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Chapter 010

CHAPTER TEN

PAKAS’S MANSION

WOLF

It was a few days later that Pakas introduced me to my new martial arts trainer. The guy didn’t look like anything special but once we were on the mats he quickly proved me wrong. That was how my life was for the next year. I trained with the martial arts instructor that wouldn’t give me his name.

Also after every dinner on Saturday Pakas would teach me something that he thought was important to know. He also started training me in different skills that would be useful for me to know. He started training me about how to blend into a crowd without being noticed.

After the first year is when the fun started. That was when I started going to specialized classes. These classes were for a lot of things. One of the classes was about how to dress for the situation. Another class was about food it was just as interesting as the one I took at the war college. But it was different and one thing I learnt this time was that there is a lot to the food and beverages that eat and drink. There are so many different styles and flavors.

There were other classes also. But that was how I spent my second year at the university still taking classes for engineering and the special classes from Pakas. I was nearing the last part of my studies in engineering. With my engineering class coming to an end came the end of class project. In recent years everyone has been working on a space station. Every graduating class adds a little bit to it. It’s been going on for close to a hundred years and they are still only five percent done.

The project is really just each class adding to what’s already there. They could add anything they think would be needed on the space station or to build it. But there are problems and that’s that pretty much everything that’s made is just to big. Because everything is so big it’s going to cost to much money to build. No one is really researching how to build one cheaply either because they don’t think they’ll make their money back. That’s why it’s pretty much universities doing the research for graduation projects.

But I was thinking that something interesting might happen this year. But first we would have to see what’s already there and to see that we would have to wait for classes to start. Which is a misconception because there was no classes. Only student get togethers where they discussed what they would like to make or how they would like to design it.

A lot of different fields of study would come together for the space station project that was why the president of the university introduced everyone who would be graduating. It was a big get together where the project was talked about on the first day then other arrangements were made.

I got up for martial arts training and when it was done I went and took a shower. Then I had breakfast with Pakas then we headed over to the space station building. It was called the space station building because that’s where the space station research was done.

When we got there I went to the auditorium and sat down in the back and waited for the speech to start. I was early because I came with Pakas so I had to wait a couple of minutes for other peaple to start arriving. Finally Pakas got up on stage and the speech started.

As everyone knows for the graduation project we work on building a space station. We are about five percent done and you are all here to add to the work that is done. Now let me speak about the project so nobody has any misconceptions. There are a lot of different groups here some of the groups here are obvious. Like the ones that will focus on weapons and power cores. But then there are ones that aren’t so obvious and those are going to need a lot of work. You are all going to be split in groups depending on which project you are supposed to work on. Then each group will elect one person to sit on this years council.

The job of the council is to make sure everything will fit together when everyone is done. Now most of you are probably wondering how you are supposed to graduate with out finishing your project. The truth is finishing the project is second to actually working on the project. You will be judged on what is completed.

Now let me explain how things will work there are over a hundred different options that you could work off. These were started but never completed and the next years graduates though a different design would be better. So your job isn’t to make a new one but to create one that will work. To do that you could take different inventions that were made for something else and use that.

You have the next six months to design the space station. If I was you I would find out what peaple wanted on the space station and incorporate it into your plans. All the information you will need is on computers in this building. Again the point isn’t to build the space station it’s to design it. Once you design it someone else will improve it so don’t get to attached.

Now each group is assigned a room you should probably go vote on who will be on the council. Now my assistant will over see it and keep me updated on anything that is needed. So go get to work. Said Pakas.

I had lunch with Pakas in his office today and after lunch we spoke about the council.

Why did you put me in charge of the council.

I put you in charge of the council because it is your final test. Said Pakas.

What’s my final test have to do with the council.

Your final test is to lead the council in designing a space station without anyone noticing how much you helped. Now before you start asking questions let me explain. There are all these different designs for the space station some are more done then others. But if you combined them all you would get much further the completion of the space station would be closer to twenty percent. But the problem is that they are all different designs and they don’t exactly mix very well. That is why I said five percent because the most complete one is five percent.

So your final test is to get a design for the space station as complete as possible. But while your getting the space station done you also have to make sure everyone else on the council thinks you are just my assistant. You are going to have to be the leader and give ideas without it looking like you actually did anything.

The point of this test is to see if you could blend in. After this you are going to be done with the training I could give you. There is still some things you could learn but nothing that I would be able to teach you. Once this is over you will leave and follow your own path. After that I went to the council room to wait for the rest of the council to come.

When the council got together after lunch there were twenty five members plus me making twenty six. We were all sitting around the large oval table in the room.

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The meeting started and nothing memorable was mentioned. I was thinking about how to make a valuable suggestion without it looking like it came from me. So I continued to stay quiet while everyone else continued to make suggestions.

When the first meeting ended nothing was accomplished so I decided a little bit of hacking was in order. Even though I didn’t spend much time with the A.I.’s I did pick up some skills in programming and that is what hacking really is. Instead of making something you break it. So I hacked into every person on the council’s pad. Once that was done I went to bed.

The next morning I woke up a little late but I still trained by myself since the guy Pakas got left a few weeks ago. Once training was done I headed to my room took a shower and got dressed. After getting dressed I went and had breakfast then headed over to the council room. I was early so it gave me time to think about what I wanted to actually accomplish to day. The more I thought about it the clearer it became the first thing to do was to compile all of the designs into one. Then make adjustments from there as they are needed.

To accomplish that I went to the back door I left in the structural engineer’s pad and left him a message. So when everyone finally showed up and the meeting started ideas kept getting tossed around until the structural engineer looked at his pad. When he looked at his pad he saw my message.

I would like to propose an idea that I have that might solve all our problems and help us move forward. Said the structural engineer.

Once he got the go ahead the structural engineer started talking again this time with the idea that I gave. It looked like it solve all of my problems.

The idea I had was that we should combine all of the old plans for the space station and see what we have to work with. Then we could start working on the stuff we have to or improving on what’s already there. Said the structural engineer.

So the computer expert in our group whipped up some code and fed all of the schematics into it. We waited a few minutes for the results. Once the results came in the discussion began again and again they were getting nowhere so I put another idea on someone’s pad.

Peaple I think we should work on what is most important first. So that means powerfirst. Now we have to come up with a way to have enough power for the whole station. So we should split up the rest of the most important stuff and get to work on it. Then in a month we should get back together so we could start putting plans together that will make more sense. Said the guy whose pad I put the idea on.

Everyone agreed so we were going to get together in a month’s time and see where we were at. Then from there we would move forward. So I left and went to Pakas’s office to help him out after all I was his assistant.

For the mext week I did a lot of research on what would be good on a space station. I kept having problems about what would go on a space station. It was complicated and I was struggling from the very beginning I didn’t know where to start. So I decided to take Pakas’s advice.

Vikra had a military base on it and it was quite large which wasn’t surprising considering the lycanthrope government owned the planet. The government only put military bases on planets they owned. There were other militaries but they weren’t as big as the government military. The smaller militaries were usually run by families that owned planets. They had very few ships because they were so expensive to make.

The lycanthrope government had about fifteen hundred ships and it wasn’t enough but even they didn’t have enough money. But there were bases where the ships would go to restock. The biggest base next to the main lycanthrope planet was Vikra so it was quite busy. There was always hovercrafts going to and from the planet to fill up the ships in orbit.

So when I decided to take Pakas’s advice I thought of asking the admiral in charge of the base for a few ideas. But there was no way he would see me so I went to discuss it with Pakas. He was at his office while I was at his house working on the space station. So I headed over to Pakas’s office. When I got to his off he was busy speaking to someone so I sat down and waited.

Ok what is it that I could do for you at the moment. Asked Pakas.

I was wondering if you knew the admiral in charge of the base.

Yes I’ve met him a few times. Why do you want to know. Asked Pakas.

I want to discuss with him how the space station should be built. I’m assuming the only peaple who would be able to build the space station is the lycanthrope government at the moment. Especially because we aren’t giving it to any other governments. So I want the space station to be built with the military in mind. To do that I would have to know what it is that the military wants in its space station. That’s why I want to speak to the admiral. I had hoping that he could give me some ideas abou what they wanted.

I could set up a meeting for you. Now go continue working on it and I will get back to you with the information. Said Pakas.

With that taken care of I went back to Pakas’s house to continue doing research. One thing that kept coming to me was to build a space dock similar to the one my palace. It would be a perfect place to build a space ship it would be so much easier then building them in space. It would also be much safer but there was a problem with that and that was it would be very expensive to build. If the space dock was included on the space station it would probably cost more then the government could spend and that would lead to problems. So I was stuck leaving it out but that gave me another idea.

The idea I had was to sell a smaller version of the space station for commercial purposes. I would design a space station that would be cheap to build. I thought I would be able to sell the plans for this miniature space a few times. Selling it a few times would add some cash to a new account that wouldn’t be traced back to the old me. But I’m getting to far ahead of my self I have to focus on getting the designs for the military space station done first.

I was at Pakas’s house for a few hours when he called me back.

Wolf I got you a meeting with the admiral but it’s for dinner tonight. I happen to mention that you were a good cook and the admiral likes good food. So you might want to prepare dinner tonight and after dinner you could speak to the admiral. I told the admiral that dinner was at eight o’clock so get cooking. Said Pakas.

Now I had to prepare a meal for the admiral I decided I would go classic. So I prepared a salad for the appetizer and a piece of meat for the entree. With that taken care of I prepared a few pastries for dessert which would be served during our discussion. With desert I would serve some drinks with that I had my menu.

Once everything was prepared I went to my room took a shower and got dressed. Then I headed down to the dining room to wait for the admiral to arrive. Pakas was already here so we discussed how the project was going. I told him what I did with the rest of the council’s pads. Pakas smiled and told me that was a good idea.

A few minutes later one of Pakas’s servants brought someone in that looked like she would be the admiral. As I thought that I realized what Pakas had done but I didn’t let it show. I pulled out the admirals seat and pushed it in for her once she was seated the meal started.

The meal moved forward and we started speaking a lot. I was very interested in learning about the admiral because she was in charge of one of the most important lycanthrope bases. So I thought she must have friends in high places and be good at her job. Someone like that would be a good person to help me design a space station or at least tell me what to put on it. She had the experience I didn’t she would know what the military wanted and what they didn’t.

One thing I did learn about the admiral was that she was very smart. So it looked like my choice for her help just kept getting better. When the meal was over I lead the admiral over to the library. I picked the library for the discussion because it would give the idea of a much more relaxed atmosphere. Also the dead’s were here plus a few other things that might come in useful. Once everyone sat down we continued to chitchat for a little bit until Pakas left.

I wanted to do this myself so the admiral would think it’s for the designing of the space station. It was a pretty famous thing that we based our graduation on the design of a space station. I didn’t want the admiral to realize that I was using her knowledge to create my own version of the space station not for military use. When I told this to Pakas’s earlier he said the admiral was a good person to practice subterfuge on. So Pakas left the room to let me work on getting what I wanted from the admiral.