Hey guys! What’s happening? I glad so many people are getting my message this loop! With such a following it might turn out better than I thought! I guess I can give you guys a bit of information here. There have been many thoughts on my histories. I am big into psychological studies right now. I don’t know why, but they are interesting to me right now.

Also meta note. All technologies in my diaries so far, including this chapter, exist already, except AI, and the teleportation gates. The technologies have been developed and combined in a more ‘scifi’ kind of way by me though. I must stay alive after all.

Loop 74 Loop 1 Day 294

I have the results of a few experiments. Creating nanites is expensive as hell. Each one costs about a hundred thousand dollars. For just ten robots the size of a skin cell each, I would have to spend a million bucks.

The mining bots can mine materials for me, but it takes a lot of material to build one nanites. I am making plans to make the process cheaper, or at least cost me fewer materials. At least I know where each of the ore deposits are in a one-hundred-mile radius.

This time I have mostly ‘normal’ people, and only a few power users. My experiments are going to be about trying to force powers out of these normal people.

As soon as they enter they enter the vault, they are confined to the cells. They are only allowed to leave when I need to experiment on them.

My plan is to force them into various hazardous situations, and see if any of them develop powers. I am going to kill them with whatever is threatening them. For instance, in this loop, I crush each of them to death with a compression chamber.

I have thousands of people, so I will be able to go for a while. I am going to stay away from powers I’ve already seen, because I haven’t encountered anyone with identical powers. Except maybe the other Looper.

No one showed any signs of being able to stop it.

Loop 74 Year 3 Day 99

They are all long dead by now. I have many plans though. Since I have at least another 7 years, I go ahead and start experimenting on other things. Especially the spy bots. They are now equipped with all sorts of APG based weapons systems.

Thanks to AI, they can travel up to Mach 10. That is slightly faster than the fastest unmanned jet in the world. AI easily takes the schematics of the fastest unmanned jet, and even improves them by using the APG.  

We can build the same power of the jet, while only making it about 1% of the size. Any smaller than that and it begins to break apart due to the air friction caused by moving at such high speeds.

I die because of a ruptured blood vessel while thinking about the functions of the abyss.

Loop 74 Abyss

I finally realize something interesting about the abyss. It takes various amounts to go through the abyss. Already knew that. On rare occasions, the voices get louder. Already knew that. The voices don’t recede after they grow to the next level. Nice info. Finally, whatever is my last thought in the living world, gets replayed endlessly in the void.

Thinking back on it, I realize that any emotion I feel, beyond a certain threshold, gets amplified and becomes the only thought I am capable of thinking about while in the abyss. The voices seem aware that I can hear them, but don’t speak directly to me. They don’t take note of what I say either.

It is ambiguous though. It appears they understand me, but maybe not. They never say the can or can’t, and never bring up the fact that it is pointless for me to communicate with them.

Loop 75 Year 2 Day 1

The winners are the same as the ones from the previous loop. One person is still alive. I was trying to drown everyone, but one girl manages to continue breathing. After a few experiments I learn she can manipulate water!

That’s a great power if she were living in the outer world. With my training, she learns to take the water out of living things. I tell her that if she can satisfy my requirements, I will allow her to kill me. A small price to pay to get useful information.

She does! She is amazing at what she does. I slowly give her full control over the entire vault. All the data, including AI will die with me though.

She is instantly added to my list of possible war potential in the future. Her manipulation of water is even enough to contend with my robots. She can slice them if she concentrates at least forty gallons of water into a paper-thin thread. The water pressure at that point is amazing.

It also gives me several ideas on stress maintenance for the bots.

Loop 78 Year 6 Day 156

I’ve been working on these fucking robots for three loops now. That is a total of about fifty years, with knowledge from other loops thrown in. I have several dozen people with powers by now, and I examine them in every viable way to make the robots better. Other than the experiments, and me dying in numerous ways, the loops don’t really have anything of note.

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I finally finished with the new armor coating of the robots. They have all the defense of a tank as they did before, but also have the flexibility to displace any pressure to all parts of their bodies, and eventually into the ground.

Unless the stress at a single point is enough to shatter the entire robot, they won’t suffer any damage. That is only from physical attacks like bullets or the water blade though.

The material is a special alloy made by AI. It is based on a unique type of thread. It is made from the same idea as silicon carbide. A fusion molecule of silicon and carbon. It is so strong that the UK used it for tank armor in WWII. Not a single tank of theirs was destroyed.

The coupled with graphene, a single layer of carbon atoms, makes the durability what it is. The graphene is the same as graphite, but only has a single layer of atoms instead of the billions of layers. The single layer basically refuses to bond easily with other things. Except electricity. It is perfect to send electrical current through. The electricity won’t harm it at all, but will flow through it with almost no resistance.

The flexibility of the new armor is due to a special coupling of polydimethylsiloxane and geometric shapes. The polydimethylsiloxane is like tacky, or gum, in that it is elastic. It differs substantially in one respect though. As soon as pressure is applied, the force gets sent to all parts of the material. The geometric shapes force the impact into bending the shapes, and the material polydimethylsiloxane becomes rigid for just a moment.

With the polydimethylsiloxane and geometric shapes combined with the silicon graphene, the robots are damn near indestructible. Only something with 12,000 pounds of pressure somehow concentrated on a single decimeter of space can puncture it.

Of course, that force is displaced over the entire robot. So, the real force needed would be about equal to a mountain dropping on one.

The way I combine the materials to make the robot is due to the skin of ‘black metal man’. His skin has very comparable properties, but doesn’t displace force as well as my fibers do. As I am doing the research on the robots’ outer body, I observe his skin tissue while he uses his powers.

It crystalizes when force is applied, and softens when no force is applied. It has the geometric shape I use as a base for the armor. Using all of this I can increase the ability of my robots by hundreds of times.

This also has me thinking. I have a plan I developed two loops ago. That is why I am collecting power users. I am going to find out how each power works, and make my robots have that ability. If I can gather enough abilities, I can capture all the assassins sent after me, and use them to further my research.

The remarkable thing about the graphene is that is allows circuits to improve slightly more than with just APG. Now, the circuit is powered by the minute amounts of copper used to make the connections between individual components.

With graphene, the loss of electricity due to the wiring goes down to just about zero. With copper, the amount of electric energy lost is already very low, but with the graphene it is basically zero. The perfection inherent in the new circuits we make mean that the size required for the circuits is even less now!

Obviously, we begin work on making new super-computer schematics right away. The quicker we make the designs the more likely we will be able to implement them in the next loop.

This loop is the first one where I am training the power users to be a military force. I am going to try to finally fight back. I know of 23 different power users the enemy has, but usually it is the same ones that get sent over and over. I must prepare for them, then I will be able to at least live a bit longer. Living a bit longer also increases the chances of capturing one of the assassins.

The reason I have so many power users is because of my flybots. The robots that fly around 24/7, collect data about everything. Anything that is beyond a normal human, even just lifting 300 pounds of weight, is reported to AI.

AI goes over that information, and sends me any that might prove useful. Just by finding one power user the flybots have proven their worth. They have found me a dozen though. I always invite the power users in, even if I must increase the amount of space of the rooms and food factories. I include all their families, but I prove to them each time that I have complete control of this vault.

All the cameras are now coated in a thin layer of modified APG that will simply resist electrical surges. It is perfect to fight against people like Greg. I study each of the power users in many ways. I even go so far as to study their powers under microscopes while they use them. That’s how I found out about ‘black metal’ man. He is named that because his skin turns completely black while he uses his power.

My robots cannot teleport. They can step through the doorway gates, but that is all. I’m still working on a smaller version of the teleporter.

Loop 78 Year 14 Day 31

Today is the day. Today is the day that my base is attacked. The teleporter girl teleports in with the poison guy. They don’t seem to be bothered by the considerable number of power users I gather each loop. Unfortunately, she appears in a room other than my ‘special chamber’.

The special chamber is made for training for powers like Greg’s. It also works to nullify most powers for some reason. Everyone that lives in my vault is in the special chamber. AI is in an ‘offline’ mode. Which is to say she cannot interfere with the outside world, but the outside world cannot interfere with her either.

She stays like that, only coming to me when she has additional information. As soon as she flashes the information in front of me, she disappears. We only do this after 9 years though. Until then she is free to do whatever she wants.

Like I said earlier. The teleporter girl teleports in and brings a poison guy. Since I haven’t used the electrical current in a few loops, the other possible looper/evil genius doesn’t mind sending the teleporter.

Sadly for her, I outfitted the entire place, besides the room we are in, to shoot enough electricity to stun anyone it touches. The outside is arranged in such a way as to hit anyone that comes in. How did I know they were coming? The same way I knew where the invisible guy is.

Whenever the cameras refuse to show a certain area, or show it incorrectly in conjunction with the other cameras, AI instantly takes note. She is not directly connected to them, but watches them through her android.

Her android is getting a massive upgrade next loop. She’ll be such a badass. She is already hot. Now she will be indestructible*.

The electrical arcs paralyze both the teleporter girl, and the poison guy. I have the robots, immune to the electricity as it only dissipates around them, collect both. They are both quickly tied up in chambers designed to stop powers from working. The poison guy is in an airtight room, and the teleporter girl is in a room in which I have just for her. The teleporter gates can be used anywhere. If they are both powered. There is one known exception though. When at least one of the gates is encased in APG, and surrounded by a faraday cage. In the event that both of those things are true, the portal doorways will cease to operate. If just one of those are true they can still work.

The limitless methods of utilizing APG never cease to astound me. How did I even come up with it? I know I added uranium into a liquid mixture, but even when I scour my memory banks, I don’t remember thinking up the liquid.

The teleporter girl tries to escape when she wakes up.

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To her utter horror, she can’t! Now is time for some real fun.