We awoke to a second Carla sitting beside the bed "good morning prime, I have been sent on behalf of all of your nanobots. We request access to the crystals you wear to maximize the effects to keep you and your family safe. I looked at her and smiled "you can access them and thank you for asking first". Cora's doppelgänger nodded and vanished. The others were stretching and groaning as I stood. "Gotta start the day" I said then ducked a pillow that flew at me.
I got to my office as Vicky appeared "I want to know how you are doing on your moon base?" She smiled a huge smile and waved her arm and the hologram appeared. It was a 6 sided structure that rose from the moon's surface with greenery all over it. I could see animated people milling about and sitting in the parks. "This structure can house 1.5 million comfortably". I looked and thought of something "May I offer a suggestion". She cocked her head to the side.
"An amusement park on the moon" her eyes got wide "let's do space tourism right and give the world a destination". She started to jump and clap "we can make it a destination that's priced for all people". I looked at her "let's make it a 2 part station, one side vacation one side residents. I'm sure you can come up with a few rides that will take advantage of the moon's gravity".
Vickey was beaming at this and she came and hugged me, I know it's just drones squeezing me but I knew where it was from. We talked about it for a few min more discussing details until the hologram changed to a large dome next to her original plan. "How long to build it?" She looked at me with a thoughtful look "with current stocks about a month once I start". That made me smile "you are cleared to go as soon as you are ready" she nodded.
"Sir I have all the pieces put back together from the ship we recovered if you want to take a look". I smiled "lead on chickie" I let her take the lead because I didn't know where it was. I chuckled and she caught it, I got a drone pinch for that one. We made our way to the flight deck and there it was.
It was a UFO right out of 50's movies. "I recognize the design, ships of this shape use this type of anti gravity thrusters, no wonder it crashed". I looked at her "bad design?" She laughed "no cheap design, they were used on all kinds of ships but they broke down constantly. The ones on the ground are all like this so if they are basing their research on this they already at a dead end".
I walked around the ship, it had no portholes and only one entrance. I looked inside and saw no seats. "Is anything operational?" She shook her head "all it had were engines and a rudimentary tractor beam". I smiled "I guess we aren't the only ones to leave garbage around". She scowled and shook her head. "How do the ones the governments have compared to this".
"It's about the same, mostly junk".
"As long as they don't have tech we don't know about". She started to laugh "I have scanned the globe and I have eyes on anything not from this planet. There is nothing to worry about there".
"Is there anything we can learn from it?" She shook her head "the computer was mostly a write off and there is no tech worth saving. I did find one thing though" she pointed at a box so I opened it. There were 3 carvings, a man woman and child, at least that's what I'm assuming. "At least we know they made contact or were following a tribe closely. Do we know what they looked like?" She screwed up her face "I did get that from the computer". A hologram of a multi-tentacled slimy creature appeared".
"I think they were aquatic based on all the evidence". I looked at the hologram "that's nasty, hopefully we won't have to deal with them".
"What do you want me to do with the ship?" I thought for a second "tuck it away for now maybe someone will want it. It seems a shame to just melt it down. We should drop it off at an alien convention" I giggled and she shook her head at me. "What about the other ship under the ice?"
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"I had a drone melt its way down to it and it has minimal power. It's tucked into a outcrop of rocks so the ice sheets just go over the top. My guess is it was landed there on purpose. The computer is functional but it's slow going, it's like talking to someone in slow motion. It's like there is an AI on board hibernating so we are proceeding with caution". I nodded "always a good plan all I need is a nutty AI on the loose. Keep me informed of anything you find".
She nodded and we went to the grav couches, they didn't look in use because the models were docked. B appeared and smiled "they have the real things out today". He smiled like a proud teacher.
He waved his hand and 6 screens appeared one above each couch. It was cute listening to them rime off directions. My little pixie commercial pilots I chuckled to myself. I smiled like a proud papa seeing them skim the surface of the moon. "Do they know we are watching?" B shook his head "let's keep it that way, I don't want them to think we are checking up on them". He nodded again and the screens disappeared.
B looked at me "sir on behalf of the kits I have a request". I gave him the floor. "The kits want to be trained weapons free and I think I have a solution. With the amount of space junk we can let the kits train and clean up space. I have designed a laser that will destroy the junk to nothing". I smiled "have you discussed this with them?" He started to laugh "it was them that saw it on their sensors and wanted to go after it. I think they are ready sir, they are getting bored just shooting at one another".
"I'm not passing the buck but I'm putting this in your hands. When you feel they are ready you can go weapons hot". I giggled "my little hunter seekers"
I was just about to say something when 3 couches opened and 3 kits bolted for the bathroom. When those 3 appeared the other 3 repeated the process. B looked at me "they worked that out on their own. They push control over to another pilot before they get up. It's cute, they verify everything with each other". I just giggled at what I've created.
I came back to my home to find Jaden and the girls trying on rings. I got a hug from each and said "I can make any jewelry you want, it just has to be worn all the time". They nodded but I think sparkles trump dad. The door opened and a drone came in with a box and went to Jaden she opened it and there were matching pendants. Picking one up she fell in love with it and so did the girls judging by the looks I could see. So all the women in my family have the same pendant and it looks stunning on everyone.
"What are the capabilities" asked Jess so I let Vickey field this one. As she told the girls about them I went one by one and put them on each of them. They would get giggles when they flashed blue. Another drone showed up with earrings for Autumn but the flash scared her a little. "So we are wearing diamonds from space" I nodded at Lexi and Vicky jumped in "not only from space I found the main crystal orbiting a black hole".
"Cooool" I heard from the girls. I looked at Jaden "I told the nanobots they could assess the crystals and I'm not sure what they have in mind".
I felt a hand on either or my hips as Lisa and Cora came in for a kiss. "Where are mom and dad?" Lisa started to laugh "they are in the Grand Canyon with your family". That made me smile knowing they are reaching out. My com went off with a message from Becky asking me to get ahold of her so I went to my office.
I called her and she answered right away. "Hello sir you didn't have to get back to me right away".
"I prefer not to wait so I try to make others. What do you need?" She shook her head "it wasn't important I just wanted to keep you up to date with my work. I've got all your social accounts going and I'm actively posting new material. Your twitter account is over one million already". I giggled "I have a twitter account?" She rolled her eyes "yes you have all the accounts" she laughed. "Thank you for handling this. I do have one question, are you overworking yourself with all of this".
"It's going to come to that soon, I think I need a few bodies for the commercial". "Don't forget you can use bots if you can't find anyone". She nodded "I will do that for now but I think I'm going to need people sooner than later". I nodded at that. We talked about the commercial for a few min then ended the call.
Cora came into the office "are you done? Did I get it right?" I smiled and went to her and hugged her. "Yes you did but remember I never expect it". She snuggled in and purred "ok but I like I can feel you like Lisa". I left my office and found Lisa by herself "where are the kits?" She shrugged "prob flying, it's nice not worrying about them". We settled in for the evening and just acted like mates.