Alex, Matt, and Adela spend time in the galley; Serena keeps water, juice, or fruits on the table.
Matt and Adela show their plans, step by step, goals and objectives. Alex keeps thinking about and decides to go with the flow. He gives the ok to the plans and almost all the robots went out. Alex went to the ship command room, top in the castle. There he notices it's dark outside, an alien sight, but they are in a different world. The led temperature monitor shows 10°. He sits on the captain's chair. Outside, the shop lights are almost off. Matt makes the point they don't know if the lights will attract monsters and they have null defenses or forces to defend.
The workers, meaning the robots, keep moving containers, putting them in some place and opening them, unboxing the contents. Alex notices 10 or so fixed-wing drones, the command room now with more monitors or simple TV screens, and then he can see the drones leaving flying from the ship; now he can see better over some of the nearest dunes; some of the drones go to the mountain wall 5 or so kilometers from the ship.
Over the dunes there's lights here and there, infrared shows more heat sightseeing, on the mountain range the found outer portion, 13 kilometers distance from the ship, the mountain wall borders the desert almost like someone did construct a wall, but there it's only 500 hundreds to 900 hundreds meters tall, it's like a valley of the sorts, surrounded by tall mountain walls 7 kilometers in the entrance and getting wider inside to almost 12 kilometers, the desert it's 23 kilometers, facing a stone wall in the end, by the border line between desert and mountain walls, there's something artificial, like a plaza and old design castle entrance.
Daylight has come, 2 VTOLs were unboxed, inside the containers, 120 7-passenger VTOLs need to do the final assembly. Adela, it's big, but with all the container movement, robots unboxing robots, installing software, and feeding from the ship's power, 2 VTOLs for 7 passengers were ready to fly and go to the mountain range wall 13 kilometers south-west using the biggest of the sun's as a reference.
Earth weapons are functional but weak. The exploration team went to the plaza and the castle entrance, looking for an opening and getting in. A small robot dog got inside the structure; dogs have legs and wheels inside them, looking like Chihuahua, 24 centimeters high. The little robot got in. Inside, there's a piece of levelers. The other 5 Chihuahuas got inside, and together they figured out we're pulling or moving sticks that can open the entrance. The levelers start working, and a cloud of dust and small stones jumps from the moving walls.
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Inside they can see unnaturally preserved things; their scanning shows clouds of the ambient energy being less and some buttons on the walls. Karol, a recent robot with a high AI chip and at the moment located inside a quantum server unboxed from one of the containers along with others, is a linguistic specialist. Together with her assistants, she comes forward and starts the decoding of the language. They want to use any facility that exists on this planet, and from the various possibilities, one without inhabitants, sapiens, or wild beasts, including monsters, it's the best real-state deal they can find to locate their first steps on this planet. Further research will clear if they can keep or need to move looking for a better option.
The newly formed High Council comes in session, president Alexander Winthrop, start the meeting, he didn't when, but Matt told him that part of the morning papers includes the formation of State, there's literally hundreds of not thousands of tasks needed to be attending, Alex after being in the Marines he decided to be a free soul and that's why he started to practice surfing and the consecuence was traveling to most of the dream paradises any travel agency promote, being a back packer to start a small hotel with cabins and a good bar in Central America was part of "natural flow", other friends went and did the same in other places or Countries, before he noticed he was married with kids, he never have trouble, one boy and one girl and now he's Governor of this new state, so as he ready decided decades ago and in the morning today: let's go with the flow.
So, he just keeps going from place to place, sees the exploration mission in the now classified "abandoned facilities" inside the mountains, and nods to anything he thought common sense said yes, giving the governor and president of the high council approval to Matt, Adela, Karol, Serena, and more and more AI being born? or start functions, Maura, it's their Medical AI and Alex personal doctor. Alex thought it was weird when he noticed Rafa, the Droids and Robots mechanic; he thought it was better using "medic," but Matt and the others response was a big no. "It doesn't matter. We are a virtual intelligence that maybe could be a consciousness, but our physical bodies are mechanical creations, who knows? maybe when we can create flesh bodies or hybrids, we need another name for the specialist in charge.