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[10ebbor10]

Quick question about the debris plan: Assuming we can saturate the entire upper atmosphere with gravel, how do we get ships off the planet?
And anyway, communication from the colony suddenly stopping altogether seems like it would raise suspicions before too long.

What the fuck are we even doing with the humans anyway. I think they are taking up too much of our time and resources and giving us nothing in return. What? We want to keep humans because we are humans? I think we should kill and recycle any that we don't have a solid plan for use.

Cooperative test subjects are easier to work with, and we will want to eventually be able to mimic human communications. We want to do that because such tools help secrecy, which is currently more viable than open warfare.

Not gravel, metal scrap. As for getting things of planet, we would be smart enough to plot trajectories of the debris and try to find a hole in the debris shield. Besides, the debris wouldn't last forever, a few months at most.

I know it would raise suspicion, but they can get suspicious all they want as long as they don't suspect it is Us. As long as they think it's some kind of pirate or mad terrorist, they won't bombard the planet, and the debris prevents them from getting to us anyway. They won't guess it's the last hive of a supposedly extinct race.

However, if we were to attack and the humans would be able to get our description out, we'd be in serious trouble.

[bukitodinos]

can we make amnesiacs? or try to? becuase if the humans are released, then where do you think they'll go?

or are we just going to keep them

can i call one stampy?




if we used brain slugs they could bring more!

[10ebbor10]

can we make amnesiacs? or try to? becuase if the humans are released, then where do you think they'll go?

or are we just going to keep them

can i call one stampy?


if we used brain slugs they could bring more!

We're on Mars, remember. Humans showing up out of nowhere raise suspiscion when the air outside is unbreathable. Yes, they'd bring more, but those 'll probably be armed and dangerous.

We should use the humans for SCIENCE (Human behaviour is science to) or "recycle them"

[Aklyon]

I say we get more cold-tolernce from that Jelly. It ain't getting much warmer out there.

[Mr. Palau]

I say upgrade the tech drone AGAIN. All of the suggestions so far require technology and the higher the level of the tech drone the better the technology we can build.

[kaian-a-coel]

I say upgrade the tech drone AGAIN. All of the suggestions so far require technology and the higher the level of the tech drone the better the technology we can build.

and mate with him by day 14.

[bukitodinos]

can we make amnesiacs? or try to? becuase if the humans are released, then where do you think they'll go?

or are we just going to keep them

can i call one stampy?


if we used brain slugs they could bring more!

We're on Mars, remember. Humans showing up out of nowhere raise suspiscion when the air outside is unbreathable. Yes, they'd bring more, but those 'll probably be armed and dangerous.

We should use the humans for SCIENCE (Human behaviour is science to) or "recycle them"

no they would still be dependent on air.

[Ross Vernal]

It is worth noting that IC Mars is partially terraformed. Nukes, bacteria, GMO plants, and cows.

While a human can certainly go out during the day in little more than a human EPS (at times, anyway; most prefer a full-out suit with multiple levels of safety), it would not be the best of ideas to march around unprotected just trying to breathe Mars "air" due to pressure and low oxygen levels (among the many, many other reasons). Most colonists and pirates live in domes.

It can be done, certainly, as what happened in the Landship, but it was not healthy.

Also worth noting is that this is soil, not dirt. There is some organic material, only precious little.

[10ebbor10]

What's the Martian air pressure? Unless the humans somehow increased it by 20% (which is a lot), they would be killed instantly. And even then it would be a thight fit, living at 70% of normal air pressure is rather bad for you.

Scratch that, low pressure is easily survivable, as long as you don't suffocate or get Caisson/ something similiar.

[Ross Vernal]

I cannot tell you how much they have changed the pressure, as I am a social scientist and writer as opposed to a scientist, but let's just say that after a few CFC loaded rockets, some drill-n-nuke, and about ten years, they've managed to make it survivable.

***

You begin to grow tired of these humans. You designate the Listener as Stampy, and whisper to him that the experiment is coming to an end soon and that he and his buddies should find a way to be more useful alive than dead. Stampy makes the nod You have come to associate with affirmative answers, and makes mouth-noises. His humans start to do various tricks, such as digging into the soil, making primitive gun shapes with their hand and exploding noises, and simulating typing on a computer. The Listener himself mimes talking to one Human, then quietly concealing his mouth and making noises to You, glancing back at the other human who appears oblivious.

You gather that they are offering labor, and create an image of Yourself, surrounded by the elements you have. Gold is very specifically NOT there. A brief pause, and the Listener's sub-hive commandeers the computer, brings up an image of the Earth, and creates a chart where a thin slice comes out - fully 98% of the planet sits under a representation of You, while the small slice has You being held up by dirty humans while the more familiar Humans alternate between bowing to you and striking the human laborers.

Labor now, reward later, with most of it going to Us? It's a question of loyalty. You use their four-panel visual communication system and draw a Kai-Human victory over other Humans, followed by Humans turning around and attacking the Kai. The other shows a mass drop, and the image of a supernova'd sun. Stampy's sub-hive responds with a hierarchy with You up top, and humans that resemble them considerably lower than you. The next image is of the Kai absolutely demolishing the Landship and its occupants. It would appear that the Humans are not loyal to their own race, but their own greed and desire to not be vaporized.

This can be worked with, although You still don't trust the Humans. Surgery and mind control would do as a start. As you go to leave, you see the Listener scrunching his face, eyes closed, as his lips move. You vaguely sense incredibly faint psychic noise coming from the human, but are unable to decipher the language. He taps on the glass and indicates the Limbless Human, then draws his thumb across his throat and points again. You take the Limbless Human out from the lab, and once out of sight, snap his neck and toss him into the Synthesizer.

Unable to decide between options, You take a bit of Royal Jelly and whisper to Stampy that he should feed a human the substance. A human who is not Stampy takes a bite and makes the same disgust-face as before, but eats it nonetheless. She seems to be fine, although her pupils are very dilated. With nothing further to do, You set off back towards the Lab to begin the assembly of more machines for vehicles and rockets. If a mass drop is a risk, the solution is to prevent it, and a few tons of rock and scrap metal would do the trick quite nicely.

The Tech Drone completes the Magnetohydrodynamic Propulsion System by the time you finish assembling more fabrication machines, while the Drones continue to furnish the Human containment area with items taken from the ship not vital. After this, you study Human technology. The Human technology is primitive and far less advanced than yours. Most of their parts are honestly scrap, but You find that it can be put to use, such as by adapting the railguns into Anti-Air Rapid-Fire Doublebarrel Rail Cannons.
Night falls. Some Drones are beginning to get hungry. You begin to grow tired of micromanagement of food, and decide to set general orders for food consumption so as to not have to make choices every night. You check on the Humans to find the female drone that ate some Royal Jelly to be highly intoxicated. Curious, you Whisper to her, but nothing seems to happen.

(Break the tie:
Cold Resistance
L2 NavDrone to L3 ComsDrone
L2 TechDrone to L3 TechDrone

Tiebreak time.)

[You Are:

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1 Queen Kai (Not Hungry) (Wearing AEPS)
1 Level 3 Nurse Drone (Not Hungry)
1 Level 2 Navigation/Programming Drone (Not Hungry)
1 Level 2 Navigation Drone (Hungry)
1 Level 2 Tech Drone (Not Hungry) (Wearing AEPS)
1 Level 1 Digging Drone (Hungry)
4 Digging Drones (Hungry, Gen 1)
1 Small Fertile Flying Spy Drone (Gen 1) (Life-Support, Permanently Disabled)
15 Basic Drones (Very Hungry)
13 Basic Drones (Very Hungry, Gen 1) (Wearing EPS)
4 Basic Drones (Hungry, Gen 1)
1 Flying Drone (Hungry, Gen 1)
1 Soldier (Not Hungry, Gen 1) (Wearing AEPS)
1 Flying Soldier (Not Hungry, Gen 1) (Wearing AEPS)
1 Flying Soldier (Not Hungry) (Wearing AEPS)
3 Basic Soldier (Not Hungry) (Wearing AEPS)
7 Drone Larvae (Gen 1)
13 Digger Larvae (Gen 1)
3 Flying Drone Larvae (Gen 1)
1 Soldier Larvae (Gen 1)
1 Flying Soldier Larvae (Gen 1)
1 Predator Larvae (Gen 1)
1 Laid Flying Drone Eggs (Gen 1)
1 Laid Flying Soldier Eggs (Gen 1)
5 Eggs (Gen 1)
17 Drone Eggs (Gen 1)
16 Flying Drone Eggs (Gen 1)
16 Soldier Eggs (Gen 1)
13 Flying Soldier Eggs (Gen 1)
4 Predator Eggs (Gen 1)
2 Nurse Egg (Gen 1)
1 Commander Egg (Gen 1)
2 Queen Flowers (Recovering.1 / Active) )
9 Mature Underground Flowers
4 Active Aboveground Flowers (Cold-Tolerant)
1 Planted Queen's Seed
2 Planted Flowers of Life Seeds
A Mechanical Flying Scout of Human Origin
A Mechanical Flying Light Scout

Your Nest
Location - the general area of Here
Outdoors - Virtually Undetectable to Casual Scans

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Insulated Improved Non-Reflective Agricultural Earthworks with Four Flowers of Life and two Seeds (Automated)
Improved Sensory Array
Well-Improved Defensive Earthworks: Camouflaged Heavy Assault Armor Plating, Internal Fortifications, Medium Pulse Cannon, 7x Anti-Air Double-Barreled Rail Cannons
{Open Dead Lava Tube}
{Open Dead Lava Tube}
{Covered Trap Pit}

Indoors

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Improved Defensive Earthworks: Camouflaged Heavy Assault Armor Plating, Internal Fortifications
Insulated Reinforced Queen's Chamber with Two Queen's Flowers and Eggs (Automated)
Insulated Improved Flower Chamber with Nine Flowers of Life (Automated)
Insulated Level 2 Improved Industrial Technology Lab with an Improved Automated Weapons Facility, a EPS Suit Assembler, a Universal Parts Assembler, a partially-constructed Vehicle Bay, & a Molecular Assembler
Insulated Improved Human Containment Lab Subsection (Sleeping Pads, Chairs, Water Supply)
Insulated Improved Food Synthesizer with a Biorecycler (Unit of Food & Unit of Human Food Templates)
Insulated Fusion Reactor Chamber
Insulated Improved Heating Tunnel: Internal Ventilation System
Reinforced Expansion Tunnels to Queen's Chamber
Queen's Chamber with a Queen's Seed (Deep)
Improved Defensive Cave-In Tunnel 1 (Improved Internal Fortifications, Long Drop)
Constructed Tunnel to Ice

You Own

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A Bunch of Spare Parts: (Computer, Mechanical, Fusion Reactor, Weaponry)
A Fully Charged Battery [Large]
2 Charged 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
1 Dormant Cold-Tolerant Flower
Relevant Tools
A Queen-Sized Heavy Energy Machine Gun
3 Soldier-Sized Heavy Pumped Energy Tribarrel
1 Tech Drone-Sized Heavy Pumped Energy Tribarrel
10 Human-Sized Mid-Caliber Assault Projectile Weaponry
5 Human-Sized One-Shot Rockets
3 Human-Sized Grenade Launchers
60 Human-Sized Recoil-less Low-Caliber Handheld Projectile Weaponry
Human Ammunition
40 Human Gas Grenades
A Soldier-Sized Pressurized Acid Blaster
4 Soldier-Sized Pumped Pulse Blasters
16 Drone-Sized Laser Cutters
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
Perchloric Acid
Sulfuric Acid
Scrap Metal
Scrap Plastic
A Barrel of Improved Fertilizer
1 Canister of Queen's Pollen
6 Canisters of Pollen Fuel
1 Seed of Life
1 Stripped Human Landship
20 Human Corpses
A Bunch of Human Junk

Your food supplies are:
12 Units of Food
10 Units of SQSF
6 Units of LQSF

Your food requirements per Hunger Level are:
Drones - 1/10 of a Unit of Food
Soldiers - 4/10 of a Unit of Food
Levels 1-4 - A Unit of Food
Queen - A Unit of Food / Reabsorb 20 Eggs
Level 5 - 2 Units of Food

Your prisoners are:

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1 Tall Human Female With Gold Shoulder Decorations (Queen)
3 Medium Human Males with Red Crossed Arm Decorations (Tech Drone)
1 Large Human Male "Stampy" with Barcodes (Can Listen)
10 Large Human Males with Barcodes (Soldier)
1 Medium Human Female (Drone)
8 Medium Human Females (Drone)
5 Medium Human Males (Drone)
10 Weak Humans (Drone)

Your Planets:
Unnamed Yellow Dwarf Sun [Sol]
Unnamed Iron-Rich Cold Partially Terraformed Planet, 4th from Unnamed Sun [Mars]
- Unnamed Moon [Phobos]
- Unnamed Moon [Demios]

[Aklyon]

So, if I read that right, the group as a whole has decided to work for Us to evade death, or just the ones that allied with Stampy?

[Zecro_The_Scourge]

Seems to be the entire group. Take the intoxicated one to your lab and begin !!SCIENCE!! on all kinds of things (most specificly whats going on inside her body).

>>:Science the royal jelly test subject.

>>:Have tech drones begin work on the metal cloud / shield plan (Don't deploy it until we know they want to bombard us)

[Ross Vernal]

The ones with Stampy appear to have cast their lot with Ours, based on Our superior ability to kill them, their general negative attitude towards human society, and the chances to act as Human Queens for the survivors. Besides, they figured out that SCIENCE tends to result in their death, and would greatly prefer to only be used for experiments after death.

The Human Queen has five Soldiers, two human Tech Drones, four Human females, and two human males.

Stampy has himself and five Soldiers, the White-Haired Tech Drone, five Human females,  three human males, and seven of the Weak Humans.

The other Weak Humans are by themselves in a corner.

You are not at all sure You trust Stampy, but You can always build a Very Secure Door, whisper to Stampy to get by the door, toss in a box full of melee weapons, lock it, and point out that disharmony must be eliminated for continued survival. It could be amusing, at the very least.

[10ebbor10]

We shouldn't let them kill themselves. The weak ones,if of no other use,should be used in direct mind control. We should find a way to easily communicate with them too, being capable of imitating a human might prove usefull.

Second,divida and impera. The humans shoulfdn't see us as their Enemies .We must sow discord. Reward those who betray their treaterous friends.

[Ukrainian Ranger]

Study corpses, learn as much about human anatomy as possible, it will be useful later

Also, use the landship for target practice, test all our weapons, look for ways to improve armor penetration of our guns