Chapter 2 investigation
[shall I open fire towards it?]
“No, that won't be necessary. Send drones to scout out the surrounding, I want to know the size of the anomaly.
[affirmative, releasing 5000 drones.]
After that much like a faucet, drones flooded out of the ship and started to swarm around the anomaly.
Slowly one by one, the details of the anomaly were transmitted to the boy’s brain through the implants to show a gigantic wide sphere with a 1.5 thousand kilometer radius.
“I see.” nooded the boy and he started to issue another command to the drones.
“Construct research\containment model dyson sphere with tier 5 shielding on the inside and tier 3 shielding on the outside, each with 3 layers of shielding.
[material of preference?]
“Hard-light for the main infrastructures, keep the other materials for the more delicate machinery. Or else we’ll have to gather more resources”
[Understood, commence Hard-lights generation.]
Soon after that the drones started to carry Hard-lights from the fabricator to the construction site.
After a few hours later the boy returned to the bridge to see the dyson sphere’s completed skeletons, with the drones installing the shielding.the dyson sphere. The honeycomb shape cage of the containment sphere is already completed with the research ring still under construction. The gigantic research ring after the cage consists of hangers, factories, materials processing center, and most importantly a researching center for anomalies.
[due to the construction of the dyson sphere that is currently under construction, we are running low on raw materials. Requesting permission to commence asteroid mining operation.]
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“Request permitted.” said the boy with a wave of his hand. Then a hoard of mining drones flew out the research ring’s hanger toward the nearest asteroid field.
“How long until the Researching droid is ready?” ask the boy and then observe the datas gathered from the sensor of the dyson sphere, the anomaly isn't even reflecting lights.
“From the processing to creating the hardware and installing the software and finally testing and adjusting will take at most of 30 second for the first batch to be operational.
“And when will the raw material get to the processing center?”
[approximately 10 minutes if the data being sent back from the mining drone is accurate.]
“Very well. What do we currently know about the anomaly?” ask the boy as he brought up a hologram file of the anomaly.
[Currently we know that it does not reflect any light or sound waves at all. Any attempt to observe the anomaly, including thermal sensor, radar or laser reflection mapping have failed. Secondly it is not a black hold, due to it not having any gravitational field, shown bending lights, or emitting any Hawking radiation.] report the AI as files of previous experiments where shown.
“Then at least the drones won’t be spaghettified when getting near the anomaly.” said the boy as he read through the data files.
“How is the defence holding up?”
[50% of the long range plasma railgun is operational, all Anti drones emp beacon is fully operational, the gravity-burst flak gun are still being installed and finally the heavy duty anti-capital ship ion cannon are also fully operational. ]
“With these we can probably take on most of the forces in this universe unless some forces that are as technologically advanced as humanity appeared into the equation.”
[There is a low probability of such an event happening.]
“True.”
[Researching droid operational.]
“Just on time.” said the boy as he proceeded to synchronize his mind with the drones.
“Commence operation, start recording. Lowered shield in area C5237”
[affirmative, lowing shield.]
Carefully the drones ender the containment sphere through the gap in the honeycomb shape shields, with the shield closing right after all of the drones went inside.
“Active all shields 50% power.”
[every well.]
“Commence testing.” said the boy as a 10 foot pole made out if Hard-light were generated from the leading drone.
[Contact in 5,4,3,2,1... contact established .] said the ship ai as the tip of the pole touches the supposed surface of the anomaly.
[No reaction recorded.] said the AI after 10 second that felt like an entire minute.
“Commence data collection” ordered the boy as the drone behind the leading drone equipped with a pole with all types of sensor all over the surface went ahead. Once the pole came into contact with the surface it phased through the surface, surprising both the boy and the AI.
“It…...phased…. through?.” ask the boy as all king of possibilities suddenly went through his head.
[it seems that we encounter a hologram.]
“Oh, that makes sense. Sending the first drone into the alonomy.” announce the boy as slowly the drone flew forward and phased into the anomaly until all of the drone was inside the anomaly. However the moment the drone phased completely through the data that was transmitted to the boys brain went blank.
“Blank? What happened?” ask the boy as he was interrupted by the AI
[WE LOST ALL CONNECTION WITH THE LEADING DRONE]