Did you know that throughout all of human history, technology has only improved incredibly quickly in the last few hundred years? For most of our time, all we had was fire, caves, and whatever else we could get our grubby hands on. Oh, those poor wolves that became pugs! It's one of the things that I find annoying about transmigrators thinking they can change a whole society and bring it into a modern era just because of half-baked information and the plot armor of Armored Truck-kun. There are lots of little inventions to make important things work that go unnoticed by people not specializing in specific fields of study. Or the transmigrator doesn't understand the social issues that come with invention. For example, in Game of Thrones, you might think introducing glass, the printing press, and Roman concrete are good ideas, but then you have to remember that Maesters control knowledge, and traditional social stability is best for the nobles. Your ideas would probably get you killed, not to mention the time it will actually take to implement. You'll be old by the time society accepts bigger ideas if you haven't made enemies out of everyone powerful enough to be benefiting from the status quo or wanting to hoard knowledge for themselves. It's part of the reason I chose nanites and sci-fi elements to bridge the gap in time and society. Anyway, thanks for listening to my rambling.
The larva nodes and burrows go back to the ground and away from the noise of the surface. I sigh as I look around. It's been a week or two, and the landscape has changed. There are two more tents for a more convenient work/life balance; they'll contain my programming room and any equipment that I make for other projects. I've started a small garden of edible plants I found. Unfortunately, they don't taste very good but don't kill me, so it's all good. There are no more trees and grass in a 30m area, and I have a couple of big cubes of nanite goo to work with.
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My end goal is to make OP replicators, so I start by programming an assembly plan for replicator blocks, a basic ancient computer, and a bicycle with electrical adapters hooked up to the tires. I don't have the advanced materials to make solar panels or wind turbines.
I then make several basic batteries that will try their best to last 15 minutes. After all my designs are set up, I watch as the black goop moves to the piles of metals and resources, breaking them apart. Then it assembles the required parts, filling in what materials we don't have with nanites. It is really cool to watch, like Big Hero 6 microbots but on a smaller scale and with more eldritch goop.
When the little guys are done, I spend some time setting everything up in a work tent. Then, in my infinite knowledge, I hook up the bicycle to the batteries and the batteries to the ancient computer, which is really just a set of dials with symbols on them—no screen because I simply don't have the materials for it.
I'll have to remember exactly what I type down. Super brain, I'm counting on you! Lastly, I connect the computer with my first replicator block. For the next three months (yes, three months of programming highly advanced sci-fi robot lego takes time), I worked hard to charge the batteries using my kinetic energy from the bicycle and programming the replicator block while I incrementally made improvements to my setup and energy-generating scheme. It was still like running a physical and mental marathon.
It's a pity my nanites can't just become replicator blocks. Truly, I was a fool for not wanting to be OP from the start and to start far away from civilization or at least cheap labor. Getting off the bicycle, I looked at the ordinary silver block in my hand. I was very smug at this moment because with this, I had made an entire species if all went well and I didn't die due to a stupid coding mistake that was missed in my numerous paranoia-induced double checks.
I placed the block on a pile of unprogrammed ones I had prepared earlier, like on a cooking channel. Anticipation mounted as data transferred.
