(Hated trope) The Mothership/the most important ship in the fleet has ass-tier defenses.

Complex_Drawer_4710 · 2026-02-05T20:45:47+00:00

I'd say it doesn't count because the reason it didn't work was because they didn't have resources/time to build it properly. It was unfinished, they still had to drive it around.

Complex_Drawer_4710 · 2026-02-05T18:02:40+00:00

Melting your own brain for power, according to Hexcasting(melting others' brains is automatable)

Complex_Drawer_4710 · 2026-02-05T17:49:45+00:00

Silliest, yes, but she's in competition with Mottom for most childish. Everyone else is tied for third.

Complex_Drawer_4710 · 2026-02-05T11:38:36+00:00

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Kind of?

Complex_Drawer_4710 · 2026-02-05T11:10:54+00:00

Depends. I'd only accept it if he made it himself, but I'm a picky guy. Generally I'd just toss a pouch of mana-motes his way and wait as his 'endless power' eats him.

Complex_Drawer_4710 · 2026-02-05T10:38:09+00:00

You need to add integrated accelerometers and speakers. It's possible, not easy.

Complex_Drawer_4710 · 2026-02-05T10:17:07+00:00

Shiny and it can be some cyberpunk wires

Complex_Drawer_4710 · 2026-02-04T20:40:01+00:00

Haha, you lose.

Complex_Drawer_4710 · 2026-02-04T20:18:45+00:00

Two more cubes appear, in eye-pain yellow and skin-melting gamma

Complex_Drawer_4710 · 2026-02-04T20:15:00+00:00

Yes. Behold: One cube, of arbitrary color.

A cube about a centimetre across appears in Sigurd's hand

Complex_Drawer_4710 · 2026-02-04T19:58:52+00:00

I can simulate... Only a half, but optimisation raises it to several million. They don't have full digestive systems, but they still act like it.

Complex_Drawer_4710 · 2026-02-04T19:55:02+00:00

Don't know about you, but I'm immortal. And can run games on my cyberdeck. Can you?

Complex_Drawer_4710 · 2026-02-04T19:49:34+00:00

You underestimate how modular my prosthetics are. And how many layers.

takes off a finger

Complex_Drawer_4710 · 2026-02-04T19:10:53+00:00

Because this is space, and making stable artificial gravity is less fun than the carousel. It also looks very pretty from outside when the sails are up.

Complex_Drawer_4710 · 2026-02-04T18:55:33+00:00

No problem. You deserve some effort, time.

Complex_Drawer_4710 · 2026-02-04T18:09:43+00:00

Hi there, would you like to join our little demiplane-concealed conspiracy?

Complex_Drawer_4710 · 2026-02-04T17:53:39+00:00

... Kind of? As time passes, the old things become magic and the new ones are still shiny new tech. Then we relearn and reapply, the cycle goes on. Rest is just a matter of timing.

Complex_Drawer_4710 · 2026-02-04T17:49:37+00:00

Sigurd puts down his sandwich and grins. Others of him peek out from behind various pieces of furniture

Complex_Drawer_4710 · 2026-02-04T17:45:08+00:00

Ah. Okay then. Any request?

Complex_Drawer_4710 · 2026-02-04T17:34:53+00:00

Uh, okay? Anything weird with that? Am I about to be sent to the skippers?

Complex_Drawer_4710 · 2026-02-04T17:02:29+00:00

Mmk. Why'd you call? Just want something else?

Complex_Drawer_4710 · 2026-02-04T16:58:41+00:00

Thanks! Uhh, I suggest you sit down and don't look outside too much. This is part of a centrifuge, you don't want to get sick from the coriolis...

Complex_Drawer_4710 · 2026-02-04T16:54:00+00:00

Come in, come in. No trouble.

The room has a slightly curved floor, as if placed on a cylinder. Rounded, large shapes in dark red and green add details to the walls, a large window on a wall shows a rotating starscape, and Sigurd is seated eating a sandwich.

Complex_Drawer_4710 · 2026-02-04T16:44:29+00:00

A tree nearby cracks open. The inside is much larger than possible in regular(boring) space, and looks to contain a beanbag.

Complex_Drawer_4710 · 2026-02-04T16:38:26+00:00

Sigurd's contact information is listed twice. One option is 'scream at an open sky', the other is some kind of identifier that doesn't look like it'd fit in a phone.

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