guess it's not technically graverobbing if the bodies aren't buried

but i'm still calling it that

getting into that mad scientist mood

made myself a white coat and all

why not

i mean its already grubby as flip but eh

kind of a weird cliche when you think about it

white coats

because doing mad superscience is like

super messy

maybe i could invent some kind of filth resistant everclean white fabric except no. don't get distracted. you're doing good work here jin. good weird dangerous exciting superscience superwork.

so just to begin with even just feeding ant corpses into the mareo makes that thing superhappy. possibilities abound. got construction drones working on like a chute system. so the scavenger drones can just dump corpses in and they get autoconverted. put some like thresher blades in there too so if any ants try to sneak in that way heyoooo free antbits

basic boring use is to make better shards for my shardrifle. ant chitin junk is way better than crud. this is not surprising. everything is better than crud. i mean i could have been using scrap to turn into metal shards. but i need that stuff for building. and repairs. so many repairs. giant ants will literally eat your house. so yeah.

anyway i made a couple dozen chitinshards. added them to the selector dial on my shardrifle. made a lovely new label for it. decorated with sparkles and rainbows. why not be fabulous at the end of the world. glitterpocalypse.

next is maybe some kind of armour? don't know about that one. wearing dead ants and using dead ants to fight giant ants sounds cool but i feel like the reality isn't so romantic. could get pretty bulky and annoying. maybe just like some kneepads or something. my knees always get donked up when i go out.

also. ant chitin sword. or blades. claws! could add them to my roboarm. or my heat blast drone. or both! anyway got tests going figuring out how sharp and strong we can get ant chitin material. have to see if antsword is even viable. hope it is. sometimes you get an idea and it just sticks in your head.

goopy dirty lemon ant blood might be trickier. got some tests running. it's not flammable which is instantly disappointing. but y'know. could be useful for something. experiments continue.

did some basic work on buzzers. started out bulking them up with armour and such but then i was like wrong direction jin. so now they're tiny little things with buzzy giant ant attracting speakers and also these jump springs that are pretty hilarious honestly. they're like crazy little fleas. bouncing all over the place. plus extra tracks and wheels AND robolegs so they are as all terrain as it gets. working on a microteleporter thing so they can actually like warp around. flashstepping microdrones. giant ants gonna be like whaaaaaat

still getting a lot of attacks. constant stream pretty much. really ticked off that hive by yknow killing all their workers and special elemental ants and such. hehehe. i mean i have no idea about the actual state of things. the theatre of war or whatever. maybe i've got literally a million ants heading this way and i'm hopelessly doomed. but it kind of feels like i'm winning at this point. at least against this one local hive. haven't much looked past this neighbourhood. pretty deep in the city here. industrial area. got like seventeen suburbs between me and anything that could be considered non urban. wonder if giant ants like residential areas. twenty reasons giant ants love suburban living. number seven will shock you.

okay the thing's bleeping at me. time to go see if antsword can be a thing.

please let antsword be a thing