Sunday, May 15, 2011

v0.1

They say all innovation starts with boredom. Jimmy, I said to myself, there’s no shortage of that now.

I found myself deeper than I’d ever been, deeper than any reasonable person would go.

I turned on the lights.

Took a moment to adjust, but things were, well they were better than expected.

Not wanting to go mad down here, I set a day/night cycle. That’s something accomplished, then.

I got the renovation systems running, and set up the command centre far above the testing floor. Something else to cross off the list.

The bottom levels were flooded. A diagnostic had already found the leak, but it was too big to deal with yet. I had that area sealed off and the rest drained.

I opened the Central catalogue and went a little nuts.

I ordered seeds and embryos of just about everything fully documented. If they complained, I’d just tell them I was testing field conditions.

The local backup generator looked like it could light up the whole space, so I set that under the command centre. I also put an old star map on the ceiling, cause why not? Keep everything naturalistic, you don’t discover any new forms of madness.

Maybe I’ll change things up later.

It was time to start testing, so I ordered a couple of humans from Central.

And this is where things started to go wrong for poor Jimmy.

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