by C S » Sat Jan 22, 2011 5:24 am
The mining facillity was completed in a short amount of time. The structure was smaller than the actual base above, and was built into the walls of the chasm, spanning across the bottom of the dark drop. It was made of the same dull silver metal, with the glowing red strip of energy running across the wall casting off the shadows. The area around the facillity was bathed in a soft red light, revealing jagged rocks that jutted from the very bottom of the chasm. Overhead, there were many outcrops extending from the two sides of the chasm. Some outcrops extended all the way across, forming natrual bridges. Strange vine like growths covered the walls and hung down from the outcrops, the growths being a sickly green in color. It was clear that the Orakians that would venture out on this alien world would need to keep their space suits on. As for the mining facillity itself, it was completely automated. Once its start up power generator activated, the base sent out drill-cables to tap into geothermal hotspots, while autonomous assembly machinery constructed mining drones and transports that would relay resources to the main base above. The first wave of mining droids were produced quickly, small simple robots that the builder mechs towered over. The droids were made out of an obsidian metal and were fitted with a tread mounted chasis. The treads were brown in color. The body of the robots was a dome atop the chasis, four mechanical arms attached to it. At the front of the robots was a circular panel with the machines' optical sensors. One sensor was a short telescopic lense. The other was blue and slightly longer. The last was green, and was just about flat on the panel. The robots would cycle through the different views whenever nessecary, making a low whirring noise when they did. One of the robots' arms was mounted with a high precision sustained heat laser, useful in carving through the rock walls. On another was a silver corkscrew drill, for extracting ore. The other two arms were for manipulation purposes, moving obstacles or holding large chunks of ore. These were fitted with four multisegmented, broad fingers on circular hands. They made an X shape when all fingers were extended at once. On their back, the robots had a cylindrical resource storage cache to keep their finds. The droids moved out, cycling through their optics, scanning their enviroment on an atomic level as they searched for valuable resources. By now the builder mechs had left, shooting back to the surface with specially fitted jets on the walkers’ sides, the engines roaring as they propelled the large robots upwards.
