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You are a cloud of dust (Riot? Quest)

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6 ZeV Proton said:
The gas is a different story, and quite a bit of it escapes your clutches thanks to there not being quite enough mass (yet?) to hold it together.
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Drat foiled again! Curse you gravity! I figure that star formation is a tad out of reach. Or not possible.

Irregardless
[X] Move to a higher orbit

Gas and H2O, more burning material.
 
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    Turn 2: You are a rising cloud of dust and some more gas
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    • [X] Collect more dust from your home belt: 15.7%
    [X] Move to a higher orbit: 14.5%
    [X] Collapse: 10.6%
    [X] Collect more gas from your home belt: 10.6%
    [X] Move to a lower orbit: 10.6%

    Concordance: 53.7%
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    You scoop up vast quantities of dust from your home belt and grow a lot more substantial. Mmmmmm delicious, crunchy carbon on a bed of savory silicates with a garnish of metal! It's getting slightly easier to hold onto gas too, and you take up some more of it.

    Entertaining grand thoughts of growing larger and perhaps even igniting and rivaling your parent, you begin a slow journey upwards into colder, more volatile-rich bands of material. You're not at the point where there's terribly much ice yet, but that will change if you continue your ascent.

    [ ] Collect more gas
    [ ] Collect more dust
    [ ] Move to a higher orbit
    [ ] Move to a lower orbit
    [ ] Collapse
    [ ] Look around in more detail (Specify target(s). Now unlimited!)
     
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    • [X] Move to a higher orbit

    Rise! I seek ignition, stellar fusion or bust! A binary star system in a cosmic dance of separate or subsumption.
     
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    [X] Look around in more detail (Specify target(s). Now unlimited!)
    -[X] Look for more exotic materials to gobble up!

    I'm especially interested for how/when the 'riot' part of this quest comes into effect.
     
    [X] Collect more dust

    It seems we need more rocks then

    goable said:
    We're becoming a habitable planet, that's the only goal, I'm willing to accept.
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    becoming a star is fun but getting childrens and making them the problem of everyone is the universe is funnier, let's be better than Earth give them all magic or cool powers


    On the question of ice if we let a few asteroids hit us they'll give us just the right quantity of free ice
     
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    • Scheduled vote count started by 6 ZeV Proton on Feb 24, 2024 at 3:22 PM, finished with 15 posts and 14 votes.
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    6 ZeV Proton threw 2 6-faced dice. Reason: Ascend/descend -> eccentricity Total: 7
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    6 ZeV Proton threw 1 6-faced dice. Reason: Exotic materials Total: 1
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    • Turn 3: You are a lump of molten rock and metal with a cloud of dust and gas
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    • [x] Collect more dust: 56.3%
    [X] Move to a lower orbit: 6.3%
    [X] Move to a higher orbit: 12.5%
    [X] Look around in more detail (The Ice): 6.3%
    [X] Collect Energy: 6.3%
    [X] Look around in more detail (Specify target(s). Now unlimited!) -[X] Look for more exotic materials to gobble up!: 6.3%
    [X] Collapse: 6.3%

    Concordance: 73.4%
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    You collect a lot more dust, capturing almost twice your previous mass in dust! Absorbing that much really makes you feel alive, and your slowly growing round, solid core is glowing from the heat released by infalling debris decelerating. It also seems to have picked up some net rotation. You feel you've got enough mass swirling about to capture a pretty thick and interesting atmosphere if that's what you want to do. It feels like anything at least as heavy as carbon dioxide should stick around for a good long while at this point, but if you want to fill it with lighter gases, you might need to gain a bit more mass or move to a higher orbit.

    There was some disagreement on whether to ascend into a higher, cooler orbit or descend back into your nice warm orbit of origin, and your orbit ends up slightly more eccentric and a bit higher overall, but not to the point where your surroundings change much. Free floating ice continues to be a rarity.


    Looking around for more exotic materials or energy to collect, you detect a cloud of unusually warm, dense dust probably enriched with fun, spicy things like very, very heavy elements. Annoyingly, the cloud, though reasonably compact, isn't in a very accessible orbit, and to capture it before something else does, you'd probably need to be quite a bit more motivated (read: 3 vote margin) to intercept it than to move to a higher or lower orbit. It wouldn't be the end of the world if you didn't incorporate the spicy dust; you've probably already gathered enough to have one of those hot, almost liquidy mantles for a very long time.


    [ ] Collect more gas
    [ ] Collect more dust
    [ ] Move to a higher orbit
    [ ] Move to a lower orbit
    [ ] Move to capture the actinide-rich cloud
    [ ] Collapse
    [ ] Look around in more detail (Specify target(s))


    (@Just Some Guy, @Demonic Spoon: Votes added manually)
     
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