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[RAM]

No authorial comment on my idea for a drone specialized in interfacing with machines?

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.

[Mr. Palau]

Given we are capable of moulding our own body, perhaps we should simply examine what gives a machine its advantages and try to form Our next Generation Drones with those Advantages?


If our sensors have not detected any sensors from the pirate ship, we need to send out the new flying scout to investigate what happened; we may be able to acquire Useful Materials.


Having examples of fully functional bipeds, and biped technology will aid further conquest.


Send out a scout to the area where the Administration people Lost, to search for armor fragments, and to determine strategies, capabilities and likely deployed tactics. If needed, directly control this drone Ourselves.


Test every pules weapon. We do not want another Disappointment.

The pirates are still alive. Searching the area of the battle would be a good idea. I think we test every pulse weapon already, that is how we know which work and which don't before the battle.

[Ross Vernal]

You find it would be faster to simply build a new Flying MSD, and once again order the Repair Drone to produce a Pumped Pulse Blaster while you work. The Drone, having had previous experience, streamlines the process and performs experiments for You, improving it to a MD-sized Medium Pumped Pulse Blaster. You designate it as a Repair / Tech Drone Level 1 for its success, and include the weapon in the MSD design.

All weapons are tested before use. The Experimental Weapon had defects that caused it to rapidly overload; said defects have been repaired in further versions of the weaponry.

The Nurse can only care for the larvae and eggs. It takes Royal Jelly to do so. Even with Day 14's supply reserved for granting fertility to the Repair/Tech Drone (it has been far too useful for Us to remain infertile), tomorrow will bring a Unit of Royal Jelly and several suggestions as to how it is best utilized.

As you work, you consider a specialized Drone, useful exclusively for its mental capacity in favor of sensory organs, size, and the rest. You attempt to consider all of the changes needed, but fail miserably, with no further ideas than Your first ones. We continue to dig and reinforce, expanding the Trap Chamber to have Internal Fortifications and an Interlock for Our safety.

Struck by an idea, you manufacture a large amount of Perchloric Acid (mostly exhausting Our supply of chlorine), and begin your experiments. Your attempt at creating weaponry goes excellently with the assistance of the Repair/Tech Drone, creating a Soldier-Sized Pressurized Acid Blaster with several different safety interlocks.

You deduce that the Bipeds are likely incredibly more paranoid now that their Predator is wounded, and have your reprogrammed Biped MSD scout around the periphery of the sensor range, while the MLSD goes on active combat patrol. Likewise, You send the Spy Drone in, personally guide the Drone under the sensory areas, sneak aboard the ship, and take up a spot inside the access tunnels, near the internal air intake.

You consider experimenting upon the Larvae and eggs, but cannot decide between ideas. Instead of this, You improve Your Light Energy Machine Gun to a Heavy Energy Machine Gun. Somehow or another, it is only nightfall. Our Spy detects that the Bipeds are returning to the Landship, placing on some sort of suit, and returning outdoors. We gain two Units of Standard-Quality Synthetic Food, one unit of Low-Quality Synthetic Food, five Standard Quality Soldier-Sized Armored Enviro Suits, one Standard Quality Queen-Sized Armored Enviro Suit, thirteen Standard Quality Drone-Sized Enviro Suits, and one SQ Repair Drone Sized Armored Enviro Suit.

The machine shuts down, its order complete. Nighttime above-ground activity is now possible.

Meta-note: Be sure to check Your status before making requests, as well as to confirm Our counts of supplies.

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[You Are:

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1 Queen Kai (Almost Full) (Wearing AEPS)
1 Level 3 Nurse Drone (Almost Full)
1 Level 2 Navigation/Programming Drone (Almost Full)
1 Level 2 Navigation Drone (Not Hungry)
1 Level 1 Repair Drone (Almost Full) (Wearing AEPS)
1 Level 1 Digging Drone (Almost Full)
1 Small Fertile Flying Spy Drone (Almost Full, Slightly Cold-Tolerant, Slightly Camouflaged, Double Wings) (Hidden aboard Pirate Landship)
15 Basic Drones (Almost Full)
13 Basic Drones (Almost Full, Slightly Cold-Tolerant, Slightly Camoflaged) (Wearing EPS)
1 Flying Soldier (Almost Full) (Wearing AEPS)
4 Basic Soldier (Almost Full) (Wearing AEPS)
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!]
27 Eggs (Slightly Cold-Tolerant, Slightly Camouflaged)
21 Drone Eggs (Slightly Cold-Tolerant, Slightly Camouflaged)
10 Flying Drone Eggs (Slightly Cold-Tolerant, Slightly Camouflaged)
13 Soldier Eggs (Slightly Cold-Tolerant, Slightly Camouflaged)
10 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 Mechanical Flying Light Scout
A Badly Damaged Mechanical Flying Scout

Your Nest
Location - the general area of Here
Outdoors - Virtually Undetectable to Casual Scans, Extremely Little Chance of Pirate Detection

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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

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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
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
Improved Defensive Cave-In Tunnel 1 (Pollen Mines, 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
Relevant Tools
A Queen-Sized Heavy Energy Machine Gun
A Soldier-Sized Heavy Pumped Energy Tribarrel
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
Small Amounts of Chlorine
Perchloric Acid
Scrap Metal
Scrap Plastic
A Barrel of Improved Fertilizer
6 Canisters of Pollen Fuel
3 Seeds of Life

Your food supplies are:
2 Units of Low-Quality Synthetic Food
4 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]

[Aklyon]

Shouldn't it be '1 Queen Kai'?

[Ross Vernal]

Shouldn't it be '1 Queen Kai'?

Shit. Fix'd

[Aklyon]

Would we be able to make Our AEPS more resistant to attacks? Not nessesarily all of them if We lack resources, but the Queen's one at least.

[Ross Vernal]

You could test more materials for protectiveness and create secondary garments. You can also work on different metals for trauma plates, work on the Graviton Shield, and other such things.

Failing that, You can always just say "screw that" and create more iron armor.

[Mr. Palau]

-Put some pollen fuel in the Pit Trap in front of the Pirate Landship. Rig it in such a way that it will blow up on contact with the Landship.

-Make a smelter (do not use the point defense laser/smelter.), and molds for the parts that are incorporated into the Drone's digging tools (as in molds that can have the parts cast in them. The parts being the parts used to make the digging tools. The trigger, the noozle, the battery, the barrel etc.). Collect a supply of materials that to go into the smelter, and use it to produce new digging tools for all the drones, aswell as any soon-to-mature drone larvea.

-Make a similiar smelter with similiar molds, but this time for a A Soldier-Sized Heavy Pumped Energy Tribarrel and the batteries designd to power it.

-Attempt to mature the 2 of thedormant flowers into Queen's flowers. The other two are to become standard flowers in the flower chamber.

-Design a automated watering and fertilizing system. Have the water flow down through a funnel, into a pipe contianing fertilizer, and then out through a series of pipes and another funnel to water the plants. Make sure the pipes are designed in such a way so that they are easy to clean out (the fertilizer will build up over time, requiring perodic maitnence of the pipes).

[Carp Slayer]

-Put some pollen fuel in the Pit Trap in front of the Pirate Landship. Rig it in such a way that it will blow up on contact with the Landship.

-Make a smelter (do not use the point defense laser/smelter.), and molds for the parts that are incorporated into the Drone's digging tools (as in molds that can have the parts cast in them. The parts being the parts used to make the digging tools. The trigger, the noozle, the battery, the barrel etc.). Collect a supply of materials that to go into the smelter, and use it to produce new digging tools for all the drones, aswell as any soon-to-mature drone larvea.

-Make a similiar smelter with similiar molds, but this time for a A Soldier-Sized Heavy Pumped Energy Tribarrel and the batteries designd to power it.

-Attempt to mature the 2 of thedormant flowers into Queen's flowers. The other two are to become standard flowers in the flower chamber.

-Design a automated watering and fertilizing system. Have the water flow down through a funnel, into a pipe contianing fertilizer, and then out through a series of pipes and another funnel to water the plants. Make sure the pipes are designed in such a way so that they are easy to clean out (the fertilizer will build up over time, requiring perodic maitnence of the pipes).

We already have explosive pollen mines in the pit.

[Zecro_The_Scourge]

Devote time to creating a manufactoria (giant factory w/ smelters and such) in the hive, it will provide warmth and more materials!

[RAM]

-Put some pollen fuel in the Pit Trap in front of the Pirate Landship. Rig it in such a way that it will blow up on contact with the Landship.

I would prefer to have the pollen fuel manually detonate. Mushroom clouds will attract attention and should be reserved for situations that are deemed to present a serious risk of detection.

-Make a smelter (do not use the point defense laser/smelter.), and molds for the parts that are incorporated into the Drone's digging tools (as in molds that can have the parts cast in them. The parts being the parts used to make the digging tools. The trigger, the noozle, the battery, the barrel etc.). Collect a supply of materials that to go into the smelter, and use it to produce new digging tools for all the drones, aswell as any soon-to-mature drone larvea.

-Make a similiar smelter with similiar molds, but this time for a A Soldier-Sized Heavy Pumped Energy Tribarrel and the batteries designd to power it.

fair enough

-Attempt to mature the 2 of thedormant flowers into Queen's flowers. The other two are to become standard flowers in the flower chamber.

These are our only original flowers, I would like to keep them until the ability exists to replicate their original environment. This would provide an example of the flowers that were optimised for a space-faring empire. All flowers developed here will adapt to their conditions...
I would like the seeds planted above-ground.

-Design a automated watering and fertilizing system. Have the water flow down through a funnel, into a pipe contianing fertilizer, and then out through a series of pipes and another funnel to water the plants. Make sure the pipes are designed in such a way so that they are easy to clean out (the fertilizer will build up over time, requiring perodic maitnence of the pipes).

I want to maintain personal interaction with the flowers...

[Aklyon]

I'd also like to keep the dormant flowers dormant.

[Mr. Palau]

-Design a automated watering and fertilizing system. Have the water flow down through a funnel, into a pipe contianing fertilizer, and then out through a series of pipes and another funnel to water the plants. Make sure the pipes are designed in such a way so that they are easy to clean out (the fertilizer will build up over time, requiring perodic maitnence of the pipes).

I want to maintain personal interaction with the flowers...

Just why, what reason is there for maintianing personal interaction with the flowers? I understand we have a symbiotic relationship but if we do the flowers understand We are of the Mind and that we use machines to enchance our physical abilities. If We were of the Body we could adapt ourselves to more properly caring for them, but being of the Mind they would understand that through our machines We can care for them as best as We can.

[Ross Vernal]

There's some stuff with bacteria, but that can easily be taken care of by the drones, as several of Us enjoy the rapport with the plants. Any drone not currently occupied is generally spending time with the Flowers. The Queen's Flowers, of course, get attention from You any time You are around them, and are a friendly, docile presence in Our mind.

Automation would improve efficiency without ill effects. The Flowers are dependent, not needy.

Post coming in a while. Thinking of battle strategies will assist in the future, by the way. It is inevitable that some Bipeds will live and return fire, and have ways to hide from weaponry.

[EveryZig]

About the pollen mines, are they currently just raw explosive? We should replace those with some large shaped charges to increase efficiency against armored land-craft as well as decreasing explosion visibility by focusing the blast.