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Planetary Urbanization by Robots
Topic Started: Dec 26 2008, 03:17 AM (1,182 Views)
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In this scenario, two kinds of an entire machine entity land on a barren planet. One are the machine citizens, the other the nanotech creatures which come from a grayish goo-like substance which serve various purposes. Firstly, they construct the very first city on the colonized planet through nanotechnology using the planet's materials. In a matter of millennia, the entire planet's surface is covered in city.

If they could, could this hypothetical race somehow cool the planet's interior and dig deep within to urbanize the rest of the planet (if that is even possible)? I have already thought up of one story, but I am not sure if it would be plausible. Discuss.
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Kinda reminds me of the manga BLAME! by Tsutomu Nihei. In that world, the Earth has been overdeveloped so much by out-of-control machines that the whole solar system has been engulfed in the engineering... Sounds crazy, but you have to read it for it to make sense. Humanity is almost extinct, and is hunted by Silicone Creatures and Safeguards (the Silicone Creatures have been described on another forum as being the offspring of Spam.)

Well, story-wise, it's plausible. Another writer has developed a similar concept, so it is vaguely plausible! XD
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Here is my story.

A large spaceship has arrived to a barren planet, of which we will call Hephaestus, after a hundred-year trip. The dropship dips into the thin, unbreathable atmosphere of this world. When it finally touched the ground, thousands of machines marched out of the ship. Afterwards, they immediately get to city-building. Through nanotechnology, they mine the planet for raw materials which will be used to building the first city. The machines finally settled in, but the desire to expand persists. The city contiues to expand in a span of millennia, until it covers the entire surface of Hephaestus, effectively forming an ecumenopolis. They did not stop there, however. They began building multi-layered cities that scraped the sky, and even began expanding into the crust.

I will stop there for now. How will they be able to cool down the interior? If they do by any chance, I believe one consequence would be the loss of the magnetosphere, thus endangering the machine's transmissions to solar winds. I believe they could get around it, however.
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Makes me think that a Transformers-like civilization could exist...Autobots, Roll Out !



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In millions of year, if the robots reproduce themselves as such that they can evolve entire robotic ecosystems could evolve!
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That'd be a sight !



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In their planet, they could build sanctuaries for nanolife.
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Damn, that's somthing like BLAME!. But very well-thought, maybe a machine race would evolve there...
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Continuing the story...

The machines, after building multi-layered cities as tall as the atmosphere and replacing 90% of the crust with city matter, they still wanted to expand. So within thousands of years, they cooled down the interior of Hesphaestus. One positive outcome of this legnthy process was that the machine colonists had a lot more room to expand. But with the planet being colder, the magnetosphere has been lost, meaning that the planet was susceptible to solar winds. However, the wise, thinking machines, in the process of cooling the planets interior, they built a planet-wide sun sheild to help block out solar winds from damaging communications or even killing machines. This sun sheild consisted of individual "scales", and had many ports of which spacecraft can fly out of. It also served as a gigantic solar panel, which supplied the machine empire with an infinity of electricity. Afterwards, they continued expanding into the mantle. In there, the machines devised actual wildlife sanctuaries rather than the many zoos on the surface. So several bubble-like sanctuaries, spanning a few thousand miles, were built. In them inhabited various species of nanolife, which included many species of crystaline plants, cicada-like flyers, various species of insectile predators, large and rubbery herbivores, and even various detritivores. They breathed oxygen and drank water collected from the local asteroid belt. The nanolife could reproduce just like biological life forms, and could even evolve. However, their only reason for existing is for entertainment purposes for the overlording, burgeoning machines who created them in the first place.

To be continued...
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Do continue, this is interesting... vastly different from the dark and decaying Megastructure of BLAME!
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If you like nanotech, read Michael Crichton's book "Prey". Very insightful and interesting.

I'm just wondering: how violent are the machines? If they could find Earth, would they most likely take it over or ally with them? If the former, I've got a story you should read.
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The machines, though their motives are expantionalist, they only inhabit dead planets, although they did come from a living planet, and they understand how organic life are just as much as living things as themselves.
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Dinosaurs eat man, woman inherits the Earth.

Just wondering.

Like it so far. Keep it up.
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okay, I don't understand WHY the machienes would CARE about creating wildlife, or even building cities...

as far as I know a machiene would only want to colonize another world to build more machienes, so why have the complex role of citizens? why not just have them create masive factories to build more machienes, then move o to another world once the planet's resources were depleeted?

it just dosen't make sence to me that machienes would want to go through all of this trouble...

BUT, I love the concept of the evolving nano-wildlife, could you go into more detail with them? mabey draw some skecthes of them, and how they live?
because there are an infinite number of alternate realities, withen them an infinite ammount of infinite things are possible... infinitly.

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okay, I don't understand WHY the machienes would CARE about creating wildlife, or even building cities...
Well, to put it simply, they made nanolife entertainment. About the cities, their nanotechnology allows them to to "suck" resources from the planet, or even take ore and turn it into something useful.

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as far as I know a machiene would only want to colonize another world to build more machienes, so why have the complex role of citizens? why not just have them create masive factories to build more machienes, then move o to another world once the planet's resources were depleeted?


Don't underestimate the powers of nanotechnology; they can even things by having the gray, viscous substance transform into a certain object, it be a nanotechnological pet, a device, or even a new individual.

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it just dosen't make sence to me that machienes would want to go through all of this trouble...


Well, this is a fictional scenario, if they did want to be mainiacly burdgeoning on a certain planet.
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