The Pocket Dimension Mechanism, is PDM in short, fulfilled a very American culture way of using acronyms for everything and anything complex to say the name completely, or just remember, costume that ranobes and web novels from Japan had copied.
The PDM, according to the archives, was a joint project developed by the former inhabitants and other interested parties around 3,000 years ago.
The joint venture had 4 main partners from Terra: Dvergars, Elves, dragons, and the North People tribe.
The Elves were interested in a way to have again their mithical world tree from their original world; it seems the Earth stories were partially true, but depending the world you are in, the evolution paths are different. In some worlds, the elves are predominantly males and unsociable types, while others are the beautiful semi-eternal creatures dedicated to cultivating themselves.
The same is true with "dark elves," who have black or brown skins.
This world and moons have drifters from time to time.
When the elves from Terra knew that Motherland elves had a young world tree, they were so moved, that almost none were left in Terra; after their migration to Motherland.
The inherent abilities of the elves of 3 worlds were put together in one version of the world tree they had: a small 2-meter-tall metal and ice-looking tree without any semblance or "normal" trees.
The Motherland elves came from another world, running away from their home world that had fallen to interdimensional invaders.
Several millions of elves and other species, including humans, halflings, beastman hybrids, and dvergars (similar and very close to dwarves), come through a portal using the mithics fight aftermath, leaving traces and weakening the walls between dimensions.
The Dvergars, or dwarves, had different forms and species; there's in general 3 types, and their difference is the cultivation advance, from newly born to young ones: dvergar, very similar to a dwarf, elder, and grandmaster; the lasts could be 6'9 tall (around 180 centimeters); all them are stout and had high dexterity, with master skills in craft in wood or metals.
Some of them. change the form of the bodies depending on the chosen path of their cultivation.
When the Motherland resident dragons noticed the portal, they sent the news to the Joint Council, a non-ruling entity created to coordinate between everyone.
The refugees landed on the coast of this continent, almost 15,000 kilometers away from Summer Field, with the young sapling tree in hands, they negotiated and started to build their homes and cities.
But the sapling had problems adapting to the Motherland environment, as they were researching dungeons and laberinths dimensional properties, they included the world tree sapling in the joint research project.
They spent dozens of years researching how to improve the condition, and they got knowledge because the tree had pocket dimensions as part of its nature.
In the search to improve the tree, they researched the pocket dimension phenomenon.
In places like Motherland, Terra, or others, the high concentration of ethera veins causes the formation of dungeons or laberinths, which is like a ley line formed by ethera, sometimes underground or in water bodies and even sometimes in the air.
Stolen from its original source, this story is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings.
In Motherland, there's places like islands or even subcontinents of size floating in the skies; those floating lands have the ley lines in the atmosphere connected with them, keeping stable.
The researchers have tried it for dozens of years to emulate the natural dungeons or labyrinths, creating artificially one of them, a place between dimensions, and modeling and terraforming the artificially created space to their advantage.
At the end, they had to interrupt and leave because the impromptu worsening situations in Terra and Motherland.
The first was political, and the second was the record-highest increasing of all their history, being the mountain ranges where Summer Field is located, one of the permanent 5 regions that ether surges from the planet all the time.
Alex closed the book artifact Matt gave him with other gifts; one is a lobular earring that has a small button with a line that connects circling behind the ear to one side of the face, looking more like a Ta Moko tattoo.
The artifact is a multipurpose artifact that works as a communication device and can link him with virtual spaces and augmented reality, among many other uses, but the best is the application that helps Alex in his personal space pocket management; the artifact is linked to him via DNA.
He's now in a big wooden stone mansion on the snowy mountains that overlook some fjords.
The researchers here built this as part of a multiple-floor biotechnology-dedicated PDM to research, improve, develop, and repopulate species from Earth.
The Noah Doomsday Bank megaship had embryos, DNA samples, more than 4,5 million seeds, and other needed materials to repopulate extinct environments, adding the Matt database with terabytes of information, DNA structures, essays, and research from earth.
In some of the floors of this PDM, it has been almost 4000 years.
All said, in 100 years they expect they can finally let be in the same time flow as the outside and have wildlife habitats as close as possible emulation of earth.
Alex had been here on the medical research lab floor for almost 20 years and still needed to be here some years more.
He had been traveling inside this biotechnology-dedicated PDM and even did some "tests" surfing waves on floors like the ones that had humpback or blue whales among Cetacea species or Chondrichthyes species (like sharks, rays) populations.
To solve the needs of long migration species, there's special freeways between floors.
The great plains of Central Asia or North America, the Tropical Jungles from Asia, Africa, or Central Americas, the Everglades, the Amazon, the Mississippi or Yellow River hidrographic systems, Polynesia or Hawaii islands, Caribbean tropics, fjords, Alaska, Siberia, Tibet, Kamchatka, Okinawa, and south Asia islands, Honshu and Hokkaido islands, New Zealand or Australian outbacks, the submarine habitats with them, and many more.
The majority is 1:90 scale versions , the management floor keeps tracking if they can upscale or keep the actual size; this is also part of their research: can they eventually duplicate earth?
An actual duplicate is impossible, not because size and the energy and ethera consumption are enormous; even though is are enormous, the base characteristics are the bare minimum of ethera, which helps lower the needs, but also because the species may differ: having mammuts or dinosaurs requires different environmental settings than modern earth.
This PDM is one of the newest and is using cores from Dragon and one of the biggest whales. 100+ floors in different sizes are linked together, and as part of their energy supply, the PDM are also connected to a new energy hub deep that uses the ley line under Summer Field.
One floor is dedicated to being a power bank back up with high-density ethera crystals storing all they can.
Alex thought about loots. When they were still exploring Summer Field, there were vaults and warehouses full of materials and minerals like gold, artifacts, weapons, armor, and golems, but most of these he felt were not needed; the most important valuables right now is their survival, a place to sleep, and warm food to eat.
An old rhetorical question he remembered is: how much is a bottle of water worth in the desert?
He is clear Matt is his "bottle of water in the desert."
Being in a desert, stranded, and even inside a ship with billions worth of items but useless to himself, he could be dead now, the same for the thousands of people they rescued from the desert and the challenges to come.
Now with a hot cocoa, coffee, and some good ol whiskey mixed, admiring the view, he feels nostalgic, maybe because of the age?
🔱
In the dedicated Biotechnology PDM, the 37-floor series is dedicated to production, the greenhouses, laboratories, or production buildings; it's a different picture from what people see in adds back on earth: nice-looking open farming fields. Inside those buildings, AI in robots-golems guides the Automatas, a lower version with no self-determination of the robots-golems.
On the floor 37A is dedicated to cereal types, including soybeans, beans, rice, wheat, and others.
On floor 37B, there's experimental coffee plantations, sugar cane, cocoa, bananas, pineapples, watermelon, and many other vegetables or fruits.
As part of their research, they are trying to enrich and balance the products, including the addition of ethera; to the people with cores, a ethera-less concentrated vegetables doesn't fill their nutritional needs.
This floor also had fiber research and production buildings, from algae to cotton, linen, and others.
On floor 37C, it's dedicated to dairy products.
On floor 37E is dedicated to meat products; here the labs have capsules with pork, bovids, and bird parts in cultivation and with special 3D printers.
On the Floor 37D is dedicated to aquaculture products.
On the Floor 37F is dedicated to industry using materials from the other 37 floors series.
From leathers to brewerys.