Empire 7: Into the Depths IC Thread

[Feathersnow]

Primarch Marcion

Diplomacy 4
Military 2
Economy 6
Faith 5
Intrigue 1

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Diplomacy

Ambassadors Junium and Peregrina are sent to attend an event!!

Sub-action: trade 1 treasure for access to brackish border crossing technology

Diplomacy Raise Rep with the Chorus fail

Military Raise a unit
Military Raise a unit
These are troubled times. Under orders from the Primarch, the genitor priests order two new clutches of eggs missing both the natural and artifically neutered W chromosomes, reducing both estrogen and progestin production, while allowing otherwise unprecedented levels of testosterone. These Astartes will have gene stock selected from female apostles of the Early Era, though more recent lines may eventually be tapped.

To ensure no possibility of breeding the males will be engineered with a terminator gene, as no more elegant means of inherent sterility is known as yet.

Faith contribute to the Chorus project
These organisms designed to build museums must be good for something!

Non-actions
Ask the Divine Nacres to build a spy


Codename: Eusebia-
Skirting the prohibition on hiveminds as it is neither Sentient nor are its subunits capable of autonomous life, this mutant flatworm was created from Musteakis samples acquired by the Divine Nacres. It integrates itself into a host and passively records memories, before eggs holding data are shed, eventually migrating to specialized crinoids that, when consumed by a Sentient crustacean, integrate the racial memories.

Eusebia is capable of limited mental influence and a degree of targeting its progeny for consumption

Continue work on the Museum

Spoiler: The Museum. Phase two

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Having arranged for then walls and foundation, care was given to what would be displayed.

The Divine Nacres flatly refused to provide any samples of Sakura, but this was unsurprising. A sample of a "flower" was obtained by the trade route with The Gotezhar, the Sea Lilly.

Having their centerpiece, the next step was the petting zoo. Tame uber-whelks were engineered to feed off the clam vine parasites, but to be too inefficient to ever exterminate the smaller, parasitic snails.

It was when they discovered the unique properties of an endemic Clam Vine parasite that they approached the Divine Nacres with the idea for Project Eusebia.

Contribute to the Stewards' project

Spoiler: architecture of Dashasham

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The Hermit Crab Folk have mostly lived in caves since adopting Sakura-Do, but it is known the Precursors built great temples of stone, it is hypothesized they also mostly lived in caves and only used outdoors buildings for civic and religious purposes.
The caves are lit by small tunnels containing mirrors and are reinforced by cement made from barnacle glue. Most artificial caves are not very deep or large, but rather cells for a single nun and her or their personal effects. Larger natural caverns are used for storage and other grander projects. The largest are used for the holy laboratories where new hermit crab folk are created and genetic samples of saints are stored.

Give barnacle glue to the Gotezhar

New Leader stats:
+1 Diplomacy
+1 Military

Diplomacy 5
Military 3
Economy 6
Faith 5
Intrigue 1