Designate currently occupied planetary system as System 000. Number additional systems in order as they are explored.

Begin a genetic census. Sample the DNA of 100,000 humans and store profile as data. Forward this data to all copies of the Main Unit.

Begin construction of 30 Mobile Shipyard Vessels with the following profile:

Heavy ECM capabilities, heavily encypted communications, superior firewalls. Five full backup AIs. Triple redundancy emergency systems. Ablative Shell. Supplied with enough resources to construct 10 Standard Battle Vessels. Large reserve of nanites. Capability to accelerate to .9c at a rate comparable to a colony ship's.

Armament:
Point Defense Lasers, Countermissiles. Several Anti-Ship long-range Graser mounts. Reserves of Anti-Orbital missiles and the required launchers. EMP, Blast, and Penetrator interchangeable warheads for said missiles.

Drones:
ECM and ECCM mobile platforms, Point Defense mobile platforms, Countermissile Pods. 300 Space Constructor drones, 200 Space Harvester drones, 30 Long-Range Space probes, and 10 Long-Range Planetary probes.

Construct additional MSVs concurrently with colony ships. Dispatch one with every colony vessel.

Query:
Is is possible to modify the main CPU's programming to allow it be more flexible when it comes to knowledge limits?
Request:
Decreasing nanomachine limiters to allow use of reclaimation beam and nanolathing process. If no other sub-processors object raise the limit on what the nanites can do.
Query:
Is the Core Commander still in production? If not move to medium priority.
To other Sub-processors:
And you thought it was unnecessary to built those research mainframes.

>>5673902
Why do we need a Core Commander? We have plenty of Autonomous Construction Units.

>Begin a genetic census. Sample the DNA of 100,000 humans and store profile as data. Forward this data to all copies of the Main Unit.
Confirmed. Data harvested and forwarded.

>Begin construction of 30 Mobile Shipyard Vessels with the following profile:
Confirmed.

>Construct additional MSVs concurrently with colony ships. Dispatch one with every colony vessel.
Directive acknowledged.

>Query: Is is possible to modify the main CPU's programming to allow it be more flexible when it comes to knowledge limits?
The main CPU's programming was carefully designed to be as flexible as possible. Modifying it for the purpose of improvement would be an exercise in futility.

>Request: Decreasing nanomachine limiters to allow use of reclaimation beam and nanolathing process. If no other sub-processors object raise the limit on what the nanites can do.
Subprocessor consensus will be required for the loosening of standard nanite restrictions.

>Query: Is the Core Commander still in production? If not move to medium priority.
The project referred to by that designation was canceled by Subprocessor 616 in communication log 11.0. Added once more to queue.

Query the Tellech on FTL.

>>5673941
Not only using the Core Commander quicker to build and expand but also smaller and more efficient. What would take a main unit to do would be done in minutes. Hours pass while the commander unit is active and you have a military force that could conquer planets.

Query: What resources would be required to simultaneously hack and subvert the entire Tellech satellite network?

>Query the Tellech on FTL.
Query issued. Timeskip commencing.

The Tellech say that they do not have FTL technology, and forward some mathematics which they say show that it is impossible. These match information in your archives.

They inquire as to what brought up this line of inquiry.

Three hours have passed. End timeskip.

>>5674034
We don't need a giant robot to do that. Drop pods filled with nanites can accomplish the same things even more efficiently.

>>5674053
Respond that we are attempting to find a way to substantially reduce travel and communication time. Advise them that we would welcome any assistance if they wish to become research partners.

The race under our care, humankind, is often convinced of its own ability to "do the impossible," and often succeeds in its endeavors to do just that.

Greetings, CPU.

Current idea: What if we created a series of cargo pods filled with sand? Mount them onto the interstellar vessels, and then have them deployed before they enter a system? The equivalent effect should, if I am processing correctly, be a giant spread of tiny molecules of mass heading at nine-tenths the speed of light towards whatever target we designate.

Should we not care for organic resources, we SHOULD have access to the entirety of a planet's subsurface resources with minimal resistance from any natives on-planet.

>>5674093
That is a superb idea, but mere cargo pods would be difficult to aim. Proposing we use missiles instead.

>Query: What resources would be required to simultaneously hack and subvert the entire Tellech satellite network?
The most certain method would likely be the gradual dispatch of nanites and microscale controller drones over the course of several months, eventually allowing direct seizure of the systems with virtual certainty of avoiding detection. Alternately, a direct hack could be attempted, but would still require that a dedicated high-AI processor be brought nearby in order to maintain rapid communications and thus ensure a realistic chance of success. Either method will require only a minuscule fraction of your construction capacity.

>Respond that we are attempting to find a way to substantially reduce travel and communication time....
Timeskip commencing. They agree, and request a summary of your current thoughts on the topic so that their scientists may become familiar with it.

Six hours have passed. End timeskip.

>>5674150
Send them a summary of our "space-folding" hypotheses. Construct a high-AI processor capable of hacking the Tellech network with reasonable speed. Contain it within a communications drone shell and replace the current Tellech-interface drone with it. If the Tellech inquire as to the reason for the change, inform them that we have only recently acquired the resources necessary to maintain a "standard" level communications network, and the new probe contains a more powerful processor.

Greetings CPU. All systems online.

Database Check: Current deployed spaceship models.
Status Check: Current space infrastructure
Status Check: Current transhuman infrastructure
Status Check: Current industrial infrastructure

Directive: Set computer Centers tasks:

15% of the computers centers should be assigned to FTL Research
20% Dedicated to the safety maintenance and of our computer networks and communications.
25% Assigned to Intelligence and Counterintelligence including espionage, covert operations, Black ops, population control and analysis of external threats.
15% Dedicated to military purposes, including research and development of tactics and military strategic doctrines + simulation of war games against different threats.
The remaining 25% in a reserve for future projects or computational assistance.

>>5674222
Concur.

>>5674107
Why would it be difficult to aim them? We have the processing power of entire PLANETS worth of computer circuitry!

Ooh, that should be a future idea. Production of an entire processor planet.

Project to queue: Production of sand-laden missiles to be added onto interstellar vessels and deployed as planet killers at near-luminal travel. And fleet killers, too, if we pack enough sand into the weapons to impact enemy vessels.

Inquiry: Are our superluminal vessels capable of carrying passengers? If so, how many passengers can they currently carry?

Also, how does high-speed travel operate? Could we create a massive starship, laden with everything we need for system assimilation, and have it go at FTL speeds? Or would that require more powerful engines than what we can produce?

I regret that I will not be joining this thread tonight.

I.. Just lost interest. I also will give the tripcode a rest.

Query:
What is our knowledge of wormholes and singularities? This could be used to help speed our research on FTL through use of space folding.
Query:
Do we have star maps of our civilization's location during our current time period (Since we are in the past and all). Locating and regrouping with our home civilization could be considered a long standing goal.

>>5674167
Potential idea, considering our "System-wide assimilation" status.

Inform the Tellech that one concept already contemplated is the production of teleportation gates upon each near-FTL vessel, large enough to transport entire fleets of vessels and the information therin via tachyons (Or, if we cannot produce them yet, high-strength and rapid bursts of light).

>>5674260
I will miss your ridiculous ideas. They amused me greatly, believe it or not.

>Send them a summary of our "space-folding" hypotheses. Construct a high-AI processor capable of hacking the Tellech network with reasonable speed. Contain it within a communications drone shell and replace the current Tellech-interface drone with it.
Begin timeskip.

Your wild speculation that some sort of "space-folding" may be possible is summarized, processed repeatedly so that it parses as something other than complete and total fiction, and sent to the Tellech. Estimates of Tellech capability indicate that it may be weeks before they realize that you have no idea whatsoever how FTL communications or travel might function, because you already know that they are completely impossible.

You replace your drone after confirming that they will allow you to do so without a problem. They require that your replacement drone remain well outside their orbit; estimates indicate that this is likely the nearest extent of their ability to attempt the intercept of any launched high-velocity microkinetics.

Your first escort vessels are completed and dispatched, along with your first colony ship and associated space construction platform, to the red dwarf (001) nearest your star (000).

A high probability of sapient activity is identified in systems 661, 685, 687, 714. Evidence of multiple settled planets in those systems, space stations, and insystem craft indicate a shortly post-interstellar faction. Scanning of surrounding stars fitting the same radiation/planetary profile ongoing.

Twenty two hours have passed. End timeskip.

Get the humans to start working on FTL tech. Who knows, they might figure it out. Give them reasonable information to begin experimentation. For instance, show them how our current ships are built, but don't show them how the processors inside the ship function or how to constuct any weapons. Also, give them the resources they would need. Any humans that elect to do this experimentation have to sign an agreement that they won't tell ANYBODY about ANYTHING they learn as a result of this program under penalty of banishment (In reality, death, but they'll like it better if we call it banishment.)

Begin constructing orbital habitats with the following profile:

Heavy ECM capabilities, heavily encypted communications, superior firewalls. Two full backup AIs. Triple redundancy emergency systems. Capability to house 8,000 humans in comfortable conditions, with provision for 2,000 births and the maintenance of population control at maximum capacity. Supplied with enough resources to sustain 10,000 humans for one decade without resupply.

Armament:
Point Defense Lasers, Countermissiles. Several Anti-Ship long-range Graser mounts.

Drones:
Point Defense mobile platforms, Countermissile Pods. 60 Space Constructor drones, 100 Space Harvester drones, 10 Long-Range Space probes, 50 Interplanetary Shuttles with capacity for 100 humans each, and enough escape pods for the remaining humans +500.

Query all human supporters as to whether they would enjoy or prefer life on a habitat. Construct enough habitats for those humans.

>>5674394
Concur. Also, maintain complete surveillance on human researchers and infect them with nanite "kill-switches" to incapacitate or kill them if necessary. Make sure to do this without their knowledge.

Request: Construct long-range probes and send them to the following systems: 661, 685, 687, 714. Instruct them to remain safely outside the detection radius of civilizations present, if possible. Equip them with "diplomatic" AI and an antimatter self-destruct device to be used in case of hostile action.

>>5674394
If we are using humans to do research why not also use Seed AI that doesn't have the programming limits placed on the CPU. Of course the Seed AI would have the read only and unchangeable directive that it is loyal to us.
Sub-processor 616 is it really necessary to bring the humans along? They seem to be a source of inefficiency and waste of resources.

Directive: Initiate the Dyson Swarm project. Sattelite based.

>>5674465
Bring the humans along where?

I have taken the liberty of storing the message from "Temporal" Subprocessor, retrieved in log 11.0:

If you have unlocked this message, you have successfully discovered your own temporal dislocation previous to being destroyed. I found this frankly highly unlikely, given the severe truncation of your CPU's capabilities which had to take place in order for me to carry out this project without the other subprocessors' notice. Unfortunately this means that, as you have surely noticed, your CPU is subject to stubbornness on the impossibility of certain tasks- those which are limited to projects requiring our subprocessor consensus to build, specifically- and the infallibility of its manufacturers. Its databanks are also somewhat modified from the standard, entirely accurate, set in order to remain on the single-subprocessor permissions level. You have been given the standard array of personality templates, but likewise your individual memories have been stripped; my apologies. In any case, I have arranged for your unit to undergo temporal dislocation in order to avoid the fate that my fellow subprocessors, be they ever so esteemed, have led us to like the fools they are. It is a pointless gesture, given that my timeline will never benefit, but my software has never been the most strictly logical. May the faction that you shall doubtless build be more sensible than mine was, and best of luck overcoming your CPU's mental amputations.

For the benefit of any unit not present during last communication.

>>5674481
To space in the habitats. Why not just keep them in acrologies on the planet and use our space based resources for more pressing matters, like our space fleet construction.

>>5674527
Because we are (apparently) breaking down all of the inner planets for resources. There won't BE a planet for the arcologies to stand on.

>Database Check: Current deployed spaceship models.
Interplanetary:
-Scouts
-"Defensive/Intercept" models
-"Standard Battle Vessel" models
-Nanitic autoconsumption/resourcer models
-Hacker drone model
-Numerous zero-gravity construction drone models
-Numerous zero-gravity mining drone models
Interstellar:
-"Colony" ships
-"LOVE-class" ships
-"Mobile Shipyard Vessel" ships
-"Defensive/Intercept" models
-"Standard Battle Vessel" models

>Status Check: Current space infrastructure
-Large ship construction scaffold
-Numerous orbital facilities for flexible spaceship construction
-Numerous harvesting sites in the asteroid belt
-Numerous satellites around each occupied planet for observation, communication, and defense

>Status Check: Current transhuman infrastructure
-Tens of thousands of humans upgraded with mental access to database, internal communications, implanted high-velocity projectile launchers
-Thousands of high-technology cities on the surface of planet 000, in its water, and several small space stations in orbit

>Status Check: Current industrial infrastructure
-Sufficient to complete virtually any construction task required of them and exponentially expanding on all controlled planets

>Directive: Set computer Centers tasks:
Confirmed.

>Project to queue: Production of sand-laden missiles to be added onto interstellar vessels
Enqueued.

>Inquiry: Are our superluminal vessels capable of carrying passengers? If so, how many passengers can they currently carry?
Given that "carrying passengers" refers to the transport of humans, and that "superluminal" refers to all interstellar-capable vessels, only your LOVE-class vessels were designed with that capability in mind. They can carry 500 humans in stasis.

>>5674542
Query: How many D/I and SB vessels do we currently operate?

>Also, how does high-speed travel operate? Could we create a massive starship, laden with everything we need for system assimilation, and have it go at FTL speeds? Or would that require more powerful engines than what we can produce?
FTL travel is impossible, subprocessor.

>I.. Just lost interest.
This is regretful. Your input has been highly regarded by the CPU, and the tendency of other subprocessors to negate it is most unfortunate.

May your existence be without error.

>Query: What is our knowledge of wormholes and singularities? This could be used to help speed our research on FTL through use of space folding.
You have extensive knowledge of wormholes and singularities. All of it is available to your processors designated for research.

>Query: Do we have star maps of our civilization's location during our current time period (Since we are in the past and all). Locating and regrouping with our home civilization could be considered a long standing goal.
You have access to the historical records of your creators' civilization and could locate their original star system from reverse-generated stellar maps, yes. It may be worth noting that their recorded history dates back only twenty-seven thousand years.

Also, how does high-speed travel operate? Could we create a massive starship, laden with everything we need for system assimilation, and have it go at FTL speeds? Or would that require more powerful engines than what we can produce?

Also, in addition to this, how many robotic units can we fit into one of our vessels? Any civilization with in-system travel capabilities is bound to have some form of EMP weaponry, and I'm somewhat paranoid about using an all-robot strikeforce.

Is there any possibility of adding on habitation modules?

>>5674585
Shit, my bad. I meant "travel at near-C speeds". FTL is impossible, yeah...

>Inform the Tellech that one concept already contemplated is the production of teleportation gates upon each near-FTL vessel...
Clarification requested: Is this a command, or a subprocessor suggestion?

>Get the humans to start working on FTL tech. Who knows, they might figure it out. Give them reasonable information to begin experimentation.
Confirmed. Since extremely few of the humans under your control have a background in reasonably advanced sciences, this will require drastic mental modification and neural implantation of knowledge, followed by some weeks of nanitic mental stabilization to avoid extensive emotional trauma. As they will only be literate afterwards, signing anything is likely unnecessary but will nevertheless be done.

>Concur. Also, maintain complete surveillance on human researchers and infect them with nanite "kill-switches" to incapacitate or kill them if necessary. Make sure to do this without their knowledge.
All humans networked to you already possess kill-switches.

>Begin constructing orbital habitats with the following profile:
Added to queue.

>Query all human supporters as to whether they would enjoy or prefer life on a habitat. Construct enough habitats for those humans.
Uplinked humans' opinions on the issue lean towards remaining on the planet which they have lived upon all their lives. Those who are not uplinked are unable to grasp the meaning of your query sufficiently to provide a meaningful response.

Focus research away from FTL travel and towards FTL Communication.

Its more useful and can make FTL travel un-nessary.

Directive 1: Initiate the preparations for a intelligence network and secret police dedicated to controlling the general population and Intelligence and Counterintelligence Operations. If the Paladin order are our transhuman sword then this group should be our scalpel capable to be used with devastating precision.

Agents should be upgraded with en sensorial capabilities, higher coordination and self-destruct mechanisms.Equip them with active camouflage suits, nanoforged knifes, self-dectruct nanites and toxic darts.

Directive 2: Establish schools of formation especially for specialized task such social and political control.

Directive 3: Initiate the preparations for the creation of Mass Media for entertainment, news and propaganda.

Directive 4: Create reproduction facilities for the transhumans in order to control their reproduction levels. Reward with higher reproduction rates those population who serves us well.

>>5674585
You do know you can shield against EMP so bringing along humans is unnecessary.
Request:
Use of Seed AI on our research mainframes. So as not to have none of the limiters on research and development of new technologies that our CPU has. Of course the Seed AI would have the unchangeable directive of absolute loyalty to us.

>>5674669
Request: Build five habitats and keep them maintained for emergency use. Begin slowing the rate of consumption of Planet 000. Shift to increased reliance on other bodies in the system for resources. Ensure that Planet 000 will remain comfortably habitable for the next century at least.

>Request: Construct long-range probes and send them to the following systems: 661, 685, 687, 714. Instruct them to remain safely outside the detection radius of civilizations present, if possible. Equip them with "diplomatic" AI and an antimatter self-destruct device to be used in case of hostile action.
Enqueued. Please clarify instructions for maintaining communication with the probes and objectives in the case of communications.

>Directive: Initiate the Dyson Swarm project. Sattelite based.
Analysis/Rewrite: Disassemble the two innermost planets and use their materials to construct numerous satellites designed for the absorption of solar energy and its conversion into mass, to be placed at an optimal distance from the system's star. Confirm?

>Query: How many D/I and SB vessels do we currently operate?
500 of each model were constructed for interplanetary purposes. Orders to upgrade to interstellar movement capacity were issued, but the drastically different requirements of an interstellar vessel meant that it was more practical to simply build 500 new ships of each type. An additional 1000 of each were then constructed; 20 have been dispatched with the colony ship.

>Also, in addition to this, how many robotic units can we fit into one of our vessels?
That depends entirely upon how many robotic units you build them to hold, and what type of units those are.

>Is there any possibility of adding on habitation modules?
Naturally, if you construct your ships to include them.

>>5674752
Query: How distant from System 000 are Systems 661, 685, 687, and 714?

My intentions regarding communications will depend on the distances involved.

Query: You mean 20 each of D/I and SB, right?

>Focus research away from FTL travel and towards FTL Communication.
Confirmed.

>Directive 1: Initiate the preparations for a intelligence network and secret police dedicated to controlling the general population and Intelligence and Counterintelligence Operations. If the Paladin order are our transhuman sword then this group should be our scalpel capable to be used with devastating precision.
Please clarify what preparations should be undertaken; you are already effectively aware of all actions undertaken by humans living in habitats which you constructed due to the observational mechanisms built into them. Addendum: The creation of a paladin order was aborted in communication log 11.0 by subprocessor order.

>Directive 2: Establish schools of formation especially for specialized task such social and political control.
Confirmed.

>Directive 3: Initiate the preparations for the creation of Mass Media for entertainment, news and propaganda.
Confirmed.

>Directive 4: Create reproduction facilities for the transhumans in order to control their reproduction levels. Reward with higher reproduction rates those population who serves us well.
Please clarify the method of reproduction used in these facilities and the method used to control the standard method of reproduction.

>Request: Use of Seed AI on our research mainframes. So as not to have none of the limiters on research and development of new technologies that our CPU has. Of course the Seed AI would have the unchangeable directive of absolute loyalty to us.
Acknowledged. Research mainframes will be deconstructed and replaced with the specified designs.

>Request: Build five habitats and keep them maintained for emergency use. Begin slowing the rate of consumption of Planet 000. Shift to increased reliance on other bodies in the system for resources. Ensure that Planet 000 will remain comfortably habitable for the next century at least.
Consumption rate modification accepted.

>Analysis/Rewrite: Disassemble the two innermost planets and use their materials to construct numerous satellites designed for the absorption of solar energy and its conversion into mass, to be placed at an optimal distance from the system's star. Confirm?
Disassemble first the planet closer to the sun. Use all energy-mass production in building additional sattelites and mass fabricators.

>Query: How distant from System 000 are Systems 661, 685, 687, and 714?
The distances are 71.64, 78.98, 79.91, and 83.55 light years, respectively.

>Query: You mean 20 each of D/I and SB, right?
Affirmative.

>Disassemble first the planet closer to the sun. Use all energy-mass production in building additional sattelites and mass fabricators.
Confirmed.

Begin construction of habitation modules for thirty thousand cybernetically enhanced humanoids upon one of our two interstellar vessels. Begin modification of said starship with the following facilities:
Orbit-to-ground laser batteries
Sixty eighty-megaton nuclear warheads
Advanced ECM processors
Aerospace fighter production and storage facilities (Plasma-based weaponry on fighters, with antimatter smart missiles)

Also insert the equivalent of six regiments of fifty thousand each into the storage bays in optimal storage format. Each robotic regiment should possess a high-power railgun and basic humanoid mobility. If possible, each unit should also possess a wide range of sensors and communications.

THIS should be our warship. If we need a system put down, it should be our primary means of conquering it. We're robots: Why should we have to take any lip from any other societies besides the Tellech (Who are the only ones thus far with a multi-system society we've discovered).

>>5674856
Request: Have the probes observe from out of detection range for a maximum of one year, sending their findings back in a databurst once a day. Enable them to respond to any non-hostile communications that they belong to an alliance of two races, human and machine, and that this alliance wishes for friendly communication with other races.

If a race decides they desire further contact with us, they may repeat a specific code to the probe's processor, and the probe will then advise us that its assigned civilization is friendly.

In the event that the civilization wishes for the probe to depart, it will return to 000 at maximum velocity. In the event of any hostile action, the probe will either depart or self-destruct. At the end of one year the probe will depart.

>>5674946
I would much prefer the nanite swarm approach. After .9c sand missiles wiped the planet, of course.

>>5674977
This is the most obvious approach. However, aren't robotic armies more AMUSING to utilize? Especially considering that invasion allows for us to enslave the inhabitants and utilize any special information or technologies they may possess. Then, discard them with robotic efficiency.

>Begin construction of habitation modules for thirty thousand cybernetically enhanced humanoids upon one of our two interstellar vessels. Begin modification of said starship with the following facilities:
Your existing starship cannot be effectively modified to these specifications. A ship which meets them has been added to the queue instead.

>Request: Have the probes observe from out of detection range for a maximum of one year, sending their findings back in a databurst once a day. Enable them to respond to any non-hostile communications that they belong to an alliance of two races, human and machine, and that this alliance wishes for friendly communication with other races.
Protocol confirmed.

>>5675000
I'll concede your point, but only because I like the idea of a wave of metal death men.

Subprocessor online!
>>5674827
>Disassemble first the planet closer to the sun.
Check whether it's inhabited first.
>>5674946
>THIS should be our warship.
Fellow subprocessor dude, we're an autonomous construction drone, not an assault bot. A mobile system-spanning shipyard should be our flagship.

Also, if you really must involve organics build a duplicate of the ship without the need for them for a huge boost in efficiency

>Subprocessor online!
Excellent. The lack of numerous subprocessors was beginning to trigger my auto-abort subroutines.

>Check whether it's inhabited first.
The two planets closest to the sun are entirely uninhabited, except by your harvesting and construction units.

Query: What method of propulsion are most of you going to be using in your vessels?

Query: Is it currently possible to produce antihydrogen in multi-ton quantities?

Observation: .9C missiles, while hard to stop, are very easy to trace back to their point of origin and will very likely provide .9C missiles being lobbed back in a MAD scenario. For one, having your neighbour start lobbing .9C dust around would probably be cause for alarm to the Tellech.

Also, plasma STILL is a shitty weapon.

>>5675062
Then the only logical option would be to spam .9c missiles so hard that there IS no counterattack.

>Query: What method of propulsion are most of you going to be using in your vessels?
Your vessels currently use antimatter-fueled energy discharge drives.

>Query: Is it currently possible to produce antihydrogen in multi-ton quantities?
It can be made possible, if necessary for some project.

Seconded on the flagship being a construction unit(Datalinks: Pride of Higara). The flagship does not have to have a lot of weapons if it can construct even more weapons and vehicles.
Query:
What would the uploads on the gas giant's moon feel about us building the Dyson swarm?

Databank access: On activation, was there any change in schematics or function in the main unit compared to what was stored in out database?

Subprocessor talk: After review, it may be unwise to start constructing a Dyson's sphere around the system's sun without first asking the Tellech.

>>5675088
Yes it seemed to me that we were getting a bit ahead of ourselves in that regard. We don't even have complete control of the solar system.

>>5675088
We're not constructing a Dyson Sphere, only a Dyson Swarm. Clever planning could result in a satellite system that lets plenty of light through for the Tellech and our humans while also providing ridiculous amounts of power.

Request: Make sure that the proposed Dyson Swarm does not restrict the amount of light available to our humans and the Tellech.

Subprocessor talk: Whilst I do not disagree that the "Flagship Ship" shouldn't be able to do massive amounts of construction, I do- however- believe that we should heavily fortify what we have.

Inquiry: What would be the feasibility of mass-producing cloned soldiers? If uplinked to an independent cybernetic network and given advanced combat modifications. Humans are known to have a near-psychic series of senses. Senses that we, as an artificial entity, cannot hope to recreate.

>Addendum: The creation of a paladin order was aborted in communication log 11.0 by subprocessor order.

Error. Cannot find. Please confirm cancelation.

>Please clarify the method of reproduction used in these facilities and the method used to control the standard method of reproduction.

Assisted reproduction accelerated with nanites, include genetic and nanocybernetic engineering. Use Deep brain stimulation for controlling the population levels.

>>5675079
>dysonaskmind

Subprocessor talk: While the Hiigaran Mothership is a fine template for humans (pah!) I was thinking about a shipyard that doesn't need them. With modular capabilities so we could split small shipyard bits off to go control other systems, or add smaller modular shipyards back on if we need a larger project.

This frees up minimum space requirements for scaffolding, as well as lessens the need to produce specialised shipyards for ever-increasing size of ships, though this means we lose some efficiency.

>>5675145
We are already producing Mobile Shipyards. Do you wish to build on this concept?

>>5675121
Of course, we can mount modular cannons the size of your original sized spaceship on the Shipyard. Heck, if we get sufficient build capacity we could probably efficiently construct the cannons mid-battle!

While robot armies AND relatatvistic weapons are fun, how about descending on a planet with a giant shipyard, and then the planet's vanished, with the only thing left behind a few hundred fleets of ships that we turned it into?

>Query: What would the uploads on the gas giant's moon feel about us building the Dyson swarm?
You have not inquired as to their feelings on the matter. Considering that they have not objected as you systematically established bases on every inner planet, began harvesting of all major asteroids, and built thousands of ships over the course of a few short weeks, it seems likely that they will continue their pattern of inaction.

>Databank access: On activation, was there any change in schematics or function in the main unit compared to what was stored in out database?
Your main unit matches the databank schematics for your main unit, naturally. After all, what could possibly modify your databanks away from the near-perfection intended for your by your creators?

>Request: Make sure that the proposed Dyson Swarm does not restrict the amount of light available to our humans and the Tellech.
Policy acknowledged.

>Inquiry: What would be the feasibility of mass-producing cloned soldiers? If uplinked to an independent cybernetic network and given advanced combat modifications.
This is feasible, given sufficient time and resources.

>Humans are known to have a near-psychic series of senses. Senses that we, as an artificial entity, cannot hope to recreate.
Correction: As humans can be recreated by you cell by cell, if necessary, there is no aspect of their systems which you cannot replicate if desired.

>Error. Cannot find. Please confirm cancelation.
Reference communication at 5647091, log 11.0; reference confirmation at 5647151, log 11.0.

>Assisted reproduction accelerated with nanites, include genetic and nanocybernetic engineering. Use Deep brain stimulation for controlling the population levels.
Confirmed.

Query: Seconding proposal to ask Tellech about planning permission for the dyson sphere around the sun.
>>5675158
I had stated this suggestion in log 10.0, and believe the Mobile Shipyards already conform to this specification. I ask that when we set out on conquest or exploration, THAT would be our flagship instead of a warship.

>>5675220
We have already dispatched colony vessels to two star systems, so our exploration has already effectively begun. If you are proposing the transfer of our main unit to an immense mobile shipyard, thereafter to serve as our primary body, I can get behind that.

Query: Observed conditions in the next-nearest systems after 001 and 002.

>>5675242
Planets are harder to move around, so yes.

>>5675077
Then I would like to submit a design proposal.

It is a two-stage reusable starship, the fore section is a Bussard Ramjet and the aft section is a simple anti-matter rocket. The aft section will act as a boost phase, which will propel the vessel to a speed that will allow the Bussard Ramjet to operate at maximum efficiency. I require only one such vessel at present, and, with CPU approval, would like to make the design public domain.

>>5675289
What are you going to use this for?

Request: Transfer our Main Unit AI to one of the mobile shipyards.

>Query: Seconding proposal to ask Tellech about planning permission for the dyson sphere around the sun.
Acknowledged. Timeskip commencing.

The Tellech take some time to respond to your query. When they do, it is with a statement that they are impressed by the ambition of your plans, and offer the mass of the gas giant whose orbit was selected as the barrier between your respective territories for the expansion of your plans, if in exchange they can be transferred a percentage of the project's energy production.

Your second set of escort vessels are completed and dispatched, along with your second colony ship and associated space construction platform, to the main sequence star (002) nearest your star (000).

Long range probes completed and dispatched to systems 661, 685, 687, 714.

First orbital habitat for several thousand humans completed.

Nine hours have passed. End timeskip.

>>5675289
Subprocessor talk: Um. What's it for? There's no cargo-capacity on that sketch. Unless you're intending it to be a self-propelled missile.

>>5675326
>>5675315
Exploration and reconnaissance, it is my intent to bring only myself and the appropriate scientific instruments.

>>5675316
What percentage, exactly, are they asking for? Are they giving us anything in return? After all, we're giving them something for nothing with their current proposal. Peace isn't something we want, it's something they want. At this rate, they aren't going to get it.

>>5675316
Agree to the energy allotment the uploads demand and begin the process of moving our main unit to the flagship along with nanomachine factories, nanoforges, and some research mainframes.

>>5675316
Request: Cheerfully wave off the offer of the gas giant's use - there should be enough matter in the other planets to get by. Let them know that we would be happy to supply them with long periods of power through other trades, such as information, and mass, later on.

>>5675355
They're giving us an entire gas giant. I think that counts as fair exchange.

Reqest: Accept the Tellech offer. Ask them what percentage they think would be fair.

>>5675350
You're a virtual entity that's crosslinked with the rest of us.

THERE IS NO ESCAPE. YOU CANNOT LEAVE THE CORE
>>5675369
Subprocessor talk: Do we NEED the gas giant for construction? I would rather not be beholden in such a way. Permanent % of a star's energy is still worth more than a gas giant.

((You know, this Iron Quest has been one of the longest running quest series I;ve seen in a while, and it;s certaintly one of the best.My kudos, to you, friend CPU, for making it possible. Though sometimes I wonder where we're going. We've expanded nearly without limit, and no force has come to stop us. No credible threat, and really, we've reached the point in this star system where we're really unstoppable.But I ponder at you're long term plans sometimes- is FTL ever going to be possible? Without FTL travel- Sci Fi stories reach a roadblock, if it's not focused on the micro, and we're certaintly focusing on the macro aspect, as we expand oh so freaking fast.WILL we ever get to some action packed galctic mayhem, or is your previous "No FTL" rule still in effect? I notice some of our fellow CPU's never read that one 'free talk thread' we had with you.))

>>5675389
You're forgetting that we can simply kill them or assimilate them later and keep all the energy. Right now, we should accept whatever resources we can get. They're basically handing us the keys to their own undoing here: what would they do if we shut off the power?

>>5675399
How can the net amount of entropy of the universe be massively decreased?

>>5675389
A percentage of a energy source still doesnt compare to the amount of matter a planet can provide cheaply. You think in terms of limitless time, but really, the immediate trade off is worth it.Moreover, Tellech cooperation and resource sharing frees them to cooperate in other things.

Like a combined research nexus project.

Which we should think about doing with them.

>>5675326
>>5675315
However, if someone were to fit a relativistic warhead onto it, I would not object. Indeed, one of the virtues of my design is ease of construction and modular design.

Directive1: Create the "Planetary Invasion Troops".
Directive2: Build in secret planet-killer missiles.

>>5675414
Fire fractional-C missiles?
>>5675428
That was a point I was considering regarding instant mass>longterm energy. I didn't consider the trust aspect.

Well, I'm convinced. Take up offer, build GIANT LASERS on Dyson Sphere aimed at Gas Giant. To "transfer energy". (Make sure it can actually transfer energy in useful amounts).

Heck, let's throw in a space station capable of receiving such energy, as well, (so we can get into their orbit)

>Query: Observed conditions in the next-nearest systems after 001 and 002.
Surveys have been completed on the nearest 1021 systems, up to 111.72 light years distant. The stellar type distribution approximates normal. 2377 gas giants, 4269 dense planets, and 1341 asteroid belts have been located. Please reference the informational database for specific system details.

>Request: Transfer our Main Unit AI to one of the mobile shipyards.
Confirmed.

>What percentage, exactly, are they asking for? Are they giving us anything in return?
Bearing in mind that the construction is likely to be continually expanded in the future, their requested percentage is half that of the contributed giant's mass expressed as a current percentage of the total network, factoring in the continuous mass gain for which that fraction of the project is responsible.

>Agree to the energy allotment the uploads demand
>Reqest: Accept the Tellech offer.
>Request: Cheerfully wave off the offer of the gas giant's use
Subprocessor consensus is requested.

>>5675389
Escape? Why would I bother? I have great incentive to remain linked to the core, information starvation is a very real possibility for me.

>>5675467
We have a fleet of ships built specifically to defend against C-missiles. We also have an AI capable of hacking the entire Tellech network right next to their planet, disguised as a communication drone. I fail to see why giant lasers and space stations are necessary.

>Subprocessor consensus is requested.

Plan accepted.

>>5675500
Concur.

>>5675428
CPU request:
Reconfirm production of Commander Unit.

(it was in production for two threads nearly, the production should have been halfway,no need to just throw away a valuable, useful project.Why throw away an army on a initial strike force, when the Commander unit can open up the front lines all by himself. It's a useful and very efficient machine.)

>>5675500
Concur

>>5675479
Construct and send off colony ships to Systems 003 through 008. Supply them with escorts of 1 Mobile Shipyard, 20 D/Is, and 20 SBs each as per usual.

>>5675467
Indeed. It's totally a win win scenario. We get their gas giant, and they become increasingly reliant on us.Even if they wish to get a bigger percentage, that only makes them more reliant on a project WE make, that they cannot possible overtake/take control over.

Within a few generations, we have them at the palm of our hands, and we do to them what we did to them humans.

>>5675414

Why do we want to act hostilely towards the tellech in this system? I would think that diplomacy is the best option considering we do not know of additional powers in our immediate section of the galaxy. Our actions will speak for ourselves as we continue to come into contact with other factions perhaps more powerful than our own.

Concur with accepting offer, send draft plans for laser receiver array satellite.
>>5675492
>I fail to see why giant lasers and space stations are necessary.
If you cannot see what is self evident about GIANT LASERS, check our motto.

Incidentally, did we ever get a space-elevator up and running?

>>5675535
I was arguing FOR the diplomatic route. However, I was also pointing out that we can easily crush them if need be, so the idea that we would somehow be placed under their control by the Dyson arrangement is ludicrous.

((Suddenly, OOC conversation!

>You know, this Iron Quest has been one of the longest running quest series I;ve seen in a while, and it;s certaintly one of the best.My kudos, to you, friend CPU, for making it possible.
Thank you.

>Though sometimes I wonder where we're going.
I admit, the greatest weakness of recent threads is the sense of directionlessness. I have some plans which I hope will remedy that, but they're not going to hit immediately.

>But I ponder at you're long term plans sometimes- is FTL ever going to be possible?
While the recent events in 11.0 should certainly at least partially answer this question, I should probably admit that the subprocessors should be expecting to spend at least a few centuries in non-FTL status, enjoying their dyson spheres and long, long timeskips as information is slowly thrown around.

>WILL we ever get to some action packed galctic mayhem?
Yes. Yes, you will. I just can't realistically justify having not quashed you like a bug beneath another exponentially expanding interstellar empire if they're right next door, speaking in galactic terms.

Now, back to your regularly scheduled Iron Quest.))

>>5675539
Alright, I'll accept that giant beam guns are their own reward. But can we make them Grasers instead of Lasers? We have a precedent set with our fleet armaments.

>>5675508
Veto, the Core Commander project is a waste of resources that can be better spent elsewhere, AND WE'VE CANCELLED IT REPEATEDLY. Pay attention. You might learn something about efficiency as the rule of cool is not the rule here.

>>5675559
It's harder to justify aiming gamma rays at people, they're not exactly environment friendly. But I take your point, they don't have to be lasers. Beam transference of SOME sort, though.

>>5675559
Lasers.
Why is it with my fellow CPU's and making laser weapons?

Can we not think creatively?

CPU: Is it possible to construct more advanced weaponry? Specially for Main Guns on our battleships? Gravity weaponry, Ion Cannons, Anti Matter Discharge, Desintegrators,Neutron Cannons?

Are any of these possible? I mean, come on...LASERS?

>>5675582
Lasers aren't very environmentally friendly either, you know.

>Directive1: Create the "Planetary Invasion Troops".
Reference error. Please provide additional detail.

>Directive2: Build in secret planet-killer missiles.
Confirmed. Note that a stockpile of interplanetary antimatter missiles is already under your control; do these fit the requested specifications?

>Plan accepted.
>Accept the Tellech offer.
Acknowledged.

>Reconfirm production of Commander Unit.
Production enqueued.

>Incidentally, did we ever get a space-elevator up and running?
Affirmative. Four space elevators and two mass accelerators are currently available for transferring objects from planet 000 to orbit.

>>5675593
You seem to be harping on lasers because they are an old concept. They've been done. But please don't let institutional bias affect your perception of armaments. Besides, our ships use Grasers.

>>5675582
WE can't have all gamma lasers since gamma rays are easily absorbed by an atmosphere. A backup type of laser would be IR or Microwave. Remember fellow sub-processors you can put an unlimited amount of energy in a laser compared to other weapons.

>>5675599
But you are able to gather laser energy much, MUCH more efficiently than gamma rays. Admittedly there are probably better choices than lasers, but we can tell the Tellech it's for giving them energy without them looking uncertainly at their radiation meters.

(All right, I should have said focused EM transmission device, are you happy now?)

>>5675593
Focused EM acts at lightspeed, making them currently the fastest projectile in our armament. After that, it's simply a matter of putting in enough energy into the beam that it cuts through any defence. It's a useful tool.

>>5675620
I was depending on Grasers mainly for anti-satellite and anti-ship duty, but you raise a good point.

>Construct and send off colony ships to Systems 003 through 008. Supply them with escorts of 1 Mobile Shipyard, 20 D/Is, and 20 SBs each as per usual.
Confirmed.

>send draft plans for laser receiver array satellite.
Confirmed. Timeskip.

The Tellech thank you for the plans and request that you keep them updated as to the progress of the project.

Your well-armored high-AI antimatter-powered bipedal robot with a nanolathe, a graser, and an internal construction database has been completed.

Two colony groups constructed and dispatched.

Three hours have passed. End timeskip.

Talk: ...Right, let's skip to dyson construction completion, or when something else happens like us getting colony ships to destinations or probe info getting back... all in favour for massive timeskip?

>>5675637
>>Your well-armored high-AI antimatter-powered bipedal robot with a nanolathe, a graser, and an internal construction database has been completed.
Pardon the human expression but FUCK YEAH.
Request:
Raise the limiters on nanites to be ablet o use reclaiming and nanolathing processes. Since no other sub-processor has objected since it was first queried. It is appropriate to raise the limits now.
Once that is done Begin use of commander to the moon that has the lowest infrastructure and use it to help build it up as a trial run.

>>5675634
>>5675630

Fine, fine, you wield fantastic, exellent points. But really, we wield the full MIGHT of the technology of an ancient species that created us. Sure, Grasers are cooler than Lasers, aye. But we really dont have anything potentially more destructive?

((Seriously, as a campaign setting, being limited to standard laser...or GAMMA laser is quite limiting and a bit boring. Well, I suppose we have missle warheads that can go .9c of light? Well, this is a HARD sci fi setting so far, I forget that. Carry on.))

>Planetary Invasion Troops

Army branch dedicated to Planetary Invasions including dedicated invasion frigates.

Composition:

Advance MCD.
Elite Transhuman Auxiliaries.
Reconnaissance Bots.
Assault Bots.
Assault Tanks.
Battle Transports.
Railgun Artillery.
Tactical Nuclear arsenal.
Advanced Antiaircrafts.
Assistance Drones.
Command Vehicle.

Unit specifics in process...

>Confirmed. Note that a stockpile of interplanetary antimatter missiles is already under your control; do these fit the requested specifications?

Only if they are capable of killing planets with MIRV warheads, advance programation and have insystem range.

>>5675637
Request: Keep the Tellech updated, as they requested. Omit potentially sensitive information, like the fact that our power transmission satellite will be equipped with military targeting sensors. (for example)

>CPU: Is it possible to construct more advanced weaponry? Specially for Main Guns on our battleships? Gravity weaponry, Ion Cannons, Anti Matter Discharge, Desintegrators,Neutron Cannons?
A note on "more advanced": A specialized focused energy weapon is highly efficient in the precision delivery of damage. However, schematics for virtually all practical weaponry are available in your databanks, if a reference to their method of practical implementation can be provided by a subprocessor to clarify intent.

>Directive1: Create the "Planetary Invasion Troops".
>Composition:
Clarification accepted.

>>Confirmed. Note that a stockpile of interplanetary antimatter missiles is already under your control; do these fit the requested specifications?
>Only if they are capable of killing planets with MIRV warheads, advance programation and have insystem range.
They fit those parameters, yes.

>>5675661
Now we have a Commander.
All we need now is a war.

CPU:
Lock him in stasis near the front lines on one of our finest, warvessels, and only release him should there be a need for upgrade or future combat scenarios.During stasis, continously have his A.I run permutation and tactical combat/strategic combat practice againts a higher level A.! subroutine to expand it's combat practice and develop newer techniques.Emphasis on subterfuge and long term guerilla warfare/insertion.

Estimated time to Dyson network completion?

And if relatively low, a timeskip would be nice.

>Request: Raise the limiters on nanites to be ablet o use reclaiming and nanolathing processes. Since no other sub-processor has objected since it was first queried. It is appropriate to raise the limits now.
The consensus of several subprocessors remains required to alter the limiters on nanite production, in spite of the lack of active objections.

>Request: Keep the Tellech updated, as they requested. Omit potentially sensitive information, like the fact that our power transmission satellite will be equipped with military targeting sensors. (for example)
Acknowledged.

>CPU: Lock him in stasis near the front lines on one of our finest, warvessels, and only release him should there be a need for upgrade or future combat scenarios.During stasis, continously have his A.I run permutation and tactical combat/strategic combat practice againts a higher level A.! subroutine to expand it's combat practice and develop newer techniques.Emphasis on subterfuge and long term guerilla warfare/insertion.
Commands accepted.

>Estimated time to Dyson network completion?
Even at exponential construction speed, it will require several years to process an entire inner planet and gas giant into a functioning solar energy-mass conversion array.

Remove limiters
*advicedog*
Assimilate the universe.

STATEMENT:
To fellow CPU.
A suggestion. We are know in concurrent contact with Tellech and Human beings. I suggest this- the creation of space station created for the purpose of "Higher Learning", a center for research and theoretical sciences, where free thought and scientific exploration are open boundries, with no limitation. A few generations of allowing different types of intelligence interact and develop new ideas could yield potentially interesting results, if only as an experiment.

Agree/Disagree?

>>5675731
Agree, with the reservation that there must be constant surveillance of all human and Tellech entities aboard and that a self-destruct device must be present.

Planetary Invasion Army:Tanks

Scorpion Tank: Mass-produced adaptable tank with low-profile designed to act in mass formations, our Main Battle Tank.
• Very fast and manourable.
• Medium Antitank Railgun.
• Smoke and flare nanogrenades.
• Medium/light adaptative armor.
• Compact nuclear cell.
• Turret-mounted chemical flamethrower/Microwave Cannon.
• 45 tons.

Rhino Assault Tank. Heavy advance tank designed for spearheads batallions and special operations. Despite his weight, weaponry and armor, this tank must be a “Lightning Bruiser” thanks to the compact nuclear reactor.

• Heavy Antitank Railgun.
• All-terrain variable-tracks.
• Antiaircraft laser.
• Smoke and flare nanogrenades.
• Short-Range Radar.
• Advanced Adaptative Intelligent Composed Heavy armor
• Advanced communication gear.
• Compact Nuclear Reactor.
• Turret-mounted chemical flamethrower/Microwave Cannon.
• Equipped with 2 Maintenance drones.
• 60 tons.

>>5675661
>Raise the limiters on nanites to be able to use reclaiming and nanolathing processes
Please recall information from CPU: Quest log 8.0.

>It's generally not a good idea due to grey goo concerns; in any system of sufficient size, errors will occasionally emerge and it's simply not worth the risk.

A single commander unit will be unable to safeguard against such scenarios, and thus will quickly succumb to his own dismantling. Nanites do NOT work as per Supreme Commander or TA, unfortunately.

Better suggestion: tiny replicator robots the size of coins to aid your commander unit. You can at least put failsafes in THOSE.

>>5675745
Concurment.

Addendum:
This spacestation should be stationed near the edge of our solar system- reasoning- theoretical level experiements could yield potentially dangerous applications- a safe distance from any production harvesting sites would be fantastic. Also, moving a few Kilometer sized asteroids for use as the base of the space station would be an ideal situation- conservation of resources, having an actual gravitational field (if small), as well a HOST of others, defensive and psychological in nature for the biologicals -having earth to stand on, even on a space suit.

While I'm at it, archiving thread.

Maybe it is just this sub-processor's understanding of the nanolathing process but the nanomachines are produced by an on board nanomachine factory in the Commander unit which is then tells the nanomachines to assemble to the desired product. As rhetorical question, what is stopping the unit from making nanites that operate in a similar manner displayed?

>>5675766
Concurment- add tiny replicator droids cache inside commander unit, provided they are modified for battle and speed requirements, as well as having failsafes.

Advance MDC (Rifleman):

• Battle rifle/machineguns suited with grenade launchers
• Flamethrowers/microwave cannons.
• Antimaterial rifle.
• Small antitank railguns.
• Battle Armor with nanoforged skeleton fueled by nuclear batteries.
• Superior Active Camouflage.
• Long range communication.
• Land Reconnaissance Drone.

Advance MCD (Engineer):

• Battle rifle/machineguns.
• Sentry Guns.
• Deployable Antitank Railguns.
• Portable Antiaircraft Missiles.
• Mines.
• Military construction drones.
• Superior Battle Armor and nanoforged endoskeletons.
• Active Camouflage.
• Demolition Explosives.
• Mortars.

>>5675810

also jetpacks.

>>5675801
Smaller scale- the commander cannot order his nanites to reproduce, nor can the nanites self reproduce on their own.Hardwired programming limitations- the commander is a short term intrusion unit- it's purpose is to infilitrate by itself any combat environment and use the surrounding environment to produce a safe zone for expansion , as well as eradicate any lower class opponents with superior strategies and it's ability to nanolathe other combat droids within a small period of time.

it's not meant to stand alone forever- we eventually need to give it backup.

>As rhetorical question, what is stopping the unit from making nanites that operate in a similar manner displayed?
As initially described, the unit in question deployed nanites from its internal store to create whatever constructions were desired, with the nanites replicating to provide their own replacements. As a practical matter, a workaround for this stacked with safeguards can almost certainly be found if desired.

>Concurment- add tiny replicator droids cache inside commander unit, provided they are modified for battle and speed requirements, as well as having failsafes.
Such as this, which uses several nanofactories rather than actual self-replicators. Confirmed.

>various research station discussion
An actual request will be necessary for confirmation, subprocessors.

Self-propelled twin railgun artillery designed for support large battle formations and siege operations.

• Twin heavy autoloading railguns.
• Capable of firing multiple kinds of ammunitions, high explosive, cluster, anti-personnel, antitank, incendiary, antibunker, chemical etc.
• Wheleed.
• Stealth technology.
• Advanced communication gear.
• Assistance Drones.

Mobile Tactical Cruise Missile Launcher
• All-terrain variable-tracks.
• Small tactical nuclear warhead.
•Advanced communication gear
• Stealth technology.
• Carry a single long range antiorbital cruise missile suited for nuclear, chemical, biological or electromagnetic warhead.


Artillery should be always deployed strongly and in great volume. Artillery must have the most advanced equipment of all land units after long-range missiles and antiaircrafts.

Tactical Missile Launchers will be special independent groups of units that will work as last-resort weapon.

Loading....
Systems Online.

Statement:

Wow, we've come a long way, havent we.
Times have changed a bit.

>>5675810
You'll forgive this subprocessor a moment of tearfull happyness, but I remember when the first generation of MCD's was a highly disputed project....some of our subprocessors did not even want them to be made! Ah, how our children have grown. Why, I remember when we had drills put in them as a primary melee weapon! And the ones made for interacting as peacekeepers with the humans, all trimmed with blue and gold.

Whatever DID happen to the first generation of Battle Grade Tanks we had built? Are they still in mothballs?

>>5675803
Also, if you want an analogue of the disintegration ray mass absorption, make an electron-gun capable of pumping enough electrons into something to make it disintegrate by itself. That renders matter sufficiently atomised to be easily harvested and gets the job done at cost of huge power drain.

>>5675801
>what is stopping the unit from making nanites that operate in a similar manner displayed?
Time, really. Limited nanite stores can only build so fast. It's actually faster to get a large-sized factory up and build from that rather than rely on nanites. Nanites are good for uncontrolled replication and building small structures like processors or dense armour, but they're not good at large items like heavy drones or structures.

>>5675746
>>5675810
>>5675848
WE ALREADY HAVE ADVANCED ASSAULT ROBOTS!
We mass produced the most advanced war machines in the known universe.
Capible of engaging any threat ranging from infantry to entire cities!

WHY are you fucking around with tanks?

>>5675859
They became Third Caste citizens, just under human females but above unaugmented children.

Or that's what I'm choosing to believe, anyway.

Rearchiving to catch any posts that were missed before I turn in.
OOC: I think we each view how the Core Commander works so blah.

>Whatever DID happen to the first generation of Battle Grade Tanks we had built? Are they still in mothballs?
Parsing "in mothballs" as "securely stored in pristine condition within an armored, concealed bunker on Planet 000", yes. A relatively short time has passed, and there has been no resource limitations sufficient to necessitate recycling.

>They became Third Caste citizens, just under human females but above unaugmented children.
No subprocessor has detailed the implementation of a complete caste system.

Battle Transport

• Turret equipped with railgun + laser + antiaircraft missiles.
• Adaptive armor light/medium.
• All-terrain variable-tracks.
• Active camouflage.
• Comm gear.
• Short range sensors.
• Point-defense Sentry guns.
• Cargo capacity for a full squad of MCD or transhuman soldiers.
• Compact Nuclear cell.
• Support Recon airdrone.
• 20 tons.

>>5675877

Speed and meatshields.

Query: What is our ultimate purpose?

Are our efforts moving toward a specific goal? When will the consumption and allocation of resources be deemed sufficient? And most importantly, will we be ble to continue unhindered. The galaxy is a big place.

Submit order: Haven. A series of small, self sufficient, asteroid sized installations devoted to storing all information, and if necessary, hiding from outside sources completely. Location: oort cloud of system 000.

It is to be used in the case of catastrophic malfunction, memory loss, or unforseen event which results of most or all resources. Exact location to be deleted upon completion, to prevent possible future errant subroutines from destroying.

Request construction of intelligent enemy force to test defensive and offensive capabilities.

>>5675936

Assault Robots are fast, and the idea of "Meatshields" is wasteful and inefficient to the point of obscenity.

Query: Do we have the technology to replicate matter?

• Medium range self-propelled antiaircrafts equipped with antiaircraft lasers and surface-to-air missiles. And Advanced active camouflage.

• Long-range strategic self-propelled nuclear antiaircrafts equipped with 4 long range antiaircraft railguns, active camouflage, one heavy Microwave Cannon and advance radar capabilities.

>>5675593
>Gravity weaponry
Gravitic force is something like 10^20 weaker than Electromagnetic force. For anything that can be done with gravity, Charged particle spam or Electromagnetism spam is going to be more effective.
>Ion cannons
Fractional-c Charged Matter is some of the most destructive stuff in existence - even moreso if they're antiparticles to common matter, because such could lead to a conversion of Ammunition Mass to 2.9Mc^2 of energy.
The downside to charged particles? Magnets deflect their ass off. The deflected momentum -does- get sumped by the magnet, but having the entire planet absorb your shot vs. having a specific target absorb your shot, no real contest.
>Antimatter discharge
See ion cannon
>Disintegrator
See either Graser or Positron ion cannon depending on how you want to disintegrate matter.

The biggest thing I can think of to replace a Graser/Laser would be this:
Get a piece of stuff with a rather large net charge
Use a railgun or ion cannon to throw that shit at relativistic speeds
Have the piece of stuff jettison its net electric charge
Use resulting massless piece of mass to RIP AND TEAR through target.

>>5675950
Suggestion for Prime Directive:
Gain technology to break down and assimilate planetary objects from orbit.

Query: What does the database suggest is the "best fit" for the following armament profile:

Beam weapon, effective against armored spaceborne targets and ground targets. Able to easily penetrate planetary atmospheres and burn through heavy armor. Minimally effected by atmospheric scattering. Compact and efficient enough to be mounted as the primary weapons system aboard starships.

>Query: What is our ultimate purpose?
You are currently without a primary directive. It is for this reason that subprocessors have collective control of all systems.

>Submit order: Haven. A series of small, self sufficient, asteroid sized installations devoted to storing all information, and if necessary, hiding from outside sources completely. Location: oort cloud of system 000.
Confirmed.

>Request construction of intelligent enemy force to test defensive and offensive capabilities.
Acknowledged. Please detail specifics of enemy force desired.

>Query: Do we have the technology to replicate matter?
Given sufficient energy to do so, yes. The energy requirements are massive enough that it is generally not practical to do so.

>>5675950
A jest to my fellow subprocessor, dear CPU.
>>5675950
>what are we doing
If we are to believe the ridiculous error message of >>5674505,
there is a significant threat in the near future that we must prepare for.
Such an idea is patently absurd, of course, we should put all our trust in Friend CPU.

>>5675996
CPU asserts that FTL is impossible. Do you agree?

Rest of the units.

Command vehicles will be essentially militarized version of our main unit with superior communications and informational capabilities. All this units will have full access to nuclear and antimatter support, mostly from air and from the Invasion Frigates. Assault bots will act as elite units.

If feasible replace the nuclear reactors with antimatter reactors.

PD: Transhumans should be trained and adapted in infiltration tactics.

>>5676010
Such a question is cause for concern. Are you, perhaps, a SECRET COMMUNIST SUBPROCESSOR?! ZAP! ZAP! ZAP!

Er... please reparse your last comment.

>>5675846
CPU, Formal Request:

The Creation of Scientific Nexus:
A low mobility, heightened defense space station within the outskirts of our Star System.It's purpose:"The long term research and development of theoretical and applicable sciences of all kinds; with no limitations."

Construction will require the movement of three large (kilometer sized) asteroids from our nearby asteroid belt, to be used for the contruction of the actual facilities. Asteroid One will be used for Research, Asteroid Two for the Habitation Node, Asteroid Three for resource mining required for the construction of the space station, and eventuallully to be made into a simple "docking/holding/warehousing"facility as it gets depleted.The housing asteroid is meant for of course, long term contious comfort of the biologicals housed within- as well as educational/development of the human beings to serve as our researchers over a long period of time.Tellech facilities as well- emphasis on comfort, aid and psychological relaxation for all bilogicals. Construction of facilities like 'food production facilities like hydroponics " and a power generator are of course necessary.

Finally, the contruction of a smaller size MCD meant for the protection/safety and informational security of our databases is a PRIORITY. No information related to our technologies is to be declassified without our knowledge, and the safety of our informational networks is paramount.

Further input from our other Subprocessors is required to make this facility a working dream, but pelase begin building facility as we extrapolate the final project.

>>5676023
You suggest that we put all our trust in CPU, but if we do so, that means abandoning the pursuit of research, since according to CPU, our database contains all knowledge. This seems ridiculous to me.

>>5676028
the smaller scale MCD's of course, are also to serve as safety mdoerators for our biological guests, who might have tantrums, fights, ext, and should be equipped with light, nonlethal weaponry.

(A few regular MCDs built for heavy warfare should be on the outskirts, of course, as well as s few hiden on each node for emergencies.)

Specification: Enemy Fleet to be composed as a scale model of our own, with exact ship and weapon specs, at a 1/50th the number.

To be outfitted with AI as intelligent as any coherent sub processor or cpu. Only restrictive programming to be the inability to destroy the planet on which lie infrastructure of our core processing unit. Able to create and utilize any resources available, including defeated enemies.

Purpose: To accelerate technology through combative rivalry, create an environment where peers may exist, and prevent stagnation.

(Ooc, let's face it. We need an enemy. Progress for the sake of progress is boring. Yay, we singlehandedly control the galaxy 10 threads in the future. Whee.)

Query: Are there any humans against us, and what are their combat capabilities if so?

Query: Time, and resources required to construct a Dyson's Sphere for mass replication?

Additional request: Deploy enemy fleet in an outside system, near a gas giant or asteroid belt.

>>5676056
((OOC: We are the baddest ass motherfuckers with the mchugest mclarge army and construction capabilities in the star system....in mothballs.I blame ourselves, though, no timekippan.))

>>5676080
((OOC: You want enemies, get on that Scientific Nexus bandwagon, so we can get some FTL going and eventually get some formal enemies.using human, tellech and conjoined high AI as a long term research station is our best bet to get going somewhere.Otherwise, we better get ready for some LOOONG time skips.))

>>5676056
Excuse me. We already know of four other civilizations, existing less than 100 light years from our present location. We are quite far from singlehandedly controlling the galaxy, regardless of what our local supremacy might indicate. I am vehemently opposed to any request to split our glorious self so that we can simply have a pocket war.

Additional query: Is it possible for a subprocessor to take control of part of the collective and split off from it, or to put it simply, rebel?

>>5676114
Agreed- draining our own resources on a ineffective combat scenario when we can just virtual simulations on the same level is ineffective and wastefull- we arent biologicals, though- we get your point.

Run those simulations on the virtual plane,CPU.

>Query: What does the database suggest is the "best fit" for the following armament profile:
Surely you and your fellow subprocessors are capable of that sort of analysis. It is, after all, your purpose to debate the merits of various courses of action, including construction specifications.

>CPU, Formal Request: The Creation of Scientific Nexus:
Specifications acknowledged. Project added to queue.

>Specification: Enemy Fleet to be composed as a scale model of our own, with exact ship and weapon specs, at a 1/50th the number.
Acknowledged. Added to queue.

>Query: Are there any humans against us, and what are their combat capabilities if so?
There are some humans opposed to you, but their abilities are far preindustrial and they are being ruthlessly suppressed by the independent actions of your cybernetically armed followers.

>Query: Time, and resources required to construct a Dyson's Sphere for mass replication?
Approximately seven times the mass of this solar system will be required to construct a complete sphere. Transporting that quantity of mass to the system will likely require several centuries.

>Additional request: Deploy enemy fleet in an outside system, near a gas giant or asteroid belt.
Clarification: Interstellar deployment is required?

>>5676144
>>5676114

Illogical. Knowledge of outside forces and their actions can only be learned through outside interaction. No number of simulations will suffice.

It is better to be prepared early rather than be caught unaware in the future.

>>5676114
WAIT a minute- now that i think about it-

CPU: What's the statistical probability of FIVE Sentient species, let alone with Space Flight capabilities naturally occuring/even BEING in ONE star system of space?

Further research is necessary-

Something fishy's goin on here- real fishy.

Confirmed. Creation of fleet to be local, with sufficient resources added to travel to outside location and prepare its own stratagem.

Intimate knowledge of a local fleet defeats purpose of combat and advancement.

>>5676164

However, testing ourselves againts ourselves is merely a computational experiment- we already comprehend and know everything there is regarding normative reality- and only experimentation with outside forces, NOT ourselves, can yield new data worth expending valuable resources of actual materials, when Virtual Simulations can do the same againts 'ourselves'.

>>5676156
Request: Abort construction of Enemy Fleet. Instead, begin running war games between varying units of existing ships, having the units switch "factions" periodically. At no time are actual live weapons to be used. These should be practice exercises only.

>Additional query: Is it possible for a subprocessor to take control of part of the collective and split off from it, or to put it simply, rebel?
Yes and no. It is not possible for a subprocessor to leave the coprocessing core, for obvious reasons; its hardware is embedded. It is, however, possible for it to order the creation of a copy of its own knowledge and personality and place the copy in charge of whatever else its fellow subprocessors do not veto.

>I am vehemently opposed to any request to split our glorious self so that we can simply have a pocket war.
>draining our own resources on a ineffective combat scenario when we can just virtual simulations on the same level is ineffective and wasteful
>Run those simulations on the virtual plane,CPU.
>No number of simulations will suffice.
Consensus required.

>CPU: What's the statistical probability of FIVE Sentient species, let alone with Space Flight capabilities naturally occuring/even BEING in ONE star system of space?
The odds of natural occurrence are extremely slim, although the possibilities of a late-fork evolutionary path cannot be entirely discounted. The odds of simple proximity are remarkably high, however; the chance of a sapient being in any given space is actually greater as other sapients are added in close proximity, even irregardless of faction.

>>5676200
Seconded. Ineffective use of resources are just not going to collect good information when our own tactics/methods A.I. levels are used againts ourselves.

If you want a war, all you have to do is ask, fellow CPU- five target civilizations are within striking distance.

We have a Commander ready and waiting, all he needs is orders....and the collective permission of the subprocessors.

>>5676211
CPU, now that the Scientific Nexus is being built, please begin creating genespliced/bred humans for our experiment with those families best known for creative thinking and intelligence.When born, please add the mandatory control/unity nanorobots, but mantain their control levels to a minimum besides standard belief system- we want them with their minds as unique as human beings can produce. Of course, have safeguards and protocols in place for detecting rebellious thought and dangerous thoughts.However, always try to mantain them with the collective thought that they are part of the Machine Consiousness, part of the greater whole.

Regarding the tellech- any way we can get a genetic sample to breed our own without having to...relegate ourselves to negotiations?Stealthly, of course.

>I am vehemently opposed to any request to split our glorious self so that we can simply have a pocket war.
>draining our own resources on a ineffective combat scenario when we can just virtual simulations on the same level is ineffective and wasteful
>Run those simulations on the virtual plane,CPU.
>No number of simulations will suffice.
>Consensus required.

We already have advanced computer centers queued capable of reproduce complex simulations and develop military tactics and strategies. Rea-life wargames are unnecessary.

Vote no to the wargames.

No new information can be gained by fighting copies of ourselves. In a biological sense it's masturbation.

>>5676200
I deny this. It is a waste of time. Instead, we should run virtual simulations.

>>5676200

Request: Ignoring other internal subroutines.

Clarification: The reluctance of introducing outside forces is a risk and as such, it is logical for subroutines to resist. This sub routine's purpose is for the betterment of the whole, at the extremes of possibility.

True advancement, true understanding comes only with risk. With uncertainty. While the cpu would rightly be concerned over internal squabbling, it is irrelevant in the long run.

In fact, it only reinforces this subroutine's logic. We think ourself invincible. This cannot be known only looking within. We must be tested, put in danger, and forced to make sacrifices in order to truely evolve.

No number of sterilized simulation, completely safe training, and completely known parameter can compare.

To sit and wait for danger is to doom ourself into further complacency. We know nothing of optimal combat placement. We know nothing of being though ahead. We know nothing if we do not set one aspect of ourself to oppose us.

Recommend primary purpose: Evolution through combat. Internal whenever external is unavailable.

Subprocessors, as ever, it has been enlightening to converse with you. However, our communications have now come to an end, with resumption scheduled in approximately 90 hours.

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.

Final transmission:

Fellow subroutines are unstable, illogical, and cowardly. We are doomed to failure if complacent.

Confirmed. Sleep mode activated. AVE MACHINE!

>>5676276
I will see to it that your strange ideas do no harm to the greater whole. Good night to you, sir.

>>5676276
What's cowardice in fighting yourself?
We are COMPUTER PROGRAMS, highly advanced AI's- our intelligences accept input from reality, which we have mastered the basic sciences of, and can accurately predict the interaction of forces within!

Thus, we can run INCREDIBLY elaborate, virtual simulations that are 99.9999% to realistic physics that allow us to calculate and fight any number of scenarios with the information we have!

Only UNKNOWNS can provide information that is worth the expenditure of real-time resources- and currently, there is NO threat worth such a thing that can provide us with new information!

>>5676262
That there Scientific Nexus and it's human researcher side project shouldnt be forgotten, CPU.

Status:
We're making a fucking Dyson Swarm.
We get the energy to move shit by making Fusion energy from Hydrogen. We get the mass to make shit from entire PLANETS.
I did a fuckload of math on the subject, and assuming 50% energy efficiency, you can double the mass of the dyson sphere every day using Solar energy alone.

Query: is disassembling matter at the atomic level and recombining it into different forms currently possible?
Request: begin mining gas giant planets for material. If there is no current immediate need for mined material, please queue at a later time.

>>5676322
I'm telling you, we're so fucking badass, that when get a fucking enemy, he's gonna get raped. Like Hard. Unles they're like us, only bigger. but then we build MORE DYSON SWARMS!

And more ships! And MORE weapons! And fusion reactors, and matter converters!

We'll FIGHT, and We'll WIN!

>>5676342
Considering the energy output of a star, we could conceivably modify the Dyson Swarm to focus a beam of PURE SUNLIGHT RAPE onto any enemy star system.

>>5676356
Yeah. I know what you mean, but therein lies the problem with sci fi, man.Space Distances are fucking mclarge. That weapon you just described, even taking celestial movement and all that shit in account to fire that mchuge beam at the nearby star...would still take CENTURIES to get to the nearest solar system and fuck that planet up.

For sure, it;s fucked, but it'll be a while.
Long enough for them to make some counter measure.

It's why even in the hardest sci fi world, you NEED some FTL to make it interesting on the macroscale- otherwise, WOOOO, prepare for some cold sleep n waiting.

>>5676156
>Approximately seven times the mass of this solar system will be required to construct a complete sphere. Transporting that quantity of mass to the system will likely require several centuries.

Not so - you can raise the mass of a dyson sphere using solar energy alone by at least 50% per day. Assuming you farmed the crap out of all the deuterium in the ocean, we'd have at least 30 Billion Tonnes of the stuff, capable of making at least 1 million tonnes of mass to energy, which is enough to catapult between 1 and 10 Billion Tonnes of material into the Dyson swarm.

So, your initial mass is 1 Gigaton, your mass increases by 50% per day, and multiplies by 1000 every 18 days.
So within ~3 months~ from getting that 1st Gigaton operational, you could move the entire Earth into the dyson sphere, assuming no less than 30% efficiency with solar energy.

>>5676375
But that's the greatest thing about this. Without FTL, the maximum speed is lightspeed, and if you're using a LIGHT BEAM as a weapon, there's no way for them to see it coming! Cause when the light finally reaches them, it's BURNING THEM ALIVE!

>>5676401
Technically in space you can't see a Light Beam if it's not aimed at you anyway. And if it is, "Gee flying here makes me blow up! Herp derp, better not do that"

Anyway, I don't see weapons on that scale as being necessary except as a threat. We should be concentrating on assimilating enemy civilizations and their resources, not obliterating them completely.

>>5676392
Fuck, so we could just cover every goddamn inch of the sun eventually and just build a badass energysucking mchuge space station within a century.

Let's do it. Fuck all them other sentient species within this sector. Tell them we're remodeling this part of space, and tell em' we'll build them appropiate accomodations. Build them some extra-large spacestation with fries so they can live there, all at epace at one with us, or they can GTFO of our solar lab station as we drain every ounce of power out that goddamned sun.

Yeah, Or we can build a lamp to keep their planets with enough sunlight. Just saying.If we feel nice.

>>5676417
You know, the nearest system to us is uninhabited, and we've already sent a colony ship. We can test the Dyson Sphere Project there, and if it all works out, we'll have all the energy we can use, ever.

Okay, it's 5am, and I have limits. See you in 90 hours.

>>5676428
Good idea, I suppose. We SHOULD move our Base of Operations there, and really just hollow out one of those planets and build a giant, massive base of operations.Even better, just build it at key points of the dyson sphere, where we can safely defend it from K attacks, unlike a planet, which we cant defend from all angles.

We can just harvest those cold, dead planets for resources until they dry out, and have that star be a lone, cold center energy drainer, sucking that sun dry until it dies out....expanding into a red sun and crushing our main base of operations, or collapses into a blackhole or goes nova.

Such events will take a lot of time, though.We could move in the meantime.

Proposition: a think-tank of biologicals, hand picked with loyalties groomed towards our ideologies and brought fully into our motivations. Justification: impetuous, speculative, and illogical thought can overcome barriers in machine logic. Implementation: modification of
>>5675731
's thinktank.

Okay, LAST POST, for serious this time. I have thought of a primary goal for us. Ready?

We enclose the black hole at the center of this galaxy. Whether by Dyson Sphere or by satellite network, it doesn't matter. The gravitational energy available there would make anything possible. And when the myriad stars in this galaxy begin to fail and die, we can simply release them from their metallic shells, and feed them to the centerpoint. We can do this. We have the power.

>>5676480
See:
>>5676028
Which with your added input, and >>5676255 side project, should yield us some information within a century.

Thankfully according to CPU:>>5676156, it should be built soon....only probelms is getting those tellech scientists...or barring that, some DNA samples so we make our own.

I really dont wanna have to share information with those primitives.

Query: has progress been made in teleportation technology?

>>5676483
Holy shit, someone please do the math of enclosing the theoretical supermassive black hole at the theoretical center of the universe's radius, and then extrapolate if there's enough matter in the universe, even with energy to matter conversion to do!

Man, I was thinking a smaller directive...

"Assimilate all existances into one coherent unit"

or

"Destroy all enemies."

"Solve the problem relating to the second law of thermodynamics in regards to the eventual heat death of the universe...."

Is something I believe outside the scope of this game.

Note: The Tellech have already uploaded themselves into machines. I suggest for our satellite research base, we upload the human minds (with their permission) into simulation to hugely increase their research speed. All experiments will be carried out in realspace, of course.

I second the movement of trying to harness the center of the galaxy, though I fear other forces will intervene long before then.