MC seemed kinda fucked up?
All is fair in love and war~ as if the child soldiers, cloning, and the fact that he named his company ONI didn't already give away that the MC is not some goody two shoes saint.
-story start-
Weeks later in a Sahara class prowler, in the cargo hold
William stares down at the cryopods now filled with children.
This is the first switch so naturally he needs to personally oversee it, in case of any fuck ups.
With cameras all around the facility and BB personally monitoring them all at all times, William is pretty confident that nothing could go wrong.
Even so William still chose to personally oversee it as he wants to see which part he could make adjustments on to make the operation much more smoother.
Suffice to say nothing problematic popped up during the switch, although William did found a few point he could improve upon.
Those things aside William is now headed back to Instillation 01 .
Supplies are starting to run low there so he has to make a delivery run, while he could just let the drones load up a ship and send it there, but William is thinking that he should set up mining operations on the Kuiper belt so that it could be less reliant on Earth for supplies.
So he naturally has to be there to set up the facilities with his cheat.
A few days later in William's office
The new batch of children just woke up and are now getting acquainted into their new life.
William now watches a video feed of one particular rebellious child get zapped again for disobeying orders.
'This one has a lot of fight in him' William thought as he has to find some way to deal with him.
William reads up on his file and found that he seems to be quite close to a female trainee.
' Lisa 122-D full name is Lisa ...' William read her profile
After awhile and some thinking William eventually smiles as he had just thought of a plan
"Emm... BB?"
Then a semi transparent blue ball appears next to him.
"Yes, Creator?"
"I want you to arraign trainee Hans 016-D and trainee Lisa 122-D to be on the same team. Also make sure his punishments is to be shared with the whole team"
"Understood Creator"
'If one fails, you all fails' William recites the first lesson Master Chief learned.
'If he doesn't want his little crush to be punished along with him, then he better start toughen up and start following orders' William thought
A few day later
William is currently inspecting asteroid mining complexes he had set up a few days prior.
He had let the AIs of these mining bases sort themselves out in the last few days. William is no expert on asteroid mining so he lets them do their own thing just as long as the results are satisfactory.
He is currently having a tour of the mining base to see on their progress.
"As you can see creator everything is running in tip top shape" a holographic man dressed as a miner saids as he gestures as the drones surveying the asteroid and settling up various equipment on the various spots with rich minerals deposits.
"Jim how long till you start the drilling?" William asked
"In about a few more days Creator, full capacity would have to wait till we've finished surveying the whole asteroid which is about a month" the AI known as Jim replied.
William nods as the next few days he continues on with his inspection of the other mining bases.
A few days later
With the inspection done William needs to head back to Earth to settle a bunch of things, he decided had to had over the construction of the factories to Manfred.
William considered handing it to Lucifer, but he's a Forerunner AI like 343, William is not really comfortable with trusting Forerunner AI.
And yes, he is judging all Forerunner AIs based on the actions of one construct, cuz it's the only one one example.
Now some might as "the only example? What about that female monitor on Halo 5 or those in the comics?"
William could barely half accept Halo 4 and anything beyond that is totally unacceptable! Just like how a lot of StarWars fans can't accept the new trilogy, William won't accept anything beyond Halo 4.
As far as he's concerned all those things that exists outside of the Human-Covenant war doesn't exists!
Take the series into a whole new direction my ass! You mean butcher it, string up the desecrated corpse to be puppeted right on front of the fans who loved it since the beginning.
In Halo 4 they made the Master Chief look like some crazy old guy whose just seeing things or How Sarah Palmer said mockingly "huh? I thought You'd be taller" when in the cutscene it clearly shows that the Master Chief is taller than her.
Then in Halo 5 they tried to replace the Master Chief with some rando that they pulled straight out of their ass, and somehow that rando fought the Master Chief on even grounds. What's worse in Halo 5 is that they even tried to make the Master Chief the bad guy that has gone rouge.
Anyways William is not too trusting of Forerunner AIs.
Back on Earth
The military just ordered ordered a massive procurement of gunpowder propellant.
It seems that's the military are getting a bit antsy after they've captured California, some of the Federation's high command are preparing throw everything including the kitchen sink at the enemy to stop the their advance.
The metaphorical kitchen sink in this case is the still experimental propellant that William's company is working on.
Preliminary test shows that pound for pound William's "new experimental" (even though it's a watered down version) gunpowder propellant has a vast improvement in projectile velocity, range and penetrative power than the Federation's standard.
Although there are propellants out there that can have similar results but those tended to be highly unstable and unstable for military applications.
William's formula is a derivative of the UNSC's gunpowder propellant, so it's naturally very suitable for extreme atmospheric and outer space combat.
While William's new propellant scored with flying colours on most of the tests, however it has one weakness.
What!?
Well, it's not that the propellant is lacking in any ways but it's just that the propellant too powerful (even though it's a watered down version), so much so that there will be a drastic reduction of barrel life if a tank or any artillery piece were to use it, there's also a slight change of the gun exploding in their faces as firing mechanism isn't rated to handle such powerful overpressure.
Even so without Mobile Suits the military still went ahead and approved the usage of his propellant in their new experimental shells.
Given the limited options they currently have, they're kinda forced to do so even if they don't want to.
Project V is still under development and their space fleet is still being rebuilt after the battle of Loum, the only thing they have is a massive amount of type 61 tanks.
With nothing but the type 61 tanks standing between them and Zeon's total conquest of Earth, the military is naturally quite eager to augment their tanks to pack a bit more of a punch, even if it means taking risking a barrel ruptured each time they fire one of them.
Saying that William has recently heard that the military has hired a company to make a upgrade kit for their near obsolete type 61 tanks.
One of the upgrade requirements includes being able to fire "an experimental" tank shell with a much higher overpressure.
Anyways all that interesting and all but really it has very little to do with William as he's just a sub-contractor.
His company officially being a small arms company is just responsible for supplying the propellants for the actual contractor who are responsible for making the shells and stuff.
Like nobody would hire a small town gunsmith to build a tank, like the small town gunsmith at most could build the 50 cal machine gun on top of the vehicle, by as for the rest of the tank? They would hire a proper tank building company with plenty of experience to do it.
Anyways on to the next problem, William now has to find a hospital to dispose of a bunch flash cloned organs.
As previously stated, his orphanage will give the impression as an organs harvesting facility to help explain all the dying flash cloned children.
So now after he made the switch he gotta have to start producing the "goods"
William is currently looking through a list of places he could dispose of the flash cloned organs.
William is thinking of approaching the mafia and dispose it through them, perhaps he even approach a few powerful individuals to buy political favours from them.
Like for example, if an admiral's son who was a pilot or something suddenly needs a heart transplant, William (well, not him personally.) could appear and gives them the Devil's bargain.