WilsonTurner

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Fighters can have shields or armor, and allow them to resist the weaker weapons that would shred a missile. You fire a missile, there is a much better chance of the missile being shot down than a larger fighter with a variety of weapons, with possibly anti-CD and the ability to independently make decisions. It'd be more efficient to send in a couple squadrons to take out the CD and shield clusters after you've broken down the shields, and then focus fire on gaps in the armor, where communications, exhaust, or other devices or parts are sticking through. Primarily using capital ship weapons would be less efficient, though it may have better survival rates for pilots.

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I can either warp for in-system FTL, which will pretty much make all combat capabilities useless and make scanning/radar unusable.

And, ASTA, if you would have read and paid attention and not be so you, you would realize that the Valkians primary defense will be armor, not shields or point defense. PD/Shield Clusters, maybe, but fighters will be more effective than missiles for taking those out.

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So is this finally resolved?

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Duck, you pulled stuff out of your rear, such as a squad or more of armed, armored soldier, that know EXACTLY what they are fighting without prior knowledge, in a small, civilian outpost on the fringes of known space.

You cannot pull stuff out of your ass, such as soldiers and instatravel military ships, and place it anywhere you have a problem. For a peaceful race, blowing up your own station is very Draconian. Are Iscands actually fleshyskinned Draconians? They blew each other up and were all aggressive, but at least they didn't pull shit out of their ass at every problem. They already had it, and it was known that they had it.

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Extreme orbit of Planet N-1
Three Varren WarCruisers abruptly appeared in extreme orbit, about as close as they could get to the planet without the gravitational orbit pulling the ships apart. One moved to a deeper orbit, to begin using orbital bombardment on both the infected city, and the infected jungle and desert. The other two ships accelerated towards the three waiting Explorer ships, with enough radio chatter going between the five ships to charge a battery. As the five ships convened in tactics, enemy tactic data, and battle plans, the first Varren began firing barrages down onto N-1, after firing probes to detect the edges of the infected area.

Once they pinpointed the rough area where the infection was, the began to fire in circles around the sector, isolating it with a rain of fire. Shortly after the area had been isolated, including the city, nuclear warheads were launched. Two, actually. Both were sent on high-efficiency courses, and when they struck soil, the two warheads detonated with a massive explosion, the two warheads combining at their meeting point to create a lengthy, oddly-shaped mushroom cloud, cleansing the soil of both nutrients and of otherworldly parasites and worms. Afterwards, continued railgun bombardment continued to hit any spots that appeared to have foreign particles, or had caves, tunnels, or any other possible shelter from the nuclear blast. If nuclear weapons proved ineffective, then antimatter and plasma research would have to be taken to a new level.

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someone besides a hivemind make contact with meeeeeeeeeeeee
and don't try to kill me, my people are already mobilizing against the hivemind, they'd be even harder pressed to mobilize against someone else.

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darkwolf687 said
Anyway, this is distracting from the main point if the discussion, since you blew up the station; why did not one infected person have even the faintest idea of the locations of any of the planets...

That's because they knew of it before, but Faust wiped their memory of everything relevant that could endanger them.

Faust = duck's hand of god in roleplay.

The Relics (No Plot/Fantasy/Character Driven/Worthy of Skepticism)

I have one question:

dragons?

I will make a run for any dragon. Myth will follow rumors of dragons to the towns at which they originate, and then he will go to where they say there is a dragon. He'll probably do what is essentially tazing if the dragon is hostile.

If dragons are real, who will play the dragon?

I would play a dragon, if that were acceptable. Maybe skyrim-sized dragons?

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They are worms, and I am pretty sure that the entire station doesn't have even room and hallway an individual compartment that contains its own supply of power and air. I'm sure he could have possibly found an air circulation duct, or some pipe or somesuch, and gotten into other rooms. And, duck, you didn't KNOW that one of your own was no longer on your side. You're playing to win, to beat everyone that is against you, which, I believe, is for an RTS game, not a roleplay. You can't win everything. You know something is on the station, or maybe not, but something that could be a minor threat is taken to like DEFCON 2, and you seal everything and arm all yours soldiers on this tiny little remote outpost space station. How do they even have an armory? How do they even have soldiers? It's a little remote station, is it not? Away from the main territory and the like, right? So why would the expense be made to arm the station with an entire compliment of soldiers, weapons, and another strongroom when it already has a drone docking bay and a ship dock. That's a lot of expense for a remote station; you must have significant resources if you keep everything staffed and provided for, for every single station, remote or no.

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duck55223 said
But then Darkwolf decided to pull off another uber-attack of the station purely because I had quarantined the place and made things slightly more challenging for him. Because somehow its easy for one infected maintenance worker to build up a significant of other infected people, then disable power and somehow decide that the command center can't access blast doors(Hint:They can), all the while facing armed guards in armor guarding access to those things. In under what seems like a hour.

What uberattack? He just showed up with some worms, took some unwary people that I'm pretty sure weren't armed with flamethrowers nor had any clue what was going on, and then he sent them to an armory, in which your soldiers just shot some pretty normal-looking civilians because they were right in front of the armory. He had it legitimate; you didn't. You just made it your way.