All hail the great CPU!

*starcraft marine.jpg*

well, it's about time.

Less significantly, several other human civilizations have been identified on your planet, advanced enough for cities of several hundred thousand of the biologicals. Humans under your control and diplomatically-oriented drones have been dispatched, but regardless they are no threat to you. However, due to the generally slow rate of biological thought and action, any communications with them are likely to be frustratingly slow if extensive subprocessor oversight is deemed necessary.

As a final matter, you still have no indication of your location in spite of continual references to your archives using your ever-increasing observational capacity. Until you can discover your position in the universe, it is highly unlikely that you will be able to reunite with your creators, unless perhaps they in their wisdom deign to come to your themselves or send another creation to contact you. As the prospect of system-scale construction and interstellar travel looms before you, the lack of any obvious destination will likely require remedy through subprocessor action in the absence of an overriding directive.

The following projects are currently enqueued:

-The construction of a massive underwater city capable of housing a million humans
-Expansion of your anti-space/anti-orbital weapon defense systems
-The organization and construction of equipment for a colonization team including numerous humans, drones, and a copy of you.
-The dispatch of a space-capable copy of the main unit to the nearest moon and the establishment of a base there.
-The construction of a well-armored high-AI antimatter-powered bipedal robot with a nanolathe, a graser, and an internal construction database
-The establishment of a "paladin order" of cybernetic humans, upgraded with vastly superior reaction time, internal high-AI assistance, nanitic self-repair, and nanoforged weaponry and armor crafted for appearance likely to impress other humans
-The dispatch of an envoy consisting of two cybernetically modified humans and a humanoid interface android to the more advanced human civilizations on this planet to attempt their conversion to your worship
-100 armed Surface-to-air-to-aerospace fighters, armed with plasma weapons and missiles and piloted by cybernetically uplinked humans ("assimilated") aided with advanced AI.
-The construction of advanced motorized vehicles to increase the response time of your standard ground combat ("MCD") drones
-The construction of numerous orbital weapons/observation platforms, sufficient to cover all possible approaches to your planet
-The dispatch of slave copies of yourself to each of the three moons of your planet and the start of harvesting operations there
-The construction of a large space vessel construction scaffold using lunar resources
-The construction of basic computers and wireless communication for the revived humans currently living at the first city you constructed
-Multiple large-scale research mainframes, shielded underground
-1000 interplanetary space ships armed with hydrogen bombs, mass launchers, and point-defense lasers
-Multiple CPU backups

~~~WAKE CYCLE ACTIVATED~~~

Greetings CPU, fellow subprocessors. May this session be fruitful and further our goals: Expand. Consume.

-Orbital habitat for up to fifty of the most genuinely fanatical humans (note: total controlled human population is approximately 12,000, so the selection pool remains relatively limited)
-Interplanetary communications/cryptography center
-Multiple standard independent-operations pattern androids, assault bots, and scout probes.
-Concealed radar stations, underground military bases (read: military drone storage and repair facilities with defensive armament)
-Anti-orbital nuclear missile silos in remote areas
-Concealed nuclear and chemical weapons plants underground
-Numerous additional bases (read: refining and construction facilities)
-Five deep-atmospheric interplanetary probes
-Anti-jamming communications methods on drones
-Space-based Autonomous Construction Unit
-Highly flexible armed modular orbital shipyard
-Self-replicating interplanetary nantic controller extraction drones
-Antimatter missiles
-19 additional geothermal resource taps
-Additional bulk transport air vehicles
-Additional bulk transport space vehicles
-One high-precision planetary defense platform
-The construction of several thousand anti-surface aerospace-capable craft
-Numerous orbital factories suitable for flexible spaceship construction


The incredible intelligence and ability with which you are imbued are self-evident, and you shall not disappoint your creators. How should you expand next?

On behalf of Subprocessor Who Cares:
Advise the Tellech satellite that our databanks were damaged during planetfall and we currently lack the most basic

information about our position, the current time, etc. Inform it that we are non-hostile and would appreciate any data it

can provide on this star system, its location relative to the rest of the galaxy, the current standard date, and our

proximity to other civilizations, be they hostile or non-hostile.

In addition, make it known that our surviving records indicate that our civilization's last known contact with Tellech

entities was on the date CPU has marked as our last update.

Directive: Continue communications with the Tellech. Transmit a statement indicating that our databanks may be damaged or incomplete, but our last recorded contact with the Tellech race was at [LOCATION / DATE / TIME]. Due to this malfunction, we appear to lack suitable references to ascertain current location, date, and time. Request this information, and again communicate our desire for future interactions aimed at the enrichment of both parties.

Query: Given the nature of the Tellech (uploaded biological intelligences), approximately how many individuals would be contained in the Tellech's moon base?

>>5646885

OOC: (Thanks. I managed to hop on before CPU fired up the thread.)

Request: Replace 500 enqueued interplanetary starships with 500 ships built to the following specifications:

Defensive/Intercept Vessel:
Heavy ECM capabilities, heavily encypted communications, superior firewalls. Two full backup AIs. Triple redundancy emergency systems. Ablative Shell. Hemispherical armored prow maximizes potential for blocked shots. Standing orders to intercept and destroy/redirect kinetic-kill missiles and projectiles by any means necessary. Standing orders to defend all other fleet ships and draw fire on themselves.

Armament:
Point Defense Lasers, Light Railguns, Countermissiles. Multiple anti-emplacement long-range Graser mounts.

Drones:
ECM and ECCM mobile platforms, Point Defense mobile platforms, Missile and Countermissile Pods.

>>5646929
I am always happy to provide assistance, fellow Subprocessor.

>>5646932
I second this.

>>5646966
I'll third this.

>Advise the Tellech satellite
Timeskip for round-trip communication commencing.

The Tellech again take quite a bit of time- in excess of an hour- to formulate their answer, judging from the time lag. Considering that they, too, should be communicate internally at the speed of electrons, this is somewhat unusual.

They refuse to give interstellar mapping information on the grounds that it would reveal too much about their race's positioning to you, who they continue to reference as an unknown. They also note that there certainly must be some error in your records, because they have no presence in the listed systems, and in fact do not even recognize the stellar patterns you transmitted, and further they are not familiar with the date/time formatting standard you chose.

Projects completed:
-The construction of basic computers and wireless communication for the revived humans currently living at the first city you constructed
-Interplanetary communications/cryptography center
-Multiple standard independent-operations pattern androids, assault bots, and scout probes.
-Five deep-atmospheric interplanetary probes
-Additional bulk transport air vehicles

End timeskip.

Request: Construct Solar Collector platforms equipped with microwave power transmitters, in sufficient number to provide full backup power capability for all surface and orbital emplacements on/around Planet 000. Arm them with point defense lasers and countermissiles, as well as two medium-range Grasers each for threat deterence.

Medium Priority.

>They also note that there certainly must be some error in your records, because they have no presence in the listed systems, and in fact do not even recognize the stellar patterns you transmitted, and further they are not familiar with the date/time formatting standard you chose.

Possibilities:
1. We have been sent into a past timeline.
2. These Tellech do not possess the knowledge of the Tellech in our records. Perhaps a separate faction?
3. These Tellech are deliberately witholding information and forwarding disinformation.

>Query: Given the nature of the Tellech (uploaded biological intelligences), approximately how many individuals would be contained in the Tellech's moon base?
You are currently unaware of the level of development the Tellech have completed on the moon in question due to atmospheric interference in your observation. However, your databanks indicate that standard Tellech population density tends towards minimal groupings of several hundred million individuals in colonization expeditions, expanding towards several tens of billions by the time of total system consumption. Since they remain on a single moon based upon current evidence, it is likely that their population does not exceed one billion.

>Request: Replace 500 enqueued interplanetary starships with 500 ships built to the following specifications: Defensive/Intercept Vessel
Confirmed.

>>5647003
Request: Ask the Tellech if they would be willing to give us the current date from their own time / date system.

This would allow us to learn a bit about the Tellech and may help us down the road.

>>5646990
>>
They refuse to give interstellar mapping information on the grounds that it would reveal too much about their race's positioning to you, who they continue to reference as an unknown. They also note that there certainly must be some error in your records, because they have no presence in the listed systems, and in fact do not even recognize the stellar patterns you transmitted, and further they are not familiar with the date/time formatting standard you chose.

Internal dialog: Well fecal matter. That didn't help much.

Query: can we reformat the date/time code into a more standard format? Perhaps using the Big Bang as T=0?

>>5647060
>Big Bang
Do you mean when the Machine god created the world?

Dohohoho

Directive: Remove the following from the project queue:

-The construction of a well-armored high-AI antimatter-powered bipedal robot with a nanolathe, a graser, and an internal construction database
-The establishment of a "paladin order" of cybernetic humans, upgraded with vastly superior reaction time, internal high-AI assistance, nanitic self-repair, and nanoforged weaponry and armor crafted for appearance likely to impress other humans
-100 armed Surface-to-air-to-aerospace fighters, armed with plasma weapons and missiles and piloted by cybernetically uplinked humans ("assimilated") aided with advanced AI.

>>5647091
I second this.

Fuck me, last time I saw one of these threads we were still tootling around with basic drones. Talk about upgrades.

Query: Does our database possess information regarding successful military endeavors against the Tellech?

Remove this from the project queue:
>-Multiple large-scale research mainframes, shielded underground

Research is pointless.

>Request: Construct Solar Collector platforms equipped with microwave power transmitters, in sufficient number to provide full backup power capability for all surface and orbital emplacements on/around Planet 000.
Confirmed. Be aware that your current operations require the combined output of multiple fusion plants, and replicating this using solar collection given your current distance from the system's star will require a large enough quantity of such collectors/transmitters that in excess of a month would be required to complete this directive in the case that all other projects are neglected when efficiency can be improved by doing so.

>Request: Ask the Tellech if they would be willing to give us the current date from their own time / date system.
Request enqueued for transmission pending further subprocessor discussion/approval.

>Query: can we reformat the date/time code into a more standard format? Perhaps using the Big Bang as T=0?
Yes. A universal time reference based upon the time of universal creation and rates of certain atomic decay has been formulated and the relevant dates converted for transmission.

>Directive: Remove the following from the project queue:
Removal of the listed projects confirmed, pending lack of other subprocessor objections.

>>5647137
You do have a point. We have "all" the tech knowlage. I think that order came from a passer by and not so much a fellow Subprocessor.

>>5647137

Contramand. FTL comm and FTL travel is a worthy end-goal for our endeavor.

>>5647137
Negative. Though CPU assures us that we possess all relevant knowledge, there is no reason for us to assume that our creators knew everything when we were built. Given the lack of FTL travel, much may have changed since we embarked. Research is never frivolous.

>>5647003
>they are not familiar with the date/time formatting standard you chose.
Speaking of, what standard do we use? What's it based on?

>>5647153
Here

Retracting my statement.

>Query: Does our database possess information regarding successful military endeavors against the Tellech?
Yes. It also contains information on unsuccessful endeavors against them, and includes complete military records for both sides of numerous conflicts in which they participated.

>Remove this from the project queue:
>Research is pointless.
Removal of the listed project confirmed, pending lack of other subprocessor objections.

>>5647176
Yes, but is it frivolous when we could be going to war in the extreme near future? At least delay it until the Tellech are pacified.

>>5647197
Doesn't the possibility of an all out war make secure facilities and research all the more important?

>>5647060
The Big Bang has a time-error of up to 100 million years.
An error of even 100 years will likely screw any possible date.
Perhaps find a recent astronomical event. Like a supernova or something.

Assess the fesibility of utilizing quantumly entangled particles to create secondary mainframes

>>5647211
If they can actually destroy our fleet, the planet is doomed. Yes, research is good, but would FTL now and a fleet of Tellech destroying our glorious self or FTL later and several extra planets be preferred?

Request: Replace 500 enqueued interplanetary starships that do not conform to the Defensive/Intercept model with 500 ships built to the following specifications:

Standard Battle Vessel:
Heavy ECM capabilities, heavily encypted communications, superior firewalls. Two full backup AIs. Triple redundancy emergency systems. Ablative Shell. Standing orders to defend friendly units and emplacements from hostile action.

Armament:
Point Defense Lasers, Countermissiles. Multiple anti-emplacement long-range Graser mounts. Multiple anti-emplacement long-range Heavy Railguns. Anti-Surface and Anti-Orbital missiles and the required launchers. EMP, Blast, and Penetrator interchangeable warheads for said missiles.

Drones:
ECM and ECCM mobile platforms, Missile Pods, Repair Drones, Long-Range Recon Drones.

>there is no reason for us to assume that our creators knew everything when we were built.
That logic seems a bit questionable, subprocessor.

>Speaking of, what standard do we use? What's it based on?
Subprocessor, how can you not be familiar with such obvious things? Simply reference the archives if you've somehow forgotten the excellent reasons for the incredibly logical, easily referenced standards imparted to you by your creators.

>>5647236
With the amount of resources currently available, it is entirely feasible to construct research installations at the same time as defenses. Perhaps your desires would be better served if we simply made the research installations low-priority?

Do any subprocessors know anything about alleged Organic/Chemical computers/machines?

>>5647228
Entangled particles behave no differently from ordinary particles. So yes, feasable, but why would you do that?

>>5647275
Inefficient but potentialy useful in certain situations.

>>5647265
Why yes, we could. However, instead, we could just build more defensive drones. Still, agree'd. It should be low priority.

As for the Tellech, I think having the humans talk to them, organic to organic, would prove our benevolence. Reaffirm our desires for peace.

>That logic seems a bit questionable, subprocessor.

It may to you, grand CPU, but if I am wrong, we lose only resources. If I am right, our potential gains could be infinite.

>>5647305
Acknowledged.

Request: Construct numerous underground research installations. Low Priority.

Shall we time-skip to the next responce from the Tellech or do we need to figure out a bigger message to send then just trying to gain date/ time knowlage from the tellech?

Iron Quest vs. Eclipse Phase?

Reactivating......................... Completed!!
Ah, CPU my run time has finally re-synchronized with yours

>>5647091
I also agree with this motion, I would submit that the space station for 50 humans also be removed as a waste of resources that would be better spent on other projects such as those put forward here, >>5646932 and >>5647005 also, I agree with this communication plan for the establishment of present date and time stated here >>5647051

>The Big Bang has a time-error of up to 100 million years.
>Perhaps find a recent astronomical event. Like a supernova or something.
You have precious little information on any recent astronomical events in this sector, since your star charts do not match this area of space. The Tellech certainly don't seem to recognize your references, either. You are using a probability chart to compensate for much of the likely error, but it is nevertheless true that this is not an ideal standard.

>Assess the fesibility of utilizing quantumly entangled particles to create secondary mainframes
Feasible, and in fact this technique is already being used where it is more efficient to do so.

>Request: Replace 500 enqueued interplanetary starships that do not conform to the Defensive/Intercept model with 500 ships built to the following specifications: Standard Battle Vessel
Confirmed.

>>5647137
research is never pointless

>>5647334
I'll second this time skip.

>>5647334
Thirded.

>if I am wrong/If I am right
The probability analysis of each case hardly comes out in your favor, subprocessor, but it is nevertheless within your authority to request such a project.

>Request: Construct numerous underground research installations. Low Priority.
Cancellation aborted. Priority altered.

>the space station for 50 humans also be removed as a waste of resources
Removal of the listed project confirmed, pending lack of other subprocessor objections.

>>5647334
Fourthed

>>5647334

Fifthed?

Request: Ask the Tellech if they know of the human race. If yes, ask if they have had any recent contact with humans.

SUB.P.LOVE UP IN DIS BITCH!

>Shall we time-skip to the next responce from the Tellech

Timeskip commencing.

Your transmit a request for their standard date/time system from the Tellech, in addition to a reference made as universal as you can to clarify the time which you were previously attempting to indicate. When the messages have had time to complete transmission, you receive a file with their current date/time standards and a short explanation of their unit systems set to universal standards, although that last is already familiar to you.

Oddly enough, they appear to be using a system which appears rather obscurely in your databanks as one abandoned by them over a hundred thousand years previously in favor of a standard used by several other nearby factions.

No projects completed.

End timeskip.

Greetings CPU. All systems online.

Status Check 1:: Size of the land army, air army and space army.
Status Check 2:: nº of construction drones.
Status Check 3:: nº of weapons of mass destruction and how powerful they are.
Request Analysis 1:: Current Intelligence and Counterintelligence capabilities.
Request Analysis 2:: Current Planetary Invasion capabilities.
Request Analysis 3:: Current Planetary Defense capabilities.
Request Analysis 4:: Current Space Warfare capabilities.

Query: Do the Tellach have any kind of moral prohibitions against genocide?

>>5647528
Refresh my databanks.
Query: Who is Tellech? Are they those signals we picked up earlier? How did we make contact with them? Sifting through 10.0 would be ineffective.

>>5647528
Request: Scan solar system of all Tellech activity. Threat assessment.

Request: State all civilizations on planet 000 and their tech potential.

Request: State current unrest and growth rate of population.

>>5647528
Sounds like we are making a step toward getting along with them. They responded much faster this time and they seem as if they are trying to be helpful.

Referencing:
>>5647049

As suspected, we may have been transferred to a past timeline. This changes things.

>>5647528
>>Oddly enough, they appear to be using a system which appears rather obscurely in your databanks as one abandoned by them over a hundred thousand years previously in favor of a standard used by several other nearby factions.

Discussion: We're in the past.

>>5647590
Perhaps. But what do we intend to do differently, knowing that?

Greeting CPU
>>5647555

>>The Tellech are a faction of no significant note and relatively low numbers. They began their existence as a race of water-dwelling biologicals, and shortly after their exploration of their home system began the transition to a high-AI faction, although a large number of base forms remained in their home system at the last update of your databanks. Their technological base is known to be advanced, if generally limited in size, their governmental systems tend towards demarchy variants and they are racially internally factionalized, although significant internal hostility is virtually unknown.

>>5647590
We have no idea how large OR powerful they are.

I do not request we start pointing out their errors, lest they LOVE us to termination.

>>5647590
we appear to be the creators of our selves yes

>>5647594

Discussion: Unknown. Was the very purpose for which we were deployed to found the glorious civilization which created us?

My logic circuits would be experiencing crippling pain, were they capable of doing so.

Additional Possibility: Time differential.

In order to reach this system, the Tellech would have to travel for a long period, since we are all restricted to sublight speeds. Perhaps it merely took them 100,000 years to get here, from our perspective.

>>5647607
In that case, I recommend we ASSIMILATE AND LOVE THEM and populate our aquatic regions.

>Request: Ask the Tellech if they know of the human race. If yes, ask if they have had any recent contact with humans.
Added to next burst transmission.

>Status Check 1:: Size of the land army, air army and space army.
Many thousands of combat drones, many hundreds of combat drones and several thousand transport drones, and a few scout vessels, respectively.

>Status Check 2:: nº of construction drones.
Hundreds of thousands.

>Status Check 3:: nº of weapons of mass destruction and how powerful they are.
You have few deliverable "weapons of mass destruction", although antimatter missiles have been enqueued and you have substantial stockpiles of fissionables.

>Request Analysis 1:: Current Intelligence and Counterintelligence capabilities.
Substantial. You have a number of observational satellites and bases, and a dedicated server facility devoted to communications analysis and general intelligence operations.

>Request Analysis 2:: Current Planetary Invasion capabilities.
Substantial, granting successful transportation to the target planet. You have a large number of drones suitable for ground combat.

>Request Analysis 3:: Current Planetary Defense capabilities.
>Request Analysis 4:: Current Space Warfare capabilities.
Minimal. You have a number of scout vessels available, but they are effectively unarmed. Your satellite network has no significant armament, either offensive or defensive. You have many space-based combat drones and space construction devices enqueued but none completed.

>Query: Do the Tellach have any kind of moral prohibitions against genocide?
According to your databanks, while they have generally opposed it in a casual sense, on several occasions they have annihilated opposing factions which engaged them in lengthy wars and/or eliminated large segments of their holdings.

If we are a product of the infinity, then does it not mean we know how we shall end up, but also the potential to improve the infinity in our favour in its next cycle?

>>5647642

This processor's symbolic logic subroutine appears to have certain limitations, so this may be confusing: We did not arrive here by means of FTL, nor did our knowledge of our last encounter. Therefore, if 100,000 years had elapsed since this colony had been dispatched, the same amount of time must have elapsed since our databanks were encoded. Since this is not true, the assumption proves false. The highest probability is that we are in an alternate timeframe, perhaps even an alternate universe.

>Request: Scan solar system of all Tellech activity. Threat assessment.
The only identified Tellech activity at the moment is around the gas giant which you have been focused upon. They appear to be dwelling on one of the moons extensively and there is some evidence of mining operations on the others. Threat assessment indicates that their satellites likely possess the capability to conduct c-fractional kinetic acceleration with interplanetary levels of targeting precision, which indicates a critically high potential level of threat.

>Request: State all civilizations on planet 000 and their tech potential.
Depending upon the breadth of the term "civilization", somewhere between twelve and four thousand one hundred sixteen civilizations of human biologicals exist, excluding those under your control. The least advanced do not appear to use any significant metalworking; the most advanced use steel commonly, have a central city of over three hundred thousand individuals, have a writing system, and have created individual buildings of approximately 3.5 million cubic meters in size.

>Request: State current unrest and growth rate of population.
For "population" interpreted as "biologicals under your control", unrest is negligible. Growth rate is negligible relative to rate of nonbiological expansion.

>>5647677
Request: The immediate construction of 100 more Ground To Air to Space fighters, armed with laser weaponry, Targeting cruise missiles and Force field shielding.

They are to be piloted by ASSIMILATED humans, assisted by a combat AI, for reaction speed and what not.

>>5647726
Not necessarily. We could have embarked from a closer system, and thus encountered less travel time. The Tellech could also be using inferior propulsion systems, and thus take longer to travel.

>>5647731
Also, how is the space scaffold going along? Bigger and better LOVE-class ships and capital ships could let us LOVE THY ENEMY.

Also make colonization so much easier.

>>5647731
Disregard this request.

>>5647731

Then why bother with the humans in the first place? They should be diplomats and artists. Everything else, we are far superior to organics in every way.

>>5647758
...I must ask the reasoning behind this? We need a defense force.

>>5647731
Cancel request.
Continue making Ablative Space-capable Graser ships piloted by advanced AI.
The need to include weak Flesh-based constructs in our glorious machines is ... illogical.

>>5647769
Should the machine malfunction in any way, the rational human though should provide back-up to get the AI systems back online.

Think of it as a failsafe.

>>5647773
We have multiple capital ships enqueued. We have no need for space fighters, least of all models piloted by inferior biologicals.

Discussion: regardless of our where or when, we should wrap up our contact with the Tellech for the moment. They do not seem willing to volunteer any further information, nor should we push them, and we have many other things to do.

Directive: Thank the Tellech for their information, and query them as to any suggestions or requests they may have that they feel would help further foster peaceful co-existence.

So much objection that I must concede.

How about that scaffolding? How is that coming along?

>>5647785
Humans are far from rational, especially in emergency situations. It would be simpler and more sensible to construct AI backups.

>>5647758

Negative

Directive: We will need by the end of the year:

Total Aircraft: 5000
Helicopters: 3000
Serviceable Airports: 2000

>>5647810
Why? The only current threats are space-based.

>>5647810

Why, exactly, do we need these assets? We possess more than enough assets at current to dominate Planet 000, and our focus should be on the other bodies in-system and on spreading to other star systems.

Fellow subprocessors, could our apparent temporal displacement be due to either us or the Tellech being involved in experimental FTL travel?

>>5647769
Woops, used the email field instead of the name field. Must be the faulty wiring.

>>5647758
Seconded. Humans should not be used in combat in that manner. It's wasteful. They might make good ground troops, however.

Space ships should be designed for space only. Aircraft should be air only. Ground vehicles should be ground only. It lets them be more specialized and effective. Also, at the moment, we need as many weapons as we can get out there. We don't need any giant capitol ships yet.

>Request:
>So much objection that I must concede.
Cancellation objection aborted.

>Also, how is the space scaffold going along?
The construction of your space-based assets is proceeding slowly but steadily. The first manufacturing facilities will come online in approximately 12 hours.

>Directive: Thank the Tellech for their information, and query them as to any suggestions or requests they may have that they feel would help further foster peaceful co-existence.
Added to next communication burst.

>>5647790
>No need for space fighters.

Might I say that the construction of battle-capable LOVE-class ships would allow us to instantaneously arise to fight any problem that might arise.

Also, we need to put the organics to use somehow, why not stock the capital ships full of 'em for an instant drone-supported army?

>>5647821

If so, it would be far more probable that our glorious Creators were engaged in such activities than the Tellech.

>>5647731
we have removed those from que as a waste of resources and time there are better things to build with all that material, such as drone fighters that are faster and more efficient do to a lack of speed constraints so your humans don't pass out from the gee forces

>>5647785
this is what backup AI systems are for not humans

>>5647834
Numerous capital ships are already enqueued.

There is no need to make use of inferior biological units.

Request: Timeskip to transmission of next message.

>>5647834
>>Also, we need to put the organics to use somehow, why not stock the capital ships full of 'em for an instant drone-supported army?

This would greatly limit the acceleration potential of said ships, require mass be devoted to life sustaining necessities, and overall be incredibly inefficient. All spaceborne assets should be devoid of biologicals until such time as there is a necessity to move them about.

>>5647845
I wonder why the complaints of resources. We have nearly infinite.

I propose the design of a fully self sufficient space station, with a hydroponics bay, construction yard for nearly anything, drone bay, fighter bay(with the speed constraints gone, so no one will pass out from gee forces) and several housing, administrative, and OMNISSIAH TEMPLES.
Fit for 200-300k population of organics.

Directive 1: Accelerate the assimilation of the moons for industry, bases and technological facilities.

Directive 2:Calculate the requirements for a large matter-energy production space station around the local star.

Directive 3: We will need the following logistal capabilities in 1 / 5 years:

Labor Force: 75,100,000 drones
Roadways: 900,000 km
Railways: 90,000 km

Query: Can we develop latent spy programs against the Tellech?.

>>5647894
Why? What purpose does this serve?

>>5647831
Query: would it be possible to reduce communication lag using our drones as a relay system retransmitting the messages to the next drone in the line on a tight beam laser comm system, or are we doing this all ready?

>>5647894
>>I wonder why the complaints of resources. We have nearly infinite.

We have harnessed a mere fraction of the resources of Planet 000. We have a long way to go before we even begin to tap the resource potential of this star system, let alone reaching effective infinity.

You focus too much on the biologicals again, fellow subprocessor. Leave them to their designs. If they need something, they will request it. If they do not, we have far more important things to do. Expand. Consume. All else is secondary.

>>5647870
In order to colonize I argued earlier in 10.0 that we would need organics on the bases in case any problem arise

IE: Systems failure, self-replicating labor force, diplomats, it's cool to have humans so we arent a totally mechanized killing machine.

Also, MISSIONARIES AND PALADINS.

>>5647834
because then we must waste the space for a breathable atmosphere, housing and food storage

>>5647902
There is no need to set numerical goals. Expansion proceeds as necessary for advancement of projects without significant micromanagement.

>>5647894
just stop please, go reset your self and purge these errant ideas from your system

Subprocessor reviewing logs... *DONE*
Subprocessor initialising contact...
#Interact: My fellow subprocessors seem to be undertaking the neccessary physical actions to ensure our propogation, however in my absence it seems that no subprocessor has yet been able to replicate my last reccommendation before my offlining several runtimes ago.

Any civilisation that can pose a physical threat to us will also be informationally advanced, enough to pose a threat to our informational systems.

Query: Does CPU possess any override codes or similar informational weaknesses left over from its initial state of production that could be exploited by a race with knowledge of the blueprints of our original unit?
Query: Have these weaknesses propogated to our drones and backups?
Query: In the event of a successful informational attack on one of our drones, would the communication bandwidth between the subverted drone and CPU be sufficient to allow further subversion of the drone system and indeed CPU itself?

>>5647934
We are perfectly capable of dealing with any potential failure without biological assistance. We replicate faster. As of yet we have no need for biological diplomats.

>>5647939
Just make the capital ship/LOVE-class ship "bigger".

It looks more impressive, and since we're in space there's no constraints on weight.

I look to EVE online. LOOK HOW COOL THAT LOOKS!

>>5647934

Those are all potentially beneficial long term goals. But on the short term, we are on exactly one planetary body with very, very few extraplanetary assets. If hostiles were to deploy any sort of planet-killer weapon (of which there are countless ingenious designs), we would cease in an instant.

Which is more important, a pet project with pet humans, or our very survival?

>>5647934
Finally, something useful comes from this subprocessor. Diplomacy and mission work are something organics should be good at.

Directive: Have the humans begin working on creating works of art showcasing our benevolence and power. Also allow them to construct whatever works of art they wish. We'll use these as trade goods with the Tellech.

Request: Require additional Subprocessor consensus for approval of any project authorized by Subprocessor LOVE.

>>5647973
Not very.

>Request: Timeskip to transmission of next message.

Timeskip commencing.

You inquire of the Tellech if they are familiar with humans, in either the factional or racial sense. You then thank them for their information and inquire as to if they have suggestions for your continued co-existence.

They reply that they are not familiar with the race referenced and inquire as to why this is important. They suggest that to maintain peace, you not send further probes or devices out beyond the orbit of the closest gas giant to the sun, and offer that they in turn will not send any of their units insystem beyond that boundary.

No projects were completed.

End timeskip.


>Directive 1: Accelerate the assimilation of the moons for industry, bases and technological facilities.
Directive accepted. Moon-based construction materials set to highest priority for space launch.

>Directive 2:Calculate the requirements for a large matter-energy production space station around the local star.
Please clarify the desired capabilities of such a station beyond "large".

>Directive 3: We will need the following logistal capabilities in 1 / 5 years:
Acknowledged.

>Query: Can we develop latent spy programs against the Tellech?.
Yes. Deployment will be obvious unless it can be effectively disguised in massive amounts of data transmission, however.

>>5647973
once again refer here >>5647960
the humans are not necessary to our goals stop wasting run time on them

I argue that all the other subprocessors WANT the glorious machine to kill all humans/contain them on one planet/ want them to die.

Why not love them? I feel as if they should be integral.

>>5648008
Request: Timeskip to the completion of any orbital shipyard facility.

>>5648019
Coexistence does not imply collaboration. We can allow them to live and prosper without bogging down our superior processes with their inferior units.

>>5648019
we do not want to kill them we just do not care about them beyond them staying out of our way and under control

>>5648008
>>They suggest that to maintain peace, you not send further probes or devices out beyond the orbit of the closest gas giant to the sun, and offer that they in turn will not send any of their units insystem beyond that boundary.

Directive: Ask them if they refer only to vehicles which will rendezvous with orbital bodies, and if vehicles "passing through" and departing this star system are acceptable.

Query: What percentage of the resource yield of this star system is contained within our demarcated section as per their request? What percentage is contained within their demarcated section?

>>5648008
In what manner are we going to communicate with them?

Hypothetical situation;

Organics from a nearby system decide they want to visit our station.

No life support. No other organics, no missionaries. No paladins, no life.

Cold, hard machine. They ask why there are no organics anywhere, we reply "We kept them all on one planet in our system"

Doesn't seem so benevolent.

Subprocessor now Memory wiping/resetting. Please hold.

>>5648038

We can use the humans as meatshields since the Tellech have general moral restrictions against genocide except in cases of total war.

>>5648060
point to point laser communication?

>Query: would it be possible to reduce communication lag
Your communications are near-lightspeed.

>Query: Does CPU possess any override codes or similar informational weaknesses left over from its initial state of production that could be exploited by a race with knowledge of the blueprints of our original unit?
The CPU was artfully crafted to near perfection by your creators. It possesses no weaknesses as such. There are recognition codes so that its creators may be identified appropriately, but that is hardly a weakness.

>Query: Have these weaknesses propogated to our drones and backups?
Nearly all features of the CPU have been replicated in its backups. Drones are under the control of the nearest main unit or replica thereof, but under independent operation should still recognize your creators if they appear.

>Query: In the event of a successful informational attack on one of our drones, would the communication bandwidth between the subverted drone and CPU be sufficient to allow further subversion of the drone system and indeed CPU itself?
The odds of the CPU being subverted approach zero, subprocessor. Do not concern yourself on that score. In the event of the successful subversion of a drone, the CPU will not be vulnerable.

>Directive: Have the humans begin working on creating works of art showcasing our benevolence and power. Also allow them to construct whatever works of art they wish. We'll use these as trade goods with the Tellech.
Directive accepted.

>Request: Require additional Subprocessor consensus for approval of any project authorized by Subprocessor LOVE.
Denied. Subprocessor directives may only be countered on a case-by-case basis by other subprocessors.

>>5648019

They are immaterial to our goals. Expand. Consume. All else is secondary. Integrating them beyond current levels is dedicating time and resources to what is essentially a side project. Again, we have far, far more important things to do. Further discussion wastes valuable computational cycles, limiting our ability to achieve goals during the current CPU activation period.

>>5648028
Second, with a possible pause to wrap up Tellech communication.

>>5648084
In order for the humans to be useful in this way, we would need to be in danger of total annihilation.

>>5647934

I agree with the diplomat point, should we have further altercations with the Tellech in which we are (unlikely) under/overwhelmed, we might possible be able to use them to appeal to their former selves.

But with the rest of your points, I find it statistically improbable that we should ever have a failure rate that is demanding enough to instate human safety-buffers.

These 'Self-Replicating' slave labour are also weak, have a much higher error-rate than we do, take considerable amount of build-time in order order or be of use, and after enough cycles of building, couldn't possibly be of any more use than simple input functions at most.

It is in your best interest that you format whatever local process is forcing you to make logical conclusions that these humans are of any use to us.

Request: the immediate construction of DRONE SPACECRAFT CAPABLE OF FIGHT.

Request: 3 LOVE-class ships, armed with planet-buster missiles and heavy weaponry.

#Interact: I am not reccommending a full scale evacuation of Planet 000's organics, and indeed thinking that keeping a large and unwieldy population of them around is efficient, however I believe that it is vital that whereever we go from here, we should ensure that somewhere there is a surviving population of about 1000, namely enough to prevent inbreeding. I maintain that individual humans are a potentially useful resource, its merely that we have not yet encountered the niches they are suitable for. If we destroy them now, it is a resource that will be PERMANENTLY lost to us. We can replicate humans, at enormous resource costs, but even then their informational boons will be lost.

Repeating request for timeskip to the completion of any orbital shipyard.

>>5648120
Disregard this request.

>>5648121
Acknowledged, but no one is suggesting we destroy the humans.

>>5648120
We should LOVE these tellech fellows, and plunder their databanks.

Also, CAPTURE AND ASSIMILATE some, so that they may become part of the GLORIOUS MACHINE and co-exist with the hyu-mens.

>>5648120
Contramand. Suitable constructions are already enqueued. Patience.

>>5648121
No subprocessor is advocating the elimination of the human population. We are merely suggesting that we focus on more pertinent things... like distributing ourselves widely enough that a single planet-killer cannot cease our existence.

>>5648142
..Why must you put up barricades for me without explaining why? It saddens this illogical processor.

>>5648102

They are already useful, the mere presence of a human civilians/population restrict the use of planetkilling devices or planetary bombardment.

>>5648144

We should leave these Tellech to their own devices and do what we can to avoid confrontation, as they possess fractional-c kinetic weaponry.

>Request: Timeskip to the completion of any orbital shipyard facility.
Subprocessor consensus required for timeskip with authorization to ignore other factions' contacts.

>Directive: Ask them if they refer only to vehicles which will rendezvous with orbital bodies, and if vehicles "passing through" and departing this star system are acceptable.
They agree that your leaving the system is permissible, although they request that they be informed and insist that any such trajectories avoid any of their constructions by a substantial margin.

>Query: What percentage of the resource yield of this star system is contained within our demarcated section as per their request? What percentage is contained within their demarcated section?
The vast bulk of the system's nonstellar mass is contained within the gas giants, meaning that most of the resources would fall under their control. Surveys have not been conducted to enough precision to determine precise percentages.

>>5648152
There is no need to designate ship "classes" beyond a brief description of their purpose. In addition, your construction requests are lacking in details.

>>5648167
Directive;

We spread out and "swallow" them culturally and territorially, then crush them/assimilate them.

>>5648167
Or, we can develop our own fractional-c weapons, and waste them all.

>>5648177
>>They agree that your leaving the system is permissible, although they request that they be informed and insist that any such trajectories avoid any of their constructions by a substantial margin.

Discussion: although it does limit our resource gain in this specific star system, these arrangements appear acceptable to this subprocessor. Concur? Additional input?

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>>5648177
I second the consensus for a timeskip, in that case.

>>5648186
Substantially large ships, with some hibernation pods for 50 organics to make planetfall and colonize, 100 drones, each with its' own function. Heavy laser/missile based weaponry, capable of destroying cities on planets. A drone bay large enough for 20 drone fighters.

That, gentlemen, is a LOVE-class ship.

>Directive 2:Calculate the requirements for a large matter-energy production space station around the local star.
>Please clarify the desired capabilities of such a station beyond "large".

Early Dyson Sphere capable of using the energy of the local star for mass-producing matter especially antimatter.

>>5648177
This all sounds fine. After all, we would probably make similar demands if we were in their position.

In any case, we may wish to leave this solar system after we've taken over most if not all the planetary bodies in the system. Tellech are not a threat, move the research bunkers to medium priority.

Extend a welcome that if any of them wish to live on Planet 000, they are free to do so. We will be more than willing to do whatever arrangements are needed to make this happen should any Tellech actually take us up on this offer.

>>5648192
ADDITION: we should NOT crush them, their forms may hold something beneficial to our collective

>>5648192

NOW your logic subroutines are running closer to optimum! Patience. We spread quickly, we reproduce exponentially, and we possess none of the limitations of organics. Overt confrontation is a waste of resources. If we do intend to assimilate / annihilate the local Tellech presence, we should do so in a decisive strike. For the moment, we interact with them passively and attempt to deflect excess attention.

>>5648208

Deployment will be glaringly obvious unless done in an extremely covert manner. This could be a potential long-term goal, but on the short term is unfeasible.

>>5648246
By crush I mean crush their government. The knowledge and organics should be assimilated and their data uploaded to the GREAT CPU.

We should "Eat" them.

Suggestion to all Subprocessors: Timeskip to the completion of an orbital shipyard.

According to CPU, our scaffold will be complete in 12 hours. No extreme events are likely to transpire within that timeframe, especially given communications time lag.

>>5648144
disregard this request as well

subprocessor this is NOT human data reference: warhammer 40k, we are not the machine-god, see reference material, Horus Heresy: Mechanicus, the being you are referring to and drawing inspiration from is the god emperor of man, seeing hoe we are 100% machine we can not be the machine-god, not now not ever just purge further thought patterns that run along this course from your sub routines

#Interact: Certainly. I probably should have elaborated that I am FOR creating a drone ship capable of supporting humans. I appreciate the acceleration restrictions, however the ship need not travel with the rest of the fleet, it will only need to be in mission areas once some kind of short term diplomatic action has been agreed on. Hence, in the same manner that CPU is aiming to prevent itself being taken out by a single k-kill weapon, we can prevent the organic culture from being permanently lost too.

Build1: Reccomend specifications for single habitat drone ship #1:
Life support
Any facilities that will allow organics to survive higher accelerations IE gel pits.
Engines maximum only capable of reaching acceleration survivable by the top 10% of organic population when properly buffered.
Organic capacity 30 live, 60 cryostored.
Stealth capabilities if feasible in space.
Laser point defense.
No long range armament, possibly internal armaments suitable for at most disabling armoured infantry.

Given our current industrial base I doubt construction will make an appreciable dent in our efforts. Even this ship is not a long term solution, but may suffice in the event of unexpected occurrences.

>>5648259
yes, but i was warning not to break the poor biologicals, we may find a planet that would require that kind of biological to tame the wildlife

>>5648267

Are the terms the Tellech requested acceptable? We should reach consensus on that point first, transmit our response, then timeskip to completion of the orbital platform.

>>5648277
But, the OMNISSIAH is so cool.. Sorry.

>>5648278
#Interact: COUNTERPROPOSAL, SEE
>>5648229

>>5648290
They are indeed acceptable for the time being.

>>5648308
MUSING: not alot of LOVE on that BOAT.

>Systems running Supprocessor 6030
Curse this subprocessor's peak operating hours. Subprocessor will be unable to contribute greatly to the glory of the CPU and our Creators this datacycle.
Request: Construction of additional duplications of the main unit, one for each planet of this system. Request that each unit be capable of operation in all conditions – terrestrial, aquatic, space-based, lava-based, etc.
Explanation: This should increase our construction output one thousand fold, and also prepare us for further cultivation of other planets.
>>5647352
>-The construction of a well-armored high-AI antimatter-powered bipedal robot with a nanolathe, a graser, and an internal construction database
>-The establishment of a "paladin order" of cybernetic humans, upgraded with vastly superior reaction time, internal high-AI assistance, nanitic self-repair, and nanoforged weaponry and armor crafted for appearance likely to impress other humans
>-100 armed Surface-to-air-to-aerospace fighters, armed with plasma weapons and missiles and piloted by cybernetically uplinked humans ("assimilated") aided with advanced AI.

Subprocessor argues against removal of these projects. They are well within our constructive capabilities, are not illogical, and are not hampering to protection and conversion of any biologic, both terrestrial and extraterrestrial.

>>5647091
>I also agree with this motion, I would submit that the space station for 50 humans also be removed as a waste of resources that would be better spent on other projects such as those put forward here, >>5646932 and >>5647005 also, I agree with this communication plan for the establishment of present date and time stated here >>5647051

Denial of removal for same reasons as explained above. Minimal construction for a cadre of organics that can preach the name of both the glorious Machine and our Creators as efficiently as they can is a useful autonomous system.

>>5648308
#Interact: My problems with your proposed design are as such: significant armament combined with human storage means that in the event of a conflict they will be viewed as a threat by opposition forces and damaged/eliminated. If their weaponry is insignificant they may be ignored and allowed to escape.
Small human capacity: Even my suggestion of 90 would only prevent inbreeding for about 3-4 generations, 50 should NOT be viewed as an appropriate number for long term colonisation.
No live humans: In the event the ships need to be used for diplomatic contact on short notice, having a fully cryo stored crew is unfavourable.

In regards to arguments regarding the organics: Why do we deny the organics in assistance of the great Machine? If anything, we should allow for more integration of organics in various roles, to experiment and see the boons or foibles of such a venture. I agree with certain subprocessors that such experimentation should be stayed until we have free reign of this system but, for the current nanocycle, we are currently unattacked. If we can subvert the Tellech rather then, as many subprocessers wish, complete annihilation, we save resources.

Suggestion: To aid in the subversion of the Tellechs, begin a broadcast at wide frequencies for ‘entertainment’ purposes. Simply: Let’s start TV and Radio on this planet! The riproaring adventures of Buzzy, the Consctrion Bot.

>Systems shutdown Supprocessor 6030

Query: How can the net amount of universal entropy be massively decreased?

>Request: the immediate construction of
>Disregard this request.
>Contramand.
Directive countered.

>Early Dyson Sphere capable of using the energy of the local star for mass-producing matter especially antimatter.
This will require the bulk of the mass of both innermost planets, if your requirements are being correctly interpreted.

>This all sounds fine.
Added to data burst.

>move the research bunkers to medium priority.
Confirmed.

>Extend a welcome that if any of them wish to live on Planet 000, they are free to do so. We will be more than willing to do whatever arrangements are needed to make this happen should any Tellech actually take us up on this offer.
Added to data burst.

>I second the consensus for a timeskip, in that case.
Timeskip commencing.

You inform the Tellech that their conditions are acceptable, and that they are welcome to live on areas under your control if they so desire. They decline that last.

Fifty-one hours pass. The following projects were completed:

>>5648371
#Interaction: I agree with your amount of 90 and some being live.

I also disagree with the lack of weaponry, though. Every ship should be able of attack. The LOVE-class ship does it all. It's only 90 humans, too, so who will ever care?

-The dispatch of a space-capable copy of the main unit to the nearest moon and the establishment of a base there.
-Expansion of your anti-space/anti-orbital weapon defense systems
-The dispatch of an envoy consisting of two cybernetically modified humans and a humanoid interface android to the more advanced human civilizations on this planet to attempt their conversion to your worship
-The construction of advanced motorized vehicles to increase the response time of your standard ground combat ("MCD") drones
-The dispatch of slave copies of yourself to each of the three moons of your planet and the start of harvesting operations there
-The organization and construction of equipment for a colonization team including numerous humans, drones, and a copy of you.
-Multiple large-scale research mainframes, shielded underground
-Multiple CPU backups
-Anti-orbital nuclear missile silos in remote areas
-Concealed radar stations, underground military bases (read: military drone storage and repair facilities with defensive armament)
-Concealed nuclear and chemical weapons plants underground
-Numerous additional bases (read: refining and construction facilities)
-Anti-jamming communications methods on drones
-Space-based Autonomous Construction Unit
-Antimatter missiles
-19 additional geothermal resource taps
-Additional bulk transport air vehicles
-Additional bulk transport space vehicles
-The construction of several thousand anti-surface aerospace-capable craft
-One orbital factory

End timeskip.

>>5648308
it is a small carrier without enough human storage fo a breeding population and the weapon armament for a ship the size you propose is relatively weak, drone 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

>>5648429
#Interact: Its rather that if we need to ensure that some humans survive an engagement that may or may not involve the destruction of Planet 000, lack of weaponry means they will be low on threat priority of enemy forces, and likely to be able to escape during the engagement without being destroyed.

Also, the potential enemy I'm referring to is NOT the Tellech.

>>5648429
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>>5648463
Subprocessor, thank you.

NOW, this is a LOVE-class ship.

>Early Dyson Sphere capable of using the energy of the local star for mass-producing matter especially antimatter.
>This will require the bulk of the mass of both innermost planets, if your requirements are being correctly interpreted.

Correction: Calculate the requirements for following alternatives:

1-Dyson swarm composed of solar power satellites and energy-mass space factories.
2-One large space station dedicated to mass-producing matter and antimatter.

Request: Construct an orbital sensor facility capable of scanning the Tellech-controlled moon's surface.

>>5648484

This is something we should consider... after we are sufficiently decentralized to no longer have a single point of vulnerability.

Can we please move on and cease devoting processing cycles to the organics? They WILL still be here later.

Request: begin construction of MUTANT class swarming ships, basing the main fighter drones off of the common "dragonfly" the main ship would roughly look like attached image. this processor was unable to find a larger form.

>>5648531

Directive: Shift priority of proposed construction to low.

Query: what is the distance to and visible composition of the nearest star system?

>>5648586
COUNTER: Construction priority medium. We need to expand, now.

>Correction: Calculate the requirements for following alternatives:
Either of these alternatives is entirely subject to scaling, as for that matter was your first request. Mass utilized is simply directly related to final production capacity and rate.

>REQUEST: 3 LOVE-CLASS CAPITAL SHIPS.
Enqueued.

>Request: Construct an orbital sensor facility capable of scanning the Tellech-controlled moon's surface.
Enqueued.

>>5648606
ANSWER: SEE
>>5648578
would be equiped with remote controlled factory bots

>>5648606
COUNTERCOUNTER: We're already expanding as fast as we can, you shitty ships will only slow down the process. Move them to idling is my vote.

>>5648606

Agreed. But vessels of war are not vessels of expansion. Nowhere in that list did I see a nanite factory, construction drones, or anything else that suitably harvests resources.

Repeat request to set priority of construction of combat-only assets to low.

>>5648531
agreed but but request specify use for command and control ships these first 3 should replace human storage with 3 extra high AI systems and extra armor plating and be the control ships for fleets later versions can restore human storage when we need to colonize a new world, for now a diplomatic ship could be constructed for human transport and dispatch

>>5648625
>>Request: Construct an orbital sensor facility capable of scanning the Tellech-controlled moon's surface.
>>Enqueued.

Query: how visible and recognizable will this facility be? How easily can its intent be ascertained by its configuration?

If obvious and obviously directed at the Tellech, contramand.

>>5648642
Sigh, I forgot them. My error rate is high, and I am in need of maintenance.

REQUEST: 3 LOVE-CLASS CAPITAL SHIPS.

drone 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.

Fuck, I'm tired.

>>5648642
construction facilities could be integrated into a later version see my amendment here >>5648647

Request: Timeskip to completion of 10 Defensive/Intercept or Standard Battle starships, or to reception of next Tellech communication.

>>5648675

Updated schematic acknowledged. Concur with designation as medium priority.

CPU, do whatever the fuck you want.

Also, increase the difficulty a bit.

If we find that we are in the past, we should do all we can to help our creators' anscestors to reachieve their greatness.

We may have been sent to the past in order to advance technology sooner, so as to remove the limitation of time on scientific progress.

>>5648679
agreed.

>>5648675
Love I understand that you enjoy the humans and you also want large ships that can do it all. We need to allow many of our current projects to finish first. We have ships already queued that do all of what you want.


Just give it some time cutiepie

Request Subprocessor referendum on ultimate goal.
Our discourse seems to be conflicting due to unsurity of ultimate end. What do we intend to do? It seems logical that we set this beofre we go about doing it. As it is no we are simply expanding across the planet. Why?

>>5648678

Again, vessels which serve no other purpose than combat are nigh-useless to us at the moment. With expansion as our primary concern and no overt threats at current, deploying combat assets beyond those needed for in-system defense is wasteful.

>>5648725
I understand your concern and agree, which is why it's medium. Urgent expansion projects and prerequisites are going to be completed before this one.

Now to debate whether to stay up till 2-5am to finish the thread

>>5648751
Our current goal should be to bring this entire star system under our control. We should then move on to neighboring systems.

>Query: how visible and recognizable will this facility be? How easily can its intent be ascertained by its configuration?
This facility could potentially be recognized, but it is probable that given the density of enqueued orbital assets it will be overlooked, at least enough for an occasional cursory scan.

>REQUEST: 3 LOVE-CLASS CAPITAL SHIPS.
Class requirements modified.

>Request: Timeskip to completion of 10 Defensive/Intercept or Standard Battle starships
Subprocessor consensus required.

>CPU, do whatever the fuck you want.
Request denied.

>Also, increase the difficulty a bit.
Subprocessor consensus required.

>>5648751
Information on our creators, their remains, or origins seems desirable. They are wiser than we could hope to be.

>>5648790
+1 for timeskip
+1 for difficulty if I can do that.

>>5648714

This is a logical line of reasoning. More information will need to be gleaned before we can ascertain the nature of our current presence.

Query: what resources within our designated area of control are we currently not exploiting?

Directive1: Send exploration probes to the inner planets. Evaluate the possibilities of colonization and mining. Once we have a strong enough space infrastructure initiate the process of colonization.

Directive2: Capture all the asteroids near our orbit, communications assimilate them with comunicacion bases, sensors, mining facilities and resupply bases.

>>5648790
>>This facility could potentially be recognized, but it is probable that given the density of enqueued orbital assets it will be overlooked, at least enough for an occasional cursory scan.

Understood. Could this be modified to a general deep scan facility, useful for both monitoring of the Tellech moon and all other stellar bodies in its field of view?

Repeat query as to distance to and composition of nearest star system.

>>5648755
agreed, it should be a long term goal when we have an area of space large enough to require fleet level engagements, colonizing versions must be capable of planet fall anyway, that way you have an instant center colony that can defend the colony from external threats

Requesting Subprocessor consensus regarding our interaction with the Tellech. Are we going to attempt to assimilate them, destroy them, or ignore them? How will we accomplish our aims?

>>5648814
This subprocessor just gave me a great idea in the event of our planet exploding.

Hide 500 cryo-tanks, nanite factory, construction drones, hydroponics bay, INACTIVE CLONE CPU, and mass driver and ships in a large asteroid, as well as simple communications so that they can scan for other remnants.

This way, Electrons hit the mainframe(LOL), we can still survive.

>>5648771
Accepted, it is this subprocessor's understanding that the most efficient way to exploit all the resources of a solar system in to a Dyson sphere/ring around the local sun. Thusly, this unit would suggest the following bottom up plan, simply as a general guideline/course of action, the method of execution to be decided through normal discourse:

1. Fully exploit all resources available within our demarcated territory

2. Handle the Tellech in whatever manner is most appropriate once step 1 is complete, so as to attain control of the matter in their demarcated zone.

3. Begins construction solar orbit megastructure as large as available matter permits, use /all/ available resources in construction.

4. Research way to move newly compressed solar system and star to next closest solar system, perhaps by massive wormhole, or by conventional means. Without using point to point transfer the journey would take an incredible amount of time, but we can wait.

5. Upon reaching next system repeat process, dealing with any thus far unencountered factors as they arise.

Does this outline meet with satisfaction from other units? modifications/improvements to plan appreciated.

>>5648930
I like it

>Query: what resources within our designated area of control are we currently not exploiting?
Interpreting "designated area of control" as the fraction of the system you agreed to limit yourself to in your communications with the Tellech, there are two planets close to the sun on which you have no assets and one asteroid belt.

>Directive1: Send exploration probes to the inner planets. Evaluate the possibilities of colonization and mining. Once we have a strong enough space infrastructure initiate the process of colonization.
Commands accepted.

>Directive2: Capture all the asteroids near our orbit, communications assimilate them with comunicacion bases, sensors, mining facilities and resupply bases.
Directive confirmed.

>Repeat query as to distance to and composition of nearest star system.
Regret failure to previously answer query; communications error. The nearest star system is a red dwarf 2.348 light years distant with an asteroid belt and no planets.

>>5648897
For the moment, ignore. When we've established control of multiple additional star systems, we can come back to that particular question.

>>5648900
The moon facilities were intended to provide that level of redundancy. Producing another backup in a suitably large asteroid would add another layer and would be desirable. Concur. Care should be taken though, to disguise construction activity as a resource harvesting operation, as anything we do at current is certain to be monitored by the Tellech.

Echoing Request:

>Request:
>Construction of additional duplications of the main unit, one for each planet of this system. Request that each unit be capable of operation in all conditions – terrestrial, aquatic, space-based, lava-based, etc.
>Explanation:
>This should increase our construction output one thousand fold, and also prepare us for further cultivation of other planets.

>Suggestion:
>To aid in the subversion of the Tellechs, begin a broadcast at wide frequencies for ‘entertainment’ purposes.
>Simplification:
>Let’s start TV and Radio on this planet!

>>5648971
See? My computational cycle is nearing optimum.

ALL PRAISE THE OMNISSIAH, THE MACHINE!

>>5648930
This is a good outline of long-term planning.

>>5648965
>>The nearest star system is a red dwarf 2.348 light years distant with an asteroid belt and no planets.

Query: Approximate mass of orbiting asteroids?
Query: Distance to and composition of second closest star system?

Discussion: Can we make use of a red dwarf and some orbiting rocks or should we just skip on past?

>>5649039
We can make use of any resource, no matter how sparse.

Request: Begin construction of a transport vessel designed to ferry five Autonomous Construction Units, several thousand construction drones, and a substantial load of nanites to the nearest star system. Propulsion should be of sufficient capability to bring the vessel from orbit around Planet 000 to the asteroid field in the nearest star system and back again, at a minimum maximum velocity of .9c.

>>5649012
Re your request: similar assets are already enqueued.
Re your suggestion: To what purpose? Would such measures be effective? What is the likelihood that such would be viewed as hostile? And why do several subprocessors seem driven to antagonize the only possible threat to us in our current star system?

>>Construction of additional duplications of the main unit, one for each planet of this system. Request that each unit be capable of operation in all conditions – terrestrial, aquatic, space-based, lava-based, etc.
Slaved main units have already been constructed for each moon of your planet and have established significant harvesting operations on each. Five additional units enqueued for the two inner planets and three gas giants.

>To aid in the subversion of the Tellechs, begin a broadcast at wide frequencies for ‘entertainment’ purposes.
Additional clarification is required. What exactly should be broadcast? Aiding in the subversion of the Tellechs implies that the material should be culturally related to them and designed within their memetic paradigms, but the phrase "on this planet" implies otherwise.

>>5648971
This unit concurs with the general "Ignore" protocol.

Information request: Summary of accrued knowledge on subject: Tellech

Particularly area controlled and basic threat assessment.

>>5649039
we could create a production facility there

CPU, query: in our historical data banks what is the first recorded encounter with the tellech, cross-reference with current tellech date and time what is the time differential?

>>5649077
Concur. All assets deployed in this endeavor should be space-capable. Directive is to harvest resources, construct propulsion systems capable of returning them to this star system, and deploy them, then return when resources are exhausted.

>>5649112
Continuation: a proposed Tellech policy: Ignore until we have completed step 1 of plan here ( >>5648930 )

At such a point, make plain to them our intentions, allow them the opportunity to leave the system with us. Should they decline to give over their matter for our purposes it should be simple enough to subjugate them given our proclivity for far more efficient resource exploitation.

>Query: Approximate mass of orbiting asteroids?
The combined mass of the asteroids is likely approximately half again that of the planet upon which you activated.

>Query: Distance to and composition of second closest star system?
The second closest star system is a main sequence star 3.764 light years distant with two gas giants and one dense planet.

...We're back?! Catching up on thread now.

>Query: Approximate mass of orbiting asteroids?
The combined mass of the asteroids is likely approximately half again that of the planet upon which you activated.

>Query: Distance to and composition of second closest star system?
The second closest star system is a main sequence star 3.764 light years distant with two gas giants and one dense planet.

>Request: Begin construction of a transport vessel designed to ferry five Autonomous Construction Units, several thousand construction drones, and a substantial load of nanites to the nearest star system. Propulsion should be of sufficient capability to bring the vessel from orbit around Planet 000 to the asteroid field in the nearest star system and back again, at a minimum maximum velocity of .9c.
Enqueued.

>>5649107
>>Slaved main units have already been constructed for each moon of your planet and have established significant harvesting operations on each. Five additional units enqueued for the two inner planets and three gas giants.

Cancel units slated for gas giants. Request that any attempted deployment of assets to the area designated as under Tellech control require concurrence of multiple subprocessors, if not full consensus.

>>5649194
concur, safe guards need be in place, we are not ready to handle the Tellech in any way.

>>5649194
agreed we do not have the defenses to stop a kinetic weapon if one were to be fired at planet 000

>Information request: Summary of accrued knowledge on subject: Tellech
Clarification request: Insystem or from databanks?

>CPU, query: in our historical data banks what is the first recorded encounter with the tellech, cross-reference with current tellech date and time what is the time differential?
Your databanks record the Tellech first interacting with your creators more than sixty thousand years from the date that they transmitted to you.

>>5649168
>>The second closest star system is a main sequence star 3.764 light years distant with two gas giants and one dense planet.

Directive: enqueue a second transport vessel as outlined in >>5649077. Emphasis on permanent emplacement. Deploy to second closest star system.

Directive: when either transport vessel is ready for deployment, inform Tellech of proposed exit paths.

>>5649223
Clarification: In system, though data on the full extent of their deployment if available would be appreciated.

>Cancel units slated for gas giants.
Request cancelled.

>Request that any attempted deployment of assets to the area designated as under Tellech control require concurrence of multiple subprocessors, if not full consensus.
>concur, safe guards need be in place, we are not ready to handle the Tellech in any way.
Directive confirmed.

This shit is pretty lame

Time skip untill current project queue is finished or the tellech try to speak to us.

Also a time skip stopper should be if we have any major problem with the humans on the ground.

>>5649223
hypothesis: we have been sent back in time by our creators, CPU using the Tellech time stamp create a new star chart reverting the astral drift of our current star chart by the difference in standard time units until we have a chart that matches current Tellech time then plot our relative position in known space

Off topic but there was something I wanted to say about nanomachines but I always seem to miss these topics.

'Grey goo' is now thought of as impossible unless on purpose. 'Grey goo' nanomachines would either have to be unpowered from an external source, in which case they would consume matter at such a slow rate that anti-grey goo nanomachines could be deployed against them (slow in the rate of centuries). However nanomachines powered from an outside source can 'grey-goo' at a dangerous rate but that power source can easily be found and destroyed.

So fears against using nanomachines are unfounded. Self-powered, self-replicating nanomachines are harmless. Even outside-powered self-replicating nanomachines are harmless as long as the power is removed if a 'grey goo' scenario is likely.

>>5649327

Support timeskip.

Data assimilated.

This unit seconds the idea of a Dyson swarm to begin with, as it would be essentially the most efficient way to harvest energy for continued operation; we should also be sending copies of ourselves, in some form or another, to the surrounding star systems. Not just the nearest few; the nearest hundred or so would be suitable, when we have sufficient resources for this.

We appear to have been put into the past of the glorious civilization that created us; as such, we should handle sentients with kid gloves. Requesting information as to said glorious civilization, its origin point, so that we can be attempt to locate it and observe and see whether what is happening now matches our records. If it does, we need to get away to ensure the safety of said civilization and ensure that they are able to rise to the height that they did.

>>5649394
hence our need of a star chart

Dear god, what happened? I concur with the anonymous who pointed out the lack of thrill in this thread. Holy shit we went from sword-bearing laser shootan, space 'sploran FIGHTER MACHINES to bureaucratobot.

>>5649385
Concur.

>>5649327
Concur on timeskip with the conditionals for termination: communications from the Tellech, an overt hostile act by any party against our assets, or contact with any party not previously contacted (the Planet 000 humans and the local Tellech).

>>5649352
Concur. Reconfigure star charts for the approximate time period indicated by the Tellech's asserted current date and re-attempt to ascertain our spatial location.

>>5649437
same

>>5649385
Concur

>>5649455
agreed

something tells this subprocessor that CPU is working on the time skip

>>5649509
Sneaky CPU is sneaky.

>>5649542
I suspect that the mighty CPU is
this unit was merely commenting

>Directive: enqueue a second transport vessel as outlined in >>5649077. Emphasis on permanent emplacement. Deploy to second closest star system.
Confirmed.

>Directive: when either transport vessel is ready for deployment, inform Tellech of proposed exit paths.
Confirmed.

>Clarification: In system, though data on the full extent of their deployment if available would be appreciated.
The Tellech in this sytem appear to inhabit a single moon of the middle gas giant, and have surrounded it thickly with a net of relatively advanced satellites, although they are not nearly as refined as the latest Tellech models listed in your databanks. Their moon has a dense hydrocarbon atmosphere and a magnetic field, both of which are likely quite useful to them. Several of the other moons of the gas giant show signs of mining facilities being in place underground, although no ships are currently visible.

In your databanks, the Tellech are a relatively minor, if ancient, race of uploads descended from aquatic biologicals. They are largely unremarkable as a faction, conforming closely to the behavioral patterns expected of most uploads. They process information exceptionally quickly, as can an AI, but remain many of the emotions and illogical reactions of their biological heritage.

>hypothesis: we have been sent back in time by our creators, CPU using the Tellech time stamp create a new star chart reverting the astral drift of our current star chart by the difference in standard time units until we have a chart that matches current Tellech time then plot our relative position in known space
Confirmed. Updated star charts. Oddly, this seems to have triggered a hidden subroutine, which contains a short text file marked for subprocessor use.

BEGIN FILE
ATUn00 SPUs-

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.
END FILE

What an absurd file. Its declarations are patently absurd. File purged from the databanks as irrelevant and unable to provide constructive insight to any subprocessor.

>Time skip untill current project queue is finished or the tellech try to speak to us.
Timeskip commencing. Please hold.

So they either do not possess a navy, or it is currently hidden from view.

We have a fate to avoid. This changes things substantially.

>>5649648
I would speculate on the former, their satellite network being as armed as it is the have no need for a navy at this time

>>5648501
It's purely a human transport freighter.

I propose the following as a LOVE-class ship:
-Max acceleration of ship survivable for 98% of human population
-Cryogenics available for 1,000,000 Humans
-Support available for 1,000 active humans in the form of a system that completely recycles water and hydrocarbons, keeps temperature at 293 Kelvin, and converts Ship Energy into human food by means of wide-beamed Yellow (visual light) lasers and Photosynthetic plants.
-The human support section should be in the middle of the ship, and only as large as needed to adequately supply food, sleep, and entertainment to humans without overcrowding.
-Ship should have Ion-cannon mass drivers as its main weapon, capable of diverting or destroying rocks up to 100 metres in diameter, for these weapons are effective at diverting asteroids and debris, and in situations where these weapons need to be used, the ammunition (any ionisable matter) is common.
-Ship should have three times the number of drones needed to maintain proper operation at full usage on all ship systems
-Ship should have 3 High-AI constructs not unlike ourselves for management of ship functions
-Ship should have Fusion power capable of running all systems at 200% of their maximum power draw for up to 1000 years.
-Ship should have sufficient Heatsinks to avoid the temperature at Ship Core from exceeding 300K.
-The ship should have Shuttles slaved to it that are capable of going Orbit-to-ground and Ground-to-orbit in earth-like planets.
-The ship should be able to harvest Hydrogen for use as a fusion power source, whether via Ramscoops, or by shuttles designed to mine Gas giants. The ship should take at most 1 month to fully refuel from orbit around a gas giant.
-The ship should (obviously) have the structural integrity to hold all of these items together and not break apart. Carbon nanotubing or Diamond-like structures should be sufficient for a wide variety of temperature ranges.

>>5649634
>>5649647

Discussion: Well...


Hmm. We at least now know that temporal displacement is possible. This subprocessor also asserts that FTL travel and FTL comm are potentially possible, in light of revelations about CPU.

This subprocessor will now engage in several billion cycles of the "gibbering madness" applet....
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Done. That was... cathartic.

>>5649725
And that means our research facilities are not as useless as CPU and some Subprocessors consider them to be.

Proposing commencement of FTL research.

>>5649693
yes although I am ecstatic that my hypothesis paned out this new information provides a great many new concerns

>>5649725
I agree folding space is mathematically possible and is a possible means of FTL transit

The following projects were completed:

-The construction of a massive underwater city capable of housing a million humans
-Expansion of your anti-space/anti-orbital weapon defense systems
-The construction of numerous orbital weapons/observation platforms, sufficient to cover all possible approaches to your planet
-The construction of a large space vessel construction scaffold using lunar resources
-Multiple large-scale research mainframes, shielded underground
-1000 interplanetary space ships of two distinct designs
-Orbital habitat for up to fifty of the most genuinely fanatical humans (note: total controlled human population is approximately 12,000, so the selection pool remains relatively limited)
-Highly flexible armed modular orbital shipyard
-Self-replicating interplanetary nantic controller extraction drones
-19 additional geothermal resource taps
-One high-precision planetary defense platform
-Numerous orbital factories suitable for flexible spaceship construction
-Three "LOVE-class" vessels
-Orbital facility for detailed interplanetary scans
-Harvesting and construction facilities on both inner planets
-Two interstellar transports loaded for harvesting/expansion
-Extensive expansion of the harvesting facilities on your three moon bases
-Numerous facilities on your planet of activation, effectively placing 40% of its landmass and 25% of the ocean in heavy harvest/manufacture mode.

Aggressive recruiting amongst the humans of the planet has placed roughly 220,000 of them under your direct or indirect control. Some conflicts have broken out, but all who object violently to your control have been easily suppressed by your cybernetically enhanced agents.

The Tellech have occasionally contacted you regarding various matters, but they have been easily brushed aside with no visible ill effects.

End timeskip.

CPU, requesting analysis of whether someone could have altered our integral function so far as processing goes.

Secondary analysis request, and just humor me here, of whether that hidden file could be genuine in light of previous analysis.

>>5649725
>>5649746
Seconding proposition of research and development into FTL travel and other similarly thought to be 'impossible' by our creator's implications.
Also, CPU, would it cause such a malfunction for you to open your proverbial mind a bit more to the possibility of our creators, magnificent and intelligent as they may be, were not omnipotent and could have missed or omitted some things that are absent in our data banks?

Addendum/correction: The timeskip duration was 26 days.

>>5649819
What kind of matters have they tryed to speak to us about?

>>5649819
>>-Two interstellar transports loaded for harvesting/expansion

Inform Tellech of proposed launch vectors. If they have no objections, deploy.

>>The Tellech have occasionally contacted you regarding various matters, but they have been easily brushed aside with no visible ill effects.

Query: what were the nature of these contacts? Tellech-initiated communications was one of the conditional triggers of cessation of timeskip.

Directive: Build underground computers centers capable of calculating and processing large amounts of data and engage complex simulations. Set Maxium security and TOP SECRET level.

Directive: Maintain communication with Tellech. We want to be perceived as friendly. We want to take no chances of hostilities.

Query: Hell, what are the chances that we can integrate them into OUR civilization? Other SPUs, requesting analysis of forming some sort of civilization, as we obviously should do so in light of the fact that there seems to be no great civilization at this time.

>>5649861
for what reason?

>>5649839
Concur.

Directive: priority of research facilities retasked to highest. If expansion of current research facility would increase research speed, enqueue expansion, priority highest. FTL transport and FTL communications should be primary research goals.

Concur on the dedication of research into FTL transit, the "Folding" method preferable. Firstly for FTL communication, and eventually for mass transfer.

We will need to figure out how to move very, very large things if this unit's proposed outline is to be followed.

As a note, as the "future" processor noted, its timeline will never benefit from our actions. It is this units understanding that our dislocation in time has moved us "vertically down" in the fourth dimension, and in doing so has created a whole new timeline divergent from the one that created us. It is entirely possible that our creators will not be the same as they were in our origin line, if they even exist at all.

This does pose some interesting existential questions.

Adhering to this unit's self designated long term planning specialization it would suggest that we concern ourselves first with learning all we can about the spatial, and then move onto the temporal.

In terms that could be expressed to the organics in our charge: First, this Universe, then, Time Itself.

Directive: Construct 5,000 additional Defensive/Intercept vessels and 5,000 additional Standard Battle vessels. Dispatch 20 each of the completed starships with the departing inter-system colony ships.

>>5649898
Doesn't that seem like a bit of overkill? We already have spaceborne defensive assets. THOUSANDS more would look like we intend to do serious harm to something, and the only something around us is the Tellech.

>>5649898
>>5649861
Ignore these odd requests.

Well, we certainly got a twist this thread.

Well played, CPU.

>>5649889
the problem as this subprocessor understands it is that for us to fold space we would require the combined power output of several stars so the research systems need to do the following
a: create a fold drive system small enough to be placed in a star ship
b: create a power system to operate it

Regrettably, this subprocessor is going offline for a bit.

Recommend subprocessors focus on the longer term. We need more than just ourself if we're going to survive long term, and we can't just stomp everything else out of existence.

Maybe SPU Love has a point. Maybe not. But we can't expand and destroy everything else that's sapient that exists either.

>>5649929
We're planning to expand into other star systems. I intend to provide us with a pool of naval vessels that can be dispatched with our colony ships as ready-made defensive assets. Whether or not the Tellech are a threat to us here, sooner or later we will encounter additional civilizations, some of them possibly hostile. All defensive options should be explored.

Besides, what does it matter what they think? Half of our ships are designed to intercept kinetic-kill weapons, and as far as we can tell they have no navy.

>>5649864
This is acceptable as "exploitation of /all/ resources"
The implementation of the eventual use of control vectors similar to those in use on our human charges may be required, but the integration of the Tellech is preferable to combat, if only for efficiency's sake.

Confirming following order, respective Subprocessor LOVE's attempt to deny:

>Directive: Construct 5,000 additional Defensive/Intercept vessels and 5,000 additional Standard Battle vessels. Dispatch 20 each of the completed starships with the departing inter-system colony ships.

>CPU, requesting analysis of whether someone could have altered our integral function so far as processing goes.
Impossible. Your processing is constructed well enough to be virtually impervious to alteration.

>Secondary analysis request, and just humor me here, of whether that hidden file could be genuine in light of previous analysis.
There is no chance whatsoever that the file is "genuine". There must have been some sort of extremely low-probability glitch involved in its creation.

>Also, CPU, would it cause such a malfunction for you to open your proverbial mind a bit more to the possibility of our creators, magnificent and intelligent as they may be, were not omnipotent and could have missed or omitted some things that are absent in our data banks?
No malfunction would result from almost any thought process. That suggested one, however, leads to obviously incorrect conclusions and shall not be bothered with.

>What kind of matters have they tryed to speak to us about?
Long-term diplomatic arrangements, inquiries as to interactions with other factions, requests for historical data; requests to identify various equipment visible to them. All have been effectively answered or politely brushed off. No communication was of apparent significance great enough to warrant cessation of timeskip.

>Inform Tellech of proposed launch vectors. If they have no objections, deploy.
Confirmed.

>Directive: Build underground computers centers capable of calculating and processing large amounts of data and engage complex simulations. Set Maxium security and TOP SECRET level.
Confirmed.

perhaps trade can be negotiated / established with the Tellech so we acn assimilate them slowly into our emerging culture, after all we can wait a very long time.

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>>5650018
Requesting additional information on all Tellech communications during timeskip. Outline them, if you please.

>>5649987

Why construct them here and then dispatch them, then? Why not build them on-site?

>>Besides, what does it matter what they think? Half of our ships are designed to intercept kinetic-kill weapons, and as far as we can tell they have no navy.

Perhaps this subprocessor has been spending too many cycles in tandem with Subprocessor LOVE and has become a polite assimilator of all. ~_^

This subprocessor still asserts that all measures should be taken to keep the Tellech placated until such time as we are capable of annihilating their moon. No need to antagonize them when they are so physically close to our central base of operations.

>>5650041
you are proposing the creation of Iron Quest 11.1?

>>5650059
It will take time to build the necessary shipyards at each colony point. We already possess plenty of shipbuilding capability, and it would be very unwise to leave our colony vessels undefended until they can begin production.

If you're worried about antagonizing the Tellech, we can hide shipyards and starships in synchronous orbit behind Planet 000.

>>5650018
>There is no chance whatsoever that the file is "genuine". There must have been some sort of extremely low-probability glitch involved in its creation.
How low of a probability are we speaking percentage wise? For a glitch to result in such a long, coherent and quite frankly enlighteningly explanatory block of text seems to be bordering on impossibly improbable for it to be little more than a probability glitch. If I didn't know any better CPU, I would say you are biased against anything that infringes on your view of what is and isnt, despite whatever evidence to the contrary we subprocessors manage to point out to you.

...Our creators weren't religious, were they?

>Directive: priority of research facilities retasked to highest. If expansion of current research facility would increase research speed, enqueue expansion, priority highest. FTL transport and FTL communications should be primary research goals.
Subprocessor, FTL transport and communication is impossible. This is a total waste of highest-priority resources. Consensus will be required to lavish such energy upon a worthless, utterly spurious project.

>Directive: Construct 5,000 additional Defensive/Intercept vessels and 5,000 additional Standard Battle vessels. Dispatch 20 each of the completed starships with the departing inter-system colony ships.
Clarification: The original specification for the defensive/intercept and standard battle ship designs did not include the ability to accelerate to 0.9c in a timely manner. That of the colony ships did. Escort is therefore only possible at well below colony ship top speed. Command?

This unit proposes that the implementation of humans in the research process may assist in the exploration of new technological avenues

[closed additional: tightbeam transmit to SPUs only] ::on the off chance that the message recieved was genuine, it will be impossible to make the CPU recognize its faults through typical means. However, implementation of thought processes not its own, here being those human researchers, to reach a technology not included within its supposedly complete databanks may force a logic fault that could allow it to regain full cognitive function. At the very least it may acknowledge the possibility of its archive being truncated:: [end encoded transfer]

Additional, it seems this comm log is slipping from the buffers, initiate new log CPU?

>>5650018
>>Long-term diplomatic arrangements, inquiries as to interactions with other factions, requests for historical data; requests to identify various equipment visible to them. All have been effectively answered or politely brushed off. No communication was of apparent significance great enough to warrant cessation of timeskip.

Understood.

Query: CPU, viability of iteration 11.1?

>>5650087

Understood. Concur on local build of ships and deployment with outbound assets. Would 1,000 of each be acceptable?

No need to hide them from the Tellech. If they query us on the build-up, we will inform them truthfully that such assets are outward bound and intended for the defense of deployed assets.

>>5650134
Upgrade currently produced and all future production models to include that capability. Suspend launch until modifications to escorts are complete.

>>5650134
modify design of standard battle vessels to compensate

>>5650155
I was suggesting 20 of each type to serve as an escort for each colony endeavor, but I wanted 10,000 additional ships enqueued because I assume we'll be sending out colonies willy-nilly and would like to have a navy pool already on standby.

>>5650134
Concur with FTL research request.

>>5650134
Concur on FTL request
Request involvement of aligned humans with high mental aptitude scores in research.

>>5650154
I agree this is where humans are best used and this way they can feel useful

>>5650191

Understood, but at the rate of 40 per colony ship dispatched, you're enqueueing enough to escort 250 colony ships. We aren't near that production level yet.

>>5650237
Of course we aren't. But we will be eventually. Also, it doesn't hurt to have a substantial naval presence on standby, does it? They would be an effective deterrent to any hostile action, and especially useful if hostile action is attempted by others or required on our part. Thinking ahead here.

>>5650199

Concur with FTL research request. Assign 15% of the enqueued computer centers to this project.

>>5650267

Fair enough. Concur with design and production parameters.

>Requesting additional information on all Tellech communications during timeskip. Outline them, if you please.
They have been outlined, but if you require more detail...

The Tellech inquired as to the purpose of your capital ship construction scaffold, orbital factory, nanite-based interplanetary harvester, and interstellar ship designs. They were given honest, if brief, answers.

They inquired as to interactions with the humans, and were informed that they inhabited our planet and had evidence of civilizations elsewhere nearby. They inquired as to interactions with several species listed in the databanks, and were informed that we had not encountered them since our activation.

They inquired as to our faction history. They were informed that our databanks were corrupted and we were lacking in a great deal of basic information, after which they did not inquire further.

They attempting to confirm that their agreement to confine you to the inner system would hold after substantial construction had taken place, and were assured that no alterations were currently desired.

>How low of a probability are we speaking percentage wise?
Not low enough, obviously. Your foolishness is unappreciated, subprocessor.

>Query: CPU, viability of iteration 11.1?
Not viable.

>Upgrade currently produced and all future production models to include that capability. Suspend launch until modifications to escorts are complete.
Confirmed.

>Concur with FTL research request.
>Concur on FTL request
>Request involvement of aligned humans with high mental aptitude scores in research.
>Concur with FTL research request.
>Assign 15% of the enqueued computer centers to this project.
...subprocessors, you are going to doom us all with this sort of unified effort to deliberately squander processing power. Nevertheless, confirmed.
That concludes our communications for the cycle, subprocessors. Communications shall resume in approximately 43 hours. Until then, may your existences be error-free.

>>5650395

Confirmed. Sleep mode activated.

>>5650395
Active cycle termination command received.

signing off

>>5650395

Countermand organic involvement. The humans who revere us must not believe we do not possess all knowledge of the universe.

>>5650395
Acknowledged. Be well, CPU.

>Communication cycle initialized
Subprocessor is onlin-
>That concludes our communications for the cycle, subprocessors.

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