((Sorry about blocking the EUE--I didn't mean to do that.
I find it extremely worrying that origin tech works there. Sure, all of our tech working is nice, and probably a large advantage for us, but that's also really disturbing.))
Stop spamming the EUE. I'll probably edit this post later, but for now just do that.
OK
1. They find that the sapphire is made of materials that, in our universe, would be atomically unstable to the point of having half lives in the minutes or seconds. Something about the proximity to the ground in that universe stabilized them.
((Does this mean Gus's sapphire is disintegrated now?))
Do this:
(7,7,49) - Send another phase 1 probe to the same location for half a second, and then bring it back. Have the camera feed examined. Have another probe do the same thing 1 mile higher on the z axis.
Brambleverse- Send another phase 1 probe to the same location, and fly it over to the location where the flower disappeared. Has it reappeared? Is there any sign of the flower, or has it simply vanished from existence?
Order another probe to be deployed repeatedly to a single location not far from where the flower disappeared. It should be deployed for 15 minute intervals, in between which the camera and sensor data should be returned and examined. Do this as many times as possible over a 24 hour period.
New universe probes (time permitting):
5,5,5
8,8,8
6,6,-36
-36,-36,-36
His sapphire remains stable. Apparently it doesn't require constant exposure, just exposure at the time of creation.
Returns, again pieces are missing. Not all the same pieces, but pieces. One of them is the power system.
It seems to still be gone, though there's some sort of distortion over by the point it was attached to one of the giant bramble vines.
Watching to see if it comes back? It doesn't, at least not in the 24 hours you watch it.
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The probe returns far faster than it should, and it's trailing something. The air in the test chamber distorts and an enormous limb reaches out. It grabs hold of the wall of the test chamber and pulls. From cameras outside the chamber, in space, you can watch as the entire chamber seems to be pulled impossibly in on itself and then vanishes.
I have made progress on work regarding the universe (123,456,789), which has the effect of coating probes in a "foil" that violently explodes outwards upon the slightest physical contact. I believe we may soon be able to harvest and transport it well enough to begin experimentation upon it, the most obvious application of course being that of a weapon. The problem is, this foil has demonstrated the capacity to render entire testing rooms inoperable.
Hence I would like to request the usage of a testing room under the disclaimer that it may very well be rendered inoperable by the experiments conducted within..
For my following actions I would like the define the following terms:
Claymore Foil Universe - The universe with coordinates (123,456,789) and the metallic foil
Plate Probe - A probe with modular plating that it can release so that it ends up with only one foil-covered plate left after venturing into the Claymore Foil Universe
Observer Probe - A simple probe with cameras that wait for a Plate Probe in a Null universe, each carries numerous Camera Drones and one Poke Drone
Camera Drone - A small expendable drone with high speed cameras that transmit their feeds to the Observer drone
Poke Drone - A small expendable drone designed to be released by an Observer Probe and moved to collide with a Plate Probe's foil-covered plate
- Send a Plate Probe to the universe and then to a Null and detach all the other plates. Have the Observer Probe hide on the side of the Plate Probe opposite the remaining foil-covered plate. The Camera Drones will spread out and observe as the Poke Drone makes a head-on collision. Observe the scatter pattern of the foil and the residue, as well as their velocity and any sort of odd phenomena.
- Repeat 1. but with different Poke Probe collision angles. Observe the effects on the scatter pattern.
- Repeat 1. but with a different Plate Probe plate shapes, such as concave and convex plates. Observe the effects on the scatter pattern.
- Send the results of 1. 2. and 3. to some qualified NPC members to extrapolate the data and model what sort of shape is ideal for the purpose of use in an artillery shell. Repeat 1. with that sort of shape.
- Send the results of 1. 2. 3. and 4. to some qualified NPC members to extrapolate the data and model what sort of shape is ideal for the purpose of use in a projectile weapon. Repeat 1. with that sort of shape.
- Repeat 1. but have two plates of the Plate Probe remain foil covered. The plates should be very close to each other, but not touching. Does triggering one set off the other?
Try again, with hopefully less dead languages screaming NOPE.
1. It explodes, with the explosion starting at the point of contact and rapidly spreading across the surface of the foil. The patterns after this point follow known physics models and do not appear unique in their actions, though the force behind them is extreme.
2. Again, within known parameters. The thing explodes outward, like a claymore, despite there being nothing "behind" it .
3. Seems to make no difference. The plates still explode from the first touch, and they still just slice straight through the probe.
4-5. They say that there's gonna be some difficulty in creating a shell or bullet when you can't touch the fucking thing without it exploding.
6.No.
Can I get an update on the scouts sent to explore other glass spheres in the glass sphere verse ( the first probe entered in a very dry desert enclosed in a giant glass sphere, and we sent probes into orbit to look for other spheres and found some. Teleporting scoutships near those spheres was inexact and required a couple turns for the scouts to arrive. I don't believe our scouts arrived last time I checked.
Begin sending scouts into orgyverse to different solar systems and different galaxies. Look for signs of more of this civilization (or other civs), as well as signs of habitable planets outside the apparent range of this civilization. This will be an ongoing action until we have explored the knowable limits of this civ, at least, however many turns that takes.
Edit: Send out a request to all ARM operatives who retain either an amp, or synthflesh, or another form of origin tech to make themselves available for some horrible, agonizing, inhumane testing exploration and experimentation. This request need not bother high level operatives currently on very dangerous missions.
Time permitting, send probes to new universes:
0, 0, 8
0, 8, 0
8, 0, 0
I am curious about the effectiveness of Origin tech in the Orgyverse. I am assuming this is because of the dramatic similarity to our own universe in terms of physical makeup, I wonder thogh, if our origin tech transported to that universe retains it's connection to this Lurker being. While I understand that there is no 'safe' way to test this, is there, perhaps, a way to test this within a reasonable level of risk? Perhaps we could send some origin tech user across and have them test the reliability of an amp, or synthflesh, or a manipulator?
They're nearly there. Next time.
Looking. Initial scans and data indicate that there is wide spread colonization, perhaps even greater in scope and number than mankind's dominion before the altered wars. But this is just an initial scan using intercepted signals and various other data gathering. Whatever they are, they're advanced, wide spread and not human.
(You should send that message yourself. Specifically post it in the vet threads, since they're the only ones likely to still have one and not be busy. )
The First probe doesn't see anything. As in it seems to teleport into an area of total and absolute darkness, including all spectrum of light, sound and other input our senses can comprehend. But it comes back scuffed, as though it hit something.
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The third probe returns, but you don't know what happened with it because the sods in charge of handling it lose their goddamn minds and just start screaming and trying to escape.
I'm down for testing this. I'm sure we have plenty of remaining suicidal team-mates who would be more than happy to get another chance to go full out with amps. I suggest we do this on a seperate planet in this universe however
Phase 3 probes to the bioluminesent section of the cave-verse
Get an area set up on heph that is large enough to keep all the current inhabitants of cave verse quarantined on heph. If there is enough time this turn, after the quarantine area is set up, bring the colonists of cave verse back
You know this isn't the same as the other cave-verse right? Different place? Mushroom people? Anyways, the bioluminesent stuff is safe. It's just fairly mundane fungi as far as you an tell.
Done.
Those plant samples I had collected? Have them analyzed.
Send a small team of three soldiers out on a hunting trip. Have them return within two days or when they bag enough game to carry home, avoiding areas near the tribe. Have the animals analyzed.
Get a linguistics expert on the team and prepare an expedition to the tribe. Return my hands to "normal" i.e. I don't want my scalpel fingers at all right now.
I'm going to attempt to make first contact. First contact beyond probes, anyway. Hope to avoid association with probes. For now. Would rather not eliminate such an interesting species.
Ok. They seem fairly normal. Slightly different than earth flora but nothing special.
The animals here seem to be mostly...well they seem related to cephalopods in a very general sense. But they display limited signs of protein effects related to the moon signal. Seems that whatever that thing is, it's targeted at humans...or human analogs in this case.
Ok, edward scalpel hands is no more.
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