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Author Topic: Evolution: Jethro is back!?!?! [SPACE]  (Read 123700 times)

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Re: Evolution: HIVE-MIND IN SPACE!!!!! [SPACE]
« Reply #1485 on: October 25, 2010, 09:48:39 am »

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)
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Re: Evolution: HIVE-MIND IN SPACE!!!!! [SPACE]
« Reply #1486 on: October 25, 2010, 10:06:06 am »

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)

Spoiler: SOLAR SYSTEM (click to show/hide)
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Re: Evolution: HIVE-MIND IN SPACE!!!!! [SPACE]
« Reply #1487 on: October 25, 2010, 10:14:24 am »

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.
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Re: Evolution: HIVE-MIND IN SPACE!!!!! [SPACE]
« Reply #1488 on: October 25, 2010, 10:17:10 am »

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.
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Re: Evolution: HIVE-MIND IN SPACE!!!!! [SPACE]
« Reply #1489 on: October 25, 2010, 10:50:28 am »

Is the Jeth-Probe smaller than the RadSphere?
If so, latch onto it and let it take you to its leader.
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Re: Evolution: HIVE-MIND IN SPACE!!!!! [SPACE]
« Reply #1490 on: October 25, 2010, 12:31:58 pm »

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!)
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Re: Evolution: HIVE-MIND IN SPACE!!!!! [SPACE]
« Reply #1491 on: October 25, 2010, 12:34:38 pm »

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?
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Re: Evolution: HIVE-MIND IN SPACE!!!!! [SPACE]
« Reply #1492 on: October 25, 2010, 12:41:58 pm »

Send back waves.
first wave: Long pulse
Second wave: Long pulse, short pulse
Third wave: Long pulse, short pulse, long pulse
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Re: Evolution: HIVE-MIND IN SPACE!!!!! [SPACE]
« Reply #1493 on: October 25, 2010, 02:21:21 pm »

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"
« Last Edit: October 25, 2010, 02:26:53 pm by hachnslay »
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Re: Evolution: HIVE-MIND IN SPACE!!!!! [SPACE]
« Reply #1494 on: October 25, 2010, 04:26:52 pm »

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.
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Re: Evolution: HIVE-MIND IN SPACE!!!!! [SPACE]
« Reply #1495 on: October 25, 2010, 04:33:54 pm »

Broadcast prime numbers. (prime number amount of pulses, followed by a higher frequency pulse to signify the end of a number)
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Re: Evolution: HIVE-MIND IN SPACE!!!!! [SPACE]
« Reply #1496 on: October 25, 2010, 04:41:19 pm »

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.
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« Reply #1497 on: October 25, 2010, 04:42:55 pm »

Teach it Morse code so we can actually understand it.
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Re: Evolution: HIVE-MIND IN SPACE!!!!! [SPACE]
« Reply #1498 on: October 25, 2010, 04:44:41 pm »

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...
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Re: Evolution: HIVE-MIND IN SPACE!!!!! [SPACE]
« Reply #1499 on: October 25, 2010, 04:46:53 pm »

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