The detection of the Hiveship by the Humans has changed the priority of things slightly. As always, the priority is on food development, and You complete the final processes of working on the Flower beds. In this, you are assisted by Bore Worms, who reduce the iron level of the soil, and after they are completed, by treating the soil with acid to reduce its PH and flooding it with water, before repeating the process once more. Satisfied by Your tests, You leave the Pollinators to perform their duties of plating the Flowers, and remove the dead Commander from stasis, as well as instructing the Nurse to begin the destatis of the L2 Soldier.
You take it and the Larvae that has greater resistance to shock to the Biolab. Here, you take samples of both, as well as from Yourself, and examine them in great detail to analyze the differences. At this, You are successful, and follow up the samples with a quick autopsy to confirm Your theories. This being done, both are eaten, and You begin the process of imparting the traits of what You have consumed into Your offspring. You also note the patterns and differences for future integration within Yourself after a liberal dose of Royal Jelly. Thinking of Royal Jelly, You proceed to the Queen's Flower and begin to tend to its needs for the rest of the night. While the Flower is small for a Queen's Flower, it is nonetheless surviving in its hostile conditions.
While Your attention is spent with the Queen's Flower, a group of the Tech Drones begin the production of Sensory Arrays. Given the current state of the industrial lab, it is faster for them to print the components and assemble them by themselves than to attempt to manufacture them directly. After the initial run of components, other Tech Drones begin the manufacture of a solid frame for the Blast Door, as well as running cables to the PD Lasers in order to create a kill chamber. Lastly, the Drones disassemble an Environmental Protection Suit, study the designs, and re-create it in a Soldier-sized platform, adding plates of heavy armor and superalloys to keep it secure against combat.
Orders are sent to the Assembler to make Energy Blasters, the Kai are fed, and the sun begins to rise.
Now what?
Fully Independent
1 L1 Queen Kai (B-Caste, Mining-Adapted, Minor Cold Tolerance) (Sated)
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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4 Soldiers (S-Caste) (Stasis)
5 Armored Soldiers (B-Caste) (Stasis)
Dependent
1 L2 Heavy Soldier (S-Caste) (Recovering.1)
17 Pollinators (B-Caste) (Not Hungry)
23 Drones (B-Caste) (Not Hungry)
2 Digging Drones (M-Caste) (Not Hungry)
Unthinking
2 Grubs (B-Caste) (Full)
8 Bore Worms
1 Hybridized Larvae (B-Caste) (Full)
Laid:
10 Digging Drone Eggs
3 Scout Eggs
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Unlaid:
20 Grub Eggs (B-Caste)
5 Digging Drone Eggs (M-Caste)
15 Bore Worm Eggs (M-Caste)
10 Grub Eggs (B-Caste)
5 Drone Eggs (B-Caste)
10 Scout Eggs (B-Caste)
2 Soldier Eggs (B-Caste)
Weaponry-
1 Queen-Sized Light Energy Machine Gun
3 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
2 Drone-Sized EPS
1 Soldier-Sized Combat Suit
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 (Stasis)
1 Xenoflora Sample
Water
-Ice
Aluminum
Lithium
Titanium
Gold
Copper
Superalloys
Chromium
Palladium
Universal Elemental Supply (Hydrogen, Helium, Oxygen, Neon, Iron, Nitrogen, Silicon, Magnesium, Sulfur)
Iron Spheres
Large Iron Spheres
Scrap Metal
Scrap Plastic
Construction-Grade Plastics
Military-Grade Plastics
Medical-Grade Plastics
Agriculture
8 Dormant Flowers
5 Barrels of Refined Pollen Fuel
Dead:
3 Dead Xenobiological Samples (Mammal-Caste) (6 Units of Food) (Stasis)
Food:
10 Flowers of Life
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 - Hard To Detect
Heavy Blast Door
Reinforeced Oversized Insulated Hive Chamber
- Climate Control System
- Level 1 Industrial Lab with a Fusion Plant, Climate-Controlled 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 (Underground Variant)
Queen's Chamber with 1 Active.2 Queen's Flower
- Level 2 Flower Chamber with 9 Immature.2 Flowers of Life and 1 Immature.1 Evergreen Flower (Optimal)
Level 1 Queen's Biolab
- Stasis Chamber
- Nursery
Secured Geothermal Bore Hole
- Secured Mining Tunnels
- Secured Ice Tunnel
- Secured Silicate Aluminum/Lithium Crystal Tunnel
- Chromium/Palladium Salts Tunnel