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[Aklyon]

Cycle 23
You force into another bit of invincitite, this time on the bottom of the area. As you finish doing so, you spot something moving and abruptly stop decrypting to focus on the mover. While the view through only parts of the invincitite is of horrible quality, you can see the whateveritis is about as tall as the opening it came in from, and it is probably not made of any kind of rock or crystal structure; it is also colored a shade of amethyst. Thats all you can make out without revealing yourself and fabricating a crystal in the space above you, so you continue moving onwards below the structure and setup a farseer. You find a large shaft, and vibrations that probably mean more amethyst ones. In the cavern, you've explored enough to be fairly certain of some areas, despite lacking vision to them.

Cycle 24
More assimilation! More power!
...More confusion about why the invincitite structure has a long shaft. Surely they know about gravity?

Spoiler: Status (click to show/hide)

Integrity: Intact

Stored Energy: 15,160
Storage effect: No effect, due to your increased storage space!

Energy Generation:
Core: 100/cycle
Low-Q: 752 @ 20/cycle - 15,040/cycle
Refined: 227 @ 50/cycle - 11,350/cycle
Medium-As. [10]: 194 @ 150/cycle - 29,100/cycle
Medium-As. [8]: 232 @ 130/cycle - 30,160/cycle

Total Energy production: 85,750/cycle

Location: Subsurface of an unknown planet.

Spoiler: Map legend (click to show/hide)

Navy Blue - Crystal core
Teal - Low-Q crystals
Light Blue - Refined crystals
Orange w/ black S - Storage crystals
Teal w/brown diamond - Low-assimilation matter
Teal w/grey diamond - Medium-assimilation matter
Grey/Black Striped - Invincitite
Grey/Black/Navy Striped - Partially Assimilated Invincitite
Black/Navy Striped - Attuned Invincitite
Dark Brown - Empty underground space
Light Brown - Dirt or other non-solid material
Grey - Rock
Sky Blue - Empty non-underground space
Sky Blue w/small diamond - Mobile thing
Black - Unknown
Red cross-shaped overlay - Damaged
Red X overlay - Heavily damaged
Dark Cyan - Feeler Crystal
Turquoise with small diamond - Farseer Crystal
Brighter Orange w/ black S - High-Density Storage Crystal
Purple/Orchid - Focusing Crystal

Spoiler: Crystal forms (click to show/hide)

Core Crystal
Your core. If this can be replicated, you don't remember how.
Energy production: 100/cycle

Low Quality Crystal
Created by converting materials not able to become better tiers, like dirt.
Energy production: 20/cycle.
Fabrication cost: 100 energy, nearby material.

Refined Crystal
Created by converting solid materials, like rock. Also made by refining the structure of Low quality crystals.
Energy production: 50/cycle
Fabrication cost: 200 energy, nearby solid material.
Refinement cost: 400 energy, LQ crystal connected to the core. (300 if adjacent to another refined crystal)
Level reference: Lv.1 energy production (Refined-level)

Storage Crystal
A hunk of additional crystal, giving you more room to store energy without side effects.
No energy production
Fabrication cost: 200 energy and 1 empty space per section. Connected storage sections give greater results than scattered ones. In emergencies, the empty space can be replaced with 100 energy and a low quality crystal.
Level reference: Lv.0 Storage bonus (for storage calculation, for point fabrication treat this as part of No energy production)

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Feeler Crystal
Little more than a hunk of crystal, but a sturdy scout nonetheless.
No energy production
Fabrication cost: 1,250 energy (2.5 points).
Refined Conversion cost: 625 energy
Level reference: Freebuild, Removed energy production

Farseer Crystal
An excellent companion to the feeler. Energy production alignments have been realigned for exceptional sensory range instead.
No energy production
Fabrication cost: 3,000 energy (6 points)
Level reference: Extended Vision 6 (9 total vision), Removed energy production

High-Density Storage Crystal
Store more, hold more, contain more, add more synonyms here.
No energy production
Fabrication cost: 750 energy (1.5 points), 1 empty space per section. (or 1 storage crystal)
Level reference: Storage bonus 3, Base: Storage

Focusing Crystal
Half conduit, half relay point, all-around pretty useful crystal.
No energy production
Fabrication cost: 3,250 energy (6.5 points), not adjacent to other outposts or core.
Level reference: Outpost minor, Energy transformation 5 (-25% to energy costs within 3 tiles), Removed energy production.

Attuned Invincitite
Created by looping energy into the invincitite until the vibration aligns itself with the crystals.
No energy production, but would be an excellent conduit if fully integrated.
Reflects energy pulse (cannot accumulate power from area blocked off with this)
Fabrication cost: 6000+ energy (more will take less time to align, but over 8k will destroy nearby Low-Q)
Special: Tech-echo (reveals empty space or technological parts in nearby material if pulsed, normal sight radius)

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Assimilated matter conversion cost: Remainder of the cost to crystal form +50 per cycle its been there.

Low-assimilation matter
Created by not fully converting low-tier matter.
Will crumble into dust in 5 cycles, leaving an empty space.
Energy production: 50/40/30/20/10 per cycle. Crumbles on the next energy pulse once it hits 10/cycle.
Fabrication cost: 50 energy, nearby material.

Medium-assimilation matter
Created by not fully converting matter eligible to become Refined Crystal.
Will degenerate into low-assimilated matter in 10 cycles.
Energy production: 150/140/130/120/110/100/90/80/70/60 per cycle. Degenerates on next pulse after reaching 60/cycle.
Fabrication cost: 100 energy, nearby solid material.

Partially Assimilated Invincitite
Created by dumping energy into Invincitite until it weakens enough for you to get in.
Does not degrade from energy pulse
Does not produce energy
Vibrates if overloaded with energy, heavily resistant to energy otherwise.
Fabrication cost: 1500+ energy (extra will produce vibrations, too much vibration will shatter nearby Low-Q), nearby Invincitite.

The difference between the rock structures and the invincitite one showing on the map is this: The rock ones are not that big, and would be easier to look at on a seperate map once you can see inside them, while the invincistructure is large enough to see in general on the main one, but you won't see details there. The rooms can be described when asked about instead.

[Rolepgeek]

Hmmm.
Continue observation. Send out some tech-pulses from the invincitite, see if we can check out what's with these moving things. Continue assimilating matter, particularly along the side of the shaft they've made. I grow interested in where they send it.

As well, assimilate some of the stone of the smoothing structure that was destroyed. Not the surface, mind you. I just want to get some more information on them.

And explore some more with our feeler crystals; the ones that don't have farsight crystals on the end, that is. Place some farsight crystals on the ends once they get a bit out. Actually, don't explore with the right one, because we can find out through matter assimilation.

Excess energy will be put towards the assimilation of more matter. We can refine our current stuff soon enough. Fill holes that lie completely within our territory with storage. Build a Focusing Crystal near the base of the Feeler Crystal pillar, and under the farthest stone house we currently have crystals under.

And I'm curious as to why an area at (-18, 4) is still dark, despite being so near it...it makes me wonder what might be there...

[Aklyon]

If you're talking about the black spot on the surface, thats just me missing something. Its just an extension to the hole in the ground and a bit of dirt.
Also, tech-echoes only reveal tech. So you'll see their uniform (maybe) and their gear, not the creature.

[Rolepgeek]

I know we might see that. That's exactly what I want to see; that, and if they do wear anything. Seeing their uniform will give us an approximation of size and shape, gear will give us some idea of capability.

[Aklyon]

Just making sure you knew, heh.

[Rolepgeek]

Just making sure you knew, heh.

Well, it would also tell us whether or not they were cyborgs, so.

[Aklyon]

If you want detail like that, it'll have to get closer or you'll have to attune more of the structure
The original echoes were looking at the chunk of wall directly adjacent to it.

[ShadowHammer]

Hmmm.
Continue observation. Send out some tech-pulses from the invincitite, see if we can check out what's with these moving things. Continue assimilating matter, particularly along the side of the shaft they've made. I grow interested in where they send it.

As well, assimilate some of the stone of the smoothing structure that was destroyed. Not the surface, mind you. I just want to get some more information on them.

And explore some more with our feeler crystals; the ones that don't have farsight crystals on the end, that is. Place some farsight crystals on the ends once they get a bit out. Actually, don't explore with the right one, because we can find out through matter assimilation.

Excess energy will be put towards the assimilation of more matter. We can refine our current stuff soon enough. Fill holes that lie completely within our territory with storage. Build a Focusing Crystal near the base of the Feeler Crystal pillar, and under the farthest stone house we currently have crystals under.

And I'm curious as to why an area at (-18, 4) is still dark, despite being so near it...it makes me wonder what might be there...

+1. These seem like good actions.

[Alev]

Hmmm.
Continue observation. Send out some tech-pulses from the invincitite, see if we can check out what's with these moving things. Continue assimilating matter, particularly along the side of the shaft they've made. I grow interested in where they send it.

As well, assimilate some of the stone of the smoothing structure that was destroyed. Not the surface, mind you. I just want to get some more information on them.

And explore some more with our feeler crystals; the ones that don't have farsight crystals on the end, that is. Place some farsight crystals on the ends once they get a bit out. Actually, don't explore with the right one, because we can find out through matter assimilation.

Excess energy will be put towards the assimilation of more matter. We can refine our current stuff soon enough. Fill holes that lie completely within our territory with storage. Build a Focusing Crystal near the base of the Feeler Crystal pillar, and under the farthest stone house we currently have crystals under.

And I'm curious as to why an area at (-18, 4) is still dark, despite being so near it...it makes me wonder what might be there...

+1. These seem like good actions.

+1

[Aklyon]

Bit busy this week, we're going somewhere tomorrow until sunday. I'll update if I can.

Cycle 25
You send out a tech-echo from the attuned invincitite as you wait some subcycles to see if the amethyst one comes any closer, but as it returns to the room it came from the tech echo returns and reveals that while they do have a significant amount of tech on them, its now too far away to distinguish all of it. So instead, you leave Invincitite Outpost in charge of paying close attention to the structure inhabitants. You on the otherhand, fabricate additional storage crystals, then head downwards. The shaft will lead somewhere of interest, you are certain.

...The shaft leads to something. A thing which is heavily shielded and has an unknown tech device above it, sitting at the bottom of the shaft. There is also a container sitting on the unknown tech, attached to the rest of the shaft via a complex but otherwise uninteresting pulley system. Presumably the container is pulled upwards for the beings on the above level to go down, but whatever the device underneath it is, it does not look like a crash-suppressor. The shaft is not even spinning at all, or doing the requirements for any known to you method of anti-grav creation to actually work, so the vital gravity question remains unanswered. Construction of Outpost Cavern and Outpost Smoothed focusing crystals completes without anything major happening.
Assimilvestigation of the smoothed rock ruin results in little of interest: The rock is more to your liking than you'd expected from carved stone, but other than a scorched and partially-crumbled array of glyphs on what presumably used to be a belowground room's floor and a vague sense of unease while probing the glyphed material, there is nothing left of the place. The rock above your investigation point had melted and eventually cooled back down into a solid, there are traces of cracks that are probably digging efforts.

Spoiler: Apparently the image is too big for me to see without scrolling now (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Status (click to show/hide)

Integrity: Intact

Stored Energy: 560
Storage effect: No effect, due to your increased storage space!

Energy Generation:
Core: 100/cycle
Low-Q: 821 @ 20/cycle - 16,420/cycle
Refined: 227 @ 50/cycle - 11,350/cycle
Medium-As. [10]: 482 @ 150/cycle - 72,300/cycle
Medium-As. [9]: 194 @ 150/cycle - 27,160/cycle
Medium-As. [7]: 232 @ 130/cycle - 27,840/cycle

Total Energy production: 155,170/cycle

Location: Subsurface of an unknown planet.

Spoiler: Map legend (click to show/hide)

Navy Blue - Crystal core
Teal - Low-Q crystals
Light Blue - Refined crystals
Orange w/ black S - Storage crystals
Teal w/brown diamond - Low-assimilation matter
Teal w/grey diamond - Medium-assimilation matter
Grey/Black Striped - Invincitite
Grey/Black/Navy Striped - Partially Assimilated Invincitite
Black/Navy Striped - Attuned Invincitite
Dark Brown - Empty underground space
Light Brown - Dirt or other non-solid material
Grey - Rock
Sky Blue - Empty inside or aboveground space
Sky Blue w/small diamond - Mobile thing
Sky Blue with rectangle outline - Door
Sky Blue with question mark - [Unknown tech]
Black - Unknown
Red cross-shaped overlay - Damaged
Red X overlay - Heavily damaged
Dark Cyan - Feeler Crystal
Turquoise with small diamond - Farseer Crystal
Brighter Orange w/ black S - High-Density Storage Crystal
Purple/Orchid - Focusing Crystal

Spoiler: Crystal forms (click to show/hide)

Core Crystal
Your core. If this can be replicated, you don't remember how.
Energy production: 100/cycle

Low Quality Crystal
Created by converting materials not able to become better tiers, like dirt.
Energy production: 20/cycle.
Fabrication cost: 100 energy, nearby material.

Refined Crystal
Created by converting solid materials, like rock. Also made by refining the structure of Low quality crystals.
Energy production: 50/cycle
Fabrication cost: 200 energy, nearby solid material.
Refinement cost: 400 energy, LQ crystal connected to the core. (300 if adjacent to another refined crystal)
Level reference: Lv.1 energy production (Refined-level)

Storage Crystal
A hunk of additional crystal, giving you more room to store energy without side effects.
No energy production
Fabrication cost: 200 energy and 1 empty space per section. Connected storage sections give greater results than scattered ones. In emergencies, the empty space can be replaced with 100 energy and a low quality crystal.
Level reference: Lv.0 Storage bonus (for storage calculation, for point fabrication treat this as part of No energy production)

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Feeler Crystal
Little more than a hunk of crystal, but a sturdy scout nonetheless.
No energy production
Fabrication cost: 1,250 energy (2.5 points).
Refined Conversion cost: 625 energy
Level reference: Freebuild, Removed energy production

Farseer Crystal
An excellent companion to the feeler. Energy production alignments have been realigned for exceptional sensory range instead.
No energy production
Fabrication cost: 3,000 energy (6 points)
Level reference: Extended Vision 6 (9 total vision), Removed energy production

High-Density Storage Crystal
Store more, hold more, contain more, add more synonyms here.
No energy production
Fabrication cost: 750 energy (1.5 points), 1 empty space per section. (or 1 storage crystal)
Level reference: Storage bonus 3, Base: Storage

Focusing Crystal
Half conduit, half relay point, all-around pretty useful crystal.
No energy production
Fabrication cost: 3,250 energy (6.5 points), not adjacent to other outposts or core.
Level reference: Outpost minor, Energy transformation 5 (-25% to energy costs within 3 tiles), Removed energy production.

Attuned Invincitite
Created by looping energy into the invincitite until the vibration aligns itself with the crystals.
No energy production, but would be an excellent conduit if fully integrated.
Reflects energy pulse (cannot accumulate power from area blocked off with this)
Fabrication cost: 6000+ energy (more will take less time to align, but over 8k will destroy nearby Low-Q)
Special: Tech-echo (reveals empty space or technological parts in nearby material if pulsed, normal sight radius)

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Assimilated matter conversion cost: Remainder of the cost to crystal form +50 per cycle its been there.

Low-assimilation matter
Created by not fully converting low-tier matter.
Will crumble into dust in 5 cycles, leaving an empty space.
Energy production: 50/40/30/20/10 per cycle. Crumbles on the next energy pulse once it hits 10/cycle.
Fabrication cost: 50 energy, nearby material.

Medium-assimilation matter
Created by not fully converting matter eligible to become Refined Crystal.
Will degenerate into low-assimilated matter in 10 cycles.
Energy production: 150/140/130/120/110/100/90/80/70/60 per cycle. Degenerates on next pulse after reaching 60/cycle.
Fabrication cost: 100 energy, nearby solid material.

Partially Assimilated Invincitite
Created by dumping energy into Invincitite until it weakens enough for you to get in.
Does not degrade from energy pulse
Does not produce energy
Vibrates if overloaded with energy, heavily resistant to energy otherwise.
Fabrication cost: 1500+ energy (extra will produce vibrations, too much vibration will shatter nearby Low-Q), nearby Invincitite.

[Rolepgeek]

Aww. Spoiler makes it less cool. Ah well. It's only gonna get bigger, after all.

First off, continue the assimilation. We have enough energy production now that we're in good shape for a while, and I'd like to keep that up. Continuing to assimilate large amounts of medium matter, and leaving the smooth stone alone for the moment, is a good way to continue our growth on a large scale. We're certainly damned big, after all.

I'm interested in finding a way to upgrade our core, but that can wait, for the moment, I think.

I would like to construct a couple new forms of crystal, though. Sorry.

Spoiler: Defense (click to show/hide)

Name: Shield Crystal (Sentinel? Armored Storage Crystal?)
Color: Light Orange, with a thick light green border surrounding it. By thick, I'm thinking two pixels; basically recolored versions of the doors.
Base crystal type: Storage
Level 0 Storage (-2.5)
Extended vision Lv.1 (1, 1 extra space)
Durability Lv. 4 (5.5, ? extra health/hardness)
Camouflage Lv. 1 (1, )
Total cost: 5 points (2,000 energy)

Spoiler: Support Pillar Stuff (click to show/hide)

Name: Support Crystal
Color: Uhhh...the only real way I can describe what I'm thinking of is 'greenish-purple'. Preferably in a pattern that sorta blends into whatever it's in, but it doesn't matter too much. Light purplish-blue, I think works just as well, and is easier on you.
Base crystal type: Refined
Durability Lv. 1 (1, ? extra health/hardness)
Conduit Lv. 2 (2.5, ?energy movement?)
Repair/Structure(?) Lv. 2 (2.5, ? extra health/regeneration to nearby crystals and/or weight capacity?)
Total cost: 9.5 points (4,750 energy)

Build Storage Crystals in the empty spaces near the surface, so that it becomes flat. Preferably, reform the Low-Q crystals touching the surface near the invincitite into storage crystals too. Turn one Refined Crystal and one Feeler Crystal into storage crystals as well, preferably, so that the two groups on the right are touching(you said they're more efficient in numbers...). The biggest hole, is, of course, the hole to the left of our core, a bit in front of the smooth stone houses or whatever. I'm mildly curious about how things are on a three dimensional scale, but that doesn't matter too much. Anyway. Next, turn all the storage crystals open to the surface into Shield Crystals. They should change their appearance to look like just more ground or whatever. Finally, reform all remaining storage  crystals into high-density storage crystals. I don't know how much energy we'll have left after all this.

I would like to intersperse Support Crystals through our structure, in whatever ends up being the most efficient, hopefully pleasing(I'm not asking you to make it look pretty, I'm just hoping it does. *shrug*). Don't need an earthquake bringing everything tumbling down. Maybe a few more by the invincitite, as what I want to do next(and this may take multiple cycles, a lot of my ideas end up doing so) could damage things. I want to assimilate two additional blocks into the structure, near the core. So we can get closer and whatnot. Don't need, or have the energy, to assimilate all of it, not yet. But that will come later. Assimilating a little bit of the invincitite down near the mystery technology would be beneficial as well.

If we somehow have energy leftover, like if this went into the next cycle, put that energy towards assimilating matter, converting feeler crystals into refined crystals, and if there is miraculously something left, due to me failing to know about math in any reasonable capacity, put it towards refining Low-Q crystal. Snowballing=Good.

[Twi]

Aww. Spoiler makes it less cool. Ah well. It's only gonna get bigger, after all.

First off, continue the assimilation. We have enough energy production now that we're in good shape for a while, and I'd like to keep that up. Continuing to assimilate large amounts of medium matter, and leaving the smooth stone alone for the moment, is a good way to continue our growth on a large scale. We're certainly damned big, after all.

I'm interested in finding a way to upgrade our core, but that can wait, for the moment, I think.

I would like to construct a couple new forms of crystal, though. Sorry.

Spoiler: Defense (click to show/hide)

Name: Shield Crystal (Sentinel? Armored Storage Crystal?)
Color: Light Orange, with a thick light green border surrounding it. By thick, I'm thinking two pixels; basically recolored versions of the doors.
Base crystal type: Storage
Level 0 Storage (-2.5)
Extended vision Lv.1 (1, 1 extra space)
Durability Lv. 4 (5.5, ? extra health/hardness)
Camouflage Lv. 1 (1, )
Total cost: 5 points (2,000 energy)

Spoiler: Support Pillar Stuff (click to show/hide)

Name: Support Crystal
Color: Uhhh...the only real way I can describe what I'm thinking of is 'greenish-purple'. Preferably in a pattern that sorta blends into whatever it's in, but it doesn't matter too much. Light purplish-blue, I think works just as well, and is easier on you.
Base crystal type: Refined
Durability Lv. 1 (1, ? extra health/hardness)
Conduit Lv. 2 (2.5, ?energy movement?)
Repair/Structure(?) Lv. 2 (2.5, ? extra health/regeneration to nearby crystals and/or weight capacity?)
Total cost: 9.5 points (4,750 energy)

Build Storage Crystals in the empty spaces near the surface, so that it becomes flat. Preferably, reform the Low-Q crystals touching the surface near the invincitite into storage crystals too. Turn one Refined Crystal and one Feeler Crystal into storage crystals as well, preferably, so that the two groups on the right are touching(you said they're more efficient in numbers...). The biggest hole, is, of course, the hole to the left of our core, a bit in front of the smooth stone houses or whatever. I'm mildly curious about how things are on a three dimensional scale, but that doesn't matter too much. Anyway. Next, turn all the storage crystals open to the surface into Shield Crystals. They should change their appearance to look like just more ground or whatever. Finally, reform all remaining storage  crystals into high-density storage crystals. I don't know how much energy we'll have left after all this.

I would like to intersperse Support Crystals through our structure, in whatever ends up being the most efficient, hopefully pleasing(I'm not asking you to make it look pretty, I'm just hoping it does. *shrug*). Don't need an earthquake bringing everything tumbling down. Maybe a few more by the invincitite, as what I want to do next(and this may take multiple cycles, a lot of my ideas end up doing so) could damage things. I want to assimilate two additional blocks into the structure, near the core. So we can get closer and whatnot. Don't need, or have the energy, to assimilate all of it, not yet. But that will come later. Assimilating a little bit of the invincitite down near the mystery technology would be beneficial as well.

If we somehow have energy leftover, like if this went into the next cycle, put that energy towards assimilating matter, converting feeler crystals into refined crystals, and if there is miraculously something left, due to me failing to know about math in any reasonable capacity, put it towards refining Low-Q crystal. Snowballing=Good. venture downwards.

[Rolepgeek]

I'm already wanting to assimilate more medium matter, which will take us downwards, Twi.

[Twi]

Oh okay.

To be fair, it is slightly wall of text.

[Rolepgeek]

Now that we're this big, with this much energy, that sorta thing happens.