I vote for Manipulator-5 as well!

>>748414
>>748416
>>748417
>>748419
But the head is a triangle and she doesn't want to fuck it

>>748423

Well, then Khlar will just have to do her best to kill 5 instead!

>>748409
This raises a question. If the warrior that defeats you is female, how are you gonna breed with her?

>>748425
Or let it live as her Slave Pet.

2 of these peeps look like they can survive naturally in space, and Krux's armor probably does too. Not gonna be able to cheap kill these ones by popping their spaceships.

Geoffrey seems a bad choice for you. It's added risk for zero chance of restarting your race. Plus, a capitalist "empire" means if you kill him, all his chumps are gonna be shouting about it all over the place. Brings you attention you might not want, costs you the element of surprise.

Krux or M-5 seem appropriate opponents.

GEOFFREY
just imagine the lulz

Manipulator 5, seems like a nice way to close that particular chapter of history

>>748431
this has already been answered with 'life finds a way'

> Krux
Thanks for adding my character to the roster

BUT

The Oluranthi like adding specialist races to their military/engineering rosters, and Zarn is on their potential militia top 10 list. If you show up on one of their operations, revealing yourself as the last Zarn in the galaxy, they're going to have ideas. Mostly about shooting you with enough tranquilizer darts to play Santa Claus for an entire Oluranthi planet (and each battleship has more than enough), strapping you to a chair (after sawing your limbs off), and breeding you with inbred nobles, brainwashable Rosechaletans, and other choice picks until the voices in your children's heads stop making sense.

Basically, might be a bad idea to go near the Oluranthi Empire while you're still one girl. Maybe if Krux leaves Oluranthi space one day.

> Manipulator Five
There is a LOT of potential here. She's only one girl, and yet she's powerful enough to conquer a home planet for you. Regardless of grudges, you seek battle, and who better than a worthy foe? Plus, an opportunity to breed with the very species that nearly exterminated her species, in the hopes of creating a new hybrid that will surpass all previous limitations? You BOTH want this.

> Zepyrcom CEO
Bad idea. This guy likely collects Anti-Zarn defense systems for his living quarters. Not much, but enough to defeat you. Since most of his assets are tied to his wealth and not genetic augmentations (being an elemental and all), you wouldn't stand to gain much from killing him other than a massive bounty from a company that knows how to kill you.

So yeah, if there were more Zarn I might have chosen something different but due to circumstances I vote for Manipulator Five.

>>748451
I always appreciate your input, Kome, but I'd prefer to reveal the nature of the Oluranthi through the normal course of the story.

Consider: if we best and manage to impregnate/be impregnated by the cloud man, we will have limitless resources and likely nigh-immortal offspring.
I'm biased as his creator but I'm throwing in with cloudboy for the betterment of the species, just imagine a version of that guy but with rippling muscles.

I'll say Manipulator Five.

Go full riot-mode against Geoffrey.

Kill Geoffrey, steal wallet, get megabucks.

All three of those sound unworthy of your legacy. Kill all three of them in random order (because let's face it, you are totally gonna slaughter these losers), then resume your original plan: go to the nearest populated planet and beat it up until a mighty space hero shows up to intervene, then beat up the mighty space hero. Repeat until someone kicks your ass, then submit said ass to the kicker. You get to kill lots of people, you get to have lots of strong babies, it's the perfect plan.

Krux the Fallen. Reunite with old allies, get hot food, and maybe even find a worthy opponent.

manipulator-5

Manipulator-5. Gotta get on with the begats sooner rather than later, and we knew this job would involve disgusting crotch stuff somehow, even before that bit with the sword of destiny.

Also, to the extent it's allowed, I'm voting against Geoffrey as a target, at least until there are new Zarn babies. Tailor-made to piss you off, plus tedious to kill, plus massive supplies of anti-Zarn weaponry (most of it's crap, but surely he reserves the best stuff for defending himself?), equals obvious trap.

Krux!

Manipulator 5! Tear off their stupid psychic head and reproduce with the neck stump!

Or something, I dunno, just kill 'em dead.

Krux and make it brutal

Kill that cloudy, corporate fucker.

Geoffrey! It would be hilarious, and you deserve something relaxing after having to fuck the sword.

>>748436
I'll resolve my earlier waffle and say M-5.

Krux, she seems worthy.

At the moment, it seems as though Manipulator-5 has a major lead, while Krux and Geoffrey are tied for second.

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While the chance to catch up with the Oluranthi and eat some real food is tempting, and it would definitely be fun to kick Geoffrey's rich ass, the idea that there is still a Manipulator out there is too much for you to stand.

It's time to settle the score.

It looks like she's on a starship in transit between worlds not too far from here, so you don't even have to change up your routine. Just zip over there, pop her ship and pat yourself on the back for driving yet another enemy of the Zarn extinct.

You enter the warp trance, expanding your consciousness to encompass local spacetime. Your instinctive sense of direction and location allows you to visualize your destination and transmit the coordinates to the integrated warp drive in your armor. You open your kandrithium portals and flood the armor's micro coils with energy, accelerating you to superluminal speed in seconds.

You take off in the direction of Manipulator 5.

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You drop out of warp still a few thousand kilometers out from Manipulator 5's ship. You want to give yourself enough space to accelerate to a good ramming speed. Warp drive may allow you to travel faster than light but it does not actually impart momentum, and you want to have plenty built up when you splatter Manipulator 5's oversized brains all over the sector.

Dumb bitch won't know what hit her...

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Oh shit-

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That's a nuke.

RIP Khlar

She drove into traffic

DEFCON traffic

>>750444
Huh. Your ftl depends on your armor? So if you took enough of a pounding, you'd lose the ability for rapid space transit? (Unless you hijacked a lesser craft I guess).

>Dumb bitch won't know what hit her...
Why would you assume for a moment you'd catch her by surprise? Her entire thing is sensors and scanners and information and awareness! She's the one opponent you absolutely should have assumed would see you coming!

>>750447
>That's a nuke
Well, M-5 predicted exactly where you would emerge from hyperspace, and when. That means there's a good chance the nuke is on a timer to go off any second now. That, or it's got a hair trigger linked to sensors and is about to go off.

Either way, I assume that's a threat to you.

Blip backwards into hyperspace? Throw up as strong shields as you can? Perform a karmic dive to dodge this layer of reality and the blast? Hit it hard enough to throw it out of range? Use an extremely powerful energy beam sufficient to disintegrate the entire nuke before the fusion and/or fission process can begin?

Unfortunately, we don't know enough about your abilities or about how nuclear explosions interact with the cosmology you've introduced us to to reliably pick the best course of action.

>>750447
I assume you don't want to die messily and I doubt it'll let you chuck it somewhere else, so just run away as hard as you can.

>>750447

There's never just one nuke. They're like pringles! Once you pop, you just can't stop.

Anyway, GTFO warp speed, hop out in a random proximity to her ship. Rince and repeat until nukes stop appearing/she tries something new.

DOOOOOOOOOODGE!!!!

Are these the kind of nukes that don't explode properly if you punch them before they detonate? If yes, do that.

>Driving yet another enemy of the Zarn extinct.
So, does that mean that the Zarn consider themselves an enemy of the Zarn? Because a species that regularly drives itself to near extinction every time they get bored with their genetics is just plain lucky that they aren't actually extinct from trying that the first time around.

>Dumb bitch won't know what hit her...
>Oh shit-
>That's a nuke.
The thing that you're trying to kill just predicted where you were going to show up and timed firing a nuke to give you little to no chance to dodge it.

The only dumb bitch I see here is you. You should know better than to underestimate an opponent and overestimate your own abilities. Shame on you for doing that. Things like that will get you killed and cause your race to go extinct.

I would suggest that you both put your differences aside and work together and maybe mate with each other so that both of your almost dead species have a chance to survive. But, I know you won't listen to that, so just try not to die.

Dodge and warp. DODGE AND WARP!

Antimatter, fission, fusion, or some high-tech mass/energy converter?

It it's a simple fail-deadly antimatter charge, just set it off, then turn around and 'walk' away, ideally while putting on sunglasses. Your grafted heroic destiny will manipulate probability to control turbulent forces within the warhead in such a way as to keep you safe from anything more than superficial injuries.

If it's a fission charge powered by chemical explosives, or any sort of mass-energy conversion that depends on macroscopic physical structure, just smash it up before something can activate the elaborate detonation circuitry and it won't properly detonate at all.

If it's a fusion warhead, details depend on the triggering mechanism. Same basic procedure as with the fission, but focus on peeling off any shell of x-ray-reflective material and safely dispersing lighter elements such as hydrogen inside.

Don't try to dodge until you've neutralized the immediate threat. Somebody anticipated your approach vector, so they know Zarn hyperspace and realspace maneuverability specs, and can be presumed to have further ambushes ready along the obvious lines of retreat.

Also you can't catch other champions by surprise, or evade long-term, if they're paying attention to their own locator crystals.

Step slightly to the left. Problem solved.

Looks like someone knew you were coming. Just don't let the missile hit you, its easy.

>>750447
think you can grab this thing by it's rear-section and re-

>>750457
>There's never just one nuke.
-position yourself, maybe surf the thing briefly while you get your bearings

Why are you scared of a puny little nuke? Punt it into the sun and dodge the real attack that it was supposed to distract from.

>There's never just one nuke.
True, but they have to be staggered a little. If they're too close together, you get nuclear fratricide, where the detonation of the lead nuke destroys, damages, or knocks off course the nukes following behind it. Meaning you waste some nukes, and if you target is actually hardened enough to necessitate a pounding from chained nuclear detonations to bring it down, you're not getting the chain you wanted.

...of course if these nukes can hyperspace the way her armor can, the others could just be waiting a light second out or so, waiting to blip into range one after the other as they detonate. Allowing close pursuit / timed blasts without M-5 risking one missile killing all its siblings.

>>750447
FIGHT THE NUKE. IF IT BEATS YOU, FUCK IT AND HAVE ATOMIC ZARNBABIES

Punch da bombding

So the manipulators have a history of mind controlling the zarn.
Now what if, just what if, the nuke isn't real?
I vote punch it to prove you Mental Fortitude!

Maneuver so that the blast pushes you towards her, or smash it before it can go off. If a measly nuke is all it takes to kill you then you're kinda pointless, you might as well just use conventional weapons.

>>750453
Going into a karmic dive and lowering mental firewalls when being attacked by a literal psychic? Seems rather unintelligent.

>>750493
This guy has his head screwed on right. Except for the bit about grafted destiny, we've already proven that destiny is a shit defense. Destroy the triggering mechanisms/warhead before the fuses can register your presence.
If it's a fail-deadly system, like antimatter or something more exotic (pressurized plasma? Strangelet soup?) your best bet might be to do a crash Karmic dive and hope you can pop back up and re-erect your firewalls before she can start really digging into your brain.