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[Ukrainian Ranger]

I'd say it's time to clear the pond

So the plan

2 Insecticarps : Hunt for burrowed animals, eat, store enregy\nutrients. If full just kiiil and bring food to stockpile

400 antfishes: 20 groups of 20 antfishs hunt wildly, attack anything with  500 biomass or less (insects\toads\small fishes\anything else), avoid larger targets. Eat to max energy\nutrients. Everything else - to the stokcpile. Do not run if attacked by something large , instead the group should do a suicide acid attack to the death, either their or enemies. They are afraid of us, let them continue feeling that way

100 antfishes : guard food stockpile\ Rush to help insectocarps if they are in trouble.

If we lucky we'll get some new fun DNA and nice stockpile to fuel future mutations.

[Mr. Palau]

I can support that ^

[stabbymcstabstab]

+1

[LordBucket]

Have our swarms eat all plants in the pond. When the fish start starving to death they will be easier prey. Then eat them too. Once all life in the pond besides us has been eaten, fill the pond with photosynthesizing plants and move on.

[killerhellhound]

I'd say it's time to clear the pond

So the plan

2 Insecticarps : Hunt for burrowed animals, eat, store enregy\nutrients. If full just kiiil and bring food to stockpile

400 antfishes: 20 groups of 20 antfishs hunt wildly, attack anything with  500 biomass or less (insects\toads\small fishes\anything else), avoid larger targets. Eat to max energy\nutrients. Everything else - to the stokcpile. Do not run if attacked by something large , instead the group should do a suicide acid attack to the death, either their or enemies. They are afraid of us, let them continue feeling that way

100 antfishes : guard food stockpile\ Rush to help insectocarps if they are in trouble.

If we lucky we'll get some new fun DNA and nice stockpile to fuel future mutations.

+2

[Deny]

I'd say it's time to clear the pond

So the plan

2 Insecticarps : Hunt for burrowed animals, eat, store enregy\nutrients. If full just kiiil and bring food to stockpile

400 antfishes: 20 groups of 20 antfishs hunt wildly, attack anything with  500 biomass or less (insects\toads\small fishes\anything else), avoid larger targets. Eat to max energy\nutrients. Everything else - to the stokcpile. Do not run if attacked by something large , instead the group should do a suicide acid attack to the death, either their or enemies. They are afraid of us, let them continue feeling that way

100 antfishes : guard food stockpile\ Rush to help insectocarps if they are in trouble.

If we lucky we'll get some new fun DNA and nice stockpile to fuel future mutations.

+2

+3

[Naryar]

Should we not try and develop a tiny endoparasitic (internal parasite) form ? So it will be far easier and less costly for us to invade other bodies. Sure fighting stuff is fun, but infecting stuff with endoparasites is more efficient in a world-conquering goal.

Pretty sure there are mosquitoes in this pond, and maybe Plasmodium protozoa in there. Or any other internal parasite, really. It's a pond, it should be thriving with microscopic lifeforms !

[Mr. Palau]

Should we not try and develop a tiny endoparasitic (internal parasite) form ? So it will be far easier and less costly for us to invade other bodies. Sure fighting stuff is fun, but infecting stuff with endoparasites is more efficient in a world-conquering goal.

Pretty sure there are mosquitoes in this pond, and maybe Plasmodium protozoa in there. Or any other internal parasite, really. It's a pond, it should be thriving with microscopic lifeforms !

That's a good idea, find and eat some of those things.

[Ukrainian Ranger]

Oh that old boring and munchy: let's be a parasite\virus

Please, no

[10ebbor10]

Remember that you have no hivemind or anything. That parasite would be severly limited. No chance to change shape nor anything even vaguely resembling intelligence. You'd only be able to vaguely preprogram it.

[Mr. Palau]

Actually without a hivemind, which I forgot we don't have, a parasite wouldn't be so good. It would be hard to contact all the other parasites. So letes just do what we were planning to do before.

[Urist McDwarfFortress]

Speaking of the whole no-hive-mind situation... how are we communicating with the antfish and the other carp as it is?

[Mr. Palau]

Speaking of the whole no-hive-mind situation... how are we communicating with the antfish and the other carp as it is?

I would assume through liquid soluable ant pheromones.

[10ebbor10]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

2 Insecticarps : Hunt for burrowed animals, eat, store enregy\nutrients. If full just kiiil and bring food to stockpile

400 antfishes: 20 groups of 20 antfishs hunt wildly, attack anything with  500 biomass or less (insects\toads\small fishes\anything else), avoid larger targets. Eat to max energy\nutrients. Everything else - to the stokcpile. Do not run if attacked by something large , instead the group should do a suicide acid attack to the death, either their or enemies. They are afraid of us, let them continue feeling that way

100 antfishes : guard food stockpile\ Rush to help insectocarps if they are in trouble.

If we lucky we'll get some new fun DNA and nice stockpile to fuel future mutations.

The Insecticarps are send out to gather food. They are bottom feeders afterall, but are not very succesfull. While they do manage to get some food, they ain't very effecitve, turning up no dna and only a small energy profit. 

One of the insecticarp groups manages to kill a small eel, though the Dna is inrecoverable. They do get quite a lot of energy. Several other groups managed to get quite a lot of small insects, and gained some Dna of an underwater spider. The other groups are less succesfull and barely break even. 2 groups don't come back.

The hundred antfishes continue to guard the growing stockpile, which mostly contains depleted biomass.

You feel the temperatures falling, and darkness begins to cover the pond. Seems like it's starting to be night.

Food stockpile:
1560 biomass
Name:  Deoxys
Biomass: 10 000
Energy: 2800/10.000
Nutrients: 5000/5.000
Abilities: DNA assimilation, splitting, Improved DNA modification (Can change size of parts, can modify DNA into similair parts, can randomly mutate DNA at will)
Current look:  Insecticarp (1 m long, 10 high, 10 broad)
Status: Healed

Spoiler: Current form (click to show/hide)

Insect eyes (+50 to observation, -50 energy )
Insect stomach (Can turn biomass in energy)
-Fish mouth ( +100 to attack)
-Fins: (+175 to water movement. -200 energy)
-Swim bladder
-Gills  (Allows you to stay underwater. -100 energy)
-Fish Scales spiked carapace (+250 to defense, -20 to movement. Melee tacking enemies take damage on failed roll)
-Essence of Carp (Bonus to relation with elephants, and other dangerous things.)
-Insect reproductory system: Allows you to spawn all types of followers:
      -Instant Antfish: Cost: 60 biomass, 100 energy
      -Antfish egg: Cost: 10 biomass, 20 energy. (Takes one day to develop into a full antfish)

Spoiler: Clone army (click to show/hide)

460 Antfishes(60)(Attack:+2, defense:+1 Acid attack(E:53/60N:30/30). ))
1 Insecticarp(B:10.000 E=2800/10.000  N=0/5000)

Spoiler: Dna library (click to show/hide)

-Antennae
-Planttick mouth(allows you to suck nutrients and energy out of plants)
-Insect eyes
-Insect legs
-Butterfly wings
-Dragonfly wings
-Insect stomach
-Insect egg/larvae(Non splitting reproduction)
-Cocoon (Reduces risk of being eaten while changing. Extra energy cost)
-Spider silk glands
-Ant mandibles
-Ant carapace (Notes,relatively light but strong)
-Air capturing hairs
-Ant pheromones
-Ant acid gland
-Other bits of butterfly DNA-Chloroplasts
-Fish mouth
-Fins: (+10 to water movement. -50 energy) Depends on size
-Swim bladder
-Gills  (Allows you to stay underwater. -20 energy) Depends on size
-Fish Scales
-Essence of Carp (Bonus to relation with elephants, and other dangerous things.)
-Cell wall
-Large vacuole
-Roots
-Chloroplasts

Clones chematics for GM reference: (Doubt I'll need them)

Spoiler: Antfish (click to show/hide)

-Chloroplasts(1)(4nutrients-->1energy per turn)
Insect eyes (Allows you to see)
Insect stomach (Can turn biomass in energy)
Ant carapace (+1 to defense)
4 * Ant acid gland (Succesfull attacks are followed up by a +4 poison attack. 10 energy and 5 Nutrients to use)
Enlarged Ant mandible (+2 to attack, -1 energy)
Fins (+1 to water movement. -5 energy)
Gills (Allows you to breath underwater. -2 energy)

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[killerhellhound]

look for any animals or plants that may give dna that we dont have already and eat them