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How many dwarfs are left in Deathgate at this point?  It seems like ages since we had any migrants mentioned.

Inside, amidst a cacophony of machinery, rests a giant robot, covered in spikes and blades, that appears to be inactive at the moment. It shines dimly in the half-light. The rover approaches it, and the robot flashes out a clawed talon, immediately destroying it. However, it makes no moves towards the outside. The captain speculates that it may be defensive in nature, or perhaps it is primarily meant to discourage organics.

Does this remind anyone else of the Dwemer Centurions from Skyrim?

Anyway, I say we send in the security bots and see if they can handle it.  It sound big and scary, but so far all we've seen it use is claws.  Blades vs. guns: our bots should win easily.  Of course, it might have other weapon systems, but we can always make more security bots.

This has been reported ever since ghosts were put in the game.  And yes, it is hilarious.  Unfortunately, it's difficult to make it happen in any kind of reliable way.

You just have to make a fortress like mine: a few miserable dwarfs surrounded by tons of ghosts.  The wiki says that a fell moody dwarf will simply grab the nearest dwarf, since there are around 5 ghosts to every living dwarf in my fortress, chances are the nearest dwarf will be a ghost!  Finely crafted dwarf ghost trinkets for everyone!

If we've never used nanites before, perhaps we should put some research into them before deploying them.  We don't want a nanite plague to tear apart the system. 

Most asteroids are loose conglomerations of chunks of rock.  A few good-sized explosions from conventional explosives should shatter it apart pretty well.  Use some of our mining bots to drill a few well-placed boreholes into the asteroid, fill those boreholes with explosives, and watch that asteroid turn into rubble!  Most of the rubble will probably miss the planet (since the explosions that ripped the asteroid apart will have altered their trajectory) and whatever hits will mostly be burned up in the atmosphere. 

If all else fails, we have the nuclear option.  A bunch of radioactive chunks of asteroid falling on Aquarius would no doubt be quite harmful, but probably less harmful than the full force of the asteroid impact.

Alright, two Mavens!  A triumph for science!  On to the next stage of enhancements!

Also, we should probably redirect that asteroid so it doesn't hit Aquarius.  We've done enough damage to that planet, its the least we could do.  When is it expected to hit?  If we have time, I'd suggest using a mass driver that mines chunks of the asteroid and hurls them in the opposite direction of the way we want it to go, thus propelling the asteroid using its own mass as propellent and solar power as the power source (Like so: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid-impact_avoidance#Mass_driver)

Or we could use our little fleet to pound it into rubble small enough to burn up in the atmosphere.

It feels weird for me to be the one suggesting this, but what if we just have Urist (aka. me) have the codes to open the crate.  If we do have a traitor on board, we can be pretty sure its not an AI, since the saboteur's weapon of choice would be an AI's last choice.  As an AI, I would be the only one not willing to open the crate while its on board, since that would kill me, unlike you humans.

Didn't we have some kind of quarantine box? If I remember correctly, we had some when we got the Flarewise and put those unidentified cases in some?

If we do, it might be best to put the EMP device in one of those, just in case.

What if we made it into something like a missile?  So no one could set off the EMP while it was aboard, and we could fire it out (or at least shove it in a general direction) and then remotely open the box once we're at a safe distance.

BTW, was I turned off? 

Building destroyers can never attack drawbridges.  Above, below, open, closed, retracted, extended, it doesn't matter.  No one can ever attack drawbridges.  They are always invincible.

(Drawbridges can be destroyed by dropping them on something non-atom-smashable (Titans, FBs, etc) or by melting if something very hot touches them while they're open)