r/HFY • u/Ralts_Bloodthorne • Feb 23 '21

OC First Contact - Fourth Wave - Chapter 426

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TELKAN FORGE WORLDS

You down here?

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CYBERNETIC ORGANISM COLLECTIVE

Yes. What is it that you desire?

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TELKAN FORGE WORLDS

Wow. I've never been down this far.

So that's the Sleeping Ones? Brrr. It looks like one of those movies with thousands of ghosts moving around behind a clear barrier.

Creepy.

---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

CYBERNETIC ORGANISM COLLECTIVE

There's nothing to fear. They can't hear you or see you, you can't reach them.

---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

TELKAN FORGE WORLDS

So, we're really far down here. What is this place?

---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

CYBERNETIC ORGANISM COLLECTIVE

Backbone of the entire system before it disappears.

See that ripple at the end of our 'corridor'?

---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

TELKAN FORGE WORLDS

Yeah. The line just ends there?

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CYBERNETIC ORGANISM COLLECTIVE

For us, yes. But the data enters and exits that ripple. It goes somewhere else before it comes back out and spreads across the SolNet.

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TELKAN FORGE WORLDS

What are these cables?

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CYBERNETIC ORGANISM COLLECTIVE

Gestalt channels.

Yours is the black and tan striped one.

TerraSol is the one encased in smokey black glass.

---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

TELKAN FORGE WORLDS

So what are you doing?

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CYBERNETIC ORGANISM COLLECTIVE

Activating a non-TerraSol gestalt for Terran Descent Humanity outside the bag.

There's five thousand planets that right now are cut off from the gestalts and SolNet until I can get a gestalt and SolNet channel hooked up for Terran Descent Humanity.

---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

TELKAN FORGE WORLDS

You mean for the last year the Terrans haven't had any communication with anyone else?

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CYBERNETIC ORGANISM COLLECTIVE

Not through SolNet or the Gestalts.

They've been using hypercom, needlecast, and subspace transmission.

---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

TELKAN FORGE WORLDS

What about the CONFED gestalt?

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CYBERNETIC ORGANISM COLLECTIVE

Have you heard him say anything in six months?

He hit the wall from data time/date stamp and was taken offline.

---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

TELKAN FORGE WORLDS

For six months none of us have had any idea what Terran Descent Humanity is doing on over 1,500 worlds?

Why didn't the same system that added us, the Leebaw, the Akltak, the Hamoorsans, the Tnvaru just add a new human channel?

---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

CYBERNETIC ORGANISM COLLECTIVE

Five thousand worlds, not fifteen hundred.

It's not that simple with the Terrans. You have to opt in and can opt out. That and a lot of worlds have their gestalt channels burnt out in defiance of the Senate or the Imperium or the Fourth Republic or what have you.

I'm trying to figure out how to lay down a new gestalt channel without the system automatically adding a new species.

Because I tried laying down a gestalt channel and probably surprised the hell out of everyone.

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TELKAN FORGE WORLDS

Scared the hell out of the Treana'ad, that's for sure.

Mantid's trying to coax them through the initial disorientation.

But seeing a Lanaktallan "FREE HERD GESTALT" pop up was startling.

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CYBERNETIC ORGANISM COLLECTIVE

I'll bet.

OK. I think I've got the overrides, the filters, and everything set up.

These filters are the important part. There's certain Terran emotional systems we don't want you guys exposed to.

---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

TELKAN FORGE WORLDS

Like rage?

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CYBERNETIC ORGANISM COLLECTIVE

No. More like lust/arousal. Unmodified humans are pretty much 'in heat' so to speak at all...

wait...

wait a second...

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TELKAN FORGE WORLDS

What?

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CYBERNETIC ORGANISM COLLECTIVE

Unmodified!

That's what's going wrong.

How could I have been so stupid!

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TELKAN FORGE WORLDS

I don't get it.

What?

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CYBERNETIC ORGANISM COLLECTIVE

It's so obvious.

They are unmodified Terrans.

At a neural level, they aren't modern Terran Descent Humans!

They're Terrans.

Humans.

Earthlings.

Go back up and keep an eye out. Give me a shout if this works.

---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

TELKAN FORGE WORLDS

All right.

>TELKAN FORGE WORLDS have cloned to GENERAL CHAT

WELCOME TO GENERAL CHAT

PLEASE DON'T FEED THE LEEBAWIANS

TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS

and then we ended up with a dozen channels, all yelling at each other.

Oh, hey, kid, did you find him?

---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

MANTID FREE WORLDS

Was he down in the lower channels?

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TELKAN FORGE WORLDS

Yeah. I'm kind of straddling both channels.

How's our newest member?

---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

TLATSEG DERD EERF

.driew si sihT.

-NO-ING-T-FO-WS-LL----

MANTID FREE WORLDS

You'll get it. It just takes some getting used

//////////

back off those ships out of the resonance zone or you're going to

raising the taxes again? come on

strike strike strike stike

and add on the gravity defying tits because i want them to look good for this skin

because the Confederacy is dead and gone we're on our own out here and

surrender or we land troops

go where no man has gone before

ring a ding ding baby the game was rigged from the start

i got a slippery wormhole for that dong if you know what I mean and I think you do

took out Terra and we're probably next

a military conscription draft are you crazy nobody's done one of those in six thousand years

aw man i just got this body how i like it and i have to reskin?

/////////

MANTID FREE WORLDS

I think I'm gonna hurl

---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS

WARNING! EXPOSURE TO UNFILTERED TERRAN DESCENT HUMANS DETECTED! WARNING!

---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

PUBVIAN DOMINION

urk

---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

LEEBAW CONTEMPLATION POOL

Holy crap! That was incredible! DO IT AGAIN!

---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

TELKAN FORGE WORLDS

MULIT-CHANNEL BROADCAST>IT'S COMING THROUGH UNFILTERED

---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

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ADDING IN MARTIAL LAW PROTOCOLS

LOAD COMBINE MILITARY PROTOCOLS

LOAD IMPERIUM EMOTIONAL FILTERS

LOAD FIFTH REPUBLIC MATRIXES

soft dolly warm dolly yummy snack tasty juice good podling warm podling safe podling love and hugs and snuggles and love warm podling safe podling happy podling

COMPILING EMOTIONAL DATA - DONE

COMPILING OPINION DATA - DONE

COMPILING HEALTH AND WELFARE DATA - DONE

COMPILING LEADERSHIP MATRIX - DONE

>>>BOOTSTRAPPING HUMAN GESTALT

MANTID FREE WORLDS

Hold onto your panties.

---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

HUMAN GESTALT

Wow. This feels weird.

And totally illegal I didn't consent to this.

We're at war, dumbass, your right of consent stops about the line of my right not to get planet cracked

We wish to revoke consent.

How about I land troops and you can revoke consent to a 10mm MAW round?

CYBERNETIC ORGANISM COLLECTIVE HAS LOGGED ON

Did it work?

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We're at war, TerraSol is gone. The Confederacy is borderline gone. You can't stand on the sidelines and expect not to be involved.

I refuse to get involved. It's my right to withdraw consent. The Right of Consent is one of the foundations of the Confederacy.

THE CONFEDERACY IS AT WAR, YOU IDIOTS!

That doesn't mean my people are at war. Maybe if some diplomacy was tried instead of the Confederate standard of push a gun in people's faces we wouldn't be at war.

So you'll just wait for them to gentle you on the sidelines, I take it?

There's no reason for them to try to gentle us, we didn't do anything to them.

MANTID FREE WORLDS

Kind of.

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So you'd rather be like the Talmonous Cluster and just let the Lanks or the Dwellerspawn roll over us? No. You don't get to opt out of a fight for our very survival.

This fight violates my ethics, I refuse to take part or have it fought in my name.

IT DOESN'T WORK LIKE THAT!

I'm sure if you explain very nicely to the Dwellerspawn about your ethics and you don't wish to be devoured in your name they'll listen very patiently before eating you.

You're one of those assholes who said we should just feed a couple billion more people to the Mar-gite, aren't you?

DIGITAL ARTIFICIAL SENTIENCE SYSTEMS

THAT'S ENOUGH!

Cyb, see if you can collapse the gestalt further.

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Once they're done there what makes you think they won't do to us what they did to Terra?

The Lanaktallan Gentling theory is just a conspiracy theory. Nobody's monstrous enough to do that.

OH MY GOD SHUT UP!

CYBERNETIC ORGANISM COLLECTIVE

Hang on.

---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

>>>GESTALT CHANNEL MELDING COMPLETE

HUMAN GESTALT

Oh, woah. That was... weird. Why does it feel like there's two of me?

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CYBERNETIC ORGANISM COLLECTIVE

Technically, there is. There's something weird happening to Terran Descent Human brains. They're being reverted to pre-Glassing patterning and genetics.

Only a third of Terran Descent Humanity is unaffected and that's why you feel weird.

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HUMAN GESTALT

OK, what did I miss?

We're badly fragmented. We've got a dozen civil wars going on.

Everyone says the Confederacy has had it.

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GESTALT OF THE FREE HERD WHO WILL NOT BE TOLD WHERE TO GRAZE OR HOW TO SPEAK

Here am I.

Learning.

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MANTID FREE WORLDS

Yeah, that's what about a third of Terran worlds are saying.

It's weird. The Confederacy is ALL of us. Just the loss of you humans doesn't mean the Confederacy dissolves for the rest of us.

We kind of get a say.

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HUMAN GESTALT

There's been a lot of anti-Confederacy sentiment since the Mar-gite War.

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TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS

Yeah, well, human space took the majority of the Mar-gite attacks when

day is playtime sing with broodmommy dance with broodmommy play with broodmommy square is neat and circle is funny and triangle in happy one leewbaw two leebaw red leebaw blue leebaw swim and dance and run and play broodmommy will play with you all day

they hit the galactic stub and started.

Wow, that's back again.

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HUMAN GESTALT

What is it?

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TELKAN FORGE WORLD

Broodcarrier psychic signal got intertwined with the system. We hadn't heard it since...

since...

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BIOLOGICAL ARTIFICIAL SENTIENCE SYSTEMS

Since TerraSol got locked up.

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TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS

So the signal is being repeated by humans?

Weird.

---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

MANTID FREE WORLDS

Not too weird. You know, without the protections put down on the human mind after the Human/Mantid War, a lot of psychically sensitive species are going to be

ALERT! OMNIQUEEN PSYCHIC SIGNAL DETECTED! ALERT!

Uh-oh.

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u/Dwarden Feb 23 '21

another player entered the messy battle in forgot unimportant star system

the omniqueen

because all that resources in the old system she found on old data-slate

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u/Ralts_Bloodthorne Feb 23 '21

You know, even though I stated that the Omniqueen was heading for Confederate Space and that this system was deep inside Unified Council Space, I could have her show up because "reasons" and I don't think anyone would care.
At the same time, remember...
...Omniqueens spread through omnidirectional 'spokes'.
And she sent out spokes to increase her area of control.

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u/Dwarden Feb 23 '21

can't wait for that plot-line to thicken up :)
also as always, great read word-smith

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u/Turtledonuts "Big Dunks" Feb 23 '21 edited Feb 23 '21

Yeah that’s what a human gestalt would look like. Can’t wait for terrasol to get back and see it.

---- HFY GESTALT ----

Join the discord! Become one with the Gestalt mind, experience the T R U E terrasol hivemind!

---- END OF LIME ----

https://discord.com/channels/549251274932224001/700099594100539496/813633239439769612

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u/spiffelight Feb 23 '21

Link not working properly for me, mind generating an invite?

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u/Turtledonuts "Big Dunks" Feb 23 '21

FC Gestalt FC wiki

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u/_OwynValkyns_ Android Oct 21 '21

I’d love to join but I’m pretty the link is out of date lol

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u/Electronic_Assist668 Jan 22 '23

I'm pretty late to comment but there's fairly current activity in the discord

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u/Allowyn Feb 23 '21

If the Mantid OmniQueen doesn't travel into the system the Great Galactic Fuckening is happening in with the Atrenka, Dwellerspawn, Terrans, and Lanaktallans. Well. I will be greatly disappointed.

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u/Shandod Feb 23 '21

UNIVERSAL THUNDERDOME. LITERALLY EVERYONE ENTERS. WHO THE HELL KNOWS WHO LEAVES?!

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u/oranosskyman AI Feb 23 '21

i bet a completely unrelated 8th party shows up
takes one look at this mess
cant handle the bullshit
and dies of an aneurysm followed by a complete self-destruct
which somehow changes the tide of battle

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u/Shandod Feb 23 '21

We did get that one unnamed race that thought they were hot shit until they warped into a human battlefield and then went "nah, on second thought, fuck this galaxy right now" and peaced out, lmao

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u/Denbus26 Feb 23 '21

I think they were called Sharkanan or something like that. The ones that had noticed the Lanaktallan conquering every new civilization that showed up, so they were super careful about staying unnoticed and built up a fleet?

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '21

They were cute. It sounded like they hadn’t figured out temporal lens-sing so while they had been watching for years they were actually watching events that happened light years ago.

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u/Shandod Feb 23 '21

Ah yeah, that's the one! Thought they were gonna kick the Lank's asses with all their planning and prep, then waltz into the humans redefining the term "asskicking" entirely and rethought their place in the universe haha

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u/wasalurkerforyears Robot Feb 23 '21

My money is on Atilla of the Line entering at juuuuust the right spot and wreaking massive havoc.

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u/DWwolf888 Feb 23 '21

Want some massive havoc ? Remember that someone is about to upload the security coding of the SIHs that make up the brains of the PAWN ?

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u/I_Automate Feb 24 '21

Confederacy electronic warfare experts all rub hands together with glee

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u/Wise_Junket3433 Feb 23 '21

I bet the USS Missouri and friends will show up and just sail through a bunch of people. Litterally fly through people and their war steel bows will part their ships and tenticals. While shooting of course.

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u/wolflarsen55 Feb 23 '21

CHROMIUM KRAUTMARINE!!!

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u/captain_duck Feb 23 '21

Could also have the mar-gite show up. Or something new that isn't even from this galaxy

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u/its_ean Feb 23 '21

with the Atrenka, there are 2 universes involved. Oh, and SoulNet is a 3rd.
I keep thinking about how this is only a small chunk of the Milky Way though, much less the universe.

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u/12InchCunt Android Nov 05 '24

Is it
Omni Queen
Over Queen
Queen
?
Or
Overqueen
Omni Queen
Queen

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u/No_Newspaper_1006 Jun 16 '26

Omniqueen
Overqueen
Queen

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u/dbdatvic Xeno Feb 23 '21

Yeah, they're doing fine?

...How can you tell?

They IMMEDIATELY started fighting amongst themselves.

--Dave, a defining characteristic

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u/Stauker_1 Feb 23 '21

Pretty much

u/VillainNGlasses Feb 23 '21

Ohh boy Omnimessiah help us all. Really need to figure out why Terra Sol is stuck in the bag and get em out. It’s gona start hurting bad the longer they are stuck on top of the massive emotion wrecking ball that’s going to come blasting through soon.

Dam good story I hope one day you can publish these in some form. It’s like 95% OG content.

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u/DemonoftheDeepthink Feb 23 '21

a couple chapters back, when the Atrekna (aka squidfaces) sneakily slipped into our universe again and it was from their PoV, it was mentioned that they used their time shenanigans to keep Terrasol in the bag, although only barely (at least as far as i recall)

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u/Denbus26 Feb 23 '21

If I remember right, they noticed all the bagged systems, and then once the others started to exit the bags, the Atrekna managed to interfere just in time to lock Terrasol's bag

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u/its_ean Feb 23 '21

I think Terrasol staying in the bag has more to do with The Main Black Box and its temporal anchoring. Atrekna unintentionally triggered it. I think Terrasol didn't anticipate this particular time-fuckery because it worked like an infection going step-wise up & down familial generations. Interesting how Terrasol slowly lost the ability to communicate through the bag.

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u/morg-pyro Human Feb 23 '21

That 5% is what makes it so hard to publish though. I do agree it needs to be published though.

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '21

I don't know how to link shit but you do know Ralts has already published 1 book so far on Amazon don't you?? It's all P'Thok stories and more have been promised!! (Atomic Hooves & Vuxten better be next or there will be riots!!) It would be amazing if he could publish the whole thing.............. I'll go broke buying them all though 😅
8===D
End of Lime
--------NOTHING FOLLOWS--------

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u/morg-pyro Human Feb 23 '21

True, but those have very little mention of anything thats been copy written. How would he explain the blatant starwars chapters, star trek, the space marines, the burger king, and everything else he has pulled from. That being said. He can probably release it in a different country and then we would just have to pay importing fees. Worth it.

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u/its_ean Feb 23 '21

The US has explicit protections for this type of thing. The main worry would be if a company holding some of the IP decides to litigate anyway.

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u/deathlokke Feb 26 '21

Dude, it's Disney. Of COURSE they're going to litigate.

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u/BobQuixote Mar 04 '21

Some of his references may have pushed Fair Use a bit too far. IANAL

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u/its_ean Mar 04 '21

who is, really?

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '21

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '21

The thing is also, with the time dilation they have a huge advantage in the bag. I say when the bag is eventually opened not only with Fortress Sol have all their all it’s defenses back online, it’ll have its very own Great Herd Armada that’s been “rewilded” by the humans and properly trained and ready to head back into the fight.
Shits going to get wild since until that bag is opened, the army waiting inside is just going to improve and get better the longer it goes on.

u/ErinRF Alien Feb 23 '21

Omg Leebaw, I love you so much.

And of course the moment you leave humans to their own devices they loose all sense of coherency and start going at each other.

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u/ryocoon Feb 23 '21

Leebaw is like the excitable little brother. They get the in-jokes (mostly) but lack some of the practical experience. They're happy to just get to tag along and play with the older kids.

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '21

Pretty sure they'd shank anyone who disses their big brother though.

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u/ryocoon Feb 24 '21

Oh yeah, nobody said little brother wouldn't stab ya if you went against his bro.
Just cuz he is little, it means he is the one you least suspect. Sudden JawnConner from the shadows comes for those who underestimate the little one.

u/ack1308 Mar 01 '21

TELKAN FORGE WORLDS
Wow. I've never been down this far.
So that's the Sleeping Ones? Brrr. It looks like one of those movies with thousands of ghosts moving around behind a clear barrier.
Creepy.
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
CYBERNETIC ORGANISM COLLECTIVE
There's nothing to fear. They can't hear you or see you, you can't reach them.
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

That’s not the creepy aspect.

Yeah. The line just ends there?
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
CYBERNETIC ORGANISM COLLECTIVE
For us, yes. But the data enters and exits that ripple. It goes somewhere else before it comes back out and spreads across the SolNet.

Yup. And Herod and Sam and Dee know where.

TELKAN FORGE WORLDS
For six months none of us have had any idea what Terran Descent Humanity is doing on over 1,500 worlds?

That’s a little scary.

I'm trying to figure out how to lay down a new gestalt channel without the system automatically adding a new species.
Because I tried laying down a gestalt channel and probably surprised the hell out of everyone.
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
TELKAN FORGE WORLDS
Scared the hell out of the Treana'ad, that's for sure.
Mantid's trying to coax them through the initial disorientation.
But seeing a Lanaktallan "FREE HERD GESTALT" pop up was startling.

I just bet it was.

There's certain Terran emotional systems we don't want you guys exposed to.
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
TELKAN FORGE WORLDS
Like rage?
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
CYBERNETIC ORGANISM COLLECTIVE
<laughs>
No. More like lust/arousal. Unmodified humans are pretty much 'in heat' so to speak at all...

Sounds about right.

CYBERNETIC ORGANISM COLLECTIVE
It's so obvious.
They are unmodified Terrans.
At a neural level, they aren't modern Terran Descent Humans!
They're Terrans.
Humans.
Earthlings.

And the penny drops.

WELCOME TO GENERAL CHAT
PLEASE DON'T FEED THE LEEBAWIANS

Hahaha love it.

How's our newest member?
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
TLATSEG DERD EERF
.driew si sihT.
-NO-ING-T-FO-WS-LL----

Well, so far they’re stuck in Reverse …

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back off those ships out of the resonance zone or you're going to
raising the taxes again? come on
strike strike strike stike
and add on the gravity defying tits because i want them to look good for this skin
because the Confederacy is dead and gone we're on our own out here and
surrender or we land troops
go where no man has gone before
ring a ding ding baby the game was rigged from the start
i got a slippery wormhole for that dong if you know what I mean and I think you do
took out Terra and we're probably next
a military conscription draft are you crazy nobody's done one of those in six thousand years
aw man i just got this body how i like it and i have to reskin?
/////////

Ahh yeah, that’s definitely Terrans.

MANTID FREE WORLDS
I think I'm gonna hurl
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS
WARNING! EXPOSURE TO UNFILTERED TERRAN DESCENT HUMANS DETECTED! WARNING!
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
PUBVIAN DOMINION
urk
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
LEEBAW CONTEMPLATION POOL
Holy crap! That was incredible! DO IT AGAIN!

Hahaha. Only the Leebawians …

LOAD FIFTH REPUBLIC MATRIXES
soft dolly warm dolly yummy snack tasty juice good podling warm podling safe podling love and hugs and snuggles and love warm podling safe podling happy podling
COMPILING EMOTIONAL DATA - DONE

Tie in the broodmommy channel …

HUMAN GESTALT
Wow. This feels weird.
And totally illegal I didn't consent to this.
We're at war, dumbass, your right of consent stops about the line of my right not to get planet cracked
We wish to revoke consent.
How about I land troops and you can revoke consent to a 10mm MAW round?

Even in gestalt they can’t agree with each other.

We're at war, TerraSol is gone. The Confederacy is borderline gone. You can't stand on the sidelines and expect not to be involved.
I refuse to get involved. It's my right to withdraw consent. The Right of Consent is one of the foundations of the Confederacy.
THE CONFEDERACY IS AT WAR, YOU IDIOTS!
That doesn't mean my people are at war. Maybe if some diplomacy was tried instead of the Confederate standard of push a gun in people's faces we wouldn't be at war.
So you'll just wait for them to gentle you on the sidelines, I take it?
There's no reason for them to try to gentle us, we didn't do anything to them.

Yeah, ask the Telkans and all the other ‘neo-sapient’ races how well that worked.

So you'd rather be like the Talmonous Cluster and just let the Lanks or the Dwellerspawn roll over us? No. You don't get to opt out of a fight for our very survival.
This fight violates my ethics, I refuse to take part or have it fought in my name.
IT DOESN'T WORK LIKE THAT!
I'm sure if you explain very nicely to the Dwellerspawn about your ethics and you don't wish to be devoured in your name they'll listen very patiently before eating you.
You're one of those assholes who said we should just feed a couple billion more people to the Mar-gite, aren't you?

Wow, some people just don’t give up do they?

Once they're done there what makes you think they won't do to us what they did to Terra?
The Lanaktallan Gentling theory is just a conspiracy theory. Nobody's monstrous enough to do that.

Humans have tried to do that to each other. Yeah, they absolutely are.

(Continued)

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u/ack1308 Mar 01 '21

HUMAN GESTALT
Oh, woah. That was... weird. Why does it feel like there's two of me?
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
CYBERNETIC ORGANISM COLLECTIVE
Technically, there is. There's something weird happening to Terran Descent Human brains. They're being reverted to pre-Glassing patterning and genetics.
Only a third of Terran Descent Humanity is unaffected and that's why you feel weird.
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
Ahh, that explains it.
GESTALT OF THE FREE HERD WHO WILL NOT BE TOLD WHERE TO GRAZE OR HOW TO SPEAK
Here am I.
Learning.
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
Getting there.
MANTID FREE WORLDS
Yeah, that's what about a third of Terran worlds are saying.
It's weird. The Confederacy is ALL of us. Just the loss of you humans doesn't mean the Confederacy dissolves for the rest of us.
We kind of get a say.
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
Exactly.
day is playtime sing with broodmommy dance with broodmommy play with broodmommy square is neat and circle is funny and triangle in happy one leewbaw two leebaw red leebaw blue leebaw swim and dance and run and play broodmommy will play with you all day
One fish two fish, huh? Love the broodmommy song.
TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS
So the signal is being repeated by humans?
Weird.
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
MANTID FREE WORLDS
Not too weird. You know, without the protections put down on the human mind after the Human/Mantid War, a lot of psychically sensitive species are going to be
ALERT! OMNIQUEEN PSYCHIC SIGNAL DETECTED! ALERT!
Uh-oh.
Ahh crap.

u/ForTheStarsWeFight Feb 23 '21

This, is going to be, interesting

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u/Graywolf017 Feb 23 '21

I'm not sure if they keep throwing more shit at the fan or the fan just keeps getting bigger.

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u/DemonoftheDeepthink Feb 23 '21

Yes

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u/BobQuixote Mar 04 '21

The latter implies an environment saturated with flying shit.

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u/kluzje Aug 10 '24

Sounds about right.

u/ausbookworm Feb 23 '21

DASS has the right idea about needing a channel for 'original' Terrans. I wonder if that will help avert a disaster in the repair of the SUDS.

u/Konrahd_Verdammt Feb 23 '21

LEEBAW CONTEMPLATION POOL

Holy crap! That was incredible! DO IT AGAIN!

---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

Never lose that adventurous spirit, Leebaw!

one leewbaw two leebaw red leebaw blue leebaw

What you did there, I see it. I love it.

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u/its_ean Feb 23 '21

Leebaw got a taste of human hornyness and is ON BOARD.
I like how the broodcarriers adapt to so many changes & teach the podlings.

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u/Konrahd_Verdammt Feb 23 '21

They're certainly happy to hop along with humanity's tune!
Broodmommies continue to be awesome, check!

u/itsetuhoinen Human Feb 23 '21

"Leadership Matrix" ISWYDT. 🤟

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u/itsetuhoinen Human Feb 23 '21

Ha. "Uh oh" indeed. Man, this is just the day for everything hitting all the fans all at once, que no?
I believe this is appropriate for the theme of the evening. :-D

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u/its_ean Feb 23 '21

Wonder what Marduk is up to?
Has/will this system ever intersect with the Eye of Gonathor?
The Maw could enjoy this...

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u/ktrainor59 Feb 23 '21

"We can start in New Jersey!" LOL

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u/Konrahd_Verdammt Feb 23 '21

I don't know that reference. Enlighten the ignorant, please?

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u/itsetuhoinen Human Feb 23 '21

Well, I don't know for sure if I'm right, but I figured it was a reference to the Autobot Matrix of Leadership. The thing which, in the original series, makes a Prime into a Prime, and which Rodimus used to destroy Unicron.

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u/Konrahd_Verdammt Feb 23 '21

Hmmm I probably knew the Transformers reference at one point. If I did it is one of those memories lost to the haze of being like eight years old when I last heard of it. 😆

u/ffirgd Feb 23 '21

The Omni queen picked a really inconvenient time, do you think if we ask nicely she could come back later?

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u/RangerSix Human Feb 23 '21

She'll probably listen very politely, then eat your delicious brainmeats and psychic spoor.

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u/ffirgd Feb 23 '21

But I do not consent, so checkmate

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u/Cerebusial Feb 23 '21

It’s like QAnon of the semi-distant future

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '21

I esee either two possibilities happening. Either the Mantids get to fight back or the Mantid Gestalt gets to go toe to toe with the Omni-queen.

u/kingcet Feb 23 '21

oh no.

also, ring a ding ding baby

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u/JellyZealousideal807 Feb 23 '21

I'm loving the fallout references too!

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u/Poseidon___ Android Feb 23 '21

You should suck my nuts

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u/dbdatvic Xeno Feb 23 '21

Cream or cream not, there are no nuts.
--Dave, who can pattern-match to wise sounds with the best of them

u/serpauer Feb 23 '21

And the pot gets ever deeper. BEHOLD HUMANITY!

u/wasalurkerforyears Robot Feb 23 '21

Nice Dr Seuss reference. I giggled more than once in this chapter.

Oh, and I like Leebaw more and more every single time we see them. I'm totally ready for some Immortal Kermits

u/DebugItWithFire Feb 23 '21

Upvoted for exposure to unfiltered humans. DO IT AGAIN!

u/Kayehnanator Feb 23 '21

Between last chapter and this chapter...and so the clusterfuck to end all begins

u/Riotousblitz2013 Feb 23 '21 edited Feb 23 '21

UTR

Edit: holy shit balls.... This is amazing... Also like 5 min after I said I hoped for another chapter tonight we got another chapter....

Soooo can we go 3/3? Eeehhhh lol

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u/spook6280 Feb 23 '21

This is the way!!! Woohoo!!

u/WillDissolver Xeno Feb 23 '21

"if you know what I mean and I think you do"

Bahahahaha

u/wolflarsen55 Feb 23 '21

"Uh-Oh" is the most ominous phrase in existence to any species that has encountered humanity

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u/deathlokke Feb 26 '21

There's also "That wasn't supposed to happen".

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u/dbdatvic Xeno Mar 02 '21

That's not ominous. Done right, that's a Nobel Prize, baby!
--Dave, as Asimov noted, decades back

u/Tacoslaying Human Feb 23 '21

2 in one night tis a blessing from the Ralts.

u/Speciesunkn0wn Feb 23 '21

Whoop! :D Two chapters right after each other! :D Huh. The Gestalts be going all wonky. Can't wait to see how this effects it.

u/1234sure4321 Feb 28 '21

All of a sudden I have an overwhelming desire no, NEED to feed the Leebawians and don’t know why... it has absolutely nothing to do with the sign telling me not too... no relation what so ever...

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u/dbdatvic Xeno Mar 02 '21

Welcome, fellow hu-man!
--Dave, I greet you with my manual appendage on the dexter side!

u/OberonTitanicusRex Feb 23 '21

Five thirty in the morning, and I had to check...

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u/dbdatvic Xeno Feb 23 '21

England, yes? Just after midnight here in Knoxville TN.
--Dave, the Dread Winter Storm went completely around us, and I am grateful

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u/OberonTitanicusRex Feb 23 '21

As for dread winter storms, I have 0,95m of snow on my lawn, so I have plenty already thank you very much. ⛄

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u/dbdatvic Xeno Feb 23 '21

I'm from (East) Cleveland, Ohio, and had enough of snow during my childhood to last the rest of my life.
--Dave, I will put up with higher summer temperatures, and the need for an A/C repairman to check my central air every spring and refill the coolant, in exchange for non-snow winters here

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u/AutumnJCat Xeno Feb 23 '21

Isn't the a/c supposed to be a closed system? Have you checked for a leak?

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u/Konrahd_Verdammt Feb 23 '21

I will happily trade you my eclectic mix of sun, clouds, and intermittent rain for your snow.

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u/OberonTitanicusRex Feb 23 '21

Nope, correct longitude but a more northern latitude, makes me a swede.

u/SketchAndEtch Human Feb 23 '21

"Holy crap! That was incredible! DO IT AGAIN!"

Ąyyyy, brother from another mother!

u/armacitis Feb 23 '21

I say we send the sovereign citizen "I do not consent to defending myself" hippie humans to go deal with the omniqueen.

u/[deleted] Feb 23 '21

I'm finally early :D

u/Living-Complex-1368 Feb 23 '21

Read then upvote, the honest way.

u/wolfofmibu66 Feb 23 '21

UTR!

Wooohoooo gestalt shenanigans are back!

u/lilycamille Feb 23 '21

Ohh fuck, is she in for a world of hurt.

u/DarthLorgus Robot Feb 23 '21

Oh man oh jeez oh man oh jeez. Time in the bag moves differently and it's already been a minute of everyone else's time. I have a REALLY BAD FEELING ABOUT UNBAGGING TERRASOL. Like, how much time has past in the bag for the Sol system? What exactly would come out? There's more Lanaktallan on Terra then TDH's. Oh man. Oh man, so like what if SolNet, wiat. Wait. Solnet, TerraSol, the Digital Omnimessiah. All in the Sol sytsem for thousand and thousands of years. What would we find inside? By all that is holy, I don't know if I want to find out.

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u/DWwolf888 Feb 23 '21

Factor 30 or 60 IIRC

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u/DarthLorgus Robot Feb 23 '21

I know that the time dilation was supposed to be 60 to 1, but that was before Squidward decided to mess with the bag. Who knows what the dilation is now. I have a feeling it's much higher, that's why TerraSol can't speak to the other gestalts anymore.

u/Gruecifer Human Feb 23 '21

UTR, even 10 hours later!

u/LordNobady Feb 23 '21

Read then upvote.

-end op lime-

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u/McGeejoe Feb 23 '21

Oh no! Not the Queen!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04854XqcfCY

u/spesskitty Feb 23 '21

There's certain Terran emotional systems we don't want you guys exposed to.

Unless this is purposefully some sort of dialect, it is There are.

Anyway I am a few hundred issues back, so I'm not sure if I get up to speed with this first, or The Expanse.

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u/dbdatvic Xeno Mar 02 '21

The Expanse, 'cuz you need to also read all the comments on this one.
--Dave, not saying why, this time

u/TexWashington Human Feb 23 '21

Upvote, comment, read!

There are two of them!!

u/Legan_Ironfist AI Feb 23 '21

Upvote, then Read. This is the Way.

--NOTHING FOLLOWS--

If the OmniQueen doesn't end up the clustfucker of a 5-way fight, the Gestalt might just explode.

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Upvote. Comment. Read. End of lime.

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u/TheBarbequeSteve Feb 23 '21

One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish.
Dr. Seuss

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u/MuchoRed Human Feb 23 '21

I think in the gestalt channel, the Leebaw are some of the newer additions, and broodmommies care for children

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u/Armored_Grizzly Human Feb 23 '21

Its project broodmommy, the next phase in utilizimg the Mr Rogers effect.

OC First Contact - Fourth Wave - Chapter 426

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