Secrecy to Bandits

Alright... First, do you think you can obtain a seraphim engineer for me first?

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Gnats3:
what does AVE find at the former site of the shop? Any blueprints or useful information?
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We should divide the map into 10 kilometer wide grid segments to make things more concise. (instead of "I send 50 Czars up north towards the mountainous outcrop just east of so and so's base" we could have "I send 50 Czars to check out B-7)

1) He took over secrecy's acu.
2) Who said the "firebird" is überpowerful?
3) grow up a little, geesh.

I mean the pure insanity of what might come...

Seraphim (Gnats3 only, no one else)

I spam T.3 Bombers and kill QAI.

Seraphim (Gnats3 only, no one else)

Turn 12 Summary

Experiment 2
Same as always; you work on the bombs and army.
AVE
AVE finds the blueprints to a jetpack-mechmarine. Other blueprints may show up with a little searching.
Seraphim
No. The Hummingbird of Darkness is summoned by a rogue Necromancer-General and accidently destroys the bombers on its way to the castle-that-doesn't-have-the-princess, owned by TipoftheSpear, Inc.
Bandits to Secrecy ONLY
No. Sorry.

Jade Mantis is right; it would make my job easier as well.

Gnats3

wtf... was that actually made? If it wasn't, that's a really lame way to make the game last longer.

Gnats3

Seraphim

If that actually existed, then I eco spam

If it didn't, I charge forward with my army...

Seraphim

LD

I build up an army

LD

---------Experiment 2-----------
Bombs and Army complete. Operation path of destruction in 5....4....3....2...1..... BOOM! With an earsplitting noise, the mountain behind the Seraphim base exploded, sending such a thick cloud of rocks and dust into the atmosphere that the sun was blocked out. it seems a huge path has been cut to something distant. Then came the distant rumbling of a huge army..... And indeed it was a huge army, with units from every faction with air support and a bunch of Cybran Experimentals, they begin to walk towards the Seraphim base, but it will take a turn for them to be discovered, as the Seraphim, QAI, and the Order need to recuperate.
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Turn 13 Summary

Seraphim
That's what you get for assuming. You want to try to kill QAI? Go ahead and be reasonable about it. Just suddenly spamming bombers and winning doesn't work.
You build up eco. A large army approaches from behind...
LD
You build up an army.
Experiment 2
You begin charging forward with your army.

QAI (no isik seraphim)

Something was wrong... Why was one of my allies turning on me? He must be some kind of traitor. He needed to be eliminated. Using my newly arrived ACU I immediatly upgraded it with stealth + cloak. Even if they killed this one- another would rise in it's place. This traitor was only one. One is NOT endless. I immediatly cut off all my intel to him. Hmmm... if he wanted LD to die then i must do the opposite- protect LD.

QAI to attackers minus isik seraphim

Destroy the traitor- <the isik seraphim>

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Lupus (seen by all)

<superweapon>


A great explosion thundered above. The master's voice entered my mind- distorted however- the loss of his memory storage systems was certainly beginning to have an effect on him. <The time has come my creator, rise with me to resurrect our fallen world>. My body completed only hours before I followed him in his ascent. Using some kind of telekinesis or transductance mechanism he blasted hundreds of tons of rock from above us. It was an abnormal explosion- the rocks forming a kind of bubble around each of us unable to penetrate within the invisible sphere generated by our thoughts. The master slowly maneuvered his great body above the seraphim base- entirely unnaware that they were shooting at him- the shots once again stopped at the edge of the influence sphere by his mind. He moved to the center of the plain that stretched between the two armies sides (center of map). There windows into the past began opening up- small holes in the universe simply broke upon- in one there was the planet in it's youth, another secrecy's bombers after "killing" LD, another the explosion of the aeon commander. Yet another showed my ship first landing here and yet another the beginnings of the colony i built. It would only be a matter of time before he found the correct temporal coordinates and attempted to bring our dead back to life. However the results could be disasterous- most likely killing off everything currently on the world- besides us two. I realised that if he could do this- i might be able to "ressurect" his memory modules before they began to deterriorate and corrupt his files and possibly save him. Staying over the deep pit fromm where we rose i saw hundreds of units from an unknown source march past. However they did not bother me- I had my own task at hand.
More windows to the past opened up below me and i searched each one...
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AVE:
I am pleased to find this unique unit's blueprints. I order my engineers to continue searching the wreckage. Meanwhile, I continue to build up my eco, building t1 fab farms (using obsolete yet oddly more effective blueprints ) and add a few defenses to be safe. I also begin construction on a stealth field generator and another network node, along with another land factory. 15 of the jetpack-equipped Mech Marines are queued in my single land factory, interspersed by engineers.
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Walker 3:
I use the boost in mass from reclaiming Secrecy's wrecked structures to start a massive construction boom, converting my largest firebase into a full-fledged base and fortifying my other firebases. I also invest substantially in eco, so I won't run dry as soon as the wreckage is gone. I suddenly realized that I'd forgotten about the task force I'd sent earlier to the coordinates provided by LD. I check their position on the map to see if they're even still alive. (gnats3, can you confirm what happened to them?) I order my other task force to move to my new base.
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Comm: AVE to QAI -encrypted-
Have 'the gods' informed you on who is to be eliminated yet?
End comm

Comm: Walker 3 to defenders
Thanks for sharing your blueprints with me. In return I'd like to give you the blueprints to an "obsolete" Cybran t1 mass fabricator. It only takes 40 energy to run, and can be built at t1. If used properly, it could substantially increase our economic edge over the attackers.
End Comm

Comm: AVE to Secrecy -encrypted-
I am forced to assume the large unit that just surfaced has something to do with you, Lupus and LD, though it is beyond my capacity to ascertain how. Is there anything I can do to help you, perhaps share processing power?
End Comm

-note- i may not have internet access for 3 days as i'm going on vacation starting tomm.-

QAI to AVE -encrypted-

Cancel my previous request. There is a traitor. It is one of the seraphim- (the isik one). Destroy him instead. I serve the true gods- not a traitorous infidel who abandons his own people.

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QAI to secrecy -encrypted- (just so you know both know gnats3)

I have come to the conclusion we have a like enemy. Dispite the fact you are a complete abonination that deeply offends me- there is one whom i hate more. Destroy the isik seraphim and i might just spare you. Alert your allies.

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Secrecy to AVE -encrypted-

QAI informed me of the traitor seraphim. It would help all of us i believe to destory the traitor.

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Secrecy to defenders

QAI has offered to spare us trouble if we destroy a traitor to his own side. The traitor will cause problems for all of us- so it is to our advantage to work together.

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Secrecy to all
Do not worry about Lupus or this Master- there is nothing we can do about them- they are fighting on a completely different plane of existence.

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QAI to LD

I am sorry for our past misunderstanding. The one who ordered me to destory you has turned out to be a traitor. Help us destroy him (isik seraphim).

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Comm to QAI:

Very well, but I have a duty to perform...
I am the last Guardian in this galaxy and I have to wait until my kinsmen come. And when they come, they will not spare you, or your so called gods!

*sigh* I'm getting to old for this...


end comm

LD

I move my forces towards Isik's base

LD

Comm to Isik (but all can read):

Fool, you think you are a god?
The closest things to gods on this planet are Lupus, his "master" and me.

And even if you slay me, another shall rise in my stead.
We are Legion for we are with many!

Right then.

1: Weren't new units supposed to be brought in during the pre? And not now?

2: I thought that I shorted out the quantum network via teleporting in a huge *** army? So how did QAI get a new ACU?

3: I'm not a traitor. I think you may be though, as you are the one who sided with LD...

4: I start mass recontruction on a quantum gate, rewiring it so that instead of teleporting things, it short circuts anything on this planet that runs on anything higher than a simple radio transmitter. This includes the ACU... the problem is... it's in a hidden place

5: I break all ties with QAI and the others

ME

I transport all my dudes via mass transports over to the small base. And what about those guys who are supposed to be killing off QAI on other planets?

ME

1) LD got his firebird- and it's just one type (and only two total)
2)Gnats3 said it was ok
3)But you turned on me after i tried to fullfill your orders...
4)nothing is actually OP (but this might be though) and that statement is kinda badly phrased
5)ok

Lupus to LD

*laughs with that artificial computerised tone* I'm not a god, nor is the master- were just AI's- really advanced AI's with plenty of power. Give me some time- i might be able to fix this- i wouldn't try interferring however- i know what i'm doing and almost all deviating courses of action have a 99.999% fail rate- 2/3rds resulting this universe collapsing. Just give me a little more time- i've almost locked onto the coordinates...

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1: I meant your super weapon

2: I'm sure that Gnats3 can think up some sort of waky weakness...

3: Oh, whoops, I mis-interpreted what your said. Ah well, what's done is done, let's see how this plays out.

4: To Gnats3, why doesn't it work here? It can work rather well in the actual game :-/

---------Experiment 2-----------
The army is now spotted and I send a task force of T1 units to do some raiding of the Seraphim Base. The main army is close.
Enginner-"General Vilheim!"
Vilheim-"what is it?"
Engineer-"The mountain we exploded, isn't just a mountain...it's a volcano, and by the looks of it, we are about to release hell"
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Ahem, the firebird isn't a unit... it's LD himself...
He's one of the ancient Guardians.

QAI did not side with me... EVER :p

Comm to lupus:

Well, than I am the only semi-godlike being...
That is what a lot of races think we are anyway.
We do not stand above any, but we were there when the universe was created and we were chosen to guard it...

The Seraphim invaded from another universe, they have no right to be here and they must be exterminated!

end comm

Comm to Isik:

I'm giving you one last chance to repent for your sins!
Stand down and lower your shields, disarm you weapons and prepare to be transported to a holding cell until further notice.

end comm

LD

I move my forces closer to Isik
and I build more.




LD

Communication from a location that isn't trackable for whatever reason to LD

I'm not in my base anymore and I'm holding my own weapon, one that will kill us all...

So I'll be nice.

I'm giving you one last chance to repent for your sins. Stand down and lower your shields, disarm your weapons and prepare to be transported to a holding cell until further notice.


Communication from a location that isn't trackable for whatever reason to LD

Turn 14

QAI
You cut off intel to LD.
AVE
You build stealth stuff, eco, and jetpack MM's.
Walker 3
You fortify your bases and work on eco. The task force returns to your base.
LD
You move your forces towards isik's base.
isik
RP =/= actual game, that's why . The weird Cybran army behind your old base advances and harasses structures, but you relocate many units. You begin work on your doomsday thing, but actually doing the re-wiring could take longer than you are admitting...
Experiment 2
You move forward, but the Seraphim base seems to be relocating many of its units to another location.

You people come up with the weirdest stuff. I'll be gone for 2 nights, so you have some time to think up your next move.

Gnats3

I know it's going to take a while. But could you give me a rough estimate? 5 turns? 7 turns? 10 turns?

Gnats3

MeMeME

I build minimal defenses, and lots of power to keep my shields and stealth running. I begin the rewiring process, but it appears a doughnut got cought in the Cerebral watchamacallit... this might take longer than anticipated. I control-k and reclaim what is left of my base to get an economy boost that I use to summon my right hand man. Didjabringabeeralong. He is a master of stealth and hiding, second only to the Cybrans. He gets to work hiding me more. I send a sleeper cell agent disguised as a T.3 engineer into LDs base.

MeMeME


To all

My base is dead, and I am hardly a threat. If I think you are worthy, I shall bring you with me while I gate off this planet...

To all


QAI

Leave me alone and I shall contact forces to gate you off the miserable planet before the weapon goes off. Attack me, and I shall cut the program short, shutting off you.

QAI

Lupus to secrecy -encrypted-
things are getting wild- i do not know if i can protect you. remember the package- get it before QAI does.
*sends data*

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secrecy
I build a quantum gate
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sorry if i'm busy but i'm on vacation atm

Comm to Isik:

Hahahaha, fool...
You dare to stand against the might of the Guardians?
Very well then...

end comm

LD

I build some stratbombers and I scout the entire map to find Isik.
If that doesn't help, I use triangulation to find out where his com came from.(an untraceable location doesn't exist IMHO)

LD

Comm to all:

My kinsmen shall arrive soon...
I can feel it, they are coming and they shall be the end of the Seraphim!
In fact, they are already liberating some planets on the outskirts of the galaxy.

To those that fight against the Seraphim I say, good luck and if you die, you shall be remembered, you shall be buried as a king!

To the Seraphim I say, your end draws near!
This is LD, transmitting final greetings!

Fight like there is no tomorrow my friends, destroy the Seraphim!

end comm

Gnats3

Don't forget, I got advanced advanced ADVANCED hiding, if you must know my base is stealth cloaked and at the bottom of a mountain. And that's jsut the start. Scouts, roving units, or omni won't find me. He'll have to find more robust methods. And then some weird ones....

Also, can extreme amounts of quantum energy knock out a "guardian"?

Gnats3



LD

Do your worst.

LD

To all

If you do not comply with my orders - atm there is only one - hold back and/or kill LD. Then I can easily focus the energy I am now storing in the weapon

To all

Yes... your army may be showing vigor, but are those outer planets not the ones with ABSOLUTELY NO MILITARY POWER?

Once you reach a bit in to the galaxy, you will find armies that will repel yours so fast your little fat heads will spin. Do not forget that your armies will be fresh and nearly impossible to teleport, and a lot of these commanders have had years to build up a force. No matter where you are, you will teleport next to PD expirementals and an army.

gl hf.

All:
Fool! We do not wage war as you or the humans!

We are an old race of great power.
We don't need an army of robots to fight for us, we shall destroy you!
You think that these puny humans were the only ones in the universe that knew how to fight?

Your weapons do not affect us! We cannot be killed. We are endless!
They could only kill me because I took on a human form and even then my mind lived on and not just thanks to QAI.
And even if the outer planets do not have any military power, you will see
that when we move onward we shall claim every single planet with the same ease!

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Suddenly, a strange energy orb appears out of nothing.
A voice as loud as the rolling thunder spoke:

"Hail Legion, my old friend!"

And Legion shunned the form of the ACU and once more a great bird appeared on the battlefield and replied:

"Hail Xerant!"

"The armies are arriving in this galaxy as we speak.
And we have already taken the first planet from the Seraphim.
However, some humans see us as a threat but they cannot harm us, so we've left them alone for now."

"Mind to help an old friend? There is a Seraphim commander on this planet... Destroy him!"

"Very well."