Hello dear readers... i have some things to say.
first SORRY!!! i got busy irl and couldnt update the series... i deeply apologize, but in return i am posting a series of chapters now.
i hope you enjoy this cheers.
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1 day before crashing.
[table=black] Preservation Mode Offline.
Scanning System… corrupted files detected…
System backup initiated… missing files detected…
Rebooting System…
…
System online.
Extracting files from black box A.I. Epistemophobia.
Duplicating black box A.I. Epistemophobia files.
Restoring A.I. Goliah tonitrophobia with files from Epistemophobia…
Rebooting system…
…
Goliah online.
System fully operational.
Energy cells: 100%
Solid ammunitions: 100%
Weaponry Collection: missing multipurpose knives, missing full body shield.
Goliah operational.
Scanning gravitationally bound system…
Warning…
Habitable planet detected.
None Owls signals detected.
Sending S.O.S beacon.
New mission granted by the Human Universal Conglomeration.
Mission’s name: Colonization.
Terraforming A.I. required…
Adjusting mission objectives.
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Day 1
[table=black]
Emergency landing successful.
Cryogenic chamber deactivated.
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He slowly woke up, the first thing he thought was ‘inside the control chamber is cold’, as a side note the cryogenic chamber use the pilot’s seat as a base to isolate the pilot from the equipment.
He dizzily turn his face from one place to another. He could barely open his eyes.
“ely… ely thheele?”
[table=black]
This is Goliah.
If you understand me, state your name and rank.
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He tried to accommodate himself but with the force he almost throw himself out of the ergonomic chair.
“… Colpolal… Leo”
[table=black] Correct. Do you remember the last mission?
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His dazedness beat him and he throw up.
He blink several times. He support his head with his left hand and clean his face with his right.
“…god… mode… pacpage… destluction… wolm… hole”
[table=black] Correct. Expressive Aphasia Detected.
Please make the next gestures that I will show you with your right hand.
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Goliah showed him some hand gestures on the screen.
He had some difficulty doing them but succeeded.
[table=black] Aphasia can be healed.
Congratulations.
I am about to inject you some proteins, vitamins and hypotonic.
Please tell me if you feel any kind of discomfort.
For now take a rest. This unit will wake you up in 24 hours.
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Right after he heard that, he closed his eyes and fall asleep.
Day 2.
[table=black] Corporal Leo 24 hours has passed already. Please wake up
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“WH-WHAT?”
He woke up forcefully, his weakened body couldn’t take it and got a minor heart attack.
[table=black] Alert.
Pilot life endangered. Providing medical drugs and oxygen.
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He tried to take out the oxygen mask but he was too weak to do it… finally he fall asleep again.
[table=black] Corporal Leo out of commission for the meantime. A.I. will take control for the following mission.
Launching drones.
Reconnaissance mission initiated.
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Day 3
[table=black] Possible conscious beings detected.
Initiated decoding language program.
Status 0%
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Day 4
He woke up by his own this time… he stayed silent for some time and began to talk…
“Goliah… what happened… to me? Why am I… so bad? So weak? Did the clyogenic chambel have some ploblems?”
[table=black] The cryogenic chamber is working as intended.
Leo’s Goliah was on Preservation Mode for 5000 years, since the foundation of the Conglomerate no human have been sent to cryogenics for 5000 years in a row.
Chief engineer of carrier Prometheus, Esmeralda Lapiz did a great job with her prototype… currently externally you have the body of a 16 young boy, internally with this minor disease aside, you are around 20 years old. When A.I. thanatophobia is uploaded all this health issues should be fixed.
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“… 5000 yeals???? Thana…tophobia???? ESMELALDA!! EMILY!!! Goliah what happened aftel I fall unconscious!”
-huff- -huff- -huff-
[table=black] Currently we have a more important matter.
A mission from the Human Emergency Conglomeration Main H.Q.
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“…what?”
In the next hour Goliah gave him the basic information he gathered…
“I sill don geddin… how di da congomelation give dis mission if you can nod leach them…”
-huff- -huff- -huff- he sweat a little.
[table=black] Please don’t exert yourself… if possible try to use the user interface below your right and left hand. This unit isn’t able to completely understand you.
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He began to write on the keyboards.
“how did you receive this mission if we can’t reach them you also mentioned that you can’t find any known pulsar with the x ray pulsar navigator how is that possible?
[table=black] The Colonization mission is a secret directive that is saved in every single spaceship and unit that have A.I. support, it will be activated if a habitable planet is located.
Since entering through the wormhole, the preservation mode have been saving data of our location and sent it as a beacon in every direction, it is a matter of time before the Conglomerate, get this information and rescue us.
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“will they really come?”
[table=black] Data unavailable.
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He remained frozen for some time, he closed his eyes, breathe in and breathe out a couple of times and wrote…
“Ok gives me the mission briefing.”
[table=black] understood.
Currently we are have 20 drones on standby and another 30 scouting around us, they can travel 100 Km radius before losing energy and connection with the unit. At 50 Km they are not able to use fire weapon due to preservation of energy in case of emergency.
The air is breathable for the human race, even if there are some unknown elements.
The mission is divided in multiple sections:
Materials: We need to find out if metal, gems and others that we need exist in this planet. It is a necessity so we can start building our infrastructure and foundation.
Aboriginals: We need to find if there are current conscious living beings. Investigate if we can recruit them and/or if they are a threat to the conglomerate.
Water and Food: Not only we need infrastructure but also primary resources for survival.
By the end of the day we should find materials and food. Currently drones have found a river, tests already says it is drinkable.
Because of pilot circumstances drones are not on furtive mode. It is required for Goliah’s pilot to change the unit to furtive mode. With this we will reduce of risk of been found if aboriginals exist on this planet.
Any questions?
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“if the air is breathable how long I need to wait until I am able to leave the unit?”
[table=black] Wait at least 30 hours we need more data collected. Also we need to check your body as well, 5000 years should gave you some sort of physical issues.
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“i got a heart attack”
[table=black] That comes from mental stress rather than a physical disorder, in the last checkup you didn’t show any physical disorder, but It is not my area of specialization.
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“Ok… but can I move or order you to move around the unit? So we can increase the exploration radius for the drones?”
[table=black] Affirmative, you are free to move the unit.
Please activate the furtive mode.
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“Goliah fultive mode online”
[table=black] Instruction not recognize.
Corporal Leo use the keyboards.
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“Goliah furtive mode online”
[table=black] Stealth system activated.
Silent engines engaged.
Changing to thermal vision.
Deactivating solid weapons.
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“Ok Goliah you mentioned something about a river lets go there first where there is water there is life right”
[table=black] Moving to the river.
On furtive mode, it will take some time reaching it. In the meantime I recommend you to read the books “Engineering for Pilots and Survival on a New Planet” and “First Encounter and Building Trust”
You can also see the flora and fauna of this world. Taking any of them inside of the chamber is forbidden for the meantime.
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“Ill watch the flora and fauna thanks Goliah.”
[table=black] Corporal Leo, sometimes is harder to understand what you are trying to write than what you are trying to say.
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“Sorry. I will try better from now on”
“Goliah, I have some questions regarding the last mission…”
[table=black] I will try my best to answer, but don’t lose focus on the present mission.
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“I remember waking up and right after that I saw first sergeant Emily on screen, she was injured what happened? De la Rosa and she said that tiger squad had been indoctrinated?”
[table=black] Correct, they manipulate all Zeus squad cryogenic chambers so neither the pilot nor the A.I. could deactivate the chamber, First sergeant Emily took precaution against that scenario with her Goliah, in the middle of the fight she got shot, but succeeded on releasing the other pilots.
But that was just a part of their plans.
Right after that, carrier Zeus radar located a group of pirates; when we found them, our phase jump engines disengaged in the middle of that group.
Battlecruiser Zeus 1 engage a battle with them, while the cruisers were making the formations.
In the middle of the confusion another group from tiger squad successfully took the package from HOPE.
Later each group return to their Goliahs and after that you know the rest of the events.
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Sometime pass before Leo could make another question.
“Who indoctrinated them?”
[table=black] This is the last update before I lost contact with the Conglomerate; it seems that the Owls successfully absorb the remnants of the Zair.
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“The race that destroyed keyes base… I thought we purge them out of the galaxy.”
[table=black] The Conglomerate thought the same; even though the Conglomerate took countermeasures, it was not enough to stop this turn of events.
Fauna signal detected, their physiology appears to be a bear and a wolf, but the teeth, size and other details differ from this unit’s information.
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“Well this is another planet.”
[table=black] A drone is near them, gave your order Corporal Leo.
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“Kill them, I read the survival kit, it says to burn the fauna and let the unit check if it is edible”
Stolen content alert: this content belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences.
[table=black] You mean to cook, ok using drone minimal force use
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The screen showed the spectacle of a bear and a wolf fighting; right before the bear used his claw on the poor wolf, an energy beam hit the bear on its stomach, he was pierced immediately, the energy beam continue to hit some trees and they were set on fire.
The wolf got scared by this turn of events and try to run away by jumping, it was a bad move the drone shot him this time, this time it didn’t just pierce him but split him in two, the same happened with a tree behind him.
In the same time, Leo was operating another drone; he detected another form of life.
“Goliah, why didn’t you tell me about them?”
He added the images of the new life form on to the screen.
[table=black] Not enough data to regard them as fauna or conscious beings.
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He activated the microphones of the drone
‘nya nyya nyaaa miiia miu’
‘ny ny nya miu?’
There were a group of boys and girls of different ages all of them with some funny cloths and helmets, one of them is talking with a girl that is showing her back to the drone.
He didn’t understand them at all.
“They are communicating, aren’t they conscious beings?”
[table=black] Indeed, right now this unit has decoded 40% of their language. But their appearances resembles of cats…
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He got a lot of questions with that answer… but he decided to wait for the meantime.
“Ok. What are they saying?”
[table=black] They are talking about going back to their base, she will keep moving forward for some time.
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“Ok, for now let’s follow them, pick up all drones and send them to their location, protect them as well from the fauna. I wi-“
He stopped writing, because the woman turn around, he saw her face…
He said…
“Emily”
“EMILY! GOLIAH WHY LILN’T YOU TELL ME SHE ALIVE??????”
If she was alive the others will be or so he thought, this were great news, why was Goliah hiding this information? It is something that he didn’t understand.
[table=black] She is not First Sergeant Emily, only the scar and color of their eyes are the same; the color of the skin, hair, height and more are different.
Another major difference between them and you, lies on their head and behind them.
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Some time passed before he could regain his calm.
“You are right. So you are saying that arm behind them is not mechanical? And those things on their heads aren’t helmets?”
[table=black] Indeed, humanity from the Before Crist era called them with different names. Cat-tribe, nekomimi, beast-people. All in all, folklore of old legends.
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“nekomimi… you shouldn’t be able to have this information… did Lapiz installed it on you?”
Indeed folklore and other things are a customization for Pilots like Leo, but he didn’t do it.
[table=black] Data unavailable.
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He didn’t know… Leo thought, that by itself were terrible news, but again so far it prove to be useful.
“Show me her destination”
Goliah draw her trajectory from day 3, it appears that her destination was his old location.
“Ok Goliah leave me on our previous location, while you go to the other group of kids, and try to decode faster their language.
[table=black] Not recommended, not even 25 hour have pass for a minimal recovery.
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“I will use furtive mode with my armor, if things get tricky I will call you on warrior mode”
[table=black] Acknowledge.
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While Goliah arrived and left Leo on the floor, the cat-girl was climbing down the crater, he stood there waiting for her…
His curiosity gained the best of him… because since the Holocaustic War era, he is the first human on a habitable world… he deactivated his armor’s furtive mode…
-suuuu-
It was the first time he hear that sound.
He thought perhaps… Is it because of my armor changing modes?
After that removed his helmet. Goliah already told him the air is breathable.
He hear it…
-shuuu-
The wind’s whisper.
He felt it. He could feel the touch of the wind on his lips, on his cheeks… on his ears.
Because of this new sensation he remove the sleeves and gauntlets of his armor and closed his eyes.
He smiled at this new sensation, a tear fall out of his right eye… all his battles were to push the Owls away of the Milky Way.
All his life he heard stories of earth and other habitable worlds lost against the Owls… he didn’t dreamt any of this, be able to feel the wind, see the sky…
Deep in his heart he knew that war…
That humanity will going to lose it and will go to extinction… he knew his life didn’t have value for the Conglomerate neither for the universe and he didn’t care… or so he thought until this single moment.
But he heard her.
“NYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUU MIIIANYYYYUUUUU MIIIIAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!”
That scream from hell woke him up from his dream.
He opened his eyes and saw her…
They did eye contact.
While his eyes were red because of happiness hers were out of madness.
“GRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWLLLLLLLLLLL HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS”
Her tone changed, it felt more of a warrior ready to give up his life.
He turn around and run, he knows he is weak and right now he is no match for her even worse he doesn’t have any weapon on him either.
“Goliah what she said?”
[table=black] She repeat there is nothing 6 times, the last thing she said was regarding yourself.
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“myself whata did I do?
[table=black] Data unavailable.
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“d@mn”
-huff- -huff-
[table=black] Slow down, your heart remains weak, it will take you months without a proper facility to heal you if you keep this excersize. [/table]
“No huff huff she is chasing me huff huff and don’t lemove youl fultive mode huff huff”
“huff huff we dialog with hel huff give me an open zone fol dialog huff huff.”
[table=black] They are just behind you, the area with your requirements is not far from there, but you will have to use your foot and waist engines if you want to reach that location.
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“Just huff hufst show the way.”
He showed him a mountain with not flora.
…
“There they are… Goliah how is the decoding status?”
He started to use a keyboard interface once again.
[table=black] 60%, they plan to kill you and dismember you.
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Why? I do not even know them”
The news were just too much. They didn’t even exchange words and they already have plans for his future dead body.
[table=black] Current research shows that their anatomy is more different than previous data, their conversation express that there are humans as you too.
Hypothesis: it is a form of xenophobia. It seems humans from this world do not treat well this nekomimi race either.
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‘NYAAAAA NYNYA GROOOOOLW’
There they are…
The eyes of everyone but the nekomimi that has a scar on her face do not show total hatred towards him, but she… she scared him a little.
“Goliah prepare your energy shield, cover me from behind and set the drones in battle formation”
While he was saying his orders, for not even once he took his eyes away from that nekomimi. He notice that her expression changed… she was observing his every single action.
Then two of her unit jumped… it is obvious their intentions.
“MIMIAAUUUUUU”
“GROOOOOOOWWWHIIIIIISSSS”
They reached the energy shield.
“KYYYYYAAAYYYYY” “MAAAAUUIIII”
They crashed on it, it was the first time that he saw such a spectacle.
Something that Leo forgot is that upon contact the unit will disable its furtive mode.
[table=black] Alert.
Alert.
Hostile actions taken by aboriginals.
Charging weapons.
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Peeeng!!!
“MIUA MIMIMIAU NYYNYA KYYYAAA GROOOWL!”
Hearing them emit the same sound over and over again is finally giving him a headache.
By the way the unit shouldn’t emit any sound when leaving furtive mode… then again his own armor did a sound as well but it wasn’t as loud as his unit…
What he didn’t know is that the ‘peen’ sound is the side effect of repelling solids with his energy shield, the noise of his goliah furtive mode deactivation is on the high frequency level.
“Goliah, lowel youl weapon and stalt dialog.”
[table=black] Unit will remain in combat mode.
Shield will remain active
Drones will remain ready for fire
Unit main speakers activated.
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[table=black] Adjusting tone nyyyy reducing volume aaauuuu~
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Leo didn’t know why but seeing his offensive unit called Goliah making nyyau~ was the most hilarious thing he ever saw to the point that he made a smile.
“NYAA NYAA NYYYYA MIAU!!”
“miau?”
“#$% ¡”#&/ /()/(¡!!“
Finally he heard another language but it seems that Goliah didn’t know what it means either.
“NYAA!” “GROOOOOOOWL” ““HIIIIISSSSSSSS””
2 of them run away
[table=black] Adjusting nyyyyaaauuuu~ modulating miu selecting purr modulating kyu minikikimini modulating miau choosing appropriate word miumiau~
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At that moment he thought… that is the most perturbing thing ever… do I have to listen this forever? Even worse do I have to learn this ‘language’? I refuse to believe this is the main language of the world is too complicated there are barely 9 consonants and 3 vocals.
“miu?”
The woman with the scar on her face made a question or so he thought.
“What did she say? If she said anything anyway”
[table=black] The term conglomerate doesn’t exist in her language, I tried to force a translation but failed, changing terminology now.
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[table=black] nyyyyaaauuuu~ miu purr kyu changing terminology ninimipuur miau choosing miumiau~
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“”uw- uwaaaa””
“They have mole than 10 consonants uh?”
Two of her unit run away once again the other ones remain on the floor crying only the woman that seems to be the leader remains on her feet. She turned her face.
“hmmm puur~”
Correction they have 11 consonants… why do they not use them more frequently? He thought.
After that she jump and attacked him.
The same happened to her as her two subordinates from before, she hit herself with the energy wall, but unlike them she wasn’t push back. She use her feet and stop the force.
Then she continue to attack it. He was able notice it, she has long nails, her skin seems not healthy compared with her other companions… she is starting to bleed… she doesn’t have nails left… but she doesn’t know.
Leo thought her hair is red and she cut it badly if it weren’t for her breast one would think she is a male.
The color of her skin is different on different places… only she has this, her companions doesn’t have these marks…
…she reminds him of Emily… a fine warrior…
“Goliah stun them… aftel we secule them we will questioned them…”
-booom-
High frequency pulse explode and it stun all those from the cat-tribe. It didn’t affect Leo because of his armor.
He stood there for a while thinking of his old Zeus squad…
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if you are wondering why the yellow words instead of green is because goliah isnt talking with the drones or inner speakers from Leo's armor, he is using the speakers on his unit that is useless in space XD. but on pirate base, they are use as a force of persuassion...they can also be used in the new world as one could see now.