Where we Left Off [RP TITAN]

[Vinyl]

A seed is just a lump of scrap metal used to shield harvesters. The harvesters then (rather quickly) use the heap of scrap to produce some mobile factories. The harvest then continues to seek out usable materials and either brings them to the nearest factory or makes another factory. The harvesters will continue that process until they are either destroyed or have been bound to a factory. All the while, the factory (mobile via legs, wheels, floaties, or whatever else is needed to traverse the terrain they operate in) is dynamically producing units that are either workers or warriors. Workers help the factories by building, dismantling, upgrading, and collecting. Warriors are used to fight anything that is deemed an enemy or is hostile. Workers and warriors become progressively more advanced as the workers add on to the factories. Once the world is conquered, they then build starports and take to space where they contribute to the navy. If seeding is not a viable option, they can use transports and superships to transfer warriors and factories to the destination.

They spread rather fast. There's probably already a couple factories churning out workers and warriors right now.

[ACH0225]

[meta]Strigiforme message to all attacked groups, asking if fire support is required. Also, 3 Strigiforme fleet moving in to protect Menya, along with 20 pleb SDI Triangulum fleets.[/meta]

[Vinyl]

[meta]1 hundred probes have been launched from the forces at Laruth. At a glance, they'd appear as no more than a stray bit of debris (or in the case of the Laruthians, a seed). Distribution of destinations:
10, Orion Imperium
10, Mobian Republic
10, Darkstar
10, Tajer
10, Antioch United Federation
50, Strigiforme Nationalized Kingdom[/meta]

[Professor Fenway]

10 objects of unknown origin have been detected crash-landing on AUF planets after leaving subspace. Two fleets have been dispatched to investigate and destroy these objects.

The NeoRoman fleet at Menya has retreated just before the secondary shield collapsed. It has formed up with the battle fleet at Vortex Station and is currently preparing several planet-busting weapons.

The three NeoRoman detachments in WLM have begun attacking. Save for several command ships, the ships are entirely robotic (using ARK tech) and have managed to secure the entry systems (backwater systems or uninhabited, mind you) with moderate casualties, but it is clear the present force is incapable of taking WLM. Production in NGC 1300 is being completely focused on producing more ships to attack WLM. In addition, NR is adopting a 'scorched earth' strategy. All Hexaguthian worlds that are come across will be destroyed via singularity implosion bombs, in order to not risk unacceptable casualties in manually taking the planets.

[Vinyl]

OOC: The probes don't use FTL, instead they're just sent off at high speeds.
BIC

With the NR gone from Menya, the full force is being directed on the Novans.

[Error]

Right, be ready for hundreds or thousands of years of travel time.

Without FTL, iz gon b a while.

[Shadowcatbot]

OOC: The probes don't use FTL, instead they're just sent off at high speeds.

Then by time those probes land anywhere they'll be effectively useless.

[Vinyl]

Did I post that bit? I need to develop my proofreading skillz.

Anyways, yes is FTL. But they won't be crashing on your planets. They're on a trajectory that simply has them sail harmlessly (unless someone gets in their way) through space before reentering FTL.

[DeadlyMiddie]

The Orion Imperium, observing reports of these metal debris carrying Hexaguthian robots, were quick to shoot them out of the sky. Planetary defense shields have been raised over all planets. The Imperial Navy has been mobilized yet again. Only 1 of the seeds made it through; it landed on a small agri-world. 2 Imperial Marine Divsions have been dispatched to deal with it. The ARCHANGEL system has been activated and targeted. Only the order remains to be given.

OOC: Vinyl, please describe your definition of "supership." You have 20.

[Professor Fenway]

Practically all AUF planets are under constant sensor surveillance in all aspects, and can detect practically anything entering the atmosphere (even cloaked ships due to atmospheric disturbances). FTL or no, it's safe to say I detected them all, and given the state of war, figured out their function and destroyed them. Remember: police military state.

[Shadowcatbot]

OOC: Right then, Im just gonna assume they were detected otherwise there either not getting anything then empty space or will arrive in 100 to 1000000 years.

A number of foreign FTL probes were swiftly destroyed by automated corvette patrols, Analysis of the debris shows them to be of Hexelani origin.

Fleets are on high alert and patrols have been tripled to protect the TTR.
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Continued development of Draco has produced a number of new Civilian and Military infrastructures, Newer more compact multi-cell shipyards are now producing automated corvettes at a wartime rate.

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Basic design of an automated cruiser has been finished and is undergoing rigorous testing and improvments.

[ACH0225]

Any of them that come close to Strigiforme planets ping off the shields.

[Vinyl]

Don't need to get anywhere close to planets. All they need to know is that X is still at X. This is achieved via simple instrumentation.

[Archduke Daynel, PhD]

Practically all AUF planets are under constant sensor surveillance in all aspects, and can detect practically anything entering the atmosphere (even cloaked ships due to atmospheric disturbances). FTL or no, it's safe to say I detected them all, and given the state of war, figured out their function and destroyed them. Remember: police military state.

I guess you also destroy every single one of the hundreds of meteors that crash on each of your planet every day too?
And scrap from your own satellites?
Because the seeds wouldn't appear much different.

[Ivan2006]

The probes have been picked up by sensors, but since they have not been recognized as such, after calculations have shown they are not going to crash into anything relevant anytime soon, have been left alone.