MOTHERSHIP POLL SUBMISSIONS

[futurologists]

DISCUSSION POST UPDATE: The poll will go up on 23 September due to scheduling concerns. Submissions are due by 23:59 UTC 22 September. Hello, futurgooglies! Because the objectives in our current mission can be completed in a number of ways, we will be holding a poll on 23 September to decide the ultimate game canon fate of the Mothership and the Taraxa. As the Mother has not yet been found, we will not be accepting submissions regarding her fate. However, you are free to submit any other ideas regarding this mission and we will do our best to include them. The purpose of this post is to collect poll options, submitted by you, the players! These don't have to be IC suggestions, but they should be open to the game at large. However, the poll will be an IC vote and require IC participation. You are more than welcome to discuss your characters' participation in these plans; all we ask is that they are inclusive of all players and characters who wish to participate. Feel free to ask us any questions in the subthread below! We will avoid spoiling the outcome, but can clarify minor points that have not been addressed already. Any questions about the mission itself rather than idea submissions can be directed to the dossier, and our first mission log is up!

Comments

QUESTIONS?

[futurologists]

[bladefaire]

nobody saw my mistake earlier

Because I'm dumb - since the submission comment says not to +1 comments, I'm assuming that if you guys have already received one particular suggestion, you don't want repeats of the same suggestion in different comments?

[futurologists]

Correct! We will be adding all viable options to the poll, no matter how many preliminary "votes" they have.

SUBMISSIONS

[futurologists]

Please keep your submission under 120 characters.

Do not use this thread to discuss potential submissions or to +1 suggestions. Only completed submissions should go here.

Mothership

[cachemoney]

EMP the engines, causing the Mothership to crash land.

[ex_mettacrusher33]

Kill the leader, take ship and crew.

You know how it goes. Keep what you kill.

Mothership

[fateality]

Take their shit, then blow it up.

[respired]

KILL'EM ALL AND LET GOD SORT IT OUT (blow it up)

Taraxa

[cachemoney]

Capture as many as possible and bring them to Oska for extraction.

Taraxa

[pummelling]

Eradicate all Taraxa agents.

Mothership

[pummelling]

Destroy Zymandis records, conscript or imprison remaining agents, and repurpose the Mothership into an ALASTAIR base.

Mothership

[pummelling]

Sever all portals and communication and abandon the Mothership along with all Zymandis agents who refuse to defect.

ohhh life on the outside ain't what it used to beeeeee

Taxara

[ofobedience]

Extract all taxara hosts in order to have the taxara removed safely in Oska.

Mothership

[ofobedience]

Blow it up, kill Zymandis.

Taraxa

[pummelling]

Perform emergency extractions on-site and transport surviving hosts to Oska.

Mothership

[banded]

Evacuate Zymandis agents safely, and then blow it up.

Mothership/Zymandis Leadership??

[ex_mettacrusher33]

You know what's always fun?

Staging a rebellion. Get enough Zymandis agents on your side with the lucrative promise of "not fucking destroying all life in the universe for a new one you won't even be a part of" and you can take over from the inside, baby.

[skelepun]

Temporarily disable ship (either via hacking database, overloading generators, or otherwise stopping it without ruining it forever), commandeer said ship, and immobilize Zymandis crew (as much is possible, fighting back against dissenters if necessary). Question whatever crew is left after the ship is overtaken to see who is willing to defect to the ALASTAIR side, who has information, and who will need to remain imprisoned.

Keep the ship, keep the prisoners! Bring it and their version of timeline.exe back to Oska for study.

[ex_mettacrusher33]

You know what would help with immobilizing the crew?

Poisoning the water supply with optimism.

[Finger-guns.gif]

[skelepun]

[ex_mettacrusher33]

WOW IT'S NICER THAN USING THE MADNESS POTION! EAT MY SHORTS!!

Mothership

[selfimage]

Track down the leader to kill/detain (depending on circumstances); liberate the Ophiel AI; evacuate Zymandis agents that wish to defect; blow up the rest of the ship.

Mothership

[cachemoney]

if it's okay to submit more than one for the same thing....??

Sabotage energy generators, causing ship to be dead in the water and necessitating an abandon ship.

How To Blow Up A Mothership

[cachemoney]

ok since many options include this so far, let's discuss how to do the thing

[cachemoney]

generator option: send people into the energy generators to overclock them, creating lots of explosions (and rendering the mothership w/o energy)?? this wouldn't explode the whole thing, but it would blast holes in it and would make the ship unliveable/force Zymandis forces to evacuate. minor casualties (generator workers, adjacent agents).

engine option: we have been outfitted with emp grenades, so we could blast the engines with them and through sci-fi logic the mothership could crash into a planet and everyone dies. major casualties!!

[dbag]

if you're gonna blow it up then BLOW IT UP, major casualties or go home

[bladefaire]

ia with elle, go big or go home

[pummelling]

how very ic, white hyperion spacebase destroying rice

[dbag]

omfg LISTEN rhys doesn't want to blow it up, he doesn't want destroying TWO spacebases on his sin list

[pummelling]

re the engine option: [muffled retrogade playing in the bg as alastair leaves in escape pods]

jin's icly about the former and would be on team CAN WE AT LEAST TRY TO RECRUIT SOME PEOPLE WHO HAD NO CHOICE TO BE ZYMANDIS????? but explosions regardless will be fun, eyes emoji

[cachemoney]

don't call me out like this

ok maybe i will submit the other one FOR THE WIMPS IN THE CROWD

[pummelling]

[james blake warbling]

[secondnature]

Activating a self-destruct mechanism.

Sci-fi spaceships always have these, right??