[Whaler] Hartford, may I propose a hypothetical question?

[Hartford] You way!

[Hartford] May!

[Whaler] If your spaceship were to crash on an unknown planet, and you collected fuel pellets only to have your ship stolen by a clone pretending to be you, what would you do?

[Hartford] I'm stuck on the planet, you say?

[Hartford] Do I want to escape? Do I care about my reputation? Is my clone evil?

[Whaler] Oh and btw the clone stole your ship by distracting you by making you have an orgy with a bunch of other clones of you

[Hartford] Is the planet hospitable? Is there a local economy? Are there ship builders?

[Whaler] I don't think there is any sentient life except you and your clones

[Whaler] it is hospitalble tho

[Hartford] The rest of the orgy is still there? Were the fuel pellets collected on the planet?

[Whaler] Yes, and the clone took them all to fly the ship

[Whaler] orgy is still there as well

[Hartford] My clones seem to have been able to fix a crashed spaceship. Can I construct a spaceship from local materials using this expertise?

[Whaler] Possibly, although I don't know if the other clones are as malevolent as the thieving clone

[Hartford] Should I just give you an answer however I'd like to interpret the situation and stop asking for clarification?

[Whaler] how much more clarification do you need

[Hartford] I still don't know if you're looking for a "space opera / revernge" story or a "back to nature / gilligans island" story

[Whaler] it could go either way

[Whaler] do you want to see the doujin that the story is from?

[Hartford] I'd like you to link it so I can review later, but I won't read it till I've solved the situation myself

[Whaler] the doujin ends at the stealing of the ship

[Hartford] Ok, so number one issue, I need to make sure that I don't die. These clones obviously don't have my exact personality or memories, so it's not enough that "they're living for me"

[Hartford] If I was on earth or my space ship I'd have access to cryonics / plastination resources

[Hartford] And the fact that my clone left me without those means he's *really* malevolent

[Whaler] The clones do not speak english, but they can gather and work compentently, from what I've seen.

[Whaler] I think they can read your mind too but I'm not sure about that

[Hartford] Oh okay!

[Hartford] Well if we have enough technology for that, then we probably have medical techniques for full detailed brain scanning

[Hartford] So I probably left a copy of my mental state home-side before I went on the adventure

[Hartford] That sounds much more like me

[Hartford] I don't know why I'd expose myself to risks like this if I didn't have a backup

[Hartford] But I still don't want this instantiation of my mind to die. That's not full death, but...it's like my person got smaller

[Hartford] What's the local fauna and flora like?

[Whaler] erm, the doujin doesn't really go into that

[Whaler] the clones are created by biting a fruit and then throwing into a lake

[Hartford] Can I assume I have somthing edible and moderately nutritious and I can find or construct a shelter on short notice if there are predators?

[Hartford] I have techniques for figuring out if the local plants are edible, but that's a lot of boring experimental procedure to write

[Whaler] uh, sure

[Whaler] that fruit was edible, after all

[Hartford] Okay, good. That means I'm not limited to a timeframe of a few days before I pass out from dehydration and exhaustion

[Whaler] well, you do have water, so you're good there

[Hartford] My clone is evil and since he shares so much of my genetic stock I have a moral responsibility to stop him if he's doing something wrong

[Hartford] Which I don't know, but it seems likely since he set up the orgy and did the mutiny thing

[Hartford] I'd like to get off the planet to find out what he's up to at the very least

[Hartford] If the evil clone wasn't out there I'd probably be content with crafting a new life on this planet

[Hartford] Ok, so how can I make a ship...

[Hartford] Oh, crap, medicine first

[Whaler] I should probably mention the clone stole your space suit, so you're pretty much butt naked

[Hartford] Antibiotics, splints, needles, insulin, there will probably be new bacteria and viruses on the planet

[Hartford] Aw crap, I have no built up immunity

[Hartford] So I need to make a fire and sterile some air fast

[Hartford] And an airtight shelter

[Hartford] Gah, this is a lot to do, bro

[Hartford] Link please?

[Whaler] http://g.e-hentai.org/s/b7da6afa04/55001-1

[Whaler] it's 16 pages

[Hartford] ...is it hentai?

[Whaler] yes

[Hartford] Should have seen that coming

[Whaler] that's sort of implied by the word hentai in the url

[Hartford] Anywho

[Hartford] Eventually I need do mining and metallurgy

[Hartford] And glass and plastic, preferably using plant oils, because drilling is far beyong what I can do here

[Hartford] How can I build an inexpensive computer...

[Hartford] I don't know enough chemistry to do chip fabrication

[Hartford] I think I could build core memory or control relay memory

[Whaler] if you did you can probably instruct the clones to build lots of stuff since you have so much manpower

[Hartford] But that and the copper wiring are going to require more metal than I can gather on my own

[Hartford] Oh, I thought they left to pilot the ship?

[Whaler] Only one.

[Hartford] Ohokay

[Hartford] WELL THAT CHANGES FUGGIN EVERYTHING

[Whaler] the others were busy orgying

[Hartford] Am I on a pretty big chunk of land?

[Whaler] so you could just live out your last days having sex with yourself

[Whaler] yes

[Hartford] Nope, evil clone, moral obligation

[Whaler] Fair enough.

[Hartford] If I have op amps I think I can build logic gates, and from that a basic alu

[Hartford] Maybe I should try analog computing though, if resources all have to be excavated

[Hartford] Like fluidics or fibreoptics

[Hartford] Right, so. We're doing engineering, we need a system of units

[Hartford] So I need a length, a time, and a pressure, right?

[Hartford] And then the rest can be derived units

[Whaler] temperatute too, probs

[Hartford] What would you do on the planet?

[Whaler] well, I could try to construct some sort of tribe of clones

[Whaler] they seem obdient

[Hartford] And they'll serve you till you die?

[Whaler] I assume so

[Hartford] All righty

[Hartford] I can't do nuclear propulsions, would have to be chemical rocket

[Hartford] And that means I need to know more about ceramics so the ship body doesn't melt itself

[Hartford] So I'm probably going to establish a pretty huge research project with all my clones

[Hartford] And the, when I'm out there...

[Whaler] Maybe you could establish some sort of distress signal?

[Hartford] Solar sail won't be fast enough to track him or get home before my resources run out, even if we're farming on the ship

[Hartford] OH! There's society up there? I kind of figured we were doing a long range scout mission

[Whaler] even so, distress signal seems easier than researching advanced rocketry from scratch

[Hartford] Easier, but it's not going to get me saved

[Hartford] But yeah, it's a good idea

[Hartford] No reason we can't do both

[Whaler] we have all the time in the world

[Hartford] Probably less than 90 years

[Hartford] And with every ticking second, goatee-hartford is tripping old ladies

[Whaler] true

[Whaler] If you get off the planet, would you take your clones with you?

[Hartford] That's a lot of extra mass to keep them alive

[Hartford] But I'll need a few, yeah

[Whaler] what if you bond with them emotionally?

No cheese for you! ^_^

[Hartford] Oh right, these clones aren't quite me. *I'm* okay with living on the planet, save for the evil clone, but they might not be

[Hartford] Friggin moral dillemas and shit

No cheese for you! ^_^

[Hartford] I think I've had enough hypothetical masturbation.