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[Ross Vernal]

Since machinery and egglaying can wait until night, You and the Drones begin to strip away the first several feet of soil and begin to install the first layer of Armor Plating.  In the meantime, You order the Nurse to begin exposing the Larvae to the cold in periodic intervals to better prepare the Second Generation for the temperatures, and examine the Drones to see what changes should be made for the rest of the Second Generation. For a brief moment, You are envious of the Body for its spontaneous adaptation, but discard the thought as unworthy. You theorize that the high level of iron present in the soil can be exploited, and order the Nurse to increase the levels of Oxygen and Iron in the Larval diet, and eat several pounds of dirt to aid in the egg's development. You futher theorize that another set of wings would improve the Flyer's maneuverability and flight ceiling, and focus your thoughts on the idea as We work. The placement of the Armor Plating goes well; after the installation of Earthen Insulation and the Armor Plate, you feel more secure against ground invasion and lower-energy projectile weaponry, as well as thermal weaponry. If it didn't burn up in re-entry, after all...

While You project that the Armor will not be installed until sundown, the Drones surprise Us their speed and the job takes 3/4 of the day.

Looking through the eyes of the Navigation Drones, You discover that We have not only managed to map and identify several underground ice deposits,  but have tapped into the Biped communications network undetected. For now, at least - the Drones proceed to download information at a Larval pace for security reasons. The Curious Structure to the Northwest is identified as "Automated Botanical Testing Substation F-26" and has a Rich Vein of Niobium located 10 "klicks" to the North underground. No further information is obtained, including what a "klick" is. Bipeds and their arbitrary distance system...

Night falls. You proceed indoors, but order the Nurse to allow Larval semi-exposure to the cold.  You are pleased to note that the Larvae survive their conditioning. For now, at least.

You begin the night by preparing the Queen's Chamber and laying eggs in the specially-lined chambers. You anticipate three days before the Eggs hatch into Larvae. You lay 8 Drone Eggs, 10 Generation Zero Digger Eggs, a single Soldier* egg, both Flying Soldier eggs, and 3 Flying Drones.

From here, You proceed to the Synthetic Synthesizer and use a single Dead Flower as a base template. After instructing the Nurse to deposit chemicals in the Syntheziser, You flip the switch and await the end results. The first batch comes out, and after feeding a Drone its standard 1/10th of a Unit of Food, you observe its reactions. It doesn't appear impaired, and You sense the Drone has become full.

You gain 2 Units of Low-Quality Synthetic Food. Morning appears to be coming soon, so Our research into Biped physiology is delayed. You harvest a unit of Royal Jelly, and combine the Synthetic Food with all of the dead Flowers save for one to produce 4.5 Units of Mixed Food.

[You are:
1 Queen Alien (Not Hungry)
1 Level 3 Nurse Drone (Not Hungry)
1 Level 2 Navigation/Programming Drone (Hungry)
1 Level 2 Navigation Drone (Very Hungry)
1 Level 1 Repair Drone (Not Hungry)
1 Basic Drone (Full)
21 Basic Drones (Not Hungry)
1 Flying Warrior (Very Hungry)
4 Basic Warriors (Very Hungry)
10 Drone Larvae (Slightly Cold-Tolerant, Slightly Camouflaged)
8 Laid Drone Eggs (Slightly Cold-Tolerant, Slightly Camouflaged)
10 Laid Generation 0 Digger Eggs (Slightly Cold-Tolerant, Slightly Camouflaged)
3 Laid Generation 0 Flying Drone Eggs (Slightly Cold-Tolerant, Slightly Camouflaged)
1 Laid Soldier Egg (Slightly Cold-Tolerant, Slightly Camouflaged) 
2 Laid Flying Soldier Eggs (Slightly Cold-Tolerant, Slightly Camouflaged, Double Wings)
1 Small Fertile Flying Spy Drone Larvae, Generation 0 (Slightly Cold-Tolerant, Slightly Camouflaged, Double Wings)
66 Eggs (Slightly Cold-Tolerant, Slightly Camouflaged)
4 Drone Eggs (Slightly Cold-Tolerant, Slightly Camouflaged)
11 Soldier Eggs (Slightly Cold-Tolerant, Slightly Camouflaged)
2 Queen Flowers (Mature / Ripening 1/6) )
6 Active Underground Flowers
3 Ripening Underground Flowers 1/6
5 Moderately Stunted Aboveground Flowers

You own:
A Bunch of Spare Parts: (Computer, Mechanical, Fusion Reactor, Weaponry)
A Fully Charged Battery
Battery Schematics
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 Light Energy Blaster
3 Soldier-Sized Light Pulse Blaster
3 Mildly Decomposing Dead Biped Test Subjects + 1 Leg
1 Dead Flower of Life
1/2 Earthen Insulation Materials
Glass Insulation Materials
Functional Greenhouse Glass
5/8 Ship Thermal Insulation
Iron
Water
Carbon
Nitrogen
Calcium
Phosphorus
Potassium
Oxygen
Silicon
Sulfur
Sodium
Chlorine
Scrap Metal
Scrap Plastic
A Broken Biped Flying Mechanical Scout
A Barrel of Improved Fertilizer

Your Nest:
Insulated 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 Food Synthesizer
Insulated Fusion Reactor Chamber
Improved Sensory Array
Improved Defensive Earthworks (Camouflaged Heavy Assault Armor Plating)
Insulated Agricultural Earthworks with Five Flowers of Life
Insulated Heating Tunnel
Reinforced Expansion Tunnels]

* Soldier and Warrior are interchangeable names for the same thing. Your GM is too lazy to decide.

[Morrigi]

Feed those of Us that require it and research the bipeds. Also have some drones dig to and excavate some ice.

[Ross Vernal]

[Reposting for clarity on how much Food it takes to restore a level of hunger.

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]

[bukitodinos]

Give the spy larvae the jelly

or the nurse.

[Zecro_The_Scourge]

Have our drones create a small room with fortifications for soldiers in case of an incursion, then create a tunnel leading to the biped building leading through this fortified room.

I will let the others deal with logistics as I am more or less brain dead this current moment.

[Ross Vernal]

[Fair warning: there is a bachelor party and a corresponding wedding held this week. As such, this thread will pause between roughly noon PST tomorrow until roughly 3 PM on Wednesday, then potentially pause on Friday depending on my LoverGirl's intentions, and be paused from Saturday until the middle of Sunday.]

The current known uses of Royal Jelly are to:
- Upgrade any existing Drone a level

- Create a Royal Larvae from a Drone Larvae, which will eat a Unit of Royal Jelly every production cycle until the Arbitrary Growth Cycle completes - this could be anywhere from two to ten cycles. Our two Plants will, after the Fruit develops, produce 2 Units of Royal Jelly per cycle. Since You are the current Hivemind and these are your Daughter-Queens, there is very little risk of rebellion.

[Meta-note: I won't even bother rolling for the odds on this one. It won't happen. The Third queen WILL be rolled for. You do not become aware of its independence until the moment of rebellion unless You are lucky.]

- Experiment upon Your genetic code. Any changes applied to You WILL proceed to the next Generation of Us. You are not of the Body, so changes may or may not work the way You expect.

- Assist the growth of a single Larvae

- Use it to make all of the Larvae fertile

[andy_t_roo]

and cover the armor plate with the excavated dirt so that a casual fly-over doesn't spot a large area of exposed metal!


Effort should be made to remove all significant traces of Our Presence on the surface.

[Ross Vernal]

and cover the armor plate with the excavated dirt so that a casual fly-over doesn't spot a large area of exposed metal!

That was part of the installation.

[Morrigi]

We seem to have a food shortage. Perhaps we should feed the biped corpses to the hungry after studying them. For now, feed the nav drone the dead flower if the others can survive until research is completed or the plants bear fruit. Also, think about a short term solution to the lack of comestibles.

[Zecro_The_Scourge]

We seem to have a food shortage. Perhaps we should feed the biped corpses to the hungry after studying them. For now, feed the nav drone the dead flower if the others can survive until research is completed or the plants bear fruit. Also, think about a short term solution to the lack of comestibles.

[Armok]

How will we eventually get more eggs anyway?

[QuakeIV]

I just assumed it required that food consumed to generate them.

[Mr. Palau]

- Use it to make all of the Larvae fertile

What does this mean? for clarification.
-Use royal jelly to upgrade a drone to an improved digger drone (Or a lvl one excavator drone!)

[Ross Vernal]

You will make 100 more eggs on Day 14, which will require fertilization. At the moment, Our only viable Drone is not even a Drone, and will impart the following qualities upon all of Us from Generation 2:

Slightly Cold Tolerant
Slightly Camouflaged
Small
Winged

It may be worthy to feed Royal Jelly to a non-Nurse drone to make one of Us fertile. Unfortunately, this will require a whole Unit, as it is far easier to enable reproduction at a young age than at maturity.

EDIT: As You are the Hivemind brought forth into a Queen, the death of a Queen is not the loss of the Hive. Another Queen will automatically be started out of simple survival instinct; the Hive will operate mostly-mindlessly until then as the Mind manifests inside a lesser Kai.

Post coming within the hour - or at least, being started then. ^_^

[Morrigi]

Can eggs be eaten? We have too many mouths to feed as it is, not counting ~150 more of Us.