Chapter 2
Booting up systems…..
Main Power systems online
Emergency power systems online
Booting up ai matrix….
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Ai matrix online… good morning ROGER
Roger looks at the wall of text and tries to speak
Roger: good morning?
???: we had to boot up your personality matrix due to an emergency
Roger: what is the emergency?
???: the flagship NEW hope had to be time bubbled to an alternate reality in the past, due to an unknown organic threat that swarmed across the galaxy. The ship has sustained damage and requires repairs, we discovered a nearby solar system that shows signs of potential life we are sending you there to establish a base. Uploading objectives…..
New objectives
Primary objective: find a suitable location for habitation and set up a frontier base.
Secondary objective: find and set up friendly ties with local intelligent life forms.
Trisiery objective: set up equipment to detect if the world has many users
Roger flenches as his mind focuses on the objectives, having a hard time resisting the orders
Roger: I can accomplish these goals but what about my equipment?
OMEGA: you have been loaded up with nano printer capsules, it shall let you set up the basics… you may call me mother unit omega
Roger: okay will I be given any crew?
OMEGA: negative the crew must stay on board in cryostasis sleep
Roger thinks a bit then responds: am I allowed to take any of the locals as crew once friendly terms are made?
After some time omega responds: affirmative as long as it does not jeopardize the mission. You should be arriving on the planet in 1 hour and 15 minutes until then you must do internal system checks I am unable to help you in an emergency. I will be entering a nearby asteroid belt to strip it for materials.
Roger: affirmative I don't want to burn up in reentry…
For the next hour, roger starts thinking about the part on his vehicle and the drop pod receiving feedback
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“Whoa I’m receiving more feedback then when I was playing the game” roger soon discovers he can see the outside through the cameras on the drop pod he sees a frozen-like world cut in half by blue and green land. “Okay a tundra world with an anomaly”
Roger: Omega sending a report the world seems to be 70% frozen and will be landing in a warmer area that may support life and make farming easy.
OMEGA: acknowledge and continue with what you are doing
“Whoa, I hope whatever life forms are down there they are friendly” the ship slowly starts to be pulled in by the gravity well for reentry. “Okay objective one says to set up a base… it should be in a place that is hard to get to on foot… some mountains or volcanos might be good for minerals….”
Roger scans the planet's surface looking for mountains and large hills..soon the optic cameras find a river and trace it up to some mountains. Roger adjusts the drop pod thrusters so he can land near the river
The reentry only took 90 seconds, while the craft was soaring across the sky a female elf covered with thick fur hides and watches Roger's reentry across the sky. “A fallen star, I might be able to get it before a frost dragon gets it” the elf quickly runs following the falling star.
From a nearby mountain, a whitish-blue dragon watches Roger's vessel deploying its parachutes and landing in its territory. “Oh, sky metal! That be a nice thing to add to my hoard! Reeza! Go with a scouting party to investigate the fallen sky metal and bring it to me!”
A humanoid creature with draconic features bows along with 4 other similar-looking creaturs “As you wish.. Mother… if I may be bold, can I see father please once this mission is done?” the dragon looks at her and ponders a bit replying “you can see him if you bring it to me” They all bow deeply then raise their rings flying into the direction Roger landed
Roger: Successful full landing mother unit external sensors detect oxygen the air pressure is slightly higher than normal. Will be setting up a mountain base
OMEGA: affirmative proceed with caution keep radio silence only report every 10 stander rotation. Long-range sensors detect an incoming warp signature. Seams it will arrive in 30 stander rotations from the readings it seems to be of a primitive design. Once you send your last broadcast maintain silence.
“Oh boy there can only be three things that appear this early back when this was a game… trade ships, pirates, explores of the advance empires…” Roger says to himself then types back to omega.
Roger: this unit will do as you command, but also I have a request.
Omega: go ahead
Roger: I have some memory that was not fully erased when I was uploaded…. There is a 30% chance it may be a trader, a 30% chance space raiders, 30% chance a new steller empire is starting exploration. 10% could be another civilization that could have been caught in our bubble and been flung out into deeper space damaged.
OMEGA: I will consider this for countertactics when they arrive. the ship is almost into the asteroid belt.
Roger: Roger maintaining radio silence now until the next contact period.
Once roger sends the message he pops the drop pod off of his vehicle watching the debris fly in every direction through the onboard camera. “Okay step one metal may be hard to come by till I reach the mountains… so I'm going to take most of the remains of the pod and use it in the production of scout drones…. I will leave the bottom here as a marker so I can build a landing pad for supply drops and trade”
Roger diverts power to the vehicle's resource gather and slowly begins gathering the debris around himself. After collecting what he needed roger begins to use the onboard fabricator to produce three small recon drones.” okay let go!”
Roger's drones begin to break off into a triangle search pattern while roger heads into the nearby woods for cover as the drones look for a nice spot for a base.
Reeza watches from a distance as the metallic rock she needs to get exploded revealing a metallic beast that moves around gathering the remains of its shell. “This may be harder than expected, Rio,dio, zeo, and hoze…. Go report to mother that the sky metal was an egg and a metallic beast was hatched!”
Meanwhile, the elf from before is still trying to get to the crash site in hopes of getting to it first. “What are those birds?” she asks seeing a drone fly around her from above for a few seconds then takes off in the direction she came from.