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The Old-Evolution-Mind control fungus!

Counter-Evolution-No mind control fungus!

[USEC_OFFICER]

NOTE ABOUT SHIP DESIGNS:

We have a limited amount of resources now. Keep that in mind as we expand and build ships. (Namely, we can only build so much every turn)

[USEC_OFFICER]

Lacking the resources for any large-scale projects, you send a colony ship to MOSES. It lands, and quickly begins to set up a base camp, collecting resources for further expansion. You connect the only moon orbiting HEPHAESTUS that can hold an atmosphere to the gas giant. Some green-house gases, and it'll become a good spot to live on.

With the connection finished, you send Jethro's Mind Probe to search for the life-forms by JOSHUA. As it slides into the upper layers of JOSHUA's atmosphere, a small, black sphere rises up to meet the ship. The sphere sends pulses of radio waves at Jethro's mind probe. Judging by how regular it is, it's probably some sort of radar.

Now what?

SHIPS:
Name: Jethro's Mind Probe.
Propulsion: Elevator: ACCELERATION: 1-5 light seconds/day
Extras: Cold fusion or fission
          Armour
          Creature Torpedo Launchers (Staffed with WOLFTOPI)
          Solar Collection Array.
          Flamberge for ground assaults.
          45 Biomass

Spoiler: SHIP DESIGNS (click to show/hide)

Name: Jethro's Mind Probe.
Propulsion: Elevator: ACCELERATION: 1-5 light seconds/day
Extras: Cold fusion or fission
          Armour
          Creature Torpedo Launchers (Staffed with WOLFTOPI)
          Solar Collection Array.
          Flamberge for ground assaults.
COSTS: 500 Biomass, 150 Heavy Minerals, 800 Energy

Name: Prospector Drone.
Propulsion: Chemical: ACCELERATION: Enough.
Extras: Best sensors we have.
          Drill
          Solar Collection Array.
Description: Can be sent to airless bodies to search for valuable minerals and establish a forward base.  Single use.
COSTS: 50 Biomass, 10 Heavy Minerals, 65 Energy

Colony Vehicle:
Propulsion: Conventional: Elevator: ACCELERATION: 1-5 light seconds/day
Extras: Heavily armoured.
Description: A gigantic, heavily armored schoolbus equiped to survive in both in atmosphere-less environments, as well as more life-friendly ones.
100 Biomass, 20 Heavy Minerals, 150 Energy.

Spoiler: SOLAR SYSTEM (click to show/hide)

CALEB: 1.4 Light minutes (lm) from the Caanan.
HOT
TIDALLY LAND-LOCKED
ROCKY
SMALL

JETHRO: 8.1 lm
NICE
HABITABLE BY LIFE
ROCKY
MEDIUM
HAS ONE MOON

CONNECTED TO MOSES BY TRACK.

100% COVERAGE BY JETHRO

PRODUCES: 100 biomass
                 60 heavy minerals
                 200 energy
STORAGE: 0 biomass
               0 heavy minerals
               0 energy
               Space Station frame: %13 done.

JETHRO'S UNNAMED MOON:
COLD
UNINHABITABLE BY LIFE
ROCKY
SMALL

MOSES: 9.6 lm
COLD
UNINHABITABLE BY LIFE
ROCKY
MEDIUM
HAS FIVE MOONS

CONNECTED TO JETHRO BY TRACK.
CONNECTED TO HEPHAESTUS BY TRACK.

0.005% COVERAGE BY JETHRO

PRODUCES: 5 biomass
                2 heavy minerals
                10 energy
STORAGE: 0 biomass
               0 heavy minerals
               0 energy

ASTEROID BELT #1: 38 lm
VERY COLD
UNINHABITABLE BY LIFE
ROCKY

0.001% COVERAGE BY JETHRO

PRODUCES: 1 biomass
                1 energy

STORAGE: 1 biomass
               1 energy

HEPHAESTUS: 50 lm
VERY COLD
UNINHABITABLE BY LIFE
GASSY
LARGE
HAS EIGHT MOONS
     ONE COULD HOLD AN ATMOSPHERE
     CONNECTED TO HEPHAESTUS BY TRACK.

CONNECTED TO MOSES BY TRACK.


JOSHUA: 72 lm
VERY COLD
UNINHABITABLE BY LIFE
GASSY
VERY LARGE
HAS SIXTEEN MOONS

CONNECTED TO HEPHAESTUS BY TRACK.

[Vactor]

feign peace, quietly seed the world with fungi, turn the planet's ecosystem into a sleeper infestation, attempt to communicate with the craft,  and begin to plan for the biotech necessary for creating a solar system scale burst that is capable of burning out electronics,  even if their systems are hardened we'd be able to blind their sensors, possibly destroy parts of their infrastructure.

[USEC_OFFICER]

feign peace, quietly seed the world with fungi, turn the planet's ecosystem into a sleeper infestation, attempt to communicate with the craft,  and begin to plan for the biotech necessary for creating a solar system scale burst that is capable of burning out electronics,  even if their systems are hardened we'd be able to blind their sensors, possibly destroy parts of their infrastructure.

What world are you talking about? We are orbiting a gas giant.

[FuzzyZergling]

Is the Jeth-Probe smaller than the RadSphere?
If so, latch onto it and let it take you to its leader.

[Blackdutchie]

If the probe is bigger than the Radsphere, shout at it. (we use radio waves for communications, right? that should tell them we're smart!)

[USEC_OFFICER]

Since Jethro's mind probe is around the same size of the sphere, you blast it with radio waves.

Not much happens at first, but eventually the sphere blasts some radio waves back at you.

Now what?

[Blackdutchie]

Send back waves.
first wave: Long pulse
Second wave: Long pulse, short pulse
Third wave: Long pulse, short pulse, long pulse

[hachnslay]

small fries, we are growing!
send another Prospector to the asteroid belt, tell it to connect the asteroids as it grows. create a living belt , and pull it togtether, but not before it has completely absorbed hephaestos over an now expanded track. that should give it a nice atmosphere. let the photosynthesis and sun collection work on the sunward side, of course..

think living "halo"

[USEC_OFFICER]

Send back waves.
first wave: Long pulse
Second wave: Long pulse, short pulse
Third wave: Long pulse, short pulse, long pulse

Done. The sphere then repeats the waves back to you.

[Blackdutchie]

Broadcast prime numbers. (prime number amount of pulses, followed by a higher frequency pulse to signify the end of a number)

[USEC_OFFICER]

Broadcast prime numbers. (prime number amount of pulses, followed by a higher frequency pulse to signify the end of a number)

Guess what? After you broadcast it, the sphere broadcasts them back. At least this time, it begins to broadcast some prime numbers.

[Lillipad]

Teach it Morse code so we can actually understand it.

[RAM]

Use planet-sized brain to discern all possible form of introduction, cross reference them with the Primsk language and the initial radio pulse, then reply with them, rephrased, in order of probability.


Establish a subterranean colony on Jethro's Moon(Biggles) by sending battery-powered(no external input once they are deployed, limited lifespan.) excavators to make some sealed caverns, separated by airlocks and then import some atmosphere. Develop some form of coating to increase structural and atmospheric integrity of the caverns. Preferably vine-fig-based...

[Furtuka]

Prepare a ship of primsk to fool the aliens into not knowing our true form