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Dark Heavens | Space Ship Girls Quest [Original Setting]

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008 : Overwhelming Victory
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    Your heart beat fast, even as your engine pulsed steadily, as you peer over the edge of your remade throne. It was a tad uncomfortable, and thus, you had your repair systems remodel it into a a cushiony little fortress that was armoured on the outside and soft and squishy on in the inside. And had walls just tall enough for you to peer over

    You could watch the screens with your smaller body, while your larger body observed everything around you. Even more, with the aid of So, you could see so much more.

    Despite the temptation to simply drink in the vista, you focused on Big Sister ChiChi, making sure to stay hidden in her wake. Thankfully, Big Sister ChiChi left a rather wide and deep wake when she was charging at full bore. It meant, you didn't need to stay right by her and thus potentially running the risk of being spotted accidentally.

    And so, you waited and watched as first the parasite crafts of Shoryuu lanced in, to start probing at your Big Sister's defenses. From light particle beams to fire and forget missiles that made your sensors scream radiological alarm at you with each explosion.

    You could only watch as your Big Sister simply ignored each and every attack essayed at her, even as she desperately attempted to return fire with laser cannons and small railgun turrets, what on you were point defenses.

    And yet, you could almost feel your Big Sister's concern as the light cruiser twins joined the fighters in a parody of an escort around her. You could see what, they planned, to simply rotate and fire unending broadside barrages at her until she surrendered or was brought to a stop.

    It proved easy to achieve full thrust, and lance in under your Big Sister.

    There was a moment of surprise on the twin cruisers as well as the scouts... and then it was too late.

    It feels... good to unleash HELLFIRE with your broadsides, to ripple down your array of heavy cannons one after the other. To see them strike a target, to see the target be pushed away from heavy damage down their bodies.

    It feels invigorating... you could feel your heart beat faster as you deployed your missile turrets. To know that everyone's radiological alarm were screaming as your fired your missiles. To see their desperate evasion... and it just wasn't enough. Not with big sister So's sensors and telementary guiding your missiles.

    The blossoms of light and radiation, the very foundation of life and existance, were beautiful as they flared into existance.

    True, you were not able to bring them to a dead stop, rather... you had crippled them. Their very mobility was now compromised and that had been all that had kept them alive.

    Still, that was no matter, you just needed a little bit of time to reload your missile turret, and they would have a choice of surrendering or dying like the little bitches who had dared to hurt your Big Sister.

    More, with their main drives compromised, the parasite crafts would not be able to return to their mothership, the Shoryuu.

    Which was when you received a transmission... granted, it was a broadbeam transmission and there was no attempt to encrypt it or such.


    [Shoryuu - Pl... please... I surrender... ceas... ceasefire. I yield! Thetis, Medusa... please stop.] There was a hint of damage from the chamber where the smaller body of Shoryuu had secreted herself in her larger body. The tone of desperation and shock in her voice was also quite clear.

    Now came the thinbeam communication from Big Sister ChiChi to you and your other big sisters. [ChiChi - Should we accept their surrender and take our weregild or should we... the other option would be to sink them.]

    [Izuna - You can't be serious about that second option. You know that there are things that are never done, and murder is one of them.] There was a frown from Izuna now.

    [Jack - Nothing wrong with that if no one knows... you get my meaning.]

    [Izuna - Jack. We would know.]

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    Dark Heavens | Space Ship Girls
    008 : Overwhelming Victory
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    What Do?
    [X] Accept the coward's surrender. [May pick 1 subsystem from losers and stored in Big Sister's cargo hold]
    [X] Force them to join you as new minions... wait... what?!? [Write In Required to Justify]
    [X] Sink 'em [Write In Required to Justify]
    [X] Write In
     
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    Who's the little sister now?


    [X] Accept the coward's surrender.
    -[X] Demand a subsystem each from both cruisers and Shoryuu. They have been harassing your sisters for months and they deserve recommencement for repairs made, and having to flee again and again.
    -[X] If they refuse make a show of powering up your broadsides and tracing their fresh wounds with your PD.


    Tempted by forcing them to join us, but... we're only just barely getting to know our new team. Is now really the time to conscript new concubines minions?

    Maybe a very excellent justification write-in could convince me. Not sure.

    Edited to include redaeth's suggestions.
     
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    [X] Accept the coward's surrender. [May pick 1 subsystem from losers and stored in Big Sister's cargo hold]
    -[X] Demand a subsystem each from both cruisers and Shoryuu. They have been harassing your sisters for months and they deserve recommencement for repairs made, and having to flee again and again.
    -[X] If they refuse make a show of powering up your broadsides and tracing their fresh wounds with your PD.


    Is that 1 subsystem from each ship or 1 subsystem overall?
     
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    pepperjack said:
    I dunno, I'm feeling pretty intimidating right now.

    What do you folks think? One from each cruiser we just totally owned, plus one from Shoryuu for being a meanie?
    /trying to resist making demands that would require the thread to be moved...
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    Sounds good to me. So adding
    -[] Demand a subsystem each from both cruisers and Shoryuu. They have been harassing your sisters for months and they deserve recommencement for repairs made, and having to flee again and again.
    -[] If they refuse make a show of powering up your broadsides and tracing their fresh wounds with your PD.
     
    [X] Accept the coward's surrender. [May pick 1 subsystem from losers and stored in Big Sister's cargo hold]

    I know Bii said one overall, but is that just 1 for our fleet, or 1 for each of our members (if 1 each I'll assume the others would pick their own systems, not us picking them)? Also if we choose to take something we already have better of (like weapons) would that count towards an upgrade if we did it often enough, or would it just be a waste of a choice?

    I don't really like the part that calls her a coward- they pretty much just had their entire fleet ripped apart by an ambush, and are facing a ridiculously well armed cruiser and 6 subs. At this point I think them surrendering is the smart thing to do, not any sign of cowardice.
     
    wayne82444 said:
    At this point I think them surrendering is the smart thing to do, not any sign of cowardice.
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    Well, yes. But we're flush with victory, and we're entitled to rub it in.
    /insert puns here

    redaeth said:
    -[] Demand a subsystem each from both cruisers and Shoryuu. They have been harassing your sisters for months and they deserve recommencement for repairs made, and having to flee again and again.
    -[] If they refuse make a show of powering up your broadsides and tracing their fresh wounds with your PD.
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    Good enough for now. Adding this to my vote.
     
    wayne82444 said:
    I know Bii said one overall, but is that just 1 for our fleet, or 1 for each of our members (if 1 each I'll assume the others would pick their own systems, not us picking them)? Also if we choose to take something we already have better of (like weapons) would that count towards an upgrade if we did it often enough, or would it just be a waste of a choice?

    I don't really like the part that calls her a coward- they pretty much just had their entire fleet ripped apart by an ambush, and are facing a ridiculously well armed cruiser and 6 subs. At this point I think them surrendering is the smart thing to do, not any sign of cowardice.
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    It's one for the fleet.
     
    If it is one for the fleet then I'd recommend seeing about getting Big Sis ChiChi either some fighters or some better weapons. As is we are likely the strongest individual here (equipment wise, experience can make a difference), we should probably focus on the others for now. The subs could use better weapons and armor, better repair systems all around couldn't hurt, but upgrading ChiChi with fighters seems like it would be the biggest boost to me.

    That said no need to make up our minds yet, they might have something that isn't immediately evident that would help. I'm just listing possibilities based on what has already been seen.
     
    [X] Force them to join you as new minions... wait... what?!? [Write In Required to Justify]
    -[X] By simple law of salvage you now own their asses... Any arguement to the contrary can be met with the reminder that not only did you spare their lives but that you would be allowing them to continue to be able to fly.
    --[X] Take or install what ever means necessary to essentially remote control your new girls and ensure that they can't engineer an easy escape.
     
    I find it interesting that they stopped short of sinking them because that would be murder. Creates a very different impression of war between them than humans.
     
    [X] Accept the coward's surrender. [May pick 1 subsystem from losers and stored in Big Sister's cargo hold]
    -[X] Demand a subsystem each from both cruisers and Shoryuu. They have been harassing your sisters for months and they deserve recommencement for repairs made, and having to flee again and again.
    -[X] If they refuse make a show of powering up your broadsides and tracing their fresh wounds with your PD.
     
    [X] Accept the coward's surrender. [May pick 1 subsystem from losers and stored in Big Sister's cargo hold]
    - [X] Vanilla, no extra sub-option please.
     


    Current Tally~

    4 - pepperjack, redaeth, Jiven, Raron
    [-] Accept the coward's surrender.
    -[-] Demand a subsystem each from both cruisers and Shoryuu. They have been harassing your sisters for months and they deserve recommencement for repairs made, and having to flee again and again.
    -[-] If they refuse make a show of powering up your broadsides and tracing their fresh wounds with your PD.

    7 - wayne82444, Least Devotee, EternitynChaos, theweepingman, evillevi, Minion #Q, joe6168
    [-] Accept the coward's surrender. [May pick 1 subsystem from losers and stored in Big Sister's cargo hold]

    1 - Xicree
    [-] Force them to join you as new minions... wait... what?!? [Write In Required to Justify]
    -[-] By simple law of salvage you now own their asses... Any arguement to the contrary can be met with the reminder that not only did you spare their lives but that you would be allowing them to continue to be able to fly.
    --[-] Take or install what ever means necessary to essentially remote control your new girls and ensure that they can't engineer an easy escape.
     
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    [X] Accept the coward's surrender. [May pick 1 subsystem from losers and stored in Big Sister's cargo hold]
    -[X] Demand a subsystem each from both cruisers and Shoryuu. They have been harassing your sisters for months and they deserve recommencement for repairs made, and having to flee again and again.
    -[X] If they refuse make a show of powering up your broadsides and tracing their fresh wounds with your PD.
     
    [X] Accept the coward's surrender. [May pick 1 subsystem from losers and stored in Big Sister's cargo hold]
     
    [X] Accept the coward's surrender. [May pick 1 subsystem from losers and stored in Big Sister's cargo hold]
     
    So 7 plain accept, 4 for bully for more subsystems...

    Should the tanuki be the one who decides the subsystem since no one is interested in picking the subsystem in question?

    You have a choice of Carrier Special (parasite craft), Heavy Broadsides (8 per side) from Cruiser, Medium proton missile turrets: 4 turrets with 8 missiles from Cruiser, Very Heavy Armor from Carrier.

    Please note that certain specials if taken and incorporated will have drawbacks for whoever takes it.
     
    I'd like the very heavy armour, but at the same time, not getting hit > taking a hit, usually.

    The parasite craft would be cool, too, but at the same time, I'm also leery of the drawbacks, what with it being a special subsystem. Something to keep in mind is that we could take it, not use it, and keep it for trading at a later date, though.

    The best option, I'd say, is either taking the heavy broadside or the medium proton missile turrets, and taking them for ourselves, because that'd turn us into an absolute beast in combat. Alternatively, outfitting Chi-Chi with some missile turrets would be nice...

    [X] Accept the cowards surrender
    -[X] Take one subsystem (Heavy Broadsides)
    --[X] Add onto our own loadout

    Pros
    • Probably no difficulties in installing (being from a similar class of ship)
    • Will turn us into a secret weapon, so we can consider more regularly fighting opponents for subsystems.
    • Will have likely have a lesser cost for building ammunition than the proton missile launchers

    Cons
    • It might be hard to convince our new posse to let us take the lion's share of the benefits
    • It will make us a bigger target

    Kind of in the middle
    • Any future strategies will depend on us
     
    See, I'm figuring our own weapons are good enough. Chi-Chi, being huge, probably does have room for the carrier subsystem, and it would give her the offensive/defensive capability to turn her into a real mothership.

    Er, older-sistership. Whatever.
     
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