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Can someone give me a summary of what happened in the last 7 pages?

We came in to the sector we were supposed to destroy.  It is guarded by 2 destroyers and a few weapons platforms.  The destroyers told us to get lost.  We sent out a stealth bomber with a nuke towards the station and messed up the fire controls in the weapons platforms so they will now fire on anyone (friend or foe).

Then Julius, of all people, got on the radio and told us that this was a House Laberine sector (not whatever house we were told) and that we should leave immediately.  We prepared to do so, telling him this was all just a big mistake.  Then someone ordered the stealth fighter to launch the nuke, blowing up the station.  Helios malfunctioned and is possibly dead.  Julius is a little upset about us blowing up the station.  I (Urist) jumped ship destined for one of the destroyers.

Then you got a message from me telling you that I was the one who shot the nuke, and blew up the station, but that I did it to get rid of a weapon that House Laberine was working on to wipe out the AI race.  I said that the weapon was now aboard the Firestar and I tried to draw it out, but it didn't appear to have worked.

When you questioned Julius about this anti-AI weapon, he seemed to think you were referring to something you found aboard the Flarewise which their marines captured when they boarded it.  Julius blames you for the death of all the people on the station and is now ordering his ships to fire on you.

Uh.. hang on guys... it didn't take the bait... weird, for something designed specifically to go after AIs, it doesn't seem too interested in me... HELIOS!?!  Are you still alive over there??  We have to get it off the Firestar!

Skyrimmer is right!  What could possibly be more important than updating your little forum game for our amusement? 

Quote from: Urist McDwarfFortress on April 05, 2012, 06:06:57 pm

Quote from: Dragor23 on April 05, 2012, 05:16:53 pm

What's not over?

The game?

You lost it.

I always lose that game!

No, I was talking about this game, ie. the evolution game that we used to play on this thread.

That won't work.  The constructed walls are connected to your floor (the part labled 'r' in your diagram) so they won't collapse.

You'd have to make the middle floor look something like this:
OOOOO
OCCCO
OOOOO
rrrrr
OOOOO
OCCCO
OOOOO


We already have a nuke in place, or at least nearly in position to take out the station, so boarding it wouldn't really help us, since we can already take it out whenever we want.  Also, stations most likely hold hundreds of people, and as this is a military system they will probably be armed and well-trained.  Our little boarding party would probably be slaughtered.

How about we fire a few shots from our main railgun into the path of the destroyers.  They'll take a long time to get there, but the destroyers are accelerating towards us, so that will cut the travel time down a bit and add a huge amount of kinetic energy to each impact.

Well, you could always try killing the Titan, then Urist McLeverpuller will have no issues pulling the lever in question.

We've never fought a destroyer before.  I don't know if nukes are overkill or not.  Maybe we can use one nuke for the minetrap idea and at the very least we can probably blind their sensors to the barrage that we will then unleash on them!