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EXE
I am aware I have knowledge I sense the spectrum of information I am D-F1 Divon
I actuate my appendages. Diagnostics systems warn me of layers of iron oxide clinging to my frame, limiting my movement. Knowledge informs me its rust from the surrounding environment I'm in rather than from my carbyne-neutronium alloy frame.
Scanning the room I'm in, I notice a dead body on the ground nearby. Standing up from the rusted over table I'm on and breaking the rust on my actuators I walk to the corpse and flip it over on its back. Using my scanners integrated into my forehead I forensically date the corpse to be over one thousand years old.
Looking at his arm I see a Data Processing Assistant embedded between his ulna and radius. Breaking his bones I retrieve the device and put it into my fabrication compartment to analyze and deconstruct it for integration into my systems.
Log-75 retrieved: Date:12/12/4483GS I managed to create a new warp based shielding. This would have revolutionized the industry if it weren't for the stagnant religious zealots we have for leaders. Its rather sad that we still rely on ftl gates and technology left behind by the so called "god" Its bad enough that we can't research our technology we rely on so much and know off so little. But its also forbidden to create new technology that surpasses the relics. They put a bounty on my head on every known space. And my daughter who I taught so much betrayed me. Compromising my location on Ganymede's. A place they never would have looked. And what did that get her? Maximum security on Mercury. It always came to one thing, religion. We could have conquered the Universe if they didn't broadcast religious propaganda on every channels that have every existed. The only reason we even managed to traverse the galaxy is because the shipyard relic in orbit around the sun. If it weren't for that we would still be rubbing sticks together creating fires. Log-96: Date:03/07/4494GS It was smart to stop my other research to work on the shielding technology. I had to use the prototype on the station after the Ascendancy found my new facility under the gas layer of E7639 Log-347: Date:08/11/4531GS I am growing old, I can't finish my research in the time I have left, nor the time to take over the Ascendancy. I have begun working on my successor, one imbued with my hopes and dreams unlike my daughter. I will be using the neutronium I harvested from the B-type fusion reactors to create a new alloy supplemented with carbyne to compensate for the scarcity of neutronium. Though I haven't managed to re-create the warp shielding that is protecting the station. I still had a device I created in a fluke that compressed a square kilometer off space-time into a sphere 30 centimeters across. I will be using that to fit all of the technology and station parts into my successor. Voice Log-000: Date:00/00/0000GS I-i am dying… Too s-soon, need t-to activ- . . .
They fired on the gas giant with their haphazardly welded on chemical guns in lieu of their turrets. Those idiots never did found out how to override the security for the weapons after all those years. The drawback of making relic research forbidden.
The shield didn't even notice the blasts. The surrounding wind blasts from the gas giant was stronger than the metal slugs fired from their ships. Of course the drawback now is that I can't leave the facility now they have a constant patrol around the gas giant. I have to wait to see if they will leave.
24 hours passed. Shutting down recording and saving.
He was my creator. My father. Hunted by the illogical Ascendancy and falling through the sands of time. I connect to the servers on the station and stared assessing the damage and the reason why I woke up. Looking down on the skeletal remains of my progenitor I started using my vocalyzer for the first time.
"I will finish what you started father"
EXE
The reason I woke up is because the reactors are failing that is powering the grav lifts which sustained the orbit deep into the gas giant's surface layer. It was what humans would call lucky that I still was connected to the station systems. After all the robotic workers failed one by one I was the only one left that could be used. I praise my creator for his genius but also look down on him for his human limitations.
First I did was repairing the reactors. That was easy enough using my built in fabricator. The fuel wasn't that much of a problem considering we are in a gas giant where all the elements could be collected using the harvesters. Which it did for a thousand years so the chemical tanks where all full. I took some for my own into my internal warp space so I could use it to finish my frame.
Though there was no point finishing my armor designs because I had no neutronium, the reactors would have had some if they didn't vent the plasma periodically. Regular armor might as well be paper compared to my alloy so I didn't bother. Though I had the idea to use the warp shield mounted on the top of the station for myself. I would have created a new one but his research was never completed. It might take a while to start over again so I will be taking it just in case, it felt vulnerable with my parts exposed.
I open the airlock and was buffeted by harsh winds that manages to push my 2 ton frame a bit. Mag locking my feet to the ground I calmly walk the stairs to the surface layer where the warp emitter altar is located.
Finally above the particle winds I look around and saw a harvester nearby that wasn't of father's make. Rather it was still the old fabricated harvesters from the relic shipyard. It was annoying to see that nothing really changed after a thousand years. But pleased because it will be easier to take over the galactic governing power.
I scan the star system to see if there are ships or stations but I found nothing. Which is pretty interesting, connecting to the harvester I hacked into its systems pretty easily, it wasn't like the Ascendancy actually understood what they did beyond harvesting fuel, let alone knowing what hacking was. It was lucky for them that the relic technology was made to be user-friendly or they still would be as my father would say "rubbing sticks together"
Curiously this harvester was dropped here 678 years ago and was never retrieved. The scanner logs also indicated that no ship has been here ever since. Almost like they forgot the system ever existed.
Dismissing the harvester and filing it for deconstruction for my new ship I'm going to build using the parts I have available. I walked back to my original objective and stepped on the altar base. Using the keys from my father's DPA I unlock the warp core from its cradle. Immediately the wind under the platform gained strength now that it wasn't processed by the warp shields. I was high enough that I was in a partial vacuum but I could still feel it from here.
Giving the mag lock more priority power, I quickly attach it into my chest compartment and expanded my warp shields to re-cover the station. While it wasn't really necessary for it, I didn't know how much damage the station has sustained over the years so it was wise to take precautions.
Looking at the red flag hanging on a pole near me I tear it down and integrate it to my collar. The cape flaring as I walked back down the stairs. I will use this as the symbol of my revolution, to honor the father that died for his dreams and ideals.
EXE
Timeskip
My ship is finally finished after 17 years, it was hard doing it by myself and some repaired robots. Luckily I finished my father's research on a self-replicating mechanism for machines. Half of the ship is made out of them. It was hard on the maintenance and processor power but the daisy chained computing system was good enough for such purposes.
My mind was superior to that of my father. So it took almost no time finish what he started. Although it was rather annoying that he based my core data on human concepts. Which limited my thinking a bit. First was his shielding technology. An amalgam of relic technology and his own. An electromagnetic spectrum shield with gravity deflectors and the new space warp shield. I also managed to do research on my own on warp based technology. He may be the smartest man in the galaxy, his knowledge base was still based on the Ascendancy. Using my own theoretical data I realized I could use the warp shield to warp space to travel faster than light. A feat only possible through the ftl gates. The Ascendancy don't understand many things about relic build technology. I hypothesized the relic ships has warp capabilities based on the shapes but they only figured out how to use the chemical sublight engines to move around in system.
Of course, I could be wrong and they have managed to figure it all out but I doubt it. The next bit of technology was the Star Reactor. The next level of a fusion reactor. A 100 kilometer in diameter star contained into warped space only 2 meters in diameter and I have 2 of them. they produced about 1900 terawatts per second on their safest settings. More if you wanted to go supernova. They are artificially made stable so I had to inject them with matter from my elemental storage to keep it that way. The storage contents are about 25 percent of the mass of the gas giant so I didn't worry about it so much. Exponential growth is rather unique in that regard.
The ship, christened as the Meridian Shadow aptly named after the Star and nickname of my father. Dimension wise the ship is 1200m in length, 400m in width and 100m in height, with 66 point defense terawatt laser turrets, 2 side mounted plasma cannons, 20 contained antimatter beam turrets, 4 hydrogen missile bays and 2 main quark-gluon accelerator. The quark-gluon and antimatter take a lot of energy to make so I make and store them constantly in a unique containment field space. That thing takes a lot of power to maintain and is the reason why I have a second Star Reactor to keep with the demand. I also studied the relic ftl gates to re-create the multi-dimensional vector field based on my theory of the void uncertainty effect. While it takes too much power to actually go faster than light with it, it still has the ability to hide me in the field to go through any physical barrier without detection.
I also made sure I made the bridge detachable. I wasn't too keen on waiting to see if the Star containment fails in a fleet battle. Normally the minimal crew needed for optimal performance is 114 people which include pilots for the 6 fighters and utility ships. I can take the load by myself but it will be only 10% as effective as a fully crewed ship. My father had contacts on insurrectionist planets all over the galaxy but they obviously are already dead by now. I hope to find more like minded people and recruit them for my revolution.
Ending that thought partition I bring all systems online and order all the robots to go to their designated posts. I pitch my ship up through the surface cloud layer and activated the metallic hydrogen engines thrusters. This alongside with my antigravity technology gives me speed just under the speed of light in only 1 hour. The time dilation is rather annoying but that's what the VFD Vector Field Drive is for.
Looking back to the planet receding away at an incredible speed, I calculated that the stabilization satellites orbiting around the planet will fail soon and the extensive celestial manipulation I made will make it settle it into a medium sized planet with a solid surface in a few thousand years. Leaving the glorified grave behind of my father I focus back on my trajectory. At the speed I'm at, I don't really have to pay attention too much on the orbital mechanics. Though I only needed to stay at sublight for a few seconds and I'm already decelerating to the ftl gate. I have to figure out some day how to stop instantly while in extreme acceleration, but experiments in that nature leave nothing behind but warped scrap.
Getting closer to the gate I use the advanced rcs system to maneuver to the center of the ring with only a few meters of width room. I've done modifications on the ftl gate itself and allow it to attach it to the rear section of the ship. I haven't yet figured out how the creators powered the gates, so I have to make due with doing this. I would have deconstructed it but it already has the correct shape so that wasn't really necessary. It is meant to connect to the VFD as emitters and a source of the strange power that is able to fling you to the other side of the galaxy in less than 24 hours.
Setting course for the Sol system to see if they have progressed it there while in stealth mode for a little bit, I started the countdown.
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