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PTW, and I have numerous ideas:
* If at all possible, try to have the moon believe that we don't mean any harm. Maybe send down an unarmed drone which can transmit messages. Maybe we can send a copy of a blueprint (ofc not a dangerous one, maybe a miner) as a token of goodwill. If we can get them to side with us, we might be able to learn more about the situation.
* I do believe that we could eventually get an asteroid base, but I rather believe that we should move operations to it, while keeping us in an easily identifiable (as being artificial) shell. The reason being is that if the asteroid falls from orbit, the size it has would make escaping orbit again difficult if not impossible, while also making neutral parties believe it is a natural asteroid, which could destroy us.
* Since we don't know a whole lot about our purpose, we should try to be on good terms with _everyone_ until we know the purpose. Then, in the offchance we are supposed to destroy someone, we can both evaluate the instruction to see if that is actually the best thing to do, and if it is, they won't know what hit them since we are supposibly on their side.
* I support the drone ship idea, but I believe that it should have the capabilities of eventually housing us. If the moon turns out to be 100% hostile, we shouldn't hang around, and a falling-apart satallite-ship-space-station-thing is not the best thing to move around in, especially since the only thrusters are only suitable for maintaining orbit.
* Are the asteroids we see what the presumed destroyed planet became? If so, send at least one eye down to investigate the remains. Maybe also design a modified eye which has probing capabilities, like the Mars rovers? It might be better to prospect asteroids before mining them, since we might just end up using up materials to find that an asteroid has nothing of value in it or, worse yet, some other AI (another reason to not move to an asteroid)

EDIT: Since we in our form right now are rather vulnerable, the drone should report that we are a hivemind AI composed of the drones. If the moon gets angry, they will hopefully target all the drones; if this happens, we can design some dummy drones which don't have any useful functunality and send out a swarm of them to distract the moon. If the moon trusts us from our goodwill, then when we eventually move to a more secure shell, we can report that we weren't actually a hivemind, but we reported that for our own safety, since said moon had an aggressive response in the past, and that we were actually were in the sattelite the drones came from. Ofc we had already moved out of there, in case the moon gets angry. But telling the truth might help build the trust a bit more


EDIT: WAIT A SECOND!!!
What if _we_ nuked the planet, and the EMP from the nuke knocked us out, as well as all the files less some specific ones? Or the ones that were wiped were never there in the first place?

That is only speculation, mind you, and there is just about zero proof for it.

My DFHack way is to tiletypes the walls of the intended staircase to stone, then have dwarves dig the staircase, and DFhack liquids away the water that floods in.

EDIT: IIRC there is a variation for tiletypes to clear the aquifer tag from the selected tiles

Maybe you should get a ò for someone for the holidays...don't forget to link it to central heating

So does higher density have a fewer number of stronger hits?

The traditional understanding is that greater density == harder hits. However, this study goes against that.

Someone should check the actual code dealing with it update the wiki with their findings from the code.

You sometimes get massive migraine waves like that. It happens often when you have made a good start and your value is going up.

Yeah, sieges always give me headaches.

(Sieges are triggered from high population and value, for those who don't know)

DO NOT ATTACK THE GUARD!!!
Caravan guards are (assuming Dwarven) of the same civilization as you. If one of your men attacks them, the attacker will be considered an enemy of the civ (while being a part of it still), which causes other dwarves to attack them, in turn making them enemies of the civ.

My best advice is, with DFHack, hover over them with 'v' and "tweak fixmigrant". What the command does is mark them as being a member of the fort. It commonly happens that someone wants to join your fort, but they were a trader. The game does not properly mark them as not being a merchant anymore, so when they arrive on the map from a wave, they automatically try to guard a caravan.

I, when responding to the "what to do in a cavern" thread, just got the idea of evening out the caverns, removing the stalagtites and stalagmites. However, I want to cavein the 'tites (ceiling ones). Does a support hold things up below it like it does above it? (not both at the same time)

EDIT: Going to make a picture
EDIT: I forgot how much of a pain AsciiDraw is on this system (Insert key is Fn+PrintScreen)

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Technically wagons are multi-tile creatures