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The Old-Evolution-Mind control fungus!

Counter-Evolution-No mind control fungus!

[USEC_OFFICER]

You increase the production output of resources on all your planets, and quickly produce some LAZAHs and Silicoids to reinforce Fleet 1.

While Fleet 1 is being reinforced, Constructor Fleet 2 finishes its construction, and awaits further orders.

FLEET 1: STATIONED AROUND JOSHUA
1 Cephalocarrier
2 Silicoids
3 Jellyminds
3 LAZAHs
4 Cephaloscuttler Bands

SPACE STATION #1: Judicator: IN ORBIT AROUND JOSHUA
Extras: Really giant fricking laser.

CONSTRUCTOR FLEET 2: BETWEEN JETHRO AND BIGGLES
1 Astronomical Orb Weaver.

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: 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.

Name: Generic ship
Propulsion: Elevator: ACCELERATION: 1-5 light seconds/day
Extras: Filled with Primpsks.
100 biomass, 5 Heavy Minerals, 115 Energy

Cephalocarrier:
Propulsion: Jets: ACCELERATION: 1-3 light seconds/day
Extras: Carrier ship
           Heavily armoured
           Smoke screen
           Best sensors we have
           Colour changing skin
           Laser weaponry
Description: 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.
500 biomass, 120 Heavy Minerals, 900 Energy

Jellymind:
Propulsion: None: NEEDS CARRIER SHIP TO MOVE BETWEEN PLANETS
Extras: Support frigate
           High redundancy
           Best sensors we have
           Highly intelligent
           Toxic Tentacles
           Explosive nodules
           Laser weaponry
           Can connect with other ships
Description: 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.
100 biomass, 100 Heavy Minerals, 300 Energy

Cephaloscuttler Band:
Propulsion: Jets: NEEDS CARRIER SHIP TO MOVE BETWEEN PLANETS
Extras: Composed of 10 Fighters
          Heavy fighter armour
          Shoots poison tipped darts
          High strength disabling claws
Description: 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.
100 biomass, 85 Heavy Minerials, 200 Energy

Astronomical Orb Weaver:
Propulsion: Jets: ACCELERATION: 1-3 light seconds/day
Extras: Solar power
           Uses plants and webbing to construct objects.
100 biomas, 20 Heavy Minerials, 200 Energy

Name: LAZAH
Propulsion: Elevator: ACCELERATION: 1-5 light seconds/day
Extras: Attack frigate
           Powerful laser weaponry
           Fusion reactor
           When firing, loudly broadcasts the phrase "SHOOP DA WOOP!" (it was inevitable)           
Description: A hollow cylinder with the entire exterior dedicated to energy production while the interior holds massive energy conversion, laser generators, and lenses.
100 biomass, 150 Heavy Minerals, 400 Energy

Name: Silicoid
Propulsion: Jets: ACCELERATION: 1-3 light seconds/day
Extras: Small carrier ship
           Rock armour
           Fusion reactor
400 biomass (Silicon isn't a heavy mineral), 100 Heavy Minerals, 300 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.

CONNECTED TO BIGGLES BY WEB.

100% COVERAGE BY JETHRO

PRODUCES: 300 biomass
                 180 heavy minerals
                 600 energy
STORAGE: 0 biomass
               0 heavy minerals
               0 energy

BIGGLES (JETHRO'S MOON):
COLD
UNINHABITABLE BY LIFE
ROCKY
SMALL

0.08% COVERAGE BY JETHRO

PRODUCES: 16 biomass
                 40 heavy minerals
                 80 energy
STORAGE: 0 biomass
               30 heavy minerals
               60 energy

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

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

0.05% COVERAGE BY JETHRO

PRODUCES: 50 biomass
                25 heavy minerals
                125 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 Heavy Minerals
                1 energy

STORAGE: 0 biomass
               0 energy

HEPHAESTUS: 50 lm
VERY COLD
UNINHABITABLE BY LIFE
GASSY
LARGE
HAS EIGHT MOONS

CONNECTED TO MOSES BY TRACK.
CONNECTED TO JOSHUA BY TRACK.

JOB (HEPHAESTUS'S MOON):
COLD
UNINHABITABLE BY LIFE
ROCKY
SMALL
CAN HOLD AN ATMOSPHERE.
CONNECTED TO HEPHAESTUS BY TRACK.


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

CONNECTED TO HEPHAESTUS BY TRACK.

[Lillipad]

Build a grabbing mechanism out of solid hydrogen to grab the spheres. Try to capture one once we can to study its build formula.

[breadbocks]

Have a Silicoid try OM-NOM-NOMing a sphere.

[RAM]

Build a deep child, appoint it as our new emissary to the spheres...

[Derekristow]

Actually, haven't we already sent a wave of colony pods/deep children out?

[USEC_OFFICER]

Actually, haven't we already sent a wave of colony pods/deep children out?

Yep. Expect them to do something in 300-1000 years. Slower than light space travel sucks.

Build a grabbing mechanism out of solid hydrogen to grab the spheres. Try to capture one once we can to study its build formula.

And how do you propose that we get solid hydrogen?

[USEC_OFFICER]

Several more spheres float out of JOSHUA. And guess what? They're kinda shiny. Looks like you aren't the only one who understands cause and effect. Luckily, having a Silicoid eating the spheres somehow manages to work. Well, the Silicoids manage to get horribly wounded, but at least the sphere is destroyed. Whatever is left of the sphere forces are easily killed by your laser weaponry.

Now what? (You should get Constructor Fleet 2 working on something.)

[Lillipad]

We have the whole periodic table, we just take some hydrogen then cool it to 14.01 K (-259.14 °C). We can probably use the same technique used for making liquid helium, which requires an even lower temperature.

The process used for liquid helium: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siemens_cycle

[Argonnek]

Use Constructor Fleet 2 to build jumpgate frames. We'll fill the guts when the technology presents itself, but we should have some frames in place to fill to save time later.

[RAM]

I think that it would be handy to build a dyson ring around Joshua before it becomes a star...

[USEC_OFFICER]

You send Constructor Fleet 2 out to construct a Dyson ring around Joshua before it becomes a star. Then, with most of HEPHAESTUS's hydrogen pumped into JOSHUA, you begin to push its moons into it, one by one.

At first, you think that one of your calcuations might have gone wrong. But soon, the cloudcover of JOSHUA begins to roil, as fusion begins to erupt in its heart. The spheres, in an attempt to escape their doom, scatter from JOSHUA. But with HEPHAESTUS all but gone, they have no other place to settle, and you send Fleet 1 to pick off the spheres at their leisure. Eventually, the red dwarf JOSHUA is formed.

The next couple years are spend erecting Dyson spheres around JOSHUA and CAANAN. Asteroids are mined for their resources, and shrouded in darkness, you attempt to design faster than light travel. Despite have a brain that covers an entire planet, you know that it would take many, many years for you to develop faster than light travel. Bending the fabric of space-time is not something that is easily or safely done.

At least, that was what you thought, till a distrubance suddenly appears in front of the Oot cloud. Judging by its emissions, it can only mean one thing.

You have visitors.

[Armok]

Dedicate your portion into imagineing every posibility of what it could be, then carefull hide anything that could posibly ofend any posible sensibility they could posibly have. Secretly, arm yousef to the teeth. Send out a gloriusly beutiful and unarmed diplomasy probe filled with beings as close to angelic as you can make them, again to any posible aste the visitors could have.

[Argonnek]

Do most of Armok's idea, but instead of angellic beings just use primpsks. If we create some sort of angellic superbeing, we'll attract suspicion.

[maxicaxi]

Do most of Armok's idea, but instead of angellic beings just use primpsks. If we create some sort of angellic superbeing, we'll attract suspicion.

[RAM]

Construct a fleet of space-borne boarding critters and mount some lasers and rail-guns on our dyson spheres. Launch the boarding critters but keep them close to our properties for now. I would like to give diplomacy a chance.

Oooooh, try to build a civilisation of Primsks, if they subjugate the Primsks and move on then we can stab them when their backs are turned...

Rules of first contact:
1: At no point should any part of your greeting vessel be travelling directly towards the alien property.
2: Your greeting vessel should not contain anything that you are not willing to give to the aliens.(the Primsks and ship should not be biologically compatible with our own biomass...)
3: Clearly establish and broadcast your rules.(Actively bombard space at our chosen border well before the aliens reach it. In fact, deploy some bombs to our borders now and detonate some of them recreationally)
4: Do not include anything that even looks like an armament in your greeting vessel unless absolutely necessary. (You may need something to defend against asteroids or something.)
5: Have a plan to establish communications. (Navigation is a good place to start, it has well established mathematical rules, can be represented physically, and involves complex relationships.)
6: Have an objective. (An exchange of culture and medical technology((we need to develop some Primsk culture and medical technology)) Genetic data, the recognition of our claim to this system, FTL travel, and what our visitors desire.)