Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-5135903-20130919182126/@comment-5135903-20131003151732

 Fishmeal 

''Unrestrained nanotechnology is an extremely potent tool. If you were so desperate to get to the ring, you could just use the nanorobots to convert the building into a spacecraft for yourself and fly up there. You could use the nanorobots to construct the right supplies you need, or even alter your body in a cybernetic manner so that you can survive in the local environment and don't need to eat food or breathe. You could convert your brain cells into nanorobotic equivalents (making the brain much denser), then increase the size of your brain to increase your intelligence - the possibilities of nanotechnology are almost endless. For more on the potential of nanotechnology, I recommend the renowned Engines of Creation by Eric Drexler.''

Of course, any work by nanorobots would require access to the correct elements and a good power supply (back of the envelope = 300kJ per mole of converted matter.

The nanorobots find it extremely difficult to seal the breach as they are being aggressively countered by uncharacteristically advanced nanodefences (it would be serious overkill to put such advanced nanotechnological defences onto such a small outpost - very strange). In fact, there are two different types of nanodefences working against your nanorobots.

You can tell from this room, at least, that the structure is quite uninhabited (though there is a circular hatchway leading to the next module of the structure in the side wall).

 Darwol 

Vessbuk replies decisively,

"That's not possible. We've received strict orders by the CSF not to let anybody we have absolute confidence in interact with us."

He turns to Xanez,

"That's why you can't go into the tunnels any more. I can't risk any of us getting over-infected; that's why we've got to stick together, and not let any outsiders in."

He glances at you accusingly when he says 'outsiders'.

Wanraknasdan

As you continue through the tunnel, the air begins to get significantly warmer and more hospitable. Levels of water vapour and hydrogen sulphide in the atmosphere of the tunnel increase; the walls of ice also begin to give way to seams of rock.

However, as you move further along the tunnel, the flow of water increases (lower down you will have noticed that a lot of the water was draining away into crevices) and the gradient steepens. Soon you are finding it hard to walk through the steep torrent of water, verging on a waterfall.