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Instead of trying to send a bunch of mech nanites to try & do an autonomous (from earth management) swarm infrastructure development project in another star system where WE DON'T YET KNOW THE SITUATION THEY WILL HAVE TO DEAL WITH?

Wouldn't it be simpler to write a very information dense, self replicating and self modifying to fit various environments "development code", possibly as some sort of long chain molecule? Ideally using the cheapest and most common elements to ensure any comet or chunk of leftover mass will probably have the required materials, no gold, palladium or whatever less common elements required. It's going to be a very long term project anyhow, best do as many of them as fast as possible, that requires CHEAP manufacture and absolute minimum mass despatched towards any particular system... Not grams of nanites, micrograms of coded molecules, only one or two of which even need to arrive at a place in a star system with raw materials & some solar energy.

Oh wait- WHAT am I made of? WHY are we here? WHO started this odd circus?! Never mind...

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