@snow eternal i hope the minds are fine on nauvis if worried.
i really dont see the portal being closed permanently.
i really dont see the portal being closed permanently.
Fabricated Hazards (factorio fanfic)
- Pronouns
- Male
Well shit, hope that Navius evolution power heals our boy at some point down the line.
- Location
- Inside #191F2D
Ah, yes. So basically he's an engineer cultivator finding an ancient artifact left by some last
- Location
- Scotland
You know what he reminds me of? A Warhammer 40k STC that would be aboard one of the 20-21k colony ships.
To summarise, if you don't know of it, STC or Standard Template Construct that we see in the stories are just print outs produced by the real thing. A working one is across between a computer and a 3d printer, able to process, build and generate new designs based on environmental constraints. Ie It doesn't just build a gun, it builds the most efficient gun possible for the given resources at hand. So its basically a super inventor AI system with the collective knowledge of all mankind. So it could build anything within its sphere of knowledge.
Though I would say the Engineer probably has a STC beat on the resilience side of things. Its mere metal, it can't regenerate cumulative damage. Due to the Engineer's semi biological/nano nature he seems rather hard to kill. Well that's assuming you decide against the respawn feature being an actual mechanic at the Engineer's disposal. If he has that he is literally unkillable.
To summarise, if you don't know of it, STC or Standard Template Construct that we see in the stories are just print outs produced by the real thing. A working one is across between a computer and a 3d printer, able to process, build and generate new designs based on environmental constraints. Ie It doesn't just build a gun, it builds the most efficient gun possible for the given resources at hand. So its basically a super inventor AI system with the collective knowledge of all mankind. So it could build anything within its sphere of knowledge.
Though I would say the Engineer probably has a STC beat on the resilience side of things. Its mere metal, it can't regenerate cumulative damage. Due to the Engineer's semi biological/nano nature he seems rather hard to kill. Well that's assuming you decide against the respawn feature being an actual mechanic at the Engineer's disposal. If he has that he is literally unkillable.
Answered questions #47
- Pronouns
- That/Thing
The ship would be the stc your talking about, while the engineer is the copies it would make. The respawning feature would be the pod he was made in, as long as he has one and is connected to his factory it'll just put his consciousness into a newly grown body. He however doesn't have the pod nor does he know how to make it. The pod was destroyed and he wasn't given the knowledge to build one to prevent an engineer grey goo.
The ship quite literally goes around the galaxy dropping of a few engineers, each implanted with different knowledge and functions and a pod to remake them if they die, waits to get resupplied and refueled by those engineers and goes off to its next destination.
If he ever gets advanced cloning tech, beyond just his current ability to clone limbs and organs, he'd be able to respawn.
I wouldn't say he's better than an STC though, he needs a supporting factory rather than just himself. He's a less advanced but more rugged model. Also his tech level is lower than dark age, more like 3rd-5th millennia than 20th
But yeah the engineer is tough, not actually space marine tough out of his armor but anything short of the outright destroying his brain he can fix or heal. And even with the brain destroyed as long as there were still nanites and some tissue left a brain dead clone would probably grow eventually.
Which if the minds managed to get a scan of his brainwaves then the brain dead body could get implanted with the engineers mind. Though it's more likely he would just be dead.
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- Pronouns
- That/Thing
there are now two chapters on my Patreon and both of them have Palisade in them. so the next two chapters are both going to have him.
If only I had a dollar or 5 to spare
Torn over the next arc.
- Pronouns
- That/Thing
So I had a plan for how I wanted this arc to end, and how I wanted the next to start. But a new idea came up and I'm not certain which I'd prefer. Enclosed in the spoiler are the two options I could follow.
Edit- I know this is my story and I can take it where I want, and whatever decision I come too I will follow, but hearing more opinions can only help my writing.
Option A - Hmmmm, I just had a maybe amazing maybe horrible idea. What about an arc that has two main POVS, the engineer going to a new setting trying to find the minds, and the minds going to a new setting trying to find the engineer. Then once they have both 'resolved' their setting they go to another on a quest to find each other.
Option B -That or I could go down my original path and just have them reconnected after a month or two then go into the next setting as a group. I'm torn really.
What would the minds do with the engineer? What would the engineer do without the minds helping him? Interesting narrative questions but something that could be in an apocrypha as well as the main story.
While the engineer and the factory are a package deal, and the story might suffer if they are separated for too long.
If there's any discussion about this make sure to mark it with a spoiler. Or just put option A or B in the replies.
Option B -That or I could go down my original path and just have them reconnected after a month or two then go into the next setting as a group. I'm torn really.
What would the minds do with the engineer? What would the engineer do without the minds helping him? Interesting narrative questions but something that could be in an apocrypha as well as the main story.
While the engineer and the factory are a package deal, and the story might suffer if they are separated for too long.
If there's any discussion about this make sure to mark it with a spoiler. Or just put option A or B in the replies.
Edit- I know this is my story and I can take it where I want, and whatever decision I come too I will follow, but hearing more opinions can only help my writing.
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- Location
- Canton MI
I'd say option B makes more narrative sense, but maybe you continue option A in an alternative timeline if it refuses to leave your muse alone. 🤷♂️
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option A would be better because it will force character development
I would prefer it because I just imagine the minds to be a blank slate without any personality, the same for the engineer
And the option would force the characters to have a goal to pursue
The con is that taking too long to reunite would be too much of a cliffhanger, maybe like 2-3 worlds
option B does the same but the chapter-to-time progression ratio might be too high (for example, 5 chapters and only 5 days has passed)
It's a delicate balance of finding the right amount of chapters to not seem rushed and give proper screen time for each character. And not too long that readers get too bored
I would prefer it because I just imagine the minds to be a blank slate without any personality, the same for the engineer
And the option would force the characters to have a goal to pursue
The con is that taking too long to reunite would be too much of a cliffhanger, maybe like 2-3 worlds
option B does the same but the chapter-to-time progression ratio might be too high (for example, 5 chapters and only 5 days has passed)
It's a delicate balance of finding the right amount of chapters to not seem rushed and give proper screen time for each character. And not too long that readers get too bored
- Location
- North America
Option A as side stories showing the amount of panic the minds and nauvis went through after contact with the engineer was lost: Or the Nauvis POVs
Option B a the main story of a now survival mode engineer that is almost irrational hostile to anything not made from his factory or under his control with the lost contact with the main factory: or the Engineer and other's POVs.
If that doesn't work My vote is option A. I want to see the minds reaction when the bugs stop attacking as nauvis wants the minds to focus all their power into reconnecting with the engineer
Option B a the main story of a now survival mode engineer that is almost irrational hostile to anything not made from his factory or under his control with the lost contact with the main factory: or the Engineer and other's POVs.
If that doesn't work My vote is option A. I want to see the minds reaction when the bugs stop attacking as nauvis wants the minds to focus all their power into reconnecting with the engineer
Orion Zete
[verify weaboo]
- Location
- Malaysia
Option B for main story.
Option A for side story
Option A for side story
Plan B is better since there can be back up of the minds when you return to Nauvis then you did put the android minds on your system where the minds where originally making a part of your servers
And if it better for him to have the android as helpers after your done with this arc.Since yorha android aren't mentally mature he can be their teacher or mentor for their emotional needs since magic is real in this dimension name "Maso energy"
The android understand of them are limited.On the technology side the android are more advance both on the energy side and having pods unlimited ammo. And their antivirus are more advance
And if it better for him to have the android as helpers after your done with this arc.Since yorha android aren't mentally mature he can be their teacher or mentor for their emotional needs since magic is real in this dimension name "Maso energy"
The android understand of them are limited.On the technology side the android are more advance both on the energy side and having pods unlimited ammo. And their antivirus are more advance
- Location
- UK
Option B for me.
I like option A I feel it would provoke character development and would be interesting to see their decision making without each other.
You could just do it for a single setting for each to see how it feels and have them reunite sooner if you don't feel like it's working.
You could just do it for a single setting for each to see how it feels and have them reunite sooner if you don't feel like it's working.
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- Pronouns
- They/Them
Option A
Because, while technologically, logistically, and militarily expanding, both the engineer and the minds have somewhat, uh, stagnated in their mental growth.
I wanna see the minds grow into their personalities, and for the engineer to get some therapy.
I mean, I remember a chapter where the engineer was shown that rescue was too far away and that he's likely dead to the biters if the portal to Nier hadn't appeared.
I wanna see how the engie would develop now that he's sorta kinda safe now, instead of the inevitable death in 3 or so years to the bugs out developing our skills.
Eh, either way, I wanna see engie without his connection to the minds for a bit. Option B works too, but I feel like a month is too short and easy
Because, while technologically, logistically, and militarily expanding, both the engineer and the minds have somewhat, uh, stagnated in their mental growth.
I wanna see the minds grow into their personalities, and for the engineer to get some therapy.
I mean, I remember a chapter where the engineer was shown that rescue was too far away and that he's likely dead to the biters if the portal to Nier hadn't appeared.
I wanna see how the engie would develop now that he's sorta kinda safe now, instead of the inevitable death in 3 or so years to the bugs out developing our skills.
Eh, either way, I wanna see engie without his connection to the minds for a bit. Option B works too, but I feel like a month is too short and easy
Option B, with a side story of how the minds are reacting to being cut off from the engineer.
Not only because that makes much more narrative sense at this point, but also because splitting the story into multiple storylines will cut down on the time spent, and satisfaction, with either.
Not only because that makes much more narrative sense at this point, but also because splitting the story into multiple storylines will cut down on the time spent, and satisfaction, with either.
Exactly my thoughts
you could have the new setting opened the same time as the reconnection to create the issue of sorting thing out while figuring out the new one.
Snippets pt.4
- Pronouns
- That/Thing
The orb (all)
Ruby didn't go to the engineers workshop that often, most of the time they just worked with her in the classes workshop. But when she needed maintenance on her new cybernetics she needed to head down into the workshop so he could take a look at it in the clean room. Which meant that she was down there every other week or so, as long as nothing went wrong.
But her power output had dropped by a third of a percent so she had decided to get it checked out, none of the diagnostics said anything was damaged but a second look with better scanning equipment would help. And if she did need something fixed she'd already be in the room.
The door to his workshop was in one of the bunkers it was an odd machine in the middle of the room, and the door didn't actually lead anywhere, it was just a door in a frame not even on a wall, but when you turned the machine in the room on and opened the door it would open up to room filled with turrets, and that room had a hallway connected to his workshop.
It was a teleporting door and ruby still wasn't over how cool it was, he had figured out how to make it by looking at semblances and hers in particular had been a big help, though moving around with all those sensors had been difficult.
The teleporting doorway was already being sold by the engineers company, and she was getting a small portion of the profits, letting her afford so many new weapon modifications and ammunition types.
The doorway lit a green light showing that she was authorized to enter and she walked through, the turrets on the other side scanned her again and then the door to the workshop unlocked. One time ruby had entered carrying a backpack, and apparently she had tricked the weight sensors into thinking she was an intruder and one of the engineers teammates, 2B, had to come turn off the shield keeping her trapped.
Now the other side of the portal had a little scale she put things she was taking with her on so the defenses would know how much she was supposed to weigh.
The engineer wasn't actually in his workshop, but his giant of a son, Ruby assumed he was adopted and swore that the kid looked older than the engineer, and 9S were in the workshop. And they were both looking at an odd silver orb that was floating over one of the tables. She watched 9S poke it with a screwdriver only for the screwdriver to wrench itself from his hand and start orbiting it.
"Hey guys! What's that? And have you seen the engineer anywhere? I need him to take a look at something" her sudden voice seemed to startle 9S but Palisade only shrugged at her questions before speaking "he left a few minutes ago and he'll be back soonish, and we have no idea what this is, it's just some sort of floating orb" as soon as he finished speaking the screwdriver stopped orbiting and fell to the floor, only for the orb to start pulsing in light. 9S picked up the screwdriver and put it under a scanner, neither of them seemed concerned that the orb was pulsing at a slowly increasing rate. Ruby decided she was going to be concerned about it if no one else was "is it supposed to be doing that? Should we be worried? What if it explodes?"
9S spoke this time "it did the flashing thing like four minutes ago, and it isn't putting off any radiation besides the visible light and no energy buildup inductive of a detonation. So it's probably fine"
By now Ruby was standing next to Palisade, only coming up to the giant's waist and she was staring at the orb. The flashing light was bright but it didn't seem to hurt her eyes or leave spots in her vision. "What happens if we poke it while it's flashing?" At her question Palisade grabbed a glove and a second screwdriver, put the glove on and then poked the orb with the screwdriver. Immediately the screwdriver caught on fire but didn't seem to burn, the flame spread from the screwdriver and covered the orb, pulsing in time with the light, the flames vanished when the screw driver was removed, there hadn't been any heat.
Palisade took off the glove "it does that, don't know what that is, but the flame isn't hot, it doesn't burn, and it isn't formed from gas or energy fields." the orbs pulsing slowed to a stop and it started to spin on its axis, Palisade and 9S stepped away from the table. "Did the engineer tell you what it was for?" 9S grimaced and Palisade laughed, it was 9S who spoke "he… doesn't actually know. He just got… drunk, and built it" ruby being ruby focused on the entirely wrong part of that sentence "he got drunk! That's against school rules! And the law!" Palisade started laughing harder before speaking "not on alcohol, just some fluids that enhance his cognition or something, but he can't really remember what he does while on them" ruby watched as the orb kept spinning faster and faster, causing the room to get a slight breeze that just kept picking up, small arcs of electricity began to come off of it. "So no one knows what it does?" Palisade nodded, "yeah but we will figure it out, eventually"
One of the screwdrivers on the table started to roll closer to the orb as the wind pulled at it, and it came in range of the arks of electricity, one of the arks hit it and the screwdriver started to slowly float and come apart, now ignoring the wind. Eventually small bubbles of plastic and metal were just floating over the table, all that was left of the screwdriver. "Would it do that to a person?" 9S shrugged, "the engineer left to go get a steak, we were going to test that." Ruby took a few more steps back, Just to be safe.
Eventually the spinning slowed down and the wind died with it, the energy lingered a while longer but it disappeared too, but then the orb started growing larger, which ruby thought was a little more concerning. Palisade and 9S kept scanning the orb but they didn't get any readings off of it, it just scanned like a hunk of silver.
One that was apparently floating and growing for no good reason. It rapidly grew over a few seconds before it started to split apart into two orbs. Ruby was beginning to think it would be a good idea to come back later. Both of the orbs started to fade out of visibility until they couldn't be seen. Considering both Palisade and 9S hadn't seemed concerned about the self replication or the disappearing act Ruby decided to ask an important question, "has the orb duplicated itself before? Or was that new? And is it still here?". Palisade shook his head, "the orbs are still there, but no they haven't done that before. It's fascinating, where are they getting the material?"
Ruby decided she could get her reactor looked at a different day, just in case.
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Titan (warhammer 30K)
Palisade was more than a little concerned by the maniacal laughter coming from his connection to the engineer. They had been working on this project on and off for a few months now and it was finally finished. The hanger they were standing in was massive, but there was only one thing within it. A 120 meter tall mecha, made out of metal and plants, with biter chitin as armor. It had 4 arms, each more weapon mount than limb and it was covered in dozens of massive weapons. Rather than standing on two legs like a man it had four granting it greater stability.
Its legs were covering an area of 80 meters, giving it a wide enough base that it would be nearly impossible to topple without picking it up and knocking it over, not that anything would be able to move the massive monstrosity. Isha had even installed defenses against psyker and warpspawn attacks. The plants granted it a nearly unprecedented level of self repair, as long as its main torso was mostly intact the mecha could regrow entire limbs.
It genuinely had more durability and firepower than their battleships, and those were far larger than this behemoth. Even just the shock waves and radiating heat of a full volley would be enough to kill everything living within miles, not even counting the defenses and scores of drones and smaller machines it could deploy and manufacture.
More than capable of surviving drop from orbit this beast would serve as a mobile war base and factory, making the troops it would need to fight on a planetary scale and keeping anyone inside safe from all but planet destroying weapons. And even then it would need to be a planet cracker, not just something that destroyed the atmosphere.
This thing wasn't practical in the least, but it was never meant to be. It was a statement. Something at the pinnacle of what they could build working together, and it was a beast. Even through the few fights he had already waged on the great crusade he had yet to see a fortress or force this thing would be unable to beat, and Palisade doubted anything but dark age tech, Necrons, or weapons from the war in heaven could challenge it, and most of those considered weapons that could detonate a planet as childsplay.
Not even the dark gods would be able to topple it, and that was the creations true prey of choice. A true super predator for creatures of the warp. Showing the mortals and gods were not toys or tools, but threats that could bring them to an end. It would teach the warpspawn to fear, and they would quake at the sound of its battlecry.
Those of Nauvis did not fear the warp, they never would, and soon it would learn to fear them.
AN -
another snippet thing. though the next two chapters are larger.
comments and reviews feed me.
Ruby didn't go to the engineers workshop that often, most of the time they just worked with her in the classes workshop. But when she needed maintenance on her new cybernetics she needed to head down into the workshop so he could take a look at it in the clean room. Which meant that she was down there every other week or so, as long as nothing went wrong.
But her power output had dropped by a third of a percent so she had decided to get it checked out, none of the diagnostics said anything was damaged but a second look with better scanning equipment would help. And if she did need something fixed she'd already be in the room.
The door to his workshop was in one of the bunkers it was an odd machine in the middle of the room, and the door didn't actually lead anywhere, it was just a door in a frame not even on a wall, but when you turned the machine in the room on and opened the door it would open up to room filled with turrets, and that room had a hallway connected to his workshop.
It was a teleporting door and ruby still wasn't over how cool it was, he had figured out how to make it by looking at semblances and hers in particular had been a big help, though moving around with all those sensors had been difficult.
The teleporting doorway was already being sold by the engineers company, and she was getting a small portion of the profits, letting her afford so many new weapon modifications and ammunition types.
The doorway lit a green light showing that she was authorized to enter and she walked through, the turrets on the other side scanned her again and then the door to the workshop unlocked. One time ruby had entered carrying a backpack, and apparently she had tricked the weight sensors into thinking she was an intruder and one of the engineers teammates, 2B, had to come turn off the shield keeping her trapped.
Now the other side of the portal had a little scale she put things she was taking with her on so the defenses would know how much she was supposed to weigh.
The engineer wasn't actually in his workshop, but his giant of a son, Ruby assumed he was adopted and swore that the kid looked older than the engineer, and 9S were in the workshop. And they were both looking at an odd silver orb that was floating over one of the tables. She watched 9S poke it with a screwdriver only for the screwdriver to wrench itself from his hand and start orbiting it.
"Hey guys! What's that? And have you seen the engineer anywhere? I need him to take a look at something" her sudden voice seemed to startle 9S but Palisade only shrugged at her questions before speaking "he left a few minutes ago and he'll be back soonish, and we have no idea what this is, it's just some sort of floating orb" as soon as he finished speaking the screwdriver stopped orbiting and fell to the floor, only for the orb to start pulsing in light. 9S picked up the screwdriver and put it under a scanner, neither of them seemed concerned that the orb was pulsing at a slowly increasing rate. Ruby decided she was going to be concerned about it if no one else was "is it supposed to be doing that? Should we be worried? What if it explodes?"
9S spoke this time "it did the flashing thing like four minutes ago, and it isn't putting off any radiation besides the visible light and no energy buildup inductive of a detonation. So it's probably fine"
By now Ruby was standing next to Palisade, only coming up to the giant's waist and she was staring at the orb. The flashing light was bright but it didn't seem to hurt her eyes or leave spots in her vision. "What happens if we poke it while it's flashing?" At her question Palisade grabbed a glove and a second screwdriver, put the glove on and then poked the orb with the screwdriver. Immediately the screwdriver caught on fire but didn't seem to burn, the flame spread from the screwdriver and covered the orb, pulsing in time with the light, the flames vanished when the screw driver was removed, there hadn't been any heat.
Palisade took off the glove "it does that, don't know what that is, but the flame isn't hot, it doesn't burn, and it isn't formed from gas or energy fields." the orbs pulsing slowed to a stop and it started to spin on its axis, Palisade and 9S stepped away from the table. "Did the engineer tell you what it was for?" 9S grimaced and Palisade laughed, it was 9S who spoke "he… doesn't actually know. He just got… drunk, and built it" ruby being ruby focused on the entirely wrong part of that sentence "he got drunk! That's against school rules! And the law!" Palisade started laughing harder before speaking "not on alcohol, just some fluids that enhance his cognition or something, but he can't really remember what he does while on them" ruby watched as the orb kept spinning faster and faster, causing the room to get a slight breeze that just kept picking up, small arcs of electricity began to come off of it. "So no one knows what it does?" Palisade nodded, "yeah but we will figure it out, eventually"
One of the screwdrivers on the table started to roll closer to the orb as the wind pulled at it, and it came in range of the arks of electricity, one of the arks hit it and the screwdriver started to slowly float and come apart, now ignoring the wind. Eventually small bubbles of plastic and metal were just floating over the table, all that was left of the screwdriver. "Would it do that to a person?" 9S shrugged, "the engineer left to go get a steak, we were going to test that." Ruby took a few more steps back, Just to be safe.
Eventually the spinning slowed down and the wind died with it, the energy lingered a while longer but it disappeared too, but then the orb started growing larger, which ruby thought was a little more concerning. Palisade and 9S kept scanning the orb but they didn't get any readings off of it, it just scanned like a hunk of silver.
One that was apparently floating and growing for no good reason. It rapidly grew over a few seconds before it started to split apart into two orbs. Ruby was beginning to think it would be a good idea to come back later. Both of the orbs started to fade out of visibility until they couldn't be seen. Considering both Palisade and 9S hadn't seemed concerned about the self replication or the disappearing act Ruby decided to ask an important question, "has the orb duplicated itself before? Or was that new? And is it still here?". Palisade shook his head, "the orbs are still there, but no they haven't done that before. It's fascinating, where are they getting the material?"
Ruby decided she could get her reactor looked at a different day, just in case.
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Titan (warhammer 30K)
Palisade was more than a little concerned by the maniacal laughter coming from his connection to the engineer. They had been working on this project on and off for a few months now and it was finally finished. The hanger they were standing in was massive, but there was only one thing within it. A 120 meter tall mecha, made out of metal and plants, with biter chitin as armor. It had 4 arms, each more weapon mount than limb and it was covered in dozens of massive weapons. Rather than standing on two legs like a man it had four granting it greater stability.
Its legs were covering an area of 80 meters, giving it a wide enough base that it would be nearly impossible to topple without picking it up and knocking it over, not that anything would be able to move the massive monstrosity. Isha had even installed defenses against psyker and warpspawn attacks. The plants granted it a nearly unprecedented level of self repair, as long as its main torso was mostly intact the mecha could regrow entire limbs.
It genuinely had more durability and firepower than their battleships, and those were far larger than this behemoth. Even just the shock waves and radiating heat of a full volley would be enough to kill everything living within miles, not even counting the defenses and scores of drones and smaller machines it could deploy and manufacture.
More than capable of surviving drop from orbit this beast would serve as a mobile war base and factory, making the troops it would need to fight on a planetary scale and keeping anyone inside safe from all but planet destroying weapons. And even then it would need to be a planet cracker, not just something that destroyed the atmosphere.
This thing wasn't practical in the least, but it was never meant to be. It was a statement. Something at the pinnacle of what they could build working together, and it was a beast. Even through the few fights he had already waged on the great crusade he had yet to see a fortress or force this thing would be unable to beat, and Palisade doubted anything but dark age tech, Necrons, or weapons from the war in heaven could challenge it, and most of those considered weapons that could detonate a planet as childsplay.
Not even the dark gods would be able to topple it, and that was the creations true prey of choice. A true super predator for creatures of the warp. Showing the mortals and gods were not toys or tools, but threats that could bring them to an end. It would teach the warpspawn to fear, and they would quake at the sound of its battlecry.
Those of Nauvis did not fear the warp, they never would, and soon it would learn to fear them.
AN -
another snippet thing. though the next two chapters are larger.
comments and reviews feed me.
- Location
- North America
i will imagine that the "titan" is a super uber version of the Spirit of Mother Will but with anti that cannons and 3 to 5 times larger
TheOmnimercurial
Dragon Bard
- Location
- UK
I love the weird eldritch silver orb!