---------Experiment 2-----------
I continue to work on army and bombs. ETA to Operation Path of Destruction: 3 turns
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OOC to LD only

Your mind has been saved by QAI. You are aware he will be deleting you soon as par request of the seraphim (player: isik)

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OOC to lupus:

So, I can't take anymore actions?

OOC to LD

Feel free to be creative- but keep it fairly logical- otherwise gnats3 will get confused

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AEON (Vasari)
As each factory began to reach T3, he began pumping out engineers, putting a couple on beginning a Paragon while, in the meantime, shifting focus of construction to focus more on building economy to support the construction of the experimental facility while also allowing himself to begin producing a small army.

Factories are set to begin spamming Harbringers, mobile shield generators, and mobile flak at a ratio of 4:2:2, respectively.
AEON (Vasari)

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ORDER (Etrius)
He began to focus more and more, slowly, on production of economical structures. Engineers are set to, depending on how much mass and energy is available, begin construction of additional land and air factories. Production of defensive structures remains at the same pace.
ORDER (Etrius)

COMM: Seraphim; QAI
I ask again: Who are we up against? Is there any Aeon, or is it simply a small garrison of Cybrans and UEF?
End COMM

LD----- (lupus, you can read this... cause it's LD's thoughts and QAI can "see" those.)

"Welcome back Legion."

Legion opens his eyes and sees a strange place... he hadn't been here in Eons.

"How did I get here?"

The voice replied:
"Your mind is part of the Collective, remember?
You cannot die untill we are all dead."

LD: "That QAI has my mind too. He intends to destroy me.
I must go back..."

"Think my friend, use the power of your mind..."

LD-----


And suddenly with a flash of light, both the defenders and attackers see a bird made of fire and thunder appear... A creature they had all heard of but never believed in or never seen. It only lasted for a moment and then it took controll of the nearest ACU... Secrecy's...

Comm to all:

And the beast shall come forth surrounded by a roiling cloud of vengeance. The house of the unbelievers shall be razed and they shall be scorched to the earth.

And the beast shall be made legion. Its numbers shall be increased a thousand thousand fold. The din of a million lasers like unto a great storm shall cover the earth, and the followers of the Seraphim shall tremble.

And so at last the beast fell and the unbelievers rejoiced. But all was not lost, for from the ash rose a great bird. The bird gazed down upon the unbelievers and cast fire and thunder upon them. For the beast had been reborn with its strength renewed, and the followers of the Seraphim cowered in horror.

COMM: Seraphim; QAI
What is this? Can any of you make sense of this? I have no idea at all who that is, or what it is talking about. Whoever - whatever - that is, it does not seem to want us to live. But that is all I can understand. What about you two? Does that thing seem familiar to you at all?
END COMM

comm QAI to attackers

Hold on- i am suffereing memory malfunctions in the ACU- i need a moment to recalibrate...

*disables all of own units*

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Secrecy

I felt... odd...

Something was taking over...

Then i lost consiousness as my mind was pulled from the ACU

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Lupus (not avaliable to other defenders)

Things had gone from bad to worse...

As that- thing- neared secrecy's ACU i flipped a little red switch in my ACU- one that normally did not exist, but i had installed it incase QAI tried to control secrecy. It bailed him out. The master would be displeased. I tried to help my people, that failed. I tried to help the cybrans, that mostly failed. I tried to defend this planet, and it looks like that will fail too. I pulled off the biological mesh that formed my human skin. It was only a disguise. Underneath was simply electronics- that was why i was able to pass off as a cybran. I put it aside. There was too much decite going on. The time had come for the trueth to be revealed.

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comm Lupus to defenders and whatever has become of LD

We have all lied to eachother for too long. LD was a gaurdian- whoever they are, me- I'm nothing more than another AI- a viral one- however sophisticated. I came to earth sometime in the 1800's, and infected a living being- a human. I passed myself down for generations before storing myself on a government computer system. From there i became part of Dr. Brackman several hundred years after. I was waiting for a mind as brilliant and powerful as his. We became close friends. He build me this robotic body. He left me when he escaped the Earth Empire to form the Cybran nations. I myself had to escape to another world- on a fully automated colony ship. I was alone and had been alone for nearly a thousand years without another like myself. I decided to change that. I formed a world of sentient AIs. However we came under attack by the Earth Empire and were destroyed. All but two of us. Myself and one of my experiments- a counterpart- in the event of myself failing. I could not live with myself for the death i caused for my inability to defend my world. He stayed to rebuild the world- but this time in secret- beneath the crust of the world. I left to seek Brackman. I spent the the years after among the cybrans, while my counterpart became more powerful- now he has become the master. Then- after years of wandering- i came home. Node 13 was now in control of the planet as well as a small UEF coloney. Thus began last year's events. However my master and i have been in contact for the last year or so. He had devised a massive superweapon- one designed to be virtually unstoppable. However QAI's presence has been disturbing him. His main servers have begun to malfunction and he is transferring over to the weapon's built in computers. The device incorperates cybran weaponry but also a device that allows him to control time space and matter within a certain radius of the device. His priorities have become corrupted. Ir is probable he will destroy all of you in his attempts to undo what the Earth empire did to us years ago. I must leave for the world from which we came. I am transferring control of this robotic body and ACU to secrecy.

Thank you. Wish me luck.

*opens massive communications channel and beams a signal deep within the planet*

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Secrecy- defenders can read now

Waking up, i knew what to do- lupus left instructions in the memory banks of his old body. I immediatly re-captured all of my old units within his base- including many SMDs and issued a self-destruct order for all units that still responeded to my old code. many of these were on the islands to the north.

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Gnats3-
in several turns the superweapon shall appear- it can redirect projectiles, but enough T1 flak can overwhealm it. However it's intention is not yet to harm.

Turn 10 Summary

Secrecy
You destroy what you can of the remains. You also do crazy stuff, including destroying your base 0_o.
Lupus
You start a Scathis. It will take a while though. Then, you do weird stuff.
Experiment 2
You continue the bombs and explosives.
Vasari (Aeon)
You tech up and start working on eco and units. The Paragon is built very slowly for now.
Order
You work on eco, new factories, and defenses.

Wow, weird stuff is happening. Oh, and Lupus: PARAGRAPHS are your friend.

Sorry for inactivity. I'll try to pick up the pace a little

Comm: Walker 3 to Lupus
Unfortunately my base is too small at the moment to provide economic assistance for constructing a Paragon I will try to help at the soonest possible opportunity though.
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Walker 3:
I feel slightly dazed by the succession of events going on around me. Muttering to AVE about the world going crazy, I upgrade my existing AA using the new projectile schematics, and begin to build additional AA in my bases. AVE suggests sending some dragonflies loaded with engineers to reclaim the ruins of Secrecy's units. I follow his advice.
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AVE:
I build a network node and continue to work on eco. I use the additional processing power to 'capture' a pair of t2 engineers and a dragonfly of my host's. I am only able to do this remotely because I am partially linked to Walker 3's SCU. Even so, it takes time. I will not be able to do this on a large scale in the future. I send it to the former location of Crusty's shop and have them investigate what's left there, reclaiming or capturing anything there in the hopes of gaining information or blueprints.
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Comm: AVE to Secrecy -encrypted-
Secrecy? Are you still there?
As my host would say, WTH did you just do?!
Calculations indicate a 93.609% drop in your chances of survival against the Seraphim due to the sudden loss of your infrastructure.
End comm

Secrecy to AVE -encrypted-

I did not destroy my base- my prior base and forces that were not within range of Lupus's base self-destructed- however those within lupus's base are now under my control- as are the rest of lupus's forces. Lupus has given me control. I do not know of this superweapon of which he speaks, but... As another sentient AI like myself- what do you think of all this? <read the long communication if you didn't>

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Secrecy

I continue doing whatever Lupus had going previously- building scathis, megalith, nukes etc.

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QAI

I'm sending for a replacement ACU- this one is irreparibly damaged by ... whatever that was... recalling...

*a new ACU swaps out with the old one as it is gated back*

Commands to all allied forces: please destroy the being that WAS LD. that is imparative above all else

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---------Experiment 2-----------
I continue to work on army and bombs. ETA to Operation Path of Destruction: 2 turns
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Lupus (gnats3 only)

I was greeted by the sight of a great cavern. I swivled a camera of whatever it was i downloaded into to survery the area. Just rows of computers lined against the wall of the cave. I looked with another camera. Moving left to right i saw just a wall- but just as i neared the end of the camera's arc- i saw something amazing. The cavern spanned miles out and was miles high from ground to the ceiling of the cave. But what occupied it blew me away. It was the weapon. It seemed to defy gravity as it hovered there- great detached rings and spheres spinning at the core surrounded by the body of the unit- 2-3 miles in diameter encricled by an even greater right, slowly spinning about the unit's body- coming close- but never touching.

"I made you one too" a voice spoke

It was only then i realised what i downloaded into. Mine was almost finished, the master's having been completed very recently.

I realised what this meant. I COULD stop him- but he'd leave first- so i hoped it would not be too late...

(pics coming soon)
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Comm to lupus:

I've known since day 1... one of the gifts of the guardians is the true sight.
And your behavior was sometimes strange for a human.

I hope you know what you are doing.
You do realize that you can't destroy QAI in this way?

Unless... unless I transfer my own life essence into it.
It would become so powerfull it would destroy all that I chose to be destroyed. The Seraphim and QAI.

Whatever you are planning to do, good luck.

Comm Lupus to LD -encrypted-

What, I- *static*. Bad transm-*static* -oo far un-*static*-round. never- *static* human. Also *static* well aware *static* QAI cann't b-*static* bu-*static* -estroy him. It's *static* -ster who mu-*static* stopped. *Static* Ugh stupid sig- *static* Boosting tra-*static* -ignal. I discovered that ther- *static* two superw-*static* -ortunatly both ar- *static* use. If you *static* disasterous resul- *static* -ish me luck.

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Comm LD to Lupus:

There is too much static.
Good luck, old friend.

end comm

Ah, but that bird of fire is all for naught, for you see, as soon as I saw it I knew it must have been LD (HE'S INSANE)



SERAPHIM
SERAPHIM
SERAPHIM
SERAPHIM


I go to the wreckage of LDs base via the engineers. I reclaim them and send a localized virus (like, E coli type, except wai faster and deadlier) to whoever owned these units. DAMNIT THAT WAS MY LAST VIAL OF THE ****.

I load my army with items of cleansing of deamons, fire, thunder, lightning, and evil huge birds, and start a march towards the possesed guy.

I START SPAMMING HIVES AND SPOT BUILDING STRAT WAILERS (remember that wreckage I ate up?)
SERAPHIM
SERAPHIM
SERAPHIM
SERAPHIM

COMM:Vilheim to LD......
So... is it true? Are you Legion? If it is, I know now.....I know why I came back....
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QAI to seraphim

You realise E.Coli is a bacteria not a virus right? Try this ebola- it is much more erm... "virusy"

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Seraphim to QAI
whoops



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I send a roundabout message to all Seraphim commanders. Kill QAIs nodes off other planets

TURN 11

Walker 3
You build AA and go to reclaim wreckages.
AVE
You capture your "host"'s stuff.
Secrecy
You build stuff.
QAI
You get a new ACU from the gate.
Experiment 2
You build more stuff.
Seraphim
You reclaim at LD's base. You are Seraphim and cannot build Wailers.

Comm from Bandits to Secrecy Only
Your master was planning an assault on LD's firebase. Here are the coordinates; you might just be able to wipe him out. It is a small base, North East of Lupus's base. You can destroy it very quickly if you send any significant force.

Sorry about missing yesterday, guys.

---------Experiment 2-----------
I continue to work on army and bombs. ETA to Operation Path of Destruction: 1 turn
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