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You are a cloud of dust (Riot? Quest)

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I think we'll have to find out if we can help them when we make life, like giving them super powers or magic or literally anything

Not that the opportunity will present itself if we turn into a giant ball of fire or a black hole
 
Kaustrios said:
I think we'll have to find out if we can help them when we make life, like giving them super powers or magic or literally anything

Not that the opportunity will present itself if we turn into a giant ball of fire or a black hole
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To me, being a star or black hole is more interesting than being a planet.

One could potentially still bring about life in our system as one too. Off the top of my head: make a satellite a planet, slingshot gas, dust, water, mass to one spot, and blow up after becoming a star or black hole.

Suggesting there won't be any opportunities for X if Y happens is kinda disheartening to be honest. Spitball a little and have a bit of faith that the QM won't go 'Alright you've passed this threshold that I've never told you about, now you're incapable of X and anything related to X' without giving us a heads up.

Sidenote: If I could choose what apex life to put on a planet it wouldn't be mammals or mammal like. Something like sentient dinosaurs, jellyfish, or plantlife.
 
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J.I.M.S said:
Suggesting there won't be any opportunities for X if Y happens is kinda disheartening to be honest. Spitball a little and have a bit of faith that the QM won't go 'Alright you've passed this threshold that I've never told you about, now you're incapable of X and anything related to X' without giving us a heads up.

Sidenote: If I could choose what apex life to put on a planet it wouldn't be mammals or mammal like. Something like sentient dinosaurs, jellyfish, or plantlife.
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This kind of is what I was expecting tbh, since if life happens and the collapse option is still there they all immediately die from a few votes

But I am a bit more of mammals since the warm blood allows them to be more independent, altough cold blooded animals would survive longer even if we fuck them to by collapsing or changing orbit, they're also more dependent on the sun than warm blooded animals

Also if a black hole or a star blows up everything around them is fucked, and there already is a star in the system
 
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    • Scheduled vote count started by 6 ZeV Proton on Feb 26, 2024 at 8:18 AM, finished with 28 posts and 15 votes.
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    6 ZeV Proton threw 1 6-faced dice. Reason: Interesting/unusual thing: Total: 6
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    Turn 7: You are a salty sphere of spicy molten rock and metal and also a disk of dust and gas and a satellite
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    • [X] Collect more dust: 37.5%
    [X] Collapse: 25.0%
    [X] Move to a higher orbit: 25.0%
    [X] Look around in more detail (Anything interesting or abnormal): 6.3%
    [X] Try to snag the small planetesimal similar to the one we just ate.: 6.3%

    Concordance: 74.5%
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    Still hungry for more dust even after consuming a filling snack from above, you begin to drift into cooler, possibly less depleted orbits where lighter, more volatile materials continue to exist in forms more suitable for consumption. You make a lot of progress, but even that next band of material with the small planetesimal still feels far off as a result of your attention being diverted to other matters like making sure to continue taking in dust on the way and incorporating the cloud of dust and gas kicked up by your recent major merger. Currently, roughly half of your mass is bound in your core, with the rest of it orbiting and periodically falling in. Your satellite makes up a tiny fraction of your system's mass, but it dwarfs the dust grains floating about you and takes up a very small amount of what material you haven't incorporated.

    You look around for interesting sights, and find a pretty sharp increase in the brightness/reflectivity of the dust beyond your current target/neighbor. Aside from that, not too much has changed with various planetesimals still slowly forming around your bright but not quite ignited parent.

    The small planetesimal you attempt to capture eludes your grasp for now. It looks like you're about a quarter of the way to matching its orbit never mind arranging close encounters. From here, should you choose to continue ascending, you may choose to ascend aiming for a collision with the planetesimal or ignore it, which will in all likelihood give you a different enough phase that collisions are unlikely to happen. The other usual options are present too, although you do seem to be entering a band of lower density that will cut down on the efficiency of gas or dust collection until you've raised or lowered your orbit.

    [ ] Move to a higher orbit
    -[ ] and aim for a collision!
    -[ ] normally
    [ ] Move to a lower orbit
    [ ] Collect more gas
    [ ] Collect more dust
    [ ] Collapse
    [ ] Look around in more detail (Specify target(s))

    (Manually added votes: @Demonic Spoon)
     
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    • [X] Move to a higher orbit
    -[X] normally

    Second verse
    Same as the first
    Away from icky dust
    Towards gas and ice the most august
     
    [X] Move to a higher orbit
    -[X] normally
     
    [X] Try to capture the small planetesimal by any means necessary

    Moonheads where are you?
     
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