Fallout New Vegas Quest: Empire of One P 26

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>>1809111
Diana's Nursery Paradise is not all so perfect as it seems, and there are a number of technical issues beyond the scope of her robots.

-The Geothermal Power Plant needs fixing. This has reduced the number of robots she can use
-The Robot production facility needs fixing
-There is a Hedge Maze full of carniverous plants that eat wildlife and natives.
-The Repository's power connection is down

Diana says of all places, she forbids you from entering the "Factory". The last time she allowed someone untrustworthy, it was a disaster. Similarly, the Train Station is also off limits.

Linux and her team are going to work on the Geothermal Power Plant. Your help is appreciated, but they think they can handle it.

>Go and help Linux with the Power Plant
>Go fight evil plants!
>Go chat it up with the tribals
>Go and converse to Diana some more
>Go/Sneak somewhere (Where?) [The Factory, the Repository, the Greenhouse, the Fenced off Area, the Train Station]
>Explore around. Collect plant and animal, samples
>Other?

>>1809126
Converse with Diana more now that Linux and her ilk are not here. We can properly introduce ourself, tell about our growing nation and other powers in the region. Talk about mutants and ghouls, let's get a feel what she thinks about them.

Depending on how the conversation goes, we can talk about our insane technical, robotic and computer powers. How we built ZAX and other wonders.

Talk about actual evil gods and star father

>>1809145
Supporting

>>1809126
>Go and converse to Diana some more

We can trust the Reavers to not fuck anything up and hopefully they'll all die and we can keep this place a secret.

Meanwhile we've got to explain in greater detail our plan / situation to Diana.

>>1809145
>>1809148
>>1809150
Writing

>>1809145
>>1809126

Also talk about our ideals and the vision for future, the steps we took towards them and the ones which will take in near future.
Share our book with her.

Tell her that her problems are paltry tasks that our nation could easily fix. Not only can we fix her facilities, we could build brand new ones.

Also talk about aliens.

>>1809164
We should probably mention what the BOS / Reaver-cult would do to not only her but her people.

We should also point out our technical superiority and the fact that she doesn't have to make a decision yet. She can make herself an independent ally of the BOS for now or even remain neutral entirely.


Then we conquer the Legion, create massive industrial complexes and convert her to our side by point out our massive resources and how we share the goal of ecological preservation.

>You
[Diana]

>Diana
"Yes, Paladin Courier, what is it you wish to speak?"

>You
[I had to wait until the others were away. You see, in as much as I am with the Brotherhood of Steel, I am also part of another group. The Phoenix Commonwealth.

In fact, I am there leader. I wanted to speak to you more freely away from their ears.]

>Diana
"Hmph! Then you are just like Caesar's scouts. Disguising themselves as traders, merchants, or simple messengers but all the while deceiving.

Why should I trust what you have to say?"

>>1809174
I hate your suspicious rolls

>>1809177
Is this a prompt for us to write something or are you still writing?

>>1809179
Still writing

I just had an Idea, once we have power armour (Even very basic) production set up, we should look into making PA for our Super Mutants. We can then equip Marcus in such a set and send him out to find more super mutants and bring them back. We should also look into augments for them, but that is only eventually

>>1809177
>why shouldn't you be open with all of your secrets infront of other people
>The robot is retarded.

I swear to god if she turns into a cunt. We need to rip her out and just take the parts.

>>1809188
Hell, Power Armoured Super Mutants could even work as WH40K Thunder warriors or proto space marines

>>1809188
Most definitely. In fact we should build them up scaled version of the armor that our troops have now

Oh sir, I forgot. We should also tell Diana about the evil plants in Texas and Elijah

>>1809177
You try to explain your situation. You are the leader of a resurgent America, trying to establish new, better society out in the wasteland.

You are surrounded by other hostile powers, the NCR with its hatred of tribalism and demand that people civilize or die. The Legion, whom they have already met. The MLA, naught but viscious gangs of raiders and ne'erdowells.

And the Brotherhood, with its hatred of mutants and Ghouls.

Your America seeks to learn from the lessons of the past, to avoid future nuclear holocaust, and uses the most advanced sciences and technologies to better the lives of all.

Diana listens, and speaks.

>Diana
"Kind words and sweet givings, but so too did the Legion attempt to win us first through logic and reason.

I was right not to have trusted them then. What cause should I have to trust you.

Twice you have shown me insincerity. Sneaking into my chambers, and now, you seek to betray those who believe you to be comrade. They are out there assisting me, even now I see them working to repair the Power Plant.

You are here to sway me to a nations cause. Not only did you lack the wisdom to come here alone, where I might have believed you, but you have also revealed myself to yet another power. For now I fear that you have brought conflict down upon my head."

>Uh oh. That didn't go as planned.
>Hrmmm, you weren't expecting this. What do I do now.

>>1809198
Agreed. Also cranial implants ala Bone'eds from warhammer would be needed going forward.

>>1809204
What do?

>>1809221
Also at any time you can always just go ham and try to hack and take over.

You suspect that for now it should be relatively easy.

>>1809221
Honestly I feel like this entire thing is fucked. She'll tell the BoS know sense they are actually helpping her unlike us who...just stood around to talk? For some stupid reason and share everything

>>1809227
>You
(Hmmm. This looks bad, but she isn't trying to shoot me so that's a good thing. Seems to be a major issue of lack of trust. Probably trauma from having the Legion burn and enslave everything)

>>1809232
What's the most important thing she needs fixed that needs supplies from the outside world? Let's just go prove our point and fix it.

>>1809204
"Twice I have shown reason. I don't intend to betray the Brotherhood, for all I may disagree with them, anytime soon. As to not coming here alone, to be frank I was expecting to be going into some old-world ruin infested with every manner of danger. Made sense to bring some backup just in case. This is before mentioning your accusation against me for sneaking into your chambers. As if that is such a horrible thing to do when you are supposed to be on a stealth mission. The simple fact is that I had no reason to risk myself or those with me who I'd point out didn't exactly complain at this decision.

Lastly you accuse me of bringing conflict down on your head. These BOS members want to avoid you being discovered by the MLA and Legion, something we can all agree to. Just tell them you want to remain neutral or independent and they will most likely respect that and if not I can attempt to convince them to be silent to the BOS seeing as you aren't the objective of the mission and have not only been helpful but are a sacred object of their religion.

Fact is that if things go to plan, then in a few years the entire Legion shall be subsumed into my nation and we shall share a border. We can discuss matters then.


For now I would point out that I can do just as much as the Reavers if not more, I merely wanted to explain the situation to you in more detail and more honestly. Fact is that this conversation has only taken a few minutes and I can't imagine them making insane progress in that time."

Good enough fellow anons?


>>1809224
How would we be taking over? Disabling her control? Killing her?

>>1809234
I'd suggest clearing out the death plants and then catching up with Linux.

>>1809204
>Not only did you lack the wisdom to come here alone, where I might have believed you, but you have also revealed myself to yet another power.

What a weird thing to be angry about. We were sent here by BoS for a scouting mission. She says these things as if we knew she existed before we took this mission. For all we knew, we were just looking for another Vault and from our experiences Vaults usually end in some disaster and become horror shows for explorers. No reason to believe this would have been different.
BoS or any other faction would have found out about her sooner or later. Especially NCR with their air superiority.

Also, why is she comparing us to Legion? Do the Legion scouts just come up and tell her who they really are?
We already explained her why we snuck around. We have enough experience in the wasteland to know that most everything just attacks on sight, so we were being cautious.

>>1809204
"Betray? No. I am merely introducing myself as another representative of another faction. I admire the BoS intentions which is why I had joined in the past before I became a leader of a nation. I work with them as to change them from the inside and to perhaps loosen their views on the nature on mutants. I would hardly call establishing diplomatic ties betrayal."

Anons can add & change whatever.

>>1809239
>Do the Legion scouts just come up and tell her who they really are?
Sometimes.

Frumentarii usually operate in two ways, up front and being open ambassadors to Caesar, and subtley.

It depends on if they find out that they dont have any previous ideas on the Legion.

>>1809204
>Not only did you lack the wisdom to come here alone, where I might have believed you, but you have also revealed myself to yet another power. For now I fear that you have brought conflict down upon my head.
"You are mistaken, i haven't brought any conflict down on your head it was always there, for you are between 3 factions and the BoS wishes to keep you away from the hands of the other 2, a decision i support. Also the BoS were aware of you before me, i had only heard about this location from the BoS who offered me a fair deal in exchange for a quest, a quest i could have refused to join and they would have come to you anyway, i did not lead them here, merely accompanied them."

>>1809236
>How would we be taking over? Disabling her control? Killing her?
All viable options.

You even consider you could steal her Brain and probably bend it to your will with some apt cybernetics. Alternatively, replace her Brain with someone else you trust.

>>1809236
>Fact is that if things go to plan, then in a few years the entire Legion shall be subsumed into my nation and we shall share a border. We can discuss matters then.

Get rid of this. But everything else seems pretty good.

>>1809232
The fact that we are honest with her should make her think a bit. Reavers and BoS are already a massive superpower. Understandably we are a bit unwilling to reveal all of our cards to them as they might demand we share our ridiculously advanced tech and facilities.

Diana on the other hand has been pushed back by men in skirts and swords. So we are not afraid she would become a threat anytime soon. That is why we are laying out all the cards and explaining our situation to her in the hopes we can get her under our wing.

Frankly we have the absolute best understanding in robotics, AI and human/computer hybrids around maybe in the entire world. We can benefit from each other much more than she can benefit from any other faction. The reavers come close but they are religious fanatics not really understanding the tech they use

Tell her one of the main reasons why we are not fully open with BoS because they believe that a sizeable population of our nation should be genocided just because of who they are.

>>1809250
I agree.

At this point the NCR is more likely to take over Legion. We haven't had any offensives against them ever since we fled to Big Mt

>>1809252
>The reavers come close but they are religious fanatics not really understanding the tech they use
Hmmm, you consider you might want to actually test this theory. From what you saw in the Brotherhood they actually have a very good understanding of technology, if mired in religious symbolism. What they seem to lack is highly advanced technological means like you discovered in BigMT.

Every now and then you wonder. Are there other gigantic Old World research centers besides BigMT and this "Commonwealth Institute?"

It's been 5 years and now at last you can go exploring. It feels like America might have more mountains of science than Big Mountain.

>>1809249
Good to know.

>>1809250
Fair enough.

>>1809252
Not to mention that we've seen nothing in her beliefs that is objectionable to us. Plus we are advancing technological far more than the BOS and can promise her equal rights to any other sapient being (I assume AI's are going to be legally equal to humans in our society, right?).

Plus, we can also promise her access to our gene-bank to fix any mistakes or lost samples in hers.

>>1809261
"Which include one of my wives and her child."

>>1809265
Finally we have in-character, confirmed wanderlust reasoning to go to the Commonwealth.

After we've dealt with a few more things, it'll be done.

>>1809266
>I assume AI's are going to be legally equal to humans in our society, right?
Well, ever since you discovered that Brains can be disonnected from their body after you found your lobotomized Officer, the Brain had been discussing the idea of "Brain Rights"

>>1809271
The Commonwealth Institute was mentioned several times, but its probably perhaps the furthest away. Furthermore Barnaky hasn't granted Aerial access across his territory to you yet.

>>1809271
Speaking of wanderlust.

I suggest we set up a trade caravan with Cass as the leader.

>>1809274
Which states and territory does Barnaky occupy?

>>1809274
Didn't we know that brains can be disconnected from bodies? Our brain told us that if our body dies it will continue on living

>>1809282
Disconnected as in the body still alive, rather than killed.

>>1809240
>>1809250
>>1809270
Support.
>>1809232
>>1809204
Would now be a good time for a diplomatic roll? We could use that boost.

>>1809274
>Well, ever since you discovered that Brains can be disonnected from their body after you found your lobotomized Officer, the Brain had been discussing the idea of "Brain Rights"
We should probably grant them equal rights.

>The Commonwealth Institute was mentioned several times, but its probably perhaps the furthest away.
True but it's the only one I can think of off the top of my head.

>Furthermore Barnaky hasn't granted Aerial access across his territory to you yet.
Well we can certainly ask for it or join the D.C BOS on their mission.

>>1809276
Eh, just tell her she's head of foreign trade / imports & exports.

>>1809265
Eh, we're still better. Linux was almost ready to fall on her knees and worship Diana especially since Diana refers to herself as goddess.
They talk about email going into spam as if some computer god is unhappy with them instead of knowing what actually happens.
Anyway, they might be good but they are still far behind. I mean how many other factions can build their own ZAX?

>>1809286
I'd rather save it for convincing the BOS Reavers to be quiet if it comes to it.

>>1809288
>Eh, just tell her she's head of foreign trade / imports & exports.
That wouldn't fix her wanderlust.

>>1809289
You know, it's interesting thoughts like these that make me really wish you guys also decided to be sneering imperialists heh

>>1809297
True but I have a differnet solution for that. We should take her, Raul and a few of our other good companions to the Commonwealth to help us secure shit. We can also deal with it by deploying her and our other companions to fight the Legion when the time comes since she'll get to travel and shit.

>>1809286
You mean boon? Let's not.

I feel we can get Diana trust us without burning it. Like OP said she just had ptsd from Legion

>>1809298
We are sneering imperialists. We just don't worry about petty shit or assume superiority.

>>1809286
>Would now be a good time for a diplomatic roll?
>>1809292
>>1809301
No. I'm talking about rolling for diplomacy or dialogue. It only boosts us unless it's a crit fail, then that's another story. I figured we haven't rolled for dialogue yet because we don't want to get a crit fail.

>>1809298
We will get there one day. First our military power should be greater or at least equal to all major factions around. Then we can look down on plebs who refuse to give up their brains to become better versions of themselves.

>>1809302
It also explains why the Courier is a bit skeptical on most religions in general.

He is a man of science after all. Spreading his Imperial[/spoier] truth

>>1809305
Well, you roll then.

>>1809305
>>1809319
Please no rolling.

I need to go do some chores, I wil be back soon about an hour. Please link to any dialogue or actions you wish to do.

>>1809322
These >>1809236, >>1809239, >>1809240, >>1809247, >>1809270.

>>1809325
Yep. This works

>>1809325
supporting

>>1809325
>>1809286
>>1809250
Remember to avoid mentioning imperialism or direct intentions to go to war at the moment, Diana doesn't seem to want to get involved in any of this business.
Otherwise, I support most of this.

>>1809321
Alright. When do you think would be a good time for rolling?

>>1809335
>Alright. When do you think would be a good time for rolling?
Whenever QM asks for it, i don't want to take chances.

>>1809335
>Alright. When do you think would be a good time for rolling?

just only roll 100's anon.

Rolled 84 (1d100)

>>1809342
>>1809318
I can roll a Nat 100 on talking with the AI

>>1809342
But they're all 100s.

>>1809335
>>1809348
This is good. If I recall he only takes the first one for quest-mode rolls like dialogue or quick(?)-combat.
>>1809336
Guess it's a bit late for that now.

>>1809348
That isn't a 100 but it is the good first roll and linked to OP post.
OP did say long ago in his rules he say something about being linked make it count.

back writing

>>1809236
>>1809239
>>1809247
"From what you have told to me, your land is very far away and the Brotherhood is almost upon me. If they are as Linux has said, I would not mind them surrounding our borders, but I would insist on the sanctity and independence of my children and the nursery.

My goal is to spread life into the waste, not to spread violence. The world has seen enough of it already.

One day when I can be assured the world is ready for peace, I may allow my children to venture once more. But I made the mistake of being premature in my judgement before."

>>1809261
>>1809270
"Then may the spirit of life find a way to resolve your problems peacefully. I cannot offer you shelter or bring the Brotherhood here, and I do not wish to risk bringing plague or mutation. This has happened before, and it took a long time for me to find a cure."

CHOOSE
>Say something else
>Go and help the others
>Go explore somewhere/see the locals
>Start a hostile takeover. Better we take control than the Brotherhood come by and do the same

>>1809731
>Say something else
"Excellent, i trust that you will keep my real identity a secret from others? Moving on i wish to trade something of mine for your genetic information, my Citizens are interested in more luxuries and old world foods such as chicken eggs and other livestock."

>>1809731
>Go and help the others

>>1809731
Fuck it, use the lady killer perk and seduce her

>>1809731
Ask her about the cure and the illness.

Ask her for tech to trade

>>1809764
>>1809771
You get the feeling asking this right now would be a bad idea

>>1809731
"A cure? For what?"

>>1809779
Alright jeez, switch to.
>Go and help the others

>>1809731
>>Go and help the others

>>1809731
>>Go and help the others

>>1809731
>Go and help the others

"I would consider you remaining in isolation like this logical for your goals and ideal to mine. We can discuss this more in the future but for now, feel free to direct me to where I am needed."

>>1809779
Are you talking about the cure and sickness? or the tech? Because I say ask her what happened.

OP are you there?

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You catch up with the Skirmii. In the hours you were away (as you had to make sure they were at the Thermal Plant first) they've been very busy.

They had already begun to assess the various dangerous elements, scanning with advanced optics and modified V.A.T.S. to survey for threats.

Mostly giant snakes, which seemed to thrive off the nearby steamvents.

Linux had set up on a high position, and used her heavily modified M72 Gauss Rail. This one has a barrel extension almost a half longer, with stronger electromagnetic coils. Very heavy and with a longer barrel, rather than being reloaded with Microfusion coils, it is attached to a very large Microfusion Pack on her back. Several mechanical arms have extended, both supporting her body and holding the gun midair with machine like precision and stability.

Her electronic eyes have attached to the high performance optics of the weapon, which fires not by the pull of a trigger but by alignment of the scope to target at just the right computer calculated moment.

The incredible recoil from the augmented gun is almost negated as it flows from her mechanical limbs into the stone rock behind her. Covering her body her robes seem to morph into the very color of the stone, serving as excellent camoflague, and she's very clearly able to hold her breath for long periods of time.

In all, she is almost literally a sniping machine, and her accuracy is on par with your own as dozens and of snakes lay dead.

---

Her team meanwhile, have already assessed the damage to the structure and have begun repairs accordingly as you listen in on the radio.

>Macintosh
"The Tech Spirit of this terminal indicates the water resevoir floor is injured. Java, have you found the water cuttoff valve."

>Java
"Yes, I'm shutting down the water now. . .water levels dropping."

>Macintosh
"Debian, initiate suturing Resevoir floor wound."

>Debian
"Command received."

Evidently as you watch its clear they know what they are doing.

>Do some sniping and chat with Linux
>Help Debian repair the resevoir floor
>Help Macintosh monitor the computer systems

>>1810284
>Help Debian repair the resevoir floor

>>1810284
>>Help Debian repair the resevoir floor

>>1810284
>Help Debian repair the resevoir floor

>>1810284
>>Help Debian repair the resevoir floor

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>>1810291
>>1810311
>>1810331
You help Debian repair the Vault Floor using your expert repair skills, and also your strength to help push away giant boulders and massive debris while Debian welds the floor in place with multiple limbs.

You notice he has both an Arc Welder attached to one arm, and in the other, what is unmistakably a LAER like weapon both of which he uses to mend the cracks in the floor.

Debian can't but help observe you carry huge amounts of weight.

>Debian
"Incredible. You possess a strength like an Augment, yet the body of flesh. Were you not clearly human, one can almost think you were a super mutant."

>You
"Let's just say I lift a lot.

Where'd you get that LAER welder?"

>Debian
"You are wise. This is indeed based upon Laser Assisted Electric Rifle. The weapon was invented by Vault Tec before the war, and we had discovered them in one of their vaults. We have adapted it for repairs, but it is useful against the agents of Satansoft. "Rogue Robots" as the non-believers call them."

You suppose its not surprising. There are lots of fancy Old World weapons out there always being discovered and some already well known and in circulation, like the Gauss Rifle, Pulse Rifles, Heavy Lasers. Vault Tec.

---

With the both of you working, the Resevoir floor is repaired and you climb up out of the pit as the water flows back in.

>Debian
"The floor has been mended."

>Macintosh
"Good. Re-initiating the geothermal systems now. Electrical Father bless us as we add to the Current Flow."

You hear a whirring as the Geothermal Plant, its water now restored, activates and energy readings re-power the systems of the Nursery.

Let's see what was next on Diana's to-do list
>Go and help Linux with the Power Plant [X]
>Go fight evil plants!
>Restore power to the Repository

You may also
>Go chat it up with the tribals
>Go/Sneak somewhere (Where?) [The Factory, the Repository, the Greenhouse, the Fenced off Area, the Train Station]
>Explore around. Collect plant and animal, samples
>Try to get rid of these guys, make it look like an accident
>Other?

>>1810446
>Explore around. Collect plant and animal, samples

>>1810446
>>Explore around. Collect plant and animal, samples

>>1810446
>Go fight evil plants!

And maybe

>Try to get rid of these guys, make it look like an accident

But only after checking if they want to continue onto the Vault which was our original goal / the one she gave us the location of. If they want to all come, we can eliminate them there without Diana seeing and get more tech (and possibly some things to fix this place) while we are there. If not, then we can start bumping them off now.

>>1810446
Fight evil plants

>>1810463
>>1810474
2 for this
>>1810474
>>1810578
2 for this

>>1810474
That sounds like a bad idea.

>>1810602
The bumping them off here, the continuing to the Vault or the killing in general?

>>1810620
The killing in general.

>>1810628
Why? Elimination of them prevents discovery by the BOS of the Nursery and seeing as she ain't going to attract attention to her hide-away, we can be certain that the BOS will leave her be until they've taken the region and her one of her main complaints was that we revealed her existence to another state.

Still I respect that she'd probably object to us killing our fellows and shit but we can always injure ourselves on the way back from the Vault to make it seem real.

>>1810446
>Explore around. Collect plant and animal, samples

>>1810446
>Go fight evil plants!
>Explore around. Collect plant and animal, samples
Both

Rolled 3, 81, 38 = 122 (3d100)

>>1810674
Heh.

Roll me 3d100's

Rolled 63 (1d100)

>>1810697

Rolled 49 (1d100)

>>1810697

Rolled 23 (1d100)

>>1810697
Nat 100

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>>1810697
>>1810674
Linux and her crew go to deal with restoring power to the Repository, while you say you'll handle the plants at the garden.

Meanwhile, you use this time to gather many different types of plans and animals samples you've never before.

What interests you a lot is the fruit. There are more fruit here than even spoken off in the old grocery store catalogs.

A large majority of them are poisonous or irritating, but thanks to your survival skills you learn how to avoid them. But a good number of them are tasty and sweet!

You've even found bananas! Real bananas just like the picutre! The small yellow ones are sweet and soft delicious like you've never tasted before. The big green ones are hard like potato's, but cooked over a fire they become soft and warm and good.

You fill up your belly and then some with fruits and tastes you never even imagined possible. This will be wonderous when you return to BigMT and try to replicate them with Salient Green and have the BCR regrow them.

+[Tropical Fruits] +[Tropical Vegetables]

Here's a pastebin of 3 lists of tasks we have. Post scarcity, 2nd construction action, and new city
https://pastebin.com/GMfdS7Z3

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>>1810847
Next you try to catalog all the animals you see here. You really don't know the names for some of these, big one-headed brahmin with curly horns; long fast things with four legs, a long neck and face, and hair growing on the back of their neck with a long tail; giant fat round creatures with huge mouths that huddle in rivers and mud; VERY fast things that look like giant cats with yellow and brown spotted fur.

They have all kinds of shouts and noises and roars and you feel yourself almost overwhelmed. Not even Zion had this much wildlife. Birds seem to make entire swarms among trees, and legions of insects buzz around, though mercifully most don't sting.

Some of your followers would love it here.

You suddenly also find yourself staring down a giant animal. This one is big, with four legs, and a huge head and two giant ears which it flares. It has a long nose like a vaccuum cleaner, which it trumpets too as its big feet stomp the ground and it bares its horns at you.

You can tell right away its meaning to charge.

Where this a Yaoi Gui or a Death Claw you have several options. Vaporize it with a Tesla Beaton, Blow it to Smithereens with a Missile Launcher, gun it down with machine guns.

But, thinking that you ought not to kill what might be one of the last of its species in the world, you take a less lethal approach.

You stomp your two feet on the ground, shout at the top of your voice, and challenge it in full bodie armor!

The beast begins to charge forward, and you press your legs and do the same, both of your heavy masses running at full speed as you raise your arms. You collide with the giant thing at full force, stopping both of you in your tracks, your feet digging into the earth as the creature shrieks in anger and confusion, clearly not expecting to be hit by the equivalent of a human brick wall. With huge strength you push the thing backward, putting one foot in front of the other, as the big beast rears its legs and stumbles.

You step back as the creature gets up and flees, knocking trees and branches out of the way.

>You
[Damn it's good to be strong]

The animals here, while still dangerous, don't appear to be as dangerous as the mutant wildlife out there. Just big. Really big.

>>1810930
The Mormons might be interested in this little Eden that is here.

>>1810939
>Mormons
>not 99.999% if human population

We should begin building 2 additional solar farms next turn and then one by one upgrade them into large solar farms.
Also don't forget to pick up a missionary on the way home.

>>1810961
We should focus on taking over the military base. We can hold on until we get the power plants in the divide.

>>1810961
No. We should continue full steam ahead to get the 2nd construction action. ZAX will takle the energy problem when it comes to it.

>>1810967
The 2nd construction action won't work without energy.

>>1810984
But there is construction we can do that doesn't take much, like the engineering HQ

>>1810922
So a thought occurs to me in regards to our plan to expand into the Legion: we have the potential for air superiority and yet haven't taken advantage of it fully.

We should look into airdropped combat robots with short range, melee and other such weapons. So we can perform combat drops into Legion positions disrupting their formations and allowing us to assault their leaders by literally dropping from (fairly high) above. As well as allowing rapid reinforcements of positions.

>>1810965
>>1810961
Construction of a single additional solar farm of the same size as our current one would allow us to upgrade the previous but might not provide sufficient power for massive robotic expansion.

>>1810967
True, we can get more power if it comes down to it by instituting power rationing, turning off non-critical robots like some of the spy-eyes and such. However more solar farms is advisable longer term.

>>1810993
It takes an action, and action better suited for building solar farms.

>>1810997
It is not advisable to spend actions on solar when we're close to acquiring better sources of power. It's effectively wasted actions.

>>1811023
Which sources of power?

>>1811021
It's an action needed to get the second engineering action. The sooner we get on that, the better.

>>1811023
Wasted implies that we gain nothing from it. Cold fusion still needs water which is something we have a very real limit on.

Plus we are quite far from having secured that god damn EMP-missile filled base.

>>1811027
The cold fusion in the military base with the emp rockets. SOmething is powering it, so we once we capture it, we can hook it up to the city for a big boost. We would also surely get the plans to build more

>>1811031
Our solar plants take water too. So it would be better to use the water for the more efficient power source.

>>1811030
>The sooner we get on that, the better.
Incorrect, without power we can't use the 2nd construction action, we must build extra solar farms first.
>>1811037
And how do you plan to capture it?
Also i remind you our digger bots/vehicles are still just prototypes, they need more research on them which means more time.

>>1811042
Actually they take salt water, salt water from the salt lake in Trona.

>>1811047
We haven't peaked yet, so we are capable of getting what is needed for the second action without getting more power. 10% capacity goes a long way when it's an HQ and a garage needed.

We only need 1 tunneling transport, and we drop of a team in the control building, disable the defenses and march in. We can do that in the couple turns it takes to build a solar tower.

>>1811060
No they don't. It takes normal water. We aren't shipping anything out of Trona.

>>1811093
I am very certain they use salt water.

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The trees were carniverous. The vines were carniverous. The bushes were carniverous. The goddamn flowers were carniverous.

The whole fucking maze was a giant eating thing that spat acid or had pit holes.

This thing had to go, luckily fire beats plant and you used your incinerator to bathe the place in fire from long range.

You're sure Diana will understand. Her robots don't seem to attack you,in fact they go in to collect some fallen robot bodies.

As the maze burns, you see you notice you are being stealthily observed by a few tribals hiding in the bushes.

>What do?

>>1811120
>>1811093
You don't have a pipeline to Trona if I recall, ergo you are using your own water supplies.

>>1811077
QM says right here that we need more power to get the 2nd construction action >>1807675
>"Hmmm. I imagine a Large Solar Plant or a Huge One like Helios 1 would sustain the 2nd action indefinitely
It's basically a new requirement to get that 2nd construction.

>>1811127
Do our native dance we learned from father figure and breeder, when we were a young kid in tribe.

>>1811127
Wave hello, and fight those plants like an action movie star.

>>1811127
Finish what we are doing, put away our weapon and approach them.

>>1811141
>>1811150
>>1811153
writing

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You finish incinerating the maze, leaving behind the biggest and meanest of them, a giant moving tree.

You throw down your weapon, point at the tree, and rush forward and begin pummeling it with your fists.

Your hands start carving craters into the bark as the monster roars in rage, trying to swipe and strike you down, only for you to grab its branches and swing and break them down, beating the tree to death with its own wood. Finally, after half an hour of fighting, its branches broken, vines split, and the fight left out of it, you pick up the massive thing with both hands, squat carrying it to an open field, where you focus all your huge strength as your muscles strain and body sweats and rend the tree in two, exposing its open heart which stops beating.

Triumphant you stand atop the hulk of the beast, and do a celebratory dance.

Apparently this impresses the tribals enough to step foward.

>con't

>>1810922
Anon, you're a hero!

QM, could you please add this to all turn posts?

>>1810922
Good job anon. Something that is needed is just having lot of energy plants

>>1811336
It's just what is strictly necessary. Power and resources and such would be handled as they come up.

>>1811353
>It's just what is strictly necessary. Power and resources and such would be handled as they come up.
Yes

I would think our energy use we have right now after all that building is in the 90ish%. So we're going to have to build some solar plants when this turn is up.

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>>1811290
Men with spears and women without spears approach. They are dressed in a mixture of both Old World outfits and woven plant and animal material, honestly like every single tribal in the world as far as you know. Though from how lightly armed they are and from the manner in which they approach you can tell that they are armed for hunting, not warfare. Especially since they bring their women with them.

"You are a very strong Stranger, stronger than Mothers machines. Five of you we saw, but you must be the strongest. Mother says you are man in armor, like Legionaire, but not our enemy.

Who are you?"

>What do

>>1811405
Give em the whole name and titles shebang.

>>1811463
Look for eavesdroppers first.

>>1811463
>>1811468
Actually don't tell them who we really are, we shouldn't go spreading that information around.
Just tell them we're a BoS paladin named Courier.

>>1811405
"I am the Courier, man of many titles and many deeds but few would have any meaning to your people. I'd be quite happy to sit down and talk about myself and my deeds. Maybe even hear about your people in turn."

>>1811488
actually do this. It's both vague and impressive.

>>1811488
This.

>>1811488
I like this

>>1811488
writing

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Had to be delayed for a bit.

>>1811488
"Hello Courier. Thank you for clearing the cursed place.

We are children of the Twin Mothers tribe. Once when we were small children, we lived with our parents in the outside world. Our tribe was big then, and our parents traded with other outsiders. It was hot, and dry, and not so green but our parents farmed the land and the Mother made it grow green.

Then bad men came. Men in metal armor, and red clothing. The Legion. Mother knew to send us away to the Nursery, to hide us, while our parents fought to give us time to flee.

We miss our parents, they are dead now, but they live in the world beyond this world. We live here now, with mother, protected from the dangers of the outside and the Legion. She raised us like she raised our parents when they lived in 'Vault'. Teaches us how to live with nature, to hunt what we need and no more, what is safe and what is not safe, and what is good and what is bad.

We have never seen an outsider since the day of flight. Mother sealed away the machine tunnel."

You notice that everyone of them is similarly aged, and there are few older men or women among them.

>What do

>>1811748
Yes, the legion are bad men.
How long has it been since the day of flight?
Where is the machine tunnel?

>>1811774
"It was 11 years ago. Some of us were 5 years old. Some of us were 11. There were baby's we had to carry too. The older children didn't listen to mother, they went back to fight. We never saw them.

The machine tunnel is over there, by the 'railroad' tracks. It is sealed so the Legion cannot come in."

>what do

>>1811865
You need any help with stuff around here?

>>1811865
Check out the ruins of the maze for loot, and then meet up with the Reavers.

>>1811923
support

>>1811923
"You are helping mother, and Mother helps us. Mother cares for our needs well, though she chastises us when we get lazy or fat, that is why we should not let the robots do everything for us. 'Even fruit must be plucked by hand before it can be eaten'. We live simple lives, and we are quite happy.

If you wish, we would welcome you with a feast. We have never had outsiders before and we are curious."

>>1811925
Not much to be had from ashes, but there's a number of Robot scrap. The robots don't seem to mind if you take a few parts.

Lot of bones but that's never in short supply.

You do take some samples of the carniverous plants though.

>Carniverous Plant Seeds

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>>1811925
The Reavers are apparently at the "Repository" and you head there right away.

Once again, they've been busy there, fighting off some rogue mutant monsters successfully and then restoring power.

You get the feeling these guys explore vaults on a regular basis.

You are amazed by what you see though. Its some sort of giant chamber full of tanks of fluid, with cryo-storage facilities of some kind.

>Macintosh
"I have spoken with the Tech Spirit of the Terminal here.

This place is a repository of ancient animal genomes, archived by the ancient scientists. Every single animal they could preserve.

These are accelerated gestational cloning tanks, which can grow the genome samples into new animals at a fast pace.

This is an amazing discovery! The applications to the Brotherhood are enormous. We could restore the wildlife of the past, feed even more people than before."

>Linux
"Thank you Tech Gods for blessing us with this scientific find. I pray we may convince the Goddess to allow us its usage."

Rolled 74 (1d100)

>>1812003
Rolling perception check for cool stuff?

>>1812003
What do

>Access Repostory Terminal. Select Specimen (Insert Animal Here) and Gestate.
>Collect samples of Animal Genomes
>Steal some of the Technology here (Cloning? Cryo-Storage? Gestational Acceleration)?
>Other

>>1812011
Writing

>>1812015
>>Steal some of the Technology here (Cloning? Cryo-Storage? Gestational Acceleration)?
Can we also use that roll to download the blueprints of the shit?

>>1812015
>Steal some of the Technology here (Cloning? Cryo-Storage? Gestational Acceleration)?
download any blueprints we can

>>1812003

Alright, now i feel like we gotta start slowly taking over this place, got dammit.

>>1812015
>Access Repostory Terminal. Select Specimen (Insert Animal Here) and Gestate.
>Collect samples of Animal Genomes
>Steal some of the Technology here (Cloning? Cryo-Storage? Gestational Acceleration)?

Do all the things.

>>1812040
Just download and grab stuff. We're Pirate Captain Courier now! YARRRRRR.

>>1812015
What animals are in the list OP?

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>>1812061
All of them.

>>1812011
You find an Old World Super Tranq Gun.

This device is able to scan an unarmored target for any suitable veins or weak spots and vital signs, as well as calculate mass and weight, and fires a highly calibrated super potent nerve blocking agent.

The tranquilizer ammo it fires is highly advanced. Rather than relying on a dart which may not penetrate hard bone or surfaces, it fires a heavy dart which uses prongs and super sticky glue to latch onto a target, and then injects the right dosage of tranquilizer into a vein via a tiny laser injector.

The gun can calculate the vital signs of a target to show just how much is needed to subdue it and keep it alive. This thing seems capable of knocking even you out!

>+Old World Super Tranq Gun

It also talks!

"I say, has master decided to go on a hunt shall we? Cheerio."

Sounds like a Mr. Handy.

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>>1812125
Wrong pic

Rolled 79, 48, 1 = 128 (3d100)

>>1812019
>>1812021
>>1812053
You consider that Diana might notice you trying to steal stuff via hacking.

Would you like to try it anyway?

>>1812137
>1
DOHOHOHOHO

>>1812137
WELP.

PICK ONE
>Cryo-Storage
>Accelerated Gestation
>Cloning

>>1812137
Methinks she won't notice a thing.

>>1812162
Accelerated Gestation. We have alien cryo, and a tiny cloning vats. Its the only thing we don't have.

>>1812162
>Accelerated Gestation

>>1812162
OP is there a option to just get all the animal DNA?

Ok accelerated gestation.

>>1812162
Accelerates genestation

>>1812176
I imagine we can ask for some chicken eggs. Or just put one in our pocket. Maybe keep a bit of steak aside too. DNA is always easy to get.

>>1812186
Maybe you could ask if any of the natives have seen a cow or a chicken.

>>1812186
I'm just asking because OP could do that thing, where the cloning option could also means getting all the DNA data of the animals.

>>1812188
Oh. they don't keep livestock from the cloning vats? Well then.

>>1812166
>>1812172
>>1812178
>>1812177
Amazingly, the holodisk for the formula for Accelerated Gestation is right here!

>You
(Boy. Imagine that. The thing Unity worked on for almost a century is right here in my hand.)

With this, you can clone things from an Embryo to an Adult in an astonishing amount of time with no noticeable after effects (besides lacking any actual adult instincts). Though you'd actually need a good cloning machine, which BigMT doesn't currently have.

---

>Macintosh
"This is some very strong securitry programs on the tech spirit. Even I would not recommend trying to steal the knowledge here. We should ask the Goddess if she would share with us."

>What do

>>1812204
"Sounds like a plan." :^)

>>1812204
Well we can always try. We don't know how she will take it though. She seems to want to play things close to the chest.

Rolled 79 (1d100)

>>1812204
[INT Check]
Is the computer security actually that formidable with our hacking knowledge and skills?

>>1812204
Create a potbelly pig for our daughter.

>>1812228
Those are just baby normal pigs. We want wolfhounds as companions.

>>1812226
Studying the code, Macintosh is right.

This is highly level Corporate security system. Evidently done by Greenway Hydroponics, rather than the local ZAX.

Strong chance for failure by manual finger hacking, even with your advanced skills. You'd need something more advanced like ED-E or one of your Repair Bots to hack into this.

>>1812228
Would you like to clone a "Pig"?

>>1812238
What do they have?

>>1812238
Can we not hack and just treat with her.

See what else she might need that we can provide.

>>1812248
>What do they have?
Everything.

Just need a vote of three

>>1812268
We need actual Chickens, especially since our cook lady requested it. This is the perfect opportunity.

>>1812268
Clone some chickens. can we pop them out small? like chicks or eggs?

>>1812238
Clone that pig nigga. Also get salmon and sardines.

>>1812301
Are we just gonna walk around with a fish in our pants or something? And we don't have water at home to farm fish.

>>1812310
You can always just fish the rivers here.

>>1812284
>>1812287
You remember that Janith Kindergarten requested "Chicken". So you type up 'Chicken' in the computer.

"Gallus gallus domesticus selected"

CHOOSE:
>Egg
>Chick
>Chicken
>Male/Female

>>1812337
Lets go for a half dozen eggs.
1 male, 5 female.

>>1812310
Salmon and sardines are highly nutricious food. I say we ask for some ice to preserve that shit and bring it back home. We have cloning vats and I am sure we something to use as a refrigiratior.

>>1812337
Are the rivers not irradiated as fuck?

>>1812347
supporting.

>>1812337
backing this >>1812347 but 2 males.

>>1812337
>>1812361
You should have at least two males. If the one is kill we're fucked.

>>1812337
A Dozen fertile eggs
3 males 9 female

>>1812361
>Are the rivers not irradiated as fuck?
Hmmm, you suspect not. The river's you've treaded showed no radiation, and the people here are very healthy human specimens who regularly bathe in the river.

>>1812337
Lets go for a dozen eggs.
2 male, 10 female.

>>1812369
Supporting this.

>>1812365
okay, a dozen eggs then

In your wisdom, you get about a dozen eggs. If these things are similar to geckos, you get a few more females than males. You keep them in a safe part of your backpack in some metal boxes with a bit of paper to cushion them, you'll have to incubate them in a few days you imagine.

>What do

At any time you can end the turn, or ask for suggestions.

With the Power and Repository restored, the Reavers are headed to go fix the Robot Production and Maintenance facility.

>>1812400
>With the Power and Repository restored, the Reavers are headed to go fix the Robot Production and Maintenance facility.
So we're going to be alone here.

Let's look for any loose holodisks laying around or blueprints, or study the things in here.

>>1812400
So if we go back to the brotherhood, would they say we finished our end of the bargain?

>>1812434
You suspect so

>>1812400
Ill ask for suggestions.

>>1812459
Go to Diana, talk to her and then return to close the deal with the brotherhood.

>>1812400
Go help the Reavers fix stuff. Perhaps we can find more cool stuff too.

>>1812474
>Stay here and poke around some more
>Go help the Reavers at the next place
>Go hang out with the Tribals, they did offer you a feast
>Go/Sneak somewhere (Where?) [The Factory, the Repository, the Greenhouse, the Fenced off Area, the Train Station]

>>1812488
>Stay here and poke around some more
We are alone, maybe we can find a hidden safe with holodisks, or help a note with the master password in the IT workspace

>>1812488
>Go help the Reavers at the next place

>>1812488
>Stay here and poke around some more

>>1812488
>Go help the Reavers at the next place

>>1812488
>>Stay here and poke around some more

>>1812503
>>1812498
>>1812493
3
>>1812501
>>1812494
>>1812485
3

We're tied

>>1812522
>Go help the Reavers at the next place

>>1812541
Writing

>>1812522
Stay here and poke around some more

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>>1812561
TOO LATE.

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You head with the Reavers to the Robot Production and Maintenance Facility. Mostly fit for the standard old world models, Mr. Howdy's, Sentry Bots, Protectrons, Sentry Bots, that sort of thing.

It's in bad shape. The power is disconnected. The auto assemblers are busted up. But this technology is childs play for you and the Reavers.

In no time at all, the debris has been cleared, scrap parts used to repair the machines, and power is restored. The factory is already producing a fresh line of robots, as aged old robots drag themselves to the doors for new repairs.

>Mr. Howdy
"Howdy! Y'all did us a favor repairin' our facility 'n all. Thank'yee"

>Linux
"Rise and let the Current Flow through you. Serve the Goddess well, Tech Spirit."

>Mr. Howdy
"Yeah yeah yeah, 'Praise Diana' and all that. Welp, I gots work to do now. See ya"

---

In less than a month, you and the Reavers have helped Diana restore the Nursery what she could not do in years! All her requested to-do list has been completed, and the Reavers go to see her one last time to see if there is anything new.

>Join them
>Go somewhere else
>Let them go, there may be other secrets to perceive about this place

>>1812629

>Join them

>>1812629
>>Join them

>>1812629
>>Join them

Rolled 77 (1d100)

>>1812629
Join them
We are going to impress her so hard she will give us the secrets

>>1812649
Don't fuck the hologram.

>>1812664
>You
[Lady Killer] [I need to think of a way to make that possible]

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>>>1812631
>>>1812634
>>>1812638
>>>1812649
You and the Skirmii return to the Control Tower to speak to Diana, where she greets you once more.

>Diana
"You have done all that I have asked, for that I am grateful."

>You
[You're welcome]

>Linux
"We have restored the Current Flow of Life as best we could."

>Diana
"The 'Current Flow of Life'. That is a beautiful motto for your faith. I am curious to learn more about your Reavers."

>Linux
"I would be honored to tell you of us, Goddess. I and my team are prepared to stay and assist some more, but please remember the purpose of our mission."

>Diana
"I have. I have heard the words of you and of your Paladin Courier.

I find that my nursery is surrounded, by the Legion, by this MLA, and by your Brotherhood. If I must be forced to accept that the world must one day reach the confines of my nursery, I would feel safer where it your Brotherhood than the others."

>Linux
"Thank you Goddess. May we send a holy E-Mail to our Ambassador? There is much the Reavers and the Brotherhood would wish to speak to you of."

>Diana
"Yes, I will allow it. Obey my rules in this sacred place, protect them from harm as you have done, and you are welcome to the Nursery.

As for you Paladin, you have a village to care for. If you must leave, so be it. But you are also welcome to stay."

---

>What do

>>1812670
fuck the hologram

>>1812685
we need to head home for founding day

>>1812685
We would like to, but we must return to our own people. We ask you one time if we can have one bit of knowledge to give to them.

Rolled 40 (1d100)

>>1812685
Seduce her by coding a pleasure line in her coding

>>1812760
no seducing the hologram.

>>1812685
Fuck

>>1812768
But mooooooooom

>>1812685
Does our gut feeling say anything about trading tech now?

Go join the tribals for their feast.

>>1812780
We don't need any bastards running around, especially virtual demigod bastards.

>>1812705
>>1812713
Supporting

Remember goys 3 votes or nothing happened

>>1812670
Remember we did some weird matrix virtual reality thing when fighting Berserker bots?
We could do something like that. Find a port and put our plug in it.

>>1812685
Ask Diana about the illness she had cured.

>>1812791
We need to go back to BoS to continue our deal.

Can we leave a radio or something like that so that we can contact each other as needed?

>>1812799
>Ask Diana about the illness she had cured.
Supporting this.

Don't fuck the hologram.

Also QM, we still have our military action in the Divide before the turn is over, don't we?

I think I have a perfect idea. We should bring Unity here to act as a diplomat for us. They both have great nurturing and motherly characters, so they will get along well.

>>1812685
Also I wonder if we could get a Garden of Eden creation kit from her...or is there are blueprints for them here. We could turn the Big Empty into a paradise.

She did mention that someone stole one before - could she describe this person to us?

>>1812818
Could be great if we got our hand on one of those. We could then replicate it.

>>1812685
>Go back to the BoS
We need to get our damn reward

>>1812824
Exactly. We should ask her about that and what was the 'illness' that she cured the tribals of.

I guess OP is kill again

>>1812838
The illness of being gay

Night guys see you tomorrow.

>>1812799
Supporting

>>1812799
>>1812813
>>1812838
>>1812884
4 votes for asking her about this illness / cure.

If we could ask about the Garden kit too, that'd be good.

We need to reverse engineer that tranq rifle.

Ignoring it's use in policing actions as well as biological / ecological science, it would also prove a useful weapon for capturing our enemies alive for conversion into TACTs and preventing enemy civilians from resisting our advance.


We should also advise Diana to maintain her neutrality as much as she can with the BOS and that we'd like to take back any technologies she'd be willing to share to our people.


After this is done we are going to go secure the Texas BOS shit, gather more of their PA, their weapons, their salvage and so on. For reverse engineering and for trade to other people.

>>1813084
I still think taking the machine over is our best move. It has no love for us, the Reavers worship it and promise godhood among them so they are inclined to side with them. Not to mention that if the BoS set up shop we lose any chance of capture without war. We can fly in with our ship, stealth our way in again (maybe prepare the way while we are here?) and take control of the system. Whether we install a new brain (?) or ship it off to BigMT (which is frankly the better choice) we can decide it ourselves without the other powers knowing. And if we want to resettle the tribals we have "goddess" tell them its superduper livin with us, then educate and propaganda them into loyal citizens, since they are one of the few people wholly unawareof the world outside. Prime reeducation candidates.

>>1813113
I'd like to try and settle this without doing that sort of shit. But if it comes down to it I'll support such actions, so long as we don't kill her.

>>1813113
>>1813084
>We should also advise Diana to maintain her neutrality as much as she can with the BOS and that we'd like to take back any technologies she'd be willing to share to our people.
Why do we want to take over this valley again...?

It is far away from our nation and only filled with a few people.

Sure it has a nice environment, but the real prize is the tech and the pre-war genetic information.

We already have most of that genetic info from just walking around, and we have 1/3 pieces of tech already - is potentially getting into a conflict with the Midwestern BoS worth it to claim this place?

With a bit more work, we can basically recreate it back at BigMT.

>>1813149
Well, it's an additional ZAX, AI, robot factory, plus the various pre-war designs / techs she has for those and such.

Fact is that based off of the description of this place in game, it's a technological and ecological masterpiece. An exact replica of the entire north american biosphere either in existence or storage and entirely self-sustaining. A miracle of pre-war technology, ability and ingenuity.


Primarily we want to keep the BOS from getting her support so that we can have her support when we eliminate the Legion and thus gain a land border with her.

>>1813149
>>1813155
Point is, we steal ZAX and tech. The valley is of no consequence, the reavers can have it. Also, why even keep this AI alive? It is obviously buggy, referring to itself as a goddess and mother. Take the tech, take the hardware and wipe the bitch.

morning, writing

>>1813170
Arent Zax computers the same size as a building?

>>1813170
>Point is, we steal ZAX and tech. The valley is of no consequence, the reavers can have it.
The valley represents a pristine pre-war environment, with advanced technology and industry in a location that is unknown to any of our enemies (including the BOS depending on if they have connection to their internet currently, seeing as we can eliminate them before a signal is sent).

>Also, why even keep this AI alive?
It's a 200+ year old ZAX-type AI specialising in all biological sciences and a bunch of other things seeing as it's survived this long.

>It is obviously buggy, referring to itself as a goddess and mother. Take the tech, take the hardware and wipe the bitch.
That is a falsehood. We know why it does that and we know it is aware it ain't a god or a mother.

>>1813170
It's human/ZAX hybrid. It is something else than normal ZAX.

I'd rather we keep diplomatic approach. Get Unity here as a diplomat. They are both similar in character.

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>>1812713
"Give them the knowledge of life. I am the beauty of the green earth, the soul of nature. I am that which gives life unto the world.

You may ask of me one gift, for I see that you have already taken the blessings of my bounties."

CHOOSE:
>The Cure for Cancer - You don't currently have this and your scientists weren't even sure it were possible!
>An Animal Companion - Trained and friendly
>A superior Farming Algorithim for Mr. Howdys and all robot farms for superior production
>A gene inducer to reduce plant water needs

>You
(Yeah, I definitely wanna figure out how to handle those hologram 'bounties')

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>>1812783
"Return to me with items of trade, and a member of your people, and perhaps my bounties may flow to you again"

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>>1812799
>Ask Diana about the illness she had cured.
"A terrible disease called the New Plague. It was rampant many decades ago, until I spread the cure. I pray it has not returned."

>Linux
"With the Brotherhoods efforts, we will ensure that never happens Goddess."

>She gives you the cure
+New Plague Cure

>>1812810
Diana gives you a way to contact her via her personal satellite.

>>1812818
Diana's mood changes after you ask her about the GECK.

"There was one such other who asked me for a GECK from my factory. When I denied it to him, for I saw he had ill goals in mind, he stole it from me.

I saw that the power of the GECK could be misused for a terrible evil. Once it was my dream to cleanse the world of radiation and let it blossom with GECKs from my factory.

I will not hand them out so lightly. Only upon them whose people I trust to spread life to mankind, not death, and use them for noble means will I even consider such a thing again.

But, you Brotherhood of Steel are already on that path."

>Linux
"I assure you Goddess, the Brotherhood will do all it can to prove itself worthy."

Well shit.

>>1812799
Mercifully, and to your great thanks, Diana gives you the path to a secret backdoor water entrance that leads out into the river. You put on your rebreather mask and dive in, exiting back into the open desert where you find a MUCH better place in the ravine to climb your way out of.

And you begin the long treck back to the Brotherhood of Steel.

>>1813235
>The Cure for Cancer - You don't currently have this and your scientists weren't even sure it were possible!

>>1813235
"Do you know how to cure the FEV?"

>>1813235
Gene inducer


OK, we will have to get things or tech for trade and bring Unity to be friends with her.

>>1813255
>Diana
"That is beyond my abilities, and I refuse to allow FEV into my realm."

>Linux
"We are studying how to eradicate the FEV, at least, its most virulent strains. Most humans have developed a tolerance for less mutagenic strains of FEV which is everywhere."

>Diana
"Then perhaps I might assist in your research."

>>1813235
>The Cure for Cancer - You don't currently have this and your scientists weren't even sure it were possible!

Animal is pointless, farming algorithm can be developed by us and the gene inducer can also be made by us given time.

>Diana gives you a way to contact her via her personal satellite.
Could we show her what our "village" is like and what it was like a year or two ago? Try and get her to understand we are a powerhouse on the rise?

>Well shit.
I think that sums up this trip pretty well. On the other hand we've got the cure for cancer, accelerated fetus development tech, a super tranq rifle and will get good deals from the Reavers for those techs they offered.

Hell we could even trade them the info on the holodisk on the accelerated development we found, as long as we get to keep the original.

>>1813215
If we can make sure there is NO WAY for the other Reavers to know what happened or where then lets kill them and take the place over. If the BoS get involved we are fucked. As to this thing being somehow super useful I doubt it. If it is data we want then we search the archives. Its meager ability to protect itself is of no use. Neither is its ability with tech. The only point I agree to is the biotech use but frankly, with how much the other 5 AI are able to do with 1 ZAX I say give this one to them as well. Make changes if there is need for it and learn everything we can from this thing but ultimately get rid of it and replace it with a trustworthy one.

As to the goddess thing, it may realize it is a machine but it has dreams of grandeur. Frankly unacceptable.

>>1813235
This is what I mean, the BoS will fuck it up for us if they get a whiff of this place. Better find some vault and tell them the reavers died heroically (7 times in the back).

>>1813252
>>1813267
2 for this
>>1813259
1 for this

>>1813268
>If we can make sure there is NO WAY for the other Reavers to know what happened or where then lets kill them and take the place over. If the BoS get involved we are fucked.
Just kill them before they send a signal, perhaps a pulse grenade or two, and we can injure ourselves like cutting an arm off or something if we manage to defeat them without getting injured. Then we just tell them we found the Vault and came under attack from either the MLA or the Legion.

>As to this thing being somehow super useful I doubt it. If it is data we want then we search the archives. Its meagre ability to protect itself is of no use. Neither is its ability with tech.
It has far more than a meagre ability to defend itself. Especially now that it's robotic production facility is back online.

As to it's ability regarding tech, it's as good as CEO but focused on maintaining this place and biology rather than industry. Something we are lacking.

>The only point I agree to is the biotech use but frankly, with how much the other 5 AI are able to do with 1 ZAX I say give this one to them as well.
The ZAX ain't going anywhere fast.

>Make changes if there is need for it and learn everything we can from this thing but ultimately get rid of it and replace it with a trustworthy one.
Mate this AI is trustworthy. It's just we've not endeared it to us.

>As to the goddess thing, it may realize it is a machine but it has dreams of grandeur. Frankly unacceptable.
Now I am certain you are pretending to be this thick. It does that because it makes it easier to get it's people to obey and explaining what it really is isn't possible in their terms. It's perfectly acceptable.

>>1813268
Im also thinking across these lines. Ultimately I see us having a Zax for each AI instead of having to make them share to function.

This bias she has to the brotherhood is alarming. Pehaps tell her of how they genocide mutants and kill their own people who turn to ghouls.

Otherwise I forsee us having to take this place over, simply so that the brotherhood cant have it.

>>1813278
>>1813279
Guys, what if use our cultural boon?

>>1813278
>>1813279
They already emailed the BOS so it is too late for that.

>>1813279
It looks like she does not give a shit about what happens to mutants.

>>1813284
WEeeeeeeeeell

They are in the process of starting it up. In front of the terminal.

However they are also in front of Diana.

If you wish to start shooting and taking over stuff, now is the time.

>>1813283
Bit late for that and I want to save it for making our people more nationalist or something.

>>1813284
They haven't. They asked permission but it's unlikely they have any signal this far out. We can kill them and keep this place safe. Maybe even take their corpses back with us and thus keep their augments to study.


>>1813294
Well shit lads. Do or die time. Do we want to betray the BOS / Diana and attempt a takeover / elimination of our only competitor and hope she changes sides?

>>1813278
The thing could repair its facilities without outside help, despite having numerous handys on standby. It couldnt keep its sanctuary clear of angry weeds. The only reason it is still alive is that it hid away into an inhospitable mountain range and blocked the only entry point. Its shit at security/maintenance.

As to the ZAX, we can send a spybot and use the satellite to link up with our installation. Use it that way until we can either move the thing or find/make a good AI to stick into it.

And trustworthy as to loyal to us. Currently, we will lose this thing to the BoS fast.

>the Ancients in their might and wisdom weaved me into the ZAX, so that I would be Guardian and Goddess of this sanctuary.
Seems more than just courtesy.

>>1813294
Let's not.

It was fucking stupid of us to take them with us. I don't know why people chose them instead of going alone or grabbing our companions

>>1813294
Qm could we use our culture boon to stop them with an impassioned speech and convert them to our cause, or would it be better to just start shooting up the place?

>>1813297
Sure, but we can use the boon for diplomacy so if we can convince Diana to stay neutral after they send the email or right now.

>>1813297
Tits. I say pulse their asses and deal with the AI. It has shit-tier nonlethal basic bots and we have a NAT 10 character. If we go by game terms, this is easy-peasy. VATS every bot for oneshot and just walk into the core, shut down the AI and set up a link with homebase.

The alternative is BoS drones swarming this place next time we are here. God luck with tihs plan then. Also war.

>>1813306
>Qm could we use our culture boon to stop them with an impassioned speech and convert them to our cause
Unfortunately, you lack the specific means to convert the Reavers in this way on your body right now, though it exists.

Furthermore Linux and her crew seem like good Karma people and those are very hard to win over, you notice that its easier to convert bad Karma people when convincing people to fight the NCR back in the Mojave.

>>1813305
Eh, we thought it was just going to be some random Vault. I was 50 / 50 on taking them and decided it was better to have and not need than need and not have. Especially since I presumed we could eliminate them without issue.

>>1813308
I could agree to using it to have her maintain her independence and isolation (which I think is her goal anyway, OP PLS CONFIRM).

>>1813310
True. She has a personal satellite so we can clearly use that to link Big mt to here.

ANONS, ANONS I have a plan.
Suppose we use the boon and our skills to convince her of neutrality. If the BoS receives notice of her position, but she doesn't want to help them anymore than they will either try to forcibly take over or leave her alone. If they DO try hostile action than she has our number for us to swing over and stop her.

>>1813318
Alright, if we cant use a boon in any way to save the day, my vote is we shoot those guys and take over the facility.

As much as i dont want to, its to dangerous to let the brotherhood have it.

I vote for using the boon after this to have her remain neutral.

>>1813326
>I could agree to using it to have her maintain her independence and isolation (which I think is her goal anyway, OP PLS CONFIRM)
This might have been possible the very first meeting, but, you have already convinced her this is not possible due to the presence of three major and dangerous factions.

Hmmm. However, you could use a Cultural Boon to reprogram her brain to obey you AND to follow your ideology, after you kill or eliminate Linux and her team (perhaps you could tranq and cryo-freeze them). Or wipe her memory of these recent events.

>>1813335
Well shit. So when you say reprogram what do you mean?


Lads I think this is our best option even if I dislike it. We should wipe her memory and start over probably.

>>1813335
As distasteful as it is, ill vote for this.

Rolled 51 (1d100)

>>1813335
Perception check to see any tactical advantages we can take.

For fucks sake. Diana is not joining anyone yet.

We just need to continue diplomatic and trade efforts.

>>1813335
With the way you keep cucking us left and right I don't believe we will be able to eliminate Linux and her people even if we become a literal god, your awful roll against system and crits will fuck us up.

>>1813335
>>1813341
Why wipe when we can convert her over? Do whatever is needed to kill the mechanicus and boon her brains. Then we link up with BigMT and have her worked over by our AI to be more subservient/not to decide to do something stupid. Then we datamine her ass and see if she is worth keeping. Also actually fortify the gorge so it is not an easy win for air troops.

Thinking about it on the fly (you only have a few seconds so time for more thought isn't there, and you are already activatnig V.A.T.S. and the GRX) you formulate an immediate action plan.

1. Kill or Incapacitate the Reavers. Vaporize their bodies, or keep them for study, or tranq them and store them in cryo.
2. Before Diana can retaliate, rush forward, find her brain, temporarily disable it.
3. Use the Cultural Boon Briefcase and withdraw a few chips. Mostly an "Asimov Digital AI Slave-Collar" chip to ensure her absolute loyalty, a US "Patriotic Suggestion Enhancement" chip which will make her susceptible to patriotic ideals to programmed authority figures. A bit of brain surgery and BAM, she's all yours.

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Thats as good a plan as you can make in such short time.

>>1813350
Agree with you on the QM part, diagree on AI part. We can (if QM allows it) take this place over and be done with it.

>>1813355
Fuck it, it's a better plan than I've got and to be frank if the worst happens we can just scour the place for a design document or something.

Rolled 82 (1d100)

>>1813355
How many Reavers?
Int roll for where could Diana's brain possibly be. Perhaps our knowledge of debrainification and Zax can be of help?

>>1813360
Your fairly certain based on the size of the room its not far, and that it is likely within reach judging from the relative lack of security here.

>>1813360
Five Reavers. You can do this.

>>1813364
How many Reavers? Do we know if the mechanical parts of the Reavers might interfere if used our tranq gun?

>>1813355
Dooooo iiiiit!

>>1813369
Luckily they aren't 100% machine, and you've observed exposed flesh and their brains are still human, ergo susceptible to tranquilizer.

As an added precaution you also plan to stun them with electricity. If you want to keep them alive.

Of course you can just vaporize them too

>>1813376
So guys, whether or not we kill them, what should our cover story for the Brotherhood be if we do either?

>>1813389
>Int 5
It would be a bad idea to go back to the Brotherhood after this, at all

>>1813392
How will they know? We can send out a mock distress call from some hellhole and say they died. Case being, this should not be so one-dimensional.

>>1813392
What if we say we lost everyone and give them SOME tech to placate them. Like a better algorithm for farming or something and the cures.

I am against hostilities. This makes us no better than Legion or MLA or even NCR.
We lost this one guys, just admit it and don't turn us into a monster we are trying to fight.
We might be able to change her mind in future.

Let's not this sounds like a bad idea

>>1813394
>>1813397

Do you think they are fucking stupid?

General already sees us suspicious because some things don't add up.

Aldo
>int 5

Even a bum fuck farmer will realize what a bad idea it would be.
This will practically make enemies of BoS and we will lose our spaceship

Rolled 68 (1d100)

>>1813394
>>1813397
It stands to reason to you that the Brotherhood want this place investigated. You returning would confirm its here.

If you had returned with the rest of the team and said "it's nothing but rocks" that would be the only way to remove their interest.

But anything that kills five of their best Skirmii is going to get their attention. The best way to keep them away is likely to let them keep waiting for any returns, or not returns at all. Then they won't even be sure if the team made it there.

>>1813394
Hmm, although. . .

Rolling for reasons

Let's just send a dozen or so followers here with Diana's permission and set up joint research projects.


Hell, even seducing her with Lady killer, cha 10 and culture boon is a million times better plan.

>>1813407
Yeah and we will lose our spaceship

>>1813408
So you suggest we roll over in defeat and hope it gets better later? Please. We take action now and secure everything. This place is hidden enough so it wont be discovered until we have had a chance to fortify.

>>1813405
How about this:
I say we tranq them, take over Diana and with her on our side we create a story about rogue defense systems activating and attacking us. While they're unconscious, Diana sends over all of the data for tech and research to BigMT and we can basically torch all of the really important stuff we don't want to fall into the BoS's hands. We return with the cures, the algorithms, and other good tech (but nothing life changing) and allow the BoS in. What the BoS don't know however is that Diana is actually /ourgal/. How about it?

>>1813407
Okay, so you've figured out a plan.

Tranq them, then mutilate the bodies and make it look like they were attacked by the MLA. Apparently the MLA here are the "Hounds of Hecate" so you can get some wild dogs to chew on them.

Then return to the BoS with their bodies in tow.

Tell them it was an ambush, they hit you with tranq darts and only you survived and you saw nothing, get your spaceship back, and go. Bringing back their bodies may earn just enough cred for the General to believe you.

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Alright, so you've squared it off. You get the Nursery, Diana, your spaceship back, and the Brotherhood stays out.

No one see's what you did except you. You feel this will work absolutely if you use the Boon material

>>1813415
Would this >>1813414 be viable?

>>1813419
You would be torching far more than you can feasibly bring to BigMT. There is a lot more here than just Data.

>>1813413
Yeah, I do.
DO you want us to be different than the Legion or NCR? Then we don't go around killing people just because things didn't go exactly our way. Especially killing good people.

>>1813410
I'd argue we can head back in a month or two. Imply that the place was abandoned / stripped clean except with the location of an actual Vault (the one we know is in Legion lands that Diana mentioned) and that when we tried to go there we came under attack and got cut off from our escape route.

Then we imply we've spent the month or two after the bouncing around in the Legion / MLA trying to get back to them and that we lost the Reaver's early on after being separated in a ambush or something.


>>1813415
>No one see's what you did except you. You feel this will work absolutely if you use the Boon material
Fuck it, it's good enough for me and I can think of a few ways to placate the General when the time comes to meet him again like inviting a scribe and a paladin or two to come and meet our people for him. That and asking about their research into curing FEV and asking if we can have the results / help. Not to mention the potential to mention our plan to send forces into the Legion and thus we can imply we want to reclaim the BOS assets in that region (specifically the Mojave chapter's) and find our chaptermates which odd to calm his worries.

>>1813419
Doesnt matter, they wont know there is anything there.

>>1813415
Bag it, boon it, do it.

>>1813422
With the data and presumably blueprints, could we not build them at home?

>>1813424
>DO you want us to be different than the Legion or NCR? Then we don't go around killing people just because things didn't go exactly our way. Especially killing good people.
I'd point out that morally speaking your comparison is quite inaccurate. Even if we went around killing those who got in our way we'd still be better than the NCR seeing as they are outright genocide the tribals they encounter.

As to the Legion? They are what they are and what they are is a bunch of tech-hating, slavers and shit. So long as we generally let civilians live and don't genocide those who resist us we are better than them.

My plan is:
- non-lethal
- denies the BoS the vast majority of the benefits found here
- allows us a permanant spy in BoS territory
- gets us data and the means to reproduce the same facilities back at BigMT.

Vote for my plan today!