Nice. That makes colony planning really easy. Especially since it's a red dwarf. I think we should rule out Niven for further exploration in the short term; our efforts would be better spent elsewhere, and it's too massive for useful industry(edited)
“Greetings, sophonts! You are the commanding AI of humanity’s first Von Neumann probe, designed to explore the stars and make baby probes while doing it! Have Fun and try not to die. Picking Factions United Nations Perk: 10 Billion People, + to probe size Con: Too m...
My knowledge of 'turn two' (or one point five, idk) is basically just sending probes to the other planets in the system, and queueing up surface and atmospheric missions to the other bodies in system. More specifically our short term goal is to further research the Heinlein system, and the possibility of orbital refueling there due to it's high He3 concentration.
Is that about correct @KAL_9000?(edited)
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(it was the first search result, and seems to list the relevant books)
I say we should spend half our resources on making an asteroid mining probe, probably replace the quantum computer we put our fork on (or make a few more, for research), and look at starting on a solar power swarm.
Also a quantum computer necessary for the AI to have free will and self-awareness, because [INSERT REASON HERE] (really otherwise AIs would be dirt-cheap, and that would be bad for game balance)
You could just have them require really powerful nonquantum computers.
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Also, for random real-world background, there are only two companies making (high-performance, actually widely used) CPUs: Intel and AMD, and two making GPUs: AMD and Nvidia. Other stuff (flash storage, mainboards, RAM, whatever else) is made by many more manufacturers. Alienware and whatnot basically just buy parts from them, possibly design their own cases (and mainboards for laptops, to some extent), and add margin.
Come to think of it, we could probably put a lot of computing hardware into the solar power stuff, which presumably has a lot of power and some cooling.
We don't really need weapons much, so that just leaves... everything else.
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Sensors and propulsion are pretty useful, as we're meant to be surveying stuff and whatnot. Mining and power are important for infrastructure, I guess. Computing isn't too much of a problem as the magic computer box™ is only 10 minerals.
So, probably one apartment building for the temporary singles (I think we can afford single person apartments with a bedroom and bathroom, and possibly individual living space, or maybe just purely communal) and some larger residences (probably 3-5bedroom considering the size of families we’re probably expecting), probably still in apartment buildings with co-located recreation facilities
We'd probably want the buildings to also have a lot of internal sealing in case of any issues with the exterior walls. And a lot of spare breathing masks.
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Or we could build underground, but that has problems too.
There's an issue with blasting gigawatts of X-rays through the atmosphere, but I guess you could have a relay beam the power to the surface from the power/laser systems.
We've got the ion efficiency upgrade complete, and the research fork took initiative and started work on better debris shielding, considering the reactor incident
Also, any new computing systems would fit well in the power beaming solar swarm of doom, where there's lots of power and presumably decent networking and cooling.
We should deploy swarms of "computing nodes" (quantum computers around the proto-dyson-swarm) and "mining nodes" (self-replicating miners) with our mineral surplus.
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