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[10ebbor10]

Von Neuman probes are something way different. That just a general name for a selfreplicating machine used in space exploration. (There's a more precise defenition.)

Hmmmm. Nanobots might be similar - they need self-replicating functions and parts.

In that case, We need to finish the niobium mining, and the satkiller project sounds really useful too.

Nope, a Von Neuman probe is a macroscale construction that is designed to move to a different star system, replicate itself there through whatever technology it has, send the replicated drones on it's way, then do whatever action it has been programmed to do.

Nanobots can be the way the Von Neuman probe reproduces, and a Von neuman probe can be made of nanobots, but they're not the same.

+1 for more stealth bots though. We can use the biolab we're building for that.

[alamoes]

I meant to build a base as close to the city without detection and I figured we would be able to dig out of scanning range.  The point of the spy bots were to look for troop movements and find targets to *make disapear* while pinning the losses on pirates. 

Any ways we may want to consider starting limited terraforming experiments with the plants.  They did react with the drug plants, so we can potentially explore with that and create plants that genrate heat massive scale and break up carbon dioxide into oxegon and carbon. 

[RAM]

We are waging war against the whole planet, being close to a single settlement isn't really advantageous. Being directly under one may restrict the use of heavy weapons though, provided that we maintain some of what the bipeds value.

[crazysheep]

Nope, a Von Neuman probe is a macroscale construction that is designed to move to a different star system, replicate itself there through whatever technology it has, send the replicated drones on it's way, then do whatever action it has been programmed to do.

Nanobots can be the way the Von Neuman probe reproduces, and a Von neuman probe can be made of nanobots, but they're not the same.

I stand corrected then. Either way, niobium mining should be a priority for Us.

[10ebbor10]

I meant to build a base as close to the city without detection and I figured we would be able to dig out of scanning range.  The point of the spy bots were to look for troop movements and find targets to *make disapear* while pinning the losses on pirates. 

Any ways we may want to consider starting limited terraforming experiments with the plants.  They did react with the drug plants, so we can potentially explore with that and create plants that genrate heat massive scale and break up carbon dioxide into oxegon and carbon.

Sadly, due to Mars rather solid ground, the seismomethers and such have a rather long range. I don't think we could surface close to them withou them noticing

I'm pretty sure the humans would notice that too. They also reated with some other plants, though creating plants that produce both heat and O2 and Carbon is impossible. Breaking the law on conservation of energy there. Sure you could try the cold fusion thingy, but we don't know how that works.

[Ross Vernal]

I am updating today. I would have done it last night, but California summer storms were hardcore. I counted 88 strikes in about 40 minutes. (It's very strange to see your car calling it 107 in the sun by day and to have wicked epic T-storms and rain by night...)

Anyway, answers!

- Our computing systems are designed to work similarly to Our brains, have immense amounts of storage, and we can build parts or work on software enough to connect to anything. It is certainly possible to capture Human soldiers and connect via the metal spine to the brain. It will take a while to get it done correctly, which is why We shouldn't try it on our Loyalists given the probably-fatal consequences. We can grow the required body parts for Humans, or just outright replace them with new organs and mechanical limbs.  It will certainly take some time to get it done, but once it is accomplished, We can create an army of Stampys.

It will take a long time.

- The Flower of Life appears to have the ability to assist Our guidance of adaptation and has been shown to be adept at adapting itself, as the integration of GM kudzu, hops, quinoa, and cannabis. The Human who had a bit of Royal Jelly seemed to hallucinate, and is rather fond of Stampy now for some reason. She is, at least, acting differently and smells differently.  It is a lot longer of a process to adapt Humans to be more Kai-like. With a Body queen, it would take about as long to make Humans into a specialized caste with Kai features as it would You to make cyborgss

- The Humans are fond of remote monitoring and have liberally seeded the area near their domed cities with seismometers. There's plenty of fringe area that is beyond the city perimeters where they catch water, farm dirt, hard sorry-looking cows, and otherwise try to eke out a living on their own while doing early terraforming work.

[alamoes]

I still wonder why we got a war queen when we are not going to war (yet) or even at least risk detection.  We probably should have gotten body instead. 

[bukitodinos]

we have a small colony they have an entire planet.

[10ebbor10]

we have a small colony they have an entire planet.

Not to mention the fact that there are others out there who would crust the entire solar system just to get rid of us.

[Ukrainian Ranger]

I still wonder why we got a war queen when we are not going to war or even at least risk detection. 

We have no war queen, yet.... only princess. When she grow up, mate, lay top class infantry eggs, they mature, then we we will be ready to kick asses

[alamoes]

I still would have gone with body, but I'm sure the war queen will still be useful, just no specialised breeding yet.  (I was thinking of stealth creatures, like lictors from 40k.)

[Ross Vernal]

There is much to do, clearly. Any sort of experiments involving biology need a better lab - something more suited to biology as opposed to a large industrial production facility. You leave the Princess to her own devices and proceed to work with the Drones, Nurse, and Tech Drone to build a rudimentary biological testing facility and nursery. The Nurse communicates the desire for several devices and the Tech Drone builds them - some have to do with healing, although the majority have to deal with larvae development.

The Nurse signals a desire for Royal Jelly to be able to reproduce. You consider the idea, and express Your desires for the current larvae - this is to create a suitable breeding partner, and the Nurse should push the larvae to the extreme limits of development regardless of death risks. You also suggest something related to acid spitting, and the Nurse signals its assent to the plan.

Work proceeds through the rest of the day and some of the night. With most of the work on the Bio Lab being completed (aside from the Nurse creating certain non-inventory fluids and such) , You leave to design Human Repair Bots to have certain programming flaws, a targeting system, and several features not commonly used for bots, such as flamethrowers, digging drills, and various chemicals and fluids of volatile and toxic natures. It isn't particularly difficult to do - most Repair Bots have a large variety of tools on hand for routine maintenance and assistance, and appear to be semi-autonomous within certain parameters.

Next, You consider an anti-personnel weapon for the Drones - explosives. If Humans need suits to survive for long, then a weapon designed to shred the suits (and their squishy insides) is excellent.  You go over the store of materials and experiment with several weapon designs before finally settling on a lightweight, durable plastic. With the new, lighter design, You and the Tech Drone work on creating a large run of Single-Shot Rocket Launchers, and create 50 Drone-Sized Guided Single-Shot Rockets.

Lastly, You notice the War Princess is now a younger War Queen, and has spent time talking with Stampy. It seems that with Stampy's aid, We have located several smuggler bases, the location of a few pirates, and other details about Human defenses and doctrine - the smugglers and pirates are independent and rival sub-hives with their own limited networks and no contact with the Administration, aside from a few subhives that are monitored and a few very quietly funded by the Administration. There are several inviting targets within reach.

Further, it would appear that there is an incomplete underground cable network between the largest and oldest cities. The newer cities, aside from those near to production centers and a large central training facility, are without rapid transport or network access. The fringes of Human society are large in claim but small in fertile land, and many are somewhat neglected by the Administration but subject to their rule.

The preparations for war continue.

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You Are:

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1 Tech Queen Kai (Full) (Wearing Powered AK-AEPS)
1 War Queen Kai (Full)
1 Level 4 Nurse Drone (Full)
1 Level 2 Navigation/Programming Drone (Full)
1 Level 2 Navigation Drone (Full)
1 Level 3 Tech Drone (Full) (Wearing Powered AK-AEPS)
1 Level 2 Digging Drone (Full)
1 Predator Drone (Full, Gen 1) (Wearing Jumpjet System)
1 Predator Drone (Full, Gen 1)
17 Digging Drones (Full, Gen 1)
32 Basic Drones (Full, Gen 1) (Wearing AEPS)
13 Flying Drone (Full, Gen 1) (Wearing AEPS)
4 Soldier (Full, Gen 1) (Wearing Heavy Powered AK-AEPS (Artillery Variant)
8 Soldier (Full, Gen 1)
4 Flying Soldier (Full, Gen 1
5 Flying Soldier (Full, Gen 1) (Wearing Powered AK-AEPS)
1 Flying Soldier (Full) (Wearing Powered AK-AEPS)
3 Basic Soldier (Full) (Wearing Heavy Powered AK-AEPS (Artillery Variant)
1 Nurse (Full, Gen 1)
1 Commander (Full, Gen 1)
1 Nurse Larvae (Gen 1)
1 T-4 Drone Larvae
12 Drone Larvae (Gen 1)
5 Flying Drone Larvae (Gen 1)
4 Flying Soldier Larvae (Gen 1)
1 Commander Larvae (Gen 1)
4 S-5 Scout Larvae
3 S-8 Flying Soldier Larvae
2 T-5 Soldier Larvae
3 T-6 Soldier Larvae
1 T-7 Soldier Larvae
1 T-9 Soldier Larvae
2 S-7 Flying Drone Egg
1 S-8 Flying Drone Egg
2 T-3 Drone Eggs
2 Queen Flowers (Active/Recovering.1) )
9 Recovering.2 Underground Flowers
4 Recovering.1 Aboveground Flowers (Cold-Tolerant)
64 Mature Aboveground Flowers (Cold-Tolerant)
1 Immature Kudzu/Flower
1 Immature Cannabis/Flower
1 Immature Hops/Flower
1 Immature Quinoa/Flower
2 Active Large Queen's Flowers
6 Mature Hydroponic Large Flower
6 Mature Hydroponic Queen's Flower
A Mechanical Flying Scout of Human Origin
8 Mechanical Flying Light Scout
1 Mechanical Flying Soldier
1 Experimental Stealth Carrier
1 Basic Aircraft
7 Armed APC
1 Partially Constructed Anti-Sat Rocket

Your Developing Eggs

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3 S-1 Flying Soldier Eggs
2 S-1 Flying Soldier Eggs
2 S-2 Flying Soldier Eggs
1 S-3 Flying Soldier Egg
4 S-4 Flying Soldier Egg
2 S-4 Flying Soldier Egg
2 S-4 Light Predator Egg
3 S-5 Flying Soldier Egg
1 S-5 Flying Drone Egg
3 S-6 Flying Drone Egg
5 T-1 Drone Eggs
3 T-2 Flying Drone Eggs - Tech?
1 T-5 Predator Egg
1 T-7 Flying Soldier Egg
1 T-8 Soldier Egg
2 T-10 Flying Soldier Egg
1 T-11 Flying Soldier Egg
2 T-12 Drone Egg (S, Intelligent)
1 T-12 Soldier Egg

Your Unready Fertilized Eggs

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1 Gen 2 S-1 (Medium, Winged, Improved Sensory, Intelligent)
4 Gen 2 S-2 (M Wing Improved Sensory)
5 Gen 2 S-3 (M Wing Intelligent)
3 Gen 2 S-6  (S Wing Improved Sensory)
4 Gen 2 S-7 (S Wing Intelligent)
2 Gen 2 S-8 (S Wing)
3 Gen 2 T-1 (M, Improved Hands, Improved Sensory, Intelligent)
3 Tech [Gen 2 T-2 (M, Improved Hands, Intelligent)]
4 Gen 2 T-3 (M, True Hands, Improved Sensory, Intelligent)
5 Gen 2 T-4  (M, True Hands, Intelligent)
1 Gen 2 T-7 (L, Improved Sensory, Intelligent)
2 Gen 2 T-8 (L, Intelligent)
2 Gen 2 T-9 (Small, Improved Hands, Improved Sensory, Intelligent)
1 Gen 2 T-10  (S, Improved Hands, Intelligent)
2 Gen 2 T-11 (S, Improved Sensory, Intelligent)

Your Nest
Location - the general area of Here
Outdoors - Hard to Detect by Casual Scans

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Insulated Improved Non-Reflective Level 2 Agricultural Earthworks with Many Flowers of Life
Improved Sensory Array: Sensory Array, Visual Sensory Arrays
Level 2 Improved Defensive Earthworks: Camouflaged Heavy Assault Armor Plating, Internal Fortifications, Medium Pulse Cannon, 7x Anti-Air Double-Barreled Rail Cannons, Heavy Artillery Emplacement, Rocket Launcher Emplacement
Open Dead Lava Tube, concealing a Multi-Vehicle Launch System
{Open Dead Lava Tube}
{Covered Trap Pit}

Indoors

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Level 2 Defensive Earthworks: Camouflaged Heavy Assault Armor Plating, Internal Fortifications, Advanced 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 3 High-Efficiency Industrial Technology Lab with an Improved Automated Weapons Facility, a EPS Suit Assembler, a Universal Parts Assembler, a Vehicle Bay, a Pollen Refinery, a Thermoelectric System & a Molecular Assembler
Insulated Improved Biological Testing Lab
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 4 Competing Flowers (Deep, Automated)
Improved Defensive Cave-In Tunnel 1 (Improved Internal Fortifications, Long Drop)
Constructed Tunnel to Ice
Constructed Tunnel to MVLS
Multiple Vehicle Launch Pad

You Own

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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 Weaponry
50 Drone-Sized One-Shot Rockets
5 Human-Sized One-Shot Rockets
3 Human-Sized Grenade Launchers
Human Ammunition
30 Human Gas Grenades
5 Soldier-Sized Pressurized Acid Blasters
10 Soldier-Sized Pumped Pulse Blasters
10 Flying Soldier-Sized Projectile Grenade
16 Drone-Sized Laser Cutters
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
Niobium
Perchloric Acid
Sulfuric Acid
Scrap Metal
Scrap Plastic
A Barrel of Improved Fertilizer
8 Canister of Queen's Pollen
2 Canisters of Refined Fuel
126 Canisters of Pollen Fuel (Underground Variant)
1 Seed of Life
1 Stripped Human Landship
A Bunch of Human Junk
2 Human Mechanical Repair Drone

Your food supplies are:
4 Fruits of Life
74 Units of Food
16 Units of SQSF
1 Units of Royal Jelly


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
Predator / Nurse / Commander
Queen - A Unit of Food / Reabsorb 20 Eggs
Level 5 - 2 Units of Food

Your Human Loyalists are:

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1 Large Human Male "Stampy" with Barcodes (Can Listen, Can Come Kind Of Near To Almost Talking)
1 Medium Human Female "Stampy's Mate" (Can Come Near to Listening_
1 Human Male with Red Crossed Arm Decorations (Tech Drone)
4 Large Human Males with Barcodes (Soldier)
4 Medium Human Females (Drone)
3 Medium Human Males (Drone)
7 Weak Humans (Drone)

Your Inventions (new section, correct me if I missed anything)

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AI Virus
An Entertaining Strategy Game
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 (Light and Heavy Variants), Powered, and Anti-Kinetic Variants)
Heavy AEPS Weaponry - AA Railgun, Anti-Personnel EMG, Pulse Cannon, Unworking Pumped Autocannon
Predator Jumpjet System
Mechanical Repair Drone
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 Ground Kai Carrier (Armed Variant)
Stealth Visual Sensory Array
Thermoelectric System
Weapons-Grade Light Plastic

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]
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[Ukrainian Ranger]

I think we need a new section in stats - surroundings. Info about closest human sub hives and other notable  features like niobium vein

T-5 Predator egg? Now we are talking! (Large, Improved Hands, Improved Sensory, Intelligent)

Can war queen mate now?

[Ukrainian Ranger]

My suggestion

Tech queen, tech drone, war queen:
a) Make advanced powered anti-kinetic AEPS for the war queen, use the best materials available.
b) Make high caliber "can knock heavy tank easily" heavy gun for the queen
c) Make powered AEPS for the new soldiers and commander
d) Produce jumpjet for the new predator
e) Produce more Mechanical Flying Soldiers, optimize them to use our new rockets and make then look like human technology


Nurse, human tech drone:
a)
"3 S-8 Flying Soldier Larvae
2 T-5 Soldier Larvae
3 T-6 Soldier Larvae
1 T-7 Soldier Larvae
1 T-9 Soldier Larvae"

All this larvae will be used in "create ideal mate" plan

b) Take some sperm (preferably from Stampy), take some eggs (preferably from Stampy's Mate) put it in incubator and try to find ways to speed up  growth of the fertilized egg. Use very small piece of royal jelly for this

Navigation drones
Work on creating autopilot software for our current and future vehicles

Diggers:
Dig food storage room, preferable in ice. Food is a vital resource and should be safe


Stampy, 4 human soldiers, flying soldiers and drones, APCA, Mechanical Flying Scout of Human Origin,8 Mechanical Flying Light Scout, 1 Mechanical Flying Soldier
(only if there are suitable target nearby)
Little test of humans combat effectiveness and loyalty. Stampy and his men should  go to the least defended human settlement, attack it, bring back some loot and prisoners, burn the settlement down and make it look like a pirate attack

mechanical scouts provide direct support to

Soldiers and drones armed with one shot rockets are for
a) Attack Stampy group if he tries to betray us (Try to take him back alive, soldiers can be killed)
b) Provide support if things go too badly for the loyalists

and Stampy should not know that he is followed by fliers!

Other drones
misc jobs

[10ebbor10]

My suggestion

Tech queen, tech drone, war queen:
a) Make advanced powered anti-kinetic AEPS for the war queen, use the best materials available.
b) Make high caliber "can knock heavy tank easily" heavy gun for the queen
c) Make powered AEPS for the new soldiers and commander
d) Produce jumpjet for the new predator
e) Produce more Mechanical Flying Soldiers, optimize them to use our new rockets and make then look like human technology


Nurse, human tech drone:
a)
"3 S-8 Flying Soldier Larvae
2 T-5 Soldier Larvae
3 T-6 Soldier Larvae
1 T-7 Soldier Larvae
1 T-9 Soldier Larvae"

All this larvae will be used in "create ideal mate" plan

b) Take some sperm (preferably from Stampy), take some eggs (preferably from Stampy's Mate) put it in incubator and try to find ways to speed up  growth of the fertilized egg. Use very small piece of royal jelly for this.Xenobiology doesn't work that way. The Royal Jelly will probably kill it. (Btw, didn't it serve as some kind of narcotic for humans)

Navigation drones
Work on creating autopilot software for our current and future vehicles

Diggers:
Dig food storage room, preferable in ice. Food is a vital resource and should be safe


Stampy, 4 human soldiers, flying soldiers and drones, APCA, Mechanical Flying Scout of Human Origin,8 Mechanical Flying Light Scout, 1 Mechanical Flying Soldier I'd rather first send the scouts before deciding on an attack. We don't want to waste troops, by being suprised. We shouldn't attack if it's too near too. That might attack unwanted attention.
(only if there are suitable target nearby)
Little test of humans combat effectiveness and loyalty. Stampy and his men should  go to the least defended human settlement, attack it, bring back some loot and prisoners, burn the settlement down and make it look like a pirate attack

mechanical scouts provide direct support to

Soldiers and drones armed with one shot rockets are for
a) Attack Stampy group if he tries to betray us (Try to take him back alive, soldiers can be killed)
b) Provide support if things go too badly for the loyalists

and Stampy should not know that he is followed by fliers!

Other drones
misc jobs