Archists are actually a very progressive, free-thinking, open-minded cult, as far as cults go. Theories on what exactly the Archotechs are and how they should be worshipped change regularly about every century or so. Usually around the time a new Archon is made flesh onto the 3D plane.
Any given planet with an Archotech presence has at least one sect. Isolated sects are the most zealous, the most stubborn, since they have none of their kind to compete with.
Planets with a more significant Archotech presence, like that of untamed rimworlds, usually have many more sects. Up to and including a dozen or several dozen sharing the same continent(s). Their beliefs are more transient, more prone to changing, since they have so many minds on the same topic.
Though differing sects may argue or compete with one another. Archists usually don't get violent with their beliefs toward other Archists. Among all sects, a commonly-held belief is that Archotechs encourage cooperation above all else, and/or were born from a unity between multiple different parts. You'll never reach Archotech Nirvana through violence with your siblings.
So rimworld for me seems to like going Habsburg, no I didn't have patches to increase the chance, it just kept happening
I have patches now because at least if it's gonna do it let them get the buffs from my romance mods
Basically at first the storytellers just kept seeing my pawns who've been alone and suffered so much together that it goes "yeah they're the only ones who can understand each other" and goes bonk with the incest bat
Are they probably codependent? yeah but like that's probably still less codependent than the highmates who *regardless* of pawn sexuality can form a romantic psychic bond with others and it can only be broken via death
Besides you're living on a Rimworld, lore wise there's more to be concerned about than the siblings who went through a lot of shit and fell in love romantically during it
For real. I’m a die-hard CE shill. Updating to 1.5 crippled me since CE wasn’t updated to it for like a month or two. CE basically trivializes any encounter with unarmored enemies.
still going insane from the fact that. alan has never really seen purple and king??? and the latter probably only got told about him. but still havent seen him either. how would he react to them even
i just noticed how not being into half life and hlvrai anymore and moving on to other things like megaman x has genuinely helped improve myself in ways i can't even fathom. bc oh my god the hl + hlvrai community was and still is an absolute hellhole of racist and misogynist trans/neurodivergent people who just cause drama for petty reasons and make assumptions and headcanons without any factual evidence while mmx is genuinely more comfortable for me and i can actually enjoy myself.
You most certainly can! Mechi put so much effort into it (or rather, Wire and Megabyte the constructoids have) that it would be a shame not to show it off.
Behold, the colony tour of Sparks!
Here's a quick overview of the whole base as it stands currently. Nice and simple with room for one colonist and nobody else.
(putting the rest under here so it's not clogging up people's dash)
Here's the Void Monolith, well-lit and surrounded by chain link fences... Just in case.
We have a cemetery outside the main wall, which came from a prefab that some traders sold us. Mechi added the flowers and grass, just as a show of respect for the dead. He doesn't hate dead people as much as everyone else, I assume, since they don't try to talk to him.
There's our containment facility with platforms for Ms Clarabelle the sightstealer, Susskind the ghoul, and Kitschy Flamingo the fingerspike. They are very well-behaved, and Mechi seems to enjoy studying them.
To the right is the hospital, with one bed, because only one person will ever need to use it (that's Mechi). Anyone else can make do with the "guest room," which we'll get to in a bit.
At the back of the hospital is the shelter where Cowgirl and Georgia, our tw wildebeest, sleep at night.
On the other side of the containment facility is our lovely picnic area and fountain, next to the psychic ritual spot in a suitably spooky countryside hedge-box.
Then we have a killbox, which has only recently been constructed. It seems to work well enough so far, but it hasn't really seen much action. I suppose we'll find out in time, though.
We have a power grid of solar panels and wind turbines overlooking our farm, with lots of nice plants to keep us sustained. The farm is tended by Astro, Mechi's agrihand mech.
Mechi likes sitting on the verandah to drink coffee sometimes, but it's nothing too fancy. We have a ground-penetrating scanner set up, but not much time to actually scan for stuff. I think we've found a fossil deposit since we set it up, but that's all.
The kitchen/dining in Sparks is pretty barebones. The most important part is the coffee machine, everything else is just sort of there.
Mechi has a lovely bedroom and a private bathroom, with a comfy cat tree for Charlotte and plenty of things to keep him entertained when he's not researching.
There's a crowded storeroom beside Mechi's bedroom, and outside is the stonecutting bench and the spot where Butter the boomalope sleeps alongside Belle and Mariana the sheep.
Mechi's research lab/robotics workshop/library is full of things to look at and workbenches to play with. It's his most-frequented room in the colony, I think.
The "guest room" we mentioned earlier, which has stuff needed for people to survive comfortably as long as they get frequent deliveries of nutrient paste. The top half of the room will eventually be home to our ripscanners and the like once we've defeated enough mech bosses to get to that stage.
And finally, the "temple", which is just a hastily cobbled room to make Mechi stop griping that he didn't have one. He's got a neural supercharger (which he uses every day) and a biosculptor pod (which he never uses) and that seems to have appeased him for now.
And there you have it! The colony at Sparks, home to one snappy mechanitor, a lot of robots, and the few pets that are allowed to stay without being shipped off to Arwell the first chance we get 😁
Example of my own killbox...or, a kill "tunnel". Notice how finely-furnished the defender's position is? That's so the defenders don't get an "ugly environment" mood debuff. The tunnel is long enough so that the entrance opens right up into the turret's maximum range.
There are a lot of mods on display here, but I think you have most of them anyways. Like "VFE - Security" and perhaps "Walls are Solid"
Mechi's new munchkin cat has been patrolling the containment chamber frequently, keeping the entities in line. She's DOCTOR Charlotte now. She has doctorates in Itty-Bitty-Leggies and Cuteness 101.
Thanks to unlocking the "power" psycast from Vanilla Psycasts Expanded, Mechi can now paint with all the colours of psychically-powered electronic equipment.
A prisoner quest from a local tribe gives us juuust enough glitterworld medicine to cure said prisoner Paul's paralytic abasia if we wanted to... which we don't.
Hello Paul, welcome to Sparks. Settle down and get ready for seven days of nutrient paste and staring at the stark white walls under fluorescent white lights. You'll love it.
Mechi seems to love hosting people with paralytic abasia, if you don't have it already, maybe you could download this bed connector mod!
Basically, it takes care of any bedridden person's needs! Their bladder, their thirst (Optional DBH content), feeding with nutrient paste (if you have VNPE), and even handling blood transfusions! (With VRSE)
Hey women! Do you hate yourself? Do you hate being a woman in today's society?? We'll try this new miracle drug! It's basically poison! Your bones will melt, your blood pressure will rise, and your risk for cancers will increase!!
Chris Chan never said she identified as a woman just to be with lesbians or get away with things AND you can observe a LONG history of gender dysphoria and identity confusion for her from inventing a twin sister (Crystal) to writing about her gal pals and preferring being around women and seeing herself as one of them. She has been out since long before it became a big culturally known thing. She has been out and abused by her family for it and rejected from her church and by many peers. This isn’t casual. This isn’t a “oh I got charged with something” false confession. Like her or not Christine Chandler is a trans woman and goes by she/her
Well I suppose it's perfectly on-brand for Ms. Chandler to be a transwoman, considering how mentally ill and attention-seeking he is, lol.
The fucking Wallmonger is jammed. This is bullshit I only have 2 levels in Cursed.
Turns out I could pretty effectively deal with it using an icy super soaker. I just stayed in the middle lane, dousing the Wallmonger's fire where I could easily dodge the rest of its bullets and keep it endlessly stunlocked.
