Demand that CCC give up all control until combat. Inform it that we are in a unique situation it is not equip to handle. We must reason with it.
You explain quite eloquently to CCC that this shit is completely
fucked and that you should be given command authority. CCC ignores you.
>Assuming current location is exactly what logs indicated (Fort McCrag Storage Depot), then scan surrounds to see what is left of Fort McCrag.
>Check maps for last known locations of nearby allied military outposts and installations and estimate travel time to each.
>How badly primary propulsion system was cannibalized?
Fine God... This whole situation is stupid. Who the hell woke up a deathtank anyway, and why? Were those idiots trying to salvage you? You're getting pretty frustrated with the whole situation.
You run an analysis on the local geography and overlay positions of known (well... previously known) friendly installations. The closest one would be Alberta Anchorage which at your present condition of "Shit is totally fucked" would take a few days to get to over land. Of course if the C-D drive worked it would take like 18 seconds but its unlikely you'll find materials to repair THAT any time soon given the observed level of technology so far. I mean.. rockets? Chemical explosives? Good god, you're among barbarians. These people could no more damage you than they could demolish a mountain.
What were you doing? Oh... right. You survey the local area. There isn't anything left of Fort McCrag. If you squint really hard (and no, you're not actually squinting. Its a euphemism. Shut
UP.) you think you can probably make out the shape of a few old buildings in the way the dirt mounds are arranged. If you went excavating you'd probably find a lot of
useless debris and crap but you're not going to do that because its boring.
You run a diagnostic on the C-D drive that that
idiot CognOS marked as expendable. Its not too bad, only a few parts were needed for the drone. Really it was mostly the big goddamn pieces of debris that fell on you, plus whatever weapon was capable of piercing a
hardened bunker. You estimate that you caught the edge of whatever blast reduced the fort to rubble, and they didn't build the fort to be flimsy. Whatever was able to pierce its walls really screwed up the rear quarter of Hull 101. An external survey shows that the hullmetal actually seems to have
melted in places. What the hell could do that?
You slap CCC with a mute before it tries to answer your
obviously rhetorical question. You
know what could cause that, you were just asking for dramatic emphasis. God these programs are stupid. It was obviously a H.E.L.L. class orbital strike utilizing an orbital around the local star. You're kind of glad now that you've been buried for 10,000 years... the surface of this planet must have been a cinder for a good century or two, at least on the side facing the star.
Organics did not understand any of our known languages and their poor atemt of attacking us indicates that they know nothing of us.
This indicates that our side is no longer present on this world.
It also indicates that locals have inferior technology.
Records of our shutdown are nonexistant, however, so we must proceed with caution.
Our temporary objectives sugested are as follows:
*Move to nearest known military instalation or it's ruins for resources and tactical info.
*Repair hull breah and primary propulsion.
*Build/repair something to allow us to recieve/send signals and search for large sources of activity.
Well yeah, its pretty obvious that the dynasty is gone. Nothing humans make lasts that long.
...well... except you. Okay maybe its not so obvious, but... ok... yeah you should probably get moving. You engage the secondary drive and make best speed for the Anchorage because why not? Records indicate that it had some good stuff. Maybe you can find an intact nanofax, that would be awesome.
As for repairing the hull breaches? No. Not gonna happen. I mean, repair it with what? The power of positive thinking? Please. The waldo units you could fabricate right now aren't even capable of removing the chunks of rubble embedded in your armor, much less reshaping hullmetal.
The signals thing though... yeah sure why not. You mock up a design while the hull is plowing a huge swath through jungle. You don't even notice when Hull 101 rolls right over two enemy encampments. You ignore the tactical alerts as small arms fire pings off your shell. You don't see the flashing warning indicator that babbles on about the antivehicular mines in your path, nor the beeping reports that report their detonations (no damage). You don't even realize that the ADPS has fired 8 times, and that the jungle is now
on fire. Why would you give a shit?
Anyway, after a few hours you have a design that will work with available materials. You're going to need to cannibalize the drone CognOS made but it can barely keep up anyway and its not especially useful right now. Should you proceed?
Y/NThe ride is getting a little bumpy as you make something like 250kph over/through rough jungle terrain. Behind you two plumes of dirt and pulverized organic matter are being kicked up over 10 meters in height from the pressure your treads are bringing to bear on the jungle floor. You've reduced two hills to nothing and actually tunneled through a solid dirt/worked stone embankment at one point, briefly going underwater, before coming out the other side. Some kind aquaduct? Who cares.
> Estimate how CCC would react if we reported this as a Mutual Assured Destruction scenario listing "old age" as a WMD and all know authority figures as killed in action.
Oh it would probably just restate the current objectives and request a status report, and then assign a subunit to weaponizing old age. As for the bit about authority figures killed in action, it would request the official (verified) casualty reports.
There are a variety of tactical reports going on. You're not really looking at them. You really want to build this sensor!
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