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+1 to TopHats proposal
Recruits? Equip your Tinfoil-Hats! You'r' gonna need dem for dis.
As for "upgrading", I think we could do so for the quarters - just build "half" of them for now, and build the rest of the partitions and stuff later on. This, I strongly presume, won't be the case for a nuclear reactor, which should only be a modular one, instead of "the real deal" as we commonly know it. Any retrofit-messing with a module, tends to cost more than a new one, especially if it is about a sensitive product like a nuclear reactor.

If we can get any space-suits, and or the reason as for why D2, the non-atmosphere planet with ruins took such a toll on our robotic scout, I'd actually favour that one for exploration. You can't mess up with ruins, as much as you could do with a "living" planet - granted, that their possibly existing security system is also nonfunctional. Which we should doubt. Slow exploration would be key, if we value the lives of our subordinates. If, right?

Still, the prospect of investigating the ruins of a society which presumeably made active use of these gates, is far more attractive than exploring a random terrestrial planet. My best guess for the failure, would either be the mentiond possiblity of a still-functional defence system on D2, some sort of EMP waves of yet unknown nature, or far worse, that radiaton simply fried the robot. If it is the later, we actually can forget about exploring it with any non-isulated robot, as a robot clearing chernobyl, fried after a single day or so. Now, that disaster was bad enough in and off itself (a horryfing, but good read, actually), but if we add up such damage on electronics by radiation to a single minute, and a modern robot, then any soldier we send there for even a single second, is dead meat, quite possibly puking out their organs, if they even live long enough to do so (here is hope they wouldnt. poor souls.). Well, we also could have had bad luck, and sent it just in time for a solar-storm, unhindered by any sort of magnetic field, but that theory also holds its own risks.

I'll also put down a vote against D4. It is an island surrounded by a big body of water - salt or freshwater, isn't that important. Know those old maps with all kinds of beasts in the waters? Now, on earth we know them to be wrong for the most part, or not bent on aggression like the kraken, but anything could linger in those depths, or wait for passerbys to venture unto the shores. We may have more or less conquered our own eco-system, but alien ones could be far more deadly (Actually, the reverse could also hold true. We could live on a "death planet", with most other planets a cakewalk. Thing is, all this is pure speculation right now. Speculation, doesn't give security, and tends to be wrong.)

Now, for the obligatory "I might seem crazy, but its actually you that are" post. Remember, tinfoil-hats are your friend in this, any any other scenario!
Truth be told, all these planets could prove a biohazard for our own, or any pathogens we bring there, could prove the same to them. I strongly suggest that our future explorers are decked out in some sort of "combat abc space suits". Now, I know all of this sounds way, way paranoid - thing is, it really isn't. The chances for these things happening, might be astronomical low, but if we allow them to unfold, we are in deep shit. Several people dead, and department closed, is actually one of the better outcomes in these scenarios.

Truth be told, ALL magic is EVIL
We would do good to also kill the other evil one afterwards, though for now going after the presumably slightly more evil green-magic-user, is a good idea.

Quote from: IronyOwl on June 17, 2016, 02:49:06 am

Our name is Gluttony, because forsaken Naga bloodlines tend to be edgy like that. We bear the Mark of the Corpse and carry the Encyclopedia of Lost Spirits. We opted to Leave Immediately for the Liberty Woods, figuring such criminals would most likely take an isolated route. And, well, also because we like swamps and somewhat racistly figured maybe the human was heading back to its own kind.

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Here's to a clean tie. I guess? ;3

((I'm assuming the third M1 is for Ferratus. The Harpy has clawed hands, after all. Those don't grab things like guns well.))
[[Actually, I'd wager you presume wrong - she only has has claws on her feet. Charging in on a mass of free-fire targets, would also be a bad, bad idea. Safe maybe for an armour, like your Ferratus ;3]]

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Currently fanning herself as she hears Hartman's command, the harpy swiftly lines up for her gun, all smiles despite the jog visibly having taken a toll on her. During the later, she actually might have let loose some greek curses about land-squirming, though most of them were clearly said under her wheezing, if not at times non-existant breath.

"Well Now we're talkin'."
Recieving her rifle with a grin, Anfisa walks into position, before firing wildly at the middle of the maggarotes.

Anfisa fires quick bursts of fire at, eh, well, maggarote ~4

Quote from: evilcherry on June 03, 2016, 12:34:49 am

C4
Tackle Weedle A

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Looking at it right now, I guess fog of war isn't actually needed. The landscape, safe for unknown terrain - possibly in enemy lands - is already known, and or visible to an extent. Having our field of vision outlined as it currently is, gives a more "realistic" touch than the black fog.

Also, currently waiting on Strawbarrel to complete his turn. Otherwise, I might have to take over the squad or turn it over to someone else. I might have to establish a reasonable time limit or, as someone suggested, have squads be suggestion based with more than one player controlling a squad.

About a reasonable time limit, huh. Wouldn't that be two days?
If the gm posts the new turn at "early night" of the participant, it can easily take twenty hours until the later sees it after coming home from work. Blame time-zones and workplaces without internet access for that one. The shortest turn under such circumstances, is already one day. Now just have them be busy with something else one evening, and two days can be considered fair. To have all participants online, as currently is the case, is a rare windfall.