Ai dm session #92898 | dri-ai | for ivegotnolife

[Ivegotnolife]

It seems I can't weaken them with hypoxemia before ejecting them for the XDCD's skeet shooting practice.

I have the XDCD prepare itself for whats to come, then open the outer air lock doors rapidly, before opening the inners to forcibly decompress the escape pods cabin, and blast the occupants out into space for the cannon drone to dispatch from it's vantage point.

 

[immortalartisan]

The air lock doors come flying off and the sheets impact with nearby debris. A strange bear sized creature emgerges https://rimworldwiki.com/wiki/Megaspider (what is looks like not the same function). The XCDCD drone fires a wheels at it. It’s sensors are temporarily blinded by it. A couple seconds pass and the fire ball ceases. The creature notices the drone and it’s still alive only slight singed by the fire. The drone is 40ft from the creature now.

 

[Ivegotnolife]

I set the incindiary rounds to to delay ignition till 10 seconds after penetration, and target the head, mouth, and eyes.

 

[immortalartisan]

You can’t reprogram the mechanically activated shells. The creature pushes its self of the pod and forwards the drone. It is now 35ft away. A second creature emerges from the escape pod.

 

[Ivegotnolife]

I have the drones move to the side so the creature's inertia will cause it to shoot passed them towards open space, where I'm hoping for lack of maneuvering thrusters it will just continue to drift out of control.

I have the drone conserve it's ammunition, and concentrate on evasive measures.

 

[immortalartisan]

The other creatures jumps off the pod and crashes into the other so they both are able to latch onto pecios of debris. They begin jumó between chuncks slowly to get to the drone. The creatures are no 33 ft away

mind @ ing After a post me for my own ego and also so I can quickly check myself?

 

[Ivegotnolife]

@immortalartisan

I have the drones move amongst the debris away from my position, tracking the creatures' movement vectors to avoid being caught between objects they are bouncing off of. I have the sensor drone help to map the area with it's long range sensors feeding info to the XDCD, Salvage drone, and myself.

Can we wear the creatures down or lure them to open space perhaps?
So the XDCD's rounds are not delay programmable?

I send visual data of the creatures to Tacky to see if she can confirm they are what attacked the ship.

 

[immortalartisan]

The data is neing save to your storage drives now.

Your not entirely sure if they can get tired nor are you sure they would go out into empty space on their own.

No the shells explode upon contact via mechanical triggers built into it.

“Yep those are the things that slaughtered the crew.”

 

[Ivegotnolife]

@immortalartisan

Taking into consideration the drones' speed and ability to travel long distances in relatively short time spans I have them continue to dance among the debris with the creatures while maintaining their distance and counter tragectories.

We'll see how long they can stay this lively without oxygen.

 

[immortalartisan]

They continue to do this for 8 hours..... they don't show any signs of slowing down any time soon

 

[Ivegotnolife]

@immortalartisan

"Man Tacky, they just keep going, and going, if I could get them in a hamsterball spun generator my limited power supply issues would be over!"

 

[immortalartisan]

“Angela any more thoughts you could’ve handled a ship over run by them?“

 

[Ivegotnolife]

@immortalartisan

"Are we certain they aren't more borg, then bug?"

I start scanning for wireless communication link signals between the creatures.

 

[immortalartisan]

“What”

You can’t pick up any kind of signal

 

[Ivegotnolife]

@immortalartisan

I need some sleep. And time to strategise, I'll talk more later! 😃

I scan for any type of electromagnetic field based communications. and watch for telltale gestures, and visible signals that could telegraph their actions. (Since audible communication is useless in the vacuum of space perhaps they are able to transmit by EMF, and energy based methods to coordinate their movements?)

I send out a buffer field to block the signals from the planet.

 

[immortalartisan]

You can’t pick up any kind of signals between the two creatures.

 

[Ivegotnolife]

@immortalartisan

How far are they from the starting point, and my location now?

I have the drones weave and loop around working around the perimeters and far sides of large chunks of wreckage so the creatures can't just bounce about like pinballs between the parts, and have to actually creep, climb, claw, and scramble in their efforts to move around to the far side of the wreckage while attempting to catch the drones. I also have them work in the creature's blind spots to keep them spinning in circles to up their confusion. While the drones are on the far side of objects I have the sensor drone feed live sensory data from it's POV, to the dancing drones to prevent the possibility the bugs may attempt a fake out, or ambush maneuver when they think the drones can't see them.

Do they seem to be wearing down at all?
How much ammo does the XDCD still have?

I thermal scan the bugs looking for hot zones that may indicate thinner Carapice, or organelles that produce heat from exothermogenicly reactive chemicals that allow creatures that would normally be exotherms to regulate their own body temperature in a cold environment. I also watch for areas that appear cooler, that may indicate chambers they may use to store air for breathing, and to counteract decompression in the vacuum of space where other life forms would pop like zits!

I bounce scanner array discharge, microwave, and high frequency radio bursts off debris to hit the bugs from different angles to see if they can detect those signals.

 

[immortalartisan]

Roughly 300ft.

And as they are forced to grab onto larger ship chunks they seem to become faster and in fact come closer to catchIng up with the drone roughly 20 ft now.

They don’t seem to be tiring at all.

Roughly 6 ICD shells are left.

You can’t detect any cooler areas in fact the bugs are significantly colder then the surrounding space almost like living rocks.

No reactions as they continue to chase after the drone.

 

[Ivegotnolife]

@immortalartisan

Only 300ft? I would have thought they'd be further in 8 hours of hopping, and scrambling.
It doesn't seem they're anything like the 'slow' creatures mentioned in the discription posted earlier if they can keep up with a thruster equipped drone that could travel +100 miles in less then a day, or are the drones still going easy on them during this game of tag? 🤔

How many rounds do the XDCDs carry originally?
Did it use up all it's rounds in the first burst, or was it running low from the moment of our first encounter?

Are the bugs trying to use that black goo spray to attack, are they holding back on it's use because of the zero grav, or was the corrosive goo actually remnants of a deceased bug bodily fluids?

If the bugs are living up to their cold blooded nature now, how did they have a detectable heat signature through the walls of the escape pod? Unless they showed up as a cooler area because they absorbed the heat from their surroundings.🤥

I start scanning the area for wreckage that could present a opportunity to trap the creatures.

 

[immortalartisan]

I did not say anything about the, being slow. That was them traveling in open space they are being really slowed down by having to avoid debris and such.

The normally carry 150 rounds at max with compact HE shells. And it was already running out of ammunition.

You are not entirely sure on that.

I apologize a couple processing errors seem to have swapped hot and cold

No near by wreckage would be suitable