I had to restrict most of my activities now that Qrow was observing me. Not by much but as most of my stuff I built using the construction drones controlling them from the command Centre.
On another note, turns out the automated Motherload mineral processing plant didn't recognize Dust, so it couldn't really process it and has been piling up in the junk inventory.
I put several drones to work carrying all the dust it mined from the junk inventory and had them arrange to pack them in the Armories warehouse.
On another note...
It had been 13 days since I built the mother load. The computerized refueling, maintenance, and mineral processing facilities were quite useful in keeping the motherload operational 24/7.
Thanks to it I now have quite a good supply of iron, copper, Aluminum, Bronze, Tin, Chromium, Mercury, Cobalt, Magnesium, Molybdenum, Nickel, Manganese, Graphite, Coal, Gold, Silver,
Zinc and so many other metals that I required.
With this, I had a lot of my metal shortage problems solved. I no longer needed to break down any unusable homes for metal and resources... Not that I had any more unusable ones anyway. The rest were mostly intact.
The problem was the current Drill bit cannot go too deep nor can it drill harder materials. Like Tungsten, Lead and Osmium, and such. Not only that, the deeper it drills the harder the pressure is and so the materials are denser... Which makes it more difficult to drill which means it takes longer and consumes more fuel which means it has to surface more often.
Not to mention the heat it would encounter as it drilled... This also means I needed to change the cooling system as well... May as well as go ahead and change the engine and the cargo bay while I'm at it.
So first thing first... I have to build the parts.
First things first, to the workshop!
You know... Now that I think about it I'm damn surprised that the King Raptor I built with the scraped(repurposed) materials flew as well as it did especially since some of the materials I required were unable to be found in the village such as Titanium. I used an aluminum steel alloy for the fan blades and a few of them snapped from the sheer G forces they experienced. I'm surprised it flew that well, considering the thing literally stopped working a day after I used it.
Hell, I was surprised it even flew at all.
I shook my head. I didn't have to worry too much about resources soon enough. I was going to improve the motherload after all and that meant good metals.
Using the drones first I created graphite molds for the New engine that was going to go into the motherload.
I made a mold from graphite for each part of the new engine before starting up the electric arc furnace I made using bricks and carbon Rods. Then I put in the aluminum ingots that I had just retrieved from the mineral processor used the construction drones to use the carbon Rods to start melting the metal and adding more are needed.
Once the Vat was filled with molten metal I had the drones slowly pour it into the mild that I had prepared.
Once the last mold was filled I had to fair for them to cool down...
Next was the Cargo bay which was fairly simple to make it large.
120 cubic feet large...
Which was huge...
The cargo bay was simple... It was just a space for holding the minerals and metal ores that the motherload mined. I just needed to strengthen it since it was going to need to carry far more weight as well. I didn't have titanium yet.
Which also meant I had to also increase the size and strength of the hull.
The drill bit, however, was a conundrum. I didn't have dense metals to construct the drill-bit but, I needed a strong enough drill bit to past those depths and reach those metals. So I decided to use Molybdenum.
Molybdenum by itself was not that hard but when used to form a steel alloy became extremely strong. It also had the 6th highest melting point of 2896 Kelvin (2623 °C, 4753 °F). Iron had a melting point of 1811 K (1538 °C, 2800 °F).
As such making an alloy raised the melting which was essential if I wanted the motherload to dig deeper. Since it got hotter the deeper it dug.
The motherload did manage to find a lot of diamonds... But most of it wasn't gem-like but they had what I needed.
Their hardness.
They were the hardest naturally occurring substance that existed for a reason after all... Unless you start counting in fictional metals.
I was going to cover the drill bit in diamonds. This would help it mine even when the metal wasn't made of ridiculously dense material.
I was really glad I chose command and Conquer now. Otherwise, without the construction drones, I had built I would have had to do everything by hand. And without them. I would have to be running maintenance myself. Instead of automating the process through drones.
I took a breath and got to work.
It was time to upgrade the shit out of it.
I couldn't build some of the highest upgrades because that required Exotic matter that I had no access to yet.
But that didn't mean I couldn't build the best parts I could!
It took me nearly the whole day to complete the parts and by the time was done it was night. So I decided to install the parts the next morning. With that done i went to bed after having dinner, excited for the new day.
Waking up early I had a nice breakfast of cereal and milk after which I first went to the command center to check the spy drone's surveillance footage.
Qrow was damn persistent.
He didn't stop 'discreetly' following me until I was fast asleep, after which he left and was back before dawn.
Jesus. How long was he going to keep following me?
Regardless. I had a machine to upgrade and I was going to upgrade it.
So I sent the command to the Motherload from my desk then gave the command for the drones to begin transporting all the parts that I had made yesterday to the Garage on the outskirts of the village where the Motherload facilities lay, and I left the Command Centre and began to walk towards it.
As I arrived I saw the motherload shut off in the automated Fuel station.
It certainly looked a bit banged up.
Time to upgrade the shit out of this.
I climbed onto it, opening the hatch, and started it up in manual mode before slowly moving it into the Garage I had prepared to tinker it in.
Shutting it off, I opened the hatch and climbed out to see all the parts already in the Garage.
Damn those drones do work fast.
Everything was here.
The cooling system had a turbine instead of just a large fan as it had before.
The Cargo bay was huge.
And not to mention the new Hull I had built for it.
The fuel tank I had changed to something else.
It didn't just run on Gas anymore, it now had a special battery that I managed to build since the Oxygen supply will be cut off, after all, it's going to be digging far deeper now.
Using a mixture of Lightning dust, earth dust, Carbon electrodes, and a lot of failures. I managed to make an extremely powerful rechargeable battery that drained the power from Lightning Dust partially.
Dust, when used, vanish as it turns into its constituting element. Lightning dust as it says turns into electricity. By using a mixture of earth and lightning dust finely ground and mixed into an electrolyte, I found a way to keep it from getting completely discharged.
It reduced the amount of energy I could get from it but with dust's energy density? It still made my old world's most powerful batteries look like cell batteries in comparison while also being rechargeable. And it charged very fast. And unlike a battery which uses a chemical reaction to push the electrons. Dust was not a regular chemical. It was magical. It didn't have a maximum charging rate and could accept power as fast as the reactor can provide it. Now the fuel station was going to be changed into a charging station that was connected directly to the power plant with high-grade power lines that would be made from really THICC copper wires.
Then there was the engine which was now a huge electric motor.
Electric motors were simple, very simple compared to the other things I had made.
And unlike an engine, it would not risk stopping due to lack of air and with my RWBY specialty, I was able to increase its efficiency to 99.75%. With a power rating of 25,000 kW and 33,000 ft-lbs of torque.
Hopefully more than enough.
Honestly without all the construction drones I used, I don't think I would have been able to do this so fast. If I did this myself without any drones I would have probably need a month to get all this done.
Kind of relieved that I took Command and Conquer now instead of something like Minecraft or Skyrim.
Now then... Time to install everything!
By the time all the parts I had built replaced the old parts in the motherload three hours had passed.
It was twice as big as before!
Really huge!
I hope this works. Here goes nothing.
I took a breath as I gave a command to the computer to start a test run.
It took a few seconds for the virtual Intelligence to start up the motor and I couldn't hold back a wince as I heard the ridiculous amounts of inrush current. Of all the things to forget. I forgot to add a soft start system.
That was seriously a stupid mistake.
The purpose of a soft starter was to reduce the initial rush of current as the motor spooled up and limit the torque, useful if you want to protect your equipment, extend the life of your motor and reduce motor heating with frequent starts and stops. So, a soft starter provides a gentle acceleration up to full speed.
I'll have to build that next but for now, it looks like there was no problem so I gave the command for the motherload Vi to resume its duties and watched as it drove out of the Garage its electric whine slowly decreasing as it moved towards its drilling area and disappears underground shortly after. It was definitely noticed by Qrow if he wasn't observing already...
Well... That was fun.
As I was preparing to leave I got an alert on my scroll. The command Centre was sending a message...
Wait... This was...
The signals from the pods that were dropped on the inhabitable zones in Menagerie.
Good news...
The continent had a lot of oil.
Bad news. I still haven't used the birds that summer sent to me via Qrow express.
I immediately began to head back to the Command Centre... Time to do those tests and get my wings correct!
I also had to start designing a rocket to send a satellite into orbit.
Hmm...
Qrow was definitely following me now. I could spot him with ease with my eyes, he was still not leaving...regardless I had work to do.
I had prepared one of the warehouses, especially for this experiment.
I had built several sensitive microphones and several high-speed cameras placed to observe the birds.
Once all the equipment was up and running I brought the cages, placing the pigeon's cage first on one end of the room and a few dried, split pulses in my hands at the end of the room where the pigeon could see it.
Dried, split pulses were the pigeon's favorite according to my experience... If that was present it wouldn't eat anything else.
And I knew I had its attention and with a command to from my scroll the cage opened its motor pulling open the door.
The pigeon had its eyes on me and knew I had the seeds, but it wasn't friendly enough to come too close to me nor eat from my hand as much as I wish it so.
I threw the dried, split pulses a few feet away from me and onto the ground...
The moment it landed I saw the pigeon's eyes zero in on where it landed and it immediately took off leaving the cage and flew towards the meal it desired, landing a few inches from where the pulses had scattered and began to peck away at it.
I however went and stopped the high-speed cameras and the microphone... The fans of the high-speed cameras kicked in to dissipate the ridiculous amounts of heat it generated even in such a short period of time.
Once the pigeon had eaten its fill I opened the door and chased it out. The moment it saw the blue sky it took off.
Good.
I didn't like keeping animals captive it felt wrong...
I felt nostalgic as I remembered the pigeon I had raised in my previous life, I had taken it in when it was a baby pigeon and it fell from its nest above under the roof of my school.
The young chick was far too young to fly and had just gotten little feathers covering its body.
It was hurt from the height it fell. And since it was a school Of course there were people who saw it...
But no one moved to help it. After all, it wasn't their problem. I saw the parents desperately flying back and forth trying to find a way, But there were too many people about. Or perhaps that was what I thought.
I loved animals and I had many pets during my life... And as like the little chick I never held any of my pets captive.
So I took this chick home and began to take care of it.
I had 8 or nine pigeons at that time none of them was captive. Even if I had them in a cage they were free to leave and come as they please.
Those who have pets like birds in captivity would never get to feel the joy of having them come to you because they knew you wouldn't harm them. That you were someone who cared for them. They would respond to their names flying even from a distance when you call them...
It was a wonderful feeling...
And so was this little guy.
I raised him lovingly. He was so small that I could cover him up in my hands. And at times I did, Of course making sure that he could pop his little head out and could breathe. I remembered at times when he would try to sneak into my arms for warmth. And I remembered the first time he managed to fly a short distance, he landed on top of my head when I was busy with something else. Needless to say, he gave me quite a scare that day.
I remembered how sad I was when he took flight one day and left with a few of the other pigeons that would visit me to eat when I feed my own. I was happy that he had grown so well and healthy and was able to leave when he wanted. I couldn't describe the joy I felt when he returned one day, nearly half a year later with another pigeon. What I found eventually out was his mate.
People who think animals are just instincts and don't have emotions or aren't intelligent haven't seen the things I've seen.
Snapping out of my reminiscing I repeated the same with the Eagle and the owl. Except instead of seeds I got some meat.
Once it was done and the two were free I began to go through the data I managed to collect.
And boy... I found exactly what I needed.
The owl was light...
Like really fucking light.
541 Grams.
That's half a kilo!
The pigeon weighed two to three times its weight.
The eagle weighed nearly ten times the owl.
And the owl had the largest wing-to-weight ratio.
Hell, its wings were larger than the other two, period. Even if it was by a few inches.
This meant the owl didn't need much to put much effort to keep itself in the air. And it showed from both the cameras and the sound.
The eagle preferred to be fast, its mighty flaps allowing it to gather speed quickly. Some Eagles were capable of reaching above 200 Kilometres an hour. Which meant that very few pretty can outrun or outfly it.
The owl however barely flapped at all and when it did was extremely gentle with very little movement.
I had also taken enough pictures to create a 3D model of their wing section...
What I needed to do was make my wings Weightless. And considering that it was made of Aura and Data that was a simple problem. Though if someone touches it and notices its weightlessness they would find it odd. So I could set it to be weightless when I was flying I suppose.
It was time to get work...
To correct the mistakes in Guard Skill: Owls wings...
Though the owl was white... So maybe I can keep the wings white as well? So it would also look like angel wings. Maybe I should change the name back to Guard Skill: Angel wings?
It would definitely sound a lot cooler when I deployed it. Since my active angel player skills are voice-activated after all.
Yeah, 'Guard Skill: Angel Wings' sounded a lot cooler!
Meanwhile, in the middle of nowhere, two young children were traveling. Slowly losing hope. Their village was destroyed, their families were gone. They managed to come across a few villages but no one was willing to take them in.
That was fine.
At least there were people kind enough to give them food and a place to rest. Resources couldn't be spent so carelessly so far away from the Kingdoms so they couldn't take the kids in.
But they continued on. Hoping to find a place where they can call home.
Hoping for a place where they can rest without worrying.
They continued walking together, hoping to find a place.
A place where they could be safe from the monsters of the night...
Safe, from the Grimm.
And safe from those who might hurt them.
Away from the terrible orphanage system of Mistral.
Vale was the most likely place they would likely find it.
And so the two children continued to walk.
Not knowing that they were going to find exactly what they had wished for, in a strange village that was run by only a single child as old as they were, but with an army of little robots...
The dusty old Crow had finally left. The surveillance footage showed that he left in the middle of the night.
And the note in my hand from Rob just burst into flames and vanished into ashes.
It was true it seemed. I couldn't pick my own specialty anymore. I wasn't even sure if could get another specialty.
Still, Ozpin now knew of my existence...but if ROBs note was to be believed he wished to keep me away from Salem.
Not something I was averse to.
And I didn't dislike Ozpin. I simply didn't want to get dragged into a pointless war. If I didn't have to be a Hunstman however it would certainly be nice.
I didn't hate the man. Oh no. It was the opposite.
I admired the man. The fact he managed to keep humanity going through the centuries and fighting on two fronts.
On one corner there was Salem, his ex-wife, the love of his life, and the one who wanted to destroy Mankind.
And on the other side, the people he's supposed to protect, who don't make it particularly easy for him by squabbling over every petty little thing and kept fighting among themselves. People who were supposed to have his back cm betraying him. The fact that he manages to stop the great war is a Miracle. I suspect that the King of Vale was one of his incarnations.
But if I didn't need to become a huntsman to continue my work then I think I might quite like it if he offers to sponsor me.
Hell, it would be nice not to keep waking up at night from the sounds of the defenses firing in the middle of the night and the worry that perhaps a Grim too powerful for my current defenses might arrive.
Honestly, it would be nice to finally relax... But unfortunately, this was a dead world and until I can get off this world I would be unable to fully relax.
Sigh... Well, it was time to continue my work. I didn't have time to rest.
Ozpin marveled as he looked at the video captured by Qrow.
The child was a Genuis the likes that are seen only once every few centuries. He seemed to have a knack for understanding technology.
"-that imitates the Mass Effect? But the only substance that I know that can reduce mass is the Element Zero and even that is something only formed after a Supernova when a sufficiently large star dies."
And apparently had the knowledge too. This child was surviving out in the wild by himself. With only the marvels of technology that he has built.
But a child shouldn't have to do all that. How long had it been since the village was destroyed? How long had it been since he must truly felt at ease? Not to mention the trauma the child must have? The way he had spoken. He had been forced to grow up or die.
No child should have to go through that, but he was the Headmaster of beacon and as much as he wanted to offer the child a safe place to stay he couldn't.
Letting someone a few years early as a beacon student was not something people would make a fuss about. But for someone so young? Someone who wasn't even a teen?
All sorts of questions would be raised.
Hmmm or perhaps he could?
Currently, Beacon had no staff in the Information and Technology department which sat quite unused.
He might be required to submit basic information about new students to the council.
But staff?
That he didn't have to.
Who he hires as a staff is sorely his decision.
Besides, there was no way he was letting James get his grubby hands on another Tech Genius. He already has enough.
With this, he could kill three birds with one stone.
Keep the Child safe away from Grimm and Salem.
Allow him to grow up to his full potential and become something great.
And most importantly prevent James from getting his grubby hands on another genius.
Simply because Beacon didn't have as much funding and Technology as Atlas meant a lot of people interested in technology went to Atlas. Which was a good incentive for those in that field to go to Atlas.
He opened his scroll and sent a message to Glynda to prepare a bullhead for a long-distance flight.
It was time he got to meet this young boy himself...
(6 Days Later)
Pride filled me as I enjoyed seeing the fruits of my efforts.
Today was the day I was going to remnants first Satellite into Orbit.
Making a Rocket was Hard. Not to mention would consume a lot of resources.
I needed to fight against the pull of gravity and make sure that the rocket can reach escape velocity. Not to mention that the amount of fuel required to get a satellite into orbit using a rocket.
First came the fuel.
What Kind of fuel to use.
Hydrogen was an option. It was abundant and easy to obtain through the electrolysis of water. However, Hydrogen was also not easy to store. If I wanted to use it in a rocket I had to store it in its liquid form, which meant I had to make sure to insulate it and make sure it was constantly cooled. I also had to make sure to keep it well insulated from the liquid Oxygen tank as the temperatures needed to keep hydrogen a liquid, it would need to be cooled down to 33 Kelvin. At that temperature, Oxygen would freeze solid, so proper insulation between the tanks is important. Not to mention I have to use two different coolers to cool them.
Then was the fact that I also had to make a Solid rocket motor get enough thrust to carry the liquid fuel and oxygen tanks Which also had serious issues such as the ridiculous amounts of heat and the away to keep the rocket from blowing up due to all the vibrations.
My Generals Specialization gave me an understanding of how to make cruise missiles, nuclear missiles, and how to build a fucking satellite.
But all of it would take a long long time.
Far Longer than I was willing to wait even with the help of all my drones and ridiculously complicated.
So I decided to turn to something simple.
Something that didn't require my tinker speciality.
A Balloon.
Not a regular balloon or a hot air balloon. A high-altitude balloon.
Unfortunately I none of my specializations gave me any information on how to build one. Command and Conquer had no need of it, and my RWBY specialization had nothing on it as they never thought of using balloons in such a way.
I did know however that balloons were made from rubber. And while I certainly didn't have any access to rubber trees, synthetic polymers were made from hydrocarbons, of which I had plenty. I had a few things that used synthetic rubber, such as seals in a tank engine block and of course in insulators that covered wires. Though they were too rigid. It took nearly a week of experimenting before I managed to get the formula right and make a synthetic rubber that had the properties required to make a high-altitude balloon, something that I believed could carry out the task.
Once I managed to find the rubber I was ready. The drones had built the Satellite according to the blueprints I had designed fairly easily while I was figuring out the rubber since It fell under my Generals Zero Hour Specialization.
Specifically, a Relay Satellite so that my range would be extended, unfortunately, it could only relay information on the side on the planet it was facing, which meant I needed to launch a few more into orbit if I wanted Remnant wide communication to all of my equipment.
It also meant I didn't need to rely on preprogrammed routes for my drones to scout an area, nor do I have to fear a loss of data due to a technical error or an attack on it by either Grimm or man, since the drones would be able to transfer the data back me via the relay satellites.
I did have to make a small rocket motor. It was fairly simple compared to the other types of rockets I could build and had very little fuel and oxygen as if my plan succeeds it would need to run for long nor would it have to be too complicated. These two were kept in small tanks under high pressure in their liquid state until they needed to be used.
I was excited!
The testing took a few hours other than a few parts that needed some soldering everything seemed to be in working order. Once I had connected the Satellite to Rocket engine and its computer I covered it in detachable fairings to protect it from damage during its ascent and brought it out towards the airfield with several drones carrying it using its support structures, where the ridiculously large balloon lay, waiting to be connected and filled up with Helium produced from the fusion reactor.
With the Angel Player active and the Command Center fully operational I created an angel player program linking the two systems together. Since the Command centre was connected to every other system I had made it give me direct access to all my systems without me having to enter the Command centre every time with the Gamer system.
Yes. I made a Gamer system.
Unlike the one, most people recognize this isn't that one.
It's an Angel player program that creates a translucent hologram in front of me using Illusions.
Basically, I'm seeing something that's not there but it affects something anyway.
This way I could command my systems or debug any software issues no matter where I was. So long as the System running the Angel Player program was safe.
I had a lot of fun designing the user system.
"Menu."
[Welcome Administrator Fukurou]
[Angel Player Ver 1.2.5]
(Command Control)
(Defense Grid)
(Birds Eye View)
(Under Construction)
(Available Resources)
(Guard Skills)
(Satellite Uplink)
(Back Ground Music: Off)
I was watching the Baloon fill up from the walls.
With the Angel player System, I could give the command from far away and enjoy the view.
This was going to be awesome!
Unfortunately, I was interrupted by a warning from my defense system. The Defence Grid was highlighted yellow in my interface with a warning symbol next to it.
{Defense Grid }
Clicking on it brought up the Camera of the turrets.
...
What the hell?
What's a bullhead doing here? In the middle of nowhere? Was it summer? Did she come for a visit?
A roaring bullhead passed overhead two children, this was good news for them as they looked at each other relieved. There must be a town close by.
If they could reach it? Maybe the people there were nice? Perhaps they could enjoy a bath? How long had it been since either of them had a proper bath?
The very thought was enticing. Hope blossomed in their hearts with hope as they pushed on. Thoughts of a comfortable place to bath, food to eat, and a bed to rest driving them forwards.