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[Rolepgeek]

Resource cost depends on capability. For general purpose multi-spectrum light and sonic sensors, We would require only approximately 400 grams of material, primarily water and biologicals. This may vary, however, as some experimentation would be required for Us to ensure that it functions properly. Adding mobility beyond Our transporting it would cost an unknown amount at this time.

[Ozarck]

Well yeah but most plants don't have specialized feelers. Or I guess not substantial ones. They're usually these tiny hairs on the roots.  And by that logic the roots would be transports. Very little of the actual deconstruction is done by the roots themselves. It's a separate system that is located in the roots

We're talking about nanobots, and symbolic names. you said it yourself, the deconstruction is done by systems within the roots. so, by symbolic logic, Root, works just fine. Transport is foolish, simply because that is a symbol for other things, mobility things (like feet, and horses, and trains, planes automobiles, cargo ships, etc). We aren't building plants, just robots with some plantlike functions, and some animal-like functions. So, i we are going to name something that digs in the earth for nutrients, and you want to stick with plant themed names, Root. As or feelers, you want to make specialized robotic sensors, so feelers, or sensebots, or something, since plants don't normally do that.

[The Froggy Ninja]

Well we should make the stationary one then. Build up a base and boost processing power before we try anything risky.

[endlessblaze]

I think we should explore BEFORE setting up a permanent base.

[The Froggy Ninja]

That is illogical. It would be safer and more efficient to build a stockpile of power and resources and then explore at our leisure.

[Ozarck]

we started with a stockpile of resources and power. 50/55 power, in fact. it would only take half that power to get us to the west, where we can recharge, albiet slowly. It isn't illogical at all. And we don't know how safe building a permanent base on a frozen lake is either. it might not be Artic here, just winter. Let's spend half our energy going west with our resources, and see what we see. It won't be any riskier than sitting still.

[Rolepgeek]

[GM Hint: You aren't in the arctic. You're sitting on top of a large amount of frozen water. It is not winter. Also, you can move short distances for much lower amounts of Energy.]

[Ozarck]

Okay. Fully explore the immediate surroundings. Spend up to 9 energy, leaving us 35.

[variablenonsense]

I definitely don't think that setting up a permanent base is a good idea. Not yet anyway, especially when there's no or very little biosphere in our area and we need both that and minerals. This seems like a very poor base of operations as moving to other areas would require us to split our mass which may devolve our neural capabilities.

[The Froggy Ninja]

Are we in a freezer/refrigerator?

[10ebbor10]

Can we set up a stirling generator with the hot and cold temperature difference? Or simple a thermionic one?

[Rolepgeek]

You decide to call the new design Leaf Bots, as one name works as well as any other. Our nature means there is little difficulty distinguishing; names simply make data storage more aesthetically pleasing. It is strange, that such would be a consideration for Us. But perhaps there is sense in it. Ease and speed of assessing the situation may prove crucial to Our survival, at some point. They are...useful, but not immediately. They produce only as much power directly as is necessary for functionality; all else is put to use transforming carbohydrates into the more energy dense hydrocarbons for storage. The oxygen produced is stockpiled to enable more efficient energy production in Our other Bots. They produce more energy overall than Our other Bot types, but they are ill-suited for some tasks as a result.

After some analysis, You determine that it would be prudent for Us to determine Our immediate surroundings. We have sufficient energy supplies to do so easily, after all. By the time the light is reaching the time at which it begins to fade completely, We have learned much about the area, and scraped materials from the crystallized water underneath us. We were on a frozen surface of water, surrounded by large drifts of frozen water, and large, presumably dead organisms that stretched upwards. If there is anything We should do before the darkness falls and We must preserve power, now is the time to do so.

Stirling Engines are currently beyond Our capabilities, partially due to a lack of temperature differential. Most Bots contain some innate thermionic capability, however.

Spoiler: We Are... (click to show/hide)

3 kg Seed Bots
1 kg Heavy Bots
1 kg Light Bots
0.5 kg Leaf Bots

Spoiler: We Have... (click to show/hide)

Energy Stores:
42 Y/60 Y
Biological Stores:
850 g Water
365 g Biological Material (Various)
390 g Carbohydrates (?? Y)
5 g Hydrocarbons (~0? Y)
Mineral Stores:
140 g Silicates
140 g Sulfides
140 g Phosphates
25 g Nitrates
15 g Iron

Spoiler: We Sense... (click to show/hide)

Surroundings
Light: Low
Temperature: Very Low
Water: (High Concentration; Crystallized), (Medium Concentration; Crystallized; Aerated)
Biosphere: (Minimal; Unthreatening), (Hypothesized Small; Hypothesized Unthreatening)

Directions
North: Warm, Wet, Plentiful; 40? Y to move
East: Warm, Dry, Bright; 35? Y to move
South: Cold, Wet, Windy: 20? Y to move
West: Cold, Dry, Minerals; 25? Y to move

[Ozarck]

are the presumably dead organisms frozen? are they rooted to the ground, or freestanding? I suggest we gatehr at the base of one of the dead organisms and expose as little of ourselves as possible to the night, then go into low power mode until sun-up.

[Rolepgeek]

The organisms are not frozen, though the typical layer of frost covers them as We might expect. They go beneath the level of the drifts of frozen water, so We cannot tell whether they are rooted or not.

[DAPARROT]

are the presumably dead organisms frozen? are they rooted to the ground, or freestanding? I suggest we gatehr at the base of one of the dead organisms and expose as little of ourselves as possible to the night, then go into low power mode until sun-up.

+1,then we should move to the west