SCIENCE WORLD: A CRASHED GENIUS ON AN ALIEN WORLD

[Evenstar]

Your name is December Morning-Glory, and today is the best day of your life.

Alright, there is the matter of the crashed spaceship. And the fact that most of your delicate instruments were destroyed in the crash. But you are a MAD SCIENTIST, and little things like that PALE in significance to the discovery of a LIFE-BEARING ALIEN PLANET. Which this is, judging by the fact that you haven't died from the atmosphere yet. Also the giant… trees?... that you've crashed into. They're purple and red, not the kind of plants you're used to back home, but since when have you cared for the trivially familiar?

You look back at your ship's console, which is still flaring a crash warning with little hope of ending, and then you start looking around for your screwdriver.

Some twenty minutes later you've scavenged up most of the usable electronics, and now you're left with a choice.

[ ] Build a basic biologics laboratory so that you can test things for edibility and drinkability, and eventually develop cell cultures, neural tissue, the works. You have to prioritize your own health first.
[ ] Build a robotics laboratory so that you can build drones to strip the hull and turn the rest of this shell of a ship into something useful. Not to mention they can venture out and find things without exposing you to the risks of the outside.
[ ] Build an armory so that you'll have an environment suit and a bear gun. Not to mention most of your weapons can double as construction tools.
[ ] Build a rocketry and scanning lab so that you can quickly get an accurate picture of your entire surroundings. No sense in building anything else before you have the lay of the land.

… And what have we here? An intact computer core. A rare treasure indeed. What to do with it?

[ ] Integrate it directly with your body. It's not like you've never installed something like this before. [Cyborger trait gained]
[ ] Build a helmet and integrate it into a HUD so you can have a VR interface. [Virtualist trait gained]
[ ] Cobble together a sturdy tablet for it to reside in. [Brutalist trait gained]
[ ] Leave it in the spaceship and build a high-powered wifi transmitter to give you downloads to your tablet. [Distributed Systems trait gained]

 

[Terrabrand]

[X] Build a basic biologics laboratory so that you can test things for edibility and drinkability, and eventually develop cell cultures, neural tissue, the works. You have to prioritize your own health first.

[X] Leave it in the spaceship and build a high-powered wifi transmitter to give you downloads to your tablet. [Distributed Systems trait gained]

 

[Jirachi47]

[X] Build an armory so that you'll have an environment suit and a bear gun. Not to mention most of your weapons can double as construction tools.
[X] Cobble together a sturdy tablet for it to reside in. [Brutalist trait gained]
I don't know quite why, but an image of "No Man Sky, but pulpier and awesomer" is really appealing to me.

 

[Twisted Mind]

[X] Build a basic biologics laboratory so that you can test things for edibility and drinkability, and eventually develop cell cultures, neural tissue, the works. You have to prioritize your own health first.
[X] Cobble together a sturdy tablet for it to reside in. [Brutalist trait gained]
I want to be Cool to But you Have to Be Alive Before You can be Cool.

 

[Dream Logic]

[X] Build an armory so that you'll have an environment suit and a bear gun. Not to mention most of your weapons can double as construction tools.
[X] Cobble together a sturdy tablet for it to reside in. [Brutalist trait gained]

I hope at some point we synthesize a lumberjack outfit just to embrace the 'rugged outdoors woman' aesthetic.

 

[kadehex]

[X] Build an armory so that you'll have an environment suit and a bear gun. Not to mention most of your weapons can double as construction tools.
[X] Cobble together a sturdy tablet for it to reside in. [Brutalist trait gained]

 

[CedeTheBees]

[X] Build a basic biologics laboratory so that you can test things for edibility and drinkability, and eventually develop cell cultures, neural tissue, the works. You have to prioritize your own health first.
[X] Leave it in the spaceship and build a high-powered wifi transmitter to give you downloads to your tablet. [Distributed Systems trait gained]

 

[Dromeosaur]

[ ] Build a robotics laboratory so that you can build drones to strip the hull and turn the rest of this shell of a ship into something useful. Not to mention they can venture out and find things without exposing you to the risks of the outside.

More hands is allways better.

[ ] Integrate it directly with your body. It's not like you've never installed something like this before. [Cyborger trait gained]

This can allways become usefull later. Perhaps some more implants?

 

[shanagan]

[X] Build a robotics laboratory so that you can build drones to strip the hull and turn the rest of this shell of a ship into something useful. Not to mention they can venture out and find things without exposing you to the risks of the outside.
[X] Build a helmet and integrate it into a HUD so you can have a VR interface. [Virtualist trait gained]

 

[SilentSpaniard]

[X] Build a rocketry and scanning lab so that you can quickly get an accurate picture of your entire surroundings. No sense in building anything else before you have the lay of the land.
[X] Leave it in the spaceship and build a high-powered wifi transmitter to give you downloads to your tablet. [Distributed Systems trait gained]

The fact that the title is all in capital letters... Heh, easy to get an idea of which kind of Quest is going to be.

Let's make some SCIENCE! In SPAAACE!!!

 

[Rossum]

[X] Build a robotics laboratory so that you can build drones to strip the hull and turn the rest of this shell of a ship into something useful. Not to mention they can venture out and find things without exposing you to the risks of the outside.
[X] Leave it in the spaceship and build a high-powered wifi transmitter to give you downloads to your tablet. [Distributed Systems trait gained]

Been playing alot of Stellaris lately, so I'm thinking we get a robot factory down to get some nice robot boiis to handle all the grunt work while we work on research. Though we will have to research biology and stuff eventually to keep ourselves stocked up with food, water, etc.

 

[Thelxiope]

[X] Build a basic biologics laboratory so that you can test things for edibility and drinkability, and eventually develop cell cultures, neural tissue, the works. You have to prioritize your own health first.

[X] Leave it in the spaceship and build a high-powered wifi transmitter to give you downloads to your tablet. [Distributed Systems trait gained]

 

[Void Stalker]

[X] Build a robotics laboratory so that you can build drones to strip the hull and turn the rest of this shell of a ship into something useful. Not to mention they can venture out and find things without exposing you to the risks of the outside.
[X] Leave it in the spaceship and build a high-powered wifi transmitter to give you downloads to your tablet. [Distributed Systems trait gained]

Robotics for the ability to gather without risking ourselves, follow up with a bio lab next to take care of the essentials.

 

[IllogicalLogic]

[X] Build a robotics laboratory so that you can build drones to strip the hull and turn the rest of this shell of a ship into something useful. Not to mention they can venture out and find things without exposing you to the risks of the outside.
[X] Leave it in the spaceship and build a high-powered wifi transmitter to give you downloads to your tablet. [Distributed Systems trait gained]

 

[veekie]

[X] Build a basic biologics laboratory so that you can test things for edibility and drinkability, and eventually develop cell cultures, neural tissue, the works. You have to prioritize your own health first.

[X] Leave it in the spaceship and build a high-powered wifi transmitter to give you downloads to your tablet. [Distributed Systems trait gained]

 

[Evenstar]

Closing the vote in an hour.

 

[Doctor Elsewhere]

[X] Build a basic biologics laboratory so that you can test things for edibility and drinkability, and eventually develop cell cultures, neural tissue, the works. You have to prioritize your own health first.

[X] Cobble together a sturdy tablet for it to reside in. [Brutalist trait gained]

 

[Evenstar]

You sort through the parts, and scowl. You have about half a biologics lab here, and about half an automation lab… but perhaps all it needs is a little SPARK OF GENIUS. You pry off the glass of a vintage cathode-ray TV that somehow survived the crash, cut your thumb with a shard of twisted metal, spit into the mixture to give it some growth medium, then add some wires to one of your salvaged batteries to artificially hasten cell growth and reproduction, and spit again, and here's a Bunsen burner with enough fuel left to still work, and soon you have a bubbling, redividing, vaguely flesh-toned soup of amino acids and stem cells, all the potential of life with no structure to hang on to. Perfect.

You pick up your tablet, and proceed to reprogram your own DNA in culture via a bombardment of ultraviolet and ultrasonic waves. A little bit of electric charge in the right places, and soon you have a whole artificial stomach, acids and enzymes churning away. This one of course has the benefit of an attached wifi transmitter syncing analysis of the contents right back to your tablet, as well as being open-air so you can just shove things in it without all that messy "chewing" business. Now, to rig up a contact patch…

Bending out a side wall of the old TV to improvise another shallow bowl, you smear undifferentiated stem cells against the metal, add some more wires back to another wifi transmitter from the little box you carry on you at all times, and then let the cells gel and solidify into the many layers of human skin. Minus the hairs of course, you didn't program that.

Some simpler testing kits follow, just whipped up out of the remains of your kitchen. (Cooking is chemistry, after all.) And with a little additional work, you add an acid bath by distilling down some vinegar you had lying around. Besides, if you want to make glue or some of your more technical coatings, it'll be nice to have some acetic acid on hand.

You go back into the ship, and find the insides all tumbled around and smashed. Though you've already salvaged most of the usable electronics, there's still a lot of other stuff left. Where to start?

[ ] The tumbled-together kitchen, which ought to have some actual food in it somewhere amid all the utensils and kitchen gadgets.
[ ] Your personal room, which has a lot of books on esoteric subjects like xenobiology, as well as some smashed furniture the crushed remains of your latest project.
[ ] The bathroom, home to all your cosmetics and toiletries, as well as a lot of broken porcelain and plumbing.

In the worse-off sector, there's…
[ ] The biochemistry lab, now a huge pile of ruined glassware and dangerous chemicals.
[ ] The robotics and engineering lab, now a tangle of twisted metal still spitting sparks.
[ ] The armory, which could decide to cook off any minute now.
[ ] The engine room, home to your only way off this rock. Though who would ever want to leave when there's so much SCIENCE to be had here?

 

[kadehex]

[X] The tumbled-together kitchen, which ought to have some actual food in it somewhere amid all the utensils and kitchen gadgets

[X] The engine room, home to your only way off this rock. Though who would ever want to leave when there's so much SCIENCE to be had here?

 

[CedeTheBees]

[X] The tumbled-together kitchen, which ought to have some actual food in it somewhere amid all the utensils and kitchen gadgets.

[X] The biochemistry lab, now a huge pile of ruined glassware and dangerous chemicals.

 

[Doctor Elsewhere]

[X] The tumbled-together kitchen, which ought to have some actual food in it somewhere amid all the utensils and kitchen gadgets

[X] The engine room, home to your only way off this rock. Though who would ever want to leave when there's so much SCIENCE to be had here?

 

[veekie]

[X] The tumbled-together kitchen, which ought to have some actual food in it somewhere amid all the utensils and kitchen gadgets.

[X] The biochemistry lab, now a huge pile of ruined glassware and dangerous chemicals.

 

[SilentSpaniard]

[X] The tumbled-together kitchen, which ought to have some actual food in it somewhere amid all the utensils and kitchen gadgets.

[X] The robotics and engineering lab, now a tangle of twisted metal still spitting sparks.

 

[Twisted Mind]

[X] Your personal room, which has a lot of books on esoteric subjects like xenobiology, as well as some smashed furniture the crushed remains of your latest project.
[X] The biochemistry lab, now a huge pile of ruined glassware and dangerous chemicals.
Why would You guys vote For anything Other then this. We Shall optimize Our Genes And Become A god With the power Of SCIENCE!!!!!!!

 

[Dromeosaur]

[X] The tumbled-together kitchen, which ought to have some actual food in it somewhere amid all the utensils and kitchen gadgets

[X] The engine room, home to your only way off this rock. Though who would ever want to leave when there's so much SCIENCE to be had here?