Cleaners, which are generally low powered, singular forces, which while they may have high combat power, are limited to merely themselves, and army types, who walk around with armies of alien technology.
While the memo is equally true amongst all the above types, you must never do anything to draw the attention of an army types, under pain of forfeiture of your 401k.
-Internal memo of the neighbor of a corporation that did anger an army type Samurai.
I never knew the appeal of the idol industry, as I only saw its effects on those obsessed with said idols. Standing in front of this blue avatar, I could finally see the appeal.
I pulled up the schematic of the mega building, because, yeah, at this point I was going to buy a floor, maybe two depending on what she could come up with.
If I may, Victor.
Synaptic doesn't have an avatar in this space, but we are all aware that she is there.
Looking towards the future, these AI units can be upgraded into Class III Support units, which greatly increases their capabilities both in real space and the network, while also giving them their own bandwidth to control their own battalions of swarms, or about one thousand units.
I nod,
She flitted between both models, and I could see preliminary notes taking form around them. Then, she turned to me. “Clarifying questions. If I determine a concept would benefit from Catalogs I do not have access to, may I request them?”
“Secondly! I am allowed to freely design any and all parts of the ship so long as it covers the sixteen listed parts? Like drop pods, bomb bays, and reclamation staging areas?”
“Thirdly! For the building, since we need Hydroponics for the ship, we could very easily set up a large farming block to supply either the rest of the building or the rest of the city. How big are you wanting to go?”
That caused me to pause.
“Well, not quite. Preliminary plans show, with Spatial expansion, I could easily quintuple the space of the floor. If you are planning to buy two floors, that would be ten floors worth of space. While water becomes a new challenge, those five extra floors each contain enough space to grow and process enough food to feed about a quarter of the city. If I push the expansion to its limit, we could get seven floors worth of space that could feed closer to half.”
I stand there in silence. I could not process this right now.
She nods her head slowly, “Fourthly, then. Where are you supplying the raw materials from? Depending on how far away the locations are, I will adjust my estimates on how long these projects will take.”
Shit. That's right. I need materials. I could talk to Bud and ask him how he does it, as his meeple mentioned he works by the tonnage normally, he must have a mine or two. Maybe he could help me figure something out. Or maybe I already had a solution.
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“Debris orbiting the Earth. I connected to various monitoring satellites and found a disturbing amount of metals flying at Mach 3 and above. The plan was to launch our own satellite to collect those pieces, containing them between two portals to maintain their momentum, and then releasing them on targets from a danger close range.” She says while tilting her head slightly.
Yeah, okay. That would be wildly efficient and effective against, fuck. Anything on Earth?
I shook my head, readjusting.
Besides it being a Class III technology and a way to launch said portal device from here to the moon or beyond, nothing.
The Portal technology? Class II Power Generation, Class I, II, and III Spatial Coordinates and Anchoring, Class I, II, and III Spatial Coupling. Now, if you are asking about how to get the portals into space, there are a number of methods. Rockets, railguns, space elevators. In fact, there is a single recorded event of the old American Government sending a multi-ton piece of steel into space using a nuclear weapon.
“Exaxtly.” The blue AI chimed in,
Rogal pipes up next. “While feasible, neither of us are designed for long ranged extended combat. You would need a different Commander.”
Ten thousand points and three tokens for the Class III War Swarm Nanite Cloud Catalog, plus Ten thousand points per AI Uplifted. It does require an AI seed program to be uplifted, however.
Sands, that was expensive. But even I could tell how necessary this was going to be. From what I could tell, these guys could only operate within my direct control range, but there may come a time when something interferes with that range, or that I need to send them elsewhere from me. My current range basically covered a few city blocks. What if I need to protect multiple towns?
Rogal and the blue one looked at each other. I needed to call her something, not just blue one.
Once more, I could feel the fundamental shift that occurred. Her smile widened, “That was going to be my fifthly question.”
“And we both agree it should be a Collector Scout Swarm hybrid. Much like how Morrigan is a combination of Fabricators and Recombinant Swarms, these two should provide the new Commander Type the direction it needs if that is going to be its primary function.”
“Oh! Yes, of course I could, but it would be akin to giving a high powered rifle with iron sights to a child and telling them to hit a pear on the other hill. I could do it. But it would not be efficient. You could give me the programming or training necessary to command effectively, of course.”
“An excellent idea, General. It never hurts to have more practice for war before entering battle.” Rogal emphatically agreed.
Unlocked Class III War Swarm Nanite Clouds
Purchased War Swarm Class II AI personality Seed
Purchased Class III Hero Acension Package 2x
Points reduced to 35220
Tokens reduced to 11
Two large boxes appeared on the table in front of the couch. Opening one, I see a large icosahedron with swirling with white fog within.
In order to use the Hero Acension Package, a few things are needed. The first is, of course, an AI personality core inbuilt to a swarm. The second is a number of secondary swarms which will merge with the primary AI swarm. The third is a certain number of specific resources that will be used to upgrade the Class of the Hero Unit's base Swarms to Class III. The second and third conditions are specific to each Hero Unit.
“That doesn't help me right now cause I STILL NEED RESOURCES!” I yell out loud, slamming my hand into the table, denting it severely.
After taking a few feet breaths to calm down, not helped by Morrigan giggling at me while fixing the table, I open a new menu labeled “Hero Acension!”. The menu has a blue background with sixteen bit stars twinkling on it, the border a really cheap gold color. I look to Rogal first. He needs twenty Defence Swarms, five Scout Swarms, two Generator Swarms, and four Builder Swarms, plus a number of materials that I am sure cannot be found on Earth. Micron Encoded Vintanium, Quadralaticed Quantum Quesnicole, Radiant Nutron Quartz, and a few others.
That would be Class III Materials, which, after upgrading a Fabricator Swarm Pair and unlocking the Class III Material Science Catalog, you can even make them!
I fume in silence for a minute, hearing the humor in Synaptic's voice.
What? No please?
I sigh, feeling my tension fade away as I collapsed onto the couch I have been standing in front of.
Thank you. Two thousand points per for the upgrade, and twenty five hundred points and three tokens for the Catalog.
In terms of the raw material cost, yes.
Unlocked Class III Material Science
Purchased Class III War Swarm Fabrication Base Upgrade
Purchase Class III War Swarm Recombinant Base Upgrade
Points reduced to 26220
Tokens reduced to 8
Morrigan went quiet on the network as her swarm dice condensed into its decahedron form. Over the course of a minute, the die shifted into a dodecahedron, and shifted to a more blue silver. When she reawoke in the network, while her avatar didn't change, her presence was stronger.