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[MrWiggles]

We don't have a basic understanding, we have a full understanding of their language.

[andy_t_roo]

So, what I want our talking bot to say to the Paleolithic creatures, is "Hark, I am the prophet of the wounded War God. He chosen here to rest and recuperate. Though He was wounded by other mighty Gods, his powers are vast, equal both in terror and grace. He knows kindness to those that work with Him, and He knows death to those that accost Him. Do not think Him weak and venerable liken to mortal terms, He still mightier then you all. The War God granted me my voice, and my arms." At this point the repair bot demonstrates it's wielding plasma torch. "If you heed the War God needs He shall grant you treasures and if you serve him well, He shall smite your enemies in a fashion most horrid, that others will submit to you. I urge you to leave, and inform your Leaders of the War God. I urge you to either submit to the War God or leave the War God Be."

The robot with the communicator (henceforce designated Envoy) should aim to initate basic conversation with names. (it should use our language's word for envoy as it's name). Aim to advance the language skills enough to deliver the above message.

Ignore non-damaging attacks. Respond to potentially damaging attacks with minimal force. Respond to threat of destruction with retreat. Follow if requested. If Envoy or another bot moves beyond half the range of built in communications, a another robot will be dispatched to follow to maintain a communication chain.

Do we have sufficient sensing capabilities to trace their trail?
What communication range do the bots have?

Priorities: (short: days, medium: weeks, long: months)
a) short term security security - achieved through superior force.
b) short term supply - AI core seems power stable, other generators offline
c) short term infomation - is there any high-tech people on the planet
d) medium term supply - fuel, and the capability to manufacture
e) medium term security - seal hull
f) medium term information - is there any high tech people in the solar system
g) long term security/supply - we didn't get to the stars on combustible material, find out what really powers the ship.
h) long term information - find out about our history, and why we are on this planet. were we shot down, if so who did it, if not, why were we drifting for a long time, and what happened to the civilization we came from.

[NRDL]

g.

[andy_t_roo]

I put g as a long term goal because the general unobtanium required to circumvent Einstein won't be attainable from guys with sticks, and at a minimum would require a working nanofactory (the medium term goal) to collect/make ourselves.


That would change if the appropriate equipment is found in our foraging within our own spaceship.

[Flying Dice]

I put g as a long term goal because the general unobtanium required to circumvent Einstein won't be attainable from guys with sticks, and at a minimum would require a working nanofactory (the medium term goal) to collect/make ourselves.


That would change if the appropriate equipment is found in our foraging within our own spaceship.

That's where the primitive religious-slaves come in. There must be a raw material at some point in the process, and if it doesn't require a high degree of knowledge to extract, we can put them to work collecting it. At the very least, we can operate semiautomated mining machinery while our slaves haul it back to the ship for us to refine it. Of course, that assumes that our power source a) consumes "fuel" at a significant rate and b) cannot be replenished with our own resources. If it turns out to be something like antimatter, we probably have/can create a device to properly create, stabilize, and store more, if it is the type of A/M technobabble that doesn't make it a very long-lasting power supply.

[zomara0292]

So, what I want our talking bot to say to the Paleolithic creatures, is "Hark, I am the prophet of the wounded War God. He chosen here to rest and recuperate. Though He was wounded by other mighty Gods, his powers are vast, equal both in terror and grace. He knows kindness to those that work with Him, and He knows death to those that accost Him. Do not think Him weak and venerable liken to mortal terms, He still mightier then you all. The War God granted me my voice, and my arms." At this point the repair bot demonstrates it's wielding plasma torch. "If you heed the War God needs He shall grant you treasures and if you serve him well, He shall smite your enemies in a fashion most horrid, that others will submit to you. I urge you to leave, and inform your Leaders of the War God. I urge you to either submit to the War God or leave the War God Be."

I don't agree with forcefully making ourselves Gods. . . . . yet. Give them a reason to aid us. And remember, a child will defend its parents actions, if the child believes the parent is always right and will never hurt him/her. I can assume its the same in this case.

The robot with the communicator (henceforce designated Envoy) should aim to initate basic conversation with names. (it should use our language's word for envoy as it's name). Aim to advance the language skills enough to deliver the above message.

Oh god yes we should work towards advancing our ability to communicate with the locals. They have knowledge of the world that could save us time and resources. But no self Godding. Representative of a higher entity? Yes. Self-Godding? No.

Ignore non-damaging attacks. Respond to potentially damaging attacks with minimal force. Respond to threat of destruction with retreat. Follow if requested. If Envoy or another bot moves beyond half the range of built in communications, a another robot will be dispatched to follow to maintain a communication chain.

Goes without saying. I like this.

Do we have sufficient sensing capabilities to trace their trail?
What communication range do the bots have?

What I think is more important. Plus added what I think should have been there

Priorities: (short: days, medium: weeks, long: months)
a) short term security security - achieved through superior force.
b) short term supply - AI core seems power stable, other generators offline
c) short term infomation - is there any high-tech people on the planet
d) medium term supply - fuel, and the capability to manufacture
e) medium term security - seal hull
f) medium term information - is there any high tech people in the solar system
g) long term security/supply - we didn't get to the stars on combustible material, find out what really powers the ship.
h) long term information - find out about our history, and why we are on this planet. were we shot down, if so who did it, if not, why were we drifting for a long time, and what happened to the civilization we came from.
h) short term repair- Look for our ship schematics

[zomara0292]

I put g as a long term goal because the general unobtanium required to circumvent Einstein won't be attainable from guys with sticks, and at a minimum would require a working nanofactory (the medium term goal) to collect/make ourselves.


That would change if the appropriate equipment is found in our foraging within our own spaceship.

That's where the primitive religious-slaves come in. There must be a raw material at some point in the process, and if it doesn't require a high degree of knowledge to extract, we can put them to work collecting it. At the very least, we can operate semiautomated mining machinery while our slaves haul it back to the ship for us to refine it. Of course, that assumes that our power source a) consumes "fuel" at a significant rate and b) cannot be replenished with our own resources. If it turns out to be something like antimatter, we probably have/can create a device to properly create, stabilize, and store more, if it is the type of A/M technobabble that doesn't make it a very long-lasting power supply.

Lost me at A/M

[Mr. Palau]

Ok here's what the robots should do, I think:
25 robots will continue scouting the ship
45 robots begin repairing the 50 damaged robots
25 robbots assess the capaity to repair the power core, what materials it runs on, and if repair is possible begin repairing the core.
5 robots, including Envoy begin communication with the bipeds, attempting to determine the rest of their language and then delivering Mr. Wiggles' message. The 4 other robots are there to protect Envoy, if bipeds approach respond with non-lethal force, ie psuh them back, if they persist demonstrate the power of the arc weilders, ie turn them on and burn something that is not a human, in order to convince the bipeds to stop annoying the robots.

a/m= anti matter I believe

[Flying Dice]

I put g as a long term goal because the general unobtanium required to circumvent Einstein won't be attainable from guys with sticks, and at a minimum would require a working nanofactory (the medium term goal) to collect/make ourselves.


That would change if the appropriate equipment is found in our foraging within our own spaceship.

That's where the primitive religious-slaves come in. There must be a raw material at some point in the process, and if it doesn't require a high degree of knowledge to extract, we can put them to work collecting it. At the very least, we can operate semiautomated mining machinery while our slaves haul it back to the ship for us to refine it. Of course, that assumes that our power source a) consumes "fuel" at a significant rate and b) cannot be replenished with our own resources. If it turns out to be something like antimatter, we probably have/can create a device to properly create, stabilize, and store more, if it is the type of A/M technobabble that doesn't make it a very long-lasting power supply.

Lost me at A/M

Antimatter. Some canon universes treat it as nothing more than a very advanced fuel that still needs to be replenished fairly often (or otherwise treated with some other type of unobtanium), others treat it as a very long term energy source. If we've got an antimatter reactor of the latter type, we shouldn't need any other sort of fuel. All technobabble of course, but hey-we're the machine spirit of a crashed BC.

[Trapezohedron]

Actually, have we tried to analyze our previous objectives? Oh right, it was deleted.

We should terraform this planet at a later date, sacrificing the native biological creatures for ease-of-access to materials.

Right now, carry on with the analyzing self part, attempt to control the natives to keep away from your possibly spilled innards and see if there's easy ways to bring our generators online.

[Mr. Palau]

I don't see why we would terraform the planet, unless we find that our objctive was to recreate humanity on a new world or something like that.

[Trapezohedron]

We could have been a terraformer ship battlecruiser of somekind, or something else. Regardless, if you'd ask me (I'm only one voice), I'd like to terraform planets to the point of extincting creatures if we have the resources, if it can make materials easy to access.

[Flying Dice]

Generally speaking, terraforming equipment would be, well, terraforming equipment, not mining facilities or heavy weapons. If we do, for some reason, have a terraforming facility aboard what is apparently a warship, we could certainly use it to add a bunch of chlorine to the atmosphere or something, but that would be rather pointless when we can enslave the natives in a theocracy with us at the top.

[Silverbit]

Maybe we should build the Mass Accelerator?
If we ever need to get off this planet, the railgun would work as a catapult of sorts. Depends on how big it is. If it is only small, ignore what I just said.

[Dr.Ninja]

Let's get a diagnostic on what it will take to bring the main power generators back online