They would be in essence miniature flying
factories, designed to use advanced robotic systems to mine and process ore,
harvest raw materials, fabricate individual components, and assemble all the
varied parts into a whole probe. Depending on the complexity of the probe and
the sophistication of the robotic systems involved, the process to produce a
single daughter probe can vary from a few days to several years.
The
original probe may stay in the system or continue on, depending on its mission
parameters. If it stays, it may act as a communication relay between its
"children" and its home planet, or it may begin processing the
system’s resources for anticipated follow-up colonization ships from the home
planet, or it may launch resources back to its point of origin for its building
race’s material needs.
For
our needs, it will actually prepare the
new planet for all the inhabitants of Earth.
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