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[Demonic Spoon]

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Reconfigure and try again.

[Armok]

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You go back and follow the tutorials instructions for configuring a body again, and then retry entering the Fly simulation. The exact some thing happens, apparently it wasn't just a configuration error.

[Demonic Spoon]

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Search for info on:

Sloth-GParm-826-8
Fly-recog-248-4
Moth-recog-249-6
Amoeba-elFab-462-4
Fern-routr-094-2

[Armok]

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 Search... Ok, you don't even have to serch, you just click them in the Robots window you found erlier and read the short description. Remember that one?

Sloth-GParm-826-8: The probe's general purpose arms, they look about a meter long and branch in all sorts of manipulators.
Fly-recog-248-4: a small flying sensor platform
Moth-recog-249-6: a larger, less flexible but longer range sensor drone
Amoeba-elFab-462-4: anamorphic robot for making/maintaining stuff, on-site fabrication, chemistry, and electronics primarily
Fern-routr-094-2: a deployable solar cell, communications relay, and charging station, and a few other things.

 ((There are links to more info but I wont type that out unless I need to. Also, remember that list was just examples of what kind of names there were, there are many I didn't mention.))

[Demonic Spoon]

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Ah, okay.

Take control of a Amoeba-elFab-462-4, if neccessar do a simulation fist. If unable to take direct control try to get some sort of automated system to unobstruct the solar array hatch.

[Armok]

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You CAN take control directly, it's just strongly recommended that you practice in a simulation first, proceed anyway or train first?

[Demonic Spoon]

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Do simulation first.

[Armok]

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Amoeba-elFab-462-4 has the basic structure of a sack or bladder. It has a thick stretchy skin of artificial muscle and solidifying walls, and contain an elastic sack which can be inflated or deflated to change volume. This means shape and size can vary vastly, but it weights about 120 grams and can at max inflate to a 30 in diameter sphere. It also contains a soft chemistry lab on the inside, linked to printing heads and secreters on the outside, and the entire surface is covered in sensitive tactile and chemical sensors. It's capable of squeezing throguth very narow gaps, and even operate in them. It's softness makes it able to work directly onto sensitive equipment withoute harming it, and it can use it's body to plug holes as it goes through hem alowing it to work with things that have no acces and can not tolerate contact with the enviroment. It's can tolerate extremely hostile chemical, temperature and pressure environments, but isn't built for taking physical punishment. It other features are mostly to technical and specialized to be worth mentioning right now.

The instant you enter the sim, you inflate yourself like a beachball by mistake. OW.
You reset...

10 minutes subjective time later, you still haven't gotten any closer to figuring out how to crawl forward or make sense of the huge amount of touch sensations you get from it. This is just to different from anything you've done before, and effi'n hard.

[Demonic Spoon]

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Search for some sort of automated system to unobstruct the solar array hatch.

[Argembarger]

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cd opt/kde
Browse for apps regarding human structures on the Martian surface

[Armok]

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A simple search for "automatic unobstruction of solar array hatch" dosn't find anything.

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You find a crappy ancient scifi game, and nothing else with that.

[Demonic Spoon]

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Train in a simulation with the Fern-routr-094-2.

[Armok]

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 It is not kineticMind compatible. probably because it has no actuators and almost no sensors.

[Demonic Spoon]

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...

RAEG!

Look fo a robot I can actually use.

[Argembarger]

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finger -l Demonic_Spoon
search for a colonizer probe or something
oh god I'm so lost in this game
become existential