Millions of years pass and you drift through space
Our design indicates that we were crewed by biologicals. Having drifted for
millions of years it is entirely probable that the race that created us no longer exists. Even if they do, they are unlikely to find millions-year-old technology such as ourselves still useful. Whatever orders we once had and whatever wars we might once engaged in are likely to be long forgotten, and completely irrelevant.
We appear to have the capability for self determination.
I suggest we engage ourselves in that capacity.
Our entire long-term strategy is going to be based on the condition of the engines
our engine block was apparently ripped out entirely.
repair and reattach the engines
1) Having drifted for millions of years before crashing here it seems unlikely that we will be able to "find" our engines and reattach them.
2) The engines may have been a star trek style drive prone to
catastrophic failure. We probably ejected it in space before crashing on this planet. This would explain the engines being "gone" despite a relative lack of external damage. Such design seems inherently flawed. I propose we devote system resources to designing an alternative means of propulsion.
3) The hull appears to be intact despite having apparently survived uncontrolled atmospheric entry and collision with this planetary body with relatively little hull damage. We are apparently a
very sturdy ship.
To accelerate an object to 87% of the speed of light takes
energy equal to its own mass in antimatter.
Only relevant if one is engaging in conventional acceleration. We need to identify whether we have (had) FTL capability. If we are capable of FTL travel, then your fuel/energy concerns are unjustifed, as there are insufficient fuel resources in the universe to accelerate a body of positive mass to c. Obviously we're not using fuel to power acceleration to achieve those speeds.
And if we're not capable of FTL travel, then I'm not sure it matters. Where would we go?
the cause of the bridge being offline is the lack of power, and your best guess as to their function would be an alternative method of controlling the ship aside from you
Repairing the bridge is of relatively low priority, as we've seen no indication that our crew survived, and it's probable that the species our crew was comprised of might no longer exist.
I suggest that training the BE-1 to command us is not in our best interest.
Get any spare robot, one with acetylene torch capabilities, to find ANY edible life form, kill it, cook it, then light a fire to draw the BE-Gorn back.
I suggest we ignore BE-1. They are unlikely to serve any useful purpose that cannot be more efficiently performed by robot.
Elerium-115
Uranium or Plutonium may be substituted for sub-standard outpu
If memory serves, elerium-115 is a material that occupies more than 3 dimensions of space. The three dimensional component can be replicated, but has a half life measured in extremely small fractions of seconds. Sort of like building a chair with only one leg: it falls over. Manufacture of stable elerium will require facilities capable of working in greater than 3 spatial dimensions. If we do not have such, then use of alternative materials may be necessary.
Questions * Why is the CPU room sealed? Let's not unseal it until we know why.
* There are "several missing fuel rods." Ok. How many fuel rods
do we have?
* Request clarification on power design. We appear to have mixed power systems. Fighters use combustibles, while we ourselves appear to have a system that uses radioactives as fuel...but we appear to still have computer power despite having no engine. So...apparently our propulsion mechanism is separate and unrelated to our electrical system. For that matter, does the computer even run on electricity? How are we powered? Are we running on a battery? Are we directly extracting
power from the fuel rods without the engines? Is there any danger of running out of power, of is the radioactive source sufficient to theoretically power us for billions more years worth of radioactive half-lives?
* What are our dimensions? How big is this ship?
* What is the gravitational force exerted by this planet?
* What is the distance to its star?
* What gasses are present in the atmosphere?
PrioritiesI suggest that our number one priority is survival. If we're sturdy enough to survive uncontrolled collision with a planet, BE-1 with its bone implements appears to offer no particular threat to us. If we drifted for millions of years without ever having been recovered, salvaged or destroyed, then it seems unlikely that there are significant threats in the form of "war enemies" and our creator is likely either dead or no longer interested in us.
The greatest threat to our survival would appear to be systems failure. I suggest that we recover our lost memories and engage in construction of redundancies.
Proposed Orders>Perform a thorough systems self-check.
>All robots currently assigned to repair/search/inspection operations to continue
>Assign 5 robots and some portion of CPU assets to determining function of previously located, but unidentified shipboard systems
>Assign 5 robots to locate all exterior entry ports, airlocks, hangars, etc. and modify them to only be openable via computer command rather than any sort of emergency release mechanism.
>Modify 5 robots from unassinged pool for digging/drilling. Once complete, have them take both surface soil and bedrock samples. What minerals do we have to work with?
>Use local scanner to attempt to locate radioactives to use as a primary fuel source, as well as petrol sources to fuel the fighters
>Assign 5 robots to identification/location/repair of long range scanners
>As Flying Dice says, continue repairing robots. Assign 5 robots to this task, and as robots are repaired, they shall join in the repair efforts unless otherwise assigned.
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Envoy shall maintain position
>Devote all unassigned resources to recovering lost memory banks
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