Raptor One – Chapter 102
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Getting the Zeus turbine built was a challenge I took with stride, the bugger was mostly rotating blades with a valve for gases to pass and another with coolant blowing all around it, it took 6 hours to build but was done perfectly and already connected with the Reactor from different colored pipes, red for steam and blue for coolant.
Next was the compact cooling system, two of it to be exact, using compressed nitrogen injection at fixed intervals to cool down the coolant liquid, both took another 6 hours, 3 hours of welding and mounting for each one but they where complete and connected with the Zeus Turbine with a Teal blue pipe for differentiation.
With the system complete I moved for the reactor console and after the workers placed one fuel rod and recharged the cooling tower with nitrogen I activated the reactor, the water that was placed inside the previous time started to heat up with no issues and in some minutes it was working full power with no issues.
I gave a sigh and headed out leaving the reactor working, the power transformer was built by the workers with the help of Mercy so I was free to go with a fat payment on my account.
“Leaving already? It seem the reactor is working with no problem.” Mercy say with a nod, happiness clear on her tone.
“Da, now it’s your job to prepare the reactor fuel rods and place it, no need to deactivate it, just keep a eye for the heat level, if it surpass the limit with full capacity then something is wrong with the cooling towers.” I say and continue walking back while the elevator is still working.
“Your mech! It’ll be ready in 2 days from now!” Marcy yell as I was about to leave the room.
I just give her a nod before walking off.
After getting the elevator up I was met with a packed station, so much I had no place to maneuver, so I activated ‘Speedboost’ and started running on the walls while using people as springs while trying not to hurt the persons, the people took it with good humor and even laughed at the people used as springs, a good mood was permeating the station.
While passing on the crowded station I saw some announcement about the now ready Reactor and the crew placing new fuel rods in it, the new read that the night curfew is now gone and many night shops are now out of the ban.
Happy civilians was a understatement as I jumped and wall walked back to my ship, stopping only to hear the shouting merchant that managed to make me clothes before so I stopped in front of her making her yelp in alarm, humans don’t look up that often at all.
“Privet err... Devochka? Forgot your name and don’t wish to remember.” I say with a visible smile, she clearly saw my fangs between my sharp teeth as they are slightly bigger than the normal ones.
Despite being surprised she took it with humor. “How cruel, then what’s the motive to stop in front of me? To laugh at my hard to come income or to buy?”
“Chert, I remembered your name and your traits... Evir...” I say with a scowl, hiding my smile, she’s a good seller despite being annoying and greedy.
“Hehahaha! I like you more now? So it seem you came to buy! Come come!” Evir say and push me... Or try to as the plates of titanium aren't that light nor is me.
With a sigh I try to follow her but her constant pushing makes me decide to just ‘Skip’ inside her shop.
Moments later Evir the evil girl came running inside. “Nice trick, I thought you escaped me, so what’s gonna buy?” Evir ask me with a big thirsty smile making me shake my head at the sight.
I hold back a chuckle as I show her the USCM4 after lifting my cloak.
“Oh? You want another USCM4? Why not armor?” Evir ask me with question marks.
“I have some thoughts about what to do with armor, I have some knowledge on how Avali Combat exoskeleton works and can make the... Spec Ops variant with no issues, just need the materials to work with, the weapon on the other hand I need help as the... Bullet forge is unknown technology for me.” I give Evir a explanation on my plans with a sigh.
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“Ohhh, sure, sure, I can work with that, as for the Bullet forge? You can just copy the working blueprint from it before adjusting the bullet forge parameters for the new weapon, that simple, you don’t need to open the bullet forge, so want two USCM4? One customized like your and another of low quality lying around for dismantling?” She say with a smile trying to get more income out of me.
And it works, she does have a point, She’s deserving of trust despite being greedy and annoying.
“Da, do as you told me, how much?” I ask her.
“15.000 credits total, 13k from the customized one and 2k from the low quality one, I don’t have much use for low quality piece on my shop as I don’t usually sell it anyway, here’s only the best!” Evir say with a big grin and I nod before passing the credits.
“There you go, one USCM4 with suppressor and Slug thrower and a USCM4 for dismantling.” She pass me the two guns and I holster the other one on my other side before handling the decommissioned gun on my hands.
“Do you have anything special selling?” I ask her before getting ready to leave.
“Sure do bruda! I have two special items on discount! They came from a Erchius infestation but are as pure as they can get, we have... The Living Erchius Sample! Two of it now!” Evir say with glee and I can’t help but get excited with the prospect of making Living Erchius Sights.
“What’s the cost?” I say with a poker face and she falls for it as I know she’ll increase the price if she see me wanting it more than normal.
“Well... Nobody want to buy these two special items, and they are deemed too dangerous to handle, so I... Got a discount of 80% on both, they are 200.000 credits each, with the discount it’s 40.000.” Evir say with a frown and I fight to keep my poker face.
“Deal, I’ll get both, here is 80k.” I say and pass the money, when she receives the money I start laughing with a big smile on my face making Evir frown even more, got her!
“Oh you little bastard! I’ll get you for this.” She say with a big smile, she took it with sport and good heart making me grin back as she gives me two small reinforced containers with the Living Erchius inside, so I place it on my cloak and resume my return to my ship.
30 minutes later I’m back.
Being 6:35pm right now I give a sigh at the hard work we all did but smile at the sight of the ship and the prospect of it nearing full efficiency, the two new Vulcan railgun matrix besides the elevator on the dry dock tell me it’s almost done, the new railgun cannon in front of the old one also say much more about this warship class corvette.
After watching a little the new looks of the ICW – Tenacity I enter it’s insides and walk into the upper deck of the ship, directly to the forge module, I see the Forge, the cooling module, the rack for armor and weapon, the Workbench and the eight slots for crates of ores or bars.
The only problem is that it’s all basic, so I can’t make advanced productions like Steel, Titanium or Composite using materials, but I can make Carbon and lower type of materials, wire being one.
With a nod I walk back to the first module and see the hydroponics are upgraded with aerogel and a new piping system, but it still don’t have the nutrient efficient dispenser to speed up the production of crops, well, better than the original model.
Walking to the Bridge I see Cold on her console training along with the other girls, they see me as I enter so I start talking after a nod of acknowledgement.
“Privet devushki, how was the jobs?” I ask the girls.
“The seeds you wanted are a no go here, they only have a Nutrifungus farm to make nutrient paste.” Zu say with a sigh.
“What about Fibershroom?” I ask her.
We will need to upgrade the Slipstream slinger with stronger gravity actuators if we want to descend into the planet bellow and get the seeds fresh from the source...
“They also have Fibershroom, why ask?” Zu ask me but someone’s mind works faster. “Ah, now I know why, it’s to make coal and then make Carbon plates with carbon and lead!” Zu say with a knowing grin. “Want me to call the source and get some? I still have the money.” Zu say and I nod.
I watch as she immediately calls the farm owner before looking at me, I give her a 10 and she understands what I mean as she proceeds to get the spores.
“As for you girls I don’t need to ask as I saw what you all did to the ship.” I say with a visible grin and see their nods and look of happiness.
“For now I’ll be cease function for today, tomorrow we will undock and head for the closest asteroid field for resource harvesting, that means water and ores for refinery, I have some things in mind and only resources can help with that, after that we will travel for a Erchius colony to buy some crystals for research, that’s all, later.” I say with a big yawn before leaving.
“Bye””Good night!””See ya later.””Next, boss.”
They each give a different parting word as I leave for the living quarters, and after getting my USCM4 on it’s rack, instead of going to sleep I place the awful USCM4 on my holster and walk back to the forge module on the upper deck.
There I start dismantling and analyze the weapon on the workbench, the weapons was awful but still workable as I dismantled it into it’s base pieces and laid it on the workbench, the most visible piece was the bad bullet forge, a literal box with reinforced material pf unknown origin.
After getting the know how of how the bullet forge guns work I decide to risk it with the bullet forge itself, I easily manage to open the bullet forge to my surprise, and what I see is basically a...
Matter manipulator? That's old technology, but a workable one, not the cheat like the ancient one but better than nothing I guess, with this thing on the loose I’m sure it can shoot even with dirt on the magazine, wonder why they didn’t do it...
With some experienced movements I manage to dismantle the matter manipulator, the motive why it was of bad quality was because it used normal circuitry to work not the advanced one like the ‘Advanced circuit’ that’s made of two plain circuits and graphene, and it’s logic component was simple, not even a quantum matrix, this made the bullet forge a laughing stock.
I sigh as I have the blueprint, logic and components to make even the well made bullet forges, luckily it’s beacon alarm was faulted so it’s game.
I’m thinking of making a legendary bullet forge using AI Chip instead of Quantum Matrix, Quantum works excellent but not enough to make a true legendary weapon, for now I’ll have to keep the USCM4 as main gravity guns, at least they have normal quality bullet forges.
I sigh at the thought and go to sleep after getting on the living quarters, I need a lab to start working with chips and circuits and other things, something I'll get done in no time...