The Drones pollinate the aboveground Flowers and avoid self-breeding as You watch the check-up finish. The Weak Human is in poor shape. clearly, and through signals, You come to understand it is malnourished and nearly starving.
Given its near-death state, You try to Whisper to the Weak Human. She starts shrieking and doesn't stop, eyes wide open. Clearly, that idea didn't work. You try to whisper to the Intoxicated Human, and that doesn't work either. The Intoxicated Human is still
tripping serious balls under the influence and appears to be not even halfway through the trip.
Stampy makes loud mouth-noises at the Insane Human. You look at Stampy, and he makes the "kill" gesture again.
This time, You send a drone to retrieve a Human Low-Caliber and some ammunition, and suggest to Stampy that it really sounds like his problem to solve, not Ours. The Drone hands him the weapon, and he promptly takes it, aims on the Insane Human, and puts two rounds neatly through her head. The screaming stops. He blows on the barrel, triggers a non-firing mechanism, and offers the weapon back to You. Well, it wouldn't have done him much good anyway, but a captive who chooses to not attempt to harm its captors has SOME level of intelligence. Perhaps Stampy is a Level 3 Soldier Drone. You refuse to take the weapon, and leave, a Drone carrying the body. It should be an interesting experiment, and the Soldier in the room could easily kill Stampy if he tried anything. He makes mouth-noises at the Human Queen and extends his middle digit in the air. A mating ritual, possibly. The Human Queen makes two mouth-noises, and You realize that her first mouth-noise and Stampy's third-mouth noise were "fuck". Many humans have been making this mouth-noise.
You consider asking Stampy what a "fuck" is, but decide to ask later. Possibly some strange deity of their species. You suggest to him that the Queen can grow your Flowers, and Stampy makes a strange mouth-noise and the pleased expression before shaking his head "no" without even asking. Clearly, the Queen wants nothing to do with helping you, and Stampy finds it pointless to ask.
Regardless, You leave and get to work on a Bacteria Vat for the Synthesizer. As the device relies upon bacterial action and chemical processes, the best way You have to improve it is to add a stage and interface with the Molecular Assembler to cultivate the bacteria and kill the incorrect ones. The Hive fairly buzzes with activity as the Tech Drone designs a Stealth Scout Fighter while overseeing the production of the Vehicle Bay. It completes before You do, and the Drone orders a full assembly of Mechanical LSD's before returning to his design.
You finish the Vat and hook it in with some Drones; the assembly completes an hour before the food is delivered, and We recieve 4 Units of Standard-Quality Synthetic Food as well as another unit of Queen's Pollen. The Seeds have grown into Sporifers and all of the laid eggs have hatched. No Larvae have developed yet, although the Predator is getting large and restless.
You reflect upon Your nature. The eggs will bear a mixture of Your traits and those of the Drone in question. If you do not have such a trait, half of the eggs will have the trait and half will not. Each Drone fertilizes an appropriate portion of your Eggs, so half will share traits with You and the Spy Drone, while the other half will share traits with You and the Tech Drone. Eggs are designated as Eggs to indicate their immaturity; as they grow, they become more developed. Incidentally, You feel the need to lay or absorb
all of your eggs before fertilization. Reproduction is imperative.
The surface pollen was used in pollinating the surface plants.
You did not investigate the Substation. It is probably beyond repair and recovery, but there may be some machines to gather and Human Food Seeds to get. The presence in your mind of the Flowers seems to be excited by this.
The Commander Drone is the most intelligent of the basic drones, with its own voice, the ability to lead other Drones (especially in the field of its Mother), and with a very limited breeding capability on its own. Like its predecessors, the Commander can harvest elements from anything it can eat or breathe, is poisonous, and otherwise the pinnacle of Our race without Royal Jelly.
Yes, You are poisonous, and harvest elements, too. You note to update your inventory and status with the list of developed technology, and note You may have forgotten to list something.
[You Are:
1 Queen Kai (Full) (Wearing Powered AK-AEPS)
1 Level 3 Nurse Drone (Full)
1 Level 2 Navigation/Programming Drone (Full)
1 Level 2 Navigation Drone (Not Hungry)
1 Level 2 Tech Drone (Not Hungry) (Wearing AEPS)
1 Level 1 Digging Drone (Hungry)
4 Digging Drones (Not Hungry, Gen 1)
1 Small Fertile Flying Spy Drone (Gen 1) (Life-Support, Permanently Disabled)
15 Basic Drones (Not Hungry)
13 Basic Drones (Not Hungry, Gen 1) (Wearing EPS)
4 Basic Drones (Almost Full, Gen 1)
1 Flying Drone (Almost Full, 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)
2 Flying Soldier Larvae (Gen 1)
1 Predator Larvae (Gen 1)
20 Drone Eggs (Gen 1)
16 Flying Drone Eggs (Gen 1)
17 Soldier Eggs (Gen 1)
12 Flying Soldier Eggs (Gen 1)
4 Predator Eggs (Gen 1)
2 Nurse Egg (Gen 1)
2 Commander Egg (Gen 1)
2 Queen Flowers (Recovering.2 / Mature) )
9 Recovering.1 Underground Flowers
4 Mature (P) Aboveground Flowers (Cold-Tolerant)
Queen's Sporifer
2 Sporifers of Life
A Mechanical Flying Scout of Human Origin
A Mechanical Flying Light Scout
Your Nest
Location - the general area of
HereOutdoors - Virtually Undetectable to Casual Scans
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
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 Vehicle Bay, & a Molecular Assembler
Insulated Improved Human Containment Lab Subsection (Sleeping Pads, Chairs, Water Supply)
Insulated Improved Food Synthesizer with a Biorecycler and Bacteria Vat (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
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
2 Canister of Queen's Pollen
6 Canisters of Pollen Fuel (Underground Variant)
1 Seed of Life
1 Stripped Human Landship
20 Human Corpses
A Bunch of Human Junk
Your food supplies are:
6 Units of Food
14 Units of SQSF
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:
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 Inventions (new section, correct me if I missed anything)
Pressurized Acid Blaster
Pumped Pulse Blasters
Laser Cutters
Heavy Energy Machine Gun
Heavy Energy Tribarrel
Battery
Mechanical Scout Drone & Light Variant
Environmental Protection Suit (Armored, Powered, and Anti-Kinetic Variants)
Magnetohydrodynamic Propulsion System
Light Ferrofluid Railgun Cannon
Medium Pulse Cannon
Stealth Scout Fighter
Food Syntheziser
Fusion Reactor
Various Computers
Sensory Array
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]