AN: woke up in the middle of the night and decided to post, what could go wrong. Also of note is I am removing the snippets until they become relevant in the story in x chapters.
Ronmr: Easy money indeed, you could say I'm abusing the Terran's production capabilities... though who wouldn't?
Later, Silver Island
As we landed our ships in the starport I noticed how fortified the base had become, shrike turret bunkers lined the clearing and coast, within their protection were tens of missile turrets ready to eliminate any aerial Grimm attack. Marines even patrolled the clearing most likely tasked to do so by Icarus. Exiting the starport I realized I had been forgetting a useful feature of the system, reaching for my newly acquired Lien I mentally commanded 'inventory' and watched as they disappeared before me. Suddenly my hud updated with a new tab titled "Lien" showing 2.3 million lien available, as I attempted to remove some lien mentally the required amount would simply appear in my hand. Guess i can perform magic tricks with this. I already know I'll abuse the hell out of this.
"Commander, Athena is requesting a secure comm channel." The system alerted me.
"Patch her through to my hud." I ordered.
"Commander Silver, mining operations have been completed, we are currently at maximum resource capacity for this Battlecruiser and have begun storing additional resources in orbital containers until you give us a task." Athena informed me of her tasks completion.
"Excellent work Athena, divert all ship production to SCV's until you reach a crew of one thousand SCV's, continue mining until this is complete." I laid out her next task.
"As you command. Task estimated to require at least a day at most two if we set our factories to maximum production. I will contact you upon completion." Athena replied.
"Complete this as fast as possible, your ship is a key part in my plans." I said before exiting the comm channel.
"System, display ground based resources." I commanded.
Resources available: 15000 minerals, 6000 vespene
"Construct three additional starports and five additional barracks within the base. Once completed immediately begin production of marines until you have produced five hundred." I ordered.
"Affirmative, recommend constructing additional SCV's for resource gathering and construction." The system said.
"Good call, produce SCV's until we have two hundred SCV's on the island. Continue mining operations to ensure we have supplied resources." I added to the orders. Now I have to work on my stealth suit a bit, personalization is key. I entered the convertor facility noticing Icarus sleeping on a table with her weapon in front of her, must of tired herself out. I quickly fabricated a blanket and draped it over her before returning to my station.
'Well for one I need my signature colors, and my emblem, perhaps some dust lining and additional weapon holsters.' I began listing off what i wanted to accomplish. First I'll keep the base skin suit of the ghost suit but remove any additional armor, this gave me a base for the design, changing the color to a night black I continued on to add gravity dust into the linings before designing its outer layer. Personally I opted for a black hooded cloak with silver highlights. Underneath I wore a simple black shirt over the skinsuit. Over the bottom portion of the skin suit I now wear a pair of gray jeans. Next I added simple black combat boots and combat gloves. Finally I recolor my thermal goggles to silver and add my emblem to the right sleeve of my assassins cloak.
'This will do.' I thought looking into a mirror at my new outfit, finally I had my own look. A quick test of the stealth suit showed I could still go fully invisible. Additionally the gravity dust could change between high and low gravity, effectively letting me get some extra oomph in combat if i activate it partially or lighten me entirely for some increased speed.
"Mmmm I like." Came the tired voice of Icarus as she snuck up behind me and wrapped her arms around my waist. Seems she really was exhausted if it took her this long to make a move when i was changing in the same room as her.
"You shouldn't work so hard Icarus." I said to her before turning around and petting her head, she nuzzled into my hand before falling asleep holding onto me. 'Well at least she can be sweet too' I thought before carrying her to a makeshift bed we had fabricated after sleeping on the tables and metal command room for so long. Tucking her in as I was about to leave when I realized she still had a hold on my cloak, quite the tight grip too.
"Don't leave me…" Icarus mumbled in her sleep. Seeing no other choice i pulled a nearby chair to me and sat down holding her hand while she slept, a bit of downtime couldn't hurt.
A few hours later (The next day)
Icarus suddenly yawned and stretched pushing her bountiful chest outwards as she sat up. She blinked a few time before squeezing my hand, clearly not expecting for me to be holding hers. She stared at me for a few seconds before putting on a megawatt smile.
"Silver!" She giggled.
"Good morning Icarus, you shouldn't push yourself so hard, you were exhausted." I chided her.
"It's okay, you'll take care of me won't you? And I needed to get ready for Vale!" She happily said.
"True, I'll be there for you. We still have some time though, so take it easy, I'll handle things for awhile." I said firmly.
"Aigh aigh commander!" She said with a goofy smile and a sloppy salute.
"Good girl." I said while patting her head before getting up to return to work. I walked through the convertor seeing it bustling with activity as SCV's streamed in and out producing more and more resources for the production line, seems the SCV's were being produced faster and faster as more joined the line.
"System, status report." I ordered
"Starports completed, barracks 50% completed, SCV's 80% completed, marines 10% completed." The system listed out my previous tasks.
'Hmm, things are on track then.' I thought as I exited the convertor to find quite the sight. Four mighty starports lined up with missile turrets and shrike bunkers surrounding them and a group of barracks partially built with SCV's crawling all over them making visible progress. Honestly there wasn't much for me to do, I suppose I'll contact Knight.
"System open a secure channel to Knight." I ordered.
"Confirmed. Connected." The system said.
"Knight, what's your status?" I asked
"Silver! You called at a great time!" Knight responded while what eerily sounded like screams of terror echoed in the background.
"Glad you're doing well, are you ready to meet up for season 2?" I asked.
"Definitely, we're using your ships this time right? Keep some cards in reserve." Knight asked as a large explosion could be heard on his end.
"I planned for us to show up in a medivac and drop in so to speak, get in, talk to Ozpin, join in on the classes." I explained.
"Sounds good! Just tell me when you're picking me up." Knight said as if under immense strain before I heard metal crashing against metal. "Fuck you! Get back here!" Knight yelled before giving a powerful battlecry.
"I'll leave you to it, see you soon Knight." I said before exiting the channel.
'Glad he's doing well.' I thought before thinking on what else I can do around here.
"Commander, you have an incoming call on your secure channel. The Identification belongs to Winter Schnee of Atlas." The system alerted me.
"Oh yeah, her. Patch it through to my hud." I said.
"Silver, Atlas would like to know if you've decided on our earlier proposition." Winter's voice came over the channel as a small image of her appeared on my hud.
"I believe we can have a beneficial relationship between us. However, I would like to be paid in raw dust if possible." I opened with my offer.
"Hold for a moment." She said clearly seeking approval. After a short wait she returned. "The General can agree to these terms, our offer is a cargo container worth of dust per armored militarized hover-vehicle. Our concept arts and requirements will be transferred to you now." Business as usual it seems.
As I looked over the received data packet I realized they were talking serious firepower here, clearly they noticed my little aerial convoy and estimated some of my capabilities.
"Agreed, expect the initial model soon." I said while thinking of how much fun I'll have building these things, of course the best models will be kept for myself.
"Pleasure doing business with you, I'll speak to you again when we have a meeting point established." Winter said before exiting the channel.
'Time to get to work!' I thought before calling some SCV's over to the convertor for some extra hands so to speak.
'Hmm, automatic 50. Caliber heavy anti personnel dust turret, armored plating, troop transport capability, electric dust based engine, and a white paint job. I think I'll send two model 1's over initially for that sweet dust and a proof of our capabilities.' I thought looking over the requirements, the concept art itself clearly wanted a form of APC.
"SCV's let's get to work." I ordered before using a holo projector to display a modified concept art for fabrication. As we quickly fabricated the frame I considered how to style the weaponry and engine, while I could have an open based turret, I believe that would be compromising to the vehicle, additionally a dust based engine is almost entirely new to me, only having experience with the silenci-1, oh well. As the frame completed I began designing a specialized enclosed 50. Caliber gun turret, essentially it would be a 360 degree rotatable turret controlled through internal computers or automated friend/foe detection. With the initial design complete I ran it through the fabricator and had the SCV's install the important equipment within the frame. Next I designed the engine basing it on schematics the system ripped from databases around the world, essentially it came out to be a bulky power focused engine while being entirely electric dust based, after that was installed we began adding armor and tinted bullet proof glass. Finally we finished the internal components, connected the hoverpads and sprayed her matte white. I assigned the SCV's to replicate this design which they finished after a moment and called for the Medivac to load these up for later, with them stowed away in the bay of the Medivac we were ready to make the first deal. But first, a nap.
"System, set an alarm for eight hours." I said before heading to one of the makeshift beds in the room, I promptly fell onto the bed and passed out.
8 Hours and 1 minute later
"Alert, you have slept exactly 1 minute passed your designated wake up time." The system blared the base alarms startling me awake. As i looked around I found Icarus curled up on the bed like a small animal next to me, at least she behaved.
"System, status report." I ordered from bed too lazy to get up.
"Barracks complete, SCV's complete, Marines 60% complete. One pending message from Athena." The system relayed, that got me up. Athena only calls when she needs or finishes something.
"Play message from Athena." I ordered.
"Objective complete, returning to resource stockpiling, requesting further orders." Athena's to the point message played, seems i need to give her a call.
"Patch me through to Athena on a secure channel." I requested.
"Connected." The system reported.
"Athena, status report please." I said.
"Commander Silver, hello! We are presently continuing moon mining operations and stockpiling resources. Do you have further orders?" Athena replied.
"I'm sending you a data packet with your next task, I'm counting on you to complete it." I said while having the system transfer a data packet I had put together for Athena.
"Oh this… this is wonderful. I'll get on it right away." Athena said joyfully before exiting the channel.
'Wealp a bit more sleep couldn't hurt.' I thought before lying back down, Icarus feeling my warmth grabbed onto my side and continued to peacefully slumber.
"Commander, contact Winter Schnee is calling on a secure channel." The system forced me awake once more, just let me sleep.
"Patch it through." I said, not bothering to get up this time.
"Silver, we have decided on a meeting point for the exchange, I'm sending you a data packet with the information. How soon can you be there?" Winter asked as she sent over the information.
"Mmm, give me like eight hours it's quite the flight." I lazily replied
"Eight hours? Where are you?" Winter seemed surprised.
"Classified." I said
"Oh… I see." Winter said seeming shocked someone hit her with her own medicine.
"Anyway, I'll be there, bringing two model 1 units for the exchange." I informed her.
"Affirmative, payment will be prepared, signing off." Winter said before exiting the channel.
"System, kindly produce an additional Medivac, and two Vikings." I requested, may as well show up in style.
"Confirmed, current production estimates all requests completed within an hour." The system informed me.
"Perfect, an hour of shut eye it is." I said before closing my eyes and drifting back into slumber.
