AN: "Density": What do you mean by illogical and snap decisions? Can you provide an example? While you're at it, can you provide one for "wild reactions"?
And? You seem to think the SI would have reacted the same way if he would have arrived in a more inhabited system. Most likely, he would have told the ruling party there that he was fleeing from a great menace who was seeking refuge, and figured something out from there.
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It had been four months since we took the planet of Aeia, and already we had expanded significantly. We'd mined and scavenged enough minerals to build a mech factory, which mostly produced LOKI's, whose design, using Borg knowledge and the processing power of some drones, had been updated. For one, they were now capable of using proper tactics without being controlled by Data.
They firewalls had also been upgraded, so now they couldn't be hacked by Joe Random looking to use them as easy allies. Their aiming and ammo preservation protocols had been updated, so now they didn't waste ammo shooting the cover someone's hiding behind. Their frames had been replaced with a stronger alloy, so they could withstand a bit more damage.
In short, they were now in every way the equivalent of a trained soldier. And we were using them to mine and build machinery and buildings. Hah. Waste of skills if ever there was one. Still, even with the added fifty drones assimilating the former crew of the Hugo Gernsback had given us, we needed the mechpower.
We'd constructed an additional three biofuel powered generators just to power all the new machinery that was being built. Thus, a large number of mechs were sent out into the forest to cut down trees to fuel the generators. A larger amount were sent into the mines, where they mined out the ores and minerals they found, and sent them to the refinery.
There, using all the metallurgical knowledge of the Borg and seventy five people hailing from the later years of the 22nd century, the ores were refined to their utmost and sent to the manufactory. There, some of the refined ores and minerals were turned into various tools and pieces of metal to be used in the construction of buildings. The primary export of the manufactory, and what almost all of the materials went into, were weapons.
As many weapons as our resources permitted were produced. Guns rolled off the assembly lines in their hundreds, grenades in their thousands, and torpedo's in their dozens. We were arming ourselves for the coming apocalypse.
It would not be enough.
But there were ways of fixing that. One of the first things we'd built on Aeia was a dedicated sensor station, which had managed to detect not only large amounts of element zero, but trace amounts of naquadah. Data had told me it was extremely reactive to most substances, which I took to mean explosive, so all Naquadah was being stored in a series of carefully maintained vaults beneath the surface of the planet until we had need of it.
The Element Zero, on the other, hand, I had an immediate use and need for. We were going to build a ship. It wouldn't be very large, about the size of a Systems Alliance Frigate, so it easily had enough room to store a dozen mechs, and the cargo bay would be unaffected. This cargo space would be filled with more than a few guns.
When the ship was finished, I planned to go out into the galaxy at large. During the ransack of Taylor's camp, some drones had found datapads belonging to the officers of the Gernsback, which contained enough information, combined with their memories, to allow access to their bank account. With some luck, they wouldn't have been emptied already. I planned to go to Omega first, see if I could maybe sell some of the aforementioned guns to someone.
Then, with the money taken from the deceased officers bank accounts and the money from the weapons transaction, we could begin to establish ourselves amongst the galaxy. Perhaps start with a small R&D company, from which we could release technology in the databanks. Nothing that depended on a unique resource though, at least not without confirming the existence of that resource in this dimension first.
We'd probably have to reveal ourselves to the Citadel Council first though. Perfect time to inform the SA about the children at least. Hmm, now that I think about it, maybe I should go talk to other races, too? Maybe the Geth? The upgraded LOKI's are good and all, but damn if I don't want to get my hands on some of their platforms, especially the Stalker and Juggernaut.
Who else do I want to negotiate with/attempt to contact? Maybe the Leviathans? ...Yeah, no, they're even worse than the Reapers with their mind control. Hmm. Maybe I can mess with the Shadow Broker? I could tell Liara, or maybe leak that I know the location of his planet, and watch the fireworks explode.
I don't remember the exact name of his planet, but how many worlds could there be out there with constant storms caused by intense temperatures on either side of the planet? Hmm. The bastard'll probably send whats-her-face the Asari Spectre after me. Hmm, yes, the strongest boss of ME2 should provide an adequate test for our defences.
Hmm. Hope we figure out how to create those warp-capable drones soon. One of the two dimensions I planned to travel to had some technology that would be very, very helpful, but the planet that technology was located on was never named, as far as I remembered. My solution to the problem was small, warp-capable drones, who would go and scan star systems for a planet matching the description I gave them.
Fortunately, the other dimension I was planning to head to wouldn't be so troublesome. All I would need to do there is go to Earth, rescue a couple dozen people trapped in orbit, and then go kill an creepy AI and take it's stuff. Giving some of that technology to the Geth should be more than enough to get me the platforms.
Hmm. I suppose I could go there right now with the Naquadah we've found so far, and come back with the spoils of war. We should have enough to go there and make a return trip. I should probably have some of the mechs in the manufactory make some weapons for mechanical hostiles.
Yes, that sounds like a plan.