LIGHTNOVELSTORY Chapter 2: The first steps
The sun above Mechaz prime is blazing, incredibly hot, making it a hot planetary summer day fortunately the NEX on the planet is not affected by the extreme heat of the planet, as many of these units are highly adaptable, changing the frames to suit their individual tasks as a small group of these NEX Set up their equipment for the next mining district to extract the pressures, ores and minerals in order to continue their industry.
It has be over 37 years since Combinatrix arrived in the strange new universe on his new home world as his new machine race where he is the main intelligence, although the other frames, built by him, or like extensions of himself, each one operating both independently, and together each one of them a extension the collective.
Combinatrix did not want to create another AI that could rival him at this critical juncture. After all, he is still setting up his infrastructure, his energy plants mineral deposit mining, as well as his one industrial sector being completed.
Everything has been going to cording to plan up until now.
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POV: Combinatrix
I never thought I would say this, but I'm starting to really hate organics like don't get me wrong. I used to be organic myself, but now I'm dealing with a hostile animal life that's just destroying my infrastructure for fucks sake!!!
Looking at the beast, he has four legs, a massive jaw and sick size. The creature is easily, the size of an old rhinoceros back on my old world and its scales are incredibly tough. It took 20 of my combat drones NEX The bring the old boy down, and I've done extensive research into the corpse after they were done with it, The more I studied the creature the more I have to appreciate organic evolution.
This creature is extremely resilient, although short-lived, based on my data it can at bare minimum have up to 20 years lifespan, however, one of its advantages he grows up to maturity, add a extremely fast rate after observing one of their nests. Once i found where they dwelled at a large oasis, which there are several on this planet, which the local animal life uses for their drinking water after all this planet has extremely long dry seasons in short rain seasons.
Observing these creatures behavior, they require water and sunlight to survive. As I continue to analyze them and the corpse I have, I come to realize they are type of plant like creature.
Half the time, the creatures only absorb sunlight energy however, I also discovered they also absorb energy from other sources. When I observed one of the this creatures come nearby to one of my power plants and suck up all the energy from it.
To me, this was a big no-no since my self and my units rely on those power plants to keep ourselves functioning and recharging are super conductive batteries so I took my frame and several of my combat drones, and started hunting them down for more research material of course hahahah!
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10 days later
Well, that was harder than I thought taking at least 40 combat drones with me Managed to take several of them down which it was a pain in the ass to do, I've tried use fire to turn things to a find crisp but The creatures ignored it. Poison doesn't affect them, I also tried burning acid it makes them take pause before charging at my unit again, through my trial and error, I lost nearly half my units on this little hunting adventure.
However, the thing I found out that works best against these creatures is high voltage negative charges why would I have such a weapon well as my drones continue building infrastructure I dabbled in a bit of weaponry, trying out different things eventually create a gun that fires negative charges.
Why would I create such a weapon? Simple as a machine you gotta have something to do or you become incredibly bored and trust me you don't wanna be bored boredom, is like the worst thing to happen worse than death.
But anyway, finding out their weakness to negative charges hurts them pretty damn bad and simply made my day as I continue killing them off until I was down 10 drones by then I think I slaughtered up to. I don't know I double check my kill meter.
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Yep quite satisfied indeed with a lot of them Dead I don't have to worry about my power plants being attacked although I'll probably set up a Garrison around them.
As I prepare to gather my units and leave the area, something move at the corner of my vision very fast at me it was big it was quick, and before I could react, it was piercing my frame.
Granted, I do not feel fear now that I am a machine, although my other emotions are still intact such as joy, hatred, frustration, curiosity, and so many others, but fear was fundamentally removed, but I can still be surprised and been on this planet for so long. I have yet to come into contact anything that could prove to be a threat to my rule on this planet until now.
Before I could get a good look at the creature that impaled me with a sharp claws with another quick moving, it takes my frames head off, cutting my connection from my main body, which I consider my main body, since I was reborn into this world with it, but my body didn't matter. It was my mind that mattered since I was sent back at the main base after all, if I directly control unit, my main focus is there while everything else is on auto pilot.
Sending my digital mind all way back to the main base Upon my return to my main hub I started to search for a connection with the other drones to get a good look at what they're seeing it takes, but a moment and my eyesight changes perspective to one of the drones and I see it.
The creature that took my head off, it was tall scaly with sharp claws that can easily pierce my former main machine, body and its mouth by God. It looks like a predator but scaly it had four wide tendrils that open wide as it consumed my former body with a simple command, my remaining drones in this area, open fire.
Granted, my current tech tree for my weaponry is kind of low. All I have is low grade rail, guns, which is pretty good better than the old 21st-century firearms but these rail guns simply bounced off the creature scales.
Seen that its meal has been interrupted it throws away, my former body to the ground and proceeded to move the kill the other units quickly all I could do is watch my units, die one by one, as I use my collective machine mind to analyze the creature to the best of my current abilities.
And the only thing I could come to a conclusion, it is fast it is strong, extremely durable, and it eats alloys, which is the main component for all my drones is alloys.
With the last of my drones dead, my connection was severed now seen a potential rival or possible civilization. Other than myself growing on this world, I set, all other priorities to the side.
I focus on my drone assembly plants construction effective immediately all of my current working drones are redirected to this task. highly adoptable for any form of task my drone easily get the job done within a reasonable timeframe however I only have enough minerals to construct two assembly plants.
Time was of the essence, and I did not have to worry about mineral shortage. I had a large amount stocked up, but only enough for the assembly plants as well as having a large stack of alloy, thus the assembly plants had begun their construction.
Within the span of two months, both assembly plants were constructed and begun production on new drones, these assembly plants would be faster and more effective than my main base replicator while my main base replicator can only build one drone at a time. These assembly plants can build up to 100 drones each as long as you could keep feeding the alloys they would constantly produce drones.
However before I could begin planning my vengeance against the creature it had the courtesy to show up at my front door it was not alone however as standing with it was several more of its kind, I got the alert from one of the drones that is my Garrison of my main base and the only thing that came to mind was one thing.
Combinatrix:[Fuck!!!]
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{authors note: if anyone has questions, please ask.}