Raptor One – Chapter 101
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Getting back to the ship was hard, the elevators was not working and the area was devoid of life as it was closed and deactivated for recharging the station’s battery bank, so I had to take the vertical stairs back to deck zero of the station and just then return to my ship...
10:00pm, 2 hours later.
I sigh as I finally reach my ship and walk inside going directly to the living quarters where I see the girls eating their fill and talking merrily with each other, I get a bunch of hi captain before they decide to include me on their conversation so I take a cup of avalon wine, there’s only 3 portions left...
Sitting with a contented sigh I take a sip of my wine before talking.
“What’s the news?” I say while relaxing from a day of pure work.
“Nothing much, we where talking about our training and the hydroponics, we could upgrade it with ferrogel and adjust the... what was it’s name again Peppy?” Zu say to me and ask Peppy.
“The sprinkler system, it’s too human and very inefficient better to replace it with a liquid flow solution with malleable aerogel, we already have the compartmentalization, we just need to correct design flaws.” Peppy say with smile before taking a big gulp of water.
“Not to say we are not using the hydroponics too, we can earn money or make resources and materials with it.” Shy say with a small nod while tilting her head.
“More resources would be good, being able to make our own plates and equipment is a boost to all of us.” Cold say also nodding I can feel her keeping her embarrassment at bay.
“Not to mention we could refit the ship with better materials, make it our little mothership, isn’t that your objective? We do have two free modules after all.” Nail say with a grin.
“Da, I'll keep that in mind and yes, I do have in mind the little ‘mothership’ affair on my mind, I’m thinking of getting us a forge on the Upper deck Module three and a Science Lab on module two, with the hydroponics we will be able to make carbon plates, medicines, ammo, equipment, weapons and much more.” I say with a nod as I finish my cup of avalon wine in one gulp before going for my armor rack.
“Wow, that’s a lot of thought put on the ship, will the reactor even sustain all this?” Zu ask me as I place my cloak on the rack and my USCM4 besides it.
“Niet, it will not and we will need coolant canisters for the forge cooling system, but the reactor can always be upgraded, it’s a Class Zero Reactor, not even a Z0 Reactor which can do hot swap and have better energy production.” I say with a sigh and jump on my bed, lying in it to catch some well deserved sleep.
“Going to sleep now? Worry not, we will keep the chatting down, good night love.” Zu say to me as I close my eyes.
“Night!” The girls say in synch before returning to their girls talk, I however decide to take some shut eye...
6:00am.
I wake up at the sound of my tricorder beeping, with a yawn and some eyes rubbing I get down from the bed and take my cloak before picking my tricorder and seeing what’s the matter.
*Here is Adeptus Mercy, your reactor was dry tested and it’s working, I like what you did with the reactor console, it’s brilliant all the safety override you made in case of reactor malfunction or loss of contact with it’s sibling components and valve system, anyway, I'm going on a tangent here. Your credits have been paid in full by the higher ups.*
*Hello Captain White, it’s Commander Zeta, the higher ups liked your work and wish for your support at making the Turbine and cooling tower, don’t worry about costs, the prospect of having a reactor capable of supporting the entire station like your Z2 Breeder reactor, it’s just the higher up’s wet dream, *Chuckles* This will allow the station to be armed too and relieve some of the ships of the defense armada to the moons and mining colonies for example, your pay will be of another 500.000 credits for building both the turbine and cooling tower starting now, the sooner you can finish it the better.*
Huh, two messages in a row, how odd.
I sigh and take a cup of avalon wine and sit on top of the low table and wait the girls finish waking as the tricorder alarm made their sleep vanish, the same thing siren alarms do to their trained crew.
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I chuckle at the thought and take another sip of my wine while watching the girls slowly sit around the low table.
“So our food today is White a la sexual, I like this.” Nail say with a grin and the others blush while Peppy chuckles at Nail words.
“Funny, it seem all of you are awake and alert so I'll make this short, Peppy, get the components for the forge and build it on module three, you have 300k credits for that.” I say and swipe my tricorder, Peppy perks up at the message She got on her own and nod at me.
“As for you Shy and Zu, I want you two searching for Sprouted Kiri, Nakati Ovoid, and Piru Colony for the hydroponics, that is for you Zu, for you Peppy I want you searching for Aerogel and tubbing for the Hydroponics upgrade, I want it upgraded.” I swipe another 300k this time to Zu and Shy, their tricorders beeping.
They both nod at me before going away with Peppy.
“As for you Nail, I want you to buy another Railgun Cannon, a mark 2, see the price and buy it if it don’t exceed the price.” I say and sweep 100k to Nail.
Nail nod and walks out to buy the gun for the ship, Cold keep looking at me with a serious expression.
“What? You wish to do something too? I want you training not buying things.” I say with a sigh and see that Cold’s mood got worse. “Da, Da, here, 100k, go buy 2 Vulcans, both mark 2, try not to get scammed.” I say with a grin and see Cold nod with a much better mood before leaving.
I gulp the entire cup of avalon wine before placing it back to it’s place and walking out of the ship too back to the station’s lower deck one, I need to get the cooling, turbine and power transformer built.
I look at the time as I walk to the area... 6:15am...
While I was walking to my job I remembered something and took out my tricorder to message Zu and the girls.
*Hey Devushki, if any of you manage to keep some money, then go buy for me some blood bags for preservation, I'll need it in times on need as you girls won’t be able to satiate me at all times, and with your small bodies you all have less blood to spend on me, that is 25 units of blood out of 75, not to mean the headache and light headedness you all can have due to blood loss.*
I sent the message to the girls and less than a minute later I'm taking my tricorder again to see their responses which where positive, but Zu’s message took me by surprise from one phrase.
*Zu: Don’t worry about blood loss, we like having it drank from you and we know that you take care of us, that’s why we don’t mind, I also think your fangs have blood activation tonics as we don’t stay light headed for long, at most 30 minutes after feeding we are already feeling good.*
Huh, so my saliva or glands have hemostatic actuators that increase the production of blood after feeding? That’s something I’ll have to confirm later... If I don’t forget about it that is...
Reaching the area on the station lower deck one was fast with ‘Speedboost’ and some running letting me reach the construction area in 20 minutes, this time I used the ladder, being a vertical ladder the descent was obstacle free so I reached the area faster by gliding down.
I felt the strain on my wing feathers due to the weight that the titanium plates of my cloak have and all that but nothing major happened as I reached Adeptus Mercy on the room on the middle of the station lower deck one.
“Privet Adeptus Mercy, here to help again with the construction?” I ask her with my thick Russian accent making her lift her brows before nodding.
“Yes, I must say you did a excellent job with the reactor, not even trying to damage it did it allow us, and it worked like a true blooded machine.” Mercy say with a nod her happiness can be felt from the praise. “Now we need to finish the rest of it’s body so it can work at maximum capacity.” She say while looking at me with a serious face, so I nod.
“Rodzher, I'm being paid for it so that’s a plus.” I say with a nod and give her the material list for building the reactor cooling towers, turbine and power transformer.
“Why the power transformer? I thought this was used only in weapon production.” Mercy ask me.
“They are used to adjust the energy voltage into a less dangerous and breaking type of energy.” I say and go silent.
“What type of turbine use to much blades?” Mercy pursue the question with zeal.
“That’s a Zeus turbine, coupled with the Z2 Breeder reactor you won’t need to build more turbines like the Thor variant.” I say and try to go silent again.
“Why we have duplicate materials for the cooling towers?” Mercy continue her barrage of questions.
“Ugh... It’s because we need to save space for the transformer so I opted for two advanced liquid coolant towers, they are smaller than the other two variants and can pump enough cooling for the Zeus turbine thus cooling the reactor too as the water return to the reactor, only one will not be enough for full power production.” I say with a sigh.
I was hoping for Mercy to go silent as she gives barrages of orders to the workers but nooo.
“I have a question-””Chert.”
Mercy raise a brow at my words and tongue clicking before continuing.
“I have a technology I'm somewhat unable to reverse engineer, can you take a look? Maybe you will know about it.” Mercy ask me and send me the log about the artefact.
“This is a Teleporter core, it uses two unstable particles fused with a electric cell which is then encased on a energy power core to make it, it’s use is to teleport anything it have access to another location with coordinates, be it a planet, station or space, it’s a one way trip unless there's a teleporter on the other side to send you back, there’s no side effects when doing that as you are sent into a energy sub dimension then transported back into normal space via energy materialization... No harm and effects unless damaged.” I give her the basics of the teleporter core.
“Where did you get the information? I can work with this in depth info, thanks, as a reward I'll place one on your mech. Talking about mechs, what design do you have in mind? I’ll build it for you.” Mercy say with a big smile.
“Da, da, I got it from my tricorder and took some extra information from the Archonexus, we do have a good relationship for starters.” I say with a nod before continuing. “As for the mech I have a blueprint here, just let me change it a little to accommodate the Teleporter core with a technology of old...” I say and easily change the blueprint before passing it to Mercy.
Mercy looks at the blueprint with wide eyes as she sees the complex yet simple model and it’s components in a in depth overview and how each part work, I see her eyes stop for a minute on the new addition I did to the model before looking at me, her eyes asking me for answers.
“You want answers?” I ask her and she nods. “That piece connected to the central mainframe is the teleporter core, it is tuned to phase the mech into the energy dimension and let it stay there indefinitely until called by the small beacon orb linked to the teleporter core of the mech, that means I can call the mech whenever I want to, but it will return as it was sent, if it was damaged it will return damaged and vice versa, the pieces lost from the mech will also be teleported along despite being separated as long as it was teleported along the first time, it will return a mess but will enable easier recovery of damage.” I say with a smile as Adeptus Mercy eyes widden with each word.
“Can I use this on my premium mechs? I- I'll give you 5% of the credits made...” Mercy say to me with a stutter but I shake my head.
“Despite liking money it’s not what I want, just give me credit for the reverse engineering and building and you be set to use it as you deem fit.” I say with a smile before getting to work, the materials came.
“Sure thing!” Mercy words resound with a happy tone as she comes to actively help on the building...