Mission Log 3 [Video]

[sixthdeadliest]

[He's taking note of the numbers, and there's something he's noticed.]

We're getting more biologicals. Do we have any numbers on resource usage?

[Like, y'know, clean water and food? Someone's already lived through starvation and does not fancy having another go.]

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[deadlydoctor]

No, we do not. The other organics here survive eating each other. [Troll in the dungeon. Kncok Out says that with the most deadpan expression on his face.]

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[sixthdeadliest]

Hilarious. [Equally deadpan.] I've also heard that Cybertronians enjoy using each other for parts.

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[deadlydoctor]

That we do, yes. I have mother's eyes. Literally.

Except, that's a lie. I don't have a mother.

But we can use each other parts, that is true at least. You humans do the same. [He has heard of transplants, mister.]

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[sixthdeadliest]

[Okay, point taken.]

Don't have one either.

As far as I know, I only have the parts I was born with. [As long as you didn't count the nanites...]

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[deadlydoctor]

I thought all the organics had one.

How incredibly ordinary. Perhaps you need an upgrade.

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[pendragon]

That's what the Pantry is for. We're a part of Haven's Hub, which is near the Junk Pile in the center of the Haven. You can request items from the stockpile, but you will be expected to eventually donate something in return to be able to pull out more items in the future.

[ Saber pauses to think for a moment. ] Actual numbers, well.. we have anything in the Pantry that the Hub was gathering over quite some time. There's plenty of canned foods, clothing, blankets.. and other items an organic may need.

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[sixthdeadliest]

[Six shakes his head.] I'm aware of the Pantry. I'm talking about something more long-term. We may be stuck here for years.

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[pendragon]

That's all we have that's organized. I'm fairly confident we do not have access to anything long-term, as so far we only have what we can scrounge out of the Junk Pile. [ There's a slight tilt of her head. ]

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[sixthdeadliest]

Anything renewable we can use to augment the Pantry? Maybe not at this time but in the future? Maybe a compost heap to get us some usable soil?

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[notyourblueangel]

Numbers, no. But I understand there's been some . . . [what's the word again?] . . . farming . . . being done. And as Saber mentioned, there's the Pantry. Though I'm not entirely sure where it's supplies come from, if there's anything more reliable than just what can be scrounged from the Junkpile.

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[sixthdeadliest]

[This surprises Six.] So there are some who are trying to farm here?

[He may have to scope this out. Trade some unskilled labor for food if need be.]

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[notyourblueangel]

Others could answer with more detail – you might try Saber or Ventus – but yes, that's my understanding. I do know that Jetfire brought back some . . . a fruit of some kind that he said was very hardy and proliferous in growth. Might contact him too to see how those are doing.

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[sixthdeadliest]

I will. Thanks.

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[angleofscience]

Not sure. The lake in Alpha Trion's quadrant should supply a larger population than currently present for longer than hopefully necessary, but even so, water in itself shouldn't be impossible to make from the chemical elements.

[Cybertron didn't have a lot of water, no, but the atomic elements themselves shouldn't be impossible to get and then combine as necessary.]

And the garden in the same quadrant does have an area dedicated to the fruit I brought back... it grows quickly and plentiful enough I doubt even doubling the organic population into the hundreds would make a dent in the supply...

[Then Jetfire shakes his helm.]

If you would only need one source of nutrition, but I understand organics need a lot more and varied food to stay healthy. In an emergency I believe it wouldn't be impossible to synthsise food, as long as we had organic chemical elements to work from.

[Probably carbon, and organic carbon could be found easily... or other organic elements... since they did have an organic population.]

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[sixthdeadliest]

[Just be careful, Jetfire. Combining hydrogen and oxygen results in very little water but a rather big boom.]

[He's not 100% certain on the tech talk, but he gets the general idea.]

Unfortunately, we didn't evolve that way. It's a major flaw in situations like this.

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[angleofscience]

[What, you don't like big booms? But no, he could probably do something about it if he was just, indeed, careful.]

It is something of an, ah... disadvantage, yes, isn't it? [The smile is tiny and dry, before Jetfire sobers up, shaking his helm.]

But in the long run, it shouldn't be impossible to do something about it. The issue is partly the lack of equipment - industrial and scientific both, for all of us. If I and those others of us involved in science actually had proper equipment, some form of synthetic food shouldn't be an impossibility, even if energy conversion is somewhat more straightforward.

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[sixthdeadliest]

[Big booms are fine. He just prefers when they happen to someone else.]

Is it possible to build what you need?

[adamndoctor]

Through research, I've discovered a number of locations that provide the necessary food and water. The junkpile is known to occasionally drop in food safe for consumption. But Saber's been workin' on the pantry, gathering whatever is available in one easy and accessible location.

[sigh] Though this is always a constant concern on my mind since arrivin' here. What happens if these resources run out? I'm sure the robots will be fine, but I don't know if there'd be some way of replenishing our resources. Dunno if alien gods could think of a way, either. Though it'd be nice if they could give us all a bunch of magic wands to wave over garbage and turn into food. Wouldn't that be something. [smirk]

[sixthdeadliest]

Heard about the pantry. Still, that only delays the inevitable.

My master used to use leftover food scraps for compost. Make some useable soil. I heard a few people were working on farming.

[adamndoctor]

[he makes an impressed face] Not a bad idea. I think if we try, we can make it work. Could always use expanding the farmlands here. I've got a little experience myself, so I could provide some elbow grease.

[sixthdeadliest]

[It pays to be born in a less technologically-advanced time.]

I'm not skilled at farming, but I think I could at least do some of the unskilled work in exchange for a share of what grows. Others might be interested in an arrangement like that if not learning more specialized skills, too.

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[pasteurized]

From the looks of it, the other locals around aren't as diligent as others in tracking their own resource consumption.

It might be a good idea to implement a ration system, given the Lambda's sporadic choices in what it brings in.

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[sixthdeadliest]

Good to see you up and around, partner.

Rationing only gets us so far. And I don't trust the Lambda to keep providing goods. I don't want to stay here for years, but right now it looks like we need to prepare for the long haul.

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[pasteurized]

[Knight nods at the first comment, but doesn't respond to it.]

It's good to see there are farming efforts being made, at least. I worry more about the populace growing too complacent with the Lambda's little giveaways. Some might find it all too easy to just sit back and let it feed us what it will.

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[sixthdeadliest]

Agreed. And if the Lambda ever stops sending through food, they'd likely starve.