the_taken
King of the Impossible
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You yawn as you awake, your most recent long journey now over. You approached a star, and are eager to find out if there is a world with more biomass you can eat before setting out on another long journey, and convert into a hatchery to spawn offspring after you have left.
You flex your sacs, checking your stores of mass. You have nutrients sustain you for uncountable time, but only enough energy to change course and approach two worlds before you must leave this star for another, and hope the next star will have enough food to save you.
You open you eyes, all the sizes and kinds for looking at things in different ways, and search for the great glowing star who's warmth has stirred you from your hibernation. From what you can tell, it's the star you aimed for when you left the last one, and with incredible luck there are many worlds you can take a look at. Waiting for a long moment, you make out a number of them you can move to. Pick one.
{X}Mercury - You can just make out a super rock very near to the star. It is too close, too small and too ugly to have anything worth your time. Every time you've come to one of these super rocks you've only gotten a bit of saltiness from the surface before you've given up trying to eat. The tan isn't worth, so your disregard it.
[1]Venus - Closest to the star is a world that sits far enough away that it could have been the type to have biosphere, but this one has a hazy ugly yellow colour, and is hotter than the super rock nearer to the star. It probably has a poisonous sky. It also lacks a spin. You're pretty sure that it has all the nutrients needed to have a biosphere, but it didn't develop. You could go over to this world and convert it into a hatchery, but it would be a sickly one. You're pretty sure you could do something to make this world better, but how eludes you still awakening mind.
[2]Gaia - Just a bit out is a world about the same size as the first, but instead of having an ugly hot yellow sky, this one has nice blue and white sky. That means water, which is a very good nutrient. There's also some brown and grey, which means rocks coming out of the water, which is nice. There's also two more colours that are very good signs. Green and little hints of Purple. Green on it's own isn't all that impressive, just the presence of certain nutrients. But purple! Purple has always meant that there's a biosphere, which means that you could send your little spawn to it to turn into a hatchery for you.
Sound perfect, right? No quite. When you see the dark side of this world, you can see splays and lines of light. This means that's there's metal monsters somewhere. You've only encountered them a few times, and each time you've had to flee the star. The tiny metal monsters sit on worlds and rocks, and like to kill (and probably eat) your little spawns. The big metal monsters like to go travel between worlds and rocks, and some have even broken mega-rocks with flashes of terrible light. You don't want to mess with that!
You don't see any big metal monsters, but you're pretty sure the world has tiny ones, since the big ones have splays of lights on them just like the worlds they like. Do you risk fighting with the tiny metal monsters and draw the ire of the big ones, or move on?
[3]Mars - Past the tasty buy dangerous world is small red world with a thin sky. It is red and sandy looking. A world too small for a natural biosphere, but you could turn it into a hatchery yourself if you invest biomass into doing so.
[4]Jupiter - One of the biggest worlds you've ever seen, it also has a whole bunch of huge-rocks and super-rocks floating around it. It is mostly yellow, but not sickly yellow, and some darker rings going around it. You can't make this world a hatchery on its own, but you could lick up some nutrients from it for yourself. The you could turn those nutrients into biomass that you could invest on the rocks around it and turn them into small hatcheries that could lick up nutrients from the world on their own. There are so many of these super-rocks! Just don't fall into the world or you'll be stuck.
[5]Saturn - Another huge world with a yellow sky. It has a more uniform sky, but about just an many moons as its slightly bigger brother. Same deal as the last one, we can lick up some nutrients and set up hatcheries on the nearby huge-rocks. This one has the lovely cloudy ring around it.
[6]Uranus - This is a big blue skyed world with some huge-rocks around it. It's not as big or have as many huge rocks as the two closer worlds, and judging from it's colour it's probably mostly going to have light gas around it, so it may not be nutritious enough to support hatcheries on it's nearby huge rocks, but you could gather what nutrients you can find and move on.
[7]Neptune - This is another big blue world with a few huge-rocks around it. Its sky is a darker blue than the previous world, and could probably have more nutrients in it or the nearby huge-rocks, but you are not confident. You are certain you should disregard it, but nutrients are nutrients. Maybe you'll get lucky?
Your pod growers are still waking up, so you can't make little spawns yet, but you'll be able to send them out soon.
You flex your sacs, checking your stores of mass. You have nutrients sustain you for uncountable time, but only enough energy to change course and approach two worlds before you must leave this star for another, and hope the next star will have enough food to save you.
You open you eyes, all the sizes and kinds for looking at things in different ways, and search for the great glowing star who's warmth has stirred you from your hibernation. From what you can tell, it's the star you aimed for when you left the last one, and with incredible luck there are many worlds you can take a look at. Waiting for a long moment, you make out a number of them you can move to. Pick one.
{X}Mercury - You can just make out a super rock very near to the star. It is too close, too small and too ugly to have anything worth your time. Every time you've come to one of these super rocks you've only gotten a bit of saltiness from the surface before you've given up trying to eat. The tan isn't worth, so your disregard it.
[1]Venus - Closest to the star is a world that sits far enough away that it could have been the type to have biosphere, but this one has a hazy ugly yellow colour, and is hotter than the super rock nearer to the star. It probably has a poisonous sky. It also lacks a spin. You're pretty sure that it has all the nutrients needed to have a biosphere, but it didn't develop. You could go over to this world and convert it into a hatchery, but it would be a sickly one. You're pretty sure you could do something to make this world better, but how eludes you still awakening mind.
[2]Gaia - Just a bit out is a world about the same size as the first, but instead of having an ugly hot yellow sky, this one has nice blue and white sky. That means water, which is a very good nutrient. There's also some brown and grey, which means rocks coming out of the water, which is nice. There's also two more colours that are very good signs. Green and little hints of Purple. Green on it's own isn't all that impressive, just the presence of certain nutrients. But purple! Purple has always meant that there's a biosphere, which means that you could send your little spawn to it to turn into a hatchery for you.
Sound perfect, right? No quite. When you see the dark side of this world, you can see splays and lines of light. This means that's there's metal monsters somewhere. You've only encountered them a few times, and each time you've had to flee the star. The tiny metal monsters sit on worlds and rocks, and like to kill (and probably eat) your little spawns. The big metal monsters like to go travel between worlds and rocks, and some have even broken mega-rocks with flashes of terrible light. You don't want to mess with that!
You don't see any big metal monsters, but you're pretty sure the world has tiny ones, since the big ones have splays of lights on them just like the worlds they like. Do you risk fighting with the tiny metal monsters and draw the ire of the big ones, or move on?
[3]Mars - Past the tasty buy dangerous world is small red world with a thin sky. It is red and sandy looking. A world too small for a natural biosphere, but you could turn it into a hatchery yourself if you invest biomass into doing so.
[4]Jupiter - One of the biggest worlds you've ever seen, it also has a whole bunch of huge-rocks and super-rocks floating around it. It is mostly yellow, but not sickly yellow, and some darker rings going around it. You can't make this world a hatchery on its own, but you could lick up some nutrients from it for yourself. The you could turn those nutrients into biomass that you could invest on the rocks around it and turn them into small hatcheries that could lick up nutrients from the world on their own. There are so many of these super-rocks! Just don't fall into the world or you'll be stuck.
[5]Saturn - Another huge world with a yellow sky. It has a more uniform sky, but about just an many moons as its slightly bigger brother. Same deal as the last one, we can lick up some nutrients and set up hatcheries on the nearby huge-rocks. This one has the lovely cloudy ring around it.
[6]Uranus - This is a big blue skyed world with some huge-rocks around it. It's not as big or have as many huge rocks as the two closer worlds, and judging from it's colour it's probably mostly going to have light gas around it, so it may not be nutritious enough to support hatcheries on it's nearby huge rocks, but you could gather what nutrients you can find and move on.
[7]Neptune - This is another big blue world with a few huge-rocks around it. Its sky is a darker blue than the previous world, and could probably have more nutrients in it or the nearby huge-rocks, but you are not confident. You are certain you should disregard it, but nutrients are nutrients. Maybe you'll get lucky?
Your pod growers are still waking up, so you can't make little spawns yet, but you'll be able to send them out soon.