alex: ...didn't anyone bring pattern enhancers with them? those are supposed to be standard gear when the possibility of transporter difficulties is present - like beaming down to a PENAL moon!
alex: i don't need to bring any ships into the atmosphere - i can just deploy another subspace beacon to act as a communications amplifier like the ones i have daisy-chained all the way back to the idran terminus
alex: so...are we agreed this planet needs to be cleansed of reaper tech with extreme prejudice? if anyone's worried about possible dominion retaliations...i could always head back up to my ship, contact odo and ask if they actually have a claim to this moon, and if so, can i blow it to hell
alex: i think the most fun i ever had with a 'death' was when a group of people actually managed to get a jump on me and captured me...something that has rarely happened through 500 or so years, i'll hasten to add - and they tried to burn me at the stake for the 'crime of werewolfery' - i shirt you not, they actually used…
alex: the worst for me is getting shot multiple times and then having my body force the slugs back out...it's like feeling metal worms digging their way out of your flesh - but the look on someone's face when they all clatter to the ground and the holes close up in seconds makes up for it...barely
alex: i've felt enough pain to last anyone a thousand lifetimes - some of it lethal; luckily, i never had to feel any from regenerating wounds...that feeling is more of an annoyance, kind of like a persistent itch, than a painful one
alex: as nice as hearing that is...every hur'q that dies is another corpse available for conversion - and there are millions if not BILLIONS of hur'q swarming across the quadrant currently
*alex arches his head up* oh...pretty fireworks - also, that's another reason to blow this moon to cinders...if the hur'q run across those spikes, they'll probably all end up getting converted, and with how many there are....
alex: and we can't let the dominion have it either - which they might be able to reverse engineer something if we only use standard bombardment to destroy all these dragon's teeth...and we don't even know if that's the only example of reaper tech here
alex: because Cúchulainn's name translates to 'Culann's Hound' for reasons i'm sure you're familiar with if you know his story - you'll find a LOT of things in the imperium are named for canid-based things, as befits an empire run by a lycanthrope, as i'm sure you've already seen based on some of the class names for my…
alex: see? he agrees with me...though, given i'm currently flying a clearly federation starship design, i'm not sure just how much plausible deniability you'd actually have...unless i have the cúchulainn do it - which reminds me *he stares at nick expectantly*
alex: i don't think they'd care about a lifeless rock...if anything, they'd probably praise my ruthlessness and willingness to do what needs to be done - especially after they find out hur'q were sighted in the area
alex: i don't want the chance of even a single bit of reaper tech surviving, and this moon is lifeless - it has no complex life past the bacteria state, so i wouldn't be killing anything that could develop into sentient - and eventually sapient - life
alex: how about we just evacuate everyone, knock out the defense grid and level the entire planet? i have enough ragnarok torpedoes aboard my ship to incinerate this moon's surface
it's going to be a brand new design, obviously - they won't give away an already-existing one, especially since they're all part of their 'surprise mechanic' boxes
i can basically confirm that - every time i get dumped into a khitomer, someone always ends up riding donatra's TRIBBLE and she cloaks like she's on crack...and even if no one seems to be close to her aside from pets, she does it anyway, so i think they're included in that - which, if true, makes carriers a massive…