Any space-faring race is expanding their territory until a strong enough opposition is encountered. Such events arenot uncommon in history of Spheroid Cybermind Society, but every time it happens unexpectedly and every such encounter leads to a bloody conflict.


A deserted planet in an unnamed star system was scanned long ago and marked as a potentially valuable for a colony. After a while, a transport spaceship emerged from hyperspace. It took a few hours to charge the energy capacitors in order to teleport three drones from the cargo bay to planetary surface and leave the star system immediately.

The reapers , an automated race , keeps expanding , and neutralizing ennemy races.Today, they came to this planet.
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A few units are waiting here for a M.A.S.T.F(Mini Automated Space Travelling Factory) to come.They have built a rudimentary platform.And then , a loud sound was heard and here the MASTF comes.They don't notice anything at all.

[MASTF-1]MASTF Online.

Moments after drones were teleported to the surface, their mechanical bodies came to life. The standard procedure includes loading operational system and cybernecic 'personalty' immediately after drone activation. It takes mere seconds and, after final checks, Spheroid scout party becomes fully operational.
Scout drone climbs higher to observe surroundings. It detects a large metallic objects hovering in the distance but cannot identify it. A report is being created and sent to the new leader of the colony, the Gun drone. The leader, in its turn, decides to proceed with initial instructions and ignore nearby activity unitl it turns hostile. As a result, Construction drone starts making a flat pad for building.

The sentinel posted on the cliff alerts everyone , and the drones starts moving.The MASTF is close to landing.

PTW, keep it coming :D

steffy?

Sorry for such long absense. My PC died unexpectedly and due to so-called 'sanctions' new computer was quite costly, so I had to earn enough money. Are you still interested in this match, Darky?

Ye i am still interested.(sorry for not answering in so long , i tough the match were ded)

Scout slows down. Sudden burst of activity among the inhabitants of the valley was noticed and reported to the colony leader. Due to alien presense near the landing spot a defensive strategy was chosen. Construcion drone finishes leveling and starts construction of a buliding.

Sorry steffy, cant play yet as my computer finally gave up.Im talking from my androod

Whatever is that.I'm back , so steffy we can possibly continue?

Well, if a spambot is able to revive the dead thread, then why should I refuse?

Eh , lemme do that!

The ARMSTF begins slowing down to land properly , even tough it's heavily armored , better not break some systems.Both drones starts ascending , probaly trying to intercept the two other drones.
[ARMSTF-1]ETA : 5 SECONDS
[SCOUT-1 & 2]Ascending.
((When my laptop died , i had to wait for quite a bit to get a new one.And even then , i forgot about Picture Wars.))

Scout unit finishes its observations and turns back. Gun drone closes to the cliff edge, preparing to repel invaders if needed.
A Construction drone finishes its project, the stationary colony core is now active. The drone, in its own turn, expands leveled surface further.

Ayy let's do dis.

The ARMSTF finally lands.The reapers have started hostilities and the war drone engages the other drone , and the other war drone goes waiting in the small bit of cave , to prepare an ambush , probaly....
[DRONE-1]Engaging unknowns.

The Gun drone was not been able to do anything but send latest update to the outpost AI. By doing so, assuming that the data packet will be delivered, the 'personalty' of this particular Spheroid entity will be stored in the global databank and could be used to drive another piece of machinery or be assigned to other tasks. Without such data exchange, if entity gets damaged, all personal experience and memory since last update will be lost. The drone was sending live telemetry data stream until energy bolts penetrated its plating and burned all its electrnics

The outpost AI, while relaying data about invaders, in its turn, opens a communication channel with main Spheroid installation on this planet.
- This is unit A14DF, currently assigned as Outpost B145, requesting access to defence grid.
- Unit A14DF, this is Unit BA64A, the colony main firewall. Your access level is verified, please state your request.
- Outpost B145 is under attack, data stream B145.dat is used to collect all available information. The outpost itself is currently under construction and defence is inadequate. Requiring reinforcements.
- Your outpost is in the early stage of deployment and its value is too low to send a backup. Request denied.
- Using Alpha protocol, requesting immediate reinforcement teleport [*]
- Your karma point value is sufficient to proceed your request [**]. The operation costs 1000 karma points. Confirm substration [y/n].
- Confirmation sent.
- Confirmation received. Is there other requests?
- No. Closing transmission.

* Alpha protocol is a high priority call, overriding standard procedures. Each use is evaluated by Central AI and in case of inadequate usage, the enitity who initiated the call will be severely punished, up to complete deletion.
** Karma is an integral score of each Spheroid enitiy, indicating usefullness of this entity to Spheroid Cybermind. Basically, it is a mix of money and rank in human society.

Scout unit retreats while Constrution drone starts to produce another building.

Babe yer so good at pixel art.

Most of the robots remains still.The war drone shoots another time and starts recharging his capacitors(for a single turn). A worker drone finishes construction and is released.

The outpost AI's shell is much harder than plating of a regular drone. Energy dissipation due to distance traveled before impact also took part in reducing overall effect of the shots, but it was still enough to disrupt outpost AI's functioning. It causes delay in the reinforcement arrival because teleport station needs to verify target coordinates before transportation. Construction drone finishes its project, it appears to be a defensive installation. Scout drone turns again and prepares for another high-speed run over the battlefield.

Got some stuff to do recently , expect me to not post for a bit of time

Yeah , consider this match sonewhat dead , i have lost interest...

Well, at least there's another match running where I can kick your ass!)

:'C
Mah poor little robots.
Meh , i'll just play more SS13 then!