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The Old-Evolution-Mind control fungus!

Counter-Evolution-No mind control fungus!

[RAM]

Not all of them, just weapons, and some escort craft.

Fleet time: Construct no less than 24 military vessels.

Protoypes:
 Cephalocarrier:
  Giant octopus, it stores smaller vessels inside its body and hurls them out using its arms. It is armoured with thick layers of gelatinous material that is studded with hard plates and woven with strong meshes. Propelled using steam jets and can expel a massive cloud of dust capable of obscuring an entire fleet. Equipped with significant sensory apparatus and colour changing skin.

 Cephaloscuttler: Launched by Cephalocarrier.
  A crab, remodelled to survive in a vacuum and survive extreme deceleration, with squid mouth and legs in place of crab legs. Back armour massively built up, capable of regenerating, and sharpened to a dull point. Capable of propulsion using jets of steam. Has several small additional tentacles which shoot acid-laden darts. When launched at a target, will attempt to collide with it back-first, reach around and grab with its barbed tentacles, and cut a means of access using its beak. If it enters a target it will use high-velocity punching claws to disable threats and tentacle and beak to destroy them. Once a target is disabled they will leave it and seek other targets.

 Jellymind:
  Giant jellyfish, modified for massive redundancy, has massive sensory and mental abilities, projects a network of highly toxic tentacles with explosive nodules beyond its body for close defence. Maintains connection to other capital vessels via many small tentacles. Uses these to enhance the other vessels existing abilities by providing shared sensory and status reports along with superior mental abilities when appropriate.

 Picket vessel:
  Colony of small organisms. Coral-like creatures produce layers of hardened material for armour with spider-creatures knitting webs of reinforcement throughout it. Internal colony of crabs that contain dense explosives and single-use high-velocity punching claws. These crabs walk to the outside of the shell and launch themselves at targets. Worms live in the armour and convey sensory data. A communion of self-contained jellies combine to perform mental processes, with a single jelly barely able to return to the cover of their fleet but dozens resulting in a formidable tactician. Propulsion provided by many shell-creatures that live on the surface, and expel high-pressure material when appropriate. Atmosphere maintained by an ant colony that forms stiff coverings ofer air breaches and manoeuvres around creatures to allow them to pass without venting atmosphere.

[Argonnek]

You have the best ideas, RAM.

[RAM]

We need more ideas, those aren't nearly enough suggestions for our crazy fleet of war-critters.

[Lillipad]

We've got Charlie, and everything you just suggested. We could make the wolftopi larger, stronger, and acid spewing.

[Vactor]

I have a feeling this is something mechanical, like a very advanced von neumann machine or something.  If this is the case all of our infectious powers would be useless. If it is a manned craft it will have a very strong hull to keep the high pressure atmosphere of the gas giant inside.

I'm a little unsure what was meant by things getting crushed when they move into it, are they able to freely enter the sphere, or does it have a hardened exterior?  if it has a hardened exterior we should try to direct the most powerful ballistic impacts possible onto points on opposite sides of the sphere, so as to fracture it on the sides where the shockwaves would meet.

[FuzzyZergling]

Create an increadibly powerful acidic substance, equip self-powered ship with substance, attack sphere from angle not leading to Jethro-occupied planet.

[USEC_OFFICER]

I have a feeling this is something mechanical, like a very advanced von neumann machine or something.  If this is the case all of our infectious powers would be useless. If it is a manned craft it will have a very strong hull to keep the high pressure atmosphere of the gas giant inside.

I'm a little unsure what was meant by things getting crushed when they move into it, are they able to freely enter the sphere, or does it have a hardened exterior?  if it has a hardened exterior we should try to direct the most powerful ballistic impacts possible onto points on opposite sides of the sphere, so as to fracture it on the sides where the shockwaves would meet.

They can enter it, but they just get crushed when they do.

[Lillipad]

Which is why we improve their muscles and armoring to withstand extreme pressures, and a vacuum. We should also make a special bladder that produces and circulates oxygen throughout the bodies of our creations when there is a lack of oxygen at their locations.

[RAM]

Yep, we really need a proper weapon, we could use mirrors to create a light-based weapon, or use corrosive compounds as an emergency measure. We also have thousands of WOLFTOPI stuck on the ground with nothing to do. Have them discuss philosophy and the nature of existence. We might get lucky and discover antimatter...

[Derekristow]

Create a ship that is nothing more than a bag full of Jethro, and send it into the sphere.  Our most basic form is a shapeless mold.  Can't crush that.

[Lillipad]

I'm pretty sure it can, and probably will. No one else suggest a Jethro Death Star.

[USEC_OFFICER]

Yep, we really need a proper weapon, we could use mirrors to create a light-based weapon, or use corrosive compounds as an emergency measure. We also have thousands of WOLFTOPI stuck on the ground with nothing to do. Have them discuss philosophy and the nature of existence. We might get lucky and discover antimatter...

Err, we absorbed them back into Jethro. After all, we didn't really need them anymore.

Also, are going to invent a super-weapon, or send a fleet at them?

[Lillipad]

Regardless of what we do it would still be useful to make our creations stronger. Develop the hydrogen bomb, then unleash the maniacal Jethro laughter upon the sphere.

[FuzzyZergling]

Toss asteroids at it until to becomes so massive is cannot contol itself properly.
If that seems like a bad idea, then:

Develop the hydrogen bomb, then unleash the maniacal Jethro laughter upon the sphere.

[Argonnek]

Toss asteroids at it until to becomes so massive is cannot contol itself properly.

DO NOT DO THIS!
If this thing works as something like a sentient black hole, which all available evidence suggests it does, it will only get more massive until it envelopes the entire solar system!