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[Zecro_The_Scourge]

We already disassembled the landship, and it would be less wasteful to test it on similiar materials in smaller scale.

[Morrigi]

We already disassembled the landship, and it would be less wasteful to test it on similiar materials in smaller scale.

Right. Set up some armor plates from the landship for target practice along with human-sized targets made from scrap metal, and test damage, , armor penetration, range, and accuracy of our weapons and the humans'.

[Ross Vernal]

If we could get a Jelly tiebreaker, that would be awesome. The Human only got a pinch of it, which for convenience will not be enough to reduce the Jelly.

[Criptfeind]

Tech drone?

[Morrigi]

If we could get a Jelly tiebreaker, that would be awesome. The Human only got a pinch of it, which for convenience will not be enough to reduce the Jelly.

L3 techdrone. Also, test weapons on human corpses to assess damage against organic targets.

EDIT: Double tiebreaker.

[Ross Vernal]

You hand the Tech Drone a Unit of Royal Jelly and leave it to its own devices. It has grown to the point where it no longer needs Your guidance to grow. You, on the other hand, have some weapons testing to perform, and order all Drones to dig an extended Weapons Testing Range while you and the NavDrones adopt the spare Diagnostic Computer and rig it to measure important weapon statistics.

After it is done, the Drones set up targets, and the firing tests commence.

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Queen-Sized Heavy Energy Machine Gun
Damage: High
Penetration: Moderate
Effective Range: Moderate
Accuracy: Low
Rate of Fire: Very High
Ammunition Capacity: High

Soldier-Sized Heavy Pumped Energy Tribarrel
Damage: High
Penetration: Very High
Effective Range: High
Accuracy: High
Rate of Fire: Moderately Low
Ammunition Capacity: Moderate

Human-Sized Mid-Caliber Assault Projectile Weaponry
Damage: Moderate
Penetration: Very Low
Range: Moderate
Accuracy: High
Rate of Fire: Moderately High
Ammunition Capacity: 60 Ferrofluid Shots

Human-Sized One-Shot Rockets
Damage: Very High
Penetration: Very High
Range: Extremely High
Accuracy: Self-Guided
Rate of Fire: n/a
Ammunition Capacity: 1 Heavy Rocket

Human-Sized Recoil-less Low-Caliber Handheld Projectile Weaponry
Damage: Low
Penetration: Low
Range: Low
Accuracy: Very High
Rate of Fire: Low
Ammunition Capacity: 30 Caseless Bullets

Soldier-Sized Pressurized Acid Blaster
Damage: Very High
Penetration: Very High
Range: Moderately Low
Accuracy: Very Low
Rate of Fire: Low
Ammunition Capacity: 40 Acid Blasts

Soldier-Sized Pumped Pulse Blasters
Damage: Moderate
Penetration: Very High
Range: Moderately Low
Accuracy: Moderate
Rate of Fire: Moderately Low
Ammunition Capacity: Moderate

Drone-Sized Laser Cutters
Damage: Low
Penetration: Very High
Range: Melee
Accuracy: Depends
Rate of Fire: n/a
Ammunition Capacity: Infinite

You make according notes and dump the used Human corpses into the synthesizer, and consider adding an additional output as well as the bacteria tank. You return to the Lab to find that the Drone has gotten smaller, and fairly bristles with sensory antennae and arms, as well as having apparently grown scales. Several hands, upon closer inspection of the fingers, reveal that they divide into a tougher, conductive set of sensory arrays. You are not quite sure what to make of the Tech Drone, but when the Drone reveals a Powered Queen-Sized Anti-kinetic AEPS, You decide that whatever changes the Drone made are completely appropriate, if not slightly unorthodox. Adaptation is progress, however.

There is a quarter of the night left, and You return to the humans with 3 Units of High-Quality Synthetic Human Food for Stampy's sub-hive, and 1 unit of Standard-Quality Flavorless Synthetic Human Food for the renegade Human Queen. Instead of eating the substance, she divides it equally among her people. Clearly, the Queen has been fertilized and is consuming her eggs.

What do You do with the Humans?

[Morrigi]

Talk to Stampy and learn what you can about human biology. Bring a couple of drones and the techdrone if it isn't busy to help make sense of it all. Also, would it be possible to fabricate equipment necessary for microbiology?

[Armok]

> just ASK the drone what changes it did.

[Zecro_The_Scourge]

Have our beloved Techdrone examine the humans individually with two soldiers as guards, it's insight will provide Us with a plethora of data.

[bukitodinos]

can we try brain slugs now?if thats okay with you...

if not try experimenting on a weak human not too much tough, like a check up at the clinic.

[Ross Vernal]

Brain slugs are going to take many generations. The Body could do it in less than three, most likely. You already know what the Drone changed, and presume it is for easier computer and machinery interfacing. Failing that, it can at least grip things and detect a lot of information about parks and the like.

You whisper to Stampy again, suggesting that human biology is of interest to You. Stampy shakes his head "no", then points at his Tech Drone. Both Your and his drones settle down on the computers, quite literally in the case of Ours, and feel the knowledge gradually coming in. Stampy again squints his face and eyes and looks at You. You sense another vague psychic wind emanating from him, but once again cannot understand. You whisper to him that You sensed something. His lips stretch, and You realize he is pleased.

A Soldier picks up one of the Weak Humans and drops him on the ground by the Tech Drone. You suggest to Stampy that the human Tech Drone should perform a physical check-up on the weak Drone. There are more mouth-noises, and You notice the human Tech Drone screwing his face up as though he were trying to Speak. Nothing from him, at all. With an exhalation of air and bounce of his shoulders, the Human Tech Drone begins to prod at the Weak Human, and expresses mouth-noises back to Stampy and his friends, several of whom make large, crude drawings of Human systems according to the Human Tech Drone and Stampy.

Still plenty of the night left.

[Zecro_The_Scourge]

If I read right we should be able to manufacture vehicles right?

>>:Have tech drone come back and design / construct vehicles for use on mars! Make them look similiar to human vehicles.

[Ross Vernal]

Assume the Drones are completing the assembly of the Vehicle Bay at the moment.

[Morrigi]

Assume the Drones are completing the assembly of the Vehicle Bay at the moment.

Maybe we could masquerade as another band of raiders until we get enough power to do some real damage.

Edit: Stealth aircraft. Can we do it?

[Ross Vernal]

Why yes, yes We can, and several varieties.

We lack Human designs, but the point of stealth is to not be detected, so We should be fine.