Kaktus 2024/04/21(Sun)12:13 No. 1089328 ID: 681cb5
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You are Captain Zento of the Sakkilian inter-galactic colony fleet. Your duty was to escort and ensure the safety of said fleet as it made the first ever inter-galactic hyperjump to the nearest galaxy before colonizing it. But something went wrong… in the middle of the jump all hell broke loose and you were forced to make an emergency launch out from hyperspace with just a handful of other Sakkilian. So now you find yourself with only a half-finished flagship in completely alien territory, far away from any possible rescue or reinforcements.

But the last weeks has been favorable to you, as you not only managed to rescue a pair of aliens, Tozlan and Tizli of the Raolme species, as well as capture and convert a Kelshin pirate called Ikekeki, but you also managed to find a friendly mining colony run by a third new alien species called Wroknir. Their High Magistrate, a lovely woman called Vul Wrok, has promised to help you if you help her with her needs ensuring that you have at least one port to land on that’s friendly. Of course, there have been some problems, as you’ve heard a lot of murmuring about a species called the IOD, who is currently the de-facto ruler of this sector of the galaxy, and they don’t seem to be pleased about any newcomers that might change that fact.

In fact, you have found remnants of a great war that was waged in this sector about 40 years ago, when the IOD first appeared. Nearly all species of these stars united under one banner, but even with all their might they didn’t stand a chance. In the end, those that submitted was enslaved while those that resisted was brought to the edge of extinction. Thus, the IOD rules all with an iron fist, ensuring that no one can properly put up a resistance against them.

So, to iterate… your primary goal is to find and assist the 3 colony ships that were in the fleet, or at least find out what happened to them.
Your secondary goal is to ensure this sector of space is safe for them to colonize, which might mean that you’ll need to deal with the IOD’s in some way…
And your current goal is to ensure that you’re on Vul and her mining colony good side, so you’ll have at least one ally in this harsh galaxy. Currently you’ve successfully scanned the nearby system of Tarkus Gamma for minerals, as she wished, and are returning to her colony. Oh, and you’ve caught a bunch of pirates, have harvested a bunch of material Vul will want to buy and rescued more than a dozen Sakkilian in cryosleep, which were being stored in an old lab from the war.

Hmm… is there something else you’re forgetting about?

Kaktus 2024/04/21(Sun)12:13 No. 1089329 ID: 681cb5
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Tizli: “Hey, why did you stop rubbing?” the voice of the heavily pregnant alien in your embrace drags you out from your thoughts, “My belly demands more rubs!”
Zento: “Oh, my apologies.” you tell her, “I was just lost in thought.”
Tizli: “Then think and rub, silly.” with a smile, she continues, “It’s your fault I’m like this, you know~”

Currently in your arms you have the Raolme Tizli, who just happen to be pregnant with your child. Your fourth child in total actually, as you’ve already have Vex the doctor as well as Dante the security officer, with a third egg on the way with the lovely Shara. After all, you need to increase your numbers somehow…

Now, we should arrive back at Vul’s colony in a few days, so you should take the time to get ready for that…

…you know, for some reason it feels like this trip has taken years, even if it was just a few weeks now since you woke up in this galaxy.

Work on the child's backstory. You should make them a specialist type that you don't have.

>>1089329
You should talk with Tizli about what kind of childhood your child will have in the pod that speeds up their growth and implants memories into their head.

Currently the pod is programed to only instill a Sakkilian style upbringing and culture, but I'm sure Tizli would also want the child to have some of the Raolme's culture instilled into the child as well. It would certainly help so that the child doesn't feel alienated (heh) from their own mother.

>>1089352
Yes, can't hog all the parenting to yourself

Kaktus 2024/04/22(Mon)15:29 No. 1089417 ID: 681cb5
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>You should talk with Tizli about what kind of childhood your child will have in the pod that speeds up their growth and implants memories into their head.
Tizli: “Oh, I was actually going to suggest we skip that part.” with a toothy grin, she whispers, “You know, and raise it normally instead?”
Zento: “Normally?” raising an eyebrow, you give her a small smile, “On the ship?”
Tizli: “For now, yes.” She squirms in your embrace for a moment before continuing, “They are our child, and I want to raise it as a child.” as if on command, you can feel the little scoundrel kick against your hand through her swollen belly, “So we need to make a daycare, so someone can take care of them while we work.”
Zento: “A daycare?” thoughts rushes through your head, everything from who would man it to where you would construct it, or if you even can in the first place, “Here?”
Doxy: “Tara, the union leader has requested something similar, sir.” a very high-pitched voice suddenly says, “As well as possibly open up one of the bio hubs for recreational purposes. You know, as a park?”

Somehow, your second in command and mother of your first child, CDR. Doxy ShortSprocket, has snuck into the bridge without either of you noticing. The rather short but rotund Sakkilian gives you her usual earnest smile as she salutes you.

Doxy: “Captain.” her voice is soft, yet professional, “There are several tasks that might require your attention.”
Zento: “Very well…” you give Tizli another rub on her belly, “You may proceed, Commander.”
Doxy: “Let’s see…” Doxy pokes the data slate in front of her a few times, “Ah, here we go…”

“First of, while we have successfully completed two of Vul Wrok requests, there is still third one we haven’t even started considering. While I’m certain she’ll be content with what we already have, doing a bit extra work will never hurt. As for the request… well, she wanted a few Wroknir miners to employ. Of course, the only Wroknir we have on the ship is Car Zuk the gardener and Shal the pilot, neither which are miners. But I’m sure you can find a way to solve this if you wish, sir.”

“The new recruits, the ones we saved from cryo sleep on that cracked planet, are being thawed out as we speak. While Tara is currently handling the introductions by herself, your presence would not be amiss.”

“Engineering also wanted your attention, as they’ve found something among the cryo pods that is, as they put is, concerning but interesting.”

“Our son Dr. Vex said he wanted to talk to you. Said he found something that might be important with those two old bodies we retrieved form the ship graveyard.”

“Your other son, security chief Dante, wanted a word as well concerning… well, security… and something about stone men?”

“Speaking of security, the Kelshin pirates we captured and are holding are demanding parley. They apparently want to negotiate for their release… and they seem rather desperate about it.”

“On the subject of pirates, Ikekeki the Kelshin wishes to talk to you in private. She said something about having a lead on more of us lizards?”

“Oh, and speaking off… Tozlan wanted to speak with you concerning something similar.”

“Finally, Shara will be laying your egg soon. Though she said you don’t have to be there, she didn’t forbid you from coming either.”

Zento: “…I do hope you aren’t expecting me to do all that before we arrive at the colony?”
Doxy: “Of course not, sir. You’ll just have to choose what you deem most important.”
Tizli: “Or you can just spend the day with little old me, handsome. I require more cuddles!”

>Engineering
Well "concerning" trumps everything else. Meet with them first.

>new recruits
Take a minute to pop in and greet them between other meetings, but you can't spare much time.

>Dr. Vex, Chief Dante, Kelshin pirates
They'll have to write a memo and you'll get back to them when you can.

>Ikekeki,Tozlan
Unless these leads are time sensitive it will just have to wait. We would need to finish with Vul's colony before we could use the info anyway.

>Cuddles, egg
Try to find the time, but duty comes first.

>>1089417
>Vex found something important
Well considering his missteps before, this should be done first. If you don't take him seriously he could relapse.
>Engineering found something concerning
Try that one next
>pirates are desperate to parley
Then them. If it's something time sensitive from their perspective we'd certainly want to know about it.

>>1089417
Let’s go with the engineers first, then go to the pirates and see if you can talk with Dex and Dante.

>pirates desperate for parlay
They just don't want to be arrested or spend time in a space prison belonging to whatever authority we're supposed to deliver them to.

If I remember correctly, we don't exactly have the necessary resources to keep them and our crew fed, so we should just ignore them and drop them off with someone that'll keep them locked up. Then they won't be our problem and won't be draining our resources anymore.

>>1089423
i mostly agree with this but speaking to the pirates should be important

>>1089417
I know it’s a turn for the cruel and brutish but maybe we can kill two birds with one stone, and do it multiple times.

The kelshin captive are no mighty Wroknirs but maybe 6 heads of free crab labour can be a decent substitute for whatever it was Vul is wanting the miners for. The crabbies yearn for the mines. Giving their former slaves the jobs of being their drivers would be ironic justice. Dante & vex should be present there as well so we can hear what’s troubling our sons about the stone men as we do that.

The pirate’s desperation is probably just from a dire need for water, if so just have their keepers jail them in the hot tub room we fucked tizli in once they’re done being worked to the bone-erm, exoskeleton on Vul’s work…or whatever use we find for them.

…it’s also for the best to our personal mission to not completely ruin our rapport with the female pirates any more then it already was from capturing them in the first place. if they find out this order to slave them came from the top. Dante can take credit for all of their newfound woes as the bad cop, we can take credit for their watery salvation and work from there to get ourselves into their crabussies.

A lot of these requests could probably get folded into each other if we just meet and greet the different parties in groups. I’m not lazy I swear but it also seems a lot of this could have been done over intercoms as we just tell people to shuffle about. Tell doxy to request Shara film her big laying for posterity.

Cryo thawed pick-ups are in need of meeting and greeting and isn’t that really the whole spirit of our expedition? To seek out new life. We meet them in engineering and hear out the ‘concerning’ thing about the pods.



Give Tizli a good swat on the rump. Maybe suggest she goes nude for the sake of the baby. All those constrictive clothes can’t be doing her anything good atm at this critical time.

((Oh and welcome back, my favourite quest)j

Sweet Lizard God, it's back!

>“Oh, I was actually going to suggest we skip that part.” with a toothy grin, she whispers, “You know, and raise it normally instead?”
Note to self: other species will need time to acclimate to vat technology, among your other technologies.

>she wanted a few Wroknir miners to employ
The most straightforward solution for us would have her solve it. Her getting acquainted with one, or both, Wroks would make for an interesting report. With the vats and our mining specialist on staff, raising more miners seems doable.

We would risk exposing our tech to the Vul, though. It's possible we could stall by hiding they've been vat grown, but it's still a risk. Putting aside the societal issues new tech raises, keeping under the radar has been our only safety net from any bigger powers away.

Sleep on it, for now. If First Mate Doxy want to get acquainted with the outside crew on her own time, permission granted.

>new recruits
Good idea to check on that first. There was a going concern about Tara gunning for your seat. Since you don't really know if she's working to benefit the crew or herself, inform her suggestion's on the docket in front of them will be an interesting test. Be a responsible and respectful leader and see how she reacts.

>engineering
Visiting might ease the sinking feeling your ship might have been the lucky one of your fleet, but curiosity is not priority unless it's at risk to the crew.

>Dr. Vex
They were from the alliance that rebeled against the IOD, right? Any information regarding how they lost would be pertinent, given the rest of the sector backed them up.

>pirates
Arrange a meeting with Ikekeki and Tozlan, as they both probably have a lot to say. A favor within the pirate fleet wouldn't be bad to have in your pocket, if it's true the IOD are as bad everyone says they. Regardless, it is a fact that they will be threatened by any growing independent power, legit or not. Don't let Tozlan trade your independence so easily. It is your advantage to play, or balance, both sides.

The crab pirates being pirates is still an issue, though. Getting them to quit the evil stuff would be a nice bonus objective, but it's nice to have on the level of "achieving galactic peace between all races" or "forming a harem". Or "achieving a harem between all races". How doable is any of that, really?

>Shara
It's hard to picture her being a mother. It's much easier to imagine her as polar opposite of Tizli. Just dropping egg, then not thinking much of it, if not immediately (try) going back to work. If your species evolved from matriarchy, she might be the most unapologetically traditional of your crew, even if your society has moved on from rigid gender roles.

Let's visit her and blame the breeding and pregnancy fetish nesting instinct. She either respect you less as a captain, or find comfort in a man who takes care of the egg.

>Raise it normally
Eeeeh...
If it's seriously important to some of the crew to raise children normally, then you can't take that right away. But can we at least take a policy to flash-grow all the fetuses and eggs until they get laid? It'll make things safer and more efficient in the long run, and the 'right to carry a giant weight and risk getting the babies killed' isn't exactly a preferable idea.
This way, we get more breeding done but the parents can decide how they want to indoctrinate their kids.

Okay, start out with the pirates. You can set unfavorable terms early, and then leave them to stew and really get desperate. Just don't ask for the impossible or they might suicide bomb themselves out of mania.

>>1089417
>raise child normally
>a few other crew members also want to do that
I suppose we can do that. We should make sure we build that nursery in the middle of the ship, so that it's protected from any potential attacks around the the sides of the ship.

But seriously, >>1089352 brings up a good point. We should definitely adjust the accelerated growth pods so that the implanted memories given to anyone in there is appropriate for the parents.

Just imagine how alienated the child will feel if they end up having memories of a Sakkilian upbringing and culture, but the child's parents are two Raolme or two Kelshin or two Wroknir. Not being able to connect with their parents might have a negative impact on the child's mind and may hinder their abilities to do certain things.

Kaktus 2024/04/24(Wed)17:34 No. 1089631 ID: 681cb5
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>Sweet Lizard God, it's back!
Wjares had nothing to do with this, mortal.

>The Kelshin captive are no mighty Wroknirs but maybe 6 heads of free crab labor can be a decent substitute for whatever it was Vul is wanting the miners for. The crabbies yearn for the mines.
You’re not going to sell them into slavery, even if it would be an ironic punishment. Slavery is abhorrent, and hopefully Vul thinks the same.

Zento: “I do believe ‘concerning’ trumps everything else” rubbing your chin, you try and figure out what they might be referring too, “I’ll meet with the engineers first. And maybe pop by the new recruits when I’m already there.”
Doxy: “They are waiting for you in the hanger, sir.”
Zento: “As for my sons, have them write me a memo for now and I’ll get back to them.”
Doxy: “Of course, Captain.”
Zento: “Meanwhile, Tozlan and Keki can wait until after we’ve reached the Colony.” you take a deep breath before adding, “Unless it’s time sensitive information, of course.”
Doxy: “Very well, sir.”
Zento: “Do add ‘parleying’ with the pirates to my schedule, though, as it might be important.”
Doxy: “Adding it now, Captain.”

Zento: “Now, for our miner problem…” you look over at her with a wry smile, “The most straightforward solution would for you, Commander, to solve it.” you wiggle your eyebrows, “I am certain our resident Wrok wouldn’t complain, yes?”
Doxy: “Oh… I…err…” she blushes slightly, “I might need some more help with that… I’ll…” averting her gaze, she says, “I’ll need some more volunteers for that.”
Zento: “As for Shara… ask her if she want to film the egg laying.” you rub Tizli’s belly one last time, “For posterity. And for my sake.”
Doxy: “I’ll ask her, sir.”
Tizli: “Really?” the alien in your lap smirks, “Aren’t you just a bit naughty, Capt?”
Zento: “Oh, and I should advice you to walk around naked from now on, Tizli.” lifting her up, you place her down on the floor so that you may get out from your chair, “Those constrictive clothes doesn’t do you justice.”
Tizli: “In your dreams, scumsucker.”
Zento: “Please, we both know we didn’t dream it.”
Tizli: “Ha!” the Raolme starts to slither away, her body contorted so that her belly is where her back should be, giving her the illusion of having a large hump, “You know where to find me, handsome.”

And with that you make your way down to engineering, where you find your daughter Iris as well as her mother Regina working hard on something.

Zento: “Ladies. I believe you wanted to show me something?”
Iris: “Dad!” with a small wave and a big smile, your daughter greets you happily, “It’s over here!”
Regina: “Oh, good thing you could come, dear.” the older lizard tells you, “We are unsure how to proceed.”
Zento: “Oh?” looking up, you see what they’ve found, “…please tell me that’s not an active robot?”

Kaktus 2024/04/24(Wed)17:34 No. 1089632 ID: 681cb5
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>It's hard to picture Shara being a mother. It's much easier to imagine her as polar opposite of Tizli. Just dropping egg, then not thinking much of it, if not immediately (try) going back to work.
Well, she already got two kids, remember? Tescia and Dante. Both of which she has a… let just say, distant relationship with.
>The bodies were from the alliance that rebelled against the IOD, right?
It was the combined armies of all the species in the sector trying to stop the IOD from invading and conquering them. That’s not a rebellion, that an outright galactic war.


Regina: “It’s an cyborg actually.” the engineer walks over to the machine body being displayed in front of you, her average stature barely reaching the metal body’s waist, “We found it in cryo with the others.”
Zento: “Cyborg? There’s someone in there?”
Regina: “Why yes, love. Though, we have no idea who. Or how much of them.” the older lady rubs her head fins, “I didn’t even know we had this kind of heavy weaponry with us.”
Zento: “Clearly over your clearance level, Ensign.” you sigh, “As well as mine it seems. I did not know it either.”
Regina: “Going by the interface, we need a clearance level of at least Admiral to access it.”
Iris: “Or be part of some special clearance group, which we aren’t.”
Zento: “Hmm… and the weaponry? What are we dealing with here?”
Iris: “It’s main canon can easily rip this whole ship in half at full power.” Iris scowls a bit, “So any armor we may have would be like tissue to it.”
Regina: “And it’s armor is heavy enough that none of our weapons would be able to penetrate it.”
Iris: “Unless you manage to get it to stand in front of one of the ships cannons, that is.”
Zento: “So… let me get this straight.” you rub your eyes, “We have a cyborg which we can’t control, let alone disable, which has enough firepower to terminate us all in a blink of an eye.” With a loud sigh, you continue, “Anything else you two want to add?”
Regina: “…we don’t know if it will activate by itself or not.”
Zento: “Great…”
Regina: “So what’s is your orders, Captain?”

The large cyborg looms over you, it’s cold eyes seemingly staring into your soul, as if it can see you even as it’s inactive.

Certainly a cruel fate. It's still someone inside there that's not just trapped by cryo originally, but now requires a proper pass to live again?

Even if it is a deadly weapon it does deserve respect.

The cyborg has some obvious signs of gender, form-shaped in ways that provide maluses in combat, so we can expect (A) whoever they were to have a personality or (B) whoever designed them to be extra-lewd. Anything important behind those breastplates?

For now, keep them in the hangar, but work on a specialized program. IF they go crazy, eject with tethers and use them as a gun until they calm down.

>>1089632
I think I see what could faintly be considered boobs on the chest. This could possibly be a female cyborg Sakkilian.

The systems may not be active, but whoever is in there might be able to hear you. You could ask the engineers if it's possible to have a conversation with the cyborg? The least you can do is try and explain the situation to the cyborg. The flagship was torn apart in an accident during travel to this galaxy.

Who knows? Perhaps they'll understand that these are unusual circumstances and, if they activate themself, they might obey a few orders from you until you find an admiral or become an admiral.

>“Oh… I…err…” she blushes slightly, “I might need some more help with that… I’ll…” averting her gaze, she says, “I’ll need some more volunteers for that.”
Add "Assist Doxy with the Wroknir Integration project" to the list. (It's cute when she's needs encouragement.)

>we need a clearance level of at least Admiral to access it.
I know you've been ambitious about career prospects, but it's pretty early for you to promote yourself. Jokes aside, it's not a bad idea to spoof credentials for access. She'd make a good addition to the crew, if you can get her to cooperate. It'd be a shame not to get to know her better you don't even know her name.

Maybe she'd activate with the right keywords. Openly discuss the ship's your mission and status in front of the cyborg. If that doesn't catch her interest, maybe the ship's development and potential as a colony ship would.

Failing that, you'll have to put her back in storage. Ideally, you have someone to keep an eye on her, or try to reverse engineer what she's got.

>>1089632
Try your credentials. If they don't work, put the cyborg back in cryo. Though I am sure whoever's in there has been fully vetted and is not going to go crazy killer on us, she might not obey commands when there's no Admiral on board which would mean... eh... well okay maybe that wouldn't be so bad. Maybe leaving her out of cryo is fine in case there's an automatic boot sequence. Later when we have more than one ship, you can be officially promoted to Admiral and your credentials should work then, right? Sigh, if only we had this lady with us during the Tuul mission, it would've been much easier. They'd make a fine security officer otherwise, though we might want to double check the safeties on that cannon... is there some kind of hard-wired shutoff that prevents it being used during space travel?

Oh, one thing we can try before the cryo solution... can they interface somehow with it to communicate to whoever's inside? Like, is she conscious right now or do the implants keep her in a coma until fully activated? In the latter case, even then we could see if there's some sort of maintenance program we can use to check for problems before anything is fully activated. Safety first.

What's the status on the cyborg's life support, will it's organic parts die outside of cryo if it isn't activated? If yes then ice it for now, otherwise keep analyzing and hopefully find a way to communicate without fully waking it up.

So if you want boob armor, you're supposed to do something like the peascod breastplate, except the bulge is at the top not the bottom. Uniboob style. Or maks it not boob armor, like flak armor or most sorts of biped armor, just press the breasts down. Why channel shots into the middle of the chest? Who would design that for something this obviously expensive?

There is a person under that armor, and their quality of life remains your responsibility (both engineers and captain), within reason. Stop with the 'it' nonsense. Establishing communication is top priority, assuming life support is stable. Are there any signals coming or going? Someone should be talking with her regularly, keeping her up to date on things, making her feel as part of the crew, building a rapport, just in case she's half conscious.
And check for a physical on switch: redundancy is important, and that 'breast' plate suggests someone either had enough empathy to include a workaround, or would be horny enough to joke about 'turning on' a cyborg.

Those thighs could absolutely crush someone's head though.