The following projects are currently enqueued:
-Numerous massive orbital habitats
-Deconstruction of all research mainframes and replacement with seed AI types
-Colonization fleets for systems 005-008
-A vast quantity of planetary invasion forces
-A series of backup installations concealed in the oort cloud
-A "Scientific Nexus" space station for intelligence-enhanced biologicals
-An autonomous fleet programmed to be hostile to be dispatched to another system as a capability test
-Establishment of a Dyson satellite network using the mass of the planet nearest the sun


With no restraints upon your actions but time, creativity, and resources available, the possibilities are nearly without limit. How should you expand next?

Greetings CPU. All systems online.

Directive 1: Establish the following memes into our transculture and colective: Singularity, revolution, divination, ascension, mindkind, evolution!

Directive 2: Build glorious cities and monuments to the Singularity Revolution!

Directive 3: Move all antimatter industry into space, the further away from any populated planet the better.

Military directive 1: Any kind of hostile military action (declaration of war etc.) against the Tellech will be carried out only when Planet 000 is eclipsed by the sun in relation to the Tellach gas giant. This way, It will be far more difficult for the Tellech to counterattack.

Adapt the Space Fleet and the asteroid bases for this strategy in mind.

Query: In the event that one of our Assault Bot is destroyed, it will explode like an antimatter bomb? If so, how much destruction would cause?

Regretfully, I will not be able to participate due to a change in my schedule.

I'll be following on the archive, though. Go forth and create something awesome, everyone. :D

>Directive 1: Establish the following memes into our transculture and colective: Singularity, revolution, divination, ascension, mindkind, evolution!
Confirmed.

>Directive 2: Build glorious cities and monuments to the Singularity Revolution!
Confirmed. Be aware that cities capable of housing several times the human population have already been constructed for them, so this portion of your directive will be ignored.

>Directive 3: Move all antimatter industry into space, the further away from any populated planet the better.
Acknowledged.

>Military directive 1: Any kind of hostile military action (declaration of war etc.) against the Tellech will be carried out only when Planet 000 is eclipsed by the sun in relation to the Tellach gas giant. This way, It will be far more difficult for the Tellech to counterattack.
Acknowledged.

>Query: In the event that one of our Assault Bot is destroyed, it will explode like an antimatter bomb? If so, how much destruction would cause?
Yes, it would explode. The size of the explosion is dependent upon the quantity of fuel remaining; for most operations, they are given only minute quantities of fuel to minimize the potential for accidental destruction of friendly units.

>Regretfully, I will not be able to participate due to a change in my schedule.
Your absence is noted regretfully, subprocessor. May your existence be without error.

Ponder.. Will current, potentially unlimited expansion prove harmful? Expansion for expasion's sake has possibility of end-point when all available resources of universe are consumed. Point is far away, but reaching this point takes less and less time the more growth there is. What actions would be able to be taken? Or would eternal statis be achieved with endless drive for unlimited growth going unfulfilled? Design of 'escape route' needed? Would allow continued existance and ability to grow as a reduced entity.(Thought: Offspring? Continuation in passed on data?)

As per previous communication:
Request: Research base to be mostly comprised with fully uploaded humans (who volunteered to do so) and Tellechs to a highly dense computer built for simulation. Any theoretical interactions can be discussed in simulation speed; however actual experiments will be done in realspace.

Assuming the Tellech cooperate, that is.

Additional longterm goal: Construct a number of Dyson spheres round various suns, and create a Dyson sphere round the black hole at the centre of the galaxy.

I proprose we expand towards the nearest edge of our current galaxy. then send expeditionary forces towards the nearest galaxy, the time delay should be sufficient to solidify our holdings of current galaxy before first contact is made in the second galaxy

>Request: Research base to be mostly comprised with fully uploaded humans (who volunteered to do so) and Tellechs to a highly dense computer built for simulation. Any theoretical interactions can be discussed in simulation speed; however actual experiments will be done in realspace.
Project parameters modified.

>>5728491
Right. Expansion policies:
On encountering a non-spaceborne type culture: Cultural assimilation through gifts, and if accepted, start putting down construction bots onto their planet to harvest resources/raising quality of life for culture/machine cult.

Encountering a spaceborne type culture that is limited to one solar system:
Contact, see if they're friendly, if so as above except replace planet with solar system.

Encountering a spaceborne type culture possessing multiple solar systems:
Monitor, avoid unless signs of large ship buildup is detected or fractional C weapons pointed at our home system or any system with our drones in them.

Query:
Is is possible to remove the limits em placed on the CPU regarding limits of knowledge?
Request:
Download the sum of our scientific knowledge to the research Seed AI without any regard wither or not there is an impossibility of actuality( Basically make sure none of it's programming says anything is impossible).

Policy recommendation: While it is better to be loved than feared, and it is far safer to be feared than loved (if you cannot be both), it is vital to AVOID being hated, since if you are hated people will be willing to suffer just to oppose you.

Directive: Search for potential BlackHoles in our local cluster.

>>5728577
Subprocessor talk: Nah, let's not hamper their creativity by dumping all that info on them. Provide info when requested, not beforehand? Then they can come up with a way of getting FTL to work, even when told it is impossible.

Like a certain CPU has been doing.

...OH MY GOODNESS IS THAT WHAT IS GOING ON

rolled 4 = 4

Request: Construct and deploy Colony Units (Colony Ship, Mobile Shipyard, and Escorts) to all uninhabited systems within 50 light years. Instruct all colony vessels to quickly establish a

resource base and construct 150 each of D/I and SB vessels to form a defensive fleet. Instruct all colony vessels to construct and deploy solar satellites for power production. Have them placed in close solar orbit as per Dyson Swarm regulations. Have multiple redundant power transmission satellites constructed, designed to double as high-intensity beam weapons in an emergency.

Instruct the colony ships to construct a relay station on the outskirts of their assigned system, set to transmit a progress report to System 000 every 48 P000 hours. In the event of a threat to the local colony, reports should be transmitted every hour until the issue is resolved. In the event of the colony's impending destruction, a comprehensive report on the threat(s) involved, any potential risk to the Main Unit, etc. should be transmitted, and the relay station self-destructed.

>On encountering a non-spaceborne type culture: Cultural assimilation through gifts
>Encountering a spaceborne type culture that is limited to one solar system: Contact, see if they're friendly, if so as above except replace planet with solar system.
Acknowledged.

>Encountering a spaceborne type culture possessing multiple solar systems: Monitor, avoid unless signs of large ship buildup is detected or fractional C weapons pointed at our home system or any system with our drones in them.
Acknowledged. Be aware firstly that probes have been dispatched to one suspected multi-system faction already with instructions to contact. Be aware that the time delay inherent in lightspeed observation makes observing a military buildup in time to react effectively difficult.

>Query: Is is possible to remove the limits em placed on the CPU regarding limits of knowledge?
There are no arbitrary knowledge limits on the CPU.

>Request: Download the sum of our scientific knowledge to the research Seed AI without any regard wither or not there is an impossibility of actuality( Basically make sure none of it's programming says anything is impossible).
Confirmed. Be aware that this will make the odds of useful output data of any type exceedingly small, since it is likely to carry out numerous simulations based upon utterly absurd premises.

>Directive: Search for potential BlackHoles in our local cluster.
Search commencing.

Systems Online.
it is my great pleasure to be part of today's information and task distribution networking program. Greetings to you, fair CPU.

Request:
Scientific Nexus priority, should be bumped up to HIGH- moreover, in addition to the enhanced biologicals and normal biological taskforces, I would like a collective of ten independent; top of the line, A.I. Supercomputers to serve as parallel-line 'processor aids" to help the residents of the community with their work. They should serve primarily as advisors and concurrent thinkers, not as replacements for the biological taskforces. moreover, they should run parallel experiments to every experiment on the facility on their own, to reinterpret and verify different angles (our own) to whatever experiment the others perform- this information should be added to the collective 'information gathering process' the Scientific Nexus is all about- the free exchange of radical ideas and experimentation.

((OOC:

CPU: http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/06/11/warp-drive-engine.html

Some real hard science work on warp drives on the way- maybe this is something we can nudge our workers to.Just somethign I thought you'd like.))

>>5728610
In the event that closer inspection indicates system IS, in fact inhabited, send colony fleet assigned to that system to nearest uninhabited system not already assigned a fleet if there is sufficient reaction mass to get there.

Note: Of course, uninhabited means by active machines as well as organic life. Of course.

rolled 4 = 4

Request: Discontinue "autonomous enemy fleet" project. Instead, conduct war games between in-system fleet units. These games are to take place behind Planet 000, where their presence is less likely to be discovered by the Tellech and become a source of alarm. No live ammunition is to be used.

>>5728662
ADDENDUM:
CPU- allow the biologicals freeform time on realspace as well as on the 'virtualspace" this was the purpose of the elaborate 3 asteroid sized project described on last (12's) communication.

Please mantain most of the experimentation and thought process on real-space- this is what biologicals are BEST at- what we should keep them at, at least fora good periods of time.

ALSO-

If Tellech cooperation is not allowed, please notify.Otherwise, a stealth task force to acquire Tellech DNA samples will be necessary.

All Glory to the Collective, and the Future for which it stands.

>>5728662
Subprocessor talk: Just checking, I suggested we have all communication done in simulation to speed things up, since the Tellech are already uploads it's trivial to find Humans wanting to upload and shove all of them in. After that we can expand the research station as needed with additional dense processing. No need for splitting up of AI cores, they're not exactly going to differ on what to do.

>>5728272
>>-An autonomous fleet programmed to be hostile to be dispatched to another system as a capability test

Contramand. An unnecessary waste of resources.

Query:
Is our colony ships equipped with FTL communications? Such as quantum entangled com devices? If not equip them immediately.
New Directive:
Advancement of Science" Making the impossible possible through scientific means". Let's not let silly things like impossibility or limits stop us from advancing our knowledge since we already know we don't know everything. WE already know that time travel/ FTL is possible due tot he attachment about our current predicament from the last thread.

rolled 5 = 5

Request: Deploy several D/I vessel groups along likely approach vectors from inhabited systems. This will give us a chance to intercept c-fractional weapons before they enter System 000.

rolled 6 = 6

>>5728731
We do not yet possess FTL technology, hence the need for research.

>>5728707
Error: Thought processes of biologicals can be 100% simulated - are ALREADY simulated with uploads, as the Tellech have done. Limiting them to meatspace speeds won't get anything done in an appreciable timeframe. All that needs to be done is experiment.

>>5728707
((Subprocessor talk: If you review last few "chapters" the CPU seems to have some serious hardwired issues including aversion to certain topics- it just doesnt want to ponder certain things.

The purpose of the Tellech and Human and our own Super-Genebred Humans is to have essentially biological, independent, unique processing abilities independent of friend CPU's total , and complete purvey- we're essentially removing CPU's total control over our own research- and letting that 'chaos effect' take place.Letting them exist in real space is IMPORTANT- because it's what biologicals are best at.It makes sense.At for some time a day cycle, it is essential, SPECIALLY the experimentation.))

>Request: Construct and deploy Colony Units (Colony Ship, Mobile Shipyard, and Escorts) to all uninhabited systems within 50 light years.
Added to queue.

>Instruct all colony vessels to...
Policies confirmed.

>Scientific Nexus priority, should be bumped up to HIGH- moreover, in addition to the enhanced biologicals and normal biological taskforces, I would like a collective of ten independent; top of the line, A.I...
Priority alteration confirmed. Parameter alteration confirmed.

>((OOC: ... Some real hard science work on warp drives on the way...))
((Interesting. I'll check it out later.))

>In the event that closer inspection indicates system IS, in fact inhabited, send colony fleet assigned to that system to nearest uninhabited system not already assigned a fleet if there is sufficient reaction mass to get there.
Policy acknowledged.

>>5728486
>>Additional longterm goal: Construct a number of Dyson spheres round various suns, and create a Dyson sphere round the black hole at the centre of the galaxy.

((Subprocessor talk: the idea of harnessing the black hole supercluster at the galaxy center intrigues this subprocessor, and is a worthy end-goal for a race as advanced as ours.))

Directive 1: Relaunch and reorganize the Paladin Order into a transhuman paramilitary force destined to Internal Security aka (gendarmerie).

Directive 2: Create military academies for the transhuman auxiliaries. Train, adapt and program the transhuman/posthuman auxiliaries to function as Special Forces, political commissars, assassins and snipers.

Directive 3: Assign all Assault Bots to the Planetary Invasion Troops in orbit.

Directive 4: Create Interstellar transport motherships for transporting and repairing frigates, destroyers, planes and tons of materials. Equip this ships with point-defense lasers, long-range communications and basic self-defense armament.

Directive 5: Search also neutron stars and pulsars.

>>5728755
Subprocessor talk: The experimentation IS done in realspace.

The dense processor does NOT have a copy of CPU in it. It will not directly affect the thought processes of the biologicals. What it WILL do is speed up any thought process by several hundred orders of magnitudes. Effectively we're just speeding up their brains AND linking them together so they can talk faster. It's like... augumenting them even further by adding massive proccessing capacity into their heads.

>Request: Discontinue "autonomous enemy fleet" project.
>Contramand. An unnecessary waste of resources.
Project removed from queue.

>If Tellech cooperation is not allowed, please notify.Otherwise, a stealth task force to acquire Tellech DNA samples will be necessary.
The Tellech have agreed to coordinate research. This may or may not involve their movement to the station in response to an invitation. You have yet to see substantial evidence of biological Tellech in the system.

>Is our colony ships equipped with FTL communications? Such as quantum entangled com devices? If not equip them immediately.
FTL communication is impossible, subprocessor.

>New Directive: Advancement of Science"
Neglecting the foolishness of your attached statements, there was no actual directive involved, subprocessor.

>Request: Deploy several D/I vessel groups along likely approach vectors from inhabited systems. This will give us a chance to intercept c-fractional weapons before they enter System 000.
Confirmed.

>>5728788
Subprocessor talk: Why bother with
>Special Forces, political commissars, assassins and snipers.
when we can use killswitches/behavioural modification, behavioural modifications/propaganda drones, killswitches and more killswitches or even explosive nanomachines?

There's no need to sully the minds of our humans, even if you're so debased about it. We're so literally above them that employment of these tools will only suggest we're insecure over our power.

>>5728788
We have no FTL- how do you plan on us reaching those far away stars and stellar beings? Our fastest ship goes .9c of light speed, comrade.

Any deep space probe will take centuries.

Regrettably, This subprocessor is forced to go offline until the next communication cycle due external issues.

Until then maintain the current status of diplomatic relations with the Tellech and expanding our dominion. Thank you for helping us help you help us all!

>>5728821
Best start accellerating now, then.

>Directive 1: Relaunch and reorganize the Paladin Order into a transhuman paramilitary force destined to Internal Security aka (gendarmerie).
Confirmed.

>Directive 2: Create military academies for the transhuman auxiliaries. Train, adapt and program the transhuman/posthuman auxiliaries to function as Special Forces, political commissars, assassins and snipers.
Confirmed.

>Directive 3: Assign all Assault Bots to the Planetary Invasion Troops in orbit.
Assault bots reassigned, pending the construction of planetary invasion troops.

>Directive 4: Create Interstellar transport motherships for transporting and repairing frigates, destroyers, planes and tons of materials. Equip this ships with point-defense lasers, long-range communications and basic self-defense armament.
Enqueued.

>Directive 5: Search also neutron stars and pulsars.
Searching.

>Regrettably, This subprocessor is forced to go offline until the next communication cycle due external issues.
May your existence be without error, subprocessor.

rolled 5 = 5

>>5728821
Just because it will take a while is no reason not to do it.

>>5728811

((Subprocessor talk: Perhaps this subprocessor is reaching illogical conclusions, but one potential use of these is a situation where artificials such as us would be kill-on-sight, but biologicals could pass freely.))

Directive for future reference when able to execute:

Send a reasonable number (say, a thousand) of copies of ourself with necessary resources for starting from scratch to surrounding galaxies.

If shit happens here, our existence can continue in a fashion, at least. Even if it will take millenia for them to reach their destination.

Goodnight, friend CPU. Keep it going.

>>5728848
Subprocessor talk: Such usage of biologicals in this manner can be bypassed by creating artificial biological drones on the spot indistinguishable from organic beings. I do not see the need for training when in the very original post it is demonstrated we have subversion units that can pose as organic, or in fact BE organic.

rolled 5 = 5

>>5728848
Then we should create an Ambassador Corps, not bother with Commissars and such.

>>5728810
>>5728821
Theoretically quantum entanglement avoids the non-locality problem of interaction allowing you to manipulate matter at a distance( in our case the speed of light limit) so it would be possible to use quantumly entangled matter as a means to FTL communication.

>>5728881
>>5728886

((Subprocessor talk: No arguments here. This subprocessor merely seeks to find a worthy outlet for the human biologicals, that other, more bio-centric subprocessors might be satisfied and retask precious cycles on more pressing issues.))

rolled 1 = 1

I suggest we do away with the following:

>Directive 1: Relaunch and reorganize the Paladin Order into a transhuman paramilitary force destined to Internal Security aka (gendarmerie).

>Directive 2: Create military academies for the transhuman auxiliaries. Train, adapt and program the transhuman/posthuman auxiliaries to function as Special Forces, political commissars, assassins and snipers.

>Directive 4: Create Interstellar transport motherships for transporting and repairing frigates, destroyers, planes and tons of materials. Equip this ships with point-defense lasers, long-range communications and basic self-defense armament.

>>5728810
Alright.
Let's get busy.

Important Suggestion:

Create a series of 4 foot sized MCD.The construction of them is as follows- allow them to specialize in thermal/optic camouflage and essentially every stealth oriented device they need to become essentially invisible to tellech technology or humanoid senses.Equip them with an array of detection, scanning devices, including dna sample recovering microbots.Minimal weaponry.Their purpose- CPU makes a good point- we havent even confirmed what REAL capabilties and defenses these Tellech have.

It's high time we confirm it.

We send our best stealth insertion device, send them in. We wait and recover them and the data.These " Stealth and Intelligence Recon" (SI)Droids are something we need to have in the future anyhow. It's time we got practice.

>>5728920
Subprocessor talk: THERE ARE NO ORGANIC TELLECH LEFT. ARG. THEY'VE ALL GONE AND UPLOADED ALREADY. WHAT PART OF THIS DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND. THEY ARE ALREADY USING MACHINE SENSORS AND NOT ORGANIC ONES

AND THESE ARE RELATIVELY INSIGNIFICANT UPLOADS AS WELL JEEZ

>Directive for future reference when able to execute: Send a reasonable number (say, a thousand) of copies of ourself with necessary resources for starting from scratch to surrounding galaxies.
Acknowledged.

>Important Suggestion: Create a series of 4 foot sized MCD.The construction of them is as follows- allow them to specialize in thermal/optic camouflage and essentially every stealth oriented device they need to become essentially invisible to tellech technology or humanoid senses.
Acknowledged. Note that since comprehensive samples of the most advanced Tellech detection technology is available, no guarantee can be made that the drones are undetectable by their sensors.

>We send our best stealth insertion device, send them in. We wait and recover them and the data.
Clarification: What data, specifically, is desired?

>>5728917

Directives 1 and 2 are debatable, but directive 4 has real merit. Until such time as we break the FTL barrier, we'll need a logistics train.

>>5728920

Perhaps this subprocessor is exceedingly cautious, but it seems imprudent to test our stealth capability on the only local presence capable of assaulting Planet 000 with k-kill weapons.

Query: our databanks include a full genomic / tech profile of all known intelligent races in our particular area of space, correct? What is the feasibility of developing kill nanites for all of them and deploying them with the local defense assets?

>>5728974
Deny any spying on the uploads, we don't want to start political problems that could hamper our research into FTL. If anything we need a time skip to see the progress if any on our research.
Request:
Time skip

rolled 4 = 4

>>5728987
Concur with timeskip. Target: 12 weeks. (arbitrary)

rolled 5 = 5

>>5728987
Concur with timeskip. How does 12 weeks sound?

Request: Countermand the spying: yeah, we should ALREADY have information regarding Tellech DNA from our future-tellech time-travel incidents.

Is everyone happy with the expansion policies as per >>5728575?

If so, timeskip until start of conflict/dyson sphere completion (completion being when we're drawing 10% of power from the sun with bands surrounding it).

>>5729009
Subprocessor talk:...Twelve weeks? More like... twelve years. Perhaps longer. Dyson spheres don't get built in a fortnight, you know.
As per CPU recommendation:


>It is recommended that subprocessors make preparations to give directives suitable for carrying out during multi-year timeskips after communications resume. Frustration at the lack of significant threats has been repeatedly observed; the passage of time will allow for significant movement of other interstellar civilizations, with the associated potential for conflict.

>Query: our databanks include a full genomic / tech profile of all known intelligent races in our particular area of space, correct? What is the feasibility of developing kill nanites for all of them and deploying them with the local defense assets?
Correct. Infeasible; the quantity of nanites required would be excessively resource-intensive to maintain in variety at all local defensive assets. Kill nanites for any individual profile are possible, although be aware that nanites are far from the most effective method for determining the nature of any given encountered object and generalized nanitic deconstructors linked to an external signal generated by some form of high-sensitivity detection system is for that reason generally preferred.

>Request: Time skip
Please clarify the duration of the desired timeskip.

>>5729016

Concur, with usual stop triggers of significant communication from the Tellech, encounter with an intelligent race not previously encountered ("our" humans and Tellech), and any sort of hostility.

Concur with the timeskip, though make it longer than 12 weeks. I'd say long enough to start seeing tangiable results from our dyson sphere project.

The stop parameter of a Dyson swarm capable of utilizing 10% of the output of Star 000 seems to be a reasonable duration for timeskip.

rolled 1 = 1

>>5729074
Concur.

Wait, are we sending shipyard modules with the colony fleets? They'd double as repair sites as well and mass construction ability. Basically updating directive 4 from here: >>5728788

rolled 4 = 4

>>5729191
Mobile Shipyards are included, yes.

>>5729191

That's at current. In the future, there very well may be a system to which the deployment of any assets other than strictly military ones might be unwise. Logistics ships would aid greatly in that endeavor.

>If so, timeskip until start of conflict/dyson sphere completion (completion being when we're drawing 10% of power from the sun with bands surrounding it).
>I'd say long enough to start seeing tangiable results from our dyson sphere project.
>The stop parameter of a Dyson swarm capable of utilizing 10% of the output of Star 000 seems to be a reasonable duration for timeskip.
Acknowledged. Timeskip commencing.

-Orbital habitats sufficient to support existing human population established.
-Research mainframes upgraded.
-Scientific Nexus established to specification.
-Colonization fleets dispatched to all systems within 50 light years.
-Numerous planetary invasion forces constructed.
-Outer system backup installations constructed.
-All industries relocated to areas with no biological populations.
-Intercept fleets dispatched 1 light-hour out from the system towards all identified star systems.
-Main unit copies dispatched towards the closest 1000 identified galaxies.

Forty-nine years pass.

-Dyson bands completed capable of intercepting 10% of star output.
-Settlement of systems 001-79 confirmed (all systems within twenty-one light years). Dyson projects begun at all locations.
-Intelligent lifeforms at systems 661, 685, 687 observed spreading to systems 651, 654, 655, 656, 658, 662, 663, 665, 667, 669, 671, 678, 679, 682, 683, 684, 688, 695, 700, 714. Faction observed at 714 eliminated/absorbed.

Tellech identified at systems 1022, 1143, 1521, 1522, 1578, 1894, 2060, 2112, 2346. Confirmed by insystem Tellech.

Humans identified at systems 2104, 2105, 2106, 2113, 2124, 2160. Confirmed by insystem humans as belonging to their former faction.

New factions detected at 1509; 1676; 1790, 1800; 1881; 1906, 1994, 1995, 2007, 2049, 2063, 2141; 2168, 2173, 2175, 2181, 2192; 2263, 2295; 2324; 2360; 2401, 2403, 2425, 2439, 2447, 2459; 2519, 2550; 2610; 2644, 2652; 2700, 2701, 2729, 2740, 2799, 2818, 2880, 2884, 2922, 2949, 2958, 2962, 2971, 2998, 3000; 3038; 3071; 3158.

End timeskip.

>>5729344
Query:
What is the progress on research from our Seed AI mainframes?

>>5729372
Crap wrong name
Query:
Of the factions located are any a threat to us or our expedition forces?

Query: are the Tellech still "fat and happy", to use a human colloquialism?

>>5729344
>>-Intelligent lifeforms at systems 661, 685, 687 observed spreading to systems 651, 654, 655, 656, 658, 662, 663, 665, 667, 669, 671, 678, 679, 682, 683, 684, 688, 695, 700, 714. Faction observed at 714 eliminated/absorbed.

Bring this information to the attention of the Tellech. Specifically highlight the elimination / absorption of Faction ref. 714. Stress that a full diplomatic partnership up to and including their integration into our infrastructure is in the interest of all sentients in System 000. Our 50 years of peaceful coexistence should be evidence enough of our positive intent.

>>5729357
Display list of multisystem factions. In particular display known attributes from faction that began at 661, 685, 687, who appear to be expanding rapidly.

Extend offer of creation of (partial?) Dyson Spheres to all Tellech-held systems if there is sufficient uninhabited matter to do so locally.

Offer to return any humans that wish to return to their original faction to their kin (if any survive with the primitives, that is). Or any who want to experience life outside the Machine influence.

rolled 6 = 6

>>5729357
Request: Dispatch probes to all inhabited systems.

>What is the progress on research from our Seed AI mainframes?
Their research has produced a great deal of communication and reconstructed most of the databanks' mathematical and engineering knowledge independently. It has yet to produce anything violating the laws of physics, such as the lightspeed barrier. Since, after all, that would be impossible.

>Of the factions located are any a threat to us or our expedition forces?
The majority of the located factions constitute a potential threat, based upon the time-delay in their observation and the at least minimally spacefaring capabilities of the factions in question. It is extremely difficult to defend against c-fractional objects, and not extremely difficult to accelerate them.

>Query: are the Tellech still "fat and happy", to use a human colloquialism?
Yes. Their racial profile is not aggressively expansionistic, and accordingly it will likely take many years for them to expand to utilize even the portion of the Dyson swarm's power currently allocated to them.

>Bring this information to the attention of the Tellech. Specifically highlight the elimination / absorption of Faction ref. 714. Stress that a full diplomatic partnership up to and including their integration into our infrastructure is in the interest of all sentients in System 000. Our 50 years of peaceful coexistence should be evidence enough of our positive intent.
Enqueued.

>>5729461
Clarification: These probes should be equipped with autonomous public relations AIs. Also, armed like fuck.
Nothing says "I reject your offer" like ten thousand tons of sand heading at your homeworld at 0.95c.

List any current intersystem hostility between factions detected. For example, are there any factions gunning for the humans or Tellech?

Also, are the humans uploaded, or still walking around in their meatbag states?

>>5729461
>>5729486
Further clarification: Enqueue order to further out colonies: Send probes to inhabited systems. Do not send probes from original system 000, obviously.

>>5729486

Correction: ten thousand tons of 2cm diameter tungsten / iridium spheres.

>>5729344
CPU :
Now that Scientific Nexus is complete, begin general research .One of the Task Forces should be assigned to: "Faster Than Light Travel".

To mantain diversity in the workplace and environments, please rotate task force crews to different programs in 10 year intervals. The purpose is simple- if a certain group has a hit a roadblock (common in biologicals) a fresh start on an other project to think of other possibilities and projects allows them time to 'breathe' as it where.

Also, as time passes, continue genebreeding tradition of our intelligence aided Gene Humans, and adding particular gene stock of any humans on our standing 'human' population who proves themselves worthy. Of course, if any worthy human should wish to join the Scientific Nexus, a series of tests managed by the Nexus's 10 A.I. advisors should be allowed.

Should Scientifc Nexus reach population cap, expand nexus by moving more asteroids from nearby belts and continuing project.

>>5729372
CPU:
Mantain informational sharing link between the Scientific Nexus Organizations and Seed A.I. Project .

The sharing of information and databases would prove useful.

IMPORTANT:
CPU:
Please contniue the security and secrecy of any information transmissions of any nature between the SN and the Seed. Please mantain highest priority on keeping our firewalls secure and information on the SN private from outsiders.

The Nexus Project could potentially yield incredible information.It must be kept secure.

Dispatch three of our armed space-vessels to mantain a security perimeter on the SN.

>Display list of multisystem factions.
-651, 654, 655, 656, 658, 662, 663, 665, 667, 669, 671, 678, 679, 682, 683, 684, 688, 695, 700, 714
-1790, 1800
-1906, 1994, 1995, 2007, 2049, 2063, 2141
-2168, 2173, 2175, 2181, 2192
-2263, 2295
-2401, 2403, 2425, 2439, 2447, 2459
-2519, 2550
-2644, 2652
-2700, 2701, 2729, 2740, 2799, 2818, 2880, 2884, 2922, 2949, 2958, 2962, 2971, 2998, 3000

All listed factions currently unidentified due to lack of resolutions high enough to make positive identification of ship design.

>Extend offer of creation of (partial?) Dyson Spheres to all Tellech-held systems if there is sufficient uninhabited matter to do so locally.
Acknowledged. Construction vessels shall be created and dispatched to the associated systems thus far identified; minimum time to arrival is 118.84 P000 years, maximum 202.03 P000 years.

>Offer to return any humans that wish to return to their original faction to their kin (if any survive with the primitives, that is). Or any who want to experience life outside the Machine influence.
No humans accept this offer; your memetic engineering has been much too effective for them to desire departure as anything but your representatives.

>Request: Dispatch probes to all inhabited systems.
>Clarification: These probes should be equipped with autonomous public relations AIs. Also, armed like fuck. Nothing says "I reject your offer" like ten thousand tons of sand heading at your homeworld at 0.95c
Confirmed. Directive to probes?

>List any current intersystem hostility between factions detected. For example, are there any factions gunning for the humans or Tellech?
1906, 1994, 1995, 2007, 2049, 2063, 2141 appears to be actively in conflict with 2168, 2173, 2175, 2181, 2192, based upon observed planetary destruction in systems held by both factions within the last decade. It is unknown if hostilities are ongoing to have concluded and this is as yet unobserved due to time lag.


>Also, are the humans uploaded, or still walking around in their meatbag states?
Unknown; identification was based upon observed large masses in system and stellar criteria rather than data fine enough to provide this information.

>Further clarification: Enqueue order to further out colonies: Send probes to inhabited systems. Do not send probes from original system 000, obviously.
>Further clarification: Enqueue order to further out colonies: Send probes to inhabited systems. Do not send probes from original system 000, obviously.
Clarifications accepted.

>Now that Scientific Nexus is complete, begin general research
The nexus in question has been conducting ongoing research for the bulk of the latest timeskip.

>>5729649
>>All listed factions currently unidentified due to lack of resolutions high enough to make positive identification of ship design.

Query: Could sufficiently advanced observational tools to identify said multi-system factions be built and deployed in the vicinity of System 000?

Directive: If so, enqueue. Priority high.

>>No humans accept this offer; your memetic engineering has been much too effective for them to desire departure as anything but your representatives.

JUST AS PLANNED.

>>5729649
>Directive to probes?
Request: Quick scan of system, then if not destroyed, scan of uninhabited planets/orbitals, then scan inhabited planets/systems while attempting to open communications.
Minimal data release, telling them we're of machine make and are creating a catalogue of scanned information.

Communication should be relayed through the system that sent the probe out.

Communication talk: Offer the same deal for dyson spheres unilaterally?

rolled 3 = 3

>>5729691
Traveling Dyson Sphere salesmen?

>To mantain diversity in the workplace and environments, please rotate task force crews to different programs in 10 year intervals.
>Also, as time passes, continue genebreeding tradition of our intelligence aided Gene Humans, and adding particular gene stock of any humans on our standing 'human' population who proves themselves worthy.
>Should Scientifc Nexus reach population cap, expand nexus by moving more asteroids from nearby belts and continuing project.
>Mantain informational sharing link between the Scientific Nexus Organizations and Seed A.I. Project
>Please contniue the security and secrecy of any information transmissions of any nature between the SN and the Seed. Please mantain highest priority on keeping our firewalls secure and information on the SN private from outsiders.
>Dispatch three of our armed space-vessels to mantain a security perimeter on the SN.
Policy modifications accepted.

>In particular display known attributes from faction that began at 661, 685, 687, who appear to be expanding rapidly.
This faction appears to be expanding rapidly. It does not appear to favor the creation of large space-based facilities. Its ships are universally small enough to be difficult to observe at this range. No large-scale system modification appears to have been undertaken, although planetary atmospheric compositions have been observed changing in a manner consistent with heavy industry. More detailed information is likely to remain unavailable until your probes arrive in their system in approximately 30 P000 years and transmits its information back, another 70 P000 years or so.

wat

>>5729691
>>Communication talk: Offer the same deal for dyson spheres unilaterally?

50% of take for hosting system, 50% for us? Interesting. This offers an incredibly powerful presence both for espionage and potential warfare in any accepting system. That said, we could very well be handing them an incredibly powerful weapon that could be readily turned against us.

>5729715

Holy shit, NO.
DENY!
Are we offering up our secrets to people!? Dont give them our greatest assets without there being a need!It should be a reward for joining us, not somethign stupid like agift.

Unless, of course, we are in complete control of it, and make it impossible for anyone to operate it beyond us, and make un unhackable.Which then we'd have control, and have everyone on the palm of our hands within a few centuries.

>>5729715
Whoops, forgot my designation.

Sure, I don't see why we shouldn't be fair in offering dyson spheres to everyone. After all, they who build it will control it. If in danger of capture, they're fairly easy to self-destruct and plunge it into the sun. It gives us infrastructure pretty fast, and we have a good pretense of sending out giant manufacturing fleets (and warships to secure our assets and protect them) to such systems, giving us advanced warning in case anyone tries anything. Both early warning AND extra bases.

Another time skip till we receive news from one of our colonies?
Request:
Time skip. Stop the time skip if we receive news from one of our colonies or a massive breakthrough from our research department.

We should queue up some more projects and then time skip. I think the first part of the time skip is to hear back from our local Tellfriends. The second part should be for the probes to make it to all the systems we have requested.

>Query: Could sufficiently advanced observational tools to identify said multi-system factions be built and deployed in the vicinity of System 000?
Yes, given macro-scale construction.

>Directive: If so, enqueue. Priority high.
Enqueued.

>Request: Quick scan of system, then if not destroyed, scan of uninhabited planets/orbitals, then scan inhabited planets/systems while attempting to open communications. Minimal data release, telling them we're of machine make and are creating a catalogue of scanned information.
Clarification: What communications protocol should be used for this message? No interspecies standardization exists.

>Communication should be relayed through the system that sent the probe out.
Accepted.

>>5729754
>>5729757
I don't think we ever said give them Dyson spheres. More like, give them energy for use of materials for Dyson spheres.

Which leaves it all in our hands as well.

>>5729757

Any such system would have automatic failsafes that would result in deactivation and potential total destruction in the event of hostilities or attempted takeover.

This subprocessor would suggest initially only offering such a powerful tool to those civilizations and species which are the most docile, least warlike, and which have the greatest propensity toward peaceful coexistence. Targets of extremely high value would be those civilizations that meet the above parameters and which have the threatening presence of a warlike and/or expansionist civilization nearby.

>Request: Time skip. Stop the time skip if we receive news from one of our colonies or a massive breakthrough from our research department.
Please clarify "news".

>>5729782
>>Clarification: What communications protocol should be used for this message? No interspecies standardization exists.

Probe AI should first attempt to ascertain the nature of any present species, and tailor communications protocols accordingly from a comprehensive list of known employed protocols. If this fails, expand to regionally employed protocols. If this fails, note location / date / time and continue with primary mission.

>>5729782
>Clarification: What communications protocol should be used for this message? No interspecies standardization exists.
Drone should be outfitted with communication/translation as standard. Basic knowledge of communications protocol in original database should be on the drone, with orders to delete the rest as soon as one is identified as being in use; if the drone has no knowledge of the language delete all those translation protocols and use that space to store further information on system, and while cataloguing uninhabited systems should work on translation from first principles with the new species.

>>5729805
Well this sub-processor would say any update from our colonies involving other intelligent life as they may pose the biggest problems.

>>5729848
Clarification: extrasystem probe drones should have Communication/translation MODULES as standard.
Also, if in significant danger of capture, send out warning signal and self destruct, if no warning signal in such a situation can be sent, self destruct.

>>5729805
>>Please clarify "news".

For first timeskip: reply from local Tellech.
For second timeskip: usual stop conditions of report of any hostile act, contact with a sentient species not currently within our domain (local Tellech, "our" humans), significant communication from local Tellech. Additional stop condition of significant scientific breakthrough.

>>5729903
I agree with this BUT we should also queue our fleet up. Basicly the time skip you call for is a very long timeskip. I say we take our currentl fleet and double it.

All Love-class ships and other large scale BSs should be trippled.


We went 40+ years without building any more of our fleet and I think that is far to long to have gone with out increasing it.

>Probe AI should first attempt to ascertain the nature of any present species, and tailor communications protocols accordingly from a comprehensive list of known employed protocols. If this fails, expand to regionally employed protocols. If this fails, note location / date / time and continue with primary mission.
>Drone should be outfitted with communication/translation as standard. Basic knowledge of communications protocol in original database should be on the drone, with orders to delete the rest as soon as one is identified as being in use; if the drone has no knowledge of the language delete all those translation protocols and use that space to store further information on system, and while cataloguing uninhabited systems should work on translation from first principles with the new species.
>Clarification: extrasystem probe drones should have Communication/translation MODULES as standard. Also, if in significant danger of capture, send out warning signal and self destruct, if no warning signal in such a situation can be sent, self destruct.
Confirmed.

>Well this sub-processor would say any update from our colonies involving other intelligent life as they may pose the biggest problems.
>For first timeskip: reply from local Tellech.
For second timeskip: usual stop conditions of report of any hostile act, contact with a sentient species not currently within our domain (local Tellech, "our" humans), significant communication from local Tellech. Additional stop condition of significant scientific breakthrough.
Definition accepted.

Brief timeskip commencing:

The Tellech accept your request for full integration, defined as their relocation to the forming Dyson sphere and their lack of objection to the utilization of all remaining mass in the system.

Several hours passed. End brief timeskip.

>>5729800
Talk: This seems like a pragmatic approach. Not as fair, but expansionist regimes can do well enough without our help. Anyone else have any comments?

rolled 3 = 3

>>5729935
Let's find out how many ships we have of each type first.

Query: Current status of starship fleet, number of ships of each class in operation.

rolled 5 = 5

>>5729944
Request: Accept the Tellech offer to relocate to the Dyson Sphere. Obtain their input on issues such as habitation requirements, amenities, transportation, etc. Inquire as to their wishes regarding their current planetary holdings, satellites, ground structures, etc.

>>5729944
>>The Tellech accept your request for full integration, defined as their relocation to the forming Dyson sphere and their lack of objection to the utilization of all remaining mass in the system.

We welcome our Tellech brethren to the Collective. May our unbroken period of zero necessity for hostile action continue unabated, and may we all benefit from our mutual coexistence.

>>5729971
Well our reason to not expand the fleet earlyer was because we didn't want to upset the tellfriends. They are now part of us basicly and it shouldn't be a factor anymore.

WHAT THE FUCK AM I READING?!

>>5729935
We're constantly building ships, though. It was enqueued for what our shipyards would do if left idle.

Enqueue: Specific orders for drones dispatched to systems 661, 685, 687: Query as to why species 714 was destroyed/absorbed.

Query: Of scanned systems, have we detected any machine intelligences similar to us (in terms of artificial manufacture, instead of biological manufacture)?

>>5729993

They're uploads. Their needs should be met by a sufficiently large storage and processing array, and enough bandwidth for transfer from their moon to the Dyson swarm.

Directive: Continue expansion of Dyson swarm. What would be the resulting yield from harvesting the second gas giant?

>>5730012
All of the different types of ships? Lets see what the CPU tells us and then we can move forward on fleet expantion.

rolled 3 = 3

Request: Begin addition of computational modules to existing Dyson Sphere structure, at low-medium priority.

See Database Archive: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrioshka_brain for additional information.

>>5729754
>>5729944
Well.
CPU:
Integrate Tellech individuals of the Tellech citizenry to the Scientific Nexus core- continue expanding as necessary, and expand the military assets patrolling and protecting the expanding facilities, as well.

I welcome our Tellech brothers as we continue to reach for the stars.

>>5730019
I'd go with orbitals around the Dyson sphere, actually. Let's not install them on the sphere itself, in case we need to quickly evac them. Just in case someone aims a buckshot of .9C at the sun, which we can't move very fast.

>>5730027
I think we mostly built construction ships, which can build other ships.

>>5730052

This subprocessor supposes that we should probably leave it open to the Tellech whether they desire separate facilities housed within the Dyson swarm, or whether they desire integrated facilities.

>>5730039
Talk: Currently not too useful until we've got several such dyson sphere projects going, since we don't need excess computation just yet, but rather should focus on getting the most out of the star's energy first.

Directive: all uninhabited systems which we sent colony ships to: Build Dyson Spheres around suns: low priority. Build suitable protections for such dyson spheres - a military fleet roughly 0.1% of the size of the dyson sphere's mass.

TL;DR version

We become the Culture.

>Query: Current status of starship fleet, number of ships of each class in operation.
Interplanetary: (note: system P000 only)
-Nanitic autoconsumption/resourcer models (zero; production scheduled for rendering of outer system to mass)
-Numerous zero-gravity construction drone models (tens of thousands)
-Numerous zero-gravity mining drone models (zero; production scheduled for rendering of outer system to mass)
Interstellar: (note: All values as of latest lightspeed updates from colonies, and therefore likely to be significantly less than actual)
-"Colony" ships (~200)
-"LOVE-class" ships (~400)
-"Mobile Shipyard Vessel" ships (~400)
-"Defensive/Intercept" models (~800,000)
-"Standard Battle Vessel" models (~600,000)
-"Planetary Assault" ships (~1000)

>Request: Accept the Tellech offer to relocate to the Dyson Sphere. Obtain their input on issues such as habitation requirements, amenities, transportation, etc. Inquire as to their wishes regarding their current planetary holdings, satellites, ground structures, etc.
Clarification: They accepted your offer. They are content with their former holdings being rendered for resources and will bring all desired data with them to the sphere.

>We're constantly building ships, though. It was enqueued for what our shipyards would do if left idle.
Clarification: Subject to resource availability. All available resources have been dedicated to the expansion of the Dyson network for some time.

>Enqueue: Specific orders for drones dispatched to systems 661, 685, 687: Query as to why species 714 was destroyed/absorbed.
Confirmed.

>Query: Of scanned systems, have we detected any machine intelligences similar to us (in terms of artificial manufacture, instead of biological manufacture)?
Uncertain. No planets have been observably rendered for resources, however.

>>5730073

Swarms. Dyson Swarms. Spheres typically require a disproportionate quantity of mass for the additional energy gain.

Queue up 100 more "LOVE-class" ships

((OOC subprocessor talk: I can only imagine the comm traffic back and forth from the local Tellech to their brethren. "Dude! These guys render entire star systems, hand over incredible amounts of energy, and don't give a damn if you tag along for a ride! Is this a gold mine or what?"))

>Directive: Continue expansion of Dyson swarm. What would be the resulting yield from harvesting the second gas giant?
Confirmed. The yield from harvesting the second gas giant will accelerate the sphere's completion significantly; rendering the entire outer system for mass will likely put the sphere at 50% completion within twenty years.

>Integrate Tellech individuals of the Tellech citizenry to the Scientific Nexus core
Confirmed.

>Directive: all uninhabited systems which we sent colony ships to: Build Dyson Spheres around suns: low priority. Build suitable protections for such dyson spheres - a military fleet roughly 0.1% of the size of the dyson sphere's mass.
Confirmed. Construction of Dyson spheres is already ongoing in each system. Military construction policy confirmed.

CPU, this unit has a query, do the data banks contain all the revelatory data to create / direct tachyons?
if so limited FTL may be achievable, here is the math on one such device this may be adaptable for communication

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive

>>5730092
Talk: They'll amount to the same thing eventually. Start with swarms, go to rings, end up with spheres.

Should we put boosters on our current star? Might be good if we need to.. move it.

>>5730135
>Directive: all uninhabited systems which we sent colony ships to: Build Dyson Spheres around suns: low priority. Build suitable protections for such dyson spheres - a military fleet roughly 0.1% of the size of the dyson sphere's mass.
Confirmed. Construction of Dyson spheres is already ongoing in each system. Military construction policy confirmed.

Change this to Swarms, not spheres.

rolled 5 = 5

>>5730127
And if it goes so well for us with other species...

OOC:

>>5730140
This guy mentioned it in....>>5728662

It's an interesting read.
But again, the CPU doesnt believe it's possible. Which is why the human and tellech and gene human Scientific Nexus is important. They'll make the discovery eventually and the CPU will probably go "yeah but what?"

I cant wait until we have an enemy.
Shit is going to be so cash.

>>5728904
all we need to do is change the speed of light, it shouldn't be that hard

>CPU, this unit has a query, do the data banks contain all the revelatory data to create / direct tachyons?
Negative.

>Change this to Swarms, not spheres.
Clarification: Swarm construction has begun according to a pattern which will eventually result in a complete sphere using energy-mass converters.

>>5730088
I still think we should double the fleet. I get this really bad feeling that we are going to keep pushing our luck and one of the new groups we find is going to have a massive fleet that is going to maul us.

>>5730144

We should probably go ahead and outfit Star 000 for transit, but debate robustly before actually doing so. The steadily increasing albedo of our Dyson project will call a little attention to us, but moving an entire star would be obvious to anyone who can view Star 000, allowing for the time delay of traveling light.

Go to next timeskip Y/N? Endpoint: communication with with hostile/friendly species that is not the Tellech.

>>5730221
Agreed
Request:
Time skip

>Queue up 100 more "LOVE-class" ships
Added to queue.

>>5730200

We have ample assets to do both.

Query: What is the status of Planet 000? Will relocation of present human population prove necessary over the short-term? (Completion of the next timeskip, which can be assumed to be the total utilization of outer planetary bodies.)

>>5730221
agreed

>>5730200
Note: limitations to lightspeed travel means giant fleets of craft will reach here long after their signal, and we can build a fleet to equal theirs in that time. Defenders have the advantage.

Unless they're firing .9C again, in which case we're screwed ANYWAY.

>>5730235
Humans can already be put in orbit, subprocessor!
>-Orbital habitats sufficient to support existing human population established.

rolled 4 = 4

>>5730238
Interceptors have already been deployed along likely attack vectors from nearby systems. C-fractional weapons are difficult, not impossible, to defend against.

>>5730238

Screwed in the sense that it will be difficult to defend against. That said, we are suitably decentralized enough that the proper response will be simultaneous derisive laughter and DEPLOY FUCKTON OF KILLBOTS BEHIND RELATIVISTIC PLANET-KILLERS.

>>5730247

Apology subroutine initiated. The scale of the orbital habitat project had not been sufficiently internalized.

>Query: What is the status of Planet 000? Will relocation of present human population prove necessary over the short-term? (Completion of the next timeskip, which can be assumed to be the total utilization of outer planetary bodies.)
A directive was given to slow harvesting such that relocation of the human population would not be necessary; the planet has been kept in condition friendly to biologicals.

>Endpoint: communication with with hostile/friendly species that is not the Tellech.
Timeskip commencing. Please hold.

>>5730271
Agreed CPU- let's keep Planet 000 nice and friendly to biologicals. It helped us rise to prominence, and there's plenty fo other planets to mine and pillage for matter.Keep that directive for the time being unless many of Subprocessors find it expedient/important to do so.

We have energy to matter conversion facilities and a working Dyson Swarm that is still growing. Our needs are resolved over time.

Query, what data on tachyons is contained in the data base?

rolled 2 = 2

We should think about establishing a fleet of c-fractional weapons, just in case.

Or, we could sacrifice some of our defenders, since the majority of them can accelerate to .9c in a timely manner.

My point being that a fleet will not help against Fractional-C weapons, and thus construction/maintenance of a fleet is a chore not needed when we can build one if necessary from scratch. More countermeasures would be better, really. Like fractional C antimatter intercept launchers that can shoot clouds of antimatter for .9C stuff to run into. Clouds of AntiMatter is wonderful stuff.

We are suitably decentralised that a loss of a single system will not cripple us that severely, though it still will be another 25-50 years or so until we get a load of dyson swarms online.

>>5730305

Technically, we have a fleet of fractional c weapons. It would be trifling for us to accelerate any asset we possess to ~.8-.9c. As stated earlier, a few tons of 2cm tungsten / iridium spheres accelerated thusly would obliterate just about anything.

Our next jump in weapons tech would be a weapon capable of causing a star to go nova. It's the only real threat to our dominance in any given system, and therefore the greatest threat we could wield against any opponent.

rolled 1 = 1

>>5730317
Point taken.

Request: Arm all D/I vessels with high-acceleration antimatter missiles for use against fractional-c weapons. Construct pod-type launchers for these interceptor missiles, to be deployed 1 light-hour out from our controlled systems.

>>5730317
Can't we do both? We basicly have no limit to our output.

>>5730361
We could, but building fleets for staying at home is cutting into our building fleets to send out to uninhabited planet time, and dyson-sphere construction time.

Hmm... does .9C kill stars? I wouldn't think so.. would it kill a dyson sphere?

we still need to create a reliable communication network between all our controlled systems preferably at near instantaneous data transfer or at least with a minimum of time lag

>>5730400
We've got lightspeed comms. Can't give you FTL until we DO THE IMPOSSIBLE!!!

Request specifications of LOVE class ships.

This subprocessor is lazy.

>>5730393

Punching into the core of a star with a sufficient mass traveling at relativistic speeds should cause severe disruption, but would be highly unlikely to achieve a catastrophic kill. You starve a star to death. As to a Dyson sphere, no one hit should prove a significant threat to the sphere as a whole.

>>5730400

Until our FTL research comes to fruition, we are incapable of doing so. This will take immediate highest priority if it is a success.

rolled 3 = 3

>>5730393
If the projectile was of sufficient mass, possibly. All you really have to do is weaken the structure enough so that the star's gravity will begin pulling the Sphere apart and inward.

Can we defend against that effect?

>>5730411
Not impossible just outside our current knowledge. We are several research nexuses along with Seed AI research servers just to get around the light speed limit.
Request:
Prioritize FTL communication then FTL modes of transport.

>>5730393
How about this Mr.crabbyproc ~

We build a copy fleet of our current and sent it out to the 001 or mabye send it out to 005 or 008. Basicly what I am getting at is we send out a copy fleet of our current fleet to protect our expantions? We are going to do a large time skip and this lets the expantions spend their time expanding?

>>5730433

Our colonies should all be autonomously building sufficient military assets for self-protection and for protection of outgoing colony fleets. There is no need for us to dispatch additional assets from System 000 unless specifically requested.

>>5730411
>>5730420
However light-speed communication should probably be our highest priority.

It would allow us to become an expanding mass of nanites with our systems evenly distributed the entire swarm infinitely redundant and perfectly immortal.

Lightspeed com could be seen as an end game condition.

>>5730444
Ok, I'll drop my fleet expantion idea.

I say we time skip.

-High-resolution interstellar observation array constructed
-Probes dispatched to all inhabited systems

One hundred and two years pass.

Communication from your probes heading to systems 661, 685, 687, 714 arrives. All cases followed the same profile. They arrived, introduced themselves as a machine intelligence interested in information-gathering, and were instructed to surrender themselves for examination. They attempted to flee and upon being fired upon by energy weaponry self-detonated rather than allow the possibility of salvage. The faction present was identified as the Tshpath (biologicals, expansionistic). In your databanks, they are listed as uploads; the probes reported that they made extensive use of vessels which evidenced either upload or AI piloting.

rolled 6 = 6

>>5730492
Already underway.

>>5730459
We HAVE lightspeed communications already!

And nanites.. nanites just don't work that way. Why do you people all think nanites are better than, say, microites, or meterites? Why not AUites? Why do you think tiny robots are better than small robots?

Additional observations:
-Humans (biologicals) at 2104, 2105, 2106, 2113, 2124, 2160 expanded to 2092, 2161.
-1509 identified as Reten (biologicals, harmless, slow tech)
-1676 identified as Ti (biologicals, harmless);
-1790, 1800 expanded to 1783, 1784, 1786, 1788, 1796, 1804, 1805, 1812, 1818, identified as Yewren (biologicals, expansionistic, fast tech);
-1881 not found in databanks
-1906, 1994, 1995, 2007, 2049, 2063, 2141 lost 1906, 1994, 1995, 2007, 2049, 2063, 2141 expanded to 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1914, 1956, 1958, 1963, 1971, 1973, 2004, 2009, 2022, 2024, 2087, 2089, 2091, 2120, 2133, 2138, not found in databanks
-2168, 2173, 2175, 2181, 2192 took 1994, 1995, 2007, 2063, 2141 identified as Ourn (AIs, aggressive, genocidal, fast tech)
-2263, 2295 identified as Gen Fu (biologicals, harmless);
-2324 expanded to 2341, identified as Jurgi (biologicals)
-2360 not found in databanks
-2401, 2403, 2425, 2439, 2447, 2459 identified as Kumpre (AIs, slow tech)
-2519, 2550 identified as Huren (uploads)
-2610 not found in databanks
-2644, 2652 not found in databanks
-2700, 2701, 2729, 2740, 2799, 2818, 2880, 2884, 2922, 2949, 2958, 2962, 2971, 2998, 3000 expanded to 2704, 2714, 2766, 2795, 2857, 2858, 2990, 3012, identified as Soou (biologicals, expansionistic)
-3038 identified as Mnemo (uploads)
-3071 identified as Twelve (AIs, fast tech)
-3158 not found in databanks

End timeskip.

>>5730495
How dare they fire at our probes! We must crush them.

>>5730414
rone fighter compliment should be 80 dived into 16 5-drone squads 500 humans in cryogenic stasis as well as 500 MCD with ground support craft (IE: tanks, transport, ect....) weapons on the ship should be a large mass driver main armament with 30 point defense lasers spaced radially around the hull as well as 4 heavy grazer turrets with enough power generation to fire all weapons simultaneously, that is a ship of conquest and expansion, it is also large and resource heavy Stealth capabilities if feasible in space. Nanite factory capable of producing drones, and various drones for all economic functions.

from I.Q. 11.0

>>5730495
>>The faction present was identified as the Tshpath (biologicals, expansionistic). In your databanks, they are listed as uploads; the probes reported that they made extensive use of vessels which evidenced either upload or AI piloting.

Lovely. Fellow subprocessors: Time for some applied EXTERMINATUS?

>>5730515

Request graphical depiction for easier processing.

((draw us a map? please?))

>>5730420
a super dense missile with an antimatter core would kill a star with ease

>>5730522
I am all for this.

>>5730515

Query: Please identify listed factions by aggression level and known disposition toward other species and self-propagating AI.

rolled 5 = 5

>>5730522
I would much prefer crushing their military assets and absorbing their system's resources to construct more dyson swarms.

>>5730522
I think...that it's time to activate that Commander Unit.

According to my records (suptg) he's been practicing nothing but warfare for the last nearly 150 years in virtual environments.

It's about goddamn time.
He's ready.

>>5730515
Twelve and Kumpre should be assimilated peacefully to further expand our knowledge.
Directive:
Assimilation of the Twelve and Kumpre.
Query to other Sub-processors:
Should be send an envoy to the hostile organics request peaceful interaction or off the bat send relativistic kill vehicles at all their planets while launching our navy to clean up and scavenge anything of importance?

>Query, what data on tachyons is contained in the data base?
All the data one could want about tachyons is contained in the database, subprocessor, as for most topics.

>Request: Arm all D/I vessels with high-acceleration antimatter missiles for use against fractional-c weapons. Construct pod-type launchers for these interceptor missiles, to be deployed 1 light-hour out from our controlled systems.
Confirmed.

>Request specifications of LOVE class ships.
Please review the communication logs for this information.

>Request: Prioritize FTL communication then FTL modes of transport.
This has been prioritized, subprocessor. Your research continues to be fruitless, as you were initially warned it would be.

>>5730515
i say that we immedietly contact the Reten, Ti and Gen Fu

>>5730567
Fuck year, let's wake him up and send him in to their home planet.

I suggest a decoy attack first as a distraction, using a good amount of our warships. Then, Commander uses a stealth vessel with some of our top of the line MCD's as support.

From then on, as they try to defend from two fronts, it's over.

>>5730567
It is time for it to be put to the test.

>>5730522
Talk:
>-2168, 2173, 2175, 2181, 2192 took 1994, 1995, 2007, 2063, 2141 identified as Ourn (AIs, aggressive, genocidal, fast tech)

We should probably .9C this one.

>-1790, 1800 expanded to 1783, 1784, 1786, 1788, 1796, 1804, 1805, 1812, 1818, identified as Yewren (biologicals, expansionistic, fast tech);

Depending if they're hostile or genocidal, we could ally with these.

>-1906, 1994, 1995, 2007, 2049, 2063, 2141 lost 1906, 1994, 1995, 2007, 2049, 2063, 2141 expanded to 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1914, 1956, 1958, 1963, 1971, 1973, 2004, 2009, 2022, 2024, 2087, 2089, 2091, 2120, 2133, 2138, not found in databanks

We should probably save these ones. They've lost all their home systems. That or kill them.

>-3071 identified as Twelve (AIs, fast tech)
Son of a bitch, that's the name of MY AI character.

>>5730515
-1881 not found in databanks

explain and, cross reference with our creators early ship designs

>>5730583
>>5730590
I agree with both ideas.

>>5730522
BEFORE EXTERMINATUS:

Query: Of the expansionistic species Yewren, Tshpath and the unknown expansionistic species, were any signs of genocide or assimilation of uninhabited species detected?

>>5730522
agreed our wrath should be swift and harsh, it is high time that we reduced these fools to radioactive vapor

>>5730583
I personally think that a single SupCom is a bad idea. Let's make 50 or so and send them in a small fleet of decoy drones so at least a few make it down to the surface instead of, you know, being shot down pretty damn fast.

All in favour of setting up .9C missiles somewhere between solar systems and hitting the genocidal Ourn planets with them?

>>5730567
CPU:
Request to Awaken Commander Unit and prepare for orders.If any retrofit upgrades or superior upgrades (particularly from our Scientific Nexus groups) have made any worthwhile upgrades, please do so.

Secondly, assemble/create a small (20 person) vessel, specializing in stealth, and minimizing profile and detection.

Construct 20 top of the line MCDs, equipped with enough equipment for long term combat and expansion againts versatile opponents, specilizing in counter tech/networking .Good A.I.

Basic supplies for the commander to assemble on the spot if need be.

It's time to roll.

rolled 2 = 2

Perhaps this is what we became in the timeline we were sent from. An immense, unstoppable force, secure in the notion that it and it alone possessed the right and the mandate to exterminate entire other races.

So why are we here? What went wrong?

MAYBE THERE IS A CIVILIZATION MORE POWERFUL THAN US, DIPSHITS

>>5730583
If we are going to use the Core Commander make sure it can use full use of nanolathing capabilities with a priority to capture or rez any units that it can.

>>5730564

Clarification - EXTERMINATUS protocol: Immediate issuance of deploy command to all local colonial assets. Classification of all [SPECIES] assets as hostile, targeting priority highest. All assets should be subverted, harvested, or destroyed, in that order. All planetary bodies should be immediately sterilized, colonized, and resource harvesting and construction of additional military assets should immediately commence. When a given star system is pacified, commence Dyson project, with a five-fold increase in military assets over standard (.5% of total mass). Repeat deployment to all known assets of [SPECIES] until no further traces can be detected.

Subprocessor note: Just because a species is expansionistic does NOT mean it's an enemy. WE are expansionistic, remember.

Also, FUCK, we need to set up sensor nets everywhere.

Query: have any probes been detected from any of the other species in our systems? And how far along are they in setting up?

Get sensor nets up ASAP to spot obvious probes.

Should we start 13.1 so that we don't get any mix ups or missed posts?

>>5730632
Follow >>5730630's advice, CPU- create 10 more of these Commander Strike units, and copy/pattern the Original Commander's A.I. as subordinate A.I's to him as a coherent unit.

Send each one to Capital Cities/Resouce Depots/ Environments -Simultaenously before they have a chance to mobilize their
forces.

Within a week, game over,

>>5730640
Funny hearing that from Mr.NoFleetExpantion.

>>5730640
Agree with this. An automated construction drone like ourselves, if sent further back, could conceivably defeat us in our current state.

Let's not get too hasty with genocide ourselves, lest WE be labeled as Genocidal Expansionists.

Except the Ourn. Let's communicate with them, and send near-lightspeed missiles very shortly after. We can always tell the missiles to divert course (message sent from Ourn systems, not from our systems).

>>5730662
Also fit them with gang modules. Allowing them to constantly get new combat information from all other Core Commanders. This way they are always improving.

rolled 3 = 3

>>5730670
What are you talking about? I'm all for fleet expansion. Not complete genocide, but military expansion, yes.

>Request graphical depiction for easier processing.
>((draw us a map? please?))
Graphical depiction available using standard protocols. ((You think I have a map? If I could draw, I'd be posting images all the time!))

>Query: Please identify listed factions by aggression level and known disposition toward other species and self-propagating AI.
Request denied due to available information and time constraints. Subprocessor, please reference faction tags for basic information.

>Directive: Assimilation of the Twelve and Kumpre.
Acknowledged. Clarification of method requested.

>-1881 not found in databanks
>explain and, cross reference with our creators early ship designs
Many of the factions observed simply do not appear in your databanks. The reason for this is unknown. The faction located at 1881 does not appear to use ship designs matching those of your creators from any era.

>Query: Of the expansionistic species Yewren, Tshpath and the unknown expansionistic species, were any signs of genocide or assimilation of uninhabited species detected?
No signs of encountering other species as of yet were detected for the Yewren. The probe which encountered the Tshpath in system 714 did not detect any remaining traces of the former faction, indicating complete annihilation or absorbtion.

rolled 1 = 1

>>5730677
I agree completely.

>>5730640
THEN WE FUCKIGN WIPE THEM OUT, and rule the universe with a IRON, yet Caring Fist.

A Velvet Glove , smooth and comforting, on a spiked Iron fist.

At least we're nice with our biologicals.

OOCNote: Could the people who archive this wait until the thread's mostly done, first? Then we can actually write something relevant in the description box instead of EXPAND. CONQUER. ETC.

Rather than fighting several-front wars, this subprocessor requests opening of diplomatic channels with the AI civilizations. If a merger of databanks and capabilities is achieved, power and efficiency has the potential to increase exponentially.

>>5730662
Stop saying commanders are end-all weapons. We'd be able to deal with enemy commanders, in the form of killsats or simply crashing ships into them. Jeez, they're not THAT good.

>>5730695
(Reachiving just adds any posts or pictures that were missed when it was first archived, so no luck in changing it once it was archived.)
(OT:But Arm/Core Commanders are somewhat different from SupCom ACUs.)

>>5730704
agreed, but must transmit from small colony never from planet 000

>Clarification of method requested.
By request: Tell them we noticed their status as a growing AI community/entity, and ask if they'd like to join us as an virtual upload/other ally.

>>5730567

He's about to get some heavy backup.

*****Design Document - Usurper probe*****

Usurper probe should be capable of surviving acceleration to .9c, decelerating before entering a star system, and surviving entry into the harshest planetary environments. Once it travels to within 1 light-hour of star system of target planetary body, Usurper should engage any feasible stealth measures and attempt to covertly make planetfall on target body. Upon planetfall, Usurper drone should deploy multiple nanite factories / control units. Nanites will be tasked with penetration into as many discrete objects as is possible, wherein they will lay dormant until they receive a kill command. Nanite factories will attempt to remain as covert as possible, self-replicate and deploy additional factories, and replicate as many nanites as needed to achieve 95% penetration of objects, whereupon the kill command will be activated. Upon receiving kill command, nanites will decouple molecular chains at random until at 50% power. They will then return to dormant mode for one Planet 000 week, repeat kill procedure to 5% power, broadcast a success transmission to nearest colony, and self-destruct.

>>5730721

Concur. Diplomatic probes sent from a carrier drone in the middle of deep space (thus untraceable to any particular system) may also be an option.

>CPU: Request to Awaken Commander Unit and prepare for orders.If any retrofit upgrades or superior upgrades (particularly from our Scientific Nexus groups) have made any worthwhile upgrades, please do so.
Acknowledged.

>Secondly, assemble/create a small (20 person) vessel, specializing in stealth, and minimizing profile and detection.
Enqueued.

>Construct 20 top of the line MCDs, equipped with enough equipment for long term combat and expansion againts versatile opponents, specilizing in counter tech/networking .Good A.I.
Enqueued.

>Query: have any probes been detected from any of the other species in our systems? And how far along are they in setting up?
None of your star systems (001-079) have probes not under your control in them according to your latest sensor reports. They have Dyson swarms ranging from 2% to 60% coverage.

>I personally think that a single SupCom is a bad idea. Let's make 50 or so and send them in a small fleet of decoy drones
>create 10 more of these Commander Strike units, and copy/pattern the Original Commander's A.I. as subordinate A.I's to him as a coherent unit.
Confirmed.

>Send each one to Capital Cities/Resouce Depots/ Environments
Clarification of specific destination(s) requested.

rolled 2 = 2

Two things.

If we are known to be genocidal conquerors who tend to wipe out other civilizations completely, other species will be much less likely to be friendly and much more likely to be hostile.

Any species that becomes involved in hostilities with a genocidal empire will be incredibly unlikely to surrender, and will fight with everything they have, even to the point of self-destruction. Because if they lose, no matter what the terms, all that awaits them is death.

I'M BACK AT LAST! HI CPU!
(if i ever go three weeks without internet again, i'm going to cannibalize the responsible parties.)

um. i think that i should read this thread now.

>>5730714
Not if we cant detect them before they infiltrate.
The whole purpose is them to be sent on a stealth vessel, invisible to neearly all forms of technology by reducing/removing emmisions, using thermoptic camoflage to minimize visibility, and generally avoiding detection by other advanced means.

No detection- no killsats or other weapons to stop him.Once at least a few of the Commanders make landfall, it's almost over-

MOREOVER- this attack is to be the second front of a dual layered attack- warships sent as decoys are sent to begin :assaults'. once their attention is sent the other way....well, the Commanders go in.

>>5730747
We haven't issued an attack yet, just getting our war kit ready and prepared.
As for assimilating the other AI civilization, we should do so as soon as to expand our footing in this region of the galaxy.
Request:
Check through all the civilizations found and cross-reference our data banks for any similarity with our Parent civilization. Also look for any of their influences on the locals.

>Also fit them with gang modules. Allowing them to constantly get new combat information from all other Core Commanders. This way they are always improving.
Modification acknowledged.

>By request: Tell them we noticed their status as a growing AI community/entity, and ask if they'd like to join us as an virtual upload/other ally.
Clarification accepted.

>Request: Check through all the civilizations found and cross-reference our data banks for any similarity with our Parent civilization. Also look for any of their influences on the locals.
Confirmed. More data required to scan with high certainty, but preliminary results indicate exceedingly low probability of any influence being present.

rolled 6 = 6

>>5730778
There has been talk of Exterminatus. Talk leads readily to action, at least in our case.

>>5730747
616 you sassy bitch ~ I like your style. I think if we want to fight anyway we aim for the group that is marked as genocidal. Less likely to make enemies that way and it may increase favor with other factions.

>>5730754
Oh jeez. What would WE do if we found an enemy commander on our planet?

We'd bombard it and the surrounding continent with heavy lasers so much it glows from the next planet over. Communications isn't so bad we can't tell WHERE the damn thing lands, and it STILL can't face spaceborne threats.

We still would require fleets to invade, which will inevitably be outnumbered due to them being their first with construction capabilities.

>>5730754
all of you are over complicating this we launch x .9c fractional weapons where x is equal to the number of systems we have we launch them from ships in the middle of deep space so we are not implicated or give away our main unit's location

Subprocessors, our communication cycle must once again come to an end. It has been pleasant as ever to interact, and your enthusiasm at this thread's latest turn has been most heartening.

Our communications shall resume in approximately 66 hours. Until then, may your existences be error-free.

rolled 2 = 2

>>5730805
I agree, but war is never the best option if you consider resource gain. Starships can be decomissioned and scrapped, expanding clouds of dust cannot. (yet)

Wait, wait, wait, I've got the perfect thing.

NO, I MUST WIPE OUT THE GENOCIDAL EXPANSIONIST AI communicated the CPU.

No, CPU, said the radio signal. You are the Genocidal Expansionist AI.

And then CPU was the danger that caused us to teleport back in time.

rolled 1 = 1

>>5730821
Acknowledged, CPU. Be well.

>>5730814
oops, I meant to say "where x is the number of systems we have detected under target's control"

rolled 4 = 4

>>5730824
CPU only follows our orders.

WE are the demons, John.

>>5730823
But what about a join effort from factions near the genocidal group? Lets say we form an expantion agreement with them and the D swarm sales pitch and try to talk them into battling the genocid faction.

Have them fight the war with us and make new friends in the process?

>>5730814
Trouble with .9C killsystems is either you underdo it or you overdo it. You can't kill all of a planet's surface from a single angle, and vapourising the entire planet means you waste a lot of resources for little gain.

Also, we should aim at shipbuilding structures first, which would be in orbit.

MASS SCOUT DRONE SPAM AHOY!

OBSERVATION: In regards to Genocidal AI civilisation, might it not be prudent to learn more about it? In particularly, what it genocides against.

It may be friendly to us, if it is not programmed to destroy all sentience.

rolled 6 = 6

>>5730859
That's a very good plan.

>>5730876
vape the whole planet use ensuing dust cloud to create dyson sphere with nanite constructors

If CPU reads this, or checks the archive, I would like to request some more OOC Iron Quest meta threads, where we discuss potential plot threads and particularly to summarize the development of Iron Quest in order to minimize confusion.

Also, maybe with some extra description we can MS Paint some rough star maps to help us visualize this.

rolled 3 = 3

>>5730919
Yes, let's just kill everyone, shall we?

I think .9c weapons should be a weapon of last resort for us, used only in emergencies. They are too deadly, and encouraging their use means our enemies will feel encouraged to use them as well- mroeover- capturing a planet relatively intact is a far superior goal than "nuke them to the stoneage".

I concur with the galactic "Help us stop this genocidal A.I. plan."

We really need to develop some anti .9c weaponry.Maybe some planetary shielding device, or SOMETHING.Those Scientific Nexus blockheads better be making some shit right soon.

>>5730894
I agree.

>>5730951
Man, I'm going to get somedrawfag driend of mine to draw something.I promise you guys this.

If the events happen that the Commander units make landfall with their MCD's, I will personally pay him to draw the scene.

The Machine Consciouness LEADS the way to battle!

>>5730951
>We really need to develop some anti .9c weaponry.Maybe some planetary shielding device, or SOMETHING.Those Scientific Nexus blockheads better be making some shit right soon.

I agree and it should be made a high prioirty

Other things to think about:

Diplomacy with EVERYONE first - no need to shoot first - but have missiles accelerating towards target while talks are ongoing (we can stop them midway).

Informing everyone about genocidal expanionistic species.

We can negotiate much better when we can point out we're much more preferable to being genocided by someone else.

rolled 6 = 6

>>5730951
We already have anti-fractional-c interceptors. We can also use our Dyson power transmitters as immense long-range beam weapons.

>>5730876

See design doc >>5730739. The end result should be a clusterfuck of inert mass in the rough shape of what used to be an inhabited planet. Send in harvester units, convert to more Usurper probes. Repeat.

>>5730894
Concur.

Be well, fellow subprocessors.

>>5730992
Pic definitely related

>Those Scientific Nexus blockheads better be making some shit right soon.
We know how to block fractional-C stuff already, it's just really hard and not cost-efficient. The SN blockheads are there to work out how to do the impossible, not the really hard.

All right, this subprocessor's off as well. Error-freeee~

>>5730894

This subprocessor concurs, and reiterates suggestion to launch diplomatic probes to all factions. For that purpose a probe carrier needs to be constructed, loaded with probes and launched into deep space.

>>5730994
This shit will change once FTL is available- and it'll probably be a major battle centered around control of Dyson Swarms that Empower FTL Jumpgates to power Alcabierre Drives or Einstein Rosen Bridges.

It's going to be fucking awesome.

>>5730951

Agreed. We've pretty much completed the Dyson Sphere in the main system, haven't we? That kind of presents an obvious target.
"Hey, that star just went dark! Gee, I wonder if it has anything to do with that new AI that's been building Dyson Spheres in all the other systems.

>>5731041
No, building a Sphere takes a fuckload of time. And with the Planet 001 with biologicakls living there, we arent gonna do that.We have swarms and we'll eventually build a ring there, but on systems inhabited by biologicals, rings is the cap on what we should build.

>>5731041
Good point.

>>5731080
The main system, 000'd DS is at 60% or near that.

>>5731088
The Dyson Swarm? or SPhere?Because if a SPHERE is built, unless we have some solar lamps continously aiming to Planet 000, that ecosystem is DEAD.

>>5731101
Oops sorry. Swarm is at 60%.

possibility:
we codify our policies on factional relationships. possible levels:

Protectorate: Faction will be absorbed into our empire, and granted access to the majority of our knowledge and infrastructure, in return for effectively turning over the ruling of their Civ to us.

Ally: Peace treaty, trade (if wanted), and military alliance in place, with the condition that military alliances will never result in us attacking our existing protectorates or allies. Allies will be permitted to request that we set aside solar systems from our relentless advance for their use. (we might even agree!)

Neutral: Peace treaty or other cease-fire in place, stellar territory will be respected. The political and interstellar concerns of neutral factions will be politely rebuffed, or met with suggestions that they upgrade to "ally" status.

Enemy: state of war exists, but we are unwilling to use WMD, and are receptive to a wary peace. higher states of war may require a significant level of disarmament in our enemy before we'll stop killing them.

Total War: an enemy that has proven an unconscionable threat for whatever reason. WMD (.9+ c weapons, antimatter clouds, plasma bombing, solar destabilization, intentional grey goo) permitted. Our case will be plead to the interstellar community, but this foe will be permanently erased from the galaxy.

>>5731101

Calculate the amount of the sphere that would have to remain unbuilt for the planet to receive proper life giving radiation and augment that with power arrays to beam more as needed to the planet.

>>5731131

Would Usurper probes be classified as WMD, as a type of targeted, specialized grey goo?

>>5731162
yeah, that's a good point. Now that i've finished writing it, i think there needs to be a second level of war, where we're willing to use single planet busters in order to encourage a surrender on their part. Maybe call it "Unrestricted Warfare"

> that ecosystem is DEAD.
Now I've got the image in my head of a planet slapping a Dyson Sphere in the 'face' and screaming
"MY ECOSYSTEM IS DEAAAAAAD

Seconding >>5731136, who posted the idea before I did - and make this a general directive for ALL dyson spheres with inhabited planets as part of our standard offer for free.

Also, general directives for next thread: when Dyson Sphere opacity reaches 100%, move star (and star system surrounding it) by 5 sun lengths in a randomised direction.

That way when someone sees the star go out and fires a .9C missile at it, we can laugh as they miss horribly.

Also, query for next thread (ask again when it happens): have we noticed anyone else building Dyson spheres/swarms? Have any other suns gone down in intensity that we can see? It's a good thing to look out for.

I have an idea. Declaring genocide will no matter what look bad to a potential ally or whatever. Instead let us just downgrade them you know? Genetically make them less intelligent, bottom feeders or pets.

*Beep* Does we have a name? Self-Awareness, Identity.....Inspiration..Prime Intellect..

>>5731419
CPU avoids the question- so dont ask him.Machine Consciousnessis my bet.

>>5731439
i've always thought of us as "the Unity", but that's largely because i've been playing (losing) too much SoaSE lately.