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[Immortal]

You issue the orders to begin building your ascending chamber, you decide the best place for it to be attached would be the north side. Your current plans are only one entrance from the main chamber, which is where the control will be to lift the center platform out the top. You agree on a roof that rolls back hooked to metal arcs which rotate out as the platform raises. You send the plans to the nanites to begin working on it and continue to think of other options.

You begin to worry of the amount of dust. The R-011s report that they are only gathering half the amount on a full charge as they could before. You have amassed more then needed for your current consumption, though the completion of the lift chamber will use all of your current stocks. You see several R-010s dragging their M-001 brethren. One of the R-010s has already started a hole into the wall. The M-001s are slid into it one by one, they begin digging out the next chamber. The steel is being deposited on the surface in a pile. You receive a schematic from the R-015s. Though we may be low on carbon, we have more steel then we can use.

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EMS Magnification Sensor
Requirements: 60 Steel
              100 Carbon
              20 Silicon
Ability: Interpretation of the electromagnetic radiation from
a specific spot, giving the ability to see infrared and visible light


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R-001 x1    R-015 x12   M-001 x4   
R-010 x10   F-001 x1
R-011 x3    F-011 x2    EMTC x3

Block of Steel x89
Carbon Sheets x22
Silicon x3


Are people just not interested in this? Or is everyone hooked on pixels now?

[Loud Whispers]

I'm just flooded with threads - not read yet, threads I'm running and what-not

Perhaps we should seek alternative resources for our diminishing current stocks? (Or you know, to make more... Fun schematics ^_^)

[Armok]

> maybe design something that uses electricity to grab carbon from CO2? (releasing oxygen in the proccess)

[Loud Whispers]

> maybe design something that uses electricity to grab carbon from CO2? (releasing oxygen in the proccess)

+1

[Roboboy33]

I'm not suggesting because I cant understand.

[woose1]

Well, steel by its own nature contains carbon. We could probably design a forge to melt down the alloys we have around us into their component parts, which would be more efficient in the long run as we'd be getting iron, among other things, as well.

[Immortal]

I'm not suggesting because I cant understand.

Learn! Physics is phun! You can learn if you want. Seriously though, you can suggest stuff, just say we should build a flying mobile fortress or whatever makes sense to do, just don't go into huge detail so the others or I can fill in the complicated bits. Your also on the Bay12 forums, most of us are more then willing to explain or point you in the proper direction.

[Loud Whispers]

Build a fast transport system in a random direction that way?

(To look for more carbon of course).

[Immortal]

Ill give some setting explanation with all I have described condensed. though I will not actually say where you are, due to you are nanites!. No actual turn.
The nanites are currently situated in an enormous(to the nanites) rectangular tunnel of about 6". The area is sterile, we can assume this due to lack of bacteria you should be encountering. Both ends of this tunnel have a straight drop after the edge. One edge has a high amount of visible light and vertical metal sheets spaced evenly across the entrance. The other edge is dark and open, the nanites have detected air current beyond the edge and a very faint uplink signal.

Build a fast transport system in a random direction that way?

You mean "that way" as in how you should suggest things? or "that way" as in the direction the nanites are going looking for dust, because there isnt a ton of dust left, though building a changing station out there may help and be moved later?

[Loud Whispers]

That sums things up pretty well

[Immortal]

I will reward my completion of calculus with an update (: Also I work far far better at 1am. Night.

You go inside the hanger and discover it is almost complete, the lift system is left to be hooked up and the lift platform raised for it to be brought together. You have no cranes though, but you will have an army of nanites hopefully.. You climb out to the surface and find the area quite barren of any hanging carbon particles. You decide you need a method to collect more and set the R-015s to work on designing a new way, you leave them with the idea of heating CO2 so that entropy may split the atoms on their own. You leave them the job of designing the building to do such an insane idea.

You look out into the vast steel landscape infront of you and see a tower being erected in the distance. Over the uplink you receive a report that the R-011s and R-010s have build a proxy EMTC so they may collect longer. You head back in the base and give the R-015s their new job. As you do so you notice an increase in nanites. You find they have built 5 more R-010s.

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R-001 x1    R-015 x12   M-001 x4   
R-010 x15   F-001 x1
R-011 x3    F-011 x2    EMTC x5

Block of Steel x122
Carbon Sheets x15
Silicon x5


[Loud Whispers]

^{Is there any other 1.am?}

Also, while they're building the proxy collector, perhaps we should start exploring?

[Immortal]

The nanites have explored already in an attempt to find more dust, though they have run into ledge both sides of this tunnel, and the other sides are very high walls which just run right into the ceiling. The last thing they encountered was in the Post #92

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Time: 21:42:76:12
From: R-011 Group (Dust Collection)
Dust collection is slowing. Found something of interest, upon looking
farther from nest for dust we have located an edge opposite the edge
with high visible light. It follows a sheer face down. Most interesting
is the weak uplink signal we have detected, communication is
impossible, even with our collective boost to our sensor range. Other
sensor reports show moving gas beyond edge.
Scan shows [78% N2 | 21% O2 | 0.9% Ar | 0.03% CO2]


And before that the nanites have detected organic lifeforms beyond the other edge with the light. Though I can't find the quote for that..

[Immortal]

Well finals are in two weeks and I need to study. So I call this dead, since no one really cares much anyways. I may be back later on with another version or something. Cya round.

[kaian-a-coel]

you should re-start this later, but at a similiar stage we're there. just sayin'