I feel like I need to instate a fucking word limit here but you'd just post everything without a space and say you did it in a few dozen words. You monster.
((Yes, we get enhanced cap. mods for free, as temporary mission equipment. I got one for AUX.))
Orgyverse:
1.Send small scout ships to the 'verse, and make them orbit the planet we found the women on. What does it look like? A colonized, civilized planet?
2.Have a team of Doctors implant a couple of the women with Man-Machine-Interfaces along with any other brain-reading/stimulating devices we have, and also have them look out for any anomalous brain structures. Are there any signs whatsoever that the women are nonhuman, judging by their brains?
3.Put both implanted women into a room, and hope they talk with each other. If they do, record the sounds and brain readings, but if they don't, try to get them to talk by giving them cake. And if THAT is ignored, add an advancing wall of blades or something else obviously dangerous, while using the collars to nonlethally disable one the legs of one of the women. Don't actually let the murder wall harm either, though--just scare them.
4.Send a long-distance scoutship (Like what Oz sent to the glassphereverse) to the orgyverse, equipped with a QEC. Send it towards the nearest habitable-looking planet in the system which isn't the one we started on. If the one we started on looks like the only habitable planet, just send the ship towards the closest planet that isn't the one we started on.
Other:
5.Kedly sent me videos of two experiments: "Once back, have 2 probes sent back in for 4 hours. Have one drill into the intestinal lining, and keep doing so the entire time. Have another programmed to find an ameoba and ram it.". I'll review those videos now.
6.Yes, the tests where I zapped a probe into a universe for a tiny length of time is just trying to get a single picture of decent quality, without the probe actually spending any relevant amount of time in ths other universe. It's for checking the holyverse, and other dangerous 'verses. What is the minimum delay between sending a probe and recalling it?
7.Attempt to use my +4 aux to hack into Gus Johnson's [DoctorMctaalik's character] datapad, and install a very ruthless and thorough spell checker on it.
8.Consider attempting to kidnap Gus Johnson and forcibly installing an enhanced capacity (mind) mod into him. Would doing so be easily accomplished, considering my resources?
Hmmm well it looks vaguely earth like, at least in terms of the layout of green and brown continents, blue ocean, cloud dappled sky, ice caps, no sucking alien anus or demonic hell mouth. But you swing around the dark side and there's no thick glowing webs of yellow light like you'd expect to see from cities spread across the surface. It might be inhabited and colonized but they certainly ain't technologically advanced.
Their brains are similar to humans but they seem much less sophisticated, smaller and smoother. They seem about in line with what you'd expect from a great ape. There's also no central division, just a big egg shaped mass of neural tissue.
They appear to communicate using mostly gestures and a sort of mewing and warbling. Their voices are extremely human, but the noises they're making are more akin to an infant's than an adult's.
The closest planet to the one you started on is fairly close, extremely close astrologically speaking, actually. It should be there quite quickly.
Well, the drill one does its drilling for a while before something gets it from behind and then there's several minutes of jerking around before the feed cuts. Probe apparently came back half digested. The second one rams an ameoba, which then attacks it. Shoulda seen that coming.
The minimum delay is about 2 milliseconds.
You successfully do so. Not sure it will help.
Fairly easily, yes.
Phase 1 probes to new universes:
-7,-7,49
6,36,6
36,6,6
-6,-6,36
Edit: Have the "amoeba" samples analyzed. Have detailed reports delivered to the medical staff, and see what they think about the immune system theory.
((Question for Syv: Should I assume Gus knows about your tests? Or is Saint keeping them secret?))
Edit2: Note that Gus has now seen the massacre video. In case there's any memetic mindfuck to go along with the general mental scarring.
First three null out.
The 4th one comes back. You get the contents of the computers remotely as ever. The world beyond looks very much like you've teleported into a giant thorn bush. And by giant I mean not only are the thorns giant, but the twisted maze of reddish stabbing plant matter seems to extend in all directions. But you can see light from "above" and darkness down below, so maybe there's something else beyond this. The odd thing is that the sods watching the chamber report that what appear to be large thorns keep "Stabbing out through thin air and then vanishing."
They look an awful lot like the rest of the samples. Organic but not in the way we knew. As per staff opinions they certainly bare some resemblances to known immune cells. Particularly the lysosome structures they use to burst highly concentrated tissue (and metal ) dissolving substances on anything that annoys them.
Noted.
Spiders:give tehm some Tonka My First Programmable DeviceTM Children's learning toys. Give them some digital devices with blank interfaces to see if they have an already established programming language - I doubt this will work, what with the language difference and all. I am just trying to jumpstart communication. and give them some devices that are specifically for recording and playing back their sounds and body movement language. Make it simple, with a little robotic spider to mimic actions (or a visual representation of a spider onscreen - I forget if they can view video or not - I know they couldn't get color.
Recursive creatureverse:Aiming for a planetcreature with manageable wildlife. that is, the creatures that are trying to eat us are the least challenging for humans to handle. Preferably one where the types of creatures encountered don't dissolve steel or whatever we make or habitats out of, so we can have a relatively good chance of the colony surviving long term.
glass sphere verse:Wait for the probes to make their voyage.
factoryVerse: (the ancient universe where the factories are building something astronomical in scale). We saw seeral planets here with factories , and all of them were making something unfathomable. Let's send a few probes to distant parts of that universe, and to distant star systems. I am looking for the extent of this building project. is it limited to a local region of space? to a galaxy? a cluster? Supercluster? Just bounce probes into the universe at various interstellar and intergalactic distances, checking for signs of these factories and other signs of life.
0, 4, 4 (the one that disassembled the probe) reassemble the data storage devices and attempt to get the video and audio feeds from this one. Can this be done? If so, what does the recording show?
Time permitting, send probes to new universes:
6, 0, 0
0, 6, 0
0, 0, 6
Welcome back. I trust your journey was enlightening?
I've decided to attempt to colonize the universe you just returned from, but outside of the organism you entered into. It looks like the organisms are planet sized, and carry a usable atmosphere. Interestingly, it appears that the planet organisms live inside a larger organism - one that is stellar system sized perhaps. additionally, there are smaller organisms living on the planetbeings. It is unclear how large and small these organisms can get - though a probe sent 200 billion light years away yielded some unusual results.
Anyway, if you are interested in working on the teams establishing base camps for that universe, go ahead and prepare lists of equipment, personnel, and other needs to send over.
We are also exploring that universe with the alleged human women in it. Something is still odd about hat one, but apparently the universe itself reads pretty close to our own in physical makeup. I may be willing to allow a small exploration party to access this universe soon. however, I want you all to be prepared for what you may encounter. Speak with Steve Saint about access to all the data he has collected on this universe. Be warned, his methods were not pretty.
The spiders seem to understand what the device is. Or at least they understand that the tools you give them are tools and that they can do things. But they seems utterly baffled by the keypad. They press buttons at complete random. They find a few buttons they like, the ones with obvious functions like space and enter, but the letters and numbers are a mystery and they quickly tire of pressing them. After a few minutes they manage to navigate out of the page you have open for them and start playing a pinball game that was preinstalled on the datapad. They seem to enjoy it. So much so that a few of the smaller spiders start visibly arguing with each other over it. The argument, which involved a lot of very spirited vibrations of thoraxes and rhythmic stomping of legs in complex wave patterns, is ended when one of the larger spiders steps between them. They play with and investigate the little spider doll things you give them, but seem more confused as to what you want to do with them. One of the bigger spiders picks it up and rolls it around in its mandibles for a few seconds before placing it back down and watching a small spider play pinball.
The upper reaches of the planet creatures seem good. There are creatures up here, but they seem more interested in eating parts of the bigger creature or hunting each other. They pay the probe no mind.
WAITING...
It takes a lot of searching but you find other planets in entirely different galaxies which appear to be manufacturing things as well. Different things, but they look similar in terms of how they're doing it.
The recording shows mostly darkness, then something coming out of the dark. It looks...sort of like one enormous compound eye. Then something grabs the probe and begins disassembling it while the eye watches. We get very little from the sensors because thats what it took apart first.
Nothing, something, nothing
The something probe...well the instant it comes back the sods swarm the room. You can tell because they visibly leave their viewing booths. But you can't tell what happened from there since there's no one to look in and tell you.
Outside is probably better, I'm doing further probe testing now, but from what we saw, inside seems to work in a way similar to how our insides work, and therefor may have an immune system.
After reviewing -7,-7,-7 data (Highlighting in case there actually ARE memetic or other effects)
What the fuck Saint! I understand being cautious and assessing all threats, but opening interactions with another species with all out gratuitous violence is NOT ok. This goes beyond clinical detachment, and into sadist maliciousness!
Saint overstepped some boundaries with how he handled -7,-7,-7. I'm not ok with the level of violence he chose to open with. As much as I would have jumped dick first into that universe, I DO understand the "Trap" vibes it was giving, but starting threat assessment out with all out massacre is not the way to do it
Got it.
...All thing considered, a vivisection autopsy isn't that hard with a full kit of other doctors. Go ahead without the mod. Let's find out what makes thes ladies tick, eh?
After autopsy, send tissue samples in for molecular analysis. How similar to our biology are they?
Send new probe to:
1,867,5309
I propose we allow a single male volunteer to sleep with one of the females from the orgy-verse (We should also find a better name for the universe).
Also, are these women inhabiting the entire livable universe, or a single planet?
You get it anyways.
The ladies appear to have mostly human organs, or at least ones of similar design. Lungs are a check, but it's just one and much larger. Heart is check, but it's got a different configuration with the valves sitting horizontal rather then bunched up in a quad. Glands, like the pancreas, gallbladder, liver, etc, are all different in size and shape and number, but the general GI track is familiar with the intestines and stomach. However the bladder and GI appear to have the same exit point. Efficient, you suppose.
The molecular biology is very similar. Some of it is exactly the same in fact. Their DNA has different coding obviously, but the exact same structural make up. These look almost like some sort of alternate universe humans, different but still very much the same.
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