The light is being tested by the Automated System. Though, in all honesty, the Flowers can survive
without sun, so more or less anything will do. Just for the hell of it, you take an Immature Flower and create a Hydroponic Test Chamber for it. The second Hive way, way underground is just beginning, but once the Queen's Flowers are set, expanding the Deep Hive will be a solid option. Lastly, the barcodes were scanned. That is how We know many of the Soldiers are criminals. Stampy appears to be the highest-ranked soldier, by the way. It is not as though it matters what his Human rank was, as he is currently the ranking Human as far as We are concerned. The Deviant Human Queen seems to be slightly unhealthy, but You suspect that Stampy has a deep-seated urge to ventilate her cranium as well.
Come to think of it, You don't know if Humans are lead by male Queens or Female Queens. It is entirely possible that the Humans determine their Queen by need and seniority. If this were true, then Stampy killing the Deviant Queen would make Him the current Human Queen.
You scan the remaining Human bodies looking for enhancements. You discover that in addition to the previously known reinforced cranium and entirely replaced spine, that the collarbones have been replaced, the rib cage reinforced, and the leg joints similarly reinforced. There are signs of artificial muscles (mostly in the legs) and several artificial backup organs - a second heart, what seems to be a modified lung, multiple pituitary glands, and an organ that You determine is used to boost the immune system and further cleanse the blood. This would naturally explain the size of the Human Soldiers, then. There is, of course, very little of this that can be adapted for Our use, given Our lack of internal skeletons.
Speaking of the humans... You proceed to the Human Chamber to find several of Stampy's Weak Humans wounded and one of the Deviant Queen's soldiers bleeding from multiple gunshot wounds to the midsection and a burned-out stump of his left arm, rather as though the Soldier in attendance had seen fit to cripple the Soldier. Without further ado, you Whisper to Stampy that he should finish the job, and he makes mouth-noises to the wounded Weak Humans. With feral looks on their faces, they rush the fallen Soldier and start to assault him. You turn to leave, and feel a vague wind from Stampy. Curious, you turn towards him, and he points at the computers, then makes sounds similar to that of the video game.
You order the Tech Drone to work with Stampy and the Human Tech Drone (as well as more ammo for Stampy), and set about making visual Sensory Arrays. It is a fairly simple process, and you complete 15 Visual Arrays, which are installed and integrated nearly as quickly as they are completed. With the remainder of the day, You assemble a second Basic Mechanical Flyer and expand it, giving it increased armor, piloting, and rudimentary stealth technology to create an Experimental Stealthed Flying Kai Carrier.
Night falls. You anticipate that with the work being uninterrupted, the Vehicle Launch System should be completed by tomorrow at midnight. You have yet to finish the Anti-Sat Rocket designs, but five days should give You enough time to design, build, load, and prepare it for launch. The Strangerfixing and improvements to the War Game should be completed by the morning and ready for immediate release.
The Soldiers arrive back with the Human supplies and Mechanical Repair Drones. A brief scan of the databases indicates simple maps and the location of various Human Dome Cities, Soil Farms, and various other infrastructure. The largest on this part of the planet is about
here. This is a
long walk - if Your narrator did the math right, and We go by ground at Our fastest pace non-stop, We should reach there in about five days.
[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 (Not Hungry)
17 Digging Drones (Not Hungry, Gen 1)
15 Basic Drones (Not Hungry)
17 Basic Drones (Not Hungry, Gen 1) (Wearing EPS)
7 Basic Drones (Almost Full, Gen 1)
4 Flying Drone (Almost Full, Gen 1)
1 Soldier (Gen 1)
1 Soldier (Not Hungry, Gen 1) (Wearing AEPS)
2 Flying Soldier (Gen 1)
1 Flying Soldier (Not Hungry, Gen 1) (Wearing AEPS)
1 Flying Soldier (Not Hungry) (Wearing AEPS)
3 Basic Soldier (Not Hungry) (Wearing AEPS)
1 Predator Drone (Gen 1)
20 Laid Drone Eggs (Gen 1)
10 Laid Soldier Eggs (Gen 1)
12 Laid Flying Drone Eggs (Gen 1)
10 Laid Soldier Eggs (Gen 1)
10 Laid Flying Soldier Eggs (Gen 1)
2 Laid Predator Eggs (Gen 1)
2 Laid Nurse Egg (Gen 1)
2 Laid Commander Egg (Gen 1)
2 Queen Flowers (Active / Recovering.1) )
9 Recovering.2 Underground Flowers
4 Pollinated Aboveground Flowers (Cold-Tolerant)
68 Immature Aboveground Flowers (Cold-Tolerant)
37 Immature Competing Queen's Flowers
1 Hydroponic Queen's Flower
A Mechanical Flying Scout of Human Origin
8 Mechanical Flying Light Scout
1 Mechanical Flying Soldier
Your Fertilized Eggs
6 Gen 2 S-1 (Medium, Winged, Improved Sensory, Intelligent)
6 Gen 2 S-2 (M Wing Improved Sensory)
6 Gen 2 S-3 (M Wing Intelligent)
6 Gen 2 S-4 (M Wing)
8 Gen 2 S-5 (Small, Wing, Improved Sensory, Intelligent)
6 Gen 2 S-6 (S Wing Improved Sensory)
6 Gen 2 S-7 (S Wing Intelligent)
6 Gen 2 S-8 (S Wing)
8 Gen 2 T-1 (M, Improved Hands, Improved Sensory, Intelligent)
6 Gen 2 T-2 (M, Improved Hands, Intelligent
6 Gen 2 T-3 (M, True Hands, Improved Sensory, Intelligent)
6 Gen 2 T-4 (M, True Hands, Intelligent)
3 Gen 2 T-5 (Large, Improved Hands, Improved Sensory, Intelligent)
3 Gen 2 T-6 (L, Improved Hands, Intelligent)
3 Gen 2 T-7 (L, Improved Sensory, Intelligent)
3 Gen 2 T-8 (L, Intelligent)
3 Gen 2 T-9 (Small, Improved Hands, Improved Sensory, Intelligent)
3 Gen 2 T-10 (S, Improved Hands, Intelligent)
3 Gen 2 T-11 (S, Improved Sensory, Intelligent)
3 Gen 2 T-12 (S, Intelligent)
Your Nest
Location - the general area of
HereOutdoors - Very Hard to Detect by Casual Scans
Insulated Improved Non-Reflective Level 2 Agricultural Earthworks with Many Flowers of Life
Improved Sensory Array: Sensory Array, Visual Sensory Arrays
Level 2 Defensive Earthworks: Camouflaged Heavy Assault Armor Plating, Internal Fortifications, Medium Pulse Cannon, 7x Anti-Air Double-Barreled Rail Cannons, Heavy Artillery Emplacement
Open Dead Lava Tube, concealing a Partially Constructed Multi-Vehicle Launch System
{Open Dead Lava Tube}
{Covered Trap Pit}
Indoors
Improved Defensive Earthworks: Camouflaged Heavy Assault Armor Plating, Internal Fortifications, Security Interlocks
Insulated Reinforced Queen's Chamber with Two Queen's Flowers and Eggs (Automated)
Insulated Level 2 Flower Chamber with Nine Flowers of Life and a Hydroponic Queen's Flower
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, Disconnected Computer Network)
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 38 Competing Flowers (Deep, Automated)
Improved Defensive Cave-In Tunnel 1 (Improved Internal Fortifications, Long Drop)
Constructed Tunnel to Ice
Constructed Tunnel to MVLS
Partially Constructed Multiple Vehicle Launch Pad (Improved Security Interlocks)
You Own
A Bunch of Spare Parts: (Computer, Mechanical, Fusion Reactor, Weaponry)
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
59 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
A Bunch of Human Junk
3 Human Biological Testing Computer
2 Human Mechanical Repair Drone
6 Sacks of Human Seeds
Your food supplies are:
4 Units of Food
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, Can Come Kind Of Near To Almost Talking)
9 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)
AI Virus
An Entertaining Strategy Game (Beta)
Pressurized Acid Blaster
Pumped Pulse Blasters
Laser Cutters
Heavy Energy Machine Gun
Heavy Energy Tribarrel
Battery
Mechanical Scout Drone (Light Variant, Killer Variant)
Environmental Protection Suit (Armored, Powered, and Anti-Kinetic Variants)
Magnetohydrodynamic Propulsion System
Light Ferrofluid Railgun Cannon
Medium Pulse Cannon
Stealth Scout Fighter
Food Synthesizer
Fusion Reactor
Various Computers
Sensory Array
Heavy Artillery
Cluster Munitions (Anti-personnel, Chemical, Incendiary, Anti-Armor)
Magnetic Shield
Basic Flyer
Stealth Air Kai Carrier
Stealth Visual 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]