“Xander could you move the weapons to cargo bay 4 and organize them?” Cargo bay 4 was right next to cargo bay 2. Odd number cargo bays were port side and even number cargo bays were starboard. It made telling which side of the ship you were on easy.

“That well slow me down with the chips but given the number of weapons you retrieved I will start right on it. The M901s have been a great help.”

“I know. With their help we can actually think about repairing the ship. You know I have been thinking and saying the ship just gets old. What do you think of naming it Fatty?” Ellie grinned impishly.

Xander laughed. “That is a great name for a bulk cargo ship.”

“Alright I name thee Fatty.” Ellie said grandly and patted the bulkhead. “Well I'm off to finish retrieving a fusion reactor, Xander.”

“Try not to blow up anything else Ellie!” Xander said cheerfully. Ellie reddened and hastily left.

They loaded up and the two grav trucks made their way back to the military supply ship. It was two and a half hours before the M901s finished breaking down the fusion reactor enough to remove.

After they returned Ellie saw Xander had finished moving the weapons into cargo bay 4. She had the M901s carry the fusion parts into cargo bay 3 across the main corridor of the ship to get reassembled.

Ellie watched the bots slowly put the reactor back together. Ellie was glad she found a tank of helium 3 that was full. The shipping tank had five hundred liters inside. This reactor would take a lot more fuel then the small reactors Ellie had been using.

After the bots completed rebuilding the reactor, Ellie connected a small fusion reactor to it that would provide the initial power for startup and then connected the tank of helium 3 fuel.

“Xander can you monitor and direct the fusion startup?”

“Yes. It should be a simple procedure. I have improved your specialized fusion reactor AI and afterwards I well let it run the fusion reactor, although I will monitor the AI and fusion reactor for any problems.”

Relived Ellie monitored the readings for the fusion reactor startup on her heads up display. After Xander initialized the reactors magnetic containment field they ran detailed scans of every part of the reactor. They stress tested it by red lining the reactor and waited an hour to see if any part burned out. Without an active plasma steam a failed test was not disastrous.

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“Alright Ellie, I think you picked out a good one here.” Xander complemented Ellie.

Smiling Ellie was impatient to start. “Thanks Xander without you this would be a lot harder.”

“I know you would have persevered.” Ellie blushed.

“Starting fusion reactor initialization.” Xander continued.

Ellie held her breath in anticipation. The reactors heat spiked alarmingly then quickly settled down with Xander drift handling.

“Plasma stream is stable and heating up. It will take some time to reach operating temperatures.”

“Alright I'm going to start on the power grid.”

Ellie started her power grid by running two superconducting cables, form cargo bay 3 across the hallway into in to cargo bay 2. The cables were rated for five times the power output of the fusion reactor she was using but Ellie wanted a safety margin.

Running both cables along the deck pressed against the base of the bulkheads, she laid the two thick cables down the port side bulkhead of cargo bay 2 and then turned at the corner to follow the aft bulkhead.

With the cables laid behind the line of cryo pods Ellie went back to cargo bay 3. There she wired the ends of her superconducting cables into separate heavy electrical distribution boxes, able to stop destructive power surges form harming the reactor.

Finished she went and installed two heavy electrical distribution boxes for every cryo pod, one for main use and one for backup. It was massive over protection but why not over engineer?

Ellie grinned and lastly wired in the fusion reactor to her electrical grid. Ellie went back to cargo bay 2 and started the computers up. Xander had filled twenty one of the thirty cryo pods and now twenty one condensers built into cryo pods whined softly and began to cool down to negative one hundred and fifty degrees. The Somoko's main boards and Q607 quantum core chips were silent.

Ellie monitored the startup of the seven thousand boards when her commed dinged.

“Ellie permission to transfer into the new server cluster?” Xander ask excitedly.

“I don't see way not. You can optimize them and run them at pick efficiency. Just know I will be using them to run my DNA simulations on them.”

“I have not forgotten why you came to this forsaken desert. Really you should be back at UEN port.”

Nodding in agreement she continued to monitor the servers.

“I have transferred over. These Q607 are amazing. Cooled to cryo temperatures I should be able to run them forty percent faster than then their initial settings.”

Ellie grinned. “Good. Now with that taken care of please fill the other nine cryo pods. I am going to look for a DNA scanner.”

This proved simple, Ellie found a working DNA scanner on her second ship. Unfortunately no nanites were onboard. Shaking her head Ellie took her salvage back to Fatty. Connecting it she gave a DNA sample to start the months of simulations need for designing a new DNA base.

“I have installed the newest DNA editor form the net. Though I am not programmed for DNA analyzes and DNA sequencing I can monitor the software and try to increase the efficiency. The Q607's are faster than any chip currently on the marked but it will still take months to run. With your DNA destabilization and damage it could take significantly longer.” Xander warned.

Ellie was glum at the news but she was prepared for it.

“Will at least the first part of the cure is taken care of.” She tried to be happy about that.