When she had been excited about the notion of travelling on a blob, hard-thinking for hours wasn't what Xylop had in self. Now here she was, concentrating to telekineese chunks of ore around.
And her job wasn't even the most demanding. The lobes assigned to the mining operation had a really hard time in the beginning, trying to pull pieces of the ground off the asteroid with their minds. The squirrel consultants brought some tools to dig efficiently, but wielding these with psychokinetic force was very tiring too. Not having any muscles or skeletal system was convenient back in Cerebrum. But apparently it had some shortcomings on planets with more solids.
A few parsecs away, the Mastermind was getting tired of recieving similar complaints from the miners. Sending back reassuring thoughts started to be more than a nuissance - he had to assign five telesentients just for this job. He summoned a council meeting. In the previous session the council was sceptical about the Zombie offer. This time he would press harder for it...
to Zombies
We wish to investigate potential dangers of the racial integration to either species before such a hypotalamus-boggling commitment. Therefore, we would like to exchange 10 brains with 10 zombies. Each of these is to be integrated, and observed for a while. If they prove to be safe, and with capabilities superior to both progenitor races, then we may graddually become a symbiotic race of psychic zombies.
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Send 10 brains to zombies. REcieve 10 Zombies and integrate. Send 2 of the psyhic-zombies to the dustball, 2 to Asteroids#2, 2 to jungle world, 2 to the Battlegoo, and 2 remains in Cerebrum- to investigate their capabilities in different environments and duties.
other than the integration project, the orders are:
- Exploration blob at the Dustball continues to Unexplored G. Dust is not for Brains.
- Exploration blob over the jungle world stays there to
a) investigate and communicate with the natives
b) start trials of oozoforming at the more watery or boggy parts of the Jungle world.
last turn's orders said:
- Have the contemplators (researchers) start contemplating on new types of slime and ooze (smart-slime, strand-slime, replicative ooze for oozoforming), that are among a heap of ideas from the philosophers. I'll detail these later, hopefully in stories.