Nine
I have disassembled the guns we acquired. They are Kjellan guns; rugged, heavy, and simple. I am not sure how much good they are to us, however. We do not have the resources or ability (yet) to make more guns, or their ammo, so what we have here is the extent of our arsenal. The rifling has been stripped from the guns' barrels, and we have barely one hundred rounds of ammunition between all the guns.
One of them was hand made fairly recently. We could probably reproduce it, seeing as that it's little more than a pipe cut to the proper size, fitted to a stock with iron bindings. It is a single shot weapon with no rifling. I believe we'd be better off with our box tools than these. But looking at these dismantled weapons makes me think of the future. Box tools won't remain effective weapons forever, but with resources so scarce we will need to be creative in our construction and designing of weapons.
Void successfully managed to use microtech to remove iron atoms from a larger structure (sheet metal) and remake it into an axe-head. This is a major accomplishment for us, but our goal is loftier yet. Void is already adapting her code to see if it is possible to assemble alloys like steel at low temperatures using microtech. I have no doubt Void will be able to do it within a week. Fire has taken to helping her with code. The ability to create materials by breaking down other molecules we find will be critical to our ability to expand.
Dust has been playing close attention to our newly acquired soil to ensure its continued viability. She has tentatively said to us that we should be able to have a new sibling within a few months, provided there is not unusual or undiscovered effects from the soil. This is great news for all of us.
I have been able to successfully create an ion generator using lithium reactions and the surface lightning. While that helps alleviate our growing (and I imagine, insatiable) need for more power, we have very little of the required materials to make more generators. This leaves a couple of options - find a way to acquire new resources, or get a new method of energy generation.
The former is definitely the simplest in the short term, but presents a new problem. We need a better way to travel abroad than on foot. There are several remnant vehicles of the nation that I killed, but they are powered by combustion engines - and we have virtually no fossil fuels. We do not have the ability to make any biofuels either, such as ethanol. While a battery powered electric car is theoretically within our ability, it requires a complete redesign of the existing vehicle due to the weight.
So I have been spending my newly acquired free time designing a land vehicle that is light enough to be propelled by a electrical engine, but heavy enough to not be blown around (or apart) by the storms of the surface.
Old maps are of questionable use now. Exactly how much the geography has changed in near one hundred years after an orbital bombardment and decades of storms is hard to extrapolate based on what little I have so far seen. Less than two hundred kilometers West of us should be a mountain range that I have never seen. West of that is an ocean. Reaching either would be a great help in establishing the usefulness of our maps.