Raptor One – Chapter 100
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Returning to the ship took a little over one hour as I entered the ship and stopped only to relax on the living quarters.
With nothing to do for the day and being 9am yet, I decided to meditate, taking a more comfortable stance I reconnected with the Archonexus and started collecting knowledge from it, our close connection with each other enabling a energy free transfer of data as my knowledge grow and my psionic capacity deepens.
I’m awoken by Peppy’s shake as she tries to get my attention, and manage to get it as I open my eyes and focus on her.
“What is it tovarishch?” I ask with a tilted head, still relaxed.
“Sorry to disturb your meditation White, but I need your opinion on what to do with the drones.” Peppy say with a serious face, she is really looking for help.
“What’s the problem?” I ask her while looking at the galaxy time.
12am.
“We got heavy damage to vital components on the two drones, this makes recovery impossible unless we decommission the other two intact drones, but that would leave the drones useless in battle.” Peppy say with a serious face while thinking on what to do.
“Don’t worry about being battle ready, I took the drones for mining operations primarily, so it being good for battle is just a plus, also, each drone have a micro reactor core each, are they good?” I ask Peppy while relaxing.
“Sure, they are ok, what do you need it for?” Peppy ask me with a tilted head.
“I’m thinking about upgrading the drop module, get it some engines and some basic auto drop along with remote control.” I say while thinking.
“That’s good I think? What do we need to upgrade it for? We have all we need.” Peppy say with some questions on her mind.
“Sure you don’t mind taking a month mining just because the drones can only take a single ore chunk and taking it all the way back to the ship before returning to pick a hundred more.” I say while looking at Peppy.
“Now that you say it, we could revamp the drop module into a multi use module, and for that we need working engines and a mainframe, something Shy is good with...” Peppy say with a nod understanding why I asked for the micro cores.
“Da, that’s the thinking process I want, repair the drones back into basic mining drones, and upgrade the drop module with a mainframe, engines and multi function latches, am I clear? No need to worry about price.” I say and get back into meditation stance.
“Sure thing, if my calculation is correct we will use almost 12.000 credits, and the mainframe construction Shy can help as it’s her specialty, I'll go tell her to help me, she’s free anyway.” Peppy said with a smile before going her merry way so I return to meditation.
I feel the time pass as my knowledge about the Warlord psionic tree increase until it can no longer grow anymore so I open my eyes and look at the time.
10PM.
I took the entire day meditating and for good or bad, I managed to finish the tree today enabling me to focus on another tree or another skill, the strain on my mind is great but the feeling of achievement is enough to make me smile.
What do I do now, do I focus on another tree or go train a skill? The Warlord tree don’t have telekinesis or things like that but it’s a sure kill for my enemies... Yet I fail to see the complete use of the tree, it can interchange from melee to ranged combat at a glance, but it lacks... Instantaneousness...
With that in mind I reconnect with the Archonexus network and search the other psionic trees, finding what I search for, the Skipmaster...
As the name say, this psionic tree allow one to become a master at teleportation via Archonexus and allow it’s user to access the Archonexus resources like smoke, water, sun, etc, it’s users know how to manipulate objects not only with teleportation but with telekinesis despite not having any offensive capacity.
With this psionic tree, I can renovate my way of fighting, forego the obligatory use of hands and span into wider range of techniques like telekinesis gun kata, paired with the Warlord psionic tree the user will become unstoppable while they still have neural heat to spend.
I’m in.
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With this conclusion I returned back into meditation, this time with the intent to learn the Skipmaster psionic tree...
After hours upon hours of non stop meditation I finally open my eyes to a ringing message on my tricorder, grabbing it and looking at the hour before looking at the message I see that I meditated until the next day as it’s currently 6am again of 6/2/5520.
*Here’s Commander Zeta speaking, Captain White, your job area stands on LD1 at the center of the station, you find a elevator close to the middle section of the station guarded by soldiers, they know of your identity and job and will not be a problem, Adeptus Mercy will be waiting there to help with the allocation of resources and manpower for the construction of the Reactor, don’t worry about the price of construction and with your payment as you will be rewarded handsomely, the reward is 500.000 credits, enough to buy a new ship of the Shuttle class.*
I sigh as I finish reading the message Zeta sent me at this moment of the day, guess I’ll have to go, at least they are paying the bare minimum that the reactor would cost with a lot of bargaining and a broken bond due to rip off.
Looking up at the bunker beds on the roof of the ship I see the girls stir, they are all about to wake up as this hour is the normal time they all wake up.
I get up with a sigh and go get a drink to wet my lips, the overuse of meditation is making me feel like a fried chicken on the oven with a bad cook.
Taking my time to sip the cup of avalon wine as I wait for the girls to finish waking up I sip while relaxing as much as I can.
10 minutes later the girls are awake and eating on the low aerogel table, so I decide to open my mouth and talk.
“Peppy, how’s the drop module and the drones?” I ask Peppy while caressing Zu’s head.
“Oh? The drop module and the drones are cool, they did not give that much problem at all, I even got more proficient in mechanics.” Peppy say with a wide grin.
“Talking about proficiency, I got better at Targeting too, not that close at specialization but I'll get there.” Shy say with a nod.
“Sa- Same here, I got a little better with the radar, and with some more I’ll be closer to mastering the basics.” Zu say with a shy face as she continue eating with closed eyes.
Nail and cold look at each other before talking too.
““We got better.”” Cold and Nail said together.
“But I’m almost done with the basics, some more navigation and I'll be learning the advanced stuff.” Cold finish his words taking everyone here with surprise, she was last at technical stuff but now she’s first, she passed everyone here with sheer will and desire to learn.
“Hahaha, that’s my devochka! Should I give her a reward?” I say with a big sharp grin and look at Zu with the said question.
Zu look up at me and I don’t see nor feel unwillingness from her as she nods her head before talking. “Giver her the most embarrassing reward you’ve got.” Zu say with a wicked grin making me tilt my head.
“Da.” I say with a nod and focus on Cold, her face a mix of emotions but her mind going all over the place but more to the lewd parts... Oops, I'm unknowingly using my Empath powers, need to take care, most people don’t take kindly for being mentally spied on.
With a simple movement I get up easily as Cold was already up and on defensive so I use my new capacity to take her by surprise by using skip on myself and appearing right in front of her, Cold did not have even a second to act as I easily disengaged her armor and lowered my stance in front of her, she looked down at me as I gave a wide grin before diving on her throat from bellow, my fangs sinking making her gasp as I hug her closer to me while righting myself up again making her look like a victim of a vampire attack as she’s bent over for a very embarrassing and intimate looking bloodfeeding session.
I savor the blood and moment as Cold moans echoes on the living quarters before I let her go, a look of someone lost in bliss can be seen on Cold’s face before she manages to recover herself with a dense blue blush on her face, the smirks of the girls make her run out of the living quarters in shame.
“Did I overdo it?” I ask while cleaning my mouth.
“Nope!” The girls say in synch.
“Cold is just shy right now... And very horny too as we have a very strong response to stimulus when it does pass into us.” Nail say with a chuckle while shaking her head.
“Da, rodzher, now if you all excuse me, I'll be off to work on the stations new Z2 Breeder reactor, bye.” I say with a nod and walk out of the ship and into the station’s center module where the elevators and merchants are located.
I speed up my pace and reach the area in 20 minutes before going down the elevator to Lower Deck one.
Reaching the area where the reactor will be built was easy as it’s clearly close to the stations center module, to be more exact directly under the station command center on the middle.
When I get there I find Mercy waiting for me.
“Took your time little one.” Mercy say to me as I nod to her.
“Took the shortest route here and still took 20 minutes to reach.” I say with a sigh.
“20 minutes? What happened with the last 10?” She ask me.
“Used it with the girls, I am their Captain and need to be up to date with all that’s happening.” I say while shaking my head. “Let’s get this reactor built.”
“Sure, just give me a list of materials and I'll bring it here.” Mercy say with a nod.
“Rodzher, here’s the list of materials and components needed for the construction of the Z2 reactor and some equipment needed.” I say and give her the log via message on my tricorder.
“huh, that’s a lot of pieces and it will also need lifter mechs... I’ll tell the workers to ready up, it may take over 30 minutes to ready to materials.” Mercy say with a nod.
I nod back before taking my leave for a less crowded space inside the reinforced room and sit down to meditate.
I’m woken up by Mercy’s voice 30 minutes later with the feeling of breakthrough.
“We got all the materials we need for the building, what now?” Mercy ask me so I nod and get up before walking to the center and start giving orders.
With my knowledge and the workers help along with Mercy input we manage to lay the groundwork very easily with only half the time needed.
We still wasted 4 hours on the groundwork.
With the basic done I start giving orders and managing the workers with the more technical parts of the reactor, the reactor core was a pain to build and took micro management to a new level as I needed to babysit the workers and Lifter pilots the entire three hours of non stop work.
With the reactor core built and checked for defects I get over the making of the control rods by myself a entire 121 fuel rod connectors was made and installed over the 4 hours of work.
Finishing the last details of the reactor was fast but time consuming as I wasted another 3 hours.
At the time I’m done with the entire reactor I'm well over the station energy closing time and I still need to build the power relay and turbines along with the cooling tower.
I sigh and take my tricorder, 8:35pm and I forgot to tell the girls to buy the forge components for the ship...
I sigh again at my blunder and walk back to my ship for some sleep, tomorrow will be a whole new level of work and material micro management but at least the Z2 Breeder reactor is complete, just need testing on it’s control bridge...