Deep inside the teleportation hub, there's 5 special platforms. Now engineers, technicians, astrophysics, and astronomers are finishing 3 additional and running the calibration with the mainframe. They learned from the archives and devices left by the former inhabitants, including research and other materials from other sapiens species living in Motherland or Terra.
There was a time Dragons wanted to have a more organized society, there's a minority of them living in clans, the majority were born with pro-libertarian crossing anarchy, power is justice, don't get deceive: the minority had those but in less degree.
Almost 35% chose built this new civilization of Dragons almost 3,000 years ago in Terra.
As their bodies are strong, they can fly and travel almost 4 months from Terra to Motherland.
Truth be told, this is very taxing; they need to dominate a special respiratory procedure using the ethera, and the flight is more like humans in Earth did the first space exploration: jumping hard enough to escape the planet (or moon in this story) gravity and gliding to the destination.
Also, they can't just fall; their ass (if they chose that position) would suffer heavy burnings, even if using magic shields, if they haste the arrival to the planet.
So, the trip to Motherland wasn't a popular vacation destination; also, there's literally a dozen habitable moons in the neighborhood, but real estate for dragons is a complicated issue; most of them prefer living alone but can't be alone all the time.
When the North People tribe was researching travel to Motherland, it wasn't the humans or other sapiens first try; besides dragons, few tried in the long history, mostly failed.
The North People tribe proposed to the Dragons that they wanted to build a different society through collaboration, and once here they can do what they want to.
The inherent high intelligence of the Dragons once they reached a certain threshold, seems specialized in mathematics, some theorists wrote is because they affinity to use magic, so they helped each other, and in the 70 years of their joint interplanetary travel program, they produced more than space or inter dimensional exploration-related research.
The North People tribe elders council ordered storage of the documents in a special vault. Not many knew what all the information was there, but they felt dangerous.
When Karol teams were exploring and building the catalogues inventory, they got those documents and sent them to the science team, now a department, and they did in the same process for all the information storages: appropriate, research, integrate.
We are talking about specialized in astronomy and astrophysics AI, don't expect human hesitation from them, if there's not infringement to the kernels, everything is alright.
The technology's development from those documents, adding others in the archives and Earth, gave them the chance to propose a space program on their own.
Alex though is the most appropriate path to know where they are; there are dangers to be treated.
The planet Motherland and the other moons or asteroids close needed to be mapped as soon as possible, so they approved the new doctrines and with this the project.
Their technology built speed on this planet is just too fast, but they needed it.
If by any odds they didn't take what they could do, Alex feels they will regret it greatly.
The High Council and all of the others think in the same way; the archives told them several histories about the increasing wave of ethera levels on Motherland, now that they found one problematic species, who knows how many other hidden dangers is waiting for them, they feel they need to take any chances or opportunity to raise their strength.
Now, the platforms start to work together; in each of the platforms is a 50-meter circumference and a 70-meter tall rocket, but without the big propulsion systems at the base, they are not needed, at least not now; they had supporting propulsion to adjust once they are in the orbital position.
[Prometheus are ready, taking the countdown from 10, starting the teleportation process in 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, and GO!]
The platforms have intensely bright blue and purple lights.
After the lights fade, the platforms are empty.
[Here is Control; we confirmed the eight capsules are in the designated position, 500 kilometers high, starting maneuvers to assemble the space station.]
[Control here is Icarus 01; we have visuals; Icarus 01 to 08 starting deployment of personnel to start assembly the station]
Icarus was the second wave they sent to space orbit after explorations with drones and unmanned ships.
The shuttle uses teleportation, "turbines," and rockets as a means of propulsion and can navigate in air or space.
The personal comes close to the opening capsules; the storage areas have dimension storage cilinders; as the personal comes, they take out the modular parts and start putting them together; most of them use Exosuit; in 4 of the bigger dimension storage cilinders, they took a machine with several drones flying close; some of them shot blue, red, or brown colors; pieces started to form; other small drones shot lights that looked like lasers here and there on the structures the others were building.
Stolen story; please report.
The shuttle also helps keep altitude and safety; Icarus 09 and 10 are battle-purpose built.
The goal is to complete the station in 10 days.
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Inside the complex, 120 kilometers away and 1 kilometer deep in the network of tunnels, a battle was in process; some of the ranches were poorly maintained; here in a series of 40-kilometer caves, spiders made their nest; the archives call them "soul eater spiders."
The description says the core crystals they produce are able to hold soulstones, a soul; in the past, necromancers used as material to create philactery to hold their souls; the spiders are one of the few they can harvest the important material.
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This nest was originally a protected vault, but somehow a tunnel to the surface was opened, and they used to escape outside, expanding their hunting grounds but building this caves system to hold their main and bigger base.
They eliminated all the other specimens in the vault.
After finding the hunting grounds on the surface, the explorers followed here, and with spiders tall as buildings and the hundreds of thousands, the High Council approved thinning the nest to the bare minimum.
Summer Field Corps evolved the fighting response from warrior types to insect types and specialized wasp drones, but they need speed for the subjugation and thinning.
In 3 weeks, the increasing wave of ethera will be 3 times that is now, and with this as a reason, the placed new bomb devices inside the nest.
On the surface, other hunting teams are working nonstop to thin the monsters.
An hour later in the main base of the Summer Field complex, an earthquake was detected, 6.5 Richter scale; after a few minutes, another 2, 6 Richter scale earthquake was felt.
The people living in the hospitals didn't notice because they were inside the PDM; just the AI's were in the area, and they knew the reason.
Still, Matt was wondering what kind of new thermobaric bomb could cause such earthquakes because George and Johannes promised not to damage too much the supposed rare materials and cores.
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Some 10,000 kilometers from Summer Field in a flotating 2,000 meters altitude subcontinent above the desert, the view is idyllic: great pastures, waterfalls, forests, jungles, and snowy peaks.
In an enormous marble temple, a beautiful female with white long hair is walking deep inside; she's wearing scale armor and robes.
[Elder, we need to inform your excellency about the activity in Summer Field and the incidents happening since few days ago].
She kneels and lowers her head.
[Plinia, how are you?, I think I am not that old to not notice mithical beings fighting close here.
The smell of ancients this time is stronger but disappeared days ago; it feels off, but maybe they just left this dimension after a brief rest.
But I feel confused about the sudden activity from the recently awakened Summer Field and the appearance of those big metal chunks in the desert.
I don't remember that even our friends had the technology to build those.
Maybe they finally found the cure to their People sleeping deep inside?
After all, that's why the soul spiders kept trying to defeat the guardians].
Plinia: [Yes, we also try to investigate, but different causes are making our job difficult.
So far, we are following the movement of beings like new golems fighting lot better, they seem more fluid in movements.
The monsters being defeated and rescuing humans stranded in the desert, weird-looking metal boats, those "chunks" your excellency call them, there no sails and looks heavy, they use a variety of weapons and vehicls we hadn't see before, not mentioning the airships and how fast they are.
They also teleported the chunks to the insides of Summer Field.
They are using different shapes of flying ships than the North People tribe used, and just in the morning we detected a jump from Summer Field to the highs—in the near no gravity zone, to be exact,the massive magic required have some our researchers itching to go and ask directly in Summer Field].
[Teleportation of mass and heavy objects?.
The series of events are intriguing, anything additional information about?]
[In the outskirts of the planet they seem to be building something like a big structure, also releasing small objects that fly in different directions, which is similar to the ones they released suspended in the midair in the area close to their base.
The devices emit different types of lights, sounds, and beeps sounds.
Sir Alannius is deeply interested, and he is thinking, getting some samples... cough, cough].
She turned to look down to the side.
[Oh, I get it; I will tell him to refrain from causing a problem; we don't know anything about these people, and by the looks, they had many different tools ...]
Plinia felt an odd interruption from the Elder, then a communication comes to her: earth shaking waves were detected near Summer Field!
This definitely comes to deepening the mystery.
From few days ago, the magic levels and signals are getting lower and the ambient levels is also getting lower in the area around on the surface and deep in the complex, but a wave is coming and everywhere is increasing.
Why is Summer Field the opposite?
The elder eyes seem a little bright, probably "looking" far away inside the complex...
[Sorry, Plinia, tell everyone to keep distance from Summer Field until we can reach them; they erased almost all the soul spiders nests that grew extremely powerful without destroying much of the place, except partially some caves and tunnels collapse.
And just now they caused subterranean explosions in the desert, killing or better said erasing the whole nests of g'lurs hidden deep, millions were destroyed.
They seem to have ways of blocking farsightedness or at least detecting when someone is trying to pry in their actions.]
The elder, looking worried without further words, turns back inside this temple.
Plinia was left there not knowing what to think, mortals capable of blocking or being alerted if an Elder Dragon prying in their actions, nonsense!.
Destroy a global calamity level nest of soul spiders without erasing the region?
Or erasing the g'lurs nests was his words?, nests with millions of those invasive from other dimension g'lurs bugs?
Each one is big feat, global calamities if their numbers grown too high, the spiders "harvest" vital energy and souls from their victims, and the g'lurs armored body with fast healing.
Plinia rises from her kneeling and walks away, with a headache and the Elder order to be cautious.
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It's been 3 years and a half since Alex came here, the PDM dedicated to biotechnology, the hospitals, research, farms, and ranches everywhere.
Just a few days ago, he finally ended his stay in those capsules; he barely was awake during those past years, and most of the time they kept him asleep.
This is because of the extremely gory process his body went through.
Being broken and opening wounds time after time, the constant fight to heal him with everything they got at hand, from magic spells and rituals engraved in the capsule, nanotechnology recomposition and reconstruction of his skeleton and other organs to STEM treatments.
He clinically died and was revived several times.
Now, he is younger, mid-20's, reaching 6.9' or 210 centimeters tall and has a fine-tune muscular but no excessive bulky body, long black hair, with some pure white stripes and a few purple specks that were noticed.
He decided to cut his hair short, his eyes dark green, with yellow and purple halos irises, some small, deep green with black and purple scales close to the ribs, the middle, and the low back, in the arms and over the hands, the insides of the legs.
He was subject to CRISP and STEM treatments; they used healing magic and nanotechnology using bots.
Why the mix? Because he inherited DNA failures like pulmonary deficiency or being sterile, his body was at its limits.
They even used DNA from another species in very diluted and modified versions; it helped him, but with great costs.
Keeping in mind if only was in order to help him have a core to make easy living here, he didn't have to go this far because there's other ways more simple and painless, but Matt, Adela, Serena, Selena, Maira, and others wanted to improve his body to live longer.
According to the archive information, he is now a type of Dragonoid hybrid and still needs to consume a great quantity of food, supplements with other materials, the better is if richer in ethera, also inyectables reinforcements once a week during 5 years, and once monthly for 3 years, to finally every 6 months, 3 years more...
But Maira and her team overseeing his case think he is more a chimera the DNA doses explained in the archive seem was wrong.
In the meantime, he needs to take physiotherapy and hopefully start close combat classes in year or 2.
But he can tell something went off; it seems the samples they used in him came from the corpses they found in the mountain range; he can't pin point exactly, but the effects he feels are stronger than supposed to be and almost definitely killed him if not because the medical team didn't hesitate to take the chance to use a rare scroll from the North People tribe in the special safe vaults containing joint research with other groups or species.
The procedures in the scroll used very rare and special monster materials and cores, not only because of the species but also because of the age and richness required.
The samples were fresh, and just a few hours before he got inside the PDM, the hunters, following a trail from the monsters on the surface, got deep inside, battling minors and younger to finally encounter and battle with one of the nest overlords.
The hard-won battle brought the spoils, and the biotechnology research personnel readied the components of a new medical procedure after 10 years of refining inside the labs in the PDM.