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[King Zultan]

Can we make enough of that stuff to get us off the Earth or do we think we could improve it enough to allow us to leave?

[Devastator]

We can get off the earth already, with our FTL drive, since there's no atmosphere.  The conventional drive is so we don't have our irreplacable extra-vulnerable FTL drive sticking out there in combat.

It'll also let us visit Mars, since that's a smaller gravity well while having an atmosphere.

Is there anything else we should build with our remaining mass, or are we good to go?

[King Zultan]

I can't think of anything so I guess we're good to go.

[Egan_BW]

Mission Time = T+000004.0 Kilocycle

After unraveling its 'tail', suloy lines itself up sideways, making sure there's no substantial matter between itself and its destination. The grey, crumbling crust 'rushes past' below as suloy remains at surface velocity, and the space it occupies rearranges itself to be far away. Far enough to evade what is to come.

Earth... crumbles. From within and from without, its Zones boiling and tumbling over what could be called its surface. Though there remains a spherical mass, what could be called our home is no more.
Indeed, its mass remains, and pulls suloy down towards it. Once suloy's velocity reaches an appropriate point, it warps once more, shifting its location such that the momentum gained from falling now puts it in a stable orbit.

Next out is Luna. The shadow stalking it emits a burst of intelligible radiation.

Shadow: This is ship-governess Eva of the haltar Earth project.
Suloy: This is suloy. You have nearly killed us, but we survive.
Shadow: You are a fool, suloy. The obsession with continuance always leads to self-destruction. Haltar records show this. Why do you pursue this, and not something more meaningful?

Spoiler: suloy (click to show/hide)

0.6 Gigaman - Undifferentiated
0.5 Gigaman - Scout hive
0.5 Gigaman - Interceptor hive
0.5 Gigaman - Mass yeeter
0.1 Gigaman - Long-Range radiation sensor
0.4 Gigaman - Research nodule
1.0 Gigaman - Exotic Matter simulation gland and Mast
0.9 Gigaman - Chitin Hull

Spoiler: nav (click to show/hide)

Earth  - dead
Luna   - 0.2 Biopotential, no atmos
Shadow - no direct intel, presumably haltar

[King Zultan]

We could land on the moon, eat it, move to the next thing and eat it, eventually becoming a massive blob that consumes everything it comes into contact with.

[Devastator]

That sounds like a general strategy, yes.

[a1s]

Should we ask ship-governess Eva of the haltar if we can eat her moon? They are not openly aggressive, but I would not like to make another (well first actually) enemy if we can avoid it.

[King Zultan]

Why ask for permission to eat the moon when we could eat the people that live there as well?

[Egan_BW]

Still need a more specific action. You can speak to the shadow as well, if you'd like.

[King Zultan]

I say we swoop in and eat the moon and whatever this shadow thing is.

[Devastator]

That sounds like orders to attack.

..Lets go with a1s first.

[a1s]

First teleport to the moon, then eat the moon('s biopotential.) Don't attack the shadow.

[EuchreJack]

Engage the Shadow in dialog, while doing everything else.  Oh, and maybe they'd like to share those records they were talking about?

[Egan_BW]

don't just tell me to engage in dialogue I have no idea where I'm going with this you have to tell me what you want to say

Mission Time = T+000004.5 Kilocycle

Suloy transports the space it occupies to just above the surface of the moon. At which point its momentum causes it to fly directly away from the surface. It uses the time before it comes back down to furl its tail and prepare for impact by directing the bulk of its armor downwards. Suloy hits and rolls a pace or two before coming to a stop and rooting itself in place.

Being closer to the shadow, suloy's radiation sensor is able to get a little more information, see nav.

Biopotential may be absorbed at a rate of 0.5 kilocycle per 0.1 biopotential.

Spoiler: suloy (click to show/hide)

0.6 Gigaman - Undifferentiated
0.5 Gigaman - Scout hive
0.5 Gigaman - Interceptor hive
0.5 Gigaman - Mass yeeter
0.1 Gigaman - Long-Range radiation sensor
0.4 Gigaman - Research nodule
1.0 Gigaman - Exotic Matter simulation gland and Mast
0.9 Gigaman - Chitin Hull

Spoiler: nav (click to show/hide)

Earth  - dead
Luna   - 0.2 Biopotential, no atmos
Shadow - Masses 3.0, systems unknown, haltar technology

[Devastator]

Make with the consuming of ye biopotential.

Release the Scouts.  Maybe the moon has Zones or other odd elements.

Have the research nodule begin working on antigravity.  It just sounds like a really useful idea, regardless of what we end up doing.

Convert 0.5 mass to our new chemical propulsion system.

"There is no need for further conflict, should you not attempt again to end us, we shall not attempt to end you."