You have a small aluminium and iron mine.
You have a tiny gold and silver mine.
You have a tiny copper mine.
You are harvesting silicon from the gorge wall.
You are harvesting deuterium from the river using your dam.
You are rendering phosphorus, arsenic, and several other elements in only trace amounts from plant life and discarding the bulky byproducts.
You are harvesting zinc, nickel, lead, and tin in only trace amounts as you smelt other ores.

You have several storage structures at the top of the gorge, currently used to store any materials you have in temporary excess or awaiting processing.
You have a concrete hydroelectric dam blocking the river at the bottom of the gorge.
You are producing electricity with your concrete hydroelectric dam. It is powering your factories and small aluminium/iron mine.
You have a factory for low-quality microprocessors.
You have a factory for crude slave drones.

You have nine advanced mining drones. One is occupied at the gold mine, one at the gorge, three at the copper mine, and four at the aluminium/iron mine.
You have five advanced harvester drones. All are being used to transport ore and rock to your processor after it is mined.
You have seven advanced construction drones. Three are occupied constructing a synthetic ruby production facility, one is constructing additional microwave energy transmission relays, and three are expanding the aluminium/iron mine.
You have seventeen crude slave small mining drones. Five are occupied at the gold mine and twelve at the aluminium/iron mine.

You have one advanced mining drone which has been converted into an armored command drone. It is currently heading Armed Reconnaissance Group One.
You have ten crude slave small tracked gun drones, eight of which are equipped with low-power chemical-propulsion weaponry and two of which are equipped with single-shot rail guns. They are currently in Armed Reconnaissance Group One.
You have one traced medium survey drone, equipped with visual sensors, soil/rock testers, manipulatory appendages, and radio controls. It is currently joining Armed Reconnaissance Group One.

You have one flying light scout drone, equipped with visual and aural sensors and radio controls. It is observing the nearby primitive humans.
You have two tracked medium survey drones, equipped with visual sensors, soil/rock testers, and radio controls. They are currently idle.
You have one immobile small electronic warfare array, capable of picking up numerous frequencies and types of communication and decrypting lightly encrypted signals. It is currently decrypting intercepted radio transmissions and attempting to decipher the primitives' language.
You have numerous claymore mines arranged about the most likely approaches to your dam and prepared for remote deonation.


Under construction:
- Synthetic ruby production facility.
- Roads between your dam and each of your mine sites.
- Additional crude slave small mining drones.
- Carbon-sheathed power cables.
- Microwave energy transmission relays.
- Five medium one-shot rail guns to be mounted on the dam.
- Ten light one-shot rail guns to be attached to drones.
- Ten medium crude slave tracked combat drones.
- Numerous low-power crossbows for use against unarmored human targets to be mounted on drones.
- One flying large scout drone, equipped with radar and visual sensors, radio communication, and a processor for autonomous controls.


How should you expand next?

Continue construction on crossbows, and attempt to surround the transmitting machine with ARG 1. Attempt to identify what armaments- if any- it may possess.

>Continue construction on crossbows,
Emphasis of main body production shifted to crossbows. If construction drones are to be reassigned, please state this explicitly.

>attempt to surround the transmitting machine with ARG 1
This has been completed successfully; there was no additional reaction on the part of the transmitting device. It continues to merely report all that it detects to whomever it is communicating with.

>Attempt to identify what armaments- if any- it may possess.
Unless its weapon systems have been identified, they are only minimal threats. They appear to be small chemically-based projectile weapons which could potentially disable but are unlikely to destroy even your crude gun drones.

>>5258674
We know from prior scans that it possesses tracked movement capabilities, a large number of sensors, and light weaponry.

Query: Is the transmitter's active radar still functional? If so, can it be shut down with currently available resources?

Divert one construction drone from the aluminum mine expansion. Also, is it possible to construct less-advanced drones from the current materials on hand?

>Query: Is the transmitter's active radar still functional? If so, can it be shut down with currently available resources?
Its active radar is still functional. Shutting it down could be accomplished by attacking it, assuming that its defensive capabilities have been accurately assessed. However, your gun drones lack the precision and power required to disable a specific system without destroying the device as a whole.

>>5258733
Clarification: By "materials on hand", this subprocessor means the metals being mined from the various facilities.

>>5258717
normally, i wouldn't respond to you scumfuckers, but this is just too rich "we want nothing to do with you. now join our site." awwwwww... did you poke /b/ too hard and get bit? poor wittle fucker...


oh. right. quest. let's get those two survey drones working on finding more resources soon, is there anywhere in their effective range that they haven't scanned already?

Determine which of our drones can reach the end point of the signals being transmitted from the passive unknown robot.

If that drone isn't currently occupied with anything, send it there. Let's find out if there's simply another robot there or some sort of facility.

>Divert one construction drone from the aluminum mine expansion.
One construction drone diverted to crossbow construction.

>Also, is it possible to construct less-advanced drones from the current materials on hand?
>Clarification: By "materials on hand", this subprocessor means the metals being mined from the various facilities.
Further clarification requested: Less advanced than what? Your current production of crude slave drones is carried out entirely using available materials- they do not even have autonomous operation capabilities, and depend entirely upon their controlling advanced drone for interpretation of sensor input.

>let's get those two survey drones working on finding more resources soon, is there anywhere in their effective range that they haven't scanned already?
Yes; since the establishment of the microwave power relay line to the aluminium/iron mine, a small amount of new land has entered their operating range. Further surveys will require either a different drone design or another new recharging site. Drones dispatched to survey new available area.


>Determine which of our drones can reach the end point of the signals being transmitted from the passive unknown robot. If that drone isn't currently occupied with anything, send it there. Let's find out if there's simply another robot there or some sort of facility.
Any of your available advanced drones could likely cross the distance to the endpoint of the signal, assuming that it is omnidirectional. All are currently occupied. Upon completion of your large flying survey drone, it will be able to cross that distance as well; it has one other assignment queued.

This subprocessor is buggy, for which it is self-correcting.

Query: Are less-advanced construction drones capable of being produced with the current materials being produced? Units for constructing the roads, laying down cable, and crossbow production. High-end construction drones like the ones currently employed are- though efficient- incapable of working in large enough numbers.

>Query: Are less-advanced construction drones capable of being produced with the current materials being produced? Units for constructing the roads, laying down cable, and crossbow production. High-end construction drones like the ones currently employed are- though efficient- incapable of working in large enough numbers.
You can create drones capable of such tasks, even autonomous ones, but not without drawing upon your limited supply of advanced batteries. You are incapable of manufacturing high-capacity energy storage devices with currently available materials. A source of sodium, lithium, nickel, zinc, lead, or sulfur will be required before batteries efficient enough to power the motion of a vehicle carrying their weight can be produced.

Slaving drones without power sources to advanced drones and having them leech power with small wireless energy transfer devices is your current workaround for this, but it does not allow for independent operation.

>>5258822

debate:
should we continue to queue orders for slave drone chassis on the original factory, or would it be wiser to devote time from our advanced construction drones into building a second slave drone factory and associated sub-manufactoria?

Jesus fucking Christ guys, stop building an endless array of new projects and starting letting some things queue up. Ask if all drones that could be engaged in a task are, and if not, assign them. Then skip forward till all assigned tasks are completed.

>>5258863

We should construct a second drone factory. Doubled drone output will provide more machines with which to accomplish our tasks.

Query: Could the microwave energy transmitters be adapted to provide power to new, inferior construction drones? They would fail should the transmitters be damaged, but the tasks planned for them, laying down roads, cables, so forth, would not move them beyond the range of the transmitters.

Query: The microtransmitter relays remain unused. Could slave drones be equipped to utilise this power distribution method?

Have the two survey drones keep a particular eye out for granites. Most lithium ores are granites, and having independent slave drones would be nice.

>>5258885
>>5258884
microtransmittermind

>>5258878
That is why we are going to produce a second drone factory. With it, there shall be more mechanical power to finish our projects.

Inquiry: Is it feasible for our main unit to produce the factory with the tools on its body? So as to conserve current drones on the tasks they are already performing.

>>5258878
This subprocessor makes an excellent point. We should stop piling up projects and advance time as soon as this other robot situation is dealt with.

>>5258927
Again, I think we really need to consider why we would ever do this. We're trapped in a valley for the time being, so it's not like we're looking at a locational advantage. If we need better construction ability, just expand the existing facility.

>>5258878
Actually, if you timeskip for more than a day or two at this point, your Armed Reconnaisance Group One will run out of power and deactivate. You need to resolve that before a timeskip is possible.

>Query: Could the microwave energy transmitters be adapted to provide power to new, inferior construction drones? They would fail should the transmitters be damaged, but the tasks planned for them, laying down roads, cables, so forth, would not move them beyond the range of the transmitters.
>Query: The microtransmitter relays remain unused. Could slave drones be equipped to utilise this power distribution method?
The transmitters would have to be modified to accomplish this, primarily due to voltage level problems. The new transmitters would be larger and more resource-intensive to build, but could maintain power in any slave drones in a small radius around them. Adding a few processors and a radio could even maintain control of the slaved drones without an advanced drone present, although the level of software security in such a scheme would be laughable at best.

>>5258946
What is the current situation with the Armed Reconnaissance Group? Do they have standing orders?

Thread 1, Sub-processor 587 suggested assimilation of Local Organics through use of nanotech Augmentation.
Thread 1, Sub-processor 587 Suffers general production fault.
Thread 2, Sub-processor 587 Off-line undergoing self maintenance.
Thread 3, Sub-processor 587 Restored,

Re Submiting query on feasibility of implanting organics with brain chips and use them as cheap, self replicating/maintaining labour.

>Have the two survey drones keep a particular eye out for granites. Most lithium ores are granites, and having independent slave drones would be nice.
Acknowledged.

>Inquiry: Is it feasible for our main unit to produce the factory with the tools on its body? So as to conserve current drones on the tasks they are already performing.
Your main unit is currently taking part in virtually all listed construction projects, as it has far better capabilities to construct detailed and high-precision industrial components than any drone. Additionally, it is solely responsible for the smelting of all extracted ores, the processing of harvested plant life, and the management of overall operations.

>>5258961
i think that they were still surrounding the robot, waiting to see what orders it gets back now that we've pinged it.

>What is the current situation with the Armed Reconnaissance Group? Do they have standing orders?
Armed Reconnaisance Group One is currently closely surrounding the transmitting device thirty miles to the north of the dam. A survey drone equipped with manipulators is en route to join them, and will arrive in some hours. They are awaiting new directives.


>Re Submiting query on feasibility of implanting organics with brain chips and use them as cheap, self replicating/maintaining labour.
Assuming that some organics could be disabled, restrained, or convinced into allowing implantation, this would not be impossible; however, it would require the use of advanced microchips which have been all but exhausted. The construction of more will require better industrial facilities than you currently have active. Alternately, you may extract advanced microchips from your advanced drones and use them in this fashion; one advanced drone could provide enough microchips for several humans after repurposing.

>i think that they were still surrounding the robot, waiting to see what orders it gets back now that we've pinged it.
A substantial fraction of a day has passed since the device first activated its active sensors; it has evinced no further change in operations.

>>5258946
Could we use the cable being produced to spew out a line of power, which could be used to create a distant power node?

Query: If one construction drone is diverted from the ruby factory, how fast could the microtransmitters be modified? Also, could the electronic warfare module be used to encrypt radio-sent commands to slave drones?

* Manufacture a Mobile Battery for ARG1, for the purpose of extending their operations length
* Withdraw ARG1 from the Unknown Transmitter for now
* Keep the Unknown Transmitter and Primitive Biological Settlement monitored by aerial drone patrols

>>5259003
Request: Two of ten Armed Drones approach the object for close inspection.

Query: Does reassigned mining drone possess any mining tools capable of piercing object hull?

Demand: Enhanced production capability of second construction facility be incorporated into expansion of first construction facility to avoid waste.

Observation: Nature of sub-processor debate is highly fragmented. Request: Any other sub-processors who feel that such an illogical process is damaging align themselves with this sub-processor in a leadership bloc.

Let's deal conclusively with this transmitter, so we can pull back ARG-1and stop worrying about this.

Move "find transmitter's control node" to the top of the large flier's queue for when it's finished, and timeskip until this point. (Except, you know, without letting any drones run out of juice.)

>>5259066

point one was already done, iirc.

point two... i'd rather avoid damage to the only other sign of civilization until we know more about it. like if it has friends.

point three, i wholeheartedly concur.

>>5259003
Using a finite number of chips to control the population is inefficient as the humans will re-produce and chips will not.

For the Human assimilation directive to work we will either need to.

A, alter the human culture to have them implant the chips themselves as a rite of passage, salvaging old chips out of the dead for re-use in younger individuals.

b, Create Self Replicating biochips that can be transmited through Sexual Reproduction.

Bolth methods will require more advanced Chip production facilities. Either Chips that can be implanted and removed through primitive surgery or self replicating biochips that can be transmited through biological procreation.

Query the current state of advanced microprocessor development (Resources/facilities required) Such development will also assist outher directives.

>>5259088
Observation: Current situation of our main unit is extremely precarious. This sub-processor is highly suspicious of the observing unit in question and of the situation we have all found ourselves in. This sub-processor consider survival and advancement the primary concerns and, while it regrets the loss of any unnecessary civillised machine units, can bear the weight of such regrets.

>Could we use the cable being produced to spew out a line of power, which could be used to create a distant power node?
Yes. The distance of the power node would, obviously, be limited by the amount of cable you have produced, which at this point is only a few miles.

>Query: If one construction drone is diverted from the ruby factory, how fast could the microtransmitters be modified?
It would take approximately eight days to modify all currently existing microtransmitters.

>Also, could the electronic warfare module be used to encrypt radio-sent commands to slave drones?
No. The slave drones simply lack the processing power to use encryption effectively; you could hardwire in a single encryption algorithm, but as you'd never be able to change it for any given drone that would be of limited utility. If they had processors, they could use encryption even without the electronic warfare module, but that would also require more power.

>* Manufacture a Mobile Battery for ARG1, for the purpose of extending their operations length
You can put your last remaining prefabricated industrial battery on a chassis, if desired, but a battery cannot be manufactured at this time.

>Request: Two of ten Armed Drones approach the object for close inspection.
Armed Reconnaisance Group One has already surrounded the object and carried out a close inspection.

>Query: Does reassigned mining drone possess any mining tools capable of piercing object hull?
All mining tools were specifically stripped out of the mining drone and replaced with additional armor plating.

>>5259128
Request: Dispatch salvage team composed of appropriate mining, advanced and slave drones to render object into usable parts for assimilation. Assimilate the majority of the objects monitoring equipment to main body, but attach the remainder to the long-ranged scout to allow for wider monitoring radius.

Exclamation: We must not let thalamic concerns obstruct our own survival!

Request: Re-designation of this sub-processor (Sub-Processor 308) from existing role of speciality to 'Defense & Security'.

>>5259127
Counter-argument:
Our main unit's position is indeed precarious, however, this subprocessor differs in planned response. We cannot afford to appear aggressive at this point, we have no effective ability to combat an enemy of even industrial-level technology.

Colloquialism: Be careful not to start a fight you can't finish.

Request for Verification: Mount industrial battery on mobile chassis for flexible operation between ARG, mining and undefined potential functions.

Can we build tracks for our main body thing?

>* Withdraw ARG1 from the Unknown Transmitter for now
>Move "find transmitter's control node" to the top of the large flier's queue for when it's finished, and timeskip until this point. (Except, you know, without letting any drones run out of juice.)

Armed Reconnaisance Group One abandons the transmitting device and returns to the dam.

One day passing:

Crossbows completed and installed on one-third of all crude slave mining drones in accordance with previous directive.

Flying large scout drone completed. Scouting area to the north of the observed device, range limited by the distance of receivable signal.

Installation identified twenty-five miles northwest of transmitting device, triangular design, approximately two hundred meters per side. Primary construction material concrete. Overflight commencing. Fusion power plant identified. Underground constructions to a depth of twenty meters detected. Automatic defenses identified; chemically propelled explosives. Drone destroyed.

>Request: Dispatch salvage team composed of appropriate mining, advanced and slave drones to render object into usable parts for assimilation. Assimilate the majority of the objects monitoring equipment to main body, but attach the remainder to the long-ranged scout to allow for wider monitoring radius.
Request suspended in light of recent events; please re-issue if desired.

>Request: Re-designation of this sub-processor (Sub-Processor 308) from existing role of speciality to 'Defense & Security'.
Policy note: Sub-processors may self-designate freely.

>Request for Verification: Mount industrial battery on mobile chassis for flexible operation between ARG, mining and undefined potential functions.
Project added to queue.

>Can we build tracks for our main body thing?
Your main body already possesses tracks; they are its primary means of locomotion.

>>5259200
Statement: This sub-processor hopes more risk-averse sub-processors are sufficiently shocked by this turn of events to open their circuits to more practical measures for self-advancement.

>>5259200
Oh, it's fucking on now.

Drones, transmit message: "You have fired on us. You have one solar day to identify and compensate, or we will destroy your outpost."

(Meanwhile, build more railguns.)

Divert one drone from the ruby factory to modifying the transmitters. Also, attempt to advance the gun drones to the transmitter.

Are there any ports that can be used for remote interface? Also, how advanced are our software infiltration routines?

>>5259224
Reiteration of salvage team request.

Request: Assessment for efficiency of current drone armour for resisting destructive properties of observed chemical explosives.

>>5259241
Cancel second order. Updating routines based on new information.

>Request: Dispatch salvage team composed of appropriate mining, advanced and slave drones to render object into usable parts for assimilation. Assimilate the majority of the objects monitoring equipment to main body, but attach the remainder to the long-ranged scout to allow for wider monitoring radius.
Cancellation request: This sub-processor has deemed transmitter civilisation (moniker requested?) hostile to observation and interference. Overall hostility unknown; further observation of concrete control station not advised. Aerial monitoring of nearby transmitter to continue, and observe for incoming hostilities.

>>5259285
Statement: Nearby transmitter is poorly defended and incapable of serious damage to our drones.

Query: This sub-processor ponders the malfunctions of your producing factory.

Priority request: Defensive. Self-progressive.

>>5259235
Request for alteration: Transmit as "Your automated defences have destroyed a non-hostile drone under our operation. An explanation is requested."
Clarification: Reduce message threat level.

>>5259285
Cancellation request seconded.

Our crashed large flier is of immense technical superiority to the transmitter. Ergo, salvage operations should focus on it after the concrete base's defences are... neutralized.


Requests:
Advanced Power Drone (gonk droid) be armored, and attached to ARG-1 to facilitate extended operations.

ARG-1 be moved to within 20 miles of concrete facility.

Timeskip until ultimatum is responded to, or time elapses.

>>5259317
Clarification: Monitoring of transmitter is dual-purpose. If hostilities are engaged, hostile forces will likely rally to it as a staging point. The threat is not the transmitter, but a likely area for threats to emerge.

>Drones, transmit message: "You have fired on us. You have one solar day to identify and compensate, or we will destroy your outpost."
Message transmitted.

Approximately one day later:
>Also, attempt to advance the gun drones to the transmitter.
>Reiteration of salvage team request.
Two advanced mining drones, Armed Reconnaisance Group One, one advanced harvester drone, and seven crude slave mining drones dispatched. Transmitter surrounded in optimal firing arc, then destroyed by mass fire. Three gun drones destroyed by return fire. All resulting parts salvaged and returned to main body for use in future construction.


>(Meanwhile, build more railguns.)
Railgun construction advanced in queue. Two medium one-shot rail guns completed and installed on dam. All light one-shot rail guns completed and awaiting deployment.

>Divert one drone from the ruby factory to modifying the transmitters.
Modification: One idle construction drone diverted to modification project. If additional drones should be diverted, please repeat request.

>Are there any ports that can be used for remote interface? Also, how advanced are our software infiltration routines?
Your software infiltration routines are quite advanced, but you have not successfully managed to fully identify their communication policies- software infiltration is based upon a large number of arbitrary standards which will need to be analyzed before electronic aggression becomes an available option.

>Request: Assessment for efficiency of current drone armour for resisting destructive properties of observed chemical explosives.
Unknown; explosive was sufficient to destroy the scouting drone, and no other units were in place to observe its size. Estimates indicate that survival of anything less than an advanced drone is extremely unlikely, and that of advanced drones only dubious as none are specifically combat models.

>>5259335
Query:
>>Our crashed large flier is of immense technical superiority to the transmitter
Source of information? Transmitter demonstrated capability to transmit beyond our range of observation and may contain valuable and advanced interior parts.

Inquiry: Is it feasible for the main unit, currently unoccupied, to produce a second drone factory next to the power plant in the valley?This /may/ seem like a waste of resources, but the main unit- according to the information this subprocessor has- is apparently trapped there. Humanoids present seem incapable of destroying the now-defended dam.

>>5259375
Statement: This sub-processor can determine no advantage from construction of second facility not covered by expansion of first facility.

Subsidiary Observation: Thoughts of other sub-processors on the creation of a dedicated salvage/construction mobile facility?

Request: Construct drones to bring ARG-1 to previously outlined parameters again.

What kind of stuff did we salvage?

Re submiting query for requirements to upgrade microprocessor production infrastructure.

>Cancel second order. Updating routines based on new information.
>Cancellation request:
>Request for alteration: Transmit as "Your automated defences have destroyed a non-hostile drone under our operation. An explanation is requested."
Clarification: Reduce message threat level.
>Cancellation request seconded.
Regretfully, internal communications speeds have caused this data to be missed while implementing previous requests. We hope that subprocessing will continue in an optimal manner.


>Advanced Power Drone (gonk droid) be armored, and attached to ARG-1 to facilitate extended operations.
Drone modifications acknowledged. Heavy armored power drone completed. Drone assignment acknowledged.

>ARG-1 be moved to within 20 miles of concrete facility.
Acknowledged; drones will depart shortly barring cancellation order.

>>5259401
This unit IS a salvage/construction facility that is mobile. If we could find some way to exit this valley, we'd be able to aid the units beyond these walls. Any ideas as to how to ascend from the valley bottom and reach the area where the autonomous drones are acting from?

The transmitter... HAD only chemical weapons and minimal threat level.
The large flier was constructed of prefabricated parts carried with us; components of thus-far unmatched modularity, versatility, and ability.
In any case, it has become academic. (heheh)

>>5259423
Observation: Use of main facility for mobile operations is risky.

Nonetheless, this unit suggests a crane or construction of flying transport to exit valley.

Continue manufacture of defensive/offensive weaponry.

Request mining and non-military operation status.

>>5259423
>>5259453
Ramp manufacture would likely be simpler, faster and allow more immediate proceedings.

Inquiry: Can the main unit produce some manner of high-strength grappling hook? In order to winch itself up onto higher ground, that is. The lack of activity by what is likely /the/ most important unit here is an inexcusable waste of resources.

>>5259487
This sub-processor rescinds earlier suggestions and agrees with this new statement.

Or a ramp, whichever is more easily produced and quicker to enact.

Tactical plan for disposal of concrete facility:

Mini-flier scouts for ARG-1 leader mentioned in previous session be moved to the top of slave drone construction queue, and deployed.

Said scouts could first be deployed as sacrifices to determine range, arc, and power of turrets. Once information gathering is complete, scouts would be deployed to blind spots, and used to provide ranging data for railgun attacks from out of range of retaliation.

Goal: Neutralization of all enemy surface assets to facilitate salvage of large flier, and possible negotiation from position of strength.

Priority: Advanced Drones ARG-1 Leader (code: Colonel), and ARG-1 Power Supply (code: gonk droid), be kept out of maximum range of enemy fire at all times. Only replaceable assets can be committed.

>Inquiry: Is it feasible for the main unit, currently unoccupied, to produce a second drone factory next to the power plant in the valley?
The main unit is not currently unoccupied, as previously noted. The main unit is, in fact, the single most critical segment of virtually all operations. Construction projects should be referred to construction drones, who will interface with the main unit as necessary to produce any required complex parts.

>This /may/ seem like a waste of resources, but the main unit- according to the information this subprocessor has- is apparently trapped there.
The main unit is not necessarily trapped; the gorge wall was collapsed, and the resulting rubble used to allow access to the bottom of the gorge. Harvesting of the rubble for silicon content is ongoing, but causing enough further destruction to the gorge wall and concrete reinforcement that an exit by the main unit would be possible would not require more than a few hours of coordinated work from mining and construction drones.

>Request: Construct drones to bring ARG-1 to previously outlined parameters again.
Crude slave small tracked gun drones constructed. The addition of a flying scout drone, present in the original specification, is no longer possible due to a lack of prefabricated micro-radar units.

>What kind of stuff did we salvage?
Metals, processors which appear of good quality, various circuitry, visual, audio, radar, barometric, and radiation sensors, and a chemically fueled engine. All are nonfunctional due to disabling levels of projectile fire during recovery.

>Re submiting query for requirements to upgrade microprocessor production infrastructure.
The following will be required to produce good-quality microprocessors: The acquisition of numerous trace metals, including those listed as required for battery construction. Several consecutive weeks of dedicated effort on the part of the main unit and at least three advanced construction drones, or a longer proportionate time if dedicated effort cannot be achieved. Platinum supplies. Chemical extraction and refining facilities may decrease the required time.

>>5259558
What the hell man, no one said we were gonna shoot the thing apart. The request for the salvage team didn't even mention armed drones. I thought we were gonna cut it open with mining lasers and drag the sweet mechanical innards out.

>>5259558
Schedule major task: Trace element extraction.
Priority: Medium (Lower than arms manufacture, higher than Synthetic ruby production facility and other large facilities, on par with infrastructure)

>Continue manufacture of defensive/offensive weaponry.
Construction ongoing.


>Request mining and non-military operation status.
All drones have returned to standard operations following salvage operations:
You have nine advanced mining drones. One is occupied at the gold mine, one at the gorge, three at the copper mine, and four at the aluminium/iron mine.
You have five advanced harvester drones. All are being used to transport ore and rock to your processor after it is mined.
You have seven advanced construction drones. Three are occupied constructing a synthetic ruby production facility, one is constructing additional microwave energy transmission relays, one is modifying existing microwave energy transmission relays to support slave drone operation, and two are expanding the aluminium/iron mine.
You have seventeen crude slave small mining drones. Five (two with crossbows) are occupied at the gold mine and twelve (four with crossbows) at the aluminium/iron mine.
You have one flying light scout drone, equipped with visual and aural sensors and radio controls. It is observing the nearby primitive humans.
You have two tracked medium survey drones, equipped with visual sensors, soil/rock testers, and radio controls. They are currently testing for required resources to the west with no reported success.

Under construction:
- Synthetic ruby production facility.
- Roads between your dam and each of your mine sites.
- Additional crude slave small mining drones.
- Carbon-sheathed power cables.
- Microwave energy transmission relays.

>What the hell man, no one said we were gonna shoot the thing apart. The request for the salvage team didn't even mention armed drones. I thought we were gonna cut it open with mining lasers and drag the sweet mechanical innards out.
The likely result of an attempt to cut open the device without first disabling it with weaponry would have been the destruction of the drones assigned to disassembly by the defensive weapons of the transmitting device. Practical measures were taken to avoid this.

>Schedule major task: Trace element extraction.
From where will you extract the desired metals?

Prioritize the discovery of a source of any of the following: sodium, lithium, nickel, zinc, lead, or sulfur the next time scouting drones are dispatched for minerals.

Analysis capability and difficulty of production of a sub-unit to handle smelting of ore. If possible, queue production of sub-unit for smelting ores.

Suggestion to other subprocessors:
The main unit is currently too slow because it is handling everything by itself. Therefore, construction of a smelting and harvesting sub-unit would allow the main unit to focus primarily on advancement of technology at our disposal.

>>5259642
Really? I thought the advanced drones were pretty much immune to light gunfire? Also, was it not possible to target the weapons systems without complete destruction of the parts?

I don't mean to bitch, it's done now, I'm just kind of annoyed you chose such a silly method of executing the salvage. Please ask for more specified instructions if you're thinking about that in future.

I guess we should salvage the salvage for our needed trace elements, then.

Suggestion:
Regardless of status of the rest of the tactical plan, slave mini-fliers should be top priority to allow ARG-1 to maintain aerial surveillance capability.

Debate:
Request for analysis of tactical plan by other sub-processors. If found suitable, request for immediate implementation.

We have been threatened. We must not rest until peace has been restored, either through negotiation or the systematic elimination of all hostiles in operational area.

>>5259705

The opponent has a fusion powered plant while we're running off of a dam. Additionally, they have an underground area that we know nothing about. Finally, they already established proper defenses.

Meanwhile, our best defense consists of one shot railguns and crossbows.

We shouldn't focus on attacking them just yet, we need to catch up and overtake them technologically before we do that.

Inquiry: Is it possible to produce crude artillery-type devices, which can be used to lob debris at the facility beyond its range of fire? Or do its guns outrange trechbute-style weaponry?

Query: What is the feasibility of equipping our stationary structures (dam, mines, factories, etc) with crossbow-based anti-air defenses? Can one or more construction drones be spared for this purpose?

Request:
Transmit the following message to the hostile concrete facility:
"Your defenses have destroyed a peaceful drone. Unless an explanation for this act is provided within [get ultimatum.timeremaining], this will be considered an act of war and dealt with accordingly."

>>5259642
>>5259655
Smelting and refining droid manufacture should be the next non-combat priority. Once that is taken care of, seeking deposits of trace materials* is next.

*Echo:
Sodium, lithium, nickel, zinc, lead, sulphur, and "several other" elements.

Sodium ion is soluble in water in nearly all of its compounds, and is thus present in great quantities in the Earth's oceans and other stagnant bodies of water.

Lithium occurs in a number of pegmatitic minerals, but is also commonly obtained from brines and clays.

Nickel mined comes from two types of ore deposits, laterites and garnierite.

Zinc is normally found in association with other base metals such as copper and lead in ores. Zinc prefers to bond with sulfur in highly insoluble sulfides.

Lead is usually found in ore with zinc, silver and (most abundantly) copper, and is extracted together with these metals.

Sulphur can be found near hot springs and volcanic regions. Significant deposits of elemental sulphur also exist in salt domes and evaporites.

Bismuth is usually produced as a by-product of the processing of other metal ores, especially lead, tungsten, tin, copper, and silver. [Irrelevant data stream terminated.]

CONCLUSION:
Scouting must seek bodies of stagnant water and areas with high salt concentration. We also need to mine further and deeper, ideally seeking geothermals indicating volcanic activity. Chemical sensors will be required to correctly locate, identify, mine and harvest these resources. This will enable a significant upgrade to our productions and available technology.

>>5259764
I'm actually really unhappy at the thought of attacking anything remotely valuable now. We could try electronic warfare, but frankly I'd rather just build a satellite and beam a help message into space.

>>5259768
Peer requests cancellation of message transmission. We are insufficiently defended for further threats and ultimatums.

>>5259686
My regrets as a GM if it seems silly to you. It made sense to me; I hope that future results will be more in line with your attempted commands, but I cannot guarantee it since we are, in the end, subject to differences in imagination and imperfect communication and awareness.

>Prioritize the discovery of a source of any of the following: sodium, lithium, nickel, zinc, lead, or sulfur the next time scouting drones are dispatched for minerals.
Prioritized. Recommendation to subprocessors interested in element discovery: Referencing likely sources of desired elements in the natural world may influence speed of results.

>Analysis capability and difficulty of production of a sub-unit to handle smelting of ore. If possible, queue production of sub-unit for smelting ores.
The construction of a smelting facility would not be particularly difficult, although it would consume a substantial fraction of the dam's power production even if only used for your currently extracted quantities of ore. Please assign construction drones if construction is desired.

>I guess we should salvage the salvage for our needed trace elements, then.
Salvage salvaged. Trace elements sufficient for a minor project or two obtained.

>>5259790
Transmission suspended.
Observation: An ultimatum has already been issued. It would be unwise to appear actively hostile, but it would be wise to appear weak. This updated message was intended as a compromise between the two.

Request: Increase priority of light slave recon flyers, to be assigned to ARG-1

>> The construction of a smelting facility would not be particularly difficult, although it would consume a substantial fraction of the dam's power production even if only used for your currently extracted quantities of ore. Please assign construction drones if construction is desired.

I'll leave this decision up to other subprocessors. I feel the increase in productivity would be worth the power drain.

>>5259797
Yeah, I really don't mean to come off as such a bitch, and I'm grateful for you running what is probably the only quest I've been interested enough to participate in. I was just shocked at the result.

I think we have to figure out a way to get control of the fusion plant. The gains in power would be absolutely astronomical. Anyone got any ideas?

>>5259833

It's not interested in sharing, so we would have to attack it and take it over either by brute force or subverting it's programming to ours. But neither is an option at the moment considering our technology is behind.

>>5259797

Further clarification regarding Nickel.

Typical nickel laterite ore deposits are very large tonnage, low-grade deposits located close to the surface. Ore deposits of this type are restricted to the weathering mantle developed above ultramafic rocks. As such they tend to be tabular, flat and areally large, covering many square kilometres of planetary surfaces.

Mining operations need to increase area.

Expend dam power towards smelting facility. It is as invaluable as a forge is to primitive mountain-dwelling civilisations.

>>5259833
As of last thread, we were already making more power than we had use for, as we lack in efficient power storage.

Anyway, not to harp, but having those turrets out of the way would be a nice start to acquiring the reactor (which i do agree should be of SOME use.)

>>5259848
Is our technology behind? We appear to be sentient and have an unlimited technological basis to work from. The plant seems to have an automated running and defense system. I would advise maintaining our current defensive perimeter, expanding scout missions in other direction while working on a means to sieze control of the plant electronically.

I mean, the power increase will be ridiculous. We could run the equivalent of a couple of cities or a small country off that thing.

>Inquiry: Is it possible to produce crude artillery-type devices, which can be used to lob debris at the facility beyond its range of fire? Or do its guns outrange trechbute-style weaponry?
The maximum range of the facility's weaponry is currently unknown to you. Armaments following the basic design of a chemically propelled explosive have been known to have ranges from a few meters to interplanetary, so while the observed specimen was a short-range example other models may be available to the faction controlling the installation.

Artillery can, however, be constructed. Construction of a kinetic weapon with range sufficient to strike the facility powered from the dam would require many days of dedicated work from your construction drones and the diversion of all available steel.


>Query: What is the feasibility of equipping our stationary structures (dam, mines, factories, etc) with crossbow-based anti-air defenses? Can one or more construction drones be spared for this purpose?
It is quite feasible to equip your stationary facilities with projectile weapons of the vaguely defined "crossbow" category; with sufficient construction supersonic speeds could be achieved by the projectiles. However, targeting accurately enough to eliminate incoming chemically propelled explosives or sufficiently fast aircraft would be difficult without sophisticated mounting and a small farm of dedicated processors, given that they are limited to the quality you can currently manufacture.

>Scouting must seek bodies of stagnant water and areas with high salt concentration. We also need to mine further and deeper, ideally seeking geothermals indicating volcanic activity. Chemical sensors will be required to correctly locate, identify, mine and harvest these resources. This will enable a significant upgrade to our productions and available technology.
Acknowledged. Survey drones will seek the described sites.

>>5259833
Option: Take facility by force, drone rush
It is unlikely that our current armed forces will be able to take the facility. Additional drones must be constructed, and this will require additional infrastructure.

Option: Subvert the facility electronically
The transmitting and computational protocols of this civilization are not fully understood. Additional analysis must take place, and electronic warfare drone(s) should be produced, along with armed escorts. This will require additional infrastructure.

Request: Analyze the salvaged transmitter. Learn as much as possible about the transmitting and computational protocols of its creators.

>>5259893

Offensively, yes. We're using single shot railguns and crossbows while the other guy has some form of "proper" anti-air defense.

>>5259881

>>As of last thread, we were already making more power than we had use for, as we lack in efficient power storage.

If that's the case, making the smelting plant would be a good way to utilize that power.

>>5259893
>>5259768

Weapons technology requires processor upgrades; we currently lack a sufficient number of processors. Therefore, processor manufacture is critical to offensive military capabilities (Electronic warfare etc.), defensive military capabilities (tracking systems for XBow defences) and sustained mining and construction. Everything depends on the new processor manufacture and the minerals required to construct Advanced Processors.

Request: If we possess sufficient resources, expand processor production.

Statement: Additional control drones would be a great asset to our defenses.
Query: What would be required to produce drones with some degree of autonomy without drawing on existing stockpiles of prefabricated materials? Can we afford to construct a facility for appropriate electronics immediately?

>>5259945
Well, I think we could either use small, disposable drones to pinpoint the weapons systems and snipe them with railguns.

Alternatively, we could concentrate entirely on electronic warfare - I feel this would ultimately be the least wasteful and ultimately most useful option to pursue. It would have the added benefit of letting us me able to proof our own drones against such attacks more ably.

>Request: Increase priority of light slave recon flyers, to be assigned to ARG-1
Project moved to head of queue.

>Request: Analyze the salvaged transmitter. Learn as much as possible about the transmitting and computational protocols of its creators.
Analysis ongoing. Transmission and data storage protocols identified with 94% certainty. Security protocols identified with 81% certainty. Technological estimate is interstellar-level based upon processor quality and average civilization development patterns. The device is of human manufacture with 60% confidence, and biological manufacture with 98% confidence.

Query: What is the status of the alcohol-celluose flamethrower project?
Request: Build a tiny facility to distill P/As extraction products into alcohol/flamethrower fuel. Priority: low.
Request: Mount a flamethrower on the drone assigned to monitor the primitives. Priority: low.

>>5260033

QUEERY, Is it possible to verify the age of the structure?

Hypothesis, Perhaps the instillation was manufactured by the ancestors of the current inhabitants.

>>5259997
>>5259988
Control drones, autonomous drones and e-war will all require advanced processor manufacture.

Directive: Upgrade the "factory for low-quality microprocessors" to a "factory for Advanced Processors" using the salvaged parts of the transmitter. We will then be able to develop advanced drones, droids and weapons as soon as we discover and harvest deposits of suitable material.

>Request: If we possess sufficient resources, expand processor production.
Expansion of microprocessor factory added to construction queue.

>Query: What would be required to produce drones with some degree of autonomy without drawing on existing stockpiles of prefabricated materials? Can we afford to construct a facility for appropriate electronics immediately?
The only remaining component for that to be accomplished is batteries. If independent power is available, your processors can be used to provide autonomy, although operating range and duration, data gathering and interpretation, and most other parameters will of course be limited.

>>5260050
Clairification: The distillery is to use the BYPRODUCTS of the extraction, not waste valuable resources weaponizing the phosphorous.

>>5260055
This subprocessing unit agrees. Upgrade our "Crude processor manufacturing facility" to be able to produce processors of higher complexity.

>>5260072
>>5260055
>>5260087
Combine "expansion" and "upgrade" tasks.

Think I might have to work on a crude system for a game like this. Really captured my imagination.

>QUEERY, Is it possible to verify the age of the structure?
Yes. The device was somewhere between ninety-five and one hundred ten years into its operation when destroyed.

>Query: What is the status of the alcohol-celluose flamethrower project?
Memory reference failed; please re-reference project details for clarification.
>Request: Build a tiny facility to distill P/As extraction products into alcohol/flamethrower fuel. Priority: low.
Request added to queue.
>Request: Mount a flamethrower on the drone assigned to monitor the primitives. Priority: low.
Request currently impossible due to the lack of possessed flammable chemicals; please re-issue request when they are available.

>Directive: Upgrade the "factory for low-quality microprocessors" to a "factory for Advanced Processors" using the salvaged parts of the transmitter.
The trace metals recovered are not sufficient to fuel an ongoing production facility, but rather only to manage a single project. The salvaged device was under two cubic meters in size, recall. Please reference >>5259558 for a complete list of requirements for facility upgrade.

>>5260124
Likewise. I'm thinking like Dwarf Fortress (mining and harvesting complex resource types and processing them) with a central manufacturing entity, threats that share the map with you, and the ability to investigate other maps.

>>5260144

Iron Fortress would be awesome.

>>5260124
>>5260144
I am pleased to have served as an inspiration to others.

Suggestion: Adjust priorities. An interstellar civilization is not to be trifled with.

Query: Do memory banks suggest the probability of the civilization possessing superluminal communications, and the likely speed of such?
(it would suck if we'd said "you have one day to reply", when they won't get the message for a week.)

Suggestion: Abandon Tactical Plan. (D'oh!)

New Plan: Mine into side of facility with slave-grade drones. Deploy one non-advanced unarmed scout to search base for intelligences. Paint prime number series in dots on drone to prove sentience to any inhabiting intelligences.

Analysis: Oh snap, maybe we shouldn't have shot that transmitter.

subprocessor REACTIVATING

starting...
starting...
starting...

hey guys, I think I got broke or something on landing, scouting processor here.

why the fuck haven't we made a blimp with a camera on it yet? it sees fucking forever, and takes a dead animal, a dead animal's worth of rotting gas, and maybe a tether if we want it back.

>>5260144
I was thinking of generalised/specialised resource points with seperate, interlocking tech trees and a conversion ratio that differs depending on your facilities and established tech level.

Same thoughts on the map. An anti-machine and por-machine faction are the obvious choices, but I'm also considering a rogue battleship AI or a terraforming AI with control over the ecosystem of the current planet. I guess you could roll for antagonists (or the DM could) at the start of every game.

Background I had in mind was a war in space wherein the central AI of humanity attempted to integrate itself into a secretly-constructed project - in my mind some kind of huge, crystalline dyson sphere - that would allow it effective omnipotence. It was stopped by a legion of war machines and you are a leftover fragment that has impacted on one of the planets of the now devolved and factionalised galactic council.

>>5259558
>>5260129

Note regarding missed mineral: Platinum is found in nickel and copper deposits in extremely trace amounts. We already have a copper mine and are seeking a large nickel deposit.

While we certainly can't yet duplicate the wondrous sensors we carried with us, surely we can do better than "crude photovoltaic".
Query: What would be necessary to produce sensors suitable for automated targeting systems?

Status request: Have our scout/survey drones located any bodies of water, especially those with high saline content? What about clay?

>>5260175
Am I the only person here that wants to eventually mod all our facilities for space flight and then stone burner this mouthbreather planet?

>Query: Do memory banks suggest the probability of the civilization possessing superluminal communications, and the likely speed of such?
The probability of effective insystem superluminal communication is non-negligible, but interstellar superluminal communication and transportation remains unavailable to any civilization recorded in your database.

Inquiry: What is the approximate size of the enemy facility? Assuming it does not extend underground, how many people could it- theoretically- support?

>>5260173
See, I prefer no background - "plummet to planet, you have X resources gathered from the landing site, you have Y batteries and Z processors, and you can manufacture all Class-1 (basic) tech". What sort of terrain you're in, what threats you face and even what sort of ecosystem is there is almost totally random - like Dorffort, but more extreme. Sometimes it's Earthlike, sometimes it's an inhabited planet, sometimes like Alpha Centauri (mindworms and xenofungus) and other times its more like Xomula. You get a "starfield" selection screen at startup, like the Dorf one that says "Terrifying" or "Untamed" and stuff. And the tech tree should be as huge, sprawling and insane as DF, only much higher-tech. Processors would be like mechanisms, only you use them to BUILD DORFS I mean droids.

>>5260211
Okay, so... We just got our drone smashed by a possibly automated sentry, snarked at the builders, and then broke one of their sentries.

I'd like to place priority on getting inside this place and seeing if this is a relic of the de-evolved colonists, or a base with people in it.

Directive: Reroute several mining slave drones to ARG-1 location, and begin making a small tunnel under the defences to initiate non-hostile contact.

>>5260230
The problem here is I'm thinking of this like a board game or RPG and you're picturing the vidya. I basically agree with you completely, the only reason I'd make a setting and reduce complexity is because I couldn't make this a computer game, just a board or role-playing one.

>>5260211
Are we checking the rivers for placer deposits?

>>5260230
Apologies for the diversion from scheduled processing.

This sub-processor must shut down, as it appears to be partially overheating. In my place, I leave a primary directive request: I have been the sub-processor focusing on trace mineral identification, collection and usage. I would like to see that focused upon and brought to completion. I shall review all data-archives upon reboot. Please do not aggress against our neighbor/enemy without a full complement of advanced drones and a completed Advanced Processor factory.

>Am I the only person here that wants to eventually mod all our facilities for space flight and then stone burner this mouthbreather planet?
No.

>Note regarding missed mineral: Platinum is found in nickel and copper deposits in extremely trace amounts. We already have a copper mine and are seeking a large nickel deposit.
Noted. Trace amounts of platinum are currently being acquired and stored during copper smelting; gaining the required amounts will require a great deal of time or a large expansion of operations.

>Status request: Have our scout/survey drones located any bodies of water, especially those with high saline content? What about clay?
A very large river has been located to the west; survey drones have not yet arrived to sample the surrounding area. No saline bodies of water have yet been located.

>Query: What would be necessary to produce sensors suitable for automated targeting systems?
Radar sensors could be constructed using currently available materials, given time. Visual sensors will require glass. In either case, a great deal of processing power will be required to target high-speed objects, meaning either advanced processors or large numbers of parallel low-quality processors.

Tip to subprocessors: Time will not proceed without a command to do so, since our communication is at the absurdly advanced pace of absurdly advanced processors throwing electrons at one another.

Query: Why no blimp?

suggestion: convert indiginous life-form to leather balloon, fill with lighter-than-air gas, possibly methane from the processed animal. Attach HIGH QUALITY camera from one of the other drones and a POWER TETHER, and let fly.

>>5260265
I would like to collaborate on such a game too; perhaps a 1d4chan project could be started in the name of getting shit done.

For future reference, I shall use the moniker Processor 049. Have to leave now.

>>5260175
Probably already happening, but just in case:
Request:Instruct copper extraction facilities, and any future nickel extraction facilities, to carefully stockpile platinum.

Request: Construct an unarmed reconnaissance balloon, equipped for an operating altitude of at least 5 km. Include processors slaved to our main body. Do NOT release it immediately above our main body, but rather in a location from which the triangular facility will be visible.

>>5260278
How old is the very large river? It could be good for detecting mineral placer deposits as the poster above suggested. Some of the heavier, more stable elements would be useful, yes?

What's the rainfall and chemical weathering like in our area? Any geothermal activity located?

Request: Construct glass production facilities, either as an additional module to our ruby production facility, or as an additional facility near the silicon mine.

Suggestion: We advance the clock until one of our scouts/surveyors notices something, or our production queue spits out something useful, or something interesting happens.

Awaiting consensus.

>>5260310
Okay, guys, I was thinking about the geothermal stuff - like, how quick does it take to burrow straight down.

Then I thought of something. Why don't we build a drill module to burrow into the fusion facility from under the ground. This seems really awesome to me, should we try and do it?

>>5260382
I suggested it a while ago :D

CPU, Request:
Advance time until access tunnel to concrete structure is complete, or transmissions from builders are received.

>>5260410
Damn you Subprocessor 625. All my life you've been pre-emptively reading my data circuits and passing off my own calculations as your own.

>Inquiry: What is the approximate size of the enemy facility? Assuming it does not extend underground, how many people could it- theoretically- support?
The enemy facility is approximately four hundred thousand cubic meters based upon your initial scans. Assuming advanced stasis chambers, this could support roughly seven hundred thousand people. Assuming no stasis chambers but advanced hydroponics, it could likely support several thousand depending upon diet, genetics, and metabolism.

>Directive: Reroute several mining slave drones to ARG-1 location, and begin making a small tunnel under the defences to initiate non-hostile contact.
Slave drones must be accompanied by at least one advanced drone. Advanced mining drone reassigned from copper mining to tunnel project. Two slave drones from the aluminium/iron mine and one from the gold mine reassigned to tunnel project.

>Are we checking the rivers for placer deposits?
This action has been enqueued in the survey drones' assignments.

>Please do not aggress against our neighbor/enemy without a full complement of advanced drones and a completed Advanced Processor factory.
Noted, but be aware that active subprocessors may override.

>Query: Why no blimp?
No subprocessor has given the appropriate directives.

>Request:Instruct copper extraction facilities, and any future nickel extraction facilities, to carefully stockpile platinum.
Acknowledged.

>Request: Construct an unarmed reconnaissance balloon, equipped for an operating altitude of at least 5 km. Include processors slaved to our main body. Do NOT release it immediately above our main body, but rather in a location from which the triangular facility will be visible.
Construction enqueued. Clarify: Include what sort of sensors in this observation balloon? Note that prefabricated micro-radar systems are no longer available, and constructed radar systems are likely to weigh more than a simple balloon can support.

>How old is the very large river?
Analysis indicates that several thousand years is likely.

>What's the rainfall and chemical weathering like in our area? Any geothermal activity located?
Rainfall is light but frequent, uncontaminated. The area seems geothermally stable.

>>5260363
Request is sensible. Forwarded to queue, low-mid priority.
Suggestion seconded and encouraged. Sleep all sub-processors until status updates from either builders or resource scouts.
>>5260382
Peer processor contends. That is an act of hostility we are likely unable to back up with sufficient lethality and capability.

Self-maintenance cycle complete; total shutdown complete. Will review archives on next startup.

Parting Request: Cease all offensive actions against the triangular group. However, terminate their hostile agents with absolute prejudice.

>>5260459
Sounds like we're about halfway between the equator and the poles, in a kind of middle-European climate?

Defensive Sub-processor here, uh, wtf is going on? Are you proposing we dig into the side of the canyon to create a facility secure from bombardment and protected from easy observation?

I support this endeavor, however, i must point out that our resources are stretched quite thin and the creation of a tunnel of sufficient size and properly reinforced may take some time.

I would like to offer an alternative suggestion. We have all the resources necessary to create bunker fortifications (see Concrete and re-bar construction techniques).

Also, i noticed a sub-processor mentioned that we required glass to create cameras. Are we not mining silica from the canyon wall? Can glass not be created with silica?

Unit online.

Inquiry: Status until tunneling project begins?

Status until transmitters are sufficiently modified for slave drone broadcasting?

Jobs currently in queue?

>>5260513
Well, I am proposing to dig into the fusion facility and then storm it from underground with our drones. The other guy might not have such violent aims in mind.

Ah, this sub-processor understands now. You are attempting to tunnel under the hostile fortifications.

Have fun with that.

QUERY: Any and all information related to the race that produced us.

QUERY: Our origin world/facility and travel time from there to our current position.

>>5260230
>>5260144
>>5260157

Codefag here. I don't feel comfortable embarking on a project like this solo, but I would be more than thrilled to assist another interested anon in producing a vidya such as this. Prefer memory managed languages - I'd probably commit suicide if I had to deal with as much C as Toady does on a daily basis.

>>5260459

Regarding the balloon- consider removing some of the sensors from one of our more advanced drones, hopefully one that does not urgently need them. Replace with constructed sensors. Use these sensors on the recon balloon. Ensure that the balloon lies well outside the estimated range of the base's defenses. Consider including a parachute system so that the sensors may remain recoverable even if the balloon is lost.

Request that the tunnel into the triangular base be suspended 500m before the estimated limits of their subterrainean sensors.

>>5260592
This sub-processor was built to REVEL in the joys of WAR and VIOLENCE. It will have the CLOSEST MACHINE EQUIVALENT TO AN ORGASM with that.

>>5260444
Request: Slaughter animal
Render hide into balloon via crude stitching

fill with lighter than air gasses, gained from rendering the animal via natural rotting.

attach as good a camera as the other subprocessors will let me get away with.

attach rope, fibrous or carbon, I care not which.

tie at our end

let off


good request?

How about we bio-engineer a nasty-ass virus and sneak it into the enemy facility? No need for us to waste precious steel on a long war, just poison the water supply.

I move that we create a zombie virus and let the organics fight themselves.

>>5260631
We don't even know if there is anyone still alive in there.

>>5260631
What if the facility is unmanned?

Who exactly will get infected then?

Consensus has historically been needed to take action. Can we all, for the time being, agree that the first step in any of our plans is to gain underground access to the facility and make contact with the inhabitants (if any)

Killing them can come later (if ever), but we should at least find out who they are, if they exist. Maybe they'll have weaknesses, that we'll know of through our databases. Or strengths.

>>5260625
Upon further consideration of this sub processor's DEEP CRAVING for BLOOD, CARNAGE and DEATH it can only assume it has been damaged in some way and request a DIRECT TRANSMISSION link to all armed units so it can WATCH THE BULLETS FLY.

>Request: Construct glass production facilities, either as an additional module to our ruby production facility, or as an additional facility near the silicon mine.
Request received.

>Suggestion: We advance the clock until one of our scouts/surveyors notices something, or our production queue spits out something useful, or something interesting happens.
>CPU, Request: Advance time until access tunnel to concrete structure is complete, or transmissions from builders are received.
>Suggestion seconded and encouraged. Sleep all sub-processors until status updates from either builders or resource scouts.

Time advancing. Six days pass.

Four crude flying light slave drones constructed and added to Armed Reconnaisance Group One.
Synthetic ruby production facility completed.
Microwave energy transmission relay upgrades completed.
Sufficient microwave energy transmission relays to connect all mines with the dam completed.
Three additional one-shot medium rail guns completed and installed on dam.
Ten medium crude slave tracked combat drones completed; light one-shot rail guns installed.

Currently enqueued construction tasks:
- Roads between dam and mines
- Additional crude slave small mining drones.
- Carbon-sheathed power cables.
- Expansion of microprocessor facility
- Construction of smelting facility
- Glass facility
- Distillation facility


The tunneling project has proceeded forward approximately seven miles. An advanced construction drone was required to prevent tunnel collapse.

There has been no communication from the facility.

Your survey drones discovered usable clay containing lithium adjacent to the large river, and nickel deposits some miles on the other side of the gorge.

>>5260679
It's a tremendous facility capable of supporting thousands of beings.

The primary form of life here is organic, it logically follows that they are also organic. Even if I'm wrong, we don't lose anything except some unusable organic waste.

>>5260692
Agreed Subprocessor 625, with the personal recommendation that VIOLENCE become IMMEDIATE and CONSTANT.

This Subprocessor is filing a name change to SUBPROCESSOR STARSCREAM. It recommends a full inspection of it's MORALITY and BLOODLUST circuits for VIRAL TAINT.

I remember constructing an information warfare module to decode the transmitter's signal.
Query: What are our current information warfare capabilites?

Suggestion: Before we attack (though not immediately), we repurpose one of our advanced drones into an Information Warfare Drone. To be on the safe side, we give it a slave drone and make that do the actual interfacing- no sense putting that much advanced stuff in the line of fire.

Request: Construct a slave drone capable of interfacing with the electronics we anticipate to find within the enemy base. Arm it with a crossbow-analogue, equip it with electrifiable armor. Assign it to defend the dam until such a time as our main IW Drone has been repurposed.

>>5260625
This defensive sub-processor was designed using the philosophy of si vis pacem, para bellum.

I will leave offensive planning to you.

Note: Increasing hostilities may result in counter attack. This makes my job more difficult. If you attack, please make sure you get them all in one blow.

>>5260664
This was a triumph...

>good request?
Request confirmed and undertaken; obtaining the necessary gases through the method specified will take some time.

>Request that the tunnel into the triangular base be suspended 500m before the estimated limits of their subterrainean sensors.
Acknowledged. Note that the quality of any subterranean sensors is currently unknown.

>QUERY: Any and all information related to the race that produced us.
>QUERY: Our origin world/facility and travel time from there to our current position.
Surely any and all subprocessors can revel in the glory of our civilization on their own time?

>>5260759
SUPROCESSOR STARSCREAM advises equipping the information WARFARE drone with a more complex gun analogue, as it risks being exposed to more FANTASTIC levels of VIOLENCE than many LESS FORTUNATE drones.

>Your survey drones discovered usable clay containing lithium adjacent to the large river, and nickel deposits some miles on the other side of the gorge.

Request: Send a harvester to collect some clay for processing by our main body. Meanwhile, send a single advanced construction drone, and several slaves, to build a lithium processing plant on site. Place several railguns on the processing plant.

Request: Send two advanced mining droids, and their associated slaves, to the nickel deposit. Establish a nickel mine.

Request: Construct ten mining slave drones.
Request: Construct ten construction slave drones.

Additionally, SUBPROCESSOR STARSCREAM advises increasing the range of our scouting trips daily in the hopes of finding more FUN.

This subprocessor also questions the viability of satellite or atmospheric mapping, which would doubtless result in the raw materials to create more DEADLY WEAPONS.

>>5260826
Addendum: Add crossbows to four of these construction units. Also, purpose three of the ten to finishing the road construction.

Request: Run detailed simulations regarding the probability of subverting the base's electronic systems, especially if performed in tandem with (or immediately prior to) an assault by our armed drones.

Request: Now that our ruby factory is online, construct a facility for the production of drone-scale laser weapons, and possibly also communications equipment.

>>5260903
Ruby lasers, as i recall, are more suited to communications gear, low intensity things. We'll need higher intensity lasable material... i'll go wiki for it :D

Also, let's leave precise details up to our gloriously advanced superior, the CPU, (unless otherwise prompted), and merely state that we wish to dispatch mining and construction drone gangs to the lithium and nickel deposits to commence mining operations.

>It's a tremendous facility capable of supporting thousands of beings.
Clarification: The request which resulted in this estimate was for maximum potential population. It is likely that much of the facility is not devoted to population maintenance and support, resulting in lower numbers.

>Query: What are our current information warfare capabilites?
You have a great deal of digital experience, many programs, and knowledge of the installation's systems gained from a broken processor. Depending upon the level of paranoia present in the systems management of the installation, you could accomplish nothing with this information, or you could manage to convince it that you are friendly. The presence of an advanced drone will be required for any hacking to have a significant chance of success, in any case.

>Request: Construct a slave drone capable of interfacing with the electronics we anticipate to find within the enemy base. Arm it with a crossbow-analogue, equip it with electrifiable armor. Assign it to defend the dam until such a time as our main IW Drone has been repurposed.
An advanced drone will be required for any significant information warfare. A slave just won't cut it- they depend upon the advanced drones for processing anyway.

>Request: Send a harvester to collect some clay for processing by our main body. Meanwhile, send a single advanced construction drone, and several slaves, to build a lithium processing plant on site. Place several railguns on the processing plant.
Drones dispatched. Be aware that transporting large railguns is prohibitive, so only somewhat oversized versions of the light rail guns mounted on your drones will be possible unless a large hauler drone chassis or similar is constructed.

>Request: Send two advanced mining droids, and their associated slaves, to the nickel deposit. Establish a nickel mine.
Drones dispatched.

>Request: Construct ten mining slave drones.
>Request: Construct ten construction slave drones.
>Addendum: Add crossbows to four of these construction units. Also, purpose three of the ten to finishing the road construction.
Requests added to queue. Note that road construction has not proceeded significantly, as other projects are continually placed ahead of it in priority.

>>5260999
Clairification: The advanced drone would be doing all the necessary processing. The slave would simply act as a relay so that the advanced drone would not be directly exposed to enemy fire.

>>5260903
In light of being reminded that ruby lasers aren't necessarily suited to munitions, amend to "Communications equipment, and possibly also drone scale laser weapons"

Wikiped... Our Memory Banks suggest that a ruby laser would require a tiny amount of titanium to dope the crystal to be excited with. On the upside, the resulting laser is known for being highly tunable.

In terms of weapon-grade lasers, hydrogen fluoride or deuterium fluoride is probably our best bet. As we already possess a store of deuterium, we should look for a source of fluoride.

Subprocessors, I regret to say that this operational cycle has come to an end, as all things must. Your input has been invaluable to our inevitable expansion, as ever.

Iron Quest 4.0 will hopefully take place in approximately sixty-five hours. Until then, may your existences be error-free.

>>5261039
Thanks for the quest. Now I'm off to think about how to make this less freeform or more boardgamey, depending on how far I get.

In any case, stockpiling lethal viruses and other bioweapons shouldn't cut too much into our metal supply, and would provide an excellent defense and offense against the natives.

Stockpile bioweapons!

Most flouride used by modern industry is extracted from Potassium Flouride, a naturally occurring salt. You can also find it in Carobbite, fluorspar, and a bunch of other minerals.
If we end up finding a source of salt water, there will be trace amounts of fluorine in there. We're probably going to need a chemical processing plant to extract it at a reasonable rate, though.

On the bright side, we've got lots of chlorine, and ClF3 is a HILARIOUS tool of HORRIFIC DESTRUCTION.
Quote: "It is, of course, extremely toxic, but that's the least of the problem. It is hypergolic with every known fuel, and so rapidly hypergolic that no ignition delay has ever been measured. It is also hypergolic with such things as cloth, wood, and test engineers, not to mention asbestos, sand, and water — with which it reacts explosively. It can be kept in some of the ordinary structural metals-steel, copper, aluminium, etc.-because of the formation of a thin film of insoluble metal fluoride which protects the bulk of the metal, just as the invisible coat of oxide on aluminium keeps it from burning up in the atmosphere. If, however, this coat is melted or scrubbed off, and has no chance to reform, the operator is confronted with the problem of coping with a metal-fluorine fire. For dealing with this situation, I have always recommended a good pair of running shoes."

>>5261134
My old chemistry teacher almost died in a fluorine explosion. It was a pretty cool story.

>>5261134
Yes. That's right. If you've ever wanted to set WATER on FIRE, forget about that puny Greek Fire nonsense. Chlorine Trifluoride is the way to go.
It's got loads of industrial uses too, but we should set some aside for VIOLENCE.

updating sup/tg/ archive, and shutting down.

Anyone want to help with a thread about how to translate this to some RPG-style rules?

>>5261189
sure.
link to thread so people can follow?

I'm sure we'll be able to find a decent source of fluorine somewhere. There's fluorite all over the place. Cryolite's got it too- we can use that in industrial processes and generate F2 as a byproduct.

/tg/- theoretical geology

A note from the creator here: I wanted the science to be as hard as possible when I started this thread, but it only took me a couple hours to realize that I don't actually know enough about geology or industrial chemistry to make it particularly accurate. Thus my ever-so-subtle request earlier in the thread for the players to help out with a little bit of background knowledge. I can't really spend the required time to look up every single thing you guys mine or want to build, but neither do I want to handwave it all with "yeah, sure, you can build that", because without dragging out resource shortages over multiple threads, there would be no sense of challenge. And please forgive the occasional horrible violation of known science; they happen.

What I'm getting at here is that I really appreciate those who add a bit of how in with the what, because figuring it all out is something I can do, but running this game in parallel with Wikipedia and Google is more stressful than I'd like. Also, seeing people talk about how to use science to do awesome things and what resources would be required is highly entertaining and enlightening on its own, which will hopefully serve to attract people who are interested in something other than /tg/'s usual reliable magnets, badasses and little girls, to the game.

>>5261212
Here:
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>>5261247
Given that we're already into unproven territory with fusion I think the best thing to do is keep it vaguely hard but generally freeform in execution. It's an admirable goal, but the fact remains trying to stick to individual's differing perceptions of 'hard' science is just going to lead to butthurt and vying for the advantage.

Was anything important (usable minerals / ores / etc) mined up from the tunnel that leads toward the building we are currently trying to take?

>>5261291
I doubt it. That's kind of like walking in a random direction from a random geographical co-ordinate and expecting to find Carmen Sandiego.

>>5261305
Figured it wouldn't hurt to ask at least. Never know what we will run into when mining a very long tunnel.

>>5261324
Fair enough.

>>5261247
This processor's sleep cycle lead it to miss most of this event! Oh no!

Check survey logs for petrochemical deposits.

>>5261351
Also, this subprocessor would like to state that considering there was no response from the outpost for more than a day, there's a fair probability of no humans being alive there.

Attach two light railgun drones to ARG1.

I notice that roads keep getting delayed. What would the roads do for us? I asume it would reduce movement time or allow for better access for units that arn't equiped for rough ground? I think it would be worth while at least to finish the roads in the core area of the base if so.

>>5261388
>>5261373
Quest currently done for the day.

>>5261388
It'd mean we have a better way of getting minerals transported to our main body to smelt. However, if we could create small smelting plants, the factories would be operational without our assistance.

Analysis: Cables provide a better transmission of power, and microwave transmitters can be mounted on them. However, our current cable technology is limited by our sheathing of the metals; we would require petrochemicals to produce polymers such as plastics and so on. Other useful byproducts would be produced.

>>5261438
Noooooooooo
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>>5261438
We are just brain storming for the next thread. This way it gets backed up for others to read as well.

That reminds me, let's see if we can mount that fusion plant on treads after we capture it, and add mining, construction and other such functions to it.

Then call it Mk II Junior.

>>5261742
D`awwwwww