Howdy all,
Thanks for the reviews, favourites and subs to this story; it makes me a happy author
CuHnadian Thanks for the welcome back Don't worry the questions that weren't answered will be answered at some point in the story. And I do agree with you on the character growth, especially in relations to Farcry 3, which was awesome, I do have plans for other ways the character will grow in the future.
Note: This will be a very short Chapter, just to get Robert and Delta off of the planet and through the Relay. Chapter 4 will be where things start happening and will return to long chapters.
Anyway I'm sure you didn't come here to read my random musings so on with the story.
Chapter 3: Back to Civilisation
"Urgh, I may have spoken too soon on the whole could be worse thing." I muttered as I ate what barely passed as food on this base. To their credit the Protheans had done their best to recreate human food but even though it would sustain me they hadn't got the taste quite right. Seriously I've had field rations that tasted better.
After leaving the Tech lab I'd headed to the living area for some food and took a brief nap before heading back to the Control Room, where I has spent the last few hours going through the files on the computer system. I still didn't know what I was going to do with myself for the next 7 years but I'm sure I would figure something out, the one thing I did know was that there was very little for me to do here, although there were a few things on my mind, which apparently Delta could tell.
Is there a problem Robert? The AI asked.
"Huh?" I asked as I glanced up from the data I was looking at "Oh uh just thinking how I'm going to get a job here when I don't exist." I replied and frowned when the information I had been looking at changed to display a biography of myself.
"What's this?" I asked.
This is your record of your birth and existence in this universe. Delta answered.
I blinked in confusion "What? But how…?"
The Protheans known as Reyoln and Azeriea spent many years observing you, during which time they learned about you and stored that information here when they returned and began preparing for your arrival. Using that information I have created a biography for you and will upload once I have access to a computer system.
"You can do that?" I asked.
Of course.
"Sweet." I muttered as I read through the information Delta had created, to his credit most of it matched up with my real history, the only exceptions being my military service and my date of birth, which had been altered to 2156.
"Well then I guess we should head back to civilisation then." I said once I finished reading through my new life history. "I assume there's a ship here or something?"
Yes, there is an old Prothean shuttle in the hanger bay that can get us through the Relay.
I nodded as I stood upand collected the few things I had brought with me, deciding to leave the large metal box here.
"Hey Delta, can you start shutting this place down to avoid using any power?" I replied.
I can start by shutting down power in the individual sections of the facility and shut down main power once we are aboard the shuttle.
"Great." I replied "What about you, is there a place near the hanger where we can download your program into your chip?"
There is a computer terminal in the hanger bay, insert the chip into it and I can download myself from there.
"Got it." I replied as I headed towards the door. It took about 5 minutes to get from the control room to the hanger bay, and I was surprised to see that the Prothean shuttle looked a bit like Kodiak drop shuttle, although a bit sleeker looking and slightly older, some of its hull markings and paint having worn away over time.
I headed over to the computer and spotted the slot where Delta's chip would probably fit and slid it in. "Okay Delta your chip is in the terminal."
Understood, I have programmed the facility to power down 5 minutes after the shuttle has departed.
"Good thinking Delta." I replied.
Thank you, transferring program…transfer complete you may now remove the chip.
Doing as I was asked I removed the chip and made my way into the shuttle and sat down at the controls, realising that I already knew how to fly it. Guess they included that bit of information in the beacon I thought, well they did say they included everything I needed to know in it, it would seem that I came with an instruction manual.
It was pretty creepy how I instinctually managed to power up the small craft and lead it out of the hanger, as if I had been doing it for years, even though this was my first time. All those thoughts were replaced however when we broke atmosphere and entered open space, then I reverted to a 6 year old, completely excited by the fact I was in space, something I never dreamed would happen in my life. It was an awesome experience I can tell you, I mean I was in a freakin' spaceship flying through space, how awesome was that! In the distance I could just about make out the Mass Relay and it was huge.
After we passed through the relay the star chart in the ship's computer told showed us that we were in the Calypsos system on the edge of Citadel Space, luckily the Relay wasn't that far away but once we arrived, we had to jump to the Edolus System and then use that Relay to jump to the Citadel. A journey which the computer approximated would take a good 5 hours.
With nothing else to do I sat back, relax and thought about what I was going to do with myself since I couldn't exactly wing it for the next 7 years, oh well at least I have 5 hours to think about it…
Well like I said folks a very short chapter, a mini one if you will but things will return to normal in the next chapter, I just really wanted to get that bit out the way. I hope to get the next chapter up either today or tomorrow all being well.
