@Cerebrate
{“The constraint was weird in its own ways. Didn’t want to risk integrating something into their designs that would end up used if captured, but also didn’t want to create anything dangerous. Almost used
Wigner-effect materials as a self-destruct mechanism, since that can be made from anything with the right neutron source. It’d just need a heating coil to ignite, but then I thought…
‘nah’.”}
{“But that does get me thinking… on ways of sabotaging the 1st Wave’s own assembler… I’ll have to remember this. Keyword for memory; ‘ant-poison’…”}
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Now outside, encrypting his thoughts beamed back into the ship as he walks past the encircling wall.
{”…Safely expanding’ll require everyone keeping sharp for one-another, for eachothers’ sakes as much as the bots’, but the best done I suppose for the latter though could quite literally be, like, simply ‘shepherding’ the bots as they go about their work.”}