Sukui

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I like how the nanobots have not found yet the Ceramus about to strike a deal with the Collective.

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Lakfakalle
Mmhm.... Retsukuu Yomo, just coming here to find your high officials. Mind guiding me to where they are? I have plenty to ask.

Collective
Lakfakalle Cooperative Federation and Equestrian Empire: recognized as hostile parties in our databases. Primitive classification now tagged in data. Please state affiliations with the two parties, and willingness to cooperate in suppressing them. We do not wish to destroy them totally, but we'd rather continue keeping them a low threat by limiting their territorial and military size as we continue to reverse-engineer a possible weapon of significance.

Reverse Engineering Process:
All technologies of Freidsmekalre will be reverse-engineered, currently at 15%.

Defense measures for reverse-engineering site (Keillv) are being implemented:
60 warships are stationed
Weapons are being improvised: near-FTL ramming objects are in mid-level production
- Stockpile: 2
Irradiating of space environment in progress

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Kinetic Test
With just two words, the captain of the tester ship exclaimed:

Holy shit!

Those words had two meanings: at surprise and shock with such strength of such a simple weapon, and being baffled at the intense "joke" the LCF had brought in their message. Although it was clear that such technology has become of intense value, still the reverse-engineering process have to be continued. Production of more kinetic objects are accelerated: priority is now balanced between making the weapon and getting blueprints from the wreckage's technologies. In addition, a second invasion may be conducted as the starmap storage drive of the ship is being recovered, repaired and fixed, allowing to find more human territories. Because a hard-enough material is needed to produce a Kinetic Object, production might be slow.

Lakfakalle
As Retsukuu finally approached the doors of the capital building, her form walks right through it, acting as if it was nothing. There, she keeps searching for the high officials of the human civilization, still seeking to have a talk.

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Collective
Personal contact is currently not available; your decision for electronical contact is recognized as the correct method. Video link will open in 3...2...1... go. High-definition audio links have activated. Discussion is now open. Our databases are being monitored: any unauthorized access to Ceramus files within our storage drives will result in immediate premature ending of the contact process and automatic hostility. Please ask for permission before doing such. Inquiry: Please state any nations you have known and recognized, technological strength, and affiliation with your Collective.

Kinetic Weapon Testing
Despite reluctancies due to fear of its ineffectiveness, a ship has been sent towards the star system of Nikolien, and dispatched the superhard 4ft-wide ball at 95% the speed of light towards a trajectory to the planet itself, from a far away distance. In order to avoid further luring, the same confusion tactic is employed: jump to an empty planet first before going back to the true destination.

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Random Encounter
In an expedition trip conducted at this cycle, the Ceramus has found what appeared to be a collective empire (Triarian Collective) with relatively advanced technology. Although it seemed that the exploration fleet leader and the Commander conducting it had wanted to do the Deception that they had done to the LCF, they have decided that two enemies are alreadly enough for the civilization to handle, and thus have planned to conduct normal peace-contact procedures with them.

The following message, including a translation matrix, has been sent:

Greetings, strangers. We are the Ceramus, and currently we seek peaceful contact with your species. We express our apologies if you consider this trespassing. Please state what procedure you wish for this first-contact occasion to undergo.

Void of the Stars II: Return to the Stars [Sci-Fi] [Always Accepting]

If a solid object traveled faster-than-light against a planet, chances are it would go past through and noclip instead of direct extreme impact.

Void of the Stars II: Return to the Stars [Sci-Fi] [Always Accepting]

Reverse Engineering Process:
All technologies of Freidsmekalre will be reverse-engineered, currently at 10%.

Defense measures for reverse-engineering site (Keillv) are being implemented:
60 warships are stationed
Weapons are being improvised: still-untested near-FTL ramming objects are in low-level production
Irradiating of space environment in progress

Lakfakalle
Where a crowded place was, Yomo suddenly appeared from Nikolien to here. Little pretty much noticed that she came to instantaneous existence in the multitudes of people making their way through whatever it was, but anyone who could have at least some energy detection could find a dramatic surge of energy somewhere in the crowd, moving to the position of the capital building.

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Capital ships, regardless of shield strength, might be wrecked in a flash just from a near-FTL kamikaze.

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Such a simple, overpowered weapon, yet never thought of.

Just fire a graphene ball with an FTL thruster attached to it, accelerate it just a bit below the speed of light...

Boom.

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If one would be making a weapon based on this...

Which may probably also exist, because it's a near-light speed proton, and protons are common weapon particles.

But if weapons were named for that thing...