World 1
AN: An amusing self indulgent riff off the whole SI craze going on. Especially the PA ones. This one has a decidedly different bent of course. This is just for fun and likely won't be updated often if at all. I'm calling it an SI, but it's not really. I'd probably be too lazy to do half the stuff on here 
Mirrored Here: Factory Isolation (SI Multicross)
Factory Isolation / Fan Fic - TV Tropes
Entry 1
I'm writing this more out of a sense of duty than anything else. Putting it in the system so that there's a record when my will cracks or I do something stupid and die. There are other, more verbose entries logged into this fucking thing, but writing things down might at least let the next person learn how screwed they are. If I don't manage anything. Which is more than likely.
First, if you're reading this, I'm likely dead and you're the next victim. Know this right off.
1) You've got a tool and system loosely based on the game factorio. That means you mine stuff, have bullshit compression techniques, and have a miniature factory attached to you invisibly.
2) That means biters exist. Those really annoying things that do nothing more than attack you in the game. They're real, and they're like attack dogs on steroids.
3) Building a rocket will not free you.
It's the last one that had killed the guy who made the first entry in this thing. He launched the rocket, and figured that would let him out. Since it was based on the game that's what it was supposed to do right? There's like one entry after that, and it's not good reading.
For me, I woke up one day on grassland. Had this freaky graphic interface light up over my eyes, and then found I could build things. It was a bit fun at first even. I built myself a miner, and a few fabricators. Even built a research station. Though they're more 'factory administrators' instead of research things. Basically you just need a few otherwise the smart stuff in your factory sort of just putters out or doesn't work at all. It seems to be sort of merged with whatever the hell gives me the ability to gesture and compress things.
So yeah, if this were any other situation this would be pretty cool. This is borderline magical shit. The only thing that makes me say it's not magic is the way the GUI is set up. There's enough logic to it that I'm pretty sure it's technology. Even if the technology is First One bullshit.
The problem is twofold really. One, I'm alone. Humans aren't meant to be alone. I can handle it better than most, but I give a few months at least before I get loopy. Two, I only have guest access to this doodad attached to me somehow. There's no designer, no way of doing AIs or research, and nothing but the standard blueprints that are easily accessible.
This is why I'm a victim, and other people were too. They were pulled in somehow, got this thing attached, and then given no directive. I've counted at least five different entries, and there are probably more from people who didn't bother to write things down. I'd be extraordinarily tempted to do something similar, but I've got a damnable sense of duty, and a stubborn streak a mile wide on certain things.
I'm treating it as a puzzle and a challenge. Giving into despair will only have another person have the same issue. I'd rather it end here, even if I have to find a way to destroy this thing. Since there's no name, I'm going to call it the Seed Factory, or Seed for short. The other entries are less 'polite.' I'll probably be using their names most of the time.
A checklist for me to keep sane with.
1) Read other entries on the Seed
2) Set Up a very small base with automated ammo and supplies
3) Work on jailbreaking the Seed
Entry 2
Depresed from entries. Biters are keeping me up too. Lost a lot of weight, and I don't think it's a healthy amount. The rations that I have are bland and tasteless. Filling, but I struggle to eat them. Going to see if there's a building or shelter in the blueprints. I'm certain I don't have them all, but there are still a lot.
Entry 3
Found a designer! One of the previous entries have it. You have to think 'command line' and then 'Out Manufacture Settings.' Well, it's not really a designer. I know my first entry said there wasn't, but that's only sort of true. You can sort of detail custom outputs. It's an outright horrible tool to use. I think it's mostly meant to do cludge changes. It could be old too, but I have no idea.
There's a few dozen blueprints in here outside the standard stuff. A house, an automated fighting bot, and a bath. All of them are horribly crude compared to the other stuff. I'm guessing they were made by the same person that figured it out. I'm going to play some with it.
Entry 4
I... Don't know how long it's been since my last entry. I'm fairly certain I started hallucinating. At the very least the biters and the lack of other sounds are getting to me. I'm sane right now... I think? Going to reread my other entries and try to do something.
Entry 5
Note to self, even with hyper tech, guns have kick and firing on the move sucks. Lucky I only zinged my foot and not outright destroyed it. An injury likely means death, and I've been really lucky.
Also, apparently I have the shakes. It's one thing to talk about shooting something, and another to do it.
Entry 6
I'm on a time limit. Well, I was always on a time limit, but now I've got another one. In the game factorio, the biters are just sort of there. Even if you really piss them off, they have a cap on how big they get.
These don't. And I've already noticed them growing.
Frankly I expect to be terrified later. Right now it's still not hitting me.
Entry 7
I really want to go home.
Entry 8
Need more. Scared. Bleeding everywhere.
Entry 9
Had a breakdown. Think I blew up something, hard to tell. Don't recall if I had built something in an area.
Waking up with a biter trying to claw down your neck is a really nice way of learning how you react to panic. I get really violent. I think I broke my hand too, but it's numb so it's hard to tell. Found painkiller recipe. It's the goooooood stuff.
Entry 10
Ok, I had a minor water phobia. Now I can't even take baths.
Tip if anyone's reading this, don't go near the water. Biter bioforms in the water don't care about size.
Entry 11
I have some breathing room. Not much. Only about ten walls, and forty turrets. I'm going to need to find another place for iron.
Did I talk about that? The miners here are sort of like the game, but ore's all buried deep. So they just do a loud grinding noise and go down to get it. It's pretty cool since I'm certain that it would require an entire team to get even half what this thing gets.
Sure it needs to be refined, but it's still awesome.
Sort of like the assemblers. They're like 3d printers, but better. They use some weird compression tech to make things that are far bigger than them. Then spit them out in the size of a brick. I can deploy them by waving my hand.
It's awesome, and really useful when you have a small army of things breathing down on you.
Especially since I need new armor now. I think I forgot to clean up. It's hard to tell you know? Days blend together when you're the only one around.
I'm pretty certain I needed to do something else too.
Oh yeah, I need more iron.
Entry 12
Doubled my turrets. Made power armor.
The power armor's nifty. Like it a lot. I only had to replace it twice. Once when a big worm swallowed me. The other when the shield I made got overwhelmed by some spitter things. There was a breach in one of the automated areas.
I've sort of started using the bots I found. They're frankly idiots that crash into walls.
It's better than me running all over the place. I think I can get a full nights sleep for once maybe.
Entry 13
Found designs for base building. Blueprints from previous entries likely. Some of them are pretty organized. I've got flying bots now!
Wheeee! The little flying bots are kinda cute too. I love their chirps. Been trying to get one to sing for me. Better than the biter noises or the damned grinding of the miners.
Entry 14
Chirpy blew up. Didn't do it right, and I shot it.
Entry 15
Really want to go home.
Entry 16
Passed out yesterday. Think from lack of food? Can't think much. Set automation to defend me. Going to rest and force myself to eat. Have managed to dig out a lot of dirt and am sleeping in a hole. The house sucks, and fell over when I kicked it.
Entry 17
I'm sanish now. I think. The rest helped, and while I can still see my ribs, it's not as bad.
I needed to jailbreak the prison thing right? I called it a Factory Seed.
Thought of a way to do it. Had some time to think. Running out of it though.
It's connected to the 'research buildings.' Or at least those buildings that were research ones in the game. The dome things. They're like big computers.
I'm going to build a lot of them. If there's a hard connection, there's probably way to spoof it.
Entry 18
One of the previous victims had a password cracker. Brute force if I remember the name right. Woulda been cute if the main account on this fucking thing wasn't throttled. You can input a password a second. There are a max of twenty characters. Theoretically it'd crack it with time.
I think it'd only do that in a centry or two maybe?
I'm going with my idea. Got enough research buildings that it's most of my base, and my base isn't small anymore.
Hope I manage something. The biters are now so large that normal bullets don't work at all. I'm dipping into rockets, but they're losing effectiveness fast. There's nothing bigger in the blueprints.
Entry 19
I'm not a fighter. It wouldn't matter without the proper tools anyway. The power armor helps a lot, but it's still got it's limits.
The biters are bigger than I can handle easily now. A worm ate a tank I built with me in it.
I'm really lucky I had a tank of 'rocket fuel' in my Seed. The stuff is hard to ignite, but with some desperation it's possible. And considering how much I used, the entire worm exploded.
Needed to replace my suit and the tank was totaled.
Half my base smells like burning flesh. Taken to wearing my suit all the time.
Entry 20
Figured out an exploit to crack the device. The key was the research buildings. I had to have them spam the system with all the commands they could process. The lag sort of caused the thing to crash.
After doing that a few dozen times I figured out how to force it into a safe mode.
I've got a wicked headache from the GUI spamming into my head, but I'm into the system now. It's called a Dimensional Miner's Assistant. So Factory Seed was sort of right I suppose?
It's got a lot of data in it, but none of it useful. From what I can tell skimming, the tools meant to get enough to get the resources into orbit, and defend yourself some. That's it.
There's a lot of data in it again though. I can't parse it all quickly, and I was hoping there was a weapon somewhere.
Entry 21
Fuck.
Entry 22
I want to cry. But crying would mean stopping. I can't. I can only run.
Entry 23
Got some breathing room, and figured out what's powering the biters. It took a long time to figure it out, but I just realized there's no birds. No bugs. Only trees and grass. The biters are connected to it somehow.
It's what gave me the breathing room. I climbed a mountain, and am basically squatting in some snow. No biters or nests nearby.
I'm going to do something stupid.
Entry 24
This was really stupid.
Entry 25
Active volcanos are pretty, even if you're running like hell.
Entry 26
Ashes ashes, we all fall down.
Entry 27
I'm really glad my power armor has it's own air supply.
Entry 28
Oh, now that I've gotten some more room, gonna explain what I did. A lot of the tech I have is pretty black box stuff that I have no idea what to do with. The miners though are relatively simple. They dig holes and bring things up.
Sure they have a lot of complex sensors, and other things, but the core thing is how they dig.
I can make a LOT of explosives. And some of it's pretty future tech. That's including the fact that there are a few fuel types in the database on the DMA that are unique and not part of convensional usage. They have a lot of energy though.
So I brute force adjusted one of the miners. Slapped it down on a mountain, and jammed as much explosive as I could down it.
Some of the biggest and nastiest stuff I could do. Enough that when I was done, half the mountain blew up.
One active volcano made. This would hopefully kill the trees, and kill biters nearby. I can survive without sun and in poisonous fumes thanks to the rations I can have built. The trees can't.
I plan on doing this in several areas. I've got a few macro builders. They can build stuff, and if the biters are away, I can have them build in peace. I'll need to manually build the first one, but when you have the blueprints it's pretty easy. Just need the time and resources.
Entry 29
It worked! No more biters nearby, and factories starting to be built! I've got plans for more volcanos now, and have refined it a little bit. I'm no scientist, but when all you're doing is making explosives remotely, you can afford a few screw ups.
I've got a rather large crater, and have to replace a lot of remote bots though.
Entry 30
I don't think I've talked about the bots much. The ones in the blueprints are outright bullshit things. They can compress, expand, and repair things in an instant. I can set them to deforest half a forest in a moment, and get a pile of lumber a few seconds later. They're also non-combat. The combat ones are nifty, but run out of power quickly, and have to be remade.
They also can follow blueprints really well. And can outright shape terrain to make things easier. They fly, and they do this rather cute little chirp to communicate.
Honestly I like them a lot. They're dumb as a bunch of bricks, but they get jobs done.
The reason I'm talking about them is because if you have blueprints, and an ability to order them, you can make some pretty big things. As in cover a tenth of the world in machinery.
It doesn't sound like much, but this is done by little flesh and blood me.
I've managed to set off several more volcanos doing this, and I think I have enough breathing room to finally read through the data in the DMA.
Entry 31
Well, there's a lot of stuff in here. Mostly tutorials. How to build things. How to adjust things, and how to direct things. Efficiency tips. A few big space freighter creations. Something that sort of boosts containers up into orbit.
Medical stuff too. That I built right off. It needs a massive amount of processing power, but I have that. I'm healthier now than I've ever been. It's basically an automated diagnostic and treatment faculty. Quite powerful, and just as bullshit as the rest of the compression tech.
It even has a few cybernetic things, but those require a medical doctor. There's even a medical tutorial line to eventually learn that I think.
No history. No other entries.
Need to keep looking.
Entry 32
Found dimensional tech. It was buried and seems to have been deleted?
Entry 33
New volcano made. Know why the tech was deleted. Really glad I activated it really far away.
Entry 34
Experimented again, this time after adjusting the tech significantly. Still new volcano. Caught something hitting it from orbit?
Entry 35
Oh, there's a big fucking thing up in the sky and I can't see it. That's the only explanation for what's going on. On the plus side I have a enough volcanos that I'm certain the biters aren't coming back.
I'm not a scientist. I don't know rockets. But I have all this future tech that can boost things into orbit, and an entire world to use resources from.
Lets see if I can get lucky.
Entry 36
I think I should have invested in a bunker. Falling stars are cool, but not when you know they're rockets filled with explosives. One of them got far too close for comfort. And I had to rebuild a factory. Not that big a deal now, I've been able to expand horribly fast now thanks to the lack of opposition.
Entry 37
Hit the big thing. No damage. Need a bigger boom.
Might I just say having a clear goal to work towards makes me surprsingly happy and sane? I don't care how long I've been gone, it's just nice to have a goal. I want some good food so badly. Well and other things. Someone to talk with would be nice.
Entry 38
Need a bigger boom.
Entry 39
Need an even bigger boom.
Entry 40
Made a mini sun! Boom big enough.
I'm finally going to be able to leave this place.
Unfortuantely it's going to be a bit of a one way trip. I'm packing everything I can into a tank, and considering my compression tech, that's a lot, but that's peanuts compared to the amount of resources I have laying around.
The simple fact is this DMA is specialized to mine materials, build buildings to assist in that, and then send it off. If I were to guess it's meant to have a team of people be dropped on a planet and just start building. Then they're picked up and can leave.
The rest is automated to send at times.
So the only dimensional tech blueprint I have is basically a big send portal. I don't even know exactly what it does. Only that it sends things.
Oh there's a lot of tutorials about it but it makes my brain melt. I might be able to get back if I really needed to, but I'd need to remake the entire thing, and it's got some hefty requirements.
The worst thing that could happen is I die. I've attached the password, my blueprints, and everything I could think of to the guest account.
The next person will hopefully be able to progress more.
Mirrored Here: Factory Isolation (SI Multicross)
Factory Isolation / Fan Fic - TV Tropes
Entry 1
I'm writing this more out of a sense of duty than anything else. Putting it in the system so that there's a record when my will cracks or I do something stupid and die. There are other, more verbose entries logged into this fucking thing, but writing things down might at least let the next person learn how screwed they are. If I don't manage anything. Which is more than likely.
First, if you're reading this, I'm likely dead and you're the next victim. Know this right off.
1) You've got a tool and system loosely based on the game factorio. That means you mine stuff, have bullshit compression techniques, and have a miniature factory attached to you invisibly.
2) That means biters exist. Those really annoying things that do nothing more than attack you in the game. They're real, and they're like attack dogs on steroids.
3) Building a rocket will not free you.
It's the last one that had killed the guy who made the first entry in this thing. He launched the rocket, and figured that would let him out. Since it was based on the game that's what it was supposed to do right? There's like one entry after that, and it's not good reading.
For me, I woke up one day on grassland. Had this freaky graphic interface light up over my eyes, and then found I could build things. It was a bit fun at first even. I built myself a miner, and a few fabricators. Even built a research station. Though they're more 'factory administrators' instead of research things. Basically you just need a few otherwise the smart stuff in your factory sort of just putters out or doesn't work at all. It seems to be sort of merged with whatever the hell gives me the ability to gesture and compress things.
So yeah, if this were any other situation this would be pretty cool. This is borderline magical shit. The only thing that makes me say it's not magic is the way the GUI is set up. There's enough logic to it that I'm pretty sure it's technology. Even if the technology is First One bullshit.
The problem is twofold really. One, I'm alone. Humans aren't meant to be alone. I can handle it better than most, but I give a few months at least before I get loopy. Two, I only have guest access to this doodad attached to me somehow. There's no designer, no way of doing AIs or research, and nothing but the standard blueprints that are easily accessible.
This is why I'm a victim, and other people were too. They were pulled in somehow, got this thing attached, and then given no directive. I've counted at least five different entries, and there are probably more from people who didn't bother to write things down. I'd be extraordinarily tempted to do something similar, but I've got a damnable sense of duty, and a stubborn streak a mile wide on certain things.
I'm treating it as a puzzle and a challenge. Giving into despair will only have another person have the same issue. I'd rather it end here, even if I have to find a way to destroy this thing. Since there's no name, I'm going to call it the Seed Factory, or Seed for short. The other entries are less 'polite.' I'll probably be using their names most of the time.
A checklist for me to keep sane with.
1) Read other entries on the Seed
2) Set Up a very small base with automated ammo and supplies
3) Work on jailbreaking the Seed
Entry 2
Depresed from entries. Biters are keeping me up too. Lost a lot of weight, and I don't think it's a healthy amount. The rations that I have are bland and tasteless. Filling, but I struggle to eat them. Going to see if there's a building or shelter in the blueprints. I'm certain I don't have them all, but there are still a lot.
Entry 3
Found a designer! One of the previous entries have it. You have to think 'command line' and then 'Out Manufacture Settings.' Well, it's not really a designer. I know my first entry said there wasn't, but that's only sort of true. You can sort of detail custom outputs. It's an outright horrible tool to use. I think it's mostly meant to do cludge changes. It could be old too, but I have no idea.
There's a few dozen blueprints in here outside the standard stuff. A house, an automated fighting bot, and a bath. All of them are horribly crude compared to the other stuff. I'm guessing they were made by the same person that figured it out. I'm going to play some with it.
Entry 4
I... Don't know how long it's been since my last entry. I'm fairly certain I started hallucinating. At the very least the biters and the lack of other sounds are getting to me. I'm sane right now... I think? Going to reread my other entries and try to do something.
Entry 5
Note to self, even with hyper tech, guns have kick and firing on the move sucks. Lucky I only zinged my foot and not outright destroyed it. An injury likely means death, and I've been really lucky.
Also, apparently I have the shakes. It's one thing to talk about shooting something, and another to do it.
Entry 6
I'm on a time limit. Well, I was always on a time limit, but now I've got another one. In the game factorio, the biters are just sort of there. Even if you really piss them off, they have a cap on how big they get.
These don't. And I've already noticed them growing.
Frankly I expect to be terrified later. Right now it's still not hitting me.
Entry 7
I really want to go home.
Entry 8
Need more. Scared. Bleeding everywhere.
Entry 9
Had a breakdown. Think I blew up something, hard to tell. Don't recall if I had built something in an area.
Waking up with a biter trying to claw down your neck is a really nice way of learning how you react to panic. I get really violent. I think I broke my hand too, but it's numb so it's hard to tell. Found painkiller recipe. It's the goooooood stuff.
Entry 10
Ok, I had a minor water phobia. Now I can't even take baths.
Tip if anyone's reading this, don't go near the water. Biter bioforms in the water don't care about size.
Entry 11
I have some breathing room. Not much. Only about ten walls, and forty turrets. I'm going to need to find another place for iron.
Did I talk about that? The miners here are sort of like the game, but ore's all buried deep. So they just do a loud grinding noise and go down to get it. It's pretty cool since I'm certain that it would require an entire team to get even half what this thing gets.
Sure it needs to be refined, but it's still awesome.
Sort of like the assemblers. They're like 3d printers, but better. They use some weird compression tech to make things that are far bigger than them. Then spit them out in the size of a brick. I can deploy them by waving my hand.
It's awesome, and really useful when you have a small army of things breathing down on you.
Especially since I need new armor now. I think I forgot to clean up. It's hard to tell you know? Days blend together when you're the only one around.
I'm pretty certain I needed to do something else too.
Oh yeah, I need more iron.
Entry 12
Doubled my turrets. Made power armor.
The power armor's nifty. Like it a lot. I only had to replace it twice. Once when a big worm swallowed me. The other when the shield I made got overwhelmed by some spitter things. There was a breach in one of the automated areas.
I've sort of started using the bots I found. They're frankly idiots that crash into walls.
It's better than me running all over the place. I think I can get a full nights sleep for once maybe.
Entry 13
Found designs for base building. Blueprints from previous entries likely. Some of them are pretty organized. I've got flying bots now!
Wheeee! The little flying bots are kinda cute too. I love their chirps. Been trying to get one to sing for me. Better than the biter noises or the damned grinding of the miners.
Entry 14
Chirpy blew up. Didn't do it right, and I shot it.
Entry 15
Really want to go home.
Entry 16
Passed out yesterday. Think from lack of food? Can't think much. Set automation to defend me. Going to rest and force myself to eat. Have managed to dig out a lot of dirt and am sleeping in a hole. The house sucks, and fell over when I kicked it.
Entry 17
I'm sanish now. I think. The rest helped, and while I can still see my ribs, it's not as bad.
I needed to jailbreak the prison thing right? I called it a Factory Seed.
Thought of a way to do it. Had some time to think. Running out of it though.
It's connected to the 'research buildings.' Or at least those buildings that were research ones in the game. The dome things. They're like big computers.
I'm going to build a lot of them. If there's a hard connection, there's probably way to spoof it.
Entry 18
One of the previous victims had a password cracker. Brute force if I remember the name right. Woulda been cute if the main account on this fucking thing wasn't throttled. You can input a password a second. There are a max of twenty characters. Theoretically it'd crack it with time.
I think it'd only do that in a centry or two maybe?
I'm going with my idea. Got enough research buildings that it's most of my base, and my base isn't small anymore.
Hope I manage something. The biters are now so large that normal bullets don't work at all. I'm dipping into rockets, but they're losing effectiveness fast. There's nothing bigger in the blueprints.
Entry 19
I'm not a fighter. It wouldn't matter without the proper tools anyway. The power armor helps a lot, but it's still got it's limits.
The biters are bigger than I can handle easily now. A worm ate a tank I built with me in it.
I'm really lucky I had a tank of 'rocket fuel' in my Seed. The stuff is hard to ignite, but with some desperation it's possible. And considering how much I used, the entire worm exploded.
Needed to replace my suit and the tank was totaled.
Half my base smells like burning flesh. Taken to wearing my suit all the time.
Entry 20
Figured out an exploit to crack the device. The key was the research buildings. I had to have them spam the system with all the commands they could process. The lag sort of caused the thing to crash.
After doing that a few dozen times I figured out how to force it into a safe mode.
I've got a wicked headache from the GUI spamming into my head, but I'm into the system now. It's called a Dimensional Miner's Assistant. So Factory Seed was sort of right I suppose?
It's got a lot of data in it, but none of it useful. From what I can tell skimming, the tools meant to get enough to get the resources into orbit, and defend yourself some. That's it.
There's a lot of data in it again though. I can't parse it all quickly, and I was hoping there was a weapon somewhere.
Entry 21
Fuck.
Entry 22
I want to cry. But crying would mean stopping. I can't. I can only run.
Entry 23
Got some breathing room, and figured out what's powering the biters. It took a long time to figure it out, but I just realized there's no birds. No bugs. Only trees and grass. The biters are connected to it somehow.
It's what gave me the breathing room. I climbed a mountain, and am basically squatting in some snow. No biters or nests nearby.
I'm going to do something stupid.
Entry 24
This was really stupid.
Entry 25
Active volcanos are pretty, even if you're running like hell.
Entry 26
Ashes ashes, we all fall down.
Entry 27
I'm really glad my power armor has it's own air supply.
Entry 28
Oh, now that I've gotten some more room, gonna explain what I did. A lot of the tech I have is pretty black box stuff that I have no idea what to do with. The miners though are relatively simple. They dig holes and bring things up.
Sure they have a lot of complex sensors, and other things, but the core thing is how they dig.
I can make a LOT of explosives. And some of it's pretty future tech. That's including the fact that there are a few fuel types in the database on the DMA that are unique and not part of convensional usage. They have a lot of energy though.
So I brute force adjusted one of the miners. Slapped it down on a mountain, and jammed as much explosive as I could down it.
Some of the biggest and nastiest stuff I could do. Enough that when I was done, half the mountain blew up.
One active volcano made. This would hopefully kill the trees, and kill biters nearby. I can survive without sun and in poisonous fumes thanks to the rations I can have built. The trees can't.
I plan on doing this in several areas. I've got a few macro builders. They can build stuff, and if the biters are away, I can have them build in peace. I'll need to manually build the first one, but when you have the blueprints it's pretty easy. Just need the time and resources.
Entry 29
It worked! No more biters nearby, and factories starting to be built! I've got plans for more volcanos now, and have refined it a little bit. I'm no scientist, but when all you're doing is making explosives remotely, you can afford a few screw ups.
I've got a rather large crater, and have to replace a lot of remote bots though.
Entry 30
I don't think I've talked about the bots much. The ones in the blueprints are outright bullshit things. They can compress, expand, and repair things in an instant. I can set them to deforest half a forest in a moment, and get a pile of lumber a few seconds later. They're also non-combat. The combat ones are nifty, but run out of power quickly, and have to be remade.
They also can follow blueprints really well. And can outright shape terrain to make things easier. They fly, and they do this rather cute little chirp to communicate.
Honestly I like them a lot. They're dumb as a bunch of bricks, but they get jobs done.
The reason I'm talking about them is because if you have blueprints, and an ability to order them, you can make some pretty big things. As in cover a tenth of the world in machinery.
It doesn't sound like much, but this is done by little flesh and blood me.
I've managed to set off several more volcanos doing this, and I think I have enough breathing room to finally read through the data in the DMA.
Entry 31
Well, there's a lot of stuff in here. Mostly tutorials. How to build things. How to adjust things, and how to direct things. Efficiency tips. A few big space freighter creations. Something that sort of boosts containers up into orbit.
Medical stuff too. That I built right off. It needs a massive amount of processing power, but I have that. I'm healthier now than I've ever been. It's basically an automated diagnostic and treatment faculty. Quite powerful, and just as bullshit as the rest of the compression tech.
It even has a few cybernetic things, but those require a medical doctor. There's even a medical tutorial line to eventually learn that I think.
No history. No other entries.
Need to keep looking.
Entry 32
Found dimensional tech. It was buried and seems to have been deleted?
Entry 33
New volcano made. Know why the tech was deleted. Really glad I activated it really far away.
Entry 34
Experimented again, this time after adjusting the tech significantly. Still new volcano. Caught something hitting it from orbit?
Entry 35
Oh, there's a big fucking thing up in the sky and I can't see it. That's the only explanation for what's going on. On the plus side I have a enough volcanos that I'm certain the biters aren't coming back.
I'm not a scientist. I don't know rockets. But I have all this future tech that can boost things into orbit, and an entire world to use resources from.
Lets see if I can get lucky.
Entry 36
I think I should have invested in a bunker. Falling stars are cool, but not when you know they're rockets filled with explosives. One of them got far too close for comfort. And I had to rebuild a factory. Not that big a deal now, I've been able to expand horribly fast now thanks to the lack of opposition.
Entry 37
Hit the big thing. No damage. Need a bigger boom.
Might I just say having a clear goal to work towards makes me surprsingly happy and sane? I don't care how long I've been gone, it's just nice to have a goal. I want some good food so badly. Well and other things. Someone to talk with would be nice.
Entry 38
Need a bigger boom.
Entry 39
Need an even bigger boom.
Entry 40
Made a mini sun! Boom big enough.
I'm finally going to be able to leave this place.
Unfortuantely it's going to be a bit of a one way trip. I'm packing everything I can into a tank, and considering my compression tech, that's a lot, but that's peanuts compared to the amount of resources I have laying around.
The simple fact is this DMA is specialized to mine materials, build buildings to assist in that, and then send it off. If I were to guess it's meant to have a team of people be dropped on a planet and just start building. Then they're picked up and can leave.
The rest is automated to send at times.
So the only dimensional tech blueprint I have is basically a big send portal. I don't even know exactly what it does. Only that it sends things.
Oh there's a lot of tutorials about it but it makes my brain melt. I might be able to get back if I really needed to, but I'd need to remake the entire thing, and it's got some hefty requirements.
The worst thing that could happen is I die. I've attached the password, my blueprints, and everything I could think of to the guest account.
The next person will hopefully be able to progress more.
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