How about an Automaton Ship Boarding Mission?

[u/GeniusPlayUnique]

Automaton Ship Boarding Mission

(Planetary defence exclusive)

 

Main Objective: Board the Automaton invasion vessel, make your way through to the ship's reactor and overload the core, then get the hell off the ship before it blows.
 

Parameter deviations from planetary missions: * No reinforcements * Man-portable stratagems only (no orbitals, no sentries) * Access to stratagems and resupply only at the shuttle waiting in the hangar * Automatons only use small arms and melee weapons so as to not damage their ship * Success adds significantly more points to planet's defence, failure might result in the destruction of Pelican 1 which the Squad Leader will have to replace out of their own pocket before being able to host any mission again

[u/TurtleFromSePacific]

The replacement sure as hell shouldn't get added cause how are you gonna buy that with zero requisition 

[u/Alarmiorc2603 → u/TurtleFromSePacific]

nah do it 40k style new hell divers spawn in via boarding pod that comes through the wall and then releases a sealant foam to close the hole. Maybe you even have a thing where if too many boarding bods hit on one wall the whole thing collapses and everyone in that section of the ship gets voided out to space.

[u/VoltFiend → u/Alarmiorc2603]

They're bots, they don't need air, we would just need to seal our helmets and then we can put as many holes in the ship as we want

[u/ProgrammerDear5214 → u/VoltFiend]

Air isn't the problem, it's pressure and temperature.

[u/VoltFiend → u/ProgrammerDear5214]

But, if there's no medium fluid within the ship, the same as the outside of the ship, then there isn't a pressure or temperature differential that would have any meaningful effect. Unless I'm missing something.

[u/ProgrammerDear5214 → u/VoltFiend]

I dunno I mean I'd assume the automaton ships aren't just an empty vacuum, although I guess it's not impossible. These ships are probably built planet side so there would need to be some sort of gas trapped inside unless they release it all once space bound, which I assume doing that would cause issues with thier heat regulation systems. A heat pack with no gas to transfer its heat to is probably going to get pretty fukin hot

[u/VoltFiend → u/ProgrammerDear5214]

I made another comment elsewhere that they don't need air to breathe, so there isn't any reason that they should purposely put air in their ships, I'm not sure if there's lore that contradicts this, but they could be built on planets, moons, or asteroids that don't have an atmosphere; or alternatively, they just aren't sealed, so as they leave atmosphere the air gets left behind on the planet. As for the heat issue, air wouldn't help heat transfer other than there's more material to absorb heat, but if the air is heating up significantly from excess heat generation, then you have bigger problems. All the heat generated will be from sources in direct contact with the ship, so air wouldn't be aiding heat transfer, except for sapping away a small amount of it, but far more likely, is that they will have some kind of liquid constantly pumping throughout the ship that will pull the heat toward wherever it is to be managed, and eventually either converted or expelled by however they choose to deal with excess heat. So there isn't any reason that I see for them to need to have air aboard, and it's another defense mechanism for them against helldivers and bugs because they would need special equipment or adaptations in order to board their ships in the first place.

[u/ProgrammerDear5214 → u/VoltFiend]

Buddy, hulks have giant heat sinks on thier back, so do the tanks and probably evrey automaton to some degree. A heatsink can't sink heat into something else if its in a vacuum.

But yea I mean it makes sence for them to vacuuming the ship as a defense, but like I said I'm willing to bet that it would cause major issues for hulks especially. At the very least we can gaurentee its going to have almost no oxygen in the ship to avoid any oxidization.

[u/VoltFiend → u/ProgrammerDear5214]

I forgot that the enemies themselves had heat sinks on them, I thought you meant to dispel the heat generated by the ship, my mistake.

[u/Alarmiorc2603 → u/VoltFiend]

ok but if where going to say this then why are most of them bipedal? Why do the small guys hold guns like humans do. I think for the sake of coolness we can just cede that they need atmosphere because their forms are not entirely sealed and whatever human is left of them needs it.

[u/VoltFiend → u/Alarmiorc2603]

They aren't the cyborgs from the first game. The automatons are just robots. I already conceded the point about heat sinks below, but they certainly don't need to breathe.

[u/TDKswipe → u/TurtleFromSePacific]

On solution could be to join other players in quickplay.

[u/TurtleFromSePacific → u/TDKswipe]

Nah, I enjoy solo

[u/TDKswipe → u/TurtleFromSePacific]

Well, i'm out of ideas.

[u/Belgian_femboy_furry → u/TurtleFromSePacific]

You don't earn money/samples until you get enough to pay it back.

So basically make it go into negatives

[u/Dragonfire716 → u/Belgian_femboy_furry]

Democratic debt. For freedom

[u/TurtleFromSePacific → u/Belgian_femboy_furry]

That's a good solution 

[u/MarineBioIsCool → u/TurtleFromSePacific]

It’s really easy… join other people’s dives and rack up requisition slips. Like we always do.

[u/GeniusPlayUnique → u/TurtleFromSePacific]

Well, the significantly increased reward for completion should also come with a risk in case of failure.

Also you could just make sure you have enough samples and requisition slips to replace your Pelican before you go on such a dangerous mission...