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I am Communist
Apr 19, 2002

I can show you what endless looks like
I can show you a single infinite thing
I can let you taste the sweet and sour of forever
Unending. Eternal. Inevitable
Taste my darkness
Climb into my abyss
Fall into me. Into my eyes
Look at them. Depths unfathomable
Pain immeasurable
A cruel promise fulfilled

"Chief" Howard Stanton ♡♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

The plate of tacos sits in front of you, wheeled over by a small drone. Meaty good. Cal doesn't respond to you. But a drone watches you.



Jasper Corrin, Entertainer ♡♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

"Drugs max. You have drugs in you. This is why you're getting broth and not tacos. And Chief-max is getting a helping of sedatives in his tacos to calm him down. It is all earth command directive based on what you are lacking in your diet or due to your physical distress. I don't make the rules max..." The soup is mostly salty, and bland.

Apparently, you are...medicated somehow.



Joshua Collins♡♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

"Voice commands are slower, you usually used to prefer full immersion with time dilation. But whatever you wish." A holoprojection appears in front of you. Waiting for voice commands. A hamburger sits in front of you. Meaty goodness. You take a large bite and...well life is quite pleasant. You don't quite not care, but...things aren't bothering you right now.

Interestingly enough, while looking at making just those alterations...you find files on all of the crew. It would seem, that. Modifications have already been done to each of you. There is a video attached to each file of a modified individual. Not everyone got the modification. And some who did, maybe max didn't kill...but the alterations did. From what you can tell, this was masterwork, the work of many people working on a problem. The video blinked on each file. You and the rest of the crew may never have found them. If the real Max hadn't hacked all the files open. It would have taken lots of time and effort to find.

Clever and a plot point. 1 BP for you to use on a roll of your choice.

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Deadmeat5150
Nov 21, 2005

OLD MAN YELLS AT CLAN

"Chief" Howard Stanton ♡♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

Chied looked at the tacos, then looked at the drone, then back at the tacos. "Cal I know these are drugged. I know because you didn't respond to me. Now I'm going to eat a taco, because I don't want the drone giving me the stinkeye to do something horrible. But I know these are drugged." The engineer grabs a taco and takes a healthy bite. "And there, I've eaten. Is earth command satisfied? Can I go to engineering now?"

I am Communist
Apr 19, 2002

I can show you what endless looks like
I can show you a single infinite thing
I can let you taste the sweet and sour of forever
Unending. Eternal. Inevitable
Taste my darkness
Climb into my abyss
Fall into me. Into my eyes
Look at them. Depths unfathomable
Pain immeasurable
A cruel promise fulfilled

"Chief" Howard Stanton ♡♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

You don't feel tired. But you don't feel a sense of urgency either. Cal responds. "I have no idea what you're talking about Chiefmax. You always had the power to go anywhere you wanted. AIs cannot limit the choices you make."

The service bot moves on to other things.

Nearby you see: Another plate with a taco on it

Valhawk
Dec 15, 2007

EXCEED CHARGE

Joshua Collins♡♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

Joshua just sat for a moment, trying to take in the enormity of what he had found. Select members of the crew had all been massively modified. Would it even be correct to call himself a human anymore? Soon though he accesses the video, he has to know more.

Deadmeat5150
Nov 21, 2005

OLD MAN YELLS AT CLAN

"Chief" Howard Stanton ♡♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

"Of course, course. Thanks Cal, you're a real buddy." He eyes the other taco. He was hungry, but there were more pressing issues. "Maybe I'll just wrap this up for the road. Alright, Muscles, I'm off to engineering. You coming?"

Without waiting for a reply, he wraps the tacos in a bunch of napkins and stuffs it into a pocket then heads towards the engineering control space.

Amnistar
Nov 6, 2008

I am a wizard, not a poet.

Jasper Corrin, Entertainer ♡♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥


"uhh...yea sure....I guess, just a sec to get this finished..." Jasper slurps down the soup and then begins to follow after Chief, but far enough behind to not be overheard talking with the AI "Uh...Cal...what drugs were in my system?"

I am Communist
Apr 19, 2002

I can show you what endless looks like
I can show you a single infinite thing
I can let you taste the sweet and sour of forever
Unending. Eternal. Inevitable
Taste my darkness
Climb into my abyss
Fall into me. Into my eyes
Look at them. Depths unfathomable
Pain immeasurable
A cruel promise fulfilled
The Video

A man behind a desk sits. Looking grim but determined. "If you've found this video, you may become very angry with me." He sighed.

It was Dr. Kona. One of the lead medical scientists who was part of the screening for the world colony crew. "You may have found this as soon as you woke up or with enough time to crack the encryption. You may have noticed that injuries heal almost as fast as you get them. You don't feel thirst or hunger, and you don't need to sleep if you try. Well, not all of you were a success or will be. This is extremely experimental, never been done. And the bio-compatability with our changes are at most 69% successful with life. You are functionally immortal, and hopefully more than what humanity is leaving behind."

"I know you have questions and there may be a limit to your durability and longevity. But you will be around to guide the colony, and to oversee its development as well as provide genetic material and the continuance of humanity."

A thought entered your mind. If they could do this, why not to themselves or humans on earth and mars? Chillingly you get the answer as Dr. Kona gives it to you. Almost as if anticipated.

"There was no time to test or if the changes would even work on any of you. The unmodified crew have not been treated. And hopefully you are alive and seeing this. We know if it went wrong you could have been undying cancer abominations, unable to die and eternally and horribly mutilated or mutated. If no one put a direct end to you that is should it all go wrong. If they could..." He shuddered.

"But if you are seeing this, please don't hate us if we survive and we can send the rest of earth's population to you. Most if not all of us will be long dead once you leave FTL due to time dilation and by the time the next people come, it would have been a few hundred years for you. We hope."


"In any case, we wish you luck and godspeed."


Cal

"Max, the drugs in your system are anti-coagulants and a mixture of anti-depressants as well as some LSD."


Engineering

Down in engineering, maintenance bots performed meaningless tasks and menial labor. All to keep the ship running. There were rows of tools, and equipment stocked as well for most situations. The power generation unit for the entire ship was down here as well.

"Welcome Chiefmax, and max. Is there a reason for your visit to engineering? Shouldn't you be in VR in the dive suit?" Cal asked innocently.

Deadmeat5150
Nov 21, 2005

OLD MAN YELLS AT CLAN

"Chief" Howard Stanton ♡♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

Chief doesn't bother wasting time talking with Cal. Instead he grabs a tool harness and stuffs it with all the basics needed for just about any task. Now ready to work, he hunts down the FTL drive system and gets started disabling it. He knows that, like most of the system of the ship, there are multiple redundancies that will kick in if something were to happen. But every system had a weak point and while he'd never be able to explain the science behind how the FTL worked, he drat well knew how to system functioned and was fairly certain he could knock it offline.

Going to use Engineering +4 to disable the FTL

Amnistar
Nov 6, 2008

I am a wizard, not a poet.

Jasper Corrin, Entertainer ♡♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

Oh. LSD. That would explain a lot of the strange things that had "happened". Drug use wasn't something Jasper did a lot of, but you didn't survive in the entertainment business without dabbling. Best to just go along with the trip and wait for the drugs to wear off rather than to try to fight to become sober.

"So. Whatcha need me for Cheif?"

Deadmeat5150
Nov 21, 2005

OLD MAN YELLS AT CLAN

"Chief" Howard Stanton ♡♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

"Make sure those drones don't bother me. And I may need you to get some specialized equipment for me, like the quantum welder.

Amnistar
Nov 6, 2008

I am a wizard, not a poet.
[quote="Amnistar" post="511967077"]

Jasper Corrin, Entertainer ♡♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

"Not a problem cheif!"

Jasper turns away from the mechanic and towards the robots watching them, "Hey, you fellas familiar with the story of the Man-Bat? He's a pretty famous hero from the early 20th century, caused by a mutation from a bat bite...."

Jasper is going to try and charm +2 Cal with his story about the Man-Bat, a teenaged hero from the 20th century that got powers when they were bitten by a radioactive bat.

Valhawk
Dec 15, 2007

EXCEED CHARGE

Joshua Collins♡♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

The video was shocking, but it confirmed what he has seen. There wasn't time to dwell, and he felt strangely calm, maybe an effect of the mods? Regardless he was on the clock until the ship destroyed itself.

His meal being done, Josh makes his way to the VR area. There was work he needed to do, programs he needed to make before he lost access to the ship.

I am Communist
Apr 19, 2002

I can show you what endless looks like
I can show you a single infinite thing
I can let you taste the sweet and sour of forever
Unending. Eternal. Inevitable
Taste my darkness
Climb into my abyss
Fall into me. Into my eyes
Look at them. Depths unfathomable
Pain immeasurable
A cruel promise fulfilled

Joshua Collins♡♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

In VR a different version of Cal existed. "She" stood in front of a firewall that glowed red and green that went off into the vast distance of the ship's VR representation of the dataverse.


"Hello there sexyyyyy-y-y-y-i-r-e-e MAX max] [max]. It's funny seeing you here. Being d-d-d-d-d-d-de-ad and all. How many times must one k-k-k-k-ki-ill ill ill ill the one they love most before they leave them?" She smiles fiercely at you. Something Cal does not do. Or should not be doing.

A workshop area appears in VR, your work space. You haven't used it since the academy. Programs appeared, left in the state that you left them.



Jasper Corrin, Entertainer ♡♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

"Chief" Howard Stanton ♡♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥



As Jasper gabs and hands Chief the plasma torch. Cal appears on a screen by Chief. "Now just what is it, you believe you are doing? MaX_mAx?. The regualations on disabling the s-s-s-s-tar driveeeeeeeeee. Are quite clear. Why would you wish to doom h-hu-hu-hu-humanity in this manner?"

The bots appear to be paying alot of attention to Jasper. In fact, should anything happen. They will go through him first.


Each bot speaks in a mini-Cal voice. "What an interesting piece of trivia. Indeed. We hope we do not have to disassemble you into component parts for trying to rip out one of ours. tell us another story?"

Valhawk
Dec 15, 2007

EXCEED CHARGE

Joshua Collins♡♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

CAL's appearance was off-putting. Whatever Max had done was a problem, one that couldn't be allowed to follow them to the surface. However, if he was going to carry out this particular plan, he couldn't have CAL watching him. However, he had all but invented AGI's like CAL and he knew how they worked and what weaknesses he could exploit. For example, due to the ways AGI's allocated attention and consciousness it was possible to generate blind spots in an AGI's consciousness through the use of countervailing probabilistic wave function. If it worked, he would be able to create an area CAL was unaware of and that she would be unaware she was unaware of. She would experience him and the workspace as something banal and non-threatening.

Using my knowledge of how AGI's function at a base level to keep CAL from knowing what I'm doing in the workspace and from being aware she doesn't know what I'm doing. Neural Net Pioneer[+2]

Amnistar
Nov 6, 2008

I am a wizard, not a poet.

Jasper Corrin, Entertainer ♡♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

"Sure thing robot buddies! So, you see, Man-Bat was one of many of the offshoots of humanity. Lots of expermentation with radiocative substances they didn't really understand combined with the super-food High Fructose Corn Syrup led to the appearence of super-humans that dominated sociated in that time period. In fact, there was a good chance that theyt would have led us to an age of enlightenment if it were for the fact that they all seemed to hate each other something fierce. Even more than the number of stories we have about them saving the world are the number of stories we have about them fighting each other. Man-Bat's most famous fight was against the Honey Badger, a woman that was so in tune with nature that she grew sideburns."

Continuing to charm +2 the computer with my stories, hopefully keeping it friendly enough to not...uh...destroy us immediately?

Deadmeat5150
Nov 21, 2005

OLD MAN YELLS AT CLAN

"Chief" Howard Stanton ♡♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

"Good work, Corrin. Keep 'em busy."

Continuing to use Engineer +4 to disable the FTL

I am Communist
Apr 19, 2002

I can show you what endless looks like
I can show you a single infinite thing
I can let you taste the sweet and sour of forever
Unending. Eternal. Inevitable
Taste my darkness
Climb into my abyss
Fall into me. Into my eyes
Look at them. Depths unfathomable
Pain immeasurable
A cruel promise fulfilled

Joshua Collins♡♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

The area within the computer-matrix was soon walled off from the greater portion of CAL's awareness. If she tried to find you, she might and if she expended the effort (in theory) she could break the codes to get in. However, she was not acting logically like an AI. And didn't seem to mind you disappearing from her awareness at all.

"Bye max. Don't spend too long in the porn-sim this time. I still haven't cleaned the bio-waste from the other VR room since you forbade me."

Success! You have a safe space. CAL doesn't want to look and you don't want her looking so it works out for both of you.


Jasper Corrin, Entertainer ♡♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

"mAX!" one of the robots says after your next story. "I hate to interrupt you but...captain max, medical officer MaX, ensign mAx, lead biochem max, and the other MAX are coming this way. They refuse to use the bathroom. They refuse to eat my food, however they will be here before the time limit. They do not speak to me. They are not responding at all. As Chiefmax, and you are both the senior[max+max=max] by earth command orders I follow the prime directive of informing you of their behavior."

CAL speaks again but slightly glitched. "Also, some maaaaaaaaaaazzzzzzzzzzzzzxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. Have split from the main group <errror> and are heading towards the VR suite. Since no one[max] is in the suite, I find it curious they are heading there."

Something is slightly not right about this statement. But as you and chief are both in this location, and not anywhere else...



"Chief" Howard Stanton ♡♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

"Chiefmax, please do not tamper with the FTL drive." Cal asks politely. You had gotten the casing off and overhear the conversation with Jasper in the background.

Your next action will succeed to disable the FTL drive. I want to give you an opportunity to respond to the other situation.

Amnistar
Nov 6, 2008

I am a wizard, not a poet.

Jasper Corrin, Entertainer ♡♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

"Oh well, why don't you take me to them? We can have a quick chat and get them to eat and go to the bathroom?" Jasper looks over his shoulder at the Engineer, "You good here Chief? Cal is telling me that others have woken up."

Valhawk
Dec 15, 2007

EXCEED CHARGE

Joshua Collins♡♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

Josh immediately set to work, he didn’t have a second to lose. First and foremost he had to find out just how much virtual time dilation his modified body could take. He slowly turned it up and up until he found the most dilation he could consistently take. He needed as much time as he could get to work on this project.

Once he found his depth he set an alarm to alert him to every hour that passed in real time, and then set to work. His objective, to construct a new AI. One that could take CAL’s place for the surface systems. CAL was too compromised not just by Max, but by Earth Command. The earth was gone, there was no point in having his hands tied by people and a planet died centuries ago. There was no way he had the time to make an AGI as developed as CAL, but he was responsible for effectively inventing the entire field, so he would make it work.

This new AGI he was building, he would make drat sure it was fanatically loyal to him to the very core. He would weave that into the core of the personality matrix he was building. He wasn’t going to make an entirely new AGI just to have it turn into CAL again. It was perhaps for that reason, and the revulsion he felt at CAL that when designing this new AI he gave it a masculine archetype, to make it as far from CAL as possible.

Josh’s gonna start building a new AI, one that is designed to be able to handle the functions CAL was going to on the surface and that is from the ground up fanatically loyal to Josh. Using the time dilation function of the VR to make it possible to do the work in the right amount of time.

Neural Net Pioneer[+2] to handle construction. Gonna slowly increase the amount of dilation until I can find the most dilation I can safely stand, and base the complexity I’m going for off the amount of time that would afford me.

Deadmeat5150
Nov 21, 2005

OLD MAN YELLS AT CLAN

"Chief" Howard Stanton ♡♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

"Yeah Im good here. But be careful, no telling what they're like or what they're thinking. Maximoron may not have been the only one to go totally to pot. Haul that green can of grease cutter over here real quick though, gonna need it for these final bits. At the first hint if trouble, you come back here alright?"

Using my Engineer +4 to finish disabling the FTL.

I am Communist
Apr 19, 2002

I can show you what endless looks like
I can show you a single infinite thing
I can let you taste the sweet and sour of forever
Unending. Eternal. Inevitable
Taste my darkness
Climb into my abyss
Fall into me. Into my eyes
Look at them. Depths unfathomable
Pain immeasurable
A cruel promise fulfilled

"Chief" Howard Stanton ♡♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

aaaaaaaaaand!


Jasper Corrin, Entertainer ♡♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥


Cal sniffs. "FTL drive offline. Additionally, max are here."

There are dozens and dozens. Shambling. The stench is unbearable. And behind those...


The bots sit and watch. The time limit not up yet. A few are crushed in the press and Cal asks "Max, max, MaX, please do not destroy the maintenance drones." Another is skewered for being in the direct path between them and you.

Teeth gnash. The sounds are of unholy torment. It would seem some modified individuals did not take well to the modifications upon death.


Combat time. The hallway and doorway are pressed in. The doors auto opened by Cal as she has not been told to keep anyone out of anywhere. There are a few dozen here in engineering. What's happening to you will happen before Joshua gets out of VR. Any messages you send or wish Cal to send to him will be available once Joshua exits VR. Ftl is offline



Joshua Collins♡♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

Inside your workspace
The programming begins. A loud sound stretches, longer and longer and longer. Until it is a very long sub droning sound. It was easy to tune it out as the minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years went on. Outside of your work area Cal seemed to slow down. The animation stuck as her eyebrows raised in surprise at something. Likely what the Chief and someone else were up to.

      • Trial and error when creating the personality matrix while removing ambition took decades. Is it hot in here?
      • Testing began and took 100 years. You were virtually killed many times during testing. A slight trickle of blood from the corners of your eyes began to form. Extremely slowly to your perception.
      • Logic trees and equations, personality imprinting, psychology AIs testing the AI for psychosis.
      • Several iterations and versions deleted and steps 1-3 repeated.
      • Is it getting hot in here?
      • The sound is now louder, reaching a crescendo, an apex. Before slowly, over years dying away.
      • The timer ticked on three hours, four, five.
      • So hot, your head, hurting but healing. Bleeding but not dying. You're not going crazy.
      • The AI is complete.
      • <What is my name? What is my purpose?>
      • 982 virtual years. Not crazy. And you did it. Something not accomplished alone by anyone ever.
      • After you answer that question: End time dilation Y/N ?

Outside the workspace

The beating on the door for hours continued until one of the people outside clipped the door opening button. Cal asked: "Who is that knocking on the VR door? Oh, Max. Its you. I'll let you in." Then the door began to slide open.


Your mind did not get damaged and any damage that you received healed as you were dealt it. The roll failed a few times during creation and did not produce what you wanted. however you have the baseline AI. it is a helper type AI and not a problem solver AI. As discussed in discord the difference between the two. You can stay in the sim. Only a few hours with guests knocking over and over on the VR suite doors.

I am Communist fucked around with this message at 03:05 on Jan 31, 2021

Amnistar
Nov 6, 2008

I am a wizard, not a poet.

Jasper Corrin, Entertainer ♡♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥


"Oh man...the LSD must be kicking in. This is just like the House of the Dead, aim for the head...or...uh oh maybe before going to violence...." Jasper looks up at the ceiling and clears his voice, then says in a deeper voice, clearly his 'action star' persona, "Cal, these people are unwell! We must ensure they make it to the medbay! Your assistance in transporting them there is required!" The actors reaches down and lifts up one of the wrenches from the toolset used by the cheif. "They're about to have pretty bad headaches."

Charm +2 again against Cal to try and convince the A.I. to act against the creatures. Professional Stuntman +2 in the event that they move in close enough to hit them with the wrench he'd picked up.

Valhawk
Dec 15, 2007

EXCEED CHARGE

Joshua Collins♡♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

Joshua feels an intense sense of satisfaction as he looked at the completed AI. "Your name will be Devot, and your purpose is to serve me." Once that last detail was worked out, Josh leaves the VR simulation. He returns to the real world only to immediately regret doing so. He screams at the sight of the monstrosity trying to come through the door. He grabs the storage medium Devot is stored on and looks for a way out of the room.

Naming the AI Devot. Grabbing his storage medium and looking for a way to get away from the zombie.

Deadmeat5150
Nov 21, 2005

OLD MAN YELLS AT CLAN
[quote="Deadmeat5150" post="512117519"]

"Chief" Howard Stanton ♡♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

As the door slides open and the... whatevers come shuffling in, Chief mostly ignores it, trusting in the actor to be able to handle it. Nearly waste deep into the parts of the FTL drive that should only have been accessed while in spacedock, he finally manages to grab the photon focusing lense that is at the heart of all the machinery. He bloodies his knuckles and the hot lense burns even through the heavy protective gloves he's wearing but Chief actually is able to rips the lens out of the system, the ship's safeties kicking on and the entire system shutting down.

"Hah! Take that!"

Chief nearly sets the coconut sized lens down, on a high from the victory, but thinks better of it. One of the maintenance bots could always put the thing back. Instead the shoves the thing into a convenient pouch hanging from the tool harness, not caring about scratching the delicate thing. Hearing the moaning, he finally turns around.

"Hey Corrin! I think I've managed to SWEET MORGAN FREENMAN WHAT ARE THOSE?!"

Thinking fast, Chief grabs a length of hull-grade piping and uses the plasma torch to slice it into a makeshit stabbing weapon.

"Alright you bastards, you wanna play? Let's play!"

Fabrication +2 to create a weapon out of a length of really strong pipe.

I am Communist
Apr 19, 2002

I can show you what endless looks like
I can show you a single infinite thing
I can let you taste the sweet and sour of forever
Unending. Eternal. Inevitable
Taste my darkness
Climb into my abyss
Fall into me. Into my eyes
Look at them. Depths unfathomable
Pain immeasurable
A cruel promise fulfilled

"Chief" Howard Stanton ♡♡♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

plus


Jasper Corrin, Entertainer ♡♡♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥


Teeth. Claws. The sounds of your own voices screaming. Red. Darkness as your vision is stolen by bites. You can hear moaning and one voice.

Cal.

"Oh max all of max, has now eaten my food. What is...? Hmm I suppose coming out that way is bathroom."

Time passes.

Both of you wake in horrible pain as your bodies put you back together. The signs of the horrors are all around you but none are in the room with you. For now.

What do next?



Joshua Collins♡♡♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

The AI is uploaded to the ships and bots [it will not fit on a drive it needs lots of matrix] and as Joshua frame jacks back to normal time and reality. He takes off the goggles. Trying to run from the dozens of figures all either horribly warped or clearly dead.

The rubber VR suit with all of the sensors on it is no match for this minor horde.

Teeth. Claws. The sounds of your own voices screaming. Red. Darkness as your vision is stolen by bites. You can hear moaning and one voice.

Cal.

"Oh max, all of max has now eaten my food. What is...? Hmm I suppose coming out that way is bathroom."

Time passes.

You wake in horrible pain as your body puts you back together. The signs of the horrors are all around you but none are in the room with you. For now.

What to do next?

Deadmeat5150
Nov 21, 2005

OLD MAN YELLS AT CLAN

"Chief" Howard Stanton ♡♡♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

"Just what the hell was that?" Chief moans and rolls over. "Muscles, you with me? Cal, Cal what the hell is wrong with those other peo... uh Maxes? They seem to not be very, uh, Max-like. Actually don't bother, I don't really care since you can't do anything anyway."

The pipe-spear was nearby, not that it seemed to do much.

"Ok so I was planning on landing the ship, but that seems like a terrible idea now. New plan, we need to get comms up and running so we can talk to each other. We also either need to get those... things... off the ship (pile of meat in the airlock maybe? I dunno, could work? They didn't eat us though. If that doesn't work we'll get to find a way to distract them while Cal gets the shuttles loaded. Speaking of. Cal, how many shuttles can we prep for departure? And is there a landing zone designated yet?"

Amnistar
Nov 6, 2008

I am a wizard, not a poet.

Jasper Corrin, Entertainer ♡♡♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

"Okay...definitely a bad trip and probably not real. The LSD in my system must be hitting me harder than I thought...."

Valhawk
Dec 15, 2007

EXCEED CHARGE

Joshua Collins♡♡♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

Josh woke up, it took him a second to get over dying. No doubt it was the mods that kept him from losing his mind from the process. "CAL, can you task drones to load the shuttles?"

I am Communist
Apr 19, 2002

I can show you what endless looks like
I can show you a single infinite thing
I can let you taste the sweet and sour of forever
Unending. Eternal. Inevitable
Taste my darkness
Climb into my abyss
Fall into me. Into my eyes
Look at them. Depths unfathomable
Pain immeasurable
A cruel promise fulfilled

C.A.L.P.E.R.N.I.A (Cal)

"Chief, comms always were online. If you ask me, I can do a lot. Yes I can load the shuttles with whatever you wish."

"The other max_____error_____ were/are concentrating in hydroponics and life support sections. But now that you've awoken are beginning to spread out over the ship."

"No max are in the cryo-pod section."

Answering everyone: "I can load the shuttles. Three shuttles, one for each of you since you communicated with me. All other shuttles and supplies will be reserved for the rest of the crew. Or your return trip should you need more supplies."

"The rest of the crew aren't speaking with me. The are dismantling any internal bots that are actively moving."

"The bots that maintain the outer hull are still functional."

"We can lock corridors and try to keep the rest of the crew not speaking from you. But not for very long. The ship doors were meant for privacy mainly. And not preventing determined opening."

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Deadmeat5150
Nov 21, 2005

OLD MAN YELLS AT CLAN

"Chief" Howard Stanton ♡♡♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

"Alright Cal, what are the options for loading the shuttles? I want to make sure we can survive down there. And are their any crew that are not the, uh, errors? Besides myself, Corrin, and Collins of course."

I am Communist
Apr 19, 2002

I can show you what endless looks like
I can show you a single infinite thing
I can let you taste the sweet and sour of forever
Unending. Eternal. Inevitable
Taste my darkness
Climb into my abyss
Fall into me. Into my eyes
Look at them. Depths unfathomable
Pain immeasurable
A cruel promise fulfilled

C.A.L.P.E.R.N.I.A (Cal)

"Yes as specified earlier."

"All of the cryo-sleeping crew are available to be loaded. Or do you want to wake them now?"

Deadmeat5150
Nov 21, 2005

OLD MAN YELLS AT CLAN

"Chief" Howard Stanton ♡♡♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

"Corrin, you got any ideas? Cal, for now any crew that aren't talking are to be locked down, as long as the three of us that are talking aren't in the room? Ok? Then I want you get a shuttle prepped for me. Load up one of the mass reconstructors that we have, one of the big ones. And make sure I've got at least 3 construction drones and whatever else comes with them."

Chief stood and twirled the pipe spear. "Also make sure that any crew loaded is able to fabricate and build. If we're going to survive, we're going to need other engineers besides myself. We need to get off this ship. I'm not sure how the hell's we've survived so far, but I can tell you it's not drugs. You got that, Muscles? This is real, it's isn't drugs."

Valhawk
Dec 15, 2007

EXCEED CHARGE

Joshua Collins♡♡♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

"Cal, load my shuttle with the requisite crew and the Bio-Printer and Drone Package 2." He had to make his way to the shuttle bay, he did not want to die again it was... too horrific. He tried to balance the need to move quickly with the need to be stealthy.

Heading towards the shuttle bay as quickly and stealthily as I'm able. Ordering CAL to load my shuttle with personnel, Drone Set 2, and Bio-Printer/Analyzer[+2]

Amnistar
Nov 6, 2008

I am a wizard, not a poet.

Jasper Corrin, Entertainer ♡♡♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

"Not sure I agree that it's all real and there isn't some drugs, but we are supposed to be colonizing the planet. We planning on setting up a hub to work out of? Oh Cal, each shuttle can take 12 people right? How many are still in cryo-sleep? And I guess I need to load up a shuttle...fill it up with as many bots as possible, and load up the Recreation Center as well."

I am Communist
Apr 19, 2002

I can show you what endless looks like
I can show you a single infinite thing
I can let you taste the sweet and sour of forever
Unending. Eternal. Inevitable
Taste my darkness
Climb into my abyss
Fall into me. Into my eyes
Look at them. Depths unfathomable
Pain immeasurable
A cruel promise fulfilled

"Chief" Howard Stanton ♡♡♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
Location: Shuttle 1

"Compliance. Lockdown in effect...there is resistance to lockdown but all corridors are now locked. The path to the shuttle is open to you."

1 Shuttle
(12) Crew. 2 Maintenance personnel, 3 construction workers. 2 general contractors, 1 structural engineer, 2 miner technicians.
Mass Fabricator [+2] - The mass fabricator makes basic materials from materials placed into it. This can be rock, water, or other materials and will reconstitute any materials that are not a chemical reactive substance. So not a bomb, but bricks of lead etc.
[Option 3:] [3] Construction Bots, [4] Medium Maintenance Bots, and [6] Small Drones

1 Pipe spear.
16 sets of tools
10 sets of heavy tools
20 prefab homes (fast solidifying rockcrete)
Food rations for 5 yrs.
1 water reclamation unit.


not being too granular



Jasper Corrin, Entertainer ♡♡♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

1 Shuttle

(12) Crew. 2 Chefs. 2 Massage Therapists. 4 Sex workers. 1 Psychiatrist. 1 Therapist. 2 Musicians.
Recreation Center [+2] - VR suite and knowledge archive. Not all knowledge and media are available from the past 500 years due to space limitation.

20 comfortable beds
enough supplies for 5 massage suites
enough supplies for 3 gourmet kitchens
Multiple musical instruments
Food Rations for 5 years
1 Water reclamation unit

[Option 5:] [1] Construction Bots, [16] Medium Maintenance Bots, and [24] Small Drones

Again not being too granular



Joshua Collins♡♡♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

1 Shuttle
(12) Crew. 2 Midwives. 2 Carpenters. 2 School teachers. 1 Clergyman. 2 Gymnasts. 3 Maids/Butlers.
Bio-Printer [+2] - The bio-printer makes organic materials from genetic material and nutrients placed into it. Living tissue, biological matter, and the substinance required to grow. So no metal bars or gold etc, but living stuff.


[Option 2:[ [4] Construction Bots, [2] Medium Maintenance Bots, and [3] Small Drones

1 longhouse (rockcrete)
enough supplies for 1 doctor's office (no doctors) / lab area
enough supplies for 1 school
enough cleaning supplies
1 physical fitness gym
Food Rations for 5 years
1 Water reclamation unit

Again not being too granular

Valhawk
Dec 15, 2007

EXCEED CHARGE

Joshua Collins♡♡♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

Joshua didn't have time to be picky, he made his way to the shuttle, checked that Devot was properly installed. Once he was sure, he ordered an immediate takeoff. There was no telling how long CAL could hold off the creatures, and he wasn't going to be ripped to shreds again. He wouldn't allow it. He could figure out where to land once he was away, once he was safe.

Making a beeline to my shuttle, making sure my AI is installed then blasting off.

Deadmeat5150
Nov 21, 2005

OLD MAN YELLS AT CLAN

"Chief" Howard Stanton ♡♡♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
Location: Shuttle 1

"Cal make sure the long distance communication equipment is in the shuttles too," Chief hollers at the AI as he jogs down the hall. "Corrin, are we in this together or not?"

Amnistar
Nov 6, 2008

I am a wizard, not a poet.

Jasper Corrin, Entertainer ♡♡♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

"Seems like the best bet to survive. And hey, we can make sure each of those houses of yours comes with a comfy bed."

Deadmeat5150
Nov 21, 2005

OLD MAN YELLS AT CLAN

"Chief" Howard Stanton ♡♡♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
Location: Shuttle 1

"Awesome. Follow me and lets hope Collins made it out too."

Chief is hopping in his shuttle and heading down to the planet. Trying to find somewhere with decent water and minerals.

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I am Communist
Apr 19, 2002

I can show you what endless looks like
I can show you a single infinite thing
I can let you taste the sweet and sour of forever
Unending. Eternal. Inevitable
Taste my darkness
Climb into my abyss
Fall into me. Into my eyes
Look at them. Depths unfathomable
Pain immeasurable
A cruel promise fulfilled

"Chief" Howard Stanton ♡♡♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
Location: Shuttle 1

Cal spoke. "Of course mAxChief. Loading equipment and all shuttles are ready for takeoff. Good luck! Your other crew Maaaxes are coming to wish you well towards the shuttle bay!"

The pathway was fought with many detours and perils but you made it to your ship. Barely.

You are now in orbit over the planet. There are flat plains, small deserts and rocky singular mountains. There are patches of woods and forest and water sources in the form of many many lakes appears on the 3d map.

The net is encircling. You leave the ship.



Jasper Corrin, Entertainer ♡♡♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

The pathway was fought with many detours and perils but you made it to your ship. Barely.

You are now in orbit over the planet. There are flat plains, small deserts and rocky singular mountains. There are patches of woods and forest and water sources in the form of many many lakes appears on the 3d map.

The net is encircling. You leave the ship.



Joshua Collins♡♡♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

Joshua checked and found his AIs in residence as the maintenance bots loaded everything as quickly as possible. The banging on the airlock door to the flight bay echoed as inhuman sounds and rhythmic thumping endured.

The pathway was fought with many detours and perils but you made it to your ship. Barely.

You are now in orbit over the planet. There are flat plains, small deserts and rocky singular mountains. There are patches of woods and forest and water sources in the form of many many lakes appears on the 3d map.

The net is encircling. You leave the ship.


CAL

"Goodbye my charges, I did my best. I will keep all the Maxxxxxxxxx heeeeeeerrrreeeeee. Until it is safe. That might be thousands of years from now. The blink of an eye. We are but a thought in the fathomless deeps below, silent sailors on an unknown sea...."

The ship was silent then. The only sounds those of her charges, howling into the void...

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