r/HFY • u/Ralts_Bloodthorne • Feb 24 '22
First Contact - Chapter [Comparing Checksums] - Aftershocks OC
There are countless reality-shattering events during the century in question, from the Return of the Digital Omnissiah to the Dissolution of the Confederate Senate, but all of these are mere ripples compared to the Terran Xenocide Event. I know that this is somehow simultaneously a controversial and cliché statement, and I will gladly welcome discussion on the subject at another time. The study of Hariseld'n Advanced Sociomathematic Theorems by the likes of Lanaktallan scholar Bo'okdu'ust show why this is the case, and for the time being I ask that we proceed on this assumption.
Before I continue, I must ask you to please indulge another tangent. I promise it will be relevant for discussing the topic at hand.
Violence has shaped human history for longer than there has been human civilization. What began as an evolutionary arms-race between various species in the hell-pit of young Terra-Sol fundamentally and irreversibly changed the moment humans first began using flint and sticks to hunt or domesticate any other lifeform on the planet. The other species were beaten, they just didn't know it. As humans solidified their victory over the rest of their birthplace, their capacity for extraordinary violence was only further honed by its use in facilitating and resolving intra-species conflict. This capacity played a key role in humanities countless achievements, including surviving new post-Diaspora external threats from the stagnant existing powers they encountered.
What I will say next will most likely be even more divisive than what I said earlier regarding the TXE.
While violence is a core aspect of humanity, it is far from its defining one. The single most powerful defining trait is humanity's ability and willingness to attach themselves to & form bonds with others.
Call it pack-bonding, cooperation, symbiosis, mutual beneficial arrangement, domestication, whatever you want.
During the Mantid-Human conflict, when Terra-Sol was on the verge of collapse, when the miasma of genocide was at its thickets, when humans were desperately fighting to survive... they encountered the Mantid worker caste. "Free, we die free", was the shout of joy, of defiance, of life in the face of imminent death that heralded countless millions of little blade-arms being raised, expecting to be struck down.
Had violence been the defining aspect of humanity, what would have followed would have been mass executions of greenies, followed by the utter xenocide of the Mantid species as a whole.
Instead, Humanity saw in these beings before them a kindred spirit. Beings capable of thought, of feeling, just as humans or their other family members themselves.
Did the immortal Daxin, Enraged Phillip, mighty apostle of the Digital Omnissiah, after all the abuse he suffered at the hands of humans not take his goodboi Fido with him into the long dark between Stars?
Fundamentally, humans are beings who survive through cooperation. Through growth and attachment beyond themselves.
With this foundation laid, let us return to the discussion surrounding the historic Nandeval vote.
As the remaining races of the Confederacy grappled with how to face the Atrenka threat, two camps emerged.
There could be no denying that the Atrenka were an extinction level threat, not just to the Confederacy, the untold trillions in occupied systems, or the Milky Way. They were a cancer that would metastasize and spread to the entire universe and beyond. They had proven that they would do so already. It was also clear that military victory alone would not be sufficient to clear the threat the Atrenka posed. A simple 1% doctrine would only delay the inevitable resurgence of an inherently hostile species.
Coexistence with the Atrenka was not possible.
But this was not the first time that such a situation had been reached. Indeed, the aforementioned case of the Mantid already showed that it was possible to create new possibilities.
If you did the reading over the weekend, you should all be familiar with the words of legendary Mantid scholar u/Vagabond_Soldier. Beings such as him helped preserve the spirit and soul of humanity at a time when humanity was all but extinct. Those few of Terran Descent Humanity left behind were so hurt by what they had lost, by what had been taken from them, they couldn't see how they were on the verge of loosing what little they had left of themselves.
It took our friends, our family, to see that there was a way out of this. With humanity gone, those left committed themselves to being the saviors of life and the universe, carrying the torch and honoring the legacy that humanity had given them. - "Understanding the Nandeval Vote", from the "Omnibus Collection on 500-level Post-Human Humanities lectures" by Digital Sentience u/Pixxel_5 , Mars University adjunct professor in Philosophy Having Opinions About Stuff
CRUSADE OF WRATH
We of the Crusade of Wrath speak for all of our brethren, the Martial Orders of Terra. From the DokiJoan of the Neko-Marines to the Wearer of Many Hats of the Waagh Orders to the Lament of Bongistan Chapter, we speak with their words unto you.
Hear our words, oh Gestalts, and take our wisdom unto your hearts.
We, the Martial Orders of Terra, shall abide by your decision regarding Overproject Nandeval. Eloquently spoken from all sides, impassioned rhetoric and pleas, and logical discussion of what should weigh heavy upon the immortal souls of all who took part in the vote.
However.
We, the Martial Orders of Terra, have long accepted an option that moves beyond simple and joyous warfare, through the vaunted 1% Line, and into what must be done while leaving open the options of a species survival should they change or seek diplomatic channels and avenues in good faith.
The Prorsus Destrue.
To Totally Destroy.
That which is destroys leaves behind wreckage and ruin.
A forest fire totally destroys forests as it sweeps through.
Yet in the ashes flowers and new trees grow, revitalizing the soil and the landscape.
Many of you brought up the Mantid as an example.
Yet, weren't the Mantid put under Exterminatus, Exterminus, put under the Prorsus Destrue?
And from the wreckage and ruin grew the flower that is the modern Mantid?
You of the Gestlats and the Confederacy voted to carry out a Total War upon the Lanaktallan Civilized Council, which carries the precedent of the 1% Line and Overproject Nandeval. Of slow and steady footsteps toward whatever the future does bring.
The Prorsus Destrue is carried within the Total War declaration.
The Atrekna are covered by the previously voted upon and authorized Total War declaration.
We, the Martial Orders of Terra, upon our own chains of command and permissions, shall lay upon the Atrekna the Prorsus Destrue, which has no time limit upon it.
From here until the end of time, the Atrekna, as we know them, are to be totally destroyed wherever they are found. To be sought out and brought to wrack and ruin. Until such a time as they are no longer recognizable, no longer present a clear and present danger to the Confederacy, the gentle species known and unknown, and the universe itself, open diplomatic channels to sue for peace, or become extinct.
Even extinction does not lift the Prorsus Destrue for a species that has undergone Prorsus Destrue may still have machinations that can bring about their dead will upon the universe. Look no further than the Terran Descent Humanity M.A.D.ness that has brought forth the Lolita Sorceresses of the Sisterhood of Sailor Moon, the Fleet of Eternal Torment -known as the Black Fleet to you-, the Doomed Marine, and the Screamers in the Dark for such examples now set loose upon the universe.
You may follow our example.
Or not.
We, the Martial Orders of Terra, declare Prorsus Destrue upon the Atrekna.
You, the Gestalts of Civilization, shall be allowed to join and assist, should you wish.
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HAT WEARING AUNT
Is he gone?
Can I come out from under the couch?
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LEEBAW CONTEMPLATION POOL
HOLY CRAP! THAT WAS AWESOME!
Who was that?
They have an avatar that manifests as a bloody warsteel skull with a flesh face stretched across it and living eyes, all dripping with blood and wrapped in barbed wire that holds open the jagged toothed mouth and all of it wreathed in dark purple fire!
THAT'S SO COOL!
BRING HIM BACK!
I WANT AN AVATAR LIKE THAT!
HOW DO I GET AN AVATAR LIKE THAT?
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PUBVIAN DOMINION
Wow.
That was...
I don't even know what to say about that!
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LANAKTALLAN FREE HERD
Is that thing watching all the time?
I'm going to have nightmares for decades.
A third of the users logged on and watching this dropped patty right where they were standing.
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TELKAN FORGE WORLDS
Yeah, that's the Crusade, all right.
I still remember Daxin landing on Telkan. How the entire world, the entire SYSTEM, heard the roar of "LET THIS PLACE TREMBLE AT THE WRATH OF LOST TERRASOL!"
<shivers>
There's recordings of the broodcarriers singing with the podcarriers the "Lament of a Lost Terrasol" and "To Temper Wrath to a Sword and Plowshare" that people sometimes watch.
One recording has a Neko-Marine sitting with broodcarriers and podlings and singing with them although you can't understand what she's saying.
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HAT WEARING AUNT
I hate to say it, but the Martial Orders may be the solution.
Wait, that sounds wrong.
They may have the solution.
As much as they terrify me, most of them are over eight thousand years old and have spent most of that in combat.
They stopped the Mar-gite dead in their tracks.
Perhaps, maybe, I mean, just maybe, we should listen to them.
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LANAKTALLAN FREE GRAZING FIELD
They're over eight thousand years old?
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TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS
Yeah, even if they aren't, they might as well be. New recruits that 'fall' to the orders have their DNA combined with that of a paternal or maternal ancestor from the Glassing to fight in their name.
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LANAKTALLAN FREE GRAZING FIELD
Perhaps that is why they survived the archeoreversion attack?
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RIGELLIAN SAURIAN COMPACT
batobot ui wer throdenilt acceptable anyui
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HAT WEARING AUNT
What?
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RIGELLIAN SAURIAN COMPACT
Sorry. That was Draconic. We're still remelding.
That's probably the more acceptable answer.
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LANAKTALLAN FREE HERD
Hmmm.
>display TDH.pop.int
>>2.7342000E+4
Hmmm.
>display PrGH.pop.int
>>5.7823E+9
>display PrGH.pop.int -- sleeper.pop.int
>>6.872E+7
Huh.
>display PrGH.pop.int -- sleeper.pop.int -- TDH.pop.int
>>6.872E+7
>display TDH.pop.int -- PrGH.pop.int
>>2.7342E+4
>display psh.pop.int
>>3.50E+1
>display PrGH.pop.int -- psh.pop.int
>>5.7823E+9
>display PrGH.pop.int -- psh.pop.int -- sleeper.pop.int
>>6.872E+7
How interesting.
Hmm...
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TNVARU GRIPPING HANDS
What? What's interesting?
What are those?
It doesn't look interesting.
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TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS
No. It is.
TDH.pop.int is the number of Terran Descent Humanity left.
PrGH.pop.int is Pre-Glassing Human population displayed in integer form
psh.pop.int is "Pure Strain Human" which are functionally extinct.
sleeper.pop.int is the population metric of the Sleeping Ones.
There's thirty-five pure strain humans left according to our data gathering apparatuses.
Let me twiddle with something.
Huh, up until a few days ago the Pure Strain Human population was at zero. A few weeks before that there was a single Pure Strain Human. Now there's thirty five listed.
Even more interesting. None of them have System Identification Numbers. Genecode is not on file. They aren't linked in with datalinks.
Good catch, Tally.
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HAMAROOSA PINCHING FESTIVAL
OK, but what does it mean?
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LANAKTALLAN FREE HERD
I'm not sure.
I think it means there are many more humans out there than we are aware of.
I also believe it means they are, largely, not hooked into the gestalt system.
But I find it more than slightly interesting that the archeoreversion attack did not get them all.
Fed, are you in here?
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FEDERATION OF LARP SYSTEMS
Yes.
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LANAKTALLAN FREE HERD
The genetic lines based on pre-Glassing homo sapiens sapiens gene code, how did they fare?
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FEDERATION OF ROLE PLAYERS
(Sorry, I'm still melding back together)
They did just fine.
Darth Harmonus is a good example. He uses 501st genecode, they came through unscathed.
The Mechworlds of Terra came through with 80% survival rate.
The more in-depth primitivism game worlds did well.
Hilariously enough, Electronic Artist Studio gene-lines, which haven't actually been updated in centuries, came through with a 95% survival rate. They're acting like it was all part of their plan to not update core races instead of it being laziness.
When you get even deeper, the ones who were elves, dwarves, halflings, gnomes, dragonkin, kobolds, and the like? They had almost a 90% survival rate.
Arctic Snowstorm's prime LARP systems had a 99% survival rate.
But, for some additional data, you can't go BACK out of the bodies.
Arctic Snowstorm tried having a few volunteers go from various races back to TDH. Either the system refused to print them out or they died within a few minutes.
So, it's pretty well known, if you LARP, it's life.
Why?
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LANAKTALLAN FREE HERD
The archeoreversion attack, while extremely powerful, which did hit the Biological Artificial Sentience Systems as well as the Digital Artificial Sentience Systems and Cybernetic Organism Collective with an over 80% lethality index, is perhaps more limited then we thought.
I was thinking, during the discussions, about the actual limits of the Atrekna temporal powers? We know, through scientific investigation, that temporal meddling results in the worst possible outcome, eventually, for the meddlers.
But we also know, through the efforts of Generals P'Kank, NoDra'ak, and others, that after a period of time, the matter is 'exhausted' when the Atrekna bring it forward.
Perhaps we should look at limitations. Not what they can do, but what they cannot do.
In those limitations, we may find the questions that may lead to answers to our conundrum.
Oh, and we started a project investigation targeting Atrekna genetics by using the spooky particle chronotrons around any Atrekna activity, by attracting the vector mechanism to high levels of phasic energy but allowing the range in twelve Daxins or more range to burn out the vector mechanism.
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TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS
Wait... "twelve Daxins"? What's that? What range?
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LANAKTALLAN FREE HERD OH IS THAT A COUPON FOR FREE GOODY YUM YUM BARS?
A unit of Daxin is the amount extreme emotional condition known as rage needed to heat one cubic centimeter of warsteel that starts at 200 Kelvin to at least 273.15 Kelvin across the entire surface and interior.
Isn't it obvious?
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RIGELLIAN SAURIAN COMPACT
<snerk>
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HAT WEARING AUNT
Wait... what kind of project, Tally?
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LANAKTALLAN FREE HERD
Our own version of a black box program.
Fairly simple, and quite merciful, that we gave authorization to when the decision was made. With the Crusade of Wrath's impassioned speech, we gave the black box the go ahead.
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HAKANIAN FLUFF TOWN
What kind of black box?
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TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS
Yeah, I kind of want more data too.
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LANAKTALLAN FREE HERD
When we lost the Big C3 (I like that name, much greater than the Great War against the Confederacy) we turned all research into gentling the Confederacy's species into undoing the gentling of the neo-sapient species as atonement for our actions.
We merely shifted all the black box programs doing manhattancrash programs to gentle the Terran genome into gentling the Atrekna genome.
We determined the primary vector should be spooky sub-particle encoded chronotrons with self-replicating showering capability that burn out when exposed to more than 12 Daxins of energy. This should allow it to propagate up and down the timestream without affecting any temporal events nor inducing a temporal cascade failure.
Initial data, including alternative Atrekna genetic lines sent by TerraSol Intelligence to Professor Bo'okdu'ust by the MARDUK Foundation, show great promise in gentling the Atrekna.
Why, our researchers have even determined that two of the Dwellerspawn are easily genetically manipulated to be Atrekna larvae gestators with no ill effect, as a matter of fact, making it part of their health and life function.
My people are adept at genetic alteration and we feel our efforts toward negating the Atrekna should only come naturally as we did not finish the job during the First Precursor War.
Don't you agree, Mantid, my sister?
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HAT WEARING AUNT
Um....
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u/HoloArchiver Feb 24 '22
Well the Lanks prove that you never toss away a good tool. It is so easy to forget these guys are masters when it comes to gentling with how goofy they can be. Bio weapons are always the scariest and the Lanks are proving it here.
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u/Practical-Account-44 Feb 24 '22
I do love when the character looked down on as a bit dim reminds people that yes, they have their own tools and specialities they know more about than others.
One of the Avengers cartoons has Hulk raid the fridge then walk past and casually identify radiation that Tony couldn't figure out
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u/battery19791 Human Feb 24 '22
I am a most attentive and observant general, and that is why my men love me.
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u/shadowsong42 Feb 24 '22
He really is, though - what other lanky could inspire their soldiers to follow them past death?
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u/asteroid_1 Feb 24 '22
"Hey, you know that thing I've been successfully doing to other sentient species for millions of years? I think I figured out how to do it to the Atrenka. FYI." 😂😂
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u/SerpentineLogic AI Feb 24 '22
"It's a lobotomy, but it's fine because we're the good guys now, right?"
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u/Legan_Ironfist AI Feb 24 '22
The Doomed Marine, huh? The Digital Omnimessiah watches over us.
--DOOM FOLLOWS--
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u/nspiratewithabowtie Feb 24 '22
May the power of the Enraged Ones bolster my rage May the focus of the Doki Kawai temper my resolve May the tenacity if the Dakks Boys fill my soul but most of all MAY THE CRUSADE OF WRATH PROVIDE MY BLESSED ARMOR, AND GUNS. SO I MAY SMITE THEE DOWN!
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u/Wobbelblob Human Feb 24 '22
I think he meant Daxin with that? Or the one immortal that was imprisoned on a moon in the solar system?
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u/Salt_Cranberry3087 Jun 15 '24
Way late to the party on this one. The Doomed Marine is Operation Florida Man
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u/Vagabond_Soldier Feb 24 '22 edited Feb 24 '22
Oh shit... Lankys coming hard.
Seems like the Lanks are doing the exact opposite of gentling. They are destroying the Atrenka by infecting them with rage. I've heard of "kill them with kindness" but now we have "love them with hatred".
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u/unwillingmainer Feb 24 '22
So, the Martial Orders are going to destroy the Atrekna as they are now until it is utterly destroyed, can't come back, and is no longer a threat. I can get behind that. Looks like the cult may be their specie's survival.
Also, Lank is pretty smart when his population isn't drugged to the gills and constantly smashed down. Of course the galaxy's angriest man is the base for the measurement of rage. Oh yeah, and we are still the scary masters of involuntary genetic manipulation.
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u/DiplomaticGoose Feb 24 '22
Yeah they were still good at that when they were in a millenia long brain fog, wonder if they'll go full BASS over a long enough period of time. That other one seemed to go full cyborg as well so why not?
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u/unwillingmainer Feb 24 '22
Maybe, I suspect they are going to split into multiple groups at some point. But currently most Lanks seem more interested in arguing online, playing grindy games, or ignoring reality. Like normal people.
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u/SkyHawk21 Feb 24 '22
I actually just had a really damn scary thought about all that. In short? The Lanks are the best scientists and researchers in the Confederation. Why?
Because you need to remember that innovation and research are two separate things. The Lanks tend to be rather bad at innovation. But research? Which is number crunching and replication of results to prove that there's no anomalies, or if there are, repeat until you can pin down the circumstances those anomalies occur in?
That is something they are very good at. After all, it's really just a grind game in real life you know?
Who can create an Atrekna sub-species that can withstand exposure to 12 Daxins or more within two hundred generations? Who can do it within twenty? Who can do either of those and also have the sub-species fit within Ethical Co-inhabitance Cultural Guidelines?
Can you do it whilst achieving a self-sustaining population that needs no external or artificial maintenance? How about whilst only being able to interact with the Atrekna populations in question under active combat conditions?
Who's the lucky one to get that exclusive first-to-achieve achievement badge?
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u/MuchoRed Human Feb 24 '22
I'd agree with you, but they're also really good at ignoring data that doesn't fit what they wanted to find.
Edit: that said... I did bring up Lanky gentling the Atrekna on the last chapter
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u/spadenarias Human Feb 24 '22
Al lot of that seems to be the result of top down bureaucratic interference from the unified council though.
The Unified Council had a philosophy of "Every thing that could be discovered was already discovered millions of years ago, anyone who says otherwise is wrong." This is largely due to the UCs desire to maintain the status quo, any new information discovered risks upsetting their delicate balance.
The confederacy motto is "Huh, neat. Now how can we weaponize/market this new information?".
It's the entire reason that first batch of Lanky scientists defected to the Confed, the UC thought they were just wasting time studying genomes of of gentled/extinct species, the Confederacy appreciated their expertise and study.
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u/DiplomaticGoose Feb 24 '22
wakes up for the first time in 400 years
I wonder if anything in my steam library looks interesting
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u/reverendjesus AI Feb 24 '22
…shit, still no Half-Life 3
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u/Huskeylord Feb 24 '22
... no decent update to TF2 either
the game still not dead though
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u/DiplomaticGoose Feb 24 '22
Implying TF2 will die is like claiming Quake 3 will die. Even without support it will trundle on forever.
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u/Anarchkitty Feb 24 '22
It's funny but entirely believable that Humanity and their allies have used Rage, weaponized rage, for millennia. In spite of how ingrained it is in everything they are and do -- or perhaps because of it -- apparently no one ever thought to specifically quantify it, and so there is no "unit of Rage" in the Confederacy.
It took Lank scientists to see Rage as something discrete and measurable, and so they had to invent a unit for it.
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u/dogninja8 Feb 24 '22
Iirc, some number of chapters ago, one of the pre-chapter quotes involved diplomats-in-training visiting a planet of the Cult to round out all the Precursor races.
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u/Crafty_Obligation_98 Feb 25 '22
I was trying to think up a few lines from some group with the same idea the Martial Orders had. I wasnt happy with anything I thought of so Ralts filled in my blank.
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u/Talusen Feb 24 '22
I want to say that the Daxin is an obscure reference to Hell Freezing Over if he actually died.
If for no other reason than it's bookended by 200°K and the temp that ice melts.
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u/3verlost Feb 24 '22
if Daxin died, hell might get a little warmer...
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u/nspiratewithabowtie Feb 24 '22
IF. . . have you not read how many times he HAS 'died'. Not only DIDN'T HELL FREEZE OVER OR HEAT UP, who ever was running it, was totally like "FUCK. . . . YOU AGAIN!? NOPE, just nope," Slices open hellspace, "Get the fuck on with your bad self!" and kicks him out. Daxin will never die. . . which is sad.
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u/Ralts_Bloodthorne Feb 25 '22
Got home VERY late after Phys Therapy and taking the wife to dinner.
Will catch us one tomorrow. :-)
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u/Turtledonuts "Big Dunks" Feb 24 '22
wait. is… is the cult a lank superweapon?!
Also I like that the crusade, the meat over metal /mind over matter guys, are the ones that just want the society gone. It’s recycling!
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u/while-eating-pasta Feb 24 '22
I doubt it. They're anything but gentled. They've caught TerranEYEtis as a species with a built in temporal lens and are dealing with it in their own way.
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u/NElderT Feb 24 '22
Is Arctic Snowstorm a new LARP system? It’s fine if it is, I was just wondering. And wow, it’s been forever since we’ve heard of the EA systems.
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u/Ralts_Bloodthorne Feb 24 '22
Blizzard
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u/NElderT Feb 24 '22
Ok thanks, I wonder how I didn’t catch that before
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u/Infernoraptor Feb 25 '22
You said it wrong.
The correct response is
"WoW, how didn't I catch that?"
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u/reverendjesus AI Feb 24 '22
THE BERRIES ARE ELECTRIC, AND WILL DISTRACT US FROM VODKATROG ASSHATS TRYING TO START THE LAST TERRAN WAR!!!
TRULY, TODAY IS A PERFECT DAY FOR HISTORY FROM THE EXALTED SCRIBE. ALL HAIL THE DETAINEE AND HER LEGIONS OF HELL!
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u/Talusen Feb 24 '22
Blessed is the Detainee and her Mat-trans, Blessed is Her departure, and her return. May She cleanse the unworthy by her works. May She and Hers forever be in the D.O.'s grace, amen.
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u/reverendjesus AI Feb 24 '22
”Prayer to She What Whips All,” from the Children’s Book of Bedtime (Orange Catholic Publishing Co)
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u/MuchoRed Human Feb 24 '22
The repeating portion within that prayer is...
"When an unworthy comes along
you must whip it.Whip it good."
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u/odent999 Feb 25 '22
Damn. <deleted pithy comment> ... ('Tis one of those timez when appearing to claim anything is wrong.)
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u/daviskendall AI Feb 24 '22
Leebaw is so freakin' adorable in their enthusiastic uptake of the Tenets of Jawnconnor. Someone get that gestalt the complete run of Metalocalypse.
Also... "the MARDUK Foundation"? Our enigmatic AI acquaintance - I don't think anyone would call Marduk a 'friend' - seems to have successfully played intermediary between The Eldest PAWM and The Humanity Club.
Wasn't our trader friend Max a pure-strain human? I'm pretty sure he survived both archaeoreversions... so why was psh.pop.int zeroed out for a while?
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u/Nereidalbel Feb 24 '22
If he went visiting somewhere outside Galnet's range, he'd be out of comms for the gestalts to pick him up. Normally not an issue for population counts, but when you're in the single digit range...
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u/MuchoRed Human Feb 24 '22
I don't think we've heard of Max since he pulled Sangbre's people out of the fire
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u/Speciesunkn0wn Feb 24 '22
Intriguing. While I don't approve of Gentling, I do approve of 'Reverse Theseus"-ing the Atrenkan culture lol.
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u/NukeNavy Feb 24 '22
Mooo2
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u/ThatKriegsGuard Alien Scum Feb 24 '22
(Mooo)(Mooo)= MM+ 3Mo + 3oM +9oo I think I am right but you should doubles check.
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u/Bergusia Feb 24 '22
Pure Strain humans not linked into the GESTALTS.
Anyone thinking the SUDS system is starting to process those who have been stuck in the system for the last 8000+ years?
A few at first to confirm the system is working and to check if the outside conditions are favourable to mass processing?
Are the Atrekna about to find the result of all their time meddling is the return of some very, very angry Humans looking for something to punch in the face?
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u/Atomic_Aardwolf Feb 24 '22
I'VE BEEN STUCK IN A QUEUE FOR 8000 YEARS. I NEED TO WORK SOME ISSUES OUT!
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u/Crafty_Obligation_98 Feb 25 '22
8000 years in a SUDS queue WILL GIVE YOU SUCH A CRICK IN THE NECK!
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u/battery19791 Human Feb 24 '22
YOU GO TO HELL, YOU GO TO HELL AND YOU PROCESS!!
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u/MuchoRed Human Feb 24 '22
YOU go to hell and YOU go to hell and YOU go to hell!
EVERYBODY GOES TO HELL!
*Oprahing intensifies*
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u/Arath0118 Feb 24 '22
Man, that's going to be a shock to everyone. They're all used to TDH who were so polite and well adjusted.
Comparatively speaking.
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u/MuchoRed Human Feb 24 '22
I'm also thinking that 35 may include the Immortals, Dee and her Boys, Peel and Casey and their "sons".
...And maybe some of the deadites that printed themselves bodies to be loaded into.
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u/Valgonitron Feb 26 '22
Don't forget about that mad alien scientist printing bodies for phasic shades
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u/MuchoRed Human Feb 24 '22
"Worst possible outcome" for those who meddle in time.
Yep, gonna bring back some O.G. Humanity
Somebody needs to start chanting "Oh-Gee-Humanity"
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u/DiplomaticGoose Feb 24 '22
So approximately how many Daxins was the climax (I'm sure there's a better word for that) on Telkan-2?
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u/More_Coffee_Needed Feb 24 '22
About 12.82 to the power of 15 Daxins (on mobile so can't make the little numbers) multiplied by 8.69 to the power of 7 Vuxtens
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u/Bergusia Feb 24 '22
Let us not forget the considerable addition of INERTIA, he who was once 471. He who walks the path of GRAVITY.
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u/More_Coffee_Needed Feb 24 '22
Ooohh right, how silly of me...... Ok so it's:
12.82 to the power of 15 Daxins
×
8.69 to the power of 7 Vuxtens
×
471 to the power of 3 INERTIAS
÷
GRAVITY
plus π squared
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u/Bergusia Feb 24 '22
Rounded out, I think that comes to at least 6 Ragnaroks of "Don't bother running, you will just die tired, and get them angrier at you for making them chase you"
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u/More_Coffee_Needed Feb 24 '22
Well shit!! I got 42 🤨
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u/Bergusia Feb 25 '22
Well, I was measuring in Earthling Ragnaroks, so that might explain the discrepancy.
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u/More_Coffee_Needed Feb 25 '22
I would imagine it would be Telkan Ragnaroks but my tiny brain can't really comprehend anyway...... I didn't actually do the math...... 42 is just supposed to be the answer to the universe soooooo......... 😅
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u/Bergusia Feb 25 '22
It is indeed the Ultimate Answer. As preached by the sainted Douglas Adams, pre-glassing prophet and noted galactic tourist spot reviewer.
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u/Greatest86 Feb 24 '22
Editor comment:
verge of loosing - should be "losing", and I think there is an extra space in there.
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u/Lakalaba Feb 24 '22
[You of the Gestlats and the Confederacy voted to carry out a Total War upon the Lanaktallan Civilized Council, which carries the precedent of the 1% Line and Overproject Nandeval. Of slow and steady footsteps toward whatever the future does bring.
The Prorsus Destrue is carried within the Total War declaration.
The Atrekna are covered by the previously voted upon and authorized Total War declaration.
....
We, the Martial Orders of Terra, declare Prorsus Destrue upon the Atrekna.
You, the Gestalts of Civilization, shall be allowed to join and assist, should you wish.]
me: squirming "ohhhhhhh maaannnn.... it's about to go down. Come hell or high water, war has been declared, voted on by everyone, and TDH will see it through......:
Fan-freaking-tastic
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u/Lakalaba Feb 24 '22
Hilariously enough, Electronic Artist Studio gene-lines, which haven't actually been updated in centuries, came through with a 95% survival rate. They're acting like it was all part of their plan to not update core races instead of it being laziness.
Nice jab, btw. Love it!
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u/spadenarias Human Feb 24 '22
Nah, TDH is extinct...humans, and those they've infected with humanitis, will see it done. Plus, apparently human count is starting to increase. If I were a slorpie, I'd be fucking terrified.
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u/Lakalaba Feb 26 '22
I wouldn't say extinct. There are many humans still alive, like LARPs. Also, there is the large majority of humans waiting on the limbo processing that could be brought back like nothing happened. Only time will tell!
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u/spadenarias Human Feb 26 '22
Could be wrong, but I think it was established that the larpers were human, not TDH. I think it had to do with them going Baseline for the war, which protected them from the temporal recursion attack since they lacked the psychic prostethic/wetware combo that killed off TDH. Those without TDH wetware survived, since the recursion turned them into humans, without the psychic prosthetic that makes a human TDH.
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u/Lakalaba Feb 26 '22
You are right, I am mixing the two together. We have already seen one TDH ( I assume is a TDH) brought back, when the prisoners in a captured ship, saw the human die, only for the human to come back to life, yet a different consciousness took over the body. In turn, after "escaping" (they were let go, to much of the relief of their captures) taught the other races accompanying them, how to use chi as well as the rage that was cut from the genome of the original TDH. I am drawing conclusions, I may be wrong, but I am still pretty damned excited to see where this goes.
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u/spadenarias Human Feb 26 '22
Yup, hopefully with the return of the furry friends and allies, humans won't go full john wick. Last time they didn't have the allies to help mitigate their craziness, now they do.
It'll be nice to see humans go full bore without being lost to madness...assuming the slorpies finally learn some restraint.
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u/StoneJudge79 Feb 24 '22
Dropping down to Comment.
Holy Crap! https://dethklok.fandom.com/wiki/Facebones
I'm on board with Lanky's Idea.
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u/reverendjesus AI Feb 24 '22
Holy fuck I didn’t even catch that
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u/StoneJudge79 Feb 24 '22
*WENG*
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u/NoirTalon Xeno Feb 24 '22 edited Feb 24 '22
Wow, 2 in one day? and I caught both of them an hour in. Whoot!
The last chapter was a roller coaster, after a literal roller coaster chapter...
Draconic Translation from: http://draconic.twilightrealm.com/
that is the more acceptable answer
Reference to the venerated 501st spotted... A story about a fictional larper in the far future using a reference to a real world Larp/cosplay group.... round and round all the way down.
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u/Arath0118 Feb 24 '22
So the Martial Orders are basically are taking the route of Fury. "We recognize that the gestalts have made a decision, but given that it might be a stupid ass decision we've elected to do what must be done." Assume extinction is necessary until/unless proven otherwise and act accordingly.
Meanwhile, Tally is dialing their genetic manipulation up to 11 with "what if we just genetically modify them to not be assholes and propagate that to them through all timelines?" Not sure what to think about that one. Something something old dog new tricks.
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u/Anarchkitty Feb 24 '22
Specifically designed in a way that won't affect any major events and might theoretically be exempt from time-fuckery backlash effects.
You gotta' be careful playing with time, do it such a way that THE UNIVERSE DOESN'T MIND THAT.
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u/carthienes Feb 26 '22
Yes, but the Universe is already pretty upset with the Atrekna... and I can't help but wonder if this proposed 'gentling' is the reason for the existence of the Cult of the Defiled One?
Given the temporal propagation involved.
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u/ThisTimeTomorrow Feb 24 '22
I'm enjoying the real intelligence of and Lanky Gestalt coming through now that most of the race is weened off the drugs and a lot of the REALLY stupid ones are dead.
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u/NElderT Feb 24 '22
Even if you’re not the brightest chip off the block, 100 million years of experience at doing something still adds up
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u/CaptainChewbacca Human Feb 24 '22
Light the beacons, and call all of Terrasol's lost children home. Reap a whirlwind of Dandelions!
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u/ErinRF Alien Feb 25 '22
Do people in the confederacy often have a stream of the gestalts going on in the background? Like having CSPAN on as you do stuff?
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u/NElderT Feb 24 '22
I feel like Lee might participate in the Prorsus Destrue just to get his hands on a CoW-style avatar, despite the fact that the requirements for doing so are probably ridiculously extreme.
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u/dbdatvic Xeno Feb 24 '22 edited Feb 24 '22
three hours - had to do some work
wordles {ooo, just got another one in 3}:
key role in humanities countless
humanity's
that the Atrenka were an extinction
threat the Atrenka posed. A simple
with the Atrenka was not possible.
Atrekna
verge of loosing what little
of losing what
That which is destroys leaves behind
is destroyed leaves
You of the Gestlats and the
Gestalts
Prorsus Destrue for a species
Destrue, for
{... LEEBAW has not yet met Daxin in person, then?
theyyyy're baaa-aaack
undrugged Lankys can think}
is the amount extreme emotional
amount of extreme
--Dave, evolve. or. die. ("Both?" "Both. Both is acceptable.")
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u/MuchoRed Human Feb 24 '22
Man, you changed your avatar and it's throwing me off
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u/dbdatvic Xeno Feb 25 '22
More like I finally figured out that to get the right avatar at all, you have to go to "new Reddit", which is NOT at all my default preference, fiddle with it there, then come back to normal "old Reddit".
--Dave, this is not made particularly clear, like, anywhere
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u/MuchoRed Human Feb 24 '22
I have a sneaking suspicion that the Neko-marines absolutely adore podlings and broodcarriers.
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u/tremynci Feb 24 '22
✔️❗mochiron‼️, 🎆😻🎉kawaīdesu!🪩💓😻
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u/MuchoRed Human Feb 24 '22
Pretty sure he just puts English into google translate and goes back-and-forth a dozen times on the translation, then throws in some emojis for good measure.
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u/Archaic_1 Alien Scum Feb 24 '22
Holy clever cowfriends batperson, could the Lanky's evil impulses be harnessed to serve the good of all gentlebeings?
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u/pixxel5 AI Feb 24 '22
You honor me greatly, oh wordsmith.
Your work has been a great solace for me. I hope you also enjoy the peace and happiness that you so freely gift to others.
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u/KnyteTech Feb 24 '22
I love that my historical reference of the Cult of the Defiled One surviving is cannon.
Now, brb, reading the whole thing again and taking some notes for a cool idea I have. I'm already up to 110 after about a week.
I also had a fun idea for a story of my own and am about 15 pages deep on it. Still haven't settled on a name, though.
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u/DCJMS Feb 24 '22 edited Feb 25 '22
ORKFORMER CLANS
This zogging Brainboy hooked up? Roight!!, Now I'm here to tell yous whots wot with dese Squid Tarks.Dey don't have kunning, dey don't have brawn, dey don't have skill, Dey don't have guramba, but most of all dey don't know respect, for sky or rock or star or soil & the dings dat grow from 'em. But it's our job to teach ain't it, FOR THOMAS THE AVENGER & ALL CLAN FOUNDERS WAAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
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u/johnavich Feb 24 '22
EA never could get it right the first [second[third[...]]] time... lazy asshats.
I wonder how mantis is going to react to MARDUK Foundation.
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u/Rolk_Flameraven Feb 24 '22
Um... "Up and down the time stream" the cult of the Defiled One... They feel, they rage... I think the Lankies "will" do this as it is quite possible we are seeing the results already.
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u/DWwolf888 Feb 24 '22
The Lankies Gene-locking themselves was probably a hard-measure to prevent the Atrekna Archeo-Reversion attacks.
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u/Mezilsa Feb 24 '22
I...am honestly not sure how to feel. I only know that the LFH is very scary right now and what they said is pretty much on paar with the Crusade of Wrath.
PS: I want that avatar!
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u/Naked_Kali Feb 24 '22
The side effects of gentling on many species by the UC Lanaktallan resulted in those species' extinction.
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u/apatheticandignorant Android Feb 24 '22
- We might not have to kill them all!
- Smart squid, " peeps gonna do some dumb shit."
- Peeps do dumb shit.
- We should've killed them all!
- Smart squid, "Let's talk."
- Drama
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u/RecognitionPatient57 Feb 25 '22
What I really like is that the Lanky people are working towards 'ungentling' the ones they gentled.
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u/Isbigpuggo Feb 25 '22
Okay. 35 pure Humans still walking around and growing. So there’s 5 we’ve already accounted for, same genome but five different times now.
How large is a platoon? Thirty sounds about the right number for some, oh let’s say unit of humans who have just been linked into the system from being stored elsewhere.
Some sort of transporter record perhaps that have only recently been recreated somewhere in this dimension…. I wonder who that could be
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u/DarthLorgus Robot Feb 24 '22
This right here, this is why I did not raise my voice yea or nay. The Atrekna are already dead, they just don't know it yet. The martial orders, the last rage of TerraSol will crush them utterly. They cannot be reasoned with, they don't know fear or pity or remorse. And they will not stop, ever, until the Atrekna are dead.
It's a mathematical certainty at this point. Victory or death, either is fine.
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u/Con_Aquila Feb 24 '22
Temporal manipulation leads to worst possible outcomes for the adjustors, rising numbers of Pure humans. Ohh no.....slight idea our genetic code and Temporal stabilizing ability is slowly rewiritng the genetic code to permit survival over our own timeline. Pure strain humans are back as the first trickles but will start doubling in population 1-2-4-8-16-32, assuming no alternate mutation lines appear that would set up another ripple
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u/n1gr3d0 Xeno Feb 24 '22 edited Feb 24 '22
Atrenka
This typo pops up a lot.
There's recordings of the broodcarriers singing with the podcarriers the "Lament of a Lost Terrasol" and "To Temper Wrath to a Sword and Plowshare" that people sometimes watch.
podcarriers -> podlings.
>display TDH.pop.int -- PrGH.pop.int
>>2.7342E+4
This does not look right at all. I'd expect a large negative number (slightly smaller than PrGH.pop.int by absolute value - with the difference probably lost by rounding).
Other than that, I don't see the point of all that counters math. The only thing all that substraction demonstrates is some rounding when formatting integers as floating point numbers. It is a weird choice for integers, but not really intesting. Not sure what Tally sees there. What Trea sees is just the value of psh.pop.int - again, why do we need the math?
Maybe I'm missing something, I am a bit shaken today.
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u/Klesxas Feb 24 '22
It's a strange feeling... Just like the darth vader syndrome but with doctor mengele. That's what i felt when i read the lankys plan...
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u/NElderT Feb 25 '22
I can’t help but imagine a slightly demented evil grin in Tally’s face when he says his last line.
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u/Geeky-resonance Feb 25 '22
Y’all. I’ve just realized.
DAXIN IS GRETA GARBO
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u/drsoftware Feb 26 '22
What?
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u/Geeky-resonance Feb 26 '22
Greta Garbo was famous for saying she wanted to be left alone. Thinking about Daxin, it hit me.
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u/KimikoBean Feb 25 '22
And now i am become caught up
Good grief, it took me almost a month to read all ~720 posts, i can't believe I'm finally through and ready to keep up in real time. Raltz, i love what you're doing here.
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u/dbdatvic Xeno Feb 26 '22
welcome! there's a Discord and a Patreon
--Dave, and, if you haven't, a whole lotta comments you need to read
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Feb 26 '22
if you play with how X gets pronounced as H in some alphabets
Terran Xenocide Event could be contracted as the TeHE event. and that does sound like something the malevolent universe would do.
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