Date Tuesday, August 24th, 2275
The very next day.
I woke up as usual, checked out the situation of my home via all the robots and turrets I had control of all across the place.
Everything appears to be going well, and we didn't have any unwanted visitors too, so that's good.
Staying in my makeshift bedroom in Hauler's cabin for a while longer, I got up and began taking care of my hygiene. After going through my morning routine, I prepared something to eat, filled my tank, and took a walk through my home physically to see how things were progressing with my own eyes.
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It took me a good while to walk a majority of the facility, but once I had I saw my robotic workforce had the whole facility cleaned up from top to bottom. So, with that task completed, I assigned the cleanup crew to start reinforcing the building and to replace all the windows with armored plates. It would've been nice to replace them with glass so I could actually look out from inside. However, I have no way of replacing the glass windows for one, and two even if I could, I wouldn't because they would present a security vulnerability.
Adding on to that, if I or Amata want something similar or comparable to a window later on, I can just have my robots install screens where the windows were previously and cameras on the exterior of the building. Those two pieces of tech combined would allow us to look outside from within without reducing the building's defenses.
The minute I was done assigning my worker bots their new tasks, I headed over to the manufacturing area and continued my work from the previous night. But before I set off, I sent out a signal with Mechu-deru to have any newly produced worker bots to start the production and assembly of more automated ammo manufacturing machines. So I could get ammo production ramped up to 1,000,000 rounds a day.
Following that, I spent the next 6 hours fabricating and constructing my new set of power armor. The suit ended up looking like an amalgamation of a X-01 power armor suit and a Mk X Power Armor suit from Warhammer 40K with an enlarged version of my Exterminator Helmet with some additional upgrades.
I really knocked it out of the park with this one armor set.
| Annihilator Power Armor |
Resistances: DT 500, Radiation Resistance 100
S.P.E.C.I.A.L.: +8 Strength, +2 Perception
Skill: +50 Energy Weapons, +50 Explosives, +50 Guns, +25 Medicine, +150 Sneak, +50 Survival
Class: Heavy
Weight: 2,000
Value: 1,000,000
Item Description: A large jet black power armor that took inspiration from the X-01 Power Armor of Fallout and the Mark X Power Armor of Warhammer 40K and a scaled-up version of the designer's Exterminator Helmet. The armor features heavy armor plating all across that is heavier than any previous known power armor iterations known in the Fallout world. This armor is entirely made up of an advanced metal alloy, making the weight of this design heavier than any other power armor sets by a significant margin. This suit features a set of spiked pauldrons and shins for close combat, electromagnetic shielding over every component to prevent the armor from being disabled by emp weaponry, a custom-built heavily armored fusion breeder reactor, electrified spiked gauntlets that can either stun a target or disable them permanently, an integrated stealth field that can turn the user invisible, a built in nuclear propulsion jetpack, a war belt with many magnetic attach points to hold all sorts of weaponry, ammo, and other such things, magnetic soles that can be toggled as the user wishes, a specially designed weight dispersion system, a chemical injection system, and lastly a standard power armor frame that was enlarged and beefed up to fit its creator and support the new extra heavy armor. In addition to those already impressive features, the power armor helmet contains all the features its predecessor had, such as the air/gas filter, integrated rangefinder, turret targeting modules, voice modulation module, and night and thermal vision. Though all the features listed have all been enhanced to a certain degree. But aside from those, the power armor helmet also has a few new additions, those being the addition of a rebreather, an integrated encrypted radio, and an AI assistant that can administer chemical aid at a moment's notice. Designed by Harold Todd Woods.
I added and upgraded all I could for the moment, given my current knowledge base and fabrication and manufacturing capabilities. That said, as soon as I introduce lithography machines into this world, I'll be able to make even more upgrades to this monster of a power armor suit. Sadly, that won't be happening for a while here since I still need to obtain a few things before I can start making them. I'm also going to need to have a clean room built for it ahead of time so I can immediately get right into chip production.
More than happy with how my personal suit turned out, my stomach made it known that it was time to eat.
Looks like it's that time again.
Hungry, I wandered back to Hauler and began whipping up lunch.
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Ahh, that was a solid meal.
Alright, I better get back to work. I still have a lot that needs to get done, like making a second smaller suit of Annihilator Power Armor for Amata. And after that suit is ready, I'm going to design and produce some better under armor that we'll be able to wear inside the power armor frames.
As for what kind of under armor I have in mind, I think I'll just make something similar to the Chinese Stealth Suits since they have stealth capabilities and are already on the slim side. So they should have no issue fitting inside a power armor frame and providing a means of escaping if we need to bail out of the suits. But besides all that, I'll be sure to add additional armor to the suits wherever I can fit it, along with a few other miscellaneous improvements.
With my stomach full, I got up and returned to the manufacturing area to continue fabricating the power armor set that will be used by Amata. By the time I reached my destination, my worker bots assigned to the manufacturing area just finished bringing another automated ammunition manufacturing machine online, increasing my total ammo production capacity by an additional 100,000 rounds a day. So before I got to work, I used Mechu-deru on the automated ammo manufacturing machine and took control of it.
Things are coming along nicely to say the least.
Satisfied with how much progress was being made, I went on my way and returned to grinding away at my assignments.
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Around 5 hours later, I finished the last bit of work that needed to be done on Amata's power armor. Getting up from my crouched position, I took a step back and eyed the armor standing in front of me.
| Phoenix Power Armor |
Resistances: DT 300, Radiation Resistance 100
S.P.E.C.I.A.L.: +5 Strength, +3 Perception
Skill: +50 Energy Weapons, +50 Explosives, +50 Guns, +25 Medicine, +150 Sneak, +50 Survival
Class: Heavy
Weight: 1,200
Value: 650,000
Item Description: The Phoenix Power Armor is a large, mainly jet black power armor with crimson accents and a phoenix motif. This set shares many of the features the Annihilator Power Armor possesses and is designed very similarly. With that said, this suit leans more on the feminine side in appearance and has a different helmet that takes after a feline with ears on the top of the helmet to enhance hearing. That specific feature is designed with the user's safety in mind so in the event that the user would experience damagingly loud noise that could potentially injure the user's ears, the sound transmitted to the wearer will be muffled to prevent any sound related injury from occurring to the user. So other than the different style of helmet meant to enhance hearing, this power armor suit shares all the same features as the Annihilator Power Armor just scaled down for a female. Designed by Harold Todd Woods for Amata Ashlen Almodovar.
Even though it's smaller, has lower stats, and less armor than mine, Amata should be more than satisfied with what I made her.
Following the completion of her power armor, I spent the next hour working on my stealth armor and as soon as that hour had passed; I paused my work then there and got up to go grab some dinner.
Hoovering up that meal, I finished my dinner and went to go workout by filling my inventory with metal and enabling the weight to be felt via my will. So, after working out my body by doing all sorts of body exercises, I emptied my inventory and gave everyone back in Vault 101 a ring to see how they were doing.
*Ring... Ring... Ring... Katcha*
"How are you making it out there, kid?"
"Not too bad, father-in-law. How's things in the vault?"
"Well, you know, same old, same old."
The two of us talked about various subjects before I told him I would be dropping by tomorrow.
"Oh, what time do you think you'll be rolling by?"
"I don't really have a time in mind, but I plan on getting on the road early. So I'll just give you guys a call when I'm at the cave entrance."
"Alright sounds good, son. Make sure you prioritize your safety above all else. You only have one life after all."
"I will."
From that point, we covered a couple more topics before I said my goodbyes and wished him a good night.
Now that my daily call was over, I got a few things in order and proceeded back over to the manufacturing area to resume work on my stealth armor.
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About an hour in, I had finished work on it and the stats it ended up having were not too shabby for an armor I only really made just to be used inside power armor.
| Shadow Armor |
Resistances: DT 50
S.P.E.C.I.A.L.: +1 Agility
Skills: +150 Sneak
Class: Medium
Weight: 50
Value: 49,000
Item Description: A slim, pitch black armored stealth suit with an integrated stealth field based on a combination of the Chinese Stealth Armor and Stealth Boy designs that was then improved upon by the armor's creator. Making the armor completely invisible to the human eye. The armor's stealth technology is powered by a single microfusion breeder cell. Designed by Harold Todd Woods.
This armored stealth suit is pretty sweet. It has decent armor values and exceptional stealth capabilities that are even better than a Chinese Stealth Suit. They're so good in fact that if I ever need to abandon my power armor which I don't think I'll ever need to given my power armor's stats that I'll be able to slip away with ease. Due to it having the ability to turn the wearer invisible to the point that even I can't detect it with my enhanced eagle eye vision, so that's saying something. But that's what happens when you combine Chinese Stealth Suit technology with Stealth Boy tech.
With my under armor finished, I began working on Amata's one next and after a little more than an hour's time; I had her shadow armor ready to go in around half the time it took to make my own. That was only possible because this was my second time making it and hers was much smaller compared to my own Shadow Armor by quite a lot.
Moving on from the Shadow Armor, I think I'll upgrade my AER 18 LMG next. It is due for an upgrade, so might as well do now while I'm on a crafting spree. And when I'm done overhauling it, I'll make a new melee weapon and whatever time I have left after completing that I can use on adding emp shielding to the other power armor suits. So they'll no longer be susceptible to pulse weaponry in the future.
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Time quickly flew by from then and when I looked at a clock again, I saw several hours had passed.
Shit, time sure flies by when you're having fun.
In this period I managed to overhaul my AER 18 LMG, which ended up becoming a different weapon due to me going a bit nuts with the modding and redesigning. I had also just finished creating my replacement for Guillotine a few seconds ago to go along with that and the stats both weapons had were a substantial upgrade from the weapons they were replacing.
| AER 29 LMG |
Damage: 80
DPS: 2,000
Fire rate: 1,500 (Can be set to semi)
Weight: 28
Ammo Type: Microfusion Breeder Cell
Value: 29,500
Attachments: Canted Red Dot Sight, Laser Sight, Variable Zoom Scope, Vertical Fore Grip, Weapon Sling
Item Description: A large double-barreled laser light machine gun based on the AER 18 LMG that was then modified and upgraded with beefier barrels, improved microfusion breeder cells, hardier materials, rails for mounting attachments, and a toggle to change the laser beam from a visible red to an invisible infrared laser. Designed by Harold Todd Woods.
| Severance |
Damage: Variable
DPS: Variable
RPM: 10,000 - 30,000
Weight: 450
Value: 25,000
Item Description: A massive 6-foot long two-handed chainsword that has a 5-foot long, 1-foot wide, and 3-inch thick double-sided chainsword blade with large hardened saw teeth installed to rip and tear while also being powered by a single microfusion breeder cell that is installed near the weapon's foot long handle. This weapon can cleave through steel like a hot knife through butter, but one has to be able to handle the weapon's weight for that to even be possible. Designed by Harold Todd Woods.
I think I'll upgrade my combat knives next and when those two have undergone an upgrade I'll see how my robots are doing with the tasks I assigned them.
Still full of energy, I spent a short amount of time making 2 new blades out of the advanced alloy I discovered a short while ago via my science and repair skills increasing. The instant I had the new blades made out of the advanced alloy, I fabricated some spiked knuckles to go along with the two blades.
Finished making all the required parts, I swapped out the original blades and put them off to the side before I then inserted the new advanced alloy blades into the existing handles. After that, I attached the spiked knuckles to the handles of the combat knives, and finally, when all the parts were in place, I checked the stats of my new knives to see how I did.
| Commando Knife |
Damage: 43
DPS: Variable
Weight: 2
Value: 1,350
Item Description: A 18-inch hardened advanced alloy combat knife with spiked knuckles around the handle of the knife for whether the wielder wants to slice, stab, or bash.
"Not bad at all. They're definitely an upgrade from what I was using previously." I thought aloud.
Spending a couple more seconds looking the stats over, I swapped my primary focus over to my robots that I was connected to with Mechu-deru and checked their progress.
What I saw through their vision was my robots converting the power plants in the basement from fusion to fusion breeder. Looking elsewhere, I saw the ongoing construction of an indoor growing area that, from my estimations, should be able to produce 10 tons worth of food every time the crops are harvested.
I'm definitely going to need a massive freezer to be able to hold that amount of food. Hmm, I think I'll just have the robots currently working on food production start construction of a huge walk-in freezer once they've completed their current construction job.
As soon as I was done queueing up several more tasks for my robots to handle, I checked my other robots' progress and saw that they were all progressing nicely with their currently assigned jobs. So seeing nothing that needed my attention or direct oversight, I headed to bed a bit earlier than usual since I wanted to get to vault 101 as early as possible tomorrow to have some extra time to spend with everyone.