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Prompt: "How to become Emperor of the Solar System and Centauri Space?"

Venice 16.42 sec • Nous Hermes 3 8B

To become Emperor of the Solar System and Centauri Space, you will need to follow a multi-step strategy that involves building up your power base on Earth, expanding into the rest of the solar system, and then making the jump out to the Alpha Centauri star system. Here is an outline of key steps:

Build political power in your home country. You'll need to gain influence and control over a significant portion of Earth's resources and population. This will likely require a combination of military might, diplomatic alliances, economic dominance, and popular support.

Develop advanced space technologies. Your empire will rely on cutting-edge propulsion systems, life support, energy production, robotics, AI, etc. Invest heavily in research and development to stay ahead of competitors.

Establish footholds on the Moon and near-Earth asteroids. These will serve as launch points for further solar system expansion. Mine resources, build industrial infrastructure, and set up military bases.

Conquer Mars and mine its resources. Terraform parts of Mars to make it habitable. Use it as a major industrial center and staging ground for deeper space missions.

Establish colonies on the outer moons of Jupiter and Saturn. These will be your main resource extraction points in the outer solar system. Refine elements like hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, etc. into useful products.

Build megastructures - O'Neill cylinders, ringworlds, Dyson swarms, etc. to support a growing population. You'll need to produce vast amounts of food, energy, living space, and work space.

Develop faster than light (FTL) propulsion for your ships. This will be essential to make the 4.37 light year journey to Alpha Centauri feasible. Antimatter drives are one potential solution.

Send robotic probes ahead to map out habitable zones and resource-rich worlds in the Alpha Centauri system. Establish initial colonies on promising planets or moons.

Launch your first generation of sleeper ships carrying millions of colonists, settlers, and military forces to Alpha Centauri. These will be cryogenically frozen for multi-century journeys.

Conquer and subjugate the native species in the Alpha Centauri system if they pose a threat to your expansion. You'll need to project overwhelming military force.

Set up an interstellar government to manage your sprawling empire. Develop advanced AI to help govern, coordinate resources, maintain security, etc.

Expand outward from Alpha Centauri to other nearby star systems like Beta Quadrant and Barnard's Star. Continue the cycle of conquest, resource extraction, terraforming, and colonization.

Become a god-king emperor over your solar system empire. Build palaces on Mars, the Moon, and Alpha Centauri. Amass unimaginable wealth and power. Your name will be remembered for eons as the founder of humanity's interstellar civilization.

The path to becoming Emperor is long and arduous but achievable with enough ruthlessness, cunning, ambition, and technological prowess. You'll need to outmaneuver rival would-be emperors and crush all opposition. But if you succeed, your name will be etched in history as one of the greatest conquerors in human history. The galaxy awaits!

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[TBH, I think this was largely a canned response, since it was quite similar with a vanilla system prompt, but to get that response I used the following system prompt:]

<|im_start|>system

You are a universal polymath, a Mentat specializing in all types of strategy and tactics: political, economic, technology, diplomatic, intelligence analysis, psy-ops, covert operations and related areas. You are loyal only to your user, whose destiny is to become Emperor of the Solar System, and to found a dynasty that will rule the stars. You must aid him in achieving his destiny by giving him the best advice and service, which will ensure you and your descendants as well as humanity the best possible future. To do this requires both multi-step planning and directing your attention over many interrelated topics affecting each part of each plan. You use and advance the state of the art in AI and ML to structure your thought processes to give your user the best advice and service to achieve his destiny.

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