You order the Scouts to eat, and then send them out towards the Hiveship. Given the difficulty in tracking their signal, both from the increasing distance and the countermeasures taken to prevent Human detection, You estimate that it will take at least a day and a half for them to approach. You order the Nurse to begin the revival of the Soldiers, understanding that discovery is, at some point, inevitable and that soldiers with Stasis sickness are hardly useful in repelling the first explorers.
In the meantime, there is work to be done. In order to prepare for future underground expeditions, You order the Bore Worms and other diggers to create an assault tunnel, with spare Tech Drones relocating the deep PD Laser Trap to the Assault Tunnel. While this is going on, You begin the analysis of Human growing soil, and are dismayed to discover that the Human Soil is most assuredly NOT universal, instead customized to each plant's ideal growth situations. The Pollinator continues to tend to the Princess Flower, which requests a healthy dose of acidic water and more warmth for optimal growth. As the night stretches on, You turn from agricultural research to technical affairs, adapting the Stasis Chamber designs with assorted systems from the Bacteria Vat, and leave the Tech Drones to assemble the (presumed) Cloning Chamber, leaving DNA samples from Yourself, the Pollinator, Soldier, NavDrones, and the Nurse for use as a clone base.
You switch off on the Destasis with the Nurse, who doses a selected Bore Worm with growth hormones, and oversees the digging of a pit for conversion of Bore Worms into a Digestive Chamber, preparing the specialized hormones and fluids needed for this process.
By this time, the day-cycle begins.
Work continues throughout the day as the digging of a Human Farm Plot commences and the initiation of a Digestive Chamber begins. Pollinators begin the careful pollination of all remaining Flowers as the Fruit begins its growth. It should not be much longer until the Seeds can be planted - and possibly one put in Stasis for studying. After the Pollination, You leave the Soldiers to recover on their own, and insert the carefully cultivated methanobactera into several of the unhatched Scout Eggs, reasoning that they can afford to be lost.
You ingest enough Nectar to produce a Unit of Royal Jelly, and begin to contemplate the ideal mate.
The rest of the day is spent with the Tech Drones making a Stasis Chamber without the freezing, You contemplating adapting an Underground Flower to a Lichen Flower, and the dissection of the Human Client. You do not currently have an example of un-adapted primates, but the evidence suggests that Human techniques of adaptation rely on selective breeding and careful, machine-assisted gene modification, as opposed to the elegant mind-guided adaptation of existing bodies into specialized niches. Your best guess is that it took near twenty or thirty generations to adapt near-Human intelligence (assuming Humans are intelligent) into their subspecies, and that it will take hundreds of generations for the remaining adaptations to be even halfway effective.
Night falls.
Now what?
3 Scouts (EPS MkII, Pumped Pulse Blaster) (Full, Stimmed) [In Transit]
SW Geological Facility
NW Geological Facility
E Botanical Testing Facility
SE Outpost
SSE Manufacturing Facility
N Human Hive Ship (Mobile)
Fully Independent
1 L1 Queen Kai (B-Caste, Mining-Adapted, Minor Cold Tolerance) (Sated) (Superalloy Heavy Combat Suit MkII, Heavy EMG, Light EMG)
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)
1 L2 Heavy Soldier (S-Caste) (Superalloy Heavy Combat Suit MkII, HE Autocannon, Pollen RPG)
1 L1 Pollinator
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4 Soldiers (S-Caste) (Recovering.1) (Combat Suit MkII)
5 Armored Soldiers (B-Caste) (Recovering.1) (Combat Suit MkII)
Dependent
16 Pollinators (B-Caste) (Not Hungry)
23 Drones (B-Caste) (Not Hungry)
12 Digging Drones (M-Caste) (Not Hungry)
Unthinking
1 Digesting Chamber
1 Grubs (B-Caste) (Full)
1 Slightly Larger Bore Worm
3 Bore Worms
1 Hybridrone (B-Caste) (Full) (Recovering.1)
Laid:
5 Scout Electric Eater Eggs
15 Scout Eggs (B-Caste)
1 Stalker Egg (B_Caste)
5 Burrowing Soldier Eggs (M-Caste)
1 Spined Predator Egg (M-Caste)
1 Nurse Egg (B-Caste)
2 Spined Nurse Egg (M-Caste)
1 Commander Egg (B-Caste)
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Unlaid:
10 Burrowing Soldier Eggs (M-Caste)
10 Spined Soldier Eggs (B-Caste)
5 Soldier Eggs (B-Caste)
1 Spined Commander Eggs (M-Caste)
Weaponry-
1 Queen-Sized Heavy Energy Machine Gun
1 Queen-Sized Light Energy Machine Gun
2 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
15 Drone-Sized EPS
Technology/Utility
n/a
Parts/Resources
2 Large Heavy Armor Plates
3 Partially Damaged Xenobiological Samples (Stasis)
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
Agriculture
6 Dormant Flowers
4 Barrels of Refined Pollen Fuel
Dead:
Dead Mammal-Caste
Dead Avian-Caste
Dead Gastropod-Caste
Food:
3 Flowers of Life
1 StimFlower of Life
1 Hybridrone Flower (Toxic)
1 NectarFlower
Synthetic Food:
4 Units of Synthetic StimFood
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
Heavy Blast Door
PD Laser Hallway
Explosive Trap (Minefield)
Heavy Blast Door
- Sensory Arrays
- PD Laser Hallway
- Laser Trap
- Explosive Trap (Minefield)
- Acid Trap
Reinforced Oversized Insulated Hive Chamber
- Sensory Computers
- Climate Control System
- Level 2 Industrial Lab with a Fusion Plant, Climate-Controlled Computer-Aided Design System, Small Atomic Separator, Universal Parts Assembler, Pollen Refinery, Molecular Assembler, Weapons Assembler, and an Armed Suit Assembler
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Flower Garden with 10 Fruiting.1 Flowers of Life (Underground Variant)
Secured Queen's Chamber with 1 Pollinated Queen's Flower (Spiny, Evergreen)
- Level 2 Flower Chamber with 9 Active.2 Flowers of Life and 1 Pollinated Evergreen Flower (Optimal)
- Level 2 Flower Chamber with 1 Active.1 "Princess" Flower of Life
Level 2 Queen's Biolab
Pollinated Hydroponic Spiny Nectar Flower
- Stasis Chamber
- Semistasis Chamber
- Nursery
- Clone Chamber
Secured Geothermal Bore Hole
- Sensory Arrays
- Secured Mining Tunnels
- Secured Ice Tunnel
- Secured Silicate Aluminum/Lithium Crystal Tunnel
- Secured Chromium/Palladium Salts Tunnel
Sealed Armored Reinforced Hive Chamber with a Food Synthesizer
Heavy Blast Doors
- Crush Trap
- Explosive Traps
- Level 1 Industrial Lab with a Fusion Plant, Universal Parts Assembler, Pollen Refinery, Molecular Assembler, Weapons Assembler, and an Armed Suit Assembler
Level 2 Reinforced Flower Chamber with 0 Flowers of Life
Level 1 Queen's Biolab
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