I'm guessing Reboot? Combined with Fairy Dust it'd probably be pretty good, even BTS3 HI would become much harder to crack. Never done it myself but -6 to enemy WIP does seem nice.
Indeed! As FishKing said, Reboot, Fairy Dust. While Yu Jing may not have the star hacking line up that say, Bakunin/Vanilla nomads has, bringing a cheap Evo hacker to the fight with your Invincibles and throwing in a few Wu Ming is never a bad idea. As Sun Tzu said, with Translation by Lionel Giles: The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.
Sun Tzu. Whoops. I need to remember to wait to qoute philosophy until after I've fully woke up. Names are important yo.
Damn, must've missed that. Forgot that EVO stuff tends not to stack. Good thing I've never done it myself, then.
Can't do this with Wu Ming, but this is a rough outline of something I'd be happy to take to a TAG-heavy tournament. Yu Jing ────────────────────────────────────────────────── 10 SHÀNG JÍ Hacker (Assault Hacking Device) Combi Rifle + Light Flamethrower / Pistol, Shock CCW. (0.5 | 43) SHÀNG JÍ Combi Rifle + Light Flamethrower + TinBot B (Deflector L2) / Pistol, Shock CCW. (0 | 40) Zhanshi YĪSHĒNG Combi Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 15) MECH-ENGINEER Combi Rifle, D-Charges / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 15) YÁOZĂO Electric Pulse. (0 | 3) YÁOZĂO Electric Pulse. (0 | 3) YĀN HUǑ Lieutenant Hyper-Rapid Magnetic Cannon / Pistol, Knife. (2 | 54) CELESTIAL GUARD Hacker (Hacking Device) Combi Rifle / Pistol, Knife. (0.5 | 21) GŬILÁNG (Forward Observer, Deployable Repeater) Combi Rifle, Antipersonnel Mines / Pistol, Knife. (0 | 27) NINJA Hacker (Killer Hacking Device) Tactical Bow / Pistol, DA CCW, Knife. (0 | 29) KǍNRÈN Hacker (Killer Hacking Device) Combi Rifle, Chain-colt / Pistol, Monofilament CC Weapon, Knife. (0 | 29) RUI SHI Spitfire / Electric Pulse. (1 | 20) 4 SWC | 299 Points Open in Infinity Army One of few AHDs that won't be stopped easily by KHDs. Edit: Horrible at ARO. Also, didn't realize this is the CA alliance topic and not the Wu Ming topic :D
Why join CA? Join your own Merc company like Ikari and go vent your rage and frustration by committing countless atrocities across the human sphere..............oh wait..........
Fellow Yu Jing Commanders, don't think so badly of other Factions for the upcoming Campaign. We really don't know what the parameters of the Campaign will actually be. If I recall correctly, Wotan opened with the Nomads being accused of smuggling Shasvastii into the Human Sphere (that they thought it was Caviar is not here nor there). You are the members of a proud Totalitarian Regime; that will put you at odds with every other Political System that the other Factions will follow, if not because none of them want to end up subservient to such a State, it wil be because some want to Rule, and your Empire is a Direct Threat to those aspirations. Still, the table hasn't been set. We only know the Stage will be Dawn. We don't know in what condition will the Japanese be introduced to Dawn and what relationship will they have with Ariadna. Adecuate treatment of Refugees is not exactly a Human strongpoint. And the other Factions have as much beef with Ariadna (I'd say even more in some cases) than with Yu Jing.
An alliance with the Combined Army isn't very likely. I mean, the Shasvasti want all humans dead. Very very dead. "You killed my children" dead.
I respectfully disagree with You, @Section9. . . The Shaasvastii Continuum, as a "Xeno Racial Concept" is clearly inspired by the "Sil, The Hybrid" creature designed by H.R. Giger for the "Species" Movie Trilogy; they will kill ALL HUMANS that are not DIRECTLY DESCENDANTS of their Hybridization Program. . . The Shas are not "Simple Genocidals" (such as the simplicistic, brutal, immature Morats); they want to CROSSBREED with all the Dominant Species of a given Planetary Ecosysistem / Solar System / Starfaring Civilization. . . Simply put they really, Really, REALLY wants to "Fuck Us Humans, to the Death". . . . .And THEN adopt and raise Our bastardized offsprings as more and more "Purestrain" breed of "True Shaasvastii". . . Without the Combined Army "E.I. Overseers" to rein their worst istincts in check, their "Modus Operandi" will be quite like the one of the Genestealer Coven Cults (on their own very inspired by H.P. Lovecraft take on the Deep Ones Fishmen, especially in the "Mask Of Innsmouth" story) but WITHOUT the Tyranid Swarm "Splinter Fleet" to arrive to gobble up the conquered world after the 100% Overtake is successful. . . I'm not very sure about how PROPERLY the Protheion Skill will be graphically represented, but while "Xeno Monsters" like the Caliban and the Aswang will gladly devour the still warm entrails of a downed foe (maybe when the hapless Human Organic is STILL ALIVE !!) in a very Ghoulish, Zombie Movie fashion, I personally envison the Speculo Killers (whose Female Specimen is CLEARLY a Visual Homage to the stunning Concept Art of Natasha Henstridge playing the aforementioned "Sil, The Hybrid" in the Species movies !!) as being a little more "Subtler" in Her. . . . .Morpho-Scanning. . . There is a similar idea in the X-Files Tv Serie, where there is a "Hillbilly Clan" of Alien-Human Hybrids that are really Androgynous Dopplegangers that could make sex with an Human (does not matter if in Male or Female form) and after a VERY satysfying sex, kill the partner with an insidious Retrovirus and then "Morph" in the EXACT REPLICA of the unfortunate. . . In the X-Files these "Insular Community" stay on its own, just sending some choice Specimens each generation, to "Acquire" some useful Human D.N.A. Strain to keep their "Genome Pool" fresh and pure; but one of them decides to "Go Rogue" (I don't remember if He / She / It has some Syndrome Disease that forces it, is simply a Sadistic "Serial Collector" or there are other shehanigans afloat) and start a spree of devastating "Cascade Morphing" going after one attractive sex partners after the other in the glitzy "Hollywood Submondo" (these Hybrids could, just with an Handshake on unprotected skin, make You so aroused to NOT BE ABLE to resist their clumsy Seduction Attempts), hereby forcing Molder & Scully (that risks BOTH to be truly "Fucked To Death" !!) AND the insular community of "Other Aliens" to take pre-emptive measures. . . . .!!! . . . . . It is really just another "Cyberpunk Sci-Fi" Take on the old, trite Literary Trope of the "Vampiric Succubus Passive Lover" or the "Demonic Incubus Active Lover". . . In fact, We have yet in Infinity enough Cyborgs and Resurrected Lhosts to have enough "Frankenstein, The Corpses-Monster", "Imothep, The Mummy" and "Belphagor, The Ka-Ghost" to have enough "Old Hammer Horror" kind of vibe. . . With the Planet Dawn full of ANY Flavour of Werewolf Lycanthrope, with Wulvers Third Generations as the old "Hairy Lumberjack" kind, and the Dogwarriors being "White Wolf Garous / Underworld Lycans" kind of "Big, Bad Wolf-Man Hybrid" then we could as well have. . . Count Shaasvastuula, The Vampiric Alien Seductor, slowly spreading its insidious "Progeny" in the unsuspecting Human Masses. . . . . . . . Really the Yujing Crane / Hsien Agents would have their hands full to burn down Hystorical Nihonjin Blocks to ALSO check their Population for "Genetic Alien Deviance" and some kind of "Infiltrator Taints". . . But, luckily for Yujing and the Jade Emperor, there is a selfless, altruistic Westerner that will gladly help the Imperial Security Service to get rid of this New Menace. . . . . . . . Enter the new incarnation of Father INQUISITOR Sforza, that will emply a brand new "Shock Hammer" and Combi-Flamer to enact the new, improved "Yujing Policy". . . "FOR THE (JADE) EMPEROR !!! KILL THE (NIHONIN) HERETIC ! BURN THE (ALIEN HYBRID) XENO !! SLAY THE (E EVOLVED INTELLIGENCE-CONTROLLED) DEMON !!!" "PURGE IT WITH RIGHTEOUS FLAME !!!!"
Pssst, Stevenart, Yu Jing is controlled by the Party. The Emperor is a puppet and no one in power (or semblance thereof) actually like religious poison :)
I'm not sure it fits the limited background we have on the incident, but "You have killed our children, so you will become our children." is definitely the stuff of a great sci-fi horror film.
Holy shit. I don't know if this is supposed to be a joke, but you actually made me want to play Yu Jing with this attitude. Loved it. I take offense to this. Morats are not immature :D The concept of applied violence is a very mature one. :P
@DaRedOne. . . These are not My words, but the ones of Evolved Intelligence representatives in the 1edition and 2edition referring at their attitude towards their "Space Orks Shocktroopers". . . I'm sure that the Morats, freed form the burden of the overoppressive, ubiqitous "Big Brother Ur" would flourish and increase their excellent possibility to become a Race truly, Truly, TRULY mature for the Stars. . . It needs JUST some "Free Morats" that explore the possibility to become somehow away from subjugation, and they will find some kind of place where their peculiar brand of Militaristic, Brutal Warfare will be appreciated. . . . . . . . Maybe one of them, wrongly accused of cowardice, will finish in the Krakot Labor Squads on Paradiso, where endlessly toiling to craft Morat Blade of pure Teseum; then captured by an unscrupolous Yujing Industrial Megacorp will be sent to an Asteroid Mining Prison Complex on the outskirt of Dawn System, where will be tried (to no avail) to be forced to share "Secret Morat Blademaking Skills". . . Successively liberated by a crack duo team of a Ex-Pan O "Nisse Hacker" and an Haqqislamite Ex-Odalisque turned Lasiq, will be then incorporated in a growing Mercenary Compact based on Ariadnan Soil, and with a Minotaur Bullhead as "War Flag Banner". . . (Shameless Self-Plug N°1, for My R.P.G. Campaign. . .!!) . . . . . Or a couple of a Morat Daddy and a Zerat Mommy, always seething under the Yoke of Umbral Overseers will fly away in the Human Sphere and find belated acceptance in the welcoming "Open Arms" of Bakunin Praxis where the Simian Redfaced Aliens could be mistaken as "Just Another Chimera"; their offspring will later join the Moderator Police Corps. . . (Shameless Self-Plug N°2, for a Concept Drawing that I'm preparing for @Golem2God. . .!!) . . . . . Finally the True Freedom for all the whole Morats and Zerats will be when one of their Cruisers, betrayed by backstabbing Shaasvastii and uncaring Exrah Space Sailors, will be destroyed by Pan-Oceanian Orbital Guns around Wotan's Gate and plummet toward Svarhalheima and try to eke a "Rogue Land-Pirates" existance there. . . Of particular concern will be their "First Assault Squad" a group of 5 Rodoks Veterans, wounded but unbended, trying to rebuild their wrecked Armoured Jumpsuits with Subpar Humantech and spearheading the "Morat Revolution". . .!! (Shameless Self-Plug N°3, for a Concept Drawing still for @Golem2God, crossovered with another R.P.G. Campaign Background that I'm preparing). . . . . . . . Meanwhile the "Nefarious Count Shaasvasticuula" will hide in darkness and twirling its (nonexistant) moustaches will say: "Yessss ! Jusssst asss planned !! Sssssooon all Humansssss will be MINE !!!". . . . . . . . And with this last, demential Idea will then close (for Now) the connection. . . THAT'S ALL FOLKS !!!
My reason for the statement is that Humans (specifically YJ) dropped a freaking rock onto a Shas genetic-materials-repository. Due to the massive defenses around it, Humans thought it was a command&control bunker. But now, Humanity utterly ended a whole lot of Shas children. Hence the "You killed my children" levels of hate.
Truth be told, I don't think the Shas would be that concerned. They have countless such repositories and they are always dropping spawn seeds all over the place. I veiw the Shas has having a cold detachment. Cunning and patient in contrast to the direct aggression of the Morats.
Yep, as a RACE they are cold, methodical and detached. . . The incident that @Section9 is referring I believe was nearby the Paradiso Frontlines, where a Human Sphere Joint Force bombarded a "Shaasvastii Embryo Creche" where were lovingly cared, in pressurized Cryotanks the Spawn of some Elites that, after some Veteran Turns of engagements, had "Assimilated" BOTH the Local Ecosystem nuances AND Human Defenders "Tasty D.N.A. Bits" and so had hoped to have these next upcoming generations even better to survive / thrive in Paradiso. . . Mistakenly believing that the Heavily Defended Subterranean Bunker was an unexistant "Evolved Intelligence Node" (based on uncorrect assumption about similar VITAL "Quantronic Server Farms" for A.L.E.P.H. !!) the humans employed a mix of Bunker Busters and Napalm-F.A.E. to do what was essentially a "Limited-Scale WH40K Exterminatus". . . The "Shaasvastii Continum High Command" would have just mourned it as an "Heavy Loss"; the VERY surviving spawn-parents of the Biotech "Embryo Vault" were all PERSONALLY enraged, and they were almost all Elites such as Veteran Speculos, Aswang, Cadmuses and Corax Special Forces. . . Just, for an HOPEFULLY WILL NEVER HAPPEN kind of R.W. Comparison, just imagine if many of the U.S.Navy Seals, Delta Force, Elite Rangers of the Marine Recon and Hostage Rescue Teams of the F.B.I. have decided to live with their Civilian Spouses and Children in a insulated nice "Beavertown"; the School Complex is housing from Maternal Cares to High School (where some of the most promising Teens are given "Eagle Scout R.O.T.C" training and Basic Combat Courses). . . Then imagine I.S.I.S. or Al-Quaeda or Whatever-The-Fuck-Terrorists happens to raze the School Complex to the ground; what do You think will be the Reaction of the parents, after (or during) the Mourning. . . . .???
Shasvastii are a survival paranoid race that has sacrificed its own existence in order to survive against all odds, of course they are "concerned" with the loss of any nursery even if they have (theoretically) outgrown the risk of total annihilation after they "allied" with CA.
