Raptor One – Chapter 111
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After so many hours sightseeing we returned to Tenacity, Cold even bought over a pack of beer with her as we got comfortable on the low table, the others has gone to see the work, the ship or just gone to sleep so it’s me and Cold now.
“Want one?” Cold offer one of the beers to me but I shake my head.
“Niet, I don’t like those things, they don’t have sugar.” I said with a snort while shaking my head.
“Oh? You know Avali that consume sugar and energetics and Cafeine will have problems right?” Cold say with some slur on her voice, her third beer on her hand.
“Da, I know, the effect for me is like a slowdown of the world, something I can adjust normally if I want.” I said with a smirk.
“Heh, I envy you, despite all the bad things that happened to you, you aren’t packless, you aren’t depressive... You aren’t lost and with no use...” Cold said with a sad tone, she’s clearly drunk.
“Whoa there big drinker, it’s right I passed by so much, but I got you all, so I can pass by with no problem, what about you not being of use? Who’s the bugger that said that to you? Tell me, I promise he’ll be sliced into thin cubes and sent as food for Lycanis and her pack.” I said with a cold glint on my eyes.
“Heh, as if you can do it, it’s my own opinion, you got together with all the others but me and Shy, I know Shy’s just waiting for you but what about me? I did not even get a touch...” Cold said with tears in her eyes.
Looks like her conversion into a girl made her emotional as well, she’s completely different from her don’t touch me I'm a loveless guy vibe.
“Don’t say that, I’m here with you now right? What you need is some caress and you’ll feel better, I just did not touch you because you are the ship Navigator, it’s a serious and hard job and the smallest of errors can led to our deaths or worse, tax payment, most of your time you are on the bridge controlling the ship, so I don’t dare touch you nor take your attention as I care for all of you, but now that you’re free, come here...” I say and open my arm so she can slide herself into it.
She did slide herself into my arms so I started caressing her gray hair feathers and brown back fur as she took of her Combat Exoskeleton before starting to drink.
Her green eyes, misty due to drinking looks into mine as I caress her, I take her beer and drink it all up before looking back at her with a grin.
Not minding the bad taste on my mouth I dive in for a kiss, I see her eyes go wide at the action before closing it with a soft sigh, our tongue doing a slow fight as we taste each others flavor, my hand sliding down her head into her back and into her tail, a slow and tight squeeze grant me a gasp from her as I incline back from the kiss slowly, her body following mine.
I can feel the pressure of her small breasts on me as we kiss, her soft gasps echo as I caress her tail and sometimes her fold, feeling her body tense up, her toned muscles under her fur and feathers tightening up and loosening down as I play with her body and mind with my powers.
Bliss is a powerful power and so is being a ‘empath’, being able to give words of joy, of serenity, of love or just giving a soothing feeling can do wonders, manipulating feelings is it’s strong power and in the wrong hands can do so much harm...
I focus back on Cold, I whispered words of joy, serenity and love and gave her a soothing presence and a blissful time while tasting each other, my natural inclination also helped as my saliva have a strong sweet flavor and can be very arousing, so Cold was in the Andromeda Galaxy in no time.
I smile as she giggles happy on top of me, the beers already forgotten as she just drink my presence and taste what it is to be truly happy.
Not too long after she falls asleep due to the amount of beers she drank so I place her on my bunker bed before sitting back on the low table, there’s 3 beers there, so I drink it all up, the feeling of dizziness was fast but my body kept the worst of it, I sigh and lean back on my arms, thinking to myself.
‘I do need to update my hands, it’s just a welder with grabbers, what I want are defibrillators, suture, scalpel, skin peeler, blood pincher, bone saw, etc, I need a full retrofit of my hand plates, change the laser welder into arc welders and place it besides...’
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While thinking all that I hurriedly got my tricorder and started to make a new blueprint of my hands, with all the details I needed, battery, grabber, mini suture laser as I have access to glass now, motorized bone saw, scalpel, on top of my hand goes the defibrillator close to the battery with power lanes to the palm of my hands, keep the climbing claws untouched, reinforce the wrist as it will lose a lot of stability and may break with strong force and... Done.
With a blueprint in hands I stumble up from my sitting position and start walking to the forge module, despite drinking like hell will come in the next 3 seconds, I kept my consciousness, a trait I have since I was human.
Passing the Reactor room I see that the reactor is active yet so I stop to look at the energy link... The energy flow to the Forge is still running but it’s having to reflow the energy link a lot due to the heavy work on Upper deck module two.
With that done I resume my stumble walking to the forge, remembering that the science module comes with a built in medical area for surgeries and treatment, the big part is the science fabricator with much more detailed work capacity than the forge as it will let me make glass, graphene, silicon, and much more, including medical items, from vaccines to cures, to medical applications...
I stop to look at the half filled hydroponics, it’s giving fiber and food every 6 hours, that means the crew won’t starve when flying from one place to another, the problem is that we don’t have a way to recover water, the life support have it’s closed system, the hydroponics have another and the living quarters have it’s own with capacity of 3 tanks, that means we got infinite clean shower, but finite water reserves for plant growth and us...
Passing by module two I see the hectic of work as the workers change plates and connections, pulling wires and placing wires, pulling plates and placing others, some building the fabricator others the medical bay of the area, after some looking I just pass by to module three.
Despite being drunk and hard to walk forward while not going sideways I manage to skillfully maneuver by the workers into module three, there I stopped to take a look at my inventory...
-(FM[16+2])|(1c(45)Fiber)(1c(8m)Cu bar)(1c(50m)Fe Bar)
-(Inv)|(1c(1m/4o)Fabric)(1c(0)C weave)(1c(13n)B fiber)(1u[W.Component(Bad[Steel])])
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I’ve got some materials but most of it is on the cargo module, and all is Fe ore, so that’s okay despite being a low amount.
First let’s make Carbon from the fibers.
With the forge heated I got to work and made 30 units of Carbon, with that I could make more but I decided it was time to get the titanium done and so I got to work.
Going all the way back to grab the Ti ore was hard work, even more when I had to bring two crates but I took some liquid intelligence on me and placed the Fe ores along with the Ti ores and took it back all in one crate.
I was clumsy, a lot clumsy when bringing back the crate with Ores, but even drunk my skills did not rust as they saved me more than once, the workers did not like the surprises though as they grumbled as I finished passing by and placed the crate down close to the working forge.
So i got to smelting the ores, The Fe ores became excellent Fe Bars of Modern quality, with that done I got to the Ti Ores, the first time was bad as all heck, luckily I managed to barely save the ore, this was my first time making Ti Bars so I made a single one to get comfortable, the result was poor.
But poor was best than losing the ore itself, so I got it and remade it again, this time the result was excellent and I managed to get a idea of how they are made on the fabricator, so I got to batch smelting it.
Three batches of modern grade Titanium(Ti) Bars where made with no problem as I got the hang of it very fast, and now that I have access to better materials I’ll make some Steel too.
For that I’ll need two bars of Fe and one Carbon(C) Ore for two Bars of Steel, let’s keep it simple for now and make one batch of Steel...
With some adjustments I was able to make steel of good quality, not the type I want as this one will go bad fast as it can oxidate, so I place it back on the fabricator and use the remaining Carbon as catalyst to make cromium? I think that’s the word and make the current steel better.
It was not done in one step however as I had trouble with it, but still made the steel non oxidizing so all’s good.
Taking a look at my inventory I see that I can make three batches only but that’s better than nothing as I know I won’t be able to finish my armor before tomorrow 6.
So I get to it, and some time later I have 30 Bars of steel.
With this much steel I get to work on making the frame of my Combat Exoskeleton Suit, each part will use 5 bars of steel to complete the framework, making a total of 20 bars of steel.
Making the framework was hard, so many pieces and all of it modular, I started with the torso, The framework was presentable as the pieces where made with modern grade bars so mounting it together in a way that I could fit inside was a different issue altogether not to say it’s opening and closing system, made with passive system in mind for easy suiting and removal.
After some check up I confirmed it was working and the suit framework was done so I got to making the Leg framework...
Oh boy, it was just as painful as the torso...
I grumble as I get back to the robotic arms and start remaking pieces of the armor, trying to make the leg piece with no success, as I'm not that knowledgeable with digitigrade legs, well... That now is history.
Mounting the leg framework and testing it was a no brainer, worked with no issue as all the issues I had with it was ironed out at the start, so what’s left was making the rest of the frameworks.
With both torso and leg framework done I just plugged both together and tested the suiting system, it worked like a charm, so I placed the Half done framework on a rack and got to the arms.
The arms, this one was different as I had to make only half of a framework due to my big and bulky arms, so it was somewhat of a headache to make something click along with my metallic arms, but after some time I did it and slotted it on the framework.
The head was simpler, all I needed was a visor and hearing aid along with some alert system or something, nothing a chip to the back of the head can’t do, the problem was making the cameras, I needed the circuits and glass to make it work, so it was for tomorrow.
As always, another headache to make the head framework, iron out errors, adjust wrong pieces, get the fold up system working, make sure the modular plating had space...
And with a last test it was done, so I placed it slotted it with the rest of the framework, a entire Combat Exoskeleton frame was shining in silver ish color waiting to be finished, but I’m on my limit and need some rest...
So that’s what I did, I got back to the living quarters to rest...