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Glade Lyle likes them. His thoughts on the drones and specifically the parasite? What are his thoughts on working for the Hive so far? His thoughts on the suit? can we make ammo for his firearms?

He still seems to be coming to terms with things, and the drones' perpetually cheerful disposition appears to be a bit annoying to him at times, but he is both confused and content with the fact that they seem to do what he tells them to.

No no, a general purpose bay is fine, I was thinking of a lower cost alternative that could carry a pod outside the hull as a parasite craft. Basically just a rack on the hull of a sub capital for a single recon or surveillance pod, just in case. Or is that what the Docking bay is?

The new docking bay as it is stores the fighters or pods together out of the way to save space, and launches them through small launch tubes along the side of the hangar door itself. As it is, a dedicated carrier ship would be spewing swarmers and fighters out in all directions at high velocity when it needs to scramble the fighters. Swarmers are launched in a similar way, but are launched together in a ball, and as they leave the launch tube they break apart and scatter.
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Could we design a low cost docking module catering to space pods and fighters? I was thinking of something like a hermetically sealed port that could resupply pods and carry them in blinks but still leave part of the pod outside the hull, allowing for rapid deployment.

I changed the shuttle bay to try to keep it simple. Would you prefer the addition of dedicated shuttle and fighter bays to choose from, or just a dedicated fighter bay?

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Did we place the vibroblade modification to Lyle's arms? What are his thought on are Augmentations?

His own arm blades did indeed gain improvements from the Vibroblade upgrade. He's still getting used to it all, but seems impressed at the very least.
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Once we get fusion power, could we use the energy to grow Leeland crops in space? Could we have such an "elrctriculture" chamber as a module for our hive ships?

Yes, although that would require hydrogen fuel to support. Gas giants would be an excellent spot for maintaining such space born farms.
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How many fighters we can fit into shuttle bay? Also, since damage control costs are per full 100 meters, does it mean that fighters get it for free or that they are simply too small to benefit from it?

The shuttle bay has been changed to a Docking bay, and is now capable of holding up to 3 fighters along side a shuttle. Please note that the fighter itself is much larger and more powerful than a swarm fighter, as it is designed to offer a more potent response to human strike craft, which is why they take up more space. The swarmers, on the other hand, are designed to be used in massive numbers and are each quite weak alone. The change to the docking bay does not increase its cost. I also change the spinal hangar to allow it to either hold its origional composition of 1 docking bay and 4 swarm hangars, or 5 docking bays. This also does not change the cost, hope that helps.
The listed cost of ship components also indicate the minimum amount of space needed to equip them, so a fighter would be too small to utilize a damage control module, although it would be able to utilize armor, shields, or cloaking devices due to them only being priced by 10 meters.

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Can we use fixed mounts to install missile launchers?

No, the launchers themselves require more internal systems, and take up more space within the craft then a fixed mount would allow.
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Can we utilize the Cryo chemicals things like a ammunition type, seekers, or Air burst missiles?

The cryo spray is much more fast to dissipate, so it would be a bit less effective in those forms, but yes, you could.
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How quickly can our stealth pods or corvettes reach any given world in the expanse or union? How example, about long would it take to send a few aquatic workers to help speed up the excavation of our mysterious artifact, or reinforce the warriors protecting them?

That depends on how overt you are willing to be. By default your ships blink at the edge of the system and move in at sublight to avoid being detected, meaning it takes at least a day to reach any location.
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Considering the unusually nonradioactive state of the Earth, is it safe to assume that far more of the biosphere is intact than previous estimations indicated?

It seems to have recovered, yes, although the initial impacts and the resulting devastation would have still likely caused a nasty amount of damage to the planet's biodiversity.
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What would be more effective on fixed mount, cyclotron or particle beam?

Depends on the size of the ship. Smaller craft would be able to use the compact nature of the Cyclotron, while larger craft would be able to work to the strengths of the more bulky and brute force linear particle beam.
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Do thinkers have any selfish self-preservation instinct? Like, if given the opportunity to save their hides from certain death, do they take it for both themselves and their mother, or just for their mother? Also of the following which would drones like most?: Soda, Chocolate, Cotton Candy, Oreos.

What little preservation instincts a drone has are focused primarily around the queen. A choice between saving itself and saving the queen isn't so much a choice as it is certain death. Even the thinkers rely on the queen for direction, so if given that choice they would happily sacrifice themselves.
As for the food question, not sure what brings that up, but probably one of those natural sugar sodas, mixed with the cotton candy, and a pixie stick for good measure.
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We getting a Sol system entry in the star systems pastebin?

Yes. Fortunately we all pretty much know what's there already so I've been putting it off to the last minute.

What would a drone that had both the Peacock carapace and Adaptive camouflage Mimetic skin combo look like?

Peacock carapace is at this point just the de facto "fabulous" carapace, be it technicolor, fuzz, polkadot, or plaid. Adding the Peacock carapace just lets you designate that drone to have an excessive aesthetic that would typically get in the way of function. I cases like Speaker drones, however, the aesthetics and the function are one and the same.
So I suppose the answer would be "anything you want, plus it can change colors." That's extra fabulous in my opinion.
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Wouldn't the vibroblade research have also improved are drones ability to build tunnels?

A bit, yea. All the blade types of your drones increased in their efficiency from Vibroblade research. worker blades are now like a chainsaw/jackhammer combo, and warriors can more quickly and cleanly slice through armor.
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How many small drones can fit into a Shuttle? I'd like to know as I have a notion to filling some Shuttles to the brim with mini-sniffers and send them out to do nature studies of the rest of the planets biomes. By the way, You should put a size indicator for how many small drones a ship can hold.

There is a max capacity stat for the hulls regarding large and medium drones, but small drones are just, well, small, so I didn't really see much point in stating it for them. It's like the weight of a sheet of paper in most games is just "miniscule", rule of thumb for small drones is that if you want to carry them somewhere, you just about always have enough room.
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Hows Theseus taking the fact we know a alien A.I.?

It was quite a bomb to drop. You're not exactly sure how he's taking it, or if he even knows what to make of it quite yet.
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If we do design a single fighter drone would its mother ship need a hangar to carry it through a blink maneuver?

Yes, such a fighter would essentially be a small pod with space made for weapons and combat equipment in exchange for the removal of its FTL capabilities.
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The psychicization sphere in the temple seems to imply that the Gardener or her contemporaries had Nanomachines tech, doesn't it?

Quite possible. It does seem that she was involved in some joint research efforts with the Skyl.

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