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Pressure-Based (Vacuum/Hydraulic)

Filaments (Standard)

[ashton1993]

I forgot... umm... what I said earlier, I chopped it up a wee bit but same stuff:

We might as well remove all the things such as our flagellum, cilia and photo-receptors from ourselves and move them to the outside where they can be used, we should also try and shrink our personal cytoplasm and cell membrane to add them to the shell.

Once we've built up enough resources we should get rid of the amoebae and focus on more on being a traditional 2 layer multi-celled organism so as to make ourselves more efficient and require much less data processing as well as much improved scalability.

[Tidal]

Turn 17

     You release a small quantity of membrane eaters into your own cell, dissolving your cellular membrane and completely integrating you with the former amoeba. You are now one organism, and a heck of a lot bigger than you used to be. You also commandeer a boatload of Glucose from the former occupant's vacuoles and recycle a bunch of Fat from the cell membranes.

     You place the photoreceptors on the underside of the silicon plates and modify half of the amoeba's pseuodpods into enzyme injectors and the other half into flagella. The new additions are evenly dispersed over the orb of the amoeba. Meanwhile, the cilia are embedded in the spaces between the silicon and everything is hooked up to the processor. You also burn some of your new Glucose to make up for much of the Energy you lost.

     The cilia are hooked up just in time to feel another vibration in the water. A wave of forces passes through you and much of the debris around you shifts about. The light above dims slightly, then flickers, before returning to its original state. ((No, you are not in a soda.))

Spoiler: Cell Status (click to show/hide)

Common Name: Lifespark
Scientific Name: Vitascinti basus
Sentience: 8/10
Number of Cells: 1
Size: ≈30 μm
Energy: 38

Spoiler: Cell Organelles (click to show/hide)

Basic -> Improved -> Complex
Basic Cytoplasm
Basic Cytoskeleton
Complex Flagellum
Basic Enzyme Injector (Basic Organelle and Membrane Eating Enzymes)
Improved Membrane
Basic Ribosomes
Basic Sensory & Chemical Cilia
Basic Mitochondria
Basic Nucleus
Basic Photoreceptor
Basic Cell Wall
Basic Data Processing Organelle (with Labeling System)
Basic Contractile Vacuole
Basic Nutrient Harvester (Harvesting Silicon)
Improved Silicon Armor

Spoiler: Materials (click to show/hide)

DNA: 7
RNA: 4
Amino Acids: 31
Fat: 18
Glucose: 70

Spoiler: Nearby (click to show/hide)

A field of ice chunks.

A nearby fungal colony.

[NRDL]

Head to colony, keep defenses up.  Can we move out of water?

[Ibid Straydrink]

My question is, how far are you willing to take this, Edio? Could we say, go up to the Space Age? 

[NRDL]

My question is, how far are you willing to take this, Edio? Could we say, go up to the Space Age? 

That's a Looooooooooooong way away.  We're not even a multi-cellular creature, yet. 

[Ibid Straydrink]

I like to plan ahead. 

[Roboboy33]

Search for food

[RAM]

Reinforce the silicon layers beneath the enzyme injectors so that they can be broken off without harming the rest of our substance.

[Tidal]

My question is, how far are you willing to take this, Edio? Could we say, go up to the Space Age? 

I don't see why not. Of course, most of you don't seem to want to be a multicellular creature.

[RAM]

Once we have enveloped the entire planet we can propel our glorious single cellular selves across the universe!

[Tidal]

Envelop... The... Entire Planet!?

You require more Fat.

You must build additional Cytoplasm.

[Armok]

We should totally become something like this eventually: http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/watts_01_10/

> eat fungus

> develop some more permanent, reinforced and much longer pseudopods (maybe 50 μm long and 1 μm radius), which can be moved around by motor proteins inside them controlled by the processor, and have adhesive proteins on the end that can be turned on and of by the processor. There will let us manipulate objects much faster and more exactly then before. 

[NRDL]

We should totally become something like this eventually: http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/watts_01_10/

> eat fungus

> develop some more permanent, reinforced and much longer pseudopods (maybe 50 μm long and 1 μm radius), which can be moved around by motor proteins inside them controlled by the processor, and have adhesive proteins on the end that can be turned on and of by the processor. There will let us manipulate objects much faster and more exactly then before.

I'm no microbiologist, so I'll just go with what Armok said. 

[Tidal]

You don't need to be a microbiologist. Say spikes, and I can find a way to give ye spikes.

[Armok]

This is more nanotechnology than microbiology anyway, but the actual difference is a bit fuzzy.