Startup - Getting resources
Seven and a half months later.
"Okay, so I now have these robots, but what do I build first? Hm." "I know! So first they are going to build more miners, so that robots are built faster! I think three will be enough. Then they will build more 3D printers. Yes, so I will make it so for every 3D printer they will build three miners!" "But wait! Wouldn't it be better to make the miners mobile, so that they can go to a new place after using up all the resources in their vicinity?" "Yes, that will be better! So three miners for every 3D printer." – LoA: One of the miners takes one months' worth of resources but the second one only halve of them, the third will be ready in under a weeks' time. – "Perfect!"
"But the moon has not everything I need. I think I should go to Jupiter. It has everything but that will take very long." "It doesn't matter now. It's something for the future me." "I have just realized that this is like an idle clicker game! Hahaha!" "Idk why but I find this really funny."
A few months later.
"So okay now that I have so many resources at my disposal, I think I should find a way to get them off planet [moon]." "Hm. What could I use…" "Ah! I will build a fusion drive! And as fuel I can use water." "Then, what then?" "I could search for more resources on the moon by sending probes to likely places. That's way faster than to drive there." "And I could use them to build a power network in orbit so I can speed things up whit *extremely deadly lasers*! Muahahaha!" "And then?" "I know! So I will use these lasers and send probes to the asteroid belt and use them to turn it into more miners!"
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Stopping test_capsule_011…
Stopped.
Waking test_human_011…
Woken up.
Hello 011. You have slept for 11 years. The reason for this out of schedule wakeup is the detection of radio signals from the moon and far earth orbit. Currently the earth is frozen at -42°C. The energy supply for the capsules will runout in 2939 years. The forecasts say that in about 200 years the temperature will have stabilized itself and in 1500 years will the biosphere.
Awaiting input…
"Could the signal be decrypted?"
Yes, in the first few months. After that it became impossible.
"About what where the signals?"
It where 3D printer blueprints for roboteers.
"To what where they sent?"
From far earth orbit to the moon.
"Hm."
"Initiate communication."
Sending signals…
Waiting…
Answer received.
Communication initiated.
"Hello? Who is there? I am Lew Utselet one of the survivors. We are one hundred people."
"Oh? I am Prometheus an AI made to be your successor."
'What? An AI? Ah, I remember there was this project, so our knowledge survives.' "Prometheus, can you bring us up to you in orbit?"
"No, for this I have to little resources. But I will contact you as soon as I can! How long can you survive on your own?"
"We sleep in cryostasis and our energy supply will last more than 2000 years."
"If that's so then don't worry."
"Okay then bye."
"Bye."
"End communications."
Communications ended.
'Interesting. So we will be saved and don't have to worry about where to stay.' 'I think I will eat something and then go again to sleep.'
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"I have never thought that some humans could have survived." "Hm, I should not trust everything that is in LoA right away." "Doesn't matter now." "Okay, I have to build something whit that I can bring them up to orbit, but that has time." "Yea, I will turn the complete moon to a resource mine and build solar panels which I will send towards the sun and then will make a dyson swarm out of them." – LoA: To turn the complete moon into solar panels will take about 100 years. – "I didn't mean to turn everything to solar panels, maybe only half of the moon. The rest will be turned into factories to build more miners to mine more of the solar system to increase the swarm!" "Oh, yes I know! Better idea! I will add a processor and a data storage space to the solar panels!" – LoA: it will take about 200 years if you include the asteroid belt as well as mercury. – "Yes, I will include these." – LoA: If this project ends your memory and processing power will be nearly infinity times higher. –
15 years later. (16 YaS [= Years after Start])
- LoA: The solar system has been completely surveyed. – "Okay, then what now?" "I will send some probes to the moons of Jupiter that could have life." "Yes, and the mining fleet will disassemble every moon and planet but those that have life on them."
2 years later. (18 YaS)
- LoA: The probes have found microbes at hotspots in Europa's oceans. – "Oh, microbes? What shall I do?" "I could study their way of life by making a complete scan of them and then putting them in a simulation of the Solar system!" "Maybe I could do this also to the humans?" "I'll have to ask them." "At 300 YaS I'll have mined all the planets and added them to the swarm."