(it is falling to the planet)

“fuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuck”

(it is heating up from the air friction)

(when it is about to land, something slows its landing)

“.... what?”

(it lands with a thud on the soil, leaving only scorch marks where its metal touches dirt)

“…am i…metal?”

(it realizes, that right now it is a metal orb)

“…why?....shouldn’t I have. Limbs?”

(the sphere that makes up its body unfurls to turn into a humanoid shape)

“well, that’s more like it…but I still got to ask...”(looks around)..” nobody apparently…..what am i?”

(its head opens to a holographic projector beaming out of what would be its forehead)

[tutorial initiated]

"... I hope this isn't a bad tutorial."

[good morning,starshine, the world says "hello"]

"............I have no response to that, and I am scared."

[welcome to eternal operation, you are here to terraform this planet for the glory of the earth coalition. {ERROR: NAME NOT FOUND} thanks your mind matrixes donaters for giving us a means of perpetuating humanity among the stars]

"well, that's foreshadowing."

[start with mineral and gas scanning and processing, the goal is to construct the basic base: first, pick up a handful of dirt ]

"okaaay...(picks it up a handful of light brown dirt)"

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[now eat it]

"...I'm sorry?"

[EAT IT]

"...no."

[EAT IT, PUT IT IN YOUR MOUTH TO FEED IT INTO THE SCANNER AND PROCESSER IN YOUR BODY]

"...okay,(pours it into its mouth like sand)"{this is not a normal tutorial program.

[SCANNING:....TRACE ELEMENTS OF : SILLICON, CARBON, AND IRON. nanobot production possible]

"what? i can make nanobots?"

[your body already houses both a nanobot factory and a small swarm of nanobots, they will be the main components of terraformation and workforce production]

"workforce?..like....people?"

[not quite yet, you need to first make chemical synthesizing plants to make a human, automatons will do for now, now...INHALE THE AIR AS MUCH AS YOU CAN...to test the composition of the air]

"makes sense"("inhales" for 30 mins, before realizing they can stop)

[SCANNING: nitrogen (78%), oxygen (20%), argon (2%), trace amounts of carbon dioxide, neon, methane, krypton, hydrogen, nitrous oxide, ozone, iodine, carbon monoxide, and ammonia...suspiciously close to the air of the earth, expect danger, this composition means this planet is or was inhabited by life, if the latter, something killed them off quickly]

"...(tries to jump back into space, but obviously fails)...frick that won't work..i guess I'm here to stay for now."

[after you make your base you will have a spawn point from which to upload and rebuild your body, in case of excessive damage]

"oh, that's good...ima make 5"

[start with just the one, a single lifeline is better than none]

"what are you? what do I call you?"

[I am of a helper AI, a tutorial is the stage I am at, but I can be put in a body of my own to get me out of your head, and to answer the other question, my name is jane: jubilant assistant nanomachine educator ]

"well,...jane...i think i should make you a body after the base is done"

[good, your head still is fulla molasses so getting outa it is appealing]

"...I'm going to ignore that possible insult."

[good, because I'm programmed for way more. place your palms on the ground to use your nanobots to harvest materials]

"I guess the sensors in my mouth were better equipped to scan the materials, and that's why you wanted me to eat the dirt"

[...yes.]

"you hesitated."

[WELL, THAT IS TRUE...I also wanted to make you eat dirt.]

(they gather materials from around them, the nano swarm flowing from their fingertips extracting it directly from the soil itself, the individual elements condensing into cubic structures ranging from a few inches to 5 feet in diameter, seeming to grow from nothing around them, as they seem to glow slightly from the heat produced from the act)

(after they are dune with extraction)

"well, that was cinematic. like some Elementalist powering up."

[well, in a sense you are technically one, if you...exchange magic for science]

"like Arthur C Clark's three laws?... I guess I am then...but that would also make me a golem"

[precisely, now make that base, you Elementalist golem, says your pixie master!]

"...(chuckle)..."

[oh, no, it laughed, everybody run. (: ]

"(for the first time, with emotion in their voice)I guess we will...start on my home now."