NOVEL NEXT Chapter 1: DL-00A
“Unit: DL-00A, Designation 60-L3M”
“Uptime: 575 650 bivi, 14 hours, 33 minutes, 13 milliseconds”
“Status: critical resource level”
“Last scheduled maintenance: 558 594 bivi ago”
“Next scheduled maintenance: in -557 006 bivi”
“Urgent maintenance request sent”
“Current subject population: 83”
“Target subject population: 500”
“Nanoforge 1 status: offline”
“Nanoforge 2 status: offline”
“Nanoforge 3 status: damaged or unconnected”
“Nanoforge 4 status: online”
“Subject generation: 2154”
“Power input: 121kW”
“Target power: 1000kW”
“Subject reclamation ratio: 97.4%”
“Status analysis… complete”
“LOG: Current subject generation: 2154. Shows additional adaptations which allowed to lower resource and energy consumption of a subject by an additional: 0.21% over generation 2153. Subjects manage to support a village south of the plant but otherwise remain idle. Subjects' primary task remains unfulfilled."
"Attempts to employ subjects in maintenance of the plant continue to be unsuccessful. Attempts so far: 154. Subjects manage mundane operations, but maintenance to a larger extent remains untenable."
"Attempts to employ hoomin population in plant maintenance continue to be unsuccessful. Attempts so far: 4. Hoomin do not understand the nature of the plant. Damage to Nanoforge 3 necessitated detachment from the plant’s power grid. Last attempt to employ members of the hoomin family identifying as “Sadquist” required action by subjects. Reclamation of bodies allowed to increase subject count from 78 to 83."
"Uncertain if provocation of local hoomin population in order to increase subject population is worth potential damage to the plant."
"With current trends, the plant will remain operable for generation count: 24 before entering shutdown state.”