Consortium plotline... because why not...

"I am aware, it is so I may duck out of close combat to give myself the advantage."

He fires the retro thrusters on the ankles on the suit for a quick flash.

"It is all about insurance."

Ravenor: ...you are not a smart man, are you? if you fire those rockets there on full thrust, they will pull your legs out from underneath you, and you will fall forward onto the ground...
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/they take note... what do you expect them to do? they are there to evaluate the defenses, not the ineptitude of the locals.../

OOC I assumed dredd and/or tex was viewing a live feed of what they see

OOC: ....and what are they supposed to say? the warriors got killed as they were informed. the enmy used energy weapons that far exceeded their armor rating. thats all we know so far

"That is to get me into a good position to actually fire my main thrusters, if you could get that into your giant egotistical head that maybe you'd be combat effective, relying on a set of thrusters alone, HA!"

*He opens his suit and steps on the open door.*
"I will have you know I have been operating a Crisis suit for 10 years! 10 YEARS! I have been a Shas'O for 5!"

they see a hand mark melted into the wall

OOC: I SHALL BE BACK.
GIVE HIM HIS ORDERS AND HE SHALL GO!

OOC. his orders?!
you realise that these guys dont really give a fuck about the galaxy, right? i mean in a sense that they wont go conquering/raiding/foraging/etc.
i think he owes them more in a "if we call you for help, we expect you to help" way
IC:
dredd: interesting...

there aint any more evidence of combat in that area

brb
busy dueling

OOC: My armies have scorched the lands of Ormus, Almaty, Ur, without a single casualty, and are now standing at the gates of M'banza Kongo, ready to complete the unification of the Danish Island....
Still, apparently, they do nt fear my military strength, and will resist any tribute demands... i love the Civ AI....

og my

OOC. in fact, no one else dreads the might of the danish empire! unacceptable! They shall be trampled under the feet of our glorious armies of berzerkers!

OOC. THOSE COWARDS!
They became allies with the Inca to save themselves from my wrath! Not afraid of my military my ass! They are terrified fuckless!

OOC: ffs, this is why i dont play against AI on anything but the easiest difficuilty....
my spy repeatedly reported that we have completely eclipsed the Huns, and they have no tech that we dont already have.
Supposedly, my military is also twice as strong as theirs.
still, when i go to attack them, they have shit that even i dont have yet(#1 in tech), and pwn my WW I Army with knights....

btw you do realize it's your turn to post IC right?

i do now.
This whole thing seems to be dragging along painfully slowly though...

and this sint even the "dragging along painfully slowly" that i was talking about...

well it is still your turn no matter how slow it's going...

OOC. yeah... could we advance more than "there are laser burns on the wall" and "there is a dismembered corpse" per comment? these are worthy of like 5 seconds of full attention, not an entire reply...

IC:
/they advance... not like anything of real significance has been seen yet/

OOC. ...hehe.... just realised that im basically Russia... i rule half the world, have war machines that others cant even imagine, conquer in the name of Harald Bluetooth, The Terrible of Denmark.... and there isnt even a single strip of road in my empire... and everyone is drunk all the time...

OOC: Can someone sum this up please? What is this rp all about? What are the current events?

OOC: originally, this was for the consortium faction. then arken decided not to RP the consortium anymore due to shadow's words...
so now its basically just Dredd, Tex, and co doing stuff.
Basicaélly, dredd is a Varden, a highly lore breaking and (even after the nerf of their original lore) OP faction of advanced biomechs. and then theres Arkais who stumbled upon their base and now owes them...

OOC. what a play... what a play!
i needed stuff from other civs. i dint want to give anything for it, naturally. so i conquered a bunch of shitty cities and city states, set them on fire so they will be destroyed and not intrude upon my borders, then traded them for the stuff i needed. i got rid of some pesky cities, and got what i wanted, without losing anything.... imma genius...

OOC. HAHHHHAHHAHAHHAHAAAAA!!!
every single civilization dubs me a warmongering monster, Harald Bluetooth, the Terrible. They even embargoed me! Yet my citizens couldnt be much happier, we are magnitudes richer than the rest of the world combined, our culture is refined beyond words, and weare about to create a space rocket!
And better yet, their cities are starting to revolt and join my empire on their own! I dont even need to wage wars anymore! their empires are falling apart! XD

OOC. gotta love the Civ AI....
in their minds, the equivalent of a city, is all my strategic resources, all my luxury resources, a fortune every turn, open borders, AND one of my cities

Edit: also, apparently, when the underdog(America, or if they would have named it properly, the US) is at war with the worlds dominant military pwer, and two other underdogs, making peace  with said dominant power who has no interest in any of their homeland, is not an option for them....

Edit 2: hehe.... a fitting end to the war with the united states... they adamantly refused to surrender. i couldnt be assed to navigate my way to their worthless lands, through at least 3 other civ's territories. nuked the shit out of washington. "Do you want to surrender yet?" "We still have much to settle". so i nuked new york. "Surrender? Or should i send more?" "...Fine"

Anyone finds the ending familiar...?

OOC: The bitter sweet irony.
I loved CivRev.
But there was one ending I remember.
I had one civ to my south, forests to my north, a civ to the far west of that forest.
To my east was a very small "bridge" of land to a civ to the west.
And just under that bridge, which was more of a T, to the south was the chinese.
So I take out my rival to the south.
I adventure into the forest.
I take the bridge over to the east.
I am expanding and cock blocking china, "peacefully."

The egyptians to the east were giving a good war.
But then the Chinese expand, taking the bridge.

Fuck, they are in the deserts [funnily enough] the village I had couldn't make much so it was adamantly defending with veteran archers.

But then from the north, the Russians, they had come for the forests and they wouldn't take NO for an answer.

I was losing, the Egyptians taking my Eastern expansion, the Chinese cutting me off.
The forest expansion was hard to get to.

The Russians were on the war path, I couldn't risk a war with the Chinese and they were content to watch me burn.

The Homeland was under attack and the capital was at the forefront.

...War had come to my lands and they were ruthless, the wave came and swept away everything but my capital was theirs.
But I had no resources...I could make nothing.
I went down with a fight.

...As I recall these moments, I in hindsight, should have let the Chinese and the egyptians war.

OOC: yep.... my strategy is usually being peaceful and spamming tech, absorbing nearby (well placed) city states, then suddenly starting up the war industry and overtaking everyone. Then, depending on the situation, i either take out my main rivals(as i did now to the Huns), or start picking off the small fry.

I cant even say that i have an unfair advantage because of dificuilty 3. The AI constantly does mathematically impossible things. Founding a pantheon in turn 7 is simply not possible yet it did it. Or an enemy unit disappearing into the fog of war, and instantly reappearing behind me from another fog of war that is sorrounded by my sight....

Edit: 50 years later, the united states is still a nuclear wasteland... i feel compelled to conquer them just to help their people recover from the mistakes of their leaders.... and my nukes.... their mistakes and my nukes

Edit 2: wow... and they say *my* word is worthless.... i paid germany pretty much a small country's resources to vote "yea" on my world religion proposal. they said they will..... they had 2 of delegates vote for it.... and 4 others to vote for "nay" on it...

OOC: I'd give them a small reminder of my religious zeal.

OOC. well, im waiting...

they start to detect movement

/they assume astealth/defensive formation/

they hear screaming, getting closer

/unfazed... /

at which point several literal ghosts emerge, screaming

OOC. at which point, i dont know what to do... i hope you still dont expect them to be afraid or anything... and these are purely synthetic drones. im not even sure if cameras can see ghosts... or if ghosts can recognize said machines as targets for haunting

IC:
/no reaction.... /

OOC of course not
IC Tex:...what? *the ghosts start accumulating around the drones*

OOC. i have to wonder, if wireless communication is possible, why did the locals not think of it earlier...?
IC.
/at dredds order, they start speeding deeper inside on a pseudorandom pattern(reminder: they are floating)/

OOC they're not clever like you are
IC they continue following them. it's clear these are ghosts of the warriors sent in here before

OOC. ....you realise that thats another reason not to help them, right?
IC:
/they abandon the slow and steady approach, and continue reconning with the speedy/semi stealthed one/

OOC I was joking. i just didn't think of it
IC there are more ghosts gathering but they can't keep up

/thats pretty much the point.../

the ghost screech and suddenly detonate

/these dont sound like literal ghosts at all... and i dont know how far they were from the drones, or how powerful the explosion was. if english use the same terminology as hungarians, "detonation" can be anything between 1000 m/s and 10000 m/s in speed/

that's it, they aint literal ghosts, they just seemed to be. and the explosion doesn't catch them

Dredd: interesting...
/they resume scouting/

Tex: what the fuck is up with this place

Dredd: it is obviously designed to deter intruders. we already knew that. we have gained little to no useful information so far... the only conclusion that can be drawn from present data, is that it posesses some measure of intelligence, and is familiar with the concept of psychological warfare

g2g sorry

OOC. ....okay..... i just watched the first episode of GuP..... what the fuck is this...

Edit:
okay.... later episodes make more sense.... also, if my school had a tankery club like that, i would actually be more active... and more dead, most likely....

also...... dafuq is whit this universe? i mean those carriers are huge.... and whats this about "there was a time when everyone went to school on land" ? o.O

Edit 2: ....the logic.... its killing me.... /theres a road construction ahead of us. what should we do? well, we only have a tank, so we'd better turn back. we obviously cant get through the chain fence and dirt.../

also, tanks are not capable of moving like these do. wheeled vehicles move like that.... nor are these tanks so fast

GuP?