You examine the Flowers. None of them are currently able to be fertilized.
You proceed outside and supervise the installation and integration of the Pulse Cannon. The job goes excellently, and after a short period of time, We manage to conceal the Pulse Cannon while allowing a nearly 360 degree field of fire. The test fires work perfectly, and the landscape scars are quickly covered up with fresh dirt.
You proceed indoors and work on improving the Soldier suit. This time, You add additional material for thickness and armor, and add a space for further insulation between iron scales. It looks considerably more promising than the first design - You have fixed the flaws from last time and improved upon it.
Next, you design and create 10 portable-sized versions of the batteries, and improve upon the schematics considerably. You examine the Rifle and seek to improve upon it, integrating the batteries for increased capacity and power and an improved cooling system. The operation is a success, and the weapon's rate of fire and power is improved. The Repair Drone aids a Soldier in the donning of the Suit. You order it outside for a night watch.
Night falls, and We receive 2 Units of SQS-Food and 1 Unit of LQS-Food.
While Digging Drones are wonderful creatures, You feel that digging would proceed faster with firepower, and design a Drone-Sized Laser Cutter - a short-range, high powered tool to assist in digging. You equip a Drone with it and follow it near the Heating Tunnel, and watch the Drone bore more quickly. Returning to the Lab, you create 15 Drone-Sized Laser Cutters, and order the remaining Drones to relay the Cutters to the digging Drones. You estimate that the Pit will be finished by tomorrow at mid-day.
The Soldier is fine.
You note that We have four soldier-sized weapons and five soldiers, and order the Repair Drone to manufacture a Pulse Blaster. While the Drone is slower than you are, it nonetheless succeeds admirably, even with Your occasional interference. You, in the meantime, are busy integrating batteries into the Pulse Blasters, and likewise succeed, creating Pumped Pulse Blasters to accompany the Heavy Pumped Tribarrel Rifle.
The Soldier is beginning to get cold.
Next, You contemplate the nature of the devices created so far, and the Biped device. Clearly, the interfaces are designed to work well with Bipeds. You analyze your software and interfaces, and with the aid of the Navigation Drones who silently man stations in the Lab, We create an improved connection. Full Mind integration is a noble dream, but We are far away from that at the moment.
It is currently 5/8ths of the way through the night. The Soldier is partially chilled, but still operating fine.
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[You Are:
1 Queen Alien (Full)
1 Level 3 Nurse Drone (Full)
1 Level 2 Navigation/Programming Drone (Full)
1 Level 2 Navigation Drone (Almost Full)
1 Level 1 Repair Drone (Full)
1 Level 1 Digging Drone (Full)
1 Small Fertile Flying Spy Drone (Full, Slightly Cold-Tolerant, Slightly Camouflaged, Double Wings)
15 Basic Drones (Full)
13 Basic Drones (Full, Slightly Cold-Tolerant, Slightly Camoflaged)
1 Flying Soldier (Full)
4 Basic Soldier (Full)
8 Drone Larvae (Slightly Cold-Tolerant, Slightly Camouflaged)
7 Generation 0 Digger Larvae (Slightly Cold-Tolerant, Slightly Camouflaged)
2 Generation 0 Flying Drone Larvae (Slightly Cold-Tolerant, Slightly Camouflaged)
1 Soldier Larvae (Slightly Cold-Tolerant, Slightly Camouflaged)
1 Flying Soldier Larvae (Slightly Cold-Tolerant, Slightly Camouflaged, Double Wings)
3 Laid Drone Eggs (Slightly Cold-Tolerant, Slightly Camouflaged)
7 Laid Generation 0 Digger Eggs (Slightly Cold-Tolerant, Slightly Camouflaged)
1 Laid Flying Drone Eggs (Slightly Cold-Tolerant, Slightly Camouflaged)
1 Laid Flying Soldier Eggs (Slightly Cold-Tolerant, Slightly Camouflaged, Double Wings)
1 Laid Predator Egg (Slightly Cold-Tolerant, Slightly Camouflaged) [See, it's back!]
40 Eggs (Slightly Cold-Tolerant, Slightly Camouflaged)
20 Drone Eggs (Slightly Cold-Tolerant, Slightly Camouflaged)
14 Soldier Eggs (Slightly Cold-Tolerant, Slightly Camouflaged)
7 Flying Soldier Egg (Slightly Cold-Tolerant, Slightly Camouflaged)
2 Queen Flowers (Recovering.2 / Ripening 2/6) )
9 Recovering.1 Underground Flowers
5 Stunted Aboveground Flowers (Cold-Tolerant)
A Mechanical Flying Scout of Biped Origin
A Badly Damaged Mechanical Flying Scout
Your Nest
Location - the general area of
HereOutdoors - Virtually Undetectable to Casual Scans
Insulated Non-Reflective Agricultural Earthworks with Five Flowers of Life
Improved Sensory Array
Well-Improved Defensive Earthworks: Camouflaged Heavy Assault Armor Plating, Internal Fortifications, Medium Pulse Cannon
{Open Dead Lava Tube}
{Open Dead Lava Tube}
Indoors
Improved Defensive Earthworks: Camouflaged Heavy Assault Armor Plating, Internal Fortifications
Insulated Reinforced Queen's Chamber with Two Queen's Flowers and Eggs
Insulated Improved Flower Chamber with Nine Flowers of Life
Insulated Level 2 Technology Lab
Insulated Improved Food Synthesizer (Biorecycler)
Insulated Fusion Reactor Chamber
Insulated Heating Tunnel
Reinforced Expansion Tunnels to: Partially-Constructed Queen's Chamber
Mostly Constructed Defensive Cave-In Tunnel 1
Constructed Tunnel to Ice
You Own
A Bunch of Spare Parts: (Computer, Mechanical, Fusion Reactor, Weaponry)
A Fully Charged Battery [Large]
3 Uncharged Portable Batteries
Point Defense Laser / Smelter
A Lot of Damaged to Intact Metal Plating
Many Computer Parts / Wiring
1 Diagnostic Computer
A Kinetic Energy Penetration Warhead
1 Telemetry Computer
Display Panels
4 Dormant Flowers
Relevant Tools
A Queen-Sized Light Energy Machine Gun
A Soldier-Sized Heavy Pumped Energy Tribarrel
4 Soldier-Sized Pumped Pulse Blasters
A Drone-Sized Low-Quality Environmental Protection Suit
A Soldier-Sized Medium-Quality Armored Environmental Protection Suit
3/8 Earthen Insulation Materials
Glass Insulation Materials
Functional Greenhouse Glass
5/8 Ship Thermal Insulation
Iron / Iron Pellets
Water / Ice
Carbon
Nitrogen
Calcium
Phosphorus
Potassium
Oxygen
Silicon
Sulfur
Sodium
Chlorine
Scrap Metal
Scrap Plastic
A Barrel of Improved Fertilizer
6 Canisters of Pollen Fuel
3 Seeds of Life
Your food supplies are:
1 Units of Low-Quality Synthetic Food
2 Units of Standard-Quality Synthetic Food
Your Planets:
Unnamed Yellow Dwarf Sun
Unnamed Iron-Rich Cold Partially Terraformed Planet, 4th from Unnamed Sun [Mars]
- Unnamed Moon
- Unnamed Moon]