Bug-out Shelter #8 – The Final Push

Mission

The heavy calm that reigned over Promèthes is broken by a series of internal alerts: the peripheral sensors have just detected several fast-moving thermal signatures. The raiders have figured out the ruse and are closing in, guided by the last traces of the fake signal.

This time, there's no room for escape or concealment. The assault is imminent.
Zoé is coordinating the automated defenses, while Maxime manages system monitoring and power supply. Everything must be calculated, synchronized, and executed in absolute silence — a single mistake could reveal your exact position and doom the shelter.

Your mission is simple but crucial: analyze the latest approach data to optimize the distribution of defenses, anticipate impact zones, and trigger countermeasures at the precise moment the attackers reach the perimeter.
Promèthes must not only survive — it must prove that silence can strike harder than noise.

Rules

The raiders’ assault will last 12 minutes.

You have at your disposal 12 defense and protection systems, contained in the variable systems.

Each system is described as follows:

• A letter representing it, from A to L
• An energy cost
• A binary sequence showing its operation: a 1 means the system is active, a 0 means it is not active (on standby, recharging, etc.)

Example:
A:3:110010001010
→ System A costs 3 units of energy and can be active at minutes 0, 1, 4, 8, and 10

Your objective is to select the systems to activate so that each minute is covered at least once by a system, while minimizing the total energy cost.

If you activate too many systems at once, the shelter might not withstand the load, which would cause a total shutdown — leaving Promèthes at the mercy of the raiders!

You must return the selected systems that achieve the minimum energy cost for full coverage.

Example:

BDEG or AJI