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If I'm not mistaken, the overclocker must replace the armor on the sections with point defense., since it's in the same category.

I mean, Krupp steel was the best armor available, but other types do exist.

Also if we've got dreadnoughts we've got Krupp steel unless things have been badly rearranged

Fire all guns at the Plaguebearer.

E. Copy down evidence relating to Lampblacks or Red Sashes and whatnot that might be relevant to our own future escapades, but turn in all the original evidence, keeping copies for ourselves.

So I think you meant "persuasive" rather than "persuadable" there, C2.

Skills are evidently both rare and really, really harsh in this game. The differences from 0d to 1d to 2d are all MASSIVE.

So I guess Kind of B but also D, using the recognition signal (organized through flashback, apparently) and taking the time to explain to him that actually Sari will be just fine, she's just unconscious so that everyone involved has plausible deniability should it be necessary. Y'see, we're protecting his friend here from any consequences. Marissa will Push herself (what exactly are the consequences?) to bring us to not-at-disadvantage.

Jarha Caelium-Stabilised Shotgun (3): NUKE9.13, TFF, Madman
Red Needler (Explosive) (0):
Red Needler (Toxic) (1): Frostgiant
Iron Legionary IFV (0):
Sharak Torpedo Mk.III (0):
STN-M-G (0):
FABRICATION (0):
VERS (1): Frostgiant
Iron Lignum Carapace Armour (0):
Gupata-Class GR-Submarine (3): NUKE9.13, TFF, Madman

Lots of good ideas. I'd like to do something to make basic infantrymen better, through armor or auxiliary augmentations like vision or hearing or healing and whatnot, but that doesn't need to happen now. I'd also like to design the IFV/APC sort of vehicle so we can add some mobility and firepower to our infantry units, but, again, not necessarily something to do now.

Making an upgraded submarine makes sense though I do have some reservations about being all submarine all the time and not, say, designing our own battleship to fight their battleships. Which, I just noticed, are kind of comical in that they for some reason have 5 single-mounted 12in guns, like some sort of demented dreadnought cousin to the French predreadnoughts.

EDIT: So if we *were* to want to fight them, we'd need something fast, powerful, and well-protected.

Varspit-class Battleship
In order to combat the battleships of the enemy, we've engineered our own battleship to counter them, while being better in every conceivable way.

The Varspit is a fast battleship akin to the enemy's, with GavReactor powerplant driving four propellers to give it a top speed of 28 knots, matching the enemy's most prevalent battleships. The use of the GavReactor vastly reduces the size of our engines compared to previous generations of ships. Unlike previous ships, however, soundproofing is omitted from all aspects of the ship (except in places where it's necessary for the function of the engine or sonar system or whatnot).

It carries an extremely powerful Wellsonar system to locate targets even in adverse weather conditions, and a substantial amount of work went into the long-base rangefinders located on the mast, aft superstructure, and on each turret. This ship is meant to have a range advantage over enemy ships in every conceivable condition. The torpedo defense system is also backed with Wellmoss to help seal up any breaches. As undoubtedly expensive vessels, the Varspits are meant to be flagships, and thus carry enhanced communications suites and quarters for an admiral and their staff plus an admiral's bridge to command the fleet from.

For weaponry, the ship is armed with four twin turrets carrying 380mm/15in guns (4x2 380mm, in short), giving it eight substantially longer ranged and more powerful guns capable of dealing meaningful damage to the enemy's battleships. For a secondary battery, it carries 16 twin 120mm dual-purpose mounts, the same gun and turret used in the Silada and Mukebaza (16x2 120mm). There are actually eight torpedo tubes, two on each side aimed about 45 degrees away from the forwards line of travel, two forwards (aimed forwards, surprisingly enough), and two aft, aimed, you guessed it, aft. These torpedo tubes are meant to give the battleship a last-ditch option against, say, quickly-closing enemy suicide destroyers.  A battery of our preexisting 20mm autocannon slapped down where there is space rounds out the armament.

The battleship has a 330mm thick armored belt, 250mm thick barbettes, 330mm turret armor, and a 75mm thick armored deck. The torpedo protection system uses space saved by the GavReactor propulsion system to allow the TPS to move inside the hull instead of being comprised of external bulges, reducing drag but requiring significant use of internal space. The conning tower is not armored, and instead a more substantial bridge structure is utilized since most commanders don't use the constricted views and small spaces of armored conning towers anyway...and there are reports that when struck with a heavy shell that detonates without penetrating the armor, everyone inside a conning tower would die anyway due to the blast effects and/or spalling. So we've added enough armor to proof the bridge against splinters and left it at that.

For organization's sake, have a votebox:

Group:
Shadows - Ghost Echoes: (3) Naturegirl1999, Kakaluncha, ConscriptFive
Assassins - Emberdeath: (1) Madman

Characters (PICK THREE)
Leech - Artificer: (3) Naturegirl1999 (??vote for leader?? listed first in NG's votes so...maybe?), Madman, Glass
Slide - Trust In Me: (1) Naturegirl1999
Slide - Cloak and Dagger: (1) ConscriptFive (??vote for leader??)
Lurk - The Devil’s Footsteps: (4) Naturegirl1999, Kakaluncha (??vote for leader??), Madman, Glass
Spider - Foresight: (2) Madman (vote for leader), Glass (vote for leader)

OK, here's the clear-as-mud votebox. Please indicate which character (if any) you'd like to be the leader, as C2 will be taking that into consideration when selecting the leader from the three characters who get the most votes. I've tentatively dropped in indicators for those who didn't indicate clear preference but please oh please change them to a definite selection or otherwise.

And vote for all three characters, please!

Just remember that with assassins we can kill people who annoy us AND nobody will ever be able to find their corpses because we can literally disintegrate them.

Also at some point one of our clients will undoubtedly pull a Darth Vader moment on us and tell us "I want them alive, no disintegrations"