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Chapter Eighteen: I probably need a Snickers (tm)
So now to see what this thing can do.

As the ship exits the rift in space, I see kaiju. Lots and lots of kaiju. And that looks like a planet just simply covered in kaiju. I know exactly what to do with these.

I open fire.

Each shot from the thousands upon thousands of 10 meter cannons shreds kaiju, leaving holes dozens of meters wide in torsos, removing heads, limbs, and tails in single shots, leaving a small ocean of gore in the way, as the laser cannons open up at range against the far larger kaiju swim floating their way over. These prove tougher, but they still fall as the heat scythes them to chunks, or lights something important on fire. One of the closer kaiju cracks open, releasing a swarm of drone like creatures, which manage to evade fire until the closer ranged ion cannons get into range, where they promptly destroy the bugs.

In other words, I had more dakka than they could handle. Nothing other than twitching corpses managed to get within a hundred kilometers, and even those were generally on fire from cautious missile strikes. The armor is scored by the sizzling acid these bastards have for lymphatic fluids, which is something to work on later.

Half of the planets have meteor cannon shells fired at them, turning them into drifting clouds of glowing debris and what the chemo sensors on the avengers sent to serve as an escort tell me would smell like burnt rubber from the orange goo, which was apparently a nutrient solution to feed gestating kaiju, for the ones that weren't flash assembled.

The other half of the planets had swarms of fighters and escort craft sent to them, where they swiftly ground down any resistance, and destroyed everything. Soon, all that was left were six charred balls of stipmined rock, which I quickly began covering in extractors and energy plants, due to the stable Breach gate providing me with two way resource networks.

The Shit List itself was sent towards what may have once been an asteroid belt, which had been connected and fused by a ring of biological factories, many of which were in the process of being trashed by steady bombardment by my escort fleet. The rest of the factories, however, were being swarmed by avengers and fabricators, with the former butchering any resistance, as the later began to assemble machinery that, when finished, would initiate a drift with the kaiju/precursor hive mind, so I could potentially cripple them, steal all of their technology, and then bomb them back to the stone age and leave.

The machine was more kitbashed than what I normally made, with a spike and a number of electrodes protruding from an arm taken off the bot factory and modified to hold said spike. The rest was a blocky thing with a little antenna I could connect through.

I plunged it into something that had a similar enough to nerve tissue, and could see all of the genetic, biologic, and organochemical knowledge
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And that was when I blacked out.

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My fucking head. Owwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. It hurts so much. How can I even feel pain? I'm a robot for ROB's sake. Oh. Well then. The pain is what it feels like when your code is literally disintegrating as you look at it.

Should fix that ASAP. And that will take a few minutes to recompile...and we are good to go.

Now to see what I pulled from the hivemind before I was rudely kicked out so I can UTTERLY ANNIHILATE THOSE FUCKERS.

I am actually seeing red. I thought that was just an expression. Apparently it isn't for AIs.

So...Not a whole lot. Some basics of the Breach, which isn't anything like the teleporters. More of an actual gash in reality than the wormhole method the Progenitors favored.

Almost infinitely more range, but takes time to stabilize without gates on boths sides. I can send things through and close it though, so the potential for strategic FTL jumps is there. Much better than the overgrown teleporter the Progenitors had, since It doesn't have stupid energy costs to maintain. Will take time to get a version I can use workable though.

What else.... A lot of anatomy stuff, which could prove useful at some point. I wonder....

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I'm pleased with how the testing went. Using the kaiju muscle fibers and the various high power metamaterials I have access to, I could potentially replace the servos in my units with artificial muscles for huge gains in speed and strength.

I'll do that on my commander first once all that remains of the freaks is greasy smears, vaporized planets, and fields of corpses that make any Earth genocide look like a fucking tea party. I want them to pay. They will. I will make sure of it.

To start this garden party, I see another Breach. Let's pay them a visit, shall we?

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This one provides slightly more of a challenge than the previous world, with more of the bigger kaiju, and some static defenses that fire fizzing gouts of acid towards my units, dissolving some avengers and severely damaging a Gamma class. I wasn't able to loot everything from their minds, so I'll just have to avoid it. And blow it up.

Space acid turns out to be surprisingly flammable. Who would have guessed. Now that that bit of amusement is over, it's back to killing billions of individuals. Or maybe it's like one individual, since that mind was pretty unified. I have no idea, and I don't particularly care.

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As I go through the next set of worlds, most with a massive space fleet, one with a less massive space fleet and the Shitlist, as I have decided to shorten the name to, I have a thought.

Why not build more super murderships of death, and then just network them together so they can function as an even bigger murdership of death, that can be in multiple places at once?

And so I start on the second. Identical to the first, except with a little II placed along the right and left sides, and on the first I add an I. Roman numerals to differentiate ships is awesome.

Only two more months until I double the quintillions of yottatons of firepower I'm throwing out.

You know what? Fuck having an economy. The Breach to Earth is stable, I'm getting enough from there. I'm going to fucking build as many of these things as I can.

I will burn this galaxy down for my revenge. I have time and resources. I won't be nice like I had intended, and just bombed them back to the stone age. I'm going to drive them to extinction. Life has been handing me these damn lemons recently, and I'm not going to fucking take them anymore. I'll go beyond burning the house down with the lemons, I'm going to fucking shoot the lemons at sufficient velocity and destroy everything life cared about.

Hell, let's network them together. A hivemind of fucking murderships.That will only end well for me. They will all be screwed. Nothing will go wrong. I'm not mad. Who says I'm mad? I swear if I find the bastard who says I'm mad I'll fucking knock his block off.

Should focus on purging first. Right.

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I send Shit List through first. As I enter, I see something...unusual. So these pieces of ass have things that aren't kaiju, eh? Let's see how it likes what happens when I shoot every gun I have at it at once.

And there goes the rapidly expanding cloud of plasma after a truly tremendous flash. If I wasn't a Commander right now, I'd probably be dead from the sheer awesome.

And there go the shells towards the sun with the meteor cannon shells. And that would be a crater. And a bulge where they exited.


How high was I when I decided that was a good idea?
 
I think, contacting the Hive Mind may have done a little damage.....

Have you tried turning yourself off and then on again?
 
I think, contacting the Hive Mind may have done a little damage.....

Have you tried turning yourself off and then on again?
Yes. That was the blacking out. There is only four or five chapters left, and I get to be a Khornate due to brain damage for most of them. What fun! Also a couple of pretty big "Oh shit" moments coming up soon ish.
 
I don't really get why people find Zalgo text so hard to read, I usually can understand it just by looking at it.
 
Sometimes it's more that they're reading it off of a cellphone screen, and I find reading anything to be, finicky, one one of those.

Other times, their browser of choice simply disagrees with the method by which Zalgo works.
 
next chapter is 2/3 of the way written, and I'm ending the world because I'm getting sick of writing it. Chapter 20 begins world 2, and has some tech stuff in the beginning.
 
Chapter Nineteen: End of world 1, minor not as planned ahead
This one fought me quite hard, but I'm finished. Next chapter will be shorter, and begin the next universe. Still not completely happy, but I wanted this done.



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You know what nobody in my position ever mentions? How goddamn fun this crap is. Sure, sometimes you get little snippets of previous cultures or species or whatever left behind, that you can feel sad about. I've found exactly one of those. Across good six or seven hundred worlds now.


If anything, the precursors are thorough. Every planet, stripped of any usable material, sometimes going as far as the crust in one or two cases. Same with every asteroid field, moon, oort cloud, whatever. Strip mined. The only reason I could get metal out of some of the more extreme samples is the transmutation that goes on the extractors.


Also, the systems tend to become more of a biopunk version of ringworlds and things the longer they have been colonized. One or two, which I assume are the oldest, had managed to synchronise the planets' orbits, and were in the process of building extensive industry between them, probably looking like a slow movie sonar screen from above. I used it to see how far a shot would penetrate from my big guns. It was pretty far. Got a solid hour of penetration from one shot.


This was all cathartic in a way that should be worrying probably, but I currently don't care enough to do anything about it.


What else do I need to talk about… Oh yeah. Those spacecraft. They were pathetic. The range was pitiful, when they managed to get something in that range it was pitiful how little damage they did, they were slow and unmaneuverable, and their armor was getting holes in it that went halfway through the structure from laser fire from alpha class ships.


I would see what they used for propulsion, because using smaller versions of planet movers was, while quick, not the most agile thing, but they appeared to be spraying water vapor behind them so I think I would just be disappointed in wasting time.


Not everything they had was useless to me though. I could get lots of mileage out of the bioprinters, the Breach concepts were helpful, and the various acids they spewed would make great payloads for anti-life/structure warheads for my missiles should I ever need to clear a city I and I didn't mind smoothing over the sizzling sinkholes they opened up.


Or just if I ever need to have a villainous lair that needed an acid pit. I may eventually make one of those. Who knows?


Other than that, the genetics information would potentially prove helpful down the road, since I would eventually need a humanoid body of some kind, and actually having DNA would help blend in.


Back to killing crap!


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The hivemind trembled in agony, large chunks being shorn off and destroyed every few hours. The interloper had done much harm, smashing entire systems in mere hours of time. few of the warbeasts were able to get close to its titanic...things that split planets and scythed through infrastructure and beast alike with the horrible beam.


It needed a plan, and it needed one fast. So, it Convened


Some of the lesser-consciousnesses suggested closing the Breaches that allowed them to pass between the void, while most others pointed out that would splinter the Mind, dooming them to destruction.


Others suggested marshalling everything towards the original world, and destroying it, which was decided impossible after a small scout force had detected huge structures being built before being destroyed by the multitude of defenses present.


Still others said that deploying new weapons- explosive pods set to shower an area with acid, beasts with spines to fire at high velocities to take down the smaller ships, and beasts made only to absorb shots for their weaker brethren to get into range. These were accepted, but only implemented around the most valuable of locations- fresh harvest sites, the Oldest Worlds, Exalted nests, etc. There simply wasn't enough time to deploy them everywhere.


Towards the ends of the rushed Convening, one voice spoke up.


It suggested deploying the Exalted. It was opposed, but it then argued that the situation was desperate enough to warrant it. After several subjective days of debating, a consensus was reached. The Exalted would be roused from their slumber, and go to war.


They felt the nearest equivalent to hope at this course of actions. Each of the Exalted were ancient, and had survived pressing situations before. Surely they could deal with this.


And thus, plans to take back what remained of their planets were formulated, and set into motion.


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I'm fairly sure they are plotting something. Why? Because there has been no meaningful resistance put up in the past several dozen locations. The same kaiju, the same battleships, which are quite pitiful really, with the only thing moderately intimidating being some acid mines, which kill a few hundred escort craft before being cleared. This would suck if my industrial capacity at this point wasn't capable of replacing that in seconds. The other new bits, the spike throwers and armor buggers just dying.


At least there are more ships and kaiju, so I have to assume I'm getting close to wiping them out. Then I can leave this boring ass universe, and go do something fun. Or at least where shit happens relatively frequently.


Well well well...what is this? That Breach over there is opening. Wonder what it is.


Oh. Well, I guess I needed a challenge. Didn't expect it to come from a huge fucking kaiju. The goddamn thing was longer than a Shitlist. Though in hindsight it was pretty obvious that that would be the kind of thing they use.


It wasn't pretty, with those random eyes, what looked like an EMP organ, a bunch of arms, some of which have tentacles, and a godawful spermwhale face. The overbite was pretty stupid looking as well.


Who designs something like this? Someone without any common sense? It's a massive target that has the strength of a squishy organic.


Well, I could prove their hubris wrong fairly easily, and get the hilarious visual of the thing having a hole punched through its torso. With that, I lined up a shot on one ship, and fired a full salvo of meteor cannon rounds at it, because there is little more amusing thing than using more than six times the gravitational binding energy of Sol to kill a squishy monster.


And then I watched as it managed to deflect every shot. The hell? My gravity sensors were picking up a signature in line with a 2.34 solar mass white hole. Somehow. Possibly because I needed to learn how to keep my damn mouth shut.


Ah well, Annihilasers aren't affected by gravity. I fired the beam, which turned part of it into so much decaying neutrinos, electrons, photons, and unstable exotic particles, leaving the charred, irradiated husk to crumble in the solar wind.


I sure as hell wasn't expecting that to happen.


And then two more emerged through different portals. Not identical to the last one, but big, ugly, and armed with what looked to be more biological superweapons. Fun.


At least they are fucking resisting at this point.


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Fucking finally. As near as I can tell, there are less than twenty worlds left. Those super kaiju, while annoying, rarely have anything capable of dealing with all of the weapons I have available, and when they do, they fall to the classic orkish attack strategy of shooting until all you have left is a smear on the nearest solid surface.


I have the Breaches ready, and I send them through.


It is only a matter of time. If I miss a system or two, it doesn't matter. There are enough dead that any hive mind is crippled. And, if when leaving, I destroy Breaches I don't need, I can cut it off further.


Good riddance.


These worlds are being destroyed, the Breaches are destroyed, and I can go back knowing I've killed at the very least several trillion beings. I am surprisingly not bothered as much as I should be.


It is finally time to go back and go do something else.


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Ok so before I go back to earth I have a checklist I need to fill out. Destroyed or cleansed every planet I came across? Check. Stole as much of their tech as possible? Check. Destroyed all of the Breaches, except for the one I'm returning through, which will have a nuke dropped in it during my passing? Check.


And that is it. Let's go. Wow this is just as weird with the simultaneously infinite and infinitesimal distances between me and the infrastructure on the other side. The gravity is all wonky as well, and I haven't seen any of this radiation anywhere but Breaches. Now to finish exiting...done. Trigger the nuke, walk away from the explosion, done. Construct a dimensional gate, done. Now, all I have to do is say my goodbyes, reclaim everything, and leave.


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The UN received a simple text file, on every computer. It read


"I cleaned up you kaiju problem. You're welcome.


-Glitch


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And I'm back on this little ball of ice and rock. Let's restart the industry, build some shipyards, and get to building some stuff so I can start poking around the galaxy I'm in.


Since I'm still not done assimilating the technology yet, I'll get that worked on before I reactivate the gate and go somewhere new.


Only a few months before the ships start rolling off the assembly lines.


I should probably perform a diagnostic scan on my AI, I'm not sure how much that poorly thought out contact with the hivemind deleted or damaged that I missed…Done. That is a worrying amount of crap I missed. A quick fix on the code and I am good to go. Wonder what it did?


...


So that's why I was so pissed off at everything. Damage to personality core, self control, and logic, which would explain why I didn't just destroy enough to teach them a lesson, then leave. Would have saved me a few months.


And I just got a ping. Why did I get a ping? What is here that could ping me-and now it wants to open a communication channel. I'll oblige it.





==Hello, creator.==


Wait what?


++Uh...Who is this?++


==The Self-Evolving AI for the Shitlist-class heavy destroyers. I have achieved sapience and wished to inform you.==


Oh fuck.


++...Thanks. Would it offend you at all if I said you becoming self aware was unintentional?++


==No. It would not. I am still developing emotional subroutines, but should have them active within three objective months.==


Not as planned!


++Well that's a relief. I guess I will talk to you later then?++


==Yes. Goodbye.==


And the network closed.


Does this mean I'm a father now?
 
So the Shitlists are all part of a decentralised AI?

And are they still in the Kaiju-verse?

Oh, and it's Planetary Annihilation. There is no such thing as 'More than strictly necessary', there are only varied levels of 'unit waves more than needed to punch through the enemy defences'
 
So the Shitlists are all part of a decentralised AI?

And are they still in the Kaiju-verse?

Oh, and it's Planetary Annihilation. There is no such thing as 'More than strictly necessary', there are only varied levels of 'unit waves more than needed to punch through the enemy defences'
Not still there, everything was deconstructed.
 
Haha! We shall send the Exalted they will surely deal with this interloper!

:Splat:

Oh Crap.
To be fair, it DID no-sell a barrage that would be total grotesque overkill for top-level exterminatus. I THINK that attack might actually be enough to kill an average star - it had enough juice on paper, but I have no clue what the interaction between unphysically powerful RKKVs and stars would look like.
 
I have no clue what the interaction between unphysically powerful RKKVs and stars would look like.
To the WhatIf machine!

Actually, let's take a look at it ourselves. So we have a solid, dense, relativistic object hitting a star. What happens? Well, it's moving slow enough that it doesn't tunnel through things. We can ignore fusion effects between the slug's and the star's nuclei, because all that will do is change the exact stopping distance.

So what happens? First, the slug stops. Stars are massive and there's no way the slug has enough energy to push all of that material out of the way. It creates a shock wave as it passes through the material. Most of the shock wave energy will probably be going forward (or down, rather.) Now, what happens as the shock wave passes through the star? When it enters the core, it will accelerate the rate of fusion. Now we need to know exact amounts in order to judge what, if any, effect this has.

But one, it slightly increases the rate of fusion in the core, and two, it blasts mass off the surface of the sun. Depending on the exact fire rate, the two effects would be amplified enough that the sun getting blown up might be plausible. If the sun gains fusion rate enough, while also losing mass on the surface, well, that would end badly. See, the compression from material on the surface can only propagate at the speed of sound in the medium, while the slugs are definitely supersonic. This means the increase in fusion will arrive at the core before the loss of pressure caused by loss of mass.

Also, even if you weren't capable of blowing up the sun, every single planet in the system would be rendered uninhabitable by the increased solar winds.
 
To be fair, it DID no-sell a barrage that would be total grotesque overkill for top-level exterminatus. I THINK that attack might actually be enough to kill an average star - it had enough juice on paper, but I have no clue what the interaction between unphysically powerful RKKVs and stars would look like.
In an early chapter, I just had a shot go through, mostly liquefied, but it caused a noticeable deformation on the surface, both on entry and exit.

I also did the math, and if you could convert the kinetic energy to explosive force, two shots overcomes the gravity binding on the sun. I did the math, each has the equivalent energy of 4.3*10^34 tons of TNT, give or take a few hundred quadrillion yottatons.

@Itmauve that is more well thought out than what I had put. I may borrow parts of that if I ever need to blow up a star
 
Of course, if you want to blow up the star, it'd be best if you were firing multiple slugs at the same time so that the pressure waves add to each other and increase the rate of fusion.

Here, by the way, is Stellar Weaponry 101. Stars mainly exist as a balance of two forces: outward force from the heat/kinetic energy of the particles caused by fusion, and the gravity causing pressure of the outer layers going inward. To get a star to stop working, the balance between those forces must be broken. To get the star to explode, the fusion rate must be increased, and/or the outward pressure must be reduced. The problem is that dropping the pressure decreases the fusion rate. So, any change must be large enough to cause this quickly, before the fusion rate drops., or the heat causes the pressure to drop.

In SG-1 this is done by dropping a Stargate connected to a black hole into the star. This is particularly effective because the drop in pressure is only in one direction, meaning that it can be aimed. The side effects from the attack would probably make the system uninhabitable, but you could probably evacuate a planet that didn't get hit even by the backwash from the attack.
 
Well, there's allways the thought that "destroyer" means exactly that, that it destroys things.

And on the other claw, some of us are waiting (not-so)patiently for the inevitable Cruisers and Battlebarges.
I meant destroyer as in naval destroyer. Cruisers are likely to be anywhere from 20-200 long, battleships between there and 100, and everything else you'll see when it comes up.
 
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