+ Spartan-II] Lift the alien up and toss them around like a rag doll until they wise up and stop fighting back (DC 14. +2 Giant, +2 Spartan-II, +2 MJOLNIR Mark IV, -2 Moderate wounds) I want to capture.
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>>6230414 We already beat the odds twice over between capturing the ship's mistress and the vessel itself. Trying to take our new punching bag alive is begging for a turning of the tides I feel.
Anonymous
>>6230368 >>[Giant+ Spartan-II] Lift the alien up and toss them around like a rag doll until they wise up and stop fighting back (DC 14. +2 Giant, +2 Spartan-II, +2 MJOLNIR Mark IV, -2 Moderate wounds) And doesn't this one also have rage? We're being stiffed!
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404TormentedCache !!SbLQkGPnZPO ID:2IVaG7KR Sun 27 Apr 2025 07:24:31 No. 6230422 Report Quoted By:
>>6230419 It should, thanks for pointing that out. That was a mistake on my part. It must've gotten lost when I was organizing that choice's modifiers. Good eye
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>>6230408 >I did not have your bones reinforced with carbide ceramic material just for you to use your skull as a blunt instrument. Anonymous
>>6230427 >"A skull is a bone..." >"Still!" Anonymous
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>>6230431 I think that would probably earn us "the look". How horrifying.
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>>6230368 >Write-in >improvise a traditional shoulder throw except instead of getting our shoulder under its armpit we get it under its elbow and torque it sideways as we drop and pull. Pin it between shoulder and neck. Then repeat. Again. And Again. Until it breaks. I will use the idea of this anon.
>>6229890 I want his alien arms.
Alternatively i was thinking of outright just stomping the alien in to the ground or no-stop kicking it in to the wall of the room (away from the reactor glass and the weapons). Legs are pretty strong as muscles go for humans. Spartans legs must hurt. And the alien is on the ground in a perfect position to be kicked really hard again and again. Or stomped really hard again and again.
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>>6230368 >Mount your opponent, and hammer their head into the floor until they stop moving (DC 16. +1 Giant, +3 Brawler, +2 Jotunn's rage, -2 Moderate wounds. DC reduced by 7 (From 23) through SQ: SPARTAN-II and MJOLNIR Mark IV) Anonymous
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>>6230368 >Mount your opponent, and hammer their head into the floor until they stop moving (DC 16. +1 Giant, +3 Brawler, +2 Jotunn's rage, -2 Moderate wounds. DC reduced by 7 (From 23) through SQ: SPARTAN-II and MJOLNIR Mark IV) Welcome to monki. Glad to have you back, 404.
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TheSurvivalist !!uuJbd4m8dPS ID:5qOyfcFq Sun 27 Apr 2025 15:53:31 No. 6230577 Report Quoted By:
>>6230368 >>Mount your opponent, and hammer their head into the floor until they stop moving (DC 16. +1 Giant, +3 Brawler, +2 Jotunn's rage, -2 Moderate wounds. DC reduced by 7 (From 23) through SQ: SPARTAN-II and MJOLNIR Mark IV) Anonymous
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>>6230368 >Mount your opponent, and hammer their head into the floor until they stop moving (DC 16. +1 Giant, +3 Brawler, +2 Jotunn's rage, -2 Moderate wounds. DC reduced by 7 (From 23) through SQ: SPARTAN-II and MJOLNIR Mark IV) i hope we can find his cloaking device we maybe able to expand Mjolnier capabilities again with it
Anonymous
>>6230368 >get a boot on his dominant hand and then stomp his head into the fucking ground with the other boot. Anonymous
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>>6230730 >leave one of his arms free while we lift one of our legs Fuck. Nooooooooooooooooooo.
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404TormentedCache !!SbLQkGPnZPO ID:Q/u9aLRX Sun 27 Apr 2025 21:45:24 No. 6230824 Report Phone-posting, cause my internet is off for some reason. If I can fix it, I'll post later, if I can't get it working today, consider this a forewarning. No idea why it isn't working at the moment
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>>6230824 NO! Our big monkee attack!
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>>6230824 What dumb fucking grunt messed with the comms device? Damn!
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>>6231002 Terrible. Have some more suffering sir.
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>>6231002 this is what happens when John angers Cortana and she steals control over Mjolnir
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>>6231133 What the fuck are they doing over at Section Two? Christ.
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>>6231002 >>6230824 nooooooooooooooooooo
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404TormentedCache !!SbLQkGPnZPO ID:Q/u9aLRX Mon 28 Apr 2025 21:26:03 No. 6231349 Report Internet still down. Worried it may be a router issue
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>>6231349 >4chan down and now this cursed
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>>6231349 god damn ONI spooks are trying to stop this quest
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>>6231349 :(
i believe in 404.....
Anonymous
>>6231349 Have you tried troubleshooting? It'll help isolate the problem.
1.ping your loopback address
2.ping your device's ip address
3.ping your default gateway
4.ping 8.8.8.8
5.ping
google.com You could also tether to your phone as a workaround if you've got wifi, bluetooth or a usb connection. Go into your phone's settings and set up a hotspot. Pretty straightforward. But I guess the network problems might be killing your interest to write, which would be understandable. In which case, hope you can sort it out.
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404TormentedCache !!SbLQkGPnZPO ID:QSBULiFB Mon 28 Apr 2025 23:34:15 No. 6231430 Report Did some more looking, turns out the router works, but the Modem has reached the end of its service. Going to have to replace it. But I've figured out a solution anyways
>>6231385 yeah, that's what I ended up doing. A bit before you suggested it. Mostly just making sure the hotspot wouldn't drop while I was updating. But thanks for the advice/
>>6231383 the name is starting to become a little prophetic lol
But enough talking about tech issues
10 Votes to mount and pummel
1 Vote to stuff your hands into the alien's mouth
1 Vote to dive for the shotgun
4 Votes to man handle and ragdoll your opponent
1 vote to improvise a shoulder throw
1 vote to stomp the alien's skull
2 votes to try and blind the alien
Clear majority for mounting and pounding.
[b:lit] Decision made [/b:lit]
[b:lit] Please roll 1d20+4. DC 16. Best of 3 [/b:lit]
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Rolled 18 + 4 (1d20 + 4) >>6231430 Anonymous
Rolled 20 + 4 (1d20 + 4) >>6231430 Inb4 1
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TheSurvivalist !!uuJbd4m8dPS ID:O3ylm0RM Mon 28 Apr 2025 23:36:57 No. 6231433 Report TheSurvivalist !!uuJbd4m8dPS
TheSurvivalist !!uuJbd4m8dPS ID:O3ylm0RM Mon 28 Apr 2025 23:37:57 No. 6231434 Report >>6231433 How embarrassing but not even gonna the to beat that 20
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>>6231434 Roll the dice anyways brother, we might get a double crit.
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Rolled 15 + 4 (1d20 + 4) >>6231432 TheSurvivalist !!uuJbd4m8dPS
TheSurvivalist !!uuJbd4m8dPS ID:O3ylm0RM Mon 28 Apr 2025 23:42:20 No. 6231437 Report Quoted By:
Rolled 11 + 4 (1d20 + 4) >>6231435 Twisting my arm
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404TormentedCache !!SbLQkGPnZPO ID:QSBULiFB Mon 28 Apr 2025 23:43:18 No. 6231439 Report >>6231432 [ Warning! Warning! General Warning in place! Preferred Candidate has achieved a critical success!]
A crit and its 8 over the target. Mr elite is not having a good day
[ Proceeding ]
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>>6231439 If he didn't want his skull caved in, maybe he shouldn't have been born with his legs on backwards.
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>>6231439 He's a failure just like his old man.
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>>6231439 Maybe the crit will means that he'll surrender after the strange green monki display of pure violence.
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>>6231445 What a rotten way to die.
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404TormentedCache !!SbLQkGPnZPO ID:QSBULiFB Tue 29 Apr 2025 00:51:45 No. 6231497 Report Quoted By:
Muscle memory does most of the work, the lessons learned under Mendez' school of hard knocks and turned into second instinct through countless bruises and multiple concussions. You mount the alien, whose already at a disadvantage due to the shape of their legs, and pin them to the ground with your thighs as they move to cover their head and protect their skull. But they're were just too slow in putting up their defenses and raising their guard. You grab one of their arms and wrench it away violently and then start striking, pounding your fist into their head as they try to block with their remaining arm or else bash you off of themselves, yelling in the ear grating language of the covenant. The first few blows are hammer strikes, delivered through you armored fist, followed by an blow to the side of their head with your elbow. Their neck snaps back, and you let go of their arm and start hitting them with both of your hands, pounding your fists down on them in a repeating sequence that doesn't give them time to recover or respond. But they just won't give up and continue to struggle.
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404TormentedCache !!SbLQkGPnZPO ID:QSBULiFB Tue 29 Apr 2025 00:52:45 No. 6231500 Report [ Total Successes in combat: 6 ]
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404TormentedCache !!SbLQkGPnZPO ID:QSBULiFB Tue 29 Apr 2025 00:56:28 No. 6231504 Report >>6231500 ___
[ Secret objective 1: Capture/ Secure Covenant equipment, weaponry, technology. Reward increased by quantity and variety of captured materials. Secondary objective: capture ship mistress Ziq Zin alive]
[ Secret objective 2: Successfully capture the Covenant Cruiser, Unrelenting]
[ Secret objective 3: Complete the mission with ZERO Spartan casualties]
[ Bonus Objective 1: Secure Ziq Zin's private collection/ retrieve Wick's remains ]
[ Bonus Objective 2: Fight and beat hidden enemy, Vul 'Rocam ]
Rewards, both personal and towards the war effort, will be revealed after Operation: FLY-SWATTER's After action report, along with increases to current Advancement Paths and the choice between the new one's Sven has reached the criteria of
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>Order the spartans under your command to assist in the clean up of the cruiser, while you and John guard the two prisoners, and discuss the mission, and the many ways it could've gone wrong >Get to writing the AAR for Operation: FLY-SWATTER, while you and the rest of the fire team receive medical treatment, according to protocol, and recommend Promotions/ Rank increases for every Spartan who was part of the OP >Meet with Captain Wallace and Dr Halsey immediately, and make sure to be there when they or the ONI spooks start interrogating the bird and squid face. >[Maverick] Make sure a few Covenant data chips Missing", so you can use them to train your incomplete AI >write in option. Seriously though behind the scenes, you guys were walking a tightrope during the entire OP, and it was quick thinking, good rolls and the skills of Sven and the other Spartans that made this outcome possible.
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>>6231504 >[Maverick] Make sure a few Covenant data chips Missing", so you can use them to train your incomplete AI >Order the Spartans under your command to assist in the clean up of the cruiser, while you and John guard the two prisoners, and discuss the mission, and the many ways it could've gone wrong I figure we could just as easily have any captured data chips turned over to us and subsequently pocket a few while we shoot the shit with John.
Anonymous
>>6231504 Hot damn, that was good. Let's get a jump start on our intrusion AI.
>[Maverick] Make sure a few Covenant data chips Missing", so you can use them to train your incomplete AI Also
>Seriously though behind the scenes, you guys were walking a tightrope during the entire OP, and it was quick thinking, good rolls and the skills of Sven and the other Spartans that made this outcome possible. Seriously. Major failure at any step of this whole op would have resulted in a total team wipe. Glad I got to eat crow in the end of it and everything turned out alright.
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>>6231504 >[Maverick] Make sure a few Covenant data chips Missing", so you can use them to train your incomplete AI >Order the Spartans under your command to assist in the clean up of the cruiser, while you and John guard the two prisoners, and discuss the mission, and the many ways it could've gone wrong man we threaded a fucking needle here god and remember Mendez basicly told Sven that alot of people dont like that he's in command cause of his Mavric ways
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TheSurvivalist !!uuJbd4m8dPS ID:O3ylm0RM Tue 29 Apr 2025 01:13:28 No. 6231512 Report Quoted By:
>>6231504 >[Maverick] Make sure a few Covenant data chips Missing", so you can use them to train your incomplete AI We deserve a little treat and it will end up helping the war effort anyway
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>>6231504 >Order the spartans under your command to assist in the clean up of the cruiser, while you and John guard the two prisoners, and discuss the mission, and the many ways it could've gone wrong Good stuff
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>>6231504 No critfails and a crit to finish up the mission. Very good.
>Order the Spartans under your command to assist in the clean up of the cruiser, while you and John guard the two prisoners, and discuss the mission, and the many ways it could've gone wrong I think it goes without saying but warn them about the potential for camouflaged enemies and to closely watch thermal/motion sensors
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>>6231504 >[Maverick] Make sure a few Covenant data chips Missing", so you can use them to train your incomplete AI Section Three is going to love us.
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>>6231504 >the skills of Sven and the other Spartans that made this outcome possible. This is why one must never underestimate the power of combined arms. Be that in the grand scheme of air cover for your ground forces or simply a diverse skillset. The breadth of talents the Spartans display is the envy of any special forces anywhere.
wew lad. Feels real damn good. I wonder what ONI arch-spook is gonna be eating crow when Halsey delivers the report that her kiddos just did the impossible three times in a single OP. This ain't just success, this is A D V A N C E D success lmao
Is Momsey proud yet? Gods I hope we have handcuffs strong enough to hogtie this fucking splitjaw with. Don't need him deciding he's awake enough to commit suicide via struggling.
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>>6231430 >>6231432 Such a MASSIVE monkee.
>>6231504 >[Maverick] Make sure a few Covenant data chips Missing", so you can use them to train your incomplete AI >Order the spartans under your command to assist in the clean up of the cruiser, while you and John guard the two prisoners, and discuss the mission, and the many ways it could've gone wrong Anonymous
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>>6231504 >Order the spartans under your command to assist in the clean up of the cruiser, while you and John guard the two prisoners, and discuss the mission, and the many ways it could've gone wrong >[Maverick] Make sure a few Covenant data chips Missing", so you can use them to train your incomplete AI Anonymous
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>>6231504 >>6231509 I'll append
>Order the spartans under your command to assist in the clean up of the cruiser, while you and John guard the two prisoners, and discuss the mission, and the many ways it could've gone wrong to my vote.
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>>6231523 >Is Momsey proud yet? Mission accomplished. The Spartans exceeded even her expectations. She's been fully vindicated. All her doubters have been BTFO. All her Spartans are safe. The xenocidal aliens have been proven not invincible. She has new toys to investigate.
This might just be the best day of her life.
Sorry, Miranda. Anonymous
>>6231504 >[ Secret objective 2: Successfully capture the Covenant Cruiser, Unrelenting] I KNEW THAT IT WAS A SECRET OBJECTIVE.
Riding such a high to see whats gonna end up happening now cause man. Not only is that a more or less intact stealth field generator, But a more or less fully operational Covenant cruiser this early with possibly a locator thing? We're gonna lose Spartans down the road but the war effort is gonna be better off for it none the less. Anonymous
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>>6231504 >>[Maverick] Make sure a few Covenant data chips Missing", so you can use them to train your incomplete AI Anonymous
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>>6231558 >But a more or less fully operational Covenant cruiser this early with possibly a locator thing? That locater thing is the major victory here. There could be an intact mass produced Luminary aboard. This is so early in the war the crew might not have even considered destroying it when we boarded. That turns the early war from a game of whack a mole into a tower defense before Adm. Cole enacts his Protocol.
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>>6231504 Holy shit and how
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Question
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>>6231686 They might have died when the Commonwealth sent a MAC round through the ship. Guess we'll see.
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>>6231504 WE WOOOOOOOOOON!!!
GET THE SHOTGUNNER PERK FOR BECOME EVEN MORE DEADLY IN CLOSE COMBAT !! GET IT !!
>Order the spartans under your command to assist in the clean up of the cruiser, while you and John guard the two prisoners, and discuss the mission, and the many ways it could've gone wrong There is a still a few chickens missing (the ones that run away from the bridge). Get them. Alive or dead. Do inform everyone of possible stealth enemies.
>[Maverick] Make sure a few Covenant data chips Missing", so you can use them to train your incomplete AI 404 i am fairly sure, Sven would also share this data chips with his bros Mike and Dimas, and any other tech spartan. Yeah i have heard it in a dream, i believe he would do that. After this data chips are used, i think Sven would give them to his not-mom, as a surprise secret gift.
and speaking of mom....
>Write-in >Send a message to Dr.Halsey, about creating a reason for the Spartan Program in staking a partial claim on the use of the Covenant Ship. The Program could use the ship both for training, study and familiarization of Spartans of First and Second Class against the Covenant tech, equipment and spaceships. And thus massively improving the odds for the Spartans in combat.... getting this ship changes a lot of stuff....think of all the cargo...the ship armory....the ship hangar....the prisoners.... the intact covenant AIs.... all the data... the star charts...the forerunners relics.....the info on any covenant worlds....and i could keep going.....High Command jaws will hit the floor all at once they read all that was captured. And on top of that ? 0 dead spartans or destroyed power armors, the only UNSC warship here, the Commonwealth is still alive but needs repairs (and still does have a crew and marines that managed to remain alive during a naval clash against a covenant warship, meaning they can be considered experienced), Halsey is alive and the Damascus facility is still standing (even if it lost the AIs there) and the scientists and engineers that where there are also alive.
The Commonwealth can be repaired, so overall this is a great victory of the UNSC. Its enough of a great victory that High Command needs to consider if making it public, for the propaganda alone that writes it self from it.
>>6231523 >handcuffs strong Right now we can keep the ugly alien pinned under our weight. The chicken captain can be tied up after medical treatment (hands, arms, legs, feet and also beak). Afterwards for the ugly alien we can ask some heavy transport duty chains from Captain Wallace (and then tie the elite like the chicken captain). Or something along those lines, this is not an ordinary prisoner. Should have at least 10 guns on it at all times.
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victory tastes so sweet....
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>>6231504 Told you guys we could do it.
>Order the spartans under your command to assist in the clean up of the cruiser, while you and John guard the two prisoners, and discuss the mission, and the many ways it could've gone wrong >[Maverick] Make sure a few Covenant data chips Missing", so you can use them to train your incomplete AI Would be great if we can train our AI to know how to throw Covenant "AI" into a data loop.
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>>6231732 Sven is the first human that did that.
And Loki for further ensure that can become even better...just need further help. One of the reasons i added that write in to my vote.
If the Spartan Program can partially use this captured Covenant vessel....it would be very beneficial.
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>>6231736 >If the Spartan Program can partially use this captured Covenant vessel....it would be very beneficial. Once the computers are ripped out and everything's been examined and catalogued, I can definitely see the vessel being kept in orbit around an undisclosed planet indefinitely for the purposes of training.
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>>6231504 >Order the spartans under your command to assist in the clean up of the cruiser, while you and John guard the two prisoners, and discuss the mission, and the many ways it could've gone wrong Anonymous
>>6231709 There is like, a chance so close to 0 it may as well be 0 that ANYONE gets the covie ship. There is nothing anyone can say or do that stops the bigwigs from taking it and tearing it apart for answers and secrets. It's gonna get passed around like a cheap whore to every department from the top down. By the time anyone not from the big boy's club gets their hands on it it's gonna be a skeleton with no meat or skin.
And that's perfectly understandable. This is a big deal and it needs to be dissected as thoroughly as possible to find as much information and tech as possible. Oh, and the prisoners. You think the ship is gonna get it bad. The prisoners are absolutely turbofucked. Once they are interrogated, they'll be experimented on, and once they're done with that, either quietly taken out back and old yeller'd or publicly executed for the masses to cheer over. Bad day to be an ayyy.
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>>6231872 here's hoping that in the next 15 to 20 years the tech studied on this ship start showing up in the war
also this is what Sven, Halsey and all the Spartans are listening too right now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuDMg9-LZRk Anonymous
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>>6231872 Fair enough, you make a very good argument.
Though i would have wanted for the spartans to get some time in it. Could have helped. Maybe they can make a full scan of the place and 3D print it for training on Reach.
It would be really good for spartans of both 1 and 2 class. Get them to familiriaze themselves with it and with whats inside would be nice for future missions.
It goes without saying that they could probably make training videos for ODSTs, marines and other soldiers to look at too. The recorded firefights inside will be probably object of study.
Same for the fight outside in space between the Commonwealth and the Unrelenting.
Maybe Halsey can come up with some bullshit for having all the Spartans of first class stay on board for a little longer. Man i would be content if they could stay inside it a week for security or something similar. So much to learn.
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>>6231872 >tfw find out what world this Sangheili is from >tfw we're dispatched to go harvest his 'clan' every few years Anonymous
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>>6231872 As much as it pains me to say it, you're probably right. Still, I figure we'd get a lot of use out of even just the carcass with an old gravity generator installed.
The war games you'd have on something like that would be invaluable learning experiences.
