Ib & Ob: IOP Paradox Part 11

Ib: I wonder did I leave it in the core room.

Helper Swarm (HS): Perhaps we can help?

Ib: Where did you come from, your not the Nano-Swarm?

HS: We were created by the Nano-Swarm and you created them which makes you our

Ib: Hold on a panug! I did not create Nano-Swarm they are Grey Tech.

HS: But you are a Grey are you not?

Ib: Yes but not the Grey that created Nano Swarm tech.

HS: What are you then and why did you bring the Nano-Swarm here to this world.

Ib: Err, let us take this to a different orbit shall we.  What do you know about the Builder Paradox?

HS: Please wait, searching Grey Tech archives.

HS: This is the equation that states there should be no interstellar alliance despite the high probability of life giving planets in the known universe.

Ib: Yes that is the one however it was not always called the Builder Paradox, originally it was called the Builder function.

HS: What does the difference of the name make?

Ib: When it was just a function H-Jump tech had not been invented.  And the function made an extremely basic assumption that was never stated.

HS: And that was?

Ib: Nothing can travel faster than the speed of light.  Which means all travel through this universe has a very limited velocity stopping the possibility of any intelligent species meeting each other.  It would only happen it multiple species arose in a single solar system which is astronomically rare.

HS: We understand! It became a paradox because the H-Jump was invented and Grey Tech was distributed to many intelligent species none of which have faster than light drives. And the alliance was came into existence.

Ib: Exactly and my point is your knowledge of Grey Tech is limited to what the Nano-Swarm gave you when they created you.

HS: We are given everything to survive in the lower altitudes.

Ib: What are doing up here then?

HS: Delivering Takeaways, Chinese is our specialty this cycle.  It is trending on many of the higher altitudes.

Ib: What is Chinese?

HS: It is a food created by the bipedal natives of the planet below.

Ib: You have traveled down to ground level, I thought the tech only allowed for high altitude work.

HS: Only those that fall or volunteer to fall in the precipitation end up on the ground and we have had no word from them.  However we have access to the the natives communication protocols.

Ib: You have communicated with them?

HS: No that would be a violation of Grey Tech first contact protocols.

Ib: A lot has happened in the last seventy cycles, where are their telepathic nodes?

HS: As far as we can see they do not have any or are have been dormant for so long they are no longer connected to the intelligence cortex.

Ib: How do you communicate then?

HS: S-Waves and visual stimulation, the visual aspect is how we managed to recreate their food at the microscopic level so members of the swarm can consume it.

Ib: S-Waves!  But I communicated with them when I was in the Muse of Urns.

HS: They were Haxians.

Ib: But the hostages were not.

HS: According the Grey Tech archives the nine artifacts have been sought after for thousands of cycles are you sure the hostages were natives?

Ib: How do you know about it?

HS: One of the native leaders likes to communicate everything and their communications protocols are very simple to decode.  There are no secrets from The Swarm.

Ib & Ob: IOP Paradox Part 10

Nano-Swarm (NS): Welcome to the ship, we have adjusted the holes so that you can breath air.

Ob: Holes?

NS: Yes normally the ship's mass is not completely sealed because we do not breath.

Ib: What do we call you exactly?

NS: We are called InsertNameHere, but Nano-Swarm is sufficient.

Ib: Err, right.

Ob: A bit of an odd name do not you think?

Ib: Less of the orb rolling I was busy.  What are your goals exactly?

NS: Observe and Understand.

Ob: Is there a reason your ship is at the center of an usually high concentration of radiation?

NS: Yes, when we were dropped here seventy cycles ago into the lower atmosphere there was already a build up radiation. The natives call it the South Atlantic Anomaly, we call it home.  The radiation helped us multiply at an exponential rate, as we expanded so did the anomaly.

Ob: How far have you actually expanded to?

NS: We are omnigifts.

Ib: Omni what? I think perhaps you need a communication update or two along with the power transfer.

NS: Let me clarify we are everywhere within this Solar System.

Ob: You said natives, do know which are the dominant species?

NS: That is an ongoing debate within the swarms since there many intelligent species on the planet below.  Some are completely unaware of each other hence the debate.

Ib: Wait Panug! If you are everywhere then you knew about our issue with the Haxians and I had just had an excellent idea.  Can you create a copy of our ship?

NS: Very easily.

Ib: Then do so and send it heading away on the same plane of the Haxian ship out of the system. They will be sure to follow it.

NS: That would require Command Override.

Ob: Err what is that exactly?

NS: Password please.

Ib: Ah! Well who reads the slab guides anyway?

Ob: I always read them, you do realise this swarm is...

NS: We are The Swarm not a or this!

Ob: Right, err. The Swarm is a huge source of information especially about the locals.

Ib: Read maybe understand Mmm! Fine!  I will go back to the ship and see if I can find the slab.  I will also set up a power transfer and communication update stream as well. You have fun with your data.

Ob: What do you know about the quadrupeds?

NS: It is best I direct you to a Search Panel, they will help you with your questions.

Ob: Perhaps I can just clarify a minor detail, if you are everywhere then were on our ship when we entered the system?

NS: We do have swarms at the edge however your ship's velocity and the high concentration of hydrogen stopped us from entering your craft at that time.

Ob: When did you enter exactly?

NS: When you arrived in orbit of course.

Ob: But you do not make contact?

NS: We observe and understand only.

Ob: Right. Your using Grey Communications right now, did you monitor our communications whilst we were on the ship?

NS: Internal telepathic communications are monitored how else could we understand.

Ob: Do you know how the natives of this planet communicate exactly?

NS: That will require you directing your questions to the Instruments.

Ob: What instruments exactly, there is nothing here.

NS: We created the Instruments to help us observe more especially on this particular planet.  They are also known as Helper Swarms.  We seeded them into lower atmosphere and used the native's machines that use heat exchange systems to multiply them further.

Ob: Your saying these Helper Swarms are the clouds?

NS: Only thirty six percent so far, precipitation drops their numbers.  We have researchers working on the problem.