Trekking
5A
New Civilizations
Paul glared at David "Well that's all fine for you and Rebecca. You two just run around racing Rodenberry to killing S class threats. Fine you kill them, she disappears them more effectively than any mafia Don ever could.
"Meredith and I are having to pull the pants up on half the politicians and hold the others back by their belts before they do something terminally stupid. The Joint chiefs are at least with us. The President has 'Leader of the Free World' stars in his eyes and wants a sitdown with Rodenberry, soon. He is going to do something crazy if we don't let him have it too.
"I don't even want to talk about the Senate, and Congress, say could you have like an accident with Ash Beast maybe? Let him visit Congress?"
David laughed, it was a relaxed kind of laugh. Paul glared at him some more, he was unphased "That's why you get the big bucks Paul."
"I will fry you to a grease spot." Paul barked.
Rebecca interrupted "Meredith actually seems to be enjoying herself, at least now. I mean since Rodenberry moved the Enterprise to orbit and Melanie Dagget got in touch.
"That mayor, Christner? Something certainly put a burr under his saddle. I don't think I ever saw a MIRIS political team hide from a politician before. He has been after them non-stop for two days. After hitting them with an eight-hundred-page plan."
Paul snorted "Was part of it what to do with twenty thousand criminals, or rather, citizen's arrests everyday? Amnesty international is calling us the Prison People."
"Funny you should ask. It seems Rodenberry has developed a test, written, ink blots, oral exam, takes an hour per prisoner and gives a reliable psychological profile. She wants to take the top five thousand best and brightest and put them in this academy she is setting up. Seems the holdup is staff. I think we have some staff, the military has some more." David watched him closely.
Paul blinked "Wut?"
"Seems she got an idea, or one of her crew did. They put Leviathan, or the core of him on Venus, and put a shield up around the planet. He is apparently trying to turn it into a water world, which is bringing it swiftly toward habitable. He is somehow converting the carbon dioxide and using hydrogen from somewhere to do it which isn't changing the weight of the planet. She thinks by the time she can get the first of the academy classes through a course it will be at least minimally ready for occupation." David informed him.
Paul snorted "He is getting the hydrogen from the sulfuric acid."
Rebecca nodded thoughtfully "Meanwhile the probes she is building and launching will be returning lots of data so she can move on to the moon and Mars then, well, the sky isn't actually the limit. The proposal says they are going to put the parahumans into teams with normal based on their powers and personality profiles."
Paul narrowed his eyes "And how long does she see this taking?"
Rebecca shrugged way to casually "A year to get the first ones graduated it they let her put in a positronic implant. Apparently, it will reorganize their minds and give them the knowledge she has acquired but they need to practice teamwork and get their motor skills up to speed. There will be some physical enhancements available as well. Something about min/maxing or munchkining the first teams."
Paul nodded "And all we have to do is hold off the politicians for a year, oh, and the gangs that don't come in range of a replicator." He looked at two blank faces "Ha! Didn't know that did you? There are some spots in the country with no replicator coverage and villainous tinkers are trying to figure out how to block the signal, or whatever it is."
David sighed and relaxed into his chair "Thank god. Tinkers am I right? It looked for a few minutes there, like we and the PRT were going to be put out of business. Now where are these places and lets get these people hemmed in. Keep us in work. For gods sake don't let Roddenberry know, she will target them from orbit! Next thing you know we would be doing something productive rather than wasting resources on taking out the trash." Paul face palmed. Rebecca patted him on the back while chuckling.
Paul raised his head "Hardee har har. So we are trying to put ourselves out of business?"
Rebecca shrugged "Not MIRIS and Watchdog. Maybe we can select the best of the best of the Protectorates for enforcers and put the rest to work improving things. We have to figure out something to satisfy the conflict drive though."
David nodded "And get Rodenberry read in on the case fifty threes, or trying to heal them or something."
Trekking
"Number one?"
Mal rolled her eyes at Taylor "Leviathan is regaining his gecko form slowly. He is breaking down the sulfuric acid for water as well as using the oxygen he is freeing from the carbon with hydrogen from a still unknown source to make more water.
"Meanwhile, the little bugger appears to be playing at sculpting."
Taylor looked at the view screen which was zoomed in on a region of islands near the equator north of Aphrodite Terra "Did he make a penis out of those islands? Phasers if you please Lieutenant Hopps!" She pronounced it leftenant.
Judy, the synthetic sentient Judy, she had huge eyes for some reason. Taylor had named her Lieutenant Judy Hopps. sighed "We aren't terraforming Venus with phaser fire Taylor. Let the idiot have his infantile fun. Then we can drop him on Mars for a while since he has gotten so comfortable on Venus. And stop trying to be Picard."
Mal chuckled at the pouting Taylor "Meanwhile the carbon that he has freed is being combined with the acid eroded rock and some urea his processing of the sulfuric acid is making and forming a kind of soil.
"A little more time with the generators sucking up heat to produce energy for the shield, Plus getting the light redirecting portions of the shield set up and we should be able to seed the cyanobacteria. The poles and the dark side should drop the water temperature once we have enough standing water to cover the planet instead of it being sucked up in acid mud.
"The oxygen is lifting and the carbon dioxide staying close to the surface so wave action will incorporate lots of carbon into the ocean for the algae." Mal told her.
The view screen changed and Melanie, her understudy Jessica Devlin, a synthetic sentient, a new one, who looked like Jerry Ryan's younger sister, and had the Borg implants, along with Danny appeared. "Hey Dad!"
"Taylor did you put a penis on Venus? You broke the PHO."
"Leviathan did it, and Judy won't let me shoot him. Its a mutiny!"
"Or common sense prevailed, one of the two." Jessica offered with a smile.
Melanie cut in "Can I have twenty more Jessica's? You know she doesn't sleep, she just beams from court to court."
Danny laughed "Passed the bar first time, and stuns opposing council into silence. She is establishing precedent for a nationwide bar as she is admitted to state after state."
Jessica nodded "We could get more done with some help. We have been compiling the records on the judges and their 'center of mass' on rulings so it does make it easier. There is some pushback over holding people for longer than necessary though. Because that is mostly on the police and courts, we are getting away with the suggestion that the judges consider it timed served for the non violent cases. The issue comes up less in violent felony cases. When the defense councils bring it up the judges so far have stepped on them."
Taylor nodded "The moon base will be dug out soon. The autonomous excavation equipment is moving fast. We will be able to substantiate them there. Start talking to someone about providing guards, maybe a detail from each jurisdiction. Then after we are through using it as a prison it can become the yard office for the Luna yards."
"It looks like we are going to be limited to the Sol system for the near future. I need to chase down the bird for more dilithium."
"Unless Behemoth makes a attack somewhere." Lisa offered from tactical "He is the oldest and biggest and should have the most."
Taylor nodded "Other than that the probes are looking for dilithium, they all have ico spectrograms. We can crystalize lithium and use it like the NX class but it will make us slow and less powerful.
"All of which reminds me we need a disposal device for the trilitium we are going to make. No blowing up the sun, by us or terrorist."
"It is theoretically possible to refine trilithium, it should yield dilithium and lithium. However we should build a facility for outside the system for that."
"Good thing there are lots of metals in asteroids then." Lisa said looking a the display on her screen. There were asteroids all over the system. Some of them made of some very valuable stuff.
Brian nodded "Or we can use Pluto." Rachel scowled at him. He sighed. "The dog is named after it Rachel."
Alec waved his hand "So, instructors for the academy, there are like fifty Taylors, Maleficent, Jessica, and Rose. If all of you munchkin everything from the internet about the subjects and teaching you could be like the magic whiteboard video thing."
"I'm not sure you shouldn't plan on other yard facilities Taylor. The judges, heck everyone is going to love an inescapable prison on the moon." Danny tossed in before they got to far off the topic.
Taylor nodded "Good idea. Ideas even. Now who is ready for their implant."
Melanie laughed at the pinched faces "While you all get your excuses together, how are we coming on the plan for Lordsport and the Bay. The city has conveyed the right to it all al the way to the Dock Workers Yard. The ferry as well."
"Good, we nearly have the plans ready. I'll send out some survey drones. We should be able to get the port, and docks section all in one day. Then we can do the ferries after their landings and berths are cleaned up. Maybe Sunday?" Taylor was looking at a pad in her hand.
"I'll let the folks we found to work the ferries know." Danny said.
Taylor signed off "See you later Dad, Jessica, Melanie don't work to hard. As Dad says we have some time and the civilians are the main bottleneck anyway."
The view went back to space and Rachel stood up "Lets do my implant Taylor. Since they are all afraid."