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i....execute defense plan B, modify the drones

Drakador_Chaos I'm not pointing fingers at anyone, I'm just making a point. Alot of the RP here in the forums is boring because it's just overpowered factions fighting overpowered factions with nothing happening or going on.

My point is, the majority of role-playing I've seen has to do with this, so I was making a generic point about role playing.

G4L4XY i have a solution for that....i could allow 4 small factions into a seperate galaxy in the UEE's home dimension, they could do stuff and interact with the UEE, and they'd be protected from most factions that can't breach the dimensional barrier.

G4L4XY Or you could have a different type of small faction. Maybe, everything about them makes them small except for the fact that they have an immense amount of political power and/or are very neutral. This would make attacking them raise a lot of enemies, while still allowing the existence of small factions. It may also have quite an amazing technological advancement, but have signed a contract, meaning that attacking them will create similar results.
As well, small factions are likely to be either of those anyways, as it cannot fight face to face and needs powers to support it.

Iantech My small faction:

Uhh, advanced technology? Immense amount of political power? No, imma just have somewhat bad tech and only one star system and a few outposts under my control.

Iantech And, that was my original idea for a faction back when Parendam Beta was happening.

yobeefjerky Also, can i integrate the Mak into lore for pretty much anything?

RedAndCosmoteer
Technically, the Mak can be integrated into the history of a faction IE: they come from a galaxy that was consumed by the Mak and are effectively refugees. not sure what you mean by "pretty much anything"

yobeefjerky What i'm asking is if it's okay for me to add the mak to lore.

i'm assuming yes.

RedAndCosmoteer
(yeah pretty much)

yobeefjerky Can the Mak have allies?

Gladiaxa I don't think so.

Gladiaxa Their programming makes alliance totally impossible.
for a simple recreation of their programming (don't assume it's canon)

Action Priority
Communicate = 2
Replicate = 1
Explore = 3
Gather Material = 2
Defend = 1

Going from 1-5, this is pretty much their priorities, what is probably an error in their code changed Replicate from 2 to 1, making it a first priority overriding Communicate, which is higher in the list and thus consulted first.

yobeefjerky I want to see the fucking Sylandro fart-cloud responsible for these fucking Mak drones.

On a more serious note - if the Collective have to get involved, they would rather be involved at the end. Some of the Rogue Core-AI might be happy to sacrifice themselves to make the Mak a bigger threat though (Looking at you, Argus-Maelstrom, you poetic, blind bastard), but the main reason is that, knowing Prime, and knowing he isn't an unkillable divine entity (it's just extremely hard to kill him), he's going to have to wait until the Mak have sent literally every single one of their drones to this universe, THEN they manipulate the Mak in a super-weapon like move that allows the united factions to wreck Mak drones left and right. Fail to destroy them during this time and the Collective are guaranteed to be screwed, so that's why Prime will refuse to help at first.

RandomCommander That's assuming the Mak enter the Collective's universe, which is highly unlikely if there isn't enough matter to justify the trip

Drakador_Chaos
Seems legit