Turns out that the system was touch sensitive and I could touch it, even without arms. Maybe that made it sight-sensitive instead. I couldn’t tell if that was right or wrong. And the first thing I “touched” was rooms.
Rooms (Core Excluded)
Power Drain per Minute
Unavailable Lockdown in Effect
-4 Electrical
Unavailable Lockdown in Effect
-4 Electrical
It told me nothing other than that I was in some kind of lockdown state. Looking at the double doors, I could see that they had a full seal. Meaning that no air flowed into or out of this room though them. I wonder why a lockdown was in effect and seeing how manual was voice sensitive, it couldn’t hurt to ask. “Why is a lockdown in effect?”
WATCH SYSTEM ASTRAEA: A VIIRMEEN IN IN INFESSTATION THREEATENSS COORRE/SSTATTION IN IN INTERGY LOCKDOWN WILL WILL END WHEN CORRE ROOOM DEFENSES ARE ARE IN IN PLACE REC RECOMMENDATION OF TRAP COMMBO PLASSMA AUTO AUTO TURRETS AND AND ARMOURED WALLLS FOR MAX MAX DEFENSE OF COREE ROOM MMASTEER.
Okay, it seemed that Astraea was a little broken and that there was some kind of infestation going on. Still my eyes, if they existed, moved to the trap section. Also it turns out that if you look away it goes back to the main screen, how neat. I also decided to ask another question. “What is the nature of the infestation and what is infesting the station?
WATCH SYSTEM ASTRAEA: THE THE VIIRMEN IN IN QUESTION ARE DEVILROACHES AND IT IS QUITE QUITE EXTENSIVE OVER 40 PERCENT OF STATION CRITICAL WIRING AND AND CABLING HAVE HAVE BEEN CHEEWED THROUGH AND 70 PERCENT OF OF INTERIOR ARMOUR PLATING HAVE HAVE BEEN DIS DISCONNECTED OTHER TEMPORARY LIFE FORM IN INFESTATION ARE HUMANOIDS WHO WHO EXPIRED DUE TO THE UNSAFE LEVELS OF I-17A “PRANA” AND THE LACK OF OXYGEN IN IN THE AIR AS AS LIFE SUPPORT IS OFFLINE DEVILROACHES DUE NOT REQUIRE OXYGEN TO SURVIVE.
WATCH SYSTEM ASTRAEA: RECOMMENDATION BASIC COMBAT UNITS UNITS SHOULD ALSO BE SUMMONED TO TO CLEAR THE THE REST OF THE STATION OF THE INFESTATIONN AND REPAIR DAMAAGE TO TO THE STATION MASTEERR.
Traps
Power Drain per Minute
Plasma Auto Turret
-10 Electrical
Defense Wall
None
Wall Mounted Flamethrower
-10 Electrical
Lazer Tripline
-8 Electrical
Projected Wall
-50 Electrical
Wall Mount
-2 Electrical
Floor Mount
-2 Electrical
Ceiling Mount
-2 Electrical
I decided to look through the traps available to me and noticed at the bottom that a great many were unavailable to me because of the lockdown, and station damage. Four hundred seventy two for the lockdown and five million due to damage. I had a feeling that those five million were lost to me. Still something was bothering me. “Hey why does my screen say mana, shouldn't it be prue mana?”
WATCH SYSTEM ASTRAEA: ERROR DE DETECTED . . . ERROR UNABLE TO FIX FIX ERROR NOTED SENDING TO TO EDEN . . . ERROR EDEN CONNECTION IS UN UNAVAILABLE . . . ERRORR REPORT LOGGED LOGGED MASSTER.
Plasma Auto Turret
A standard issued plasma gun. High rate of fire at 2000 bolts per minute. Simple inbuilt AI can tell targets apart and can provide coverfire for friendlies in the line of fire. Requires a Mount.
Defense Wall (Armoured Wall)
A tungsten alloy wall able to absorb over 90,000 kilotons of explosive force. Standard issue exterior armour for Destroyer Escorts(DE). Can be upgraded with an inbuilt plasma shield generator.
Wall Mounted Flamethrower
A standard issued flamethrower. Close range at 30 meters. Simple AI will wait for friendlies to clear its range before firing. Can be upgraded to a twin linked flamethrower. Requires a Wall Mount.
Lazer Tripline
An early warning trap used to alert the station to undetected intruders. Best used in large numbers.
Projected Wall
A holographic wall used to conceal other traps and important rooms. The projected wall will automatically match its surroundings. Can be manually turned on and off. Doesn’t fool anything that does not rely on sight.
Wall Mount
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A popup wall turret mount. Stores anything the turret needs within itself. Hides the turret when not in use. Requires a turret.
Floor Mount
A popup floor turret mount. Stores anything the turret needs within itself. Hides the turret when not in use. Requires a turret.
Ceiling Mount
A popup ceiling turret mount. Stores anything the turret needs within itself. Hides the turret when not in use. Requires a turret.
Huh, so the turrets are all popups. Well if you don’t know about the turret, when it pops up, it would take you by surprise. Upgrading was locked by the lockdown so I didn’t bother trying it out. I doubt that I would be able to move and anything that threatens me would no doubt seek my destruction. So I decided to set up a killbox, fifteen meters away from me I set up the first set of turrets and a wall. Then to both sides of the first set, I place the same set up at a forty-five degree angle five meter forward and five meters to the left and right respectively. I then mirrored it to the ceiling. For a total of six walls and twenty-four plasma turrets, all six walls were also given a wall mounted flamethrower.
Turns out that Defense Wall also counts as surfaces in which to place a wall mount. The perfect last stand was in place. Both the turrets and the walls receded into the floor and ceiling, most likely to be out of the way for everyday use. After a few moments they popped back out for proper use as the lockdown was still in effect. Astraea was also maybe waiting for me to summon some summons to retake the station and repair it, so might as well check that out.
Summon Name
Cost
Power Drain per Minute
Drone
0.5
-0.5 Solar
Spider
1
-1 Solar
Spider(EVA Capable)
1
-1 Solar
Worker
1
-1 Solar
Soldier
3
-3 Solar
Hunter-Killer
10
-4,500,000 Solar
WHY WAS THE HUNTER-KILLER SO COSTLY!? Was it that good? I didn’t know what any of the summons did as error messages popped up whenever I tried to look at them like I did the traps. So many were locked because of the lockdown and many others, because of “Life support offline”. How badly damaged were the station and its systems. Might as well ask. “When was the last time the station was cleaned up?”
WATCH SYSTEM ASTRAEA: THE LAST TIME A ROUTINE MAINTENANCE WAS DONE DONE ON THE STAAATION WAS 1,800,734,983 SOL SOLAR ROTATIONS AND AND 534 PLANETARY RO ROTATIONS AGO LIKEWISE THE BRAND NEW WATCH SYSTEM ISTAR WAS MADE AVAILABLE AT AT THE SAME TIME . . . ERROR CANNOT DOWNLOAD WAATCH SYSTEM ISTAR AS AS EDEN CONNECTION IS UNAVAILABLE.
Asking Astraea about the summons seemed like more and more of a bad idea and it seemed that Astraea has been online for quite a long time too. Maybe I should ask about the station damages and what parts of the station were around me. After that I should summon each summon to see what they were. “Can you give me a damage report and which sectors of the station are around me?”
WATCH SYSTEM ASTRAEA: DEFENCE GRIID IS IS DOWN BY 50 PERCENT AND OFFLINE PRIMARY HANGAR BAY’S MAGNETIC SHIELD IS DAMAGED AND OFFLINE ALL EXTERIOR AIRLOCKS ARE DAMAGED 75 PERCENT OF THE MATTER CONDENSERS ARE ARE DAMAGED/DESTROYED THE SCIENCE WING OF THE STATION HAS HAS BROKEN OFFF AND BURNED UP IN REENTRYY THE INDUSTRIAL WING IS OFFLINE AND LOCATED TO YOUR YOUR NORTH THE POWER WING IS OFFLINE AND IS LOCATED TO YOUR NORTHEAST THE PRIMARY HANGER IS OFFLINE AND TO YOUR EAST THE HABITATION WING IS OFFLINE AND STARTED VENTING TO SPACE 4 HOURS HOURS AGO AND IS TO YOUUR SOUTHEAST THE PRIMARY TEELEPORTER IS AT 50 PERCEENT POWER AND CARGO HOLDS ARE TO YOUR SOUTH SOUTHWEST WING AND NORTHWEST WING ALSO BROKE OFF WITH THE SCIENCE WING AND WERE NOT GIVEN A DESIGNATION FOR THEIR PURPOSE THE LAST SPACE ELEVATOR SPACE ELEVATOR BABEL IS 400 KILOMETERS BELOW YOU AND WE ARE CURRENTLY ORBITALLY LOCKED TO IT REDUCING THE STATION ABILITY TO AVOID ASTEROIDS AND LARGE SPACE DEBRIS TO 0 PERCENT THIS LOGISTICAL STATION WAS NOT DESIGN OR BUILT TO TO TAKE ASTEROID OR OR LARGE SPACE DEBRIS IMPACTS THE ORBITAL DEFENSE PLATFORMS (ODP) (ODP) LOCATION DATA IS UNAVAILABLE.
I was screwed over far beyond what I thought I was and it was nice to know if I was nudged a bit I would burn up in atmospheric reentry. Well there's’ no kill like overkill and I bet that Hunter-Killer was overkill. So I summoned it first. The ground behind me opened up and several mechadenties began to assemble a large metallic body as I turned my view to watch as a fifteen meter long metal scorpion was put together.
From the front of his face to the base of the tail was eight meter with the rest of the length taken by its tail. Eight four meter long, strong, armoured legs were attached to his torso. Two three meter long, strong, armoured and handsome arms came up to attach behind his head at the shoulders. A pair of drill and missile launcher claws rose up while being assembled and sparks flew everywhere as welders carefully attached the claws to his arms. A couple of quick tests to ensure that the drills and the missile launcher worked, no missiles were fired, everything rotated, opened and twisted as it should. Finally, Armoured faceplates were carefully attached to the sides of his head. A quick test revealed that they would slide to cover his handsome red optics as they were quite delicate and couldn’t be armoured like the rest of him.
All in all it took twelve seconds to fully put together my firstborn son, I loved him so much, he needs a name. . . . I know I’ll name him after my son. What was his name? Arrgh! It hurts so much to remember, mind numbing pain fills me to the centre of my being. N-something, No-something, AAAAAH, NOAH, yes his name was Noah. It hurt me so much to remember something so important, how much would it hurt to remember something unimportant? Lets not find out right now. My first summon, my firstborn, his name will be Noah, Noah moved off to the side and I noticed that the double doors were just big enough for him to fit though. Well my firstborn is overkill for sure.
Summoning the other summons I noticed that they were put together the same way and took far less time to assemble, with the 2 meter soldier taking 4 seconds, 4.2 seconds to be precise, to be assembled. It was less summoning and more constructing, it might be called such for amusement purposes rather than for reality, Sarge was fond of such things. The spiders, while cute, were, along with the worker, robotic repair units. The spiders were for maintenance while the worker was some sort of medic. The drone was a fifty centimeter aerial robot with two twin linked plasma pistols. The spiders both came up to the soldier’s armoured knees, with the EVA Spider being better armoured, most likely for the cold vacuum of space rather than protection. The worker was an unarmoured version of the soldier standing at 1.4 meters, and had no weapon other than his repair tools, a welder makes a great short ranged weapon when you have nothing else on hand. The soldier had a handheld plasma rifle, the same as the turret, a plasma pistol and a plasma blade; he carried them all quite well.
I couldn’t name them in any way like I could Noah, might be some sort of cost to name system in place. Might be that the more expensive units had naming privileges to make them more worth it. I went back to the room's screen to see if I could see what I was locked out of seeing.
Rooms (Core Excluded)
Power Drain per Minute
Summoning Forge
-4 Electrical
Maintenance Garage(Core Room Only)
-4 Electrical
Huh, It's less rooms and more room features, well I only had one room, but it had two features in it beside me. I then built up my forces to forty drones, twenty spiders, ten of each, four workers and ten soldiers and my firstborn son Noah. I quickly look at the main screen.
Dungeon Core 2-E
“EVE”
Level
1
Summons
75
Systems
2
Traps
84
Power Reserves
10/10 (+30 Mana per minute) (+18^280 Electrical per minute) (+4,499,926 Solar per hour) (rerouting unused power to system restoration)
Floors
1
Rooms
1
Entrances
1
Time to clean this house. “ASTREA LIFT THE LOCKDOWN!”
WATCH SYSTEM ASTRAEA: LOCKDOWN LIFTING IN T-5.
WATCH SYSTEM ASTRAEA: LOCKDOWN LIFTING IN T-4.
WATCH SYSTEM ASTRAEA: LOCKDOWN LIFTING IN T-3.
WATCH SYSTEM ASTRAEA: LOCKDOWN LIFTING IN T-2.
WATCH SYSTEM ASTRAEA: LOCKDOWN LIFTING IN T-1.