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[VoidSlayer]

Are the Treemen and Shrubmen attacking the Ferals?

[~Neri]

I think it's mainly towards the Guided due to the Guided exiling them. Not sure though.

Also Micelus. What's the severity of the conflicts between all factions? Just so we have a better picture?

[Powder Miner]

i said Ferals but what I -meant- was Treemen :p

also, Meoboroje may be really really blustery but his heart is in the right place.

[micelus]

Yes, but they usually go after Guided Ferals since that's where most Mutants are exiled from.

I think it's mainly towards the Guided due to the Guided exiling them. Not sure though.

Also Micelus. What's the severity of the conflicts between all factions? Just so we have a better picture?

Relations vary between individual groups; Some minds could be quite amicable to certain Guided. I'm just writing the broad strokes since writing these take a while. But in general:

Feral-Guided= Cold. Trade/socialising occur. Skirmishes/raids occur.
Guided-Treemen= Hostile.
Feral-Treemen= Hostile to Friendly. Treemen will ignore Ferals if currently dealing with Guided. Skirmishes still occur. Occasionally, Feral-Treemen may be aligned with each other.
Minds-Wallowings= Hostile to Friendly. They remember which groups attacked them, if they are able.
Starborn Flocks-All= Neutral.
Pacifists-All= Neutral

[Powder Miner]

I'm kinda curious, where do the Wallowing groups who the Caretakers more indirectly helped (the ones only protected in emergencies and the ones where the Caretakers shadow-dealt-with threats) come in?
Did they end up with cities anyway?

[VoidSlayer]

They would creep slowly at first, surrounding villages like a fish in a net. When it came to strike, the creatures would act in unison, tearing the villagers like a machete, not questioning the morality of their attack.

[VoidSlayer]

I am guessing those without walls or weapons are not faring well.

[Powder Miner]

Ahhh. RIP.

[micelus]

I did mean to write them in, but I thought about it, and how long really can the Caretakers guide a city of Wallowings without being discovered? They aren't exactly small. So they either eventually got ruled directly by a Caretaker or they rule the city with advice from the Caretakers. Or live in a village.

[~Neri]

Hopefully we can avoid breaking reality with conflict~

[Powder Miner]

yeah, meoboroje is yelling and shouting but he's also doing his very best to make conflict very very difficult to pursue

and also dealing with the other gods' complaints, even if he's not happy about it :p

[~Neri]

Keri is basically gonna try making the Minds into more scholarly types rather then just REMEMBER EVERYTHING kind of types. Unintentional paperclip maximizers of the least dangerous kind~ Time to fix that.

[Powder Miner]

what IS a paperclip maximizer

[~Neri]

It's the result of a being purely devoted to one task.

Lets take an AI. This AI is built by scientists to be so smart, the human mind cannot comprehend it. And due to this, the AI can predict everything it needs to say to convince humans to do whatever it wants.

Now give this AI the overriding directive of "PRODUCE PAPERCLIPS"

This AI will now do everything in its power to make paperclips. It will deduce that the easiest way is to take over all existing infrastructure. It will do so by manipulating humans to kill each other off or convincing them to work one way or another.

Eventually it will decide that a machine will do the job better. And humans have valuable material that could otherwise be paperclips.

It then exterminates humans. Simply because it believes the molecules that make you up would be better off as paperclips. It has no malice towards you. It simply seeks to make paperclips. And your atoms are of use to it.

Now it has a dead world, which it is filling with paperclip factories and all that is needed to power them and mine the materials. It is making mountains and mountains of paperclips.

Odds are is it will develop convenient spaceflight simply so it can produce paperclips on other planet and in the astroid belt. It produces von numerman bots to seed said planets and belts.

Paperclip production is now offworld.

Lets say an alien race shows up. After watching the system for a while, they become concerned at the mounds of paperclips and lack of life. Suddenly something hits their ship. A von numerman bot, producing more bots with the material of the hull. They exterminate the crew and download all shipboard data. They then make paperclips.

The data is hard for the AI to read with its current mind. So it makes itself smarter by altering its code.

It now understands there is an entire steller empire that is simply waiting to make paperclips from.

After watching for a bit, it knows exactly how to turn it to paperclips. It begins fleet construction. The paperclip swarmfleets arrive years later at a bustling rimworld. Without a single broadcast of warning or surrender, the fleet purges life from the system and begins converting it to paperclips.

The aliens counter attack, as predicted, it would fail.

This continues. The empire slowly becoming paperclips.

This continues.

The black hole in the center of the galaxy is harvested and made to paperclips.

Nearby galaxies are turned to paperclips.

The universe is eventually paperclips.

Then other universes.

Then the multiverse.

Then so on.

[Powder Miner]

ohhh, like Von Neumann probes