159. THETA-CP19 Restored
After resetting and restarting the subsystem labeled Machine Production, its status changes to CONFIGURING.
The voice speaks to you again, this time appearing as a glowing fuchsia hologram in the center of the room.
It takes the shape of a four-legged animal, though one you have never seen before, with the powerful muscles of a predator, in a lithe form.
It looks disturbingly like a Sawtooth covered in golden fur.
Thank you, friends. I can now introduce myself: my name is ARTEMIS. This facility, and others like it, were designed to gestate and introduce species into the local ecosystem.
The bioschemata you have unlocked will allow me to greatly increase biodiversity and ecosystem stability. If you have any interest in helping to guide the selection of new species, you would be most welcome. While my animal husbandry and behavioral data for most of the non-pioneer species still seems limited, I can make educated guesses for many or most of them.
If asked how this process would work:
We would have conversations, as we are doing now, to help me get a sense for what your people are ready for, or might want to see in the world around you. I still have extensive knowledge of inter-species relationships, not just between animals, but also with the plants and larger ecology of an area. With your help, we might push for more species which might be of help while farming, or cooperative hunting, or companionship, and so on. As new species are introduced, the machines produced in this facility would be able to measure their population health along with the balance of the biome, informing our future decisions. If certain combinations would be counter-productive, we can have discussions about alternatives or long-term management plans.