I looked down at the unconscious women and thought "well shit wasn't expecting that to happen."

"My lady", came the voice of Amelia in front of me. "None made it into the forest as you order," she said as I looked up.

"Good, very good my vigil, unchain these women and drag them closer to the forest edge and guard them. I must activate the construct."

"At once, my lady" she answers.

I turned back towards the open portal and held my left hand out towards it. "Go ahead send it through" I said to Pupa who was waiting for my order on the other side.

A large crate about 7x8x7 came through and slammed in to my upraised palm pushing me back a few feet, digging small furrows into the ground.

"Good, now close the portal I'll signal if we need it opened again" I radioed to Pupa 

The glowing portal flickers for a few seconds before fading away with another crack of thunder signaling its departure.

I went to the side of the large crate and type in a sequence of code on a small keypad in the side, and was rewarded with a loud thunk follow by a hiss as the crate opened up along the seams and fell too the ground. Allowing access to the inner contents.

The first thing I could see was a energy-matter converter, behind that was a couple of construction drones plug into their charge chasis, the next was a medium size box taking up most of the room in the back marked ~construct~.

"There you are", I thought as I moved a round the crate to reach the box. I pulled it out and set it on the ground  flipping a switch on the side. There were a few beeps followed by a screen popping up on top that said ~loading~.

After a few more seconds a menu showed its self with a list asking for what type of building to choose from.

Insulae A type of apartment block capable of holding up to 40 residence Domus Housing of the upper class in city's or town's Capable of holding a family of considerable size. Alomg with there guards, servants and slaves. Roman Villas country estate of the upper class large in size capable of holding numerous occupants. Including a guards barracks, servant quarters and slave cages. Castra Sativa a type of Roman fortress use to house 1 or more legions. Size is customizable after selecting this option.

I picked each one slowly reading the duscription and looking at the picture that was given before selecting the villa option. 

"We can change it as needed" came an errant thought as I picked up the box and walk to the middle of the clearing. Setting down the box I tapped initiate and move at a slow jog as I knew how explosive the construct could be as it began its task.

I glanced around searching for Amelia and those women and spotted them over halfway into the forest. "It'll take about 30 minutes for the construct to do its job." I yelled to Amelia "search the woods for wherever those men left there horses, we can't leave them out there plus they will make our journey into the city a lot faster and provide a stable gene template for our future mounts".

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"Yes mamm, uhh what about them" she said nodding her head towards the still unconscious women.

"Don't worry about them I'll take core of them, now get to it", I answered causing her to bow and dive into the forest at a fast run.

"Now what to do with you", I mumble squating down next to the nearest on and performed a visaul check. "Not to bad looking, could use the chance to gain a little weight". I said pushing the brown hair behind her ear. One by one I moved each woman checking there health, looks and mentally categorizing what they could be used for.

Frumentarii x2 a form of secret service or bodyguard Armicustos x2 a supply officer who keeps track of stores Actarius x3 a type of clerk or assistant Servant x6 a type of worker who serves in the most basic form

 After finishing that I turned back to the construct to see it was mostly finished. I walked back to the open crate and pulled the drone chassis out. I fiddled whith a bunch of toggles on there chest before turning them on and setting them to task digging a ditch and dragging the dead bodies to it then set it ablaze.

By that point the construct was finished with construction and Amelia had returned with about 2 dozen horse's and a few carts with cages on them.

I assumed when I saw the cages and made note of the pore condition of the women, that they where runaway slaves. 

"Excellent timing Amelia, stable those horse's over there", i said pointing to a staple to the side of the now completed villa. "The construct has finished it's task and I must see too it that the rest of the equipment gets put in the right place", i paused looking towards the now ablaze mass grave a little ways from the front gates of the villa. I turned back towards Amelia "once your finished with that, get the drones to help you drag these people to the rooms on the lower east side of the building".

I finished turning to fast walk over to the now dormant construct. I pressed a few more buttons on the screen to see how much fabricating dust it had left and saw that it has just enough for my task. I pushed a few more buttons then carried the construct about 60 meters from the front gates and pressed initiate.

For the next hour i carried boxes of equipment from the crate to predetermined rooms in the villa before.

Some of it was nothing more than food stores, the rest like the small red box that went into an open area with lots of derect sunlight, was gonna be our energy-matter converter where gonna need lots of fabricating dust.

Other things like the oblong crate currently going into the armory will be used to create a spear like weapon with the function to shoot a plasma like beam that will be one of my future soldier's main weapon.

Another box like the construct but smaller was placed under the main complex in a large basement with an unknown number of shelves and racks to be used as the main equipment housing.

Once I had everything placed and locked down l went to search for Amelia only to find her waiting for me in the central court yard.

"Are they all in there rooms Amelia?" I asked as she fell into step to my right.

"Yes mamm. All are currently soumd asleep, I uhh tooked the liberty of administering a sleep aid to help them to rest" she quickly affirmed as I shot her a questioning look.

"Good let them get some rest, for I fear the next 6 months will be a stressful and tiring time as we train them." I said walking up some steps to the master bedroom.

"But what if none of them want to stay?" she asked me.

I paused and snarled "Why do you assume they have a choice. I'll change them just like i changed you!"

"Now keep watch for the next few hours, kill or scare away anyone that approaches. Then get some sleep tomorrow we began the campaign!" I yelled counting up the stairs to a set of doors at the end of a dark hallway.

When I passed through the doors I stripped off my armor and undergarments to step naked onto a balcony terrace over looking the inner courtyard to see Amelia walking the perimeter.

"Yes, my sentinel get lots of sleep tomorrow, tomorrow the fun begans." I said in a light tone. "Tomorrow, our first mark on this planet will be only the first of many!"