They spend the next three days watching movies and talking to Jack and his wife .
Every question about the settlement and the spaceship they had got answered by Alex and Helena but they kept the origin of the cuff bracelet a secret as the existence of Da’grass .
Jack and his wife were astonished when they learned about the colony on Mars that could house up to 250 000 people .
Fully aware that they would talk about it to the other residents of the island they disclosed everything they knew about the colony .
Jacks wife , Mary , asked if it was possible to bring pets with them.
She was an animal lover with a soft spot for cats while their son loved dogs but couldn’t keep them due his previous condition .
Alex responded they could keep pets in the Nexus and that if they logged in for a long time they would neglect them eventually .
Mary responded that she never logged in for more than 8 hours in reality and that she preferred living cats .
Helena told her that they would look into it and that they would get back to her after evaluating the possibility .
Three days flew by and they returned to their home after receiving thanks from the treated people .
Once home they asked Da’grass if it was possible to bring pets with them to Mars .
His answer was that there would be need of some aesthetic changes but that it wouldn’t take long to do so and that it wouldn’t compromise the structural integrity of the colony .
It would be finished by the time they would move to the colony , there first would have to be a steady supply of food and the greenery needed the time to grow .
Thanks to the technologies acquired by purchasing the colony builder the growth process would be accelerated greatly .
Once the greenery was grown and animal feed was produced in large enough quantities they could transfer the livestock and move in themselves if they wanted to .
But Da’grass reminded them there was a huge need for furniture if they wanted all residences ready to move in .
Metal sofa’s weren’t that comfortable to sit in he joked and wood was not easy to come by on Mars .
Da’grass estimated that in a week the second portal would be finished and they could move everything they needed through the gates .
Alex questioned whether it wasn’t a wasted effort to load everything onto the ship given the circumstances .
Helena argued it was a good morale booster for the people on the island and a clear goal to work to something .
Da’grass told him that they now had room to order the next shipments so that he wouldn’t need to worry about it .
After their little talk they send a message to Sarah and Sam if they wanted to meet up in the Nexus .
This content has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere.
They were already there and would meet him at his house after they were done with their own business .
Sarah was at the company in the Nexus and Sam was trying out the new game Cathy had released .
Helena suggested to invite John of the government as well as El’Anor and Cathy to have a little celebration .
Alex accepted her proposition , it was a while since they all saw each other and they could get up to date with everything that was happening .
Alex sent the invitations and Helena asked Sam to supply the booze while she would arrange something to snack on .
After all of that was done they logged in with their pods .
They programmed a selection of alien cartoons and some music from the Ea’Thell home world they liked and awaited their guests and orders from the brewery and restaurant .
Sam was the first to arrive with a whole selection of booze they produced , he even had bottles of elven wine just to give them with their guests when they left .
Sarah was the second to arrive immediately followed by Cathy who spontaneous started to talk to Alex about her next project .
While Cathy was discussing with Alex about the next project , the snacks from the restaurant arrived and Helena was setting up all the food and drinks .
Sarah was talking to Sam and watching with one eye to the cartoons being played , one of her questions to Sam was if he was interested to take over a brewery on earth to produce the drinks he was brewing in the Nexus .
Sam only replied that it wouldn’t work because most of his popular drinks were alien in nature and they didn’t have the seeds in reality .
Cathy , hearing this while talking to Alex replied that there were technologies that could produce seeds using the scans the Nexus provided but it would cost a lot and could be invasive to the local ecosystem .
Sam just looked to Alex and Alex replied that he would think about it when they got to Mars while smiling .
At that moment El’Anor and John arrived and the celebration officially started.
Everyone was mingling with each other and talking about everything they wanted to share .
At a certain point he started to have a serious conversation with John , apparently the governments of earth were still harassing them to do as they say and were trying to identify them .
They made demands to solely provide technology to them and asked for weapon grade technology , they knew they had more credits than most people because of the taxes .
John told Alex that all the credits were going to the development of cities so that they wouldn’t be ashamed when they opened the so called borders for the alien population .
They only made exceptions if the technology was sorely needed by the population on earth but it was a slow process .
He even said jokingly that they were thinking about raising the taxes since they had a thousand city cores to develop .
Alex chuckled and asked if they needed a safe place from the government of earth .
John answered that it wasn’t needed yet but he hoped the offer would remain if ever needed but he had serious questions if Alex could hide them from them if that time would come .
Even criminals weren’t 100 percent safe when hiding somewhere on earth he argued and they had massive networks .
They talked for another half an hour and Alex found out he used to go to yale on a scholarship and that he had kept the policy of government officials only at the Capitol building .
After talking they mingled with the rest and kept the celebration going until El’Anor and John decided they had to go back .
Helena and Sam gave them both some bottles of elven wine and saw them out .
After that Cathy decided to go back to the company , she received some recommendations of books to read for ideas of new games from Sam and was eager to get started .
She was also happy when she received some bottles of the delicious wine and she left with a spring in her step .
Sarah decided to call it a day after that and left for her own home in the Nexus while receiving the same bottles of wine the rest got .
After everyone was gone Sam , Helena and Alex decided to finish the day with watching a few alien movies while drinking the rest of the wine themselves .
Content with how the celebration had gone they settled in the couch and started to watch some movies .
After a few movies and telling Sam and Helena all about his adventures in the latest game , Sam decided to go to his own house and leave the couple to their own devices .
They cuddled and Helena chose the movies for the rest of the night , Alex didn’t mind because they all looked like science fictions to him any way .