The first order of the day is to put all of the Soldiers into Stasis. As they patiently wait their turn to be made dormant by a pair of Drones and put in storage, the remaining Tech Drones assemble the Food Synthesizer from the designs. The subsequent attachment of the Bacteria Vat and Biorecycler proceed well, and the device is fueled with the remaining corpses. With this being complete, the Drones attempt once again to make lightbulbs with crude implements. As expected, most of these attempts are failures. Out of the six that are assembled, one blows out instantly, three bulbs provide an exceptional amount of growing light, while the remaining two are suitable for providing light.
You take some time away from the electric experiments to dig space for the industrial complex, which the Tech Drones assemble in short order. The installation is expected to take a while, but when completed, the Industrial Facility will be completed with a Foundry, a small-scale Atomic Separator, Universal Parts Assembler, Pollen Refinery, and a Molecular Assembler. With these components, a large variety of technology can be developed - not necessarily by You, though.
While all this is happening, You and the Nurse have been busy frying Larvae with electricity. Or at least, attempting to; the first attempt is too high and bursts the Larvae in flames, which is the
complete opposite of what You intended. The second, with much less current, simply suffers minor nerve damage (and is promptly thrown into the Synthesizer), but the third seems to at least be tolerant to the further reduced electric treatment.
After deciding that this probably isn't the best idea, You and the Nurse inspect the Hybrids. They seem skinny and covered in some sort of fungus, but otherwise perfectly healthy. Another day must pass before the Flowers are expected to grow, however. After briefly possessing one of the Hybrids, You learn that the presence of the Flowers is accompanying the Hybrid at a level equivalent to the presence in Your mind, suggesting that the Flowers may have more sway over these Kai than You do. Given the mutually beneficial bond between You and the Flowers, this is not a source of serious concern.
Night falls. Now what?
Fully Independent
1 Queen Kai (B-Caste, Mining-Adapted, Minor Cold Tolerance) (Not Hungry)
Independent
1 Level 3 Nurse Drone (B-Caste) (Not Hungry)
2 Level 2 Navigation Drones (T-Caste) (Not Hungry)
Intelligent
8 Drones (T-Caste) (Not Hungry)
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1 L2 Heavy Soldier (S-Caste) (Stasis)
4 Soldiers (S-Caste) (Stasis)
5 Armored Soldiers (B-Caste) (Stasis)
Dependent
6 Pollinators (B-Caste) (Not Hungry)
15 Drones (B-Caste) (Not Hungry)
Unthinking
7 Larvae (B-Caste) (Not Hungry)
1 Larvae (B-Caste) (Not Hungry) (Minor Electric Tolerance)
2 Grubs (B-Caste) (Full)
2 Hybridized Larvae (B-Caste) (Not Hungry)
Laid:
8 Bore Worm Eggs
12 Digging Drone Eggs
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Unlaid:
55 Eggs (B-Caste)
15 Grub Eggs (B-Caste)
5 Pollinator Eggs (B-Caste)
12 Drone Eggs (B-Caste)
3 Scout Eggs (B-Caste)
Weaponry
1 Queen-Sized Light Energy Machine Gun
4 Ship-Based Point Defense Lasers
5 Soldier-Sized Light Energy Machine Guns
10 EMG Batteries
10 Drone-Sized Digging Tools
10 Soldier-Sized Digging Tools
Armory
3 Drone-Sized EPS
Technology/Utility
1 Badly Damaged Navigation/Telemetry Computer
1 Internal Combustion Spacecraft Engine
Parts/Resources
7 Large Heavy Armor Plates
1 Units of Universal Spare Parts
3 Partially Damaged Xenobiological Samples
2 Xenoflora Samples
Water
-Ice
Titanium
Gold
Copper
Superalloys
Universal Elemental Supply (Hydrogen, Helium, Oxygen, Neon, Iron, Nitrogen, Silicon, Magnesium, Sulfur)
Iron Spheres
Large Iron Spheres
Scrap Metal
Scrap Plastic
Agriculture
2/3 Container of Fertilizer
19 Dormant Flowers
8 Barrels of Refined Pollen Fuel
Dead:
1 Dead L1 Commander (B-Caste) (2 Units of Food)
3 Dead Xenobiological Samples (Mammal-Caste) (6 Units of Food)
Food:
Synthetic Food:
0 Units of Synthetic Food
Drones - 1/10 of a Unit of Food
Soldiers - 5/10 of a Unit of Food
Levels 1-4 - A Unit of Food
Predator / Nurse / Commander - 1.5 Units Of Food
Queen - 2 Units of Food / Reabsorb 20 Eggs
Level 5 - 3 Units of Food
Your Nest
Location -
HereVisibility - Extremely Hard To Detect
Dusty Heavy Improvised Door
Oversized Insulated Hive Chamber
- Climate Control System
- Level 1 Industrial Lab with a Fusion Plant, Computer-Aided Design System (Small Atomic Separator), (Universal Parts Assembler) Pollen Refinery, and a (Molecular Assembler)
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Flower Garden with 10 Active Flowers of Life
Queen's Chamber with 1 Immature.1 Queen's Flower
- Flower Chamber with 0 Flowers of Life
Level 1 Queen's Biolab
- Stasis Chamber
- Nursery
Unsecured Geothermal Bore Hole
- Mining Tunnels
- Ice Tunnel
- Silicate Aluminum/Lithium Crystal Tunnel
A Hole
- 1 Dust-Covered Scuttle Charge Transmitter