The first thing Taylor realized about the plethora of templates, designs, and theoretically impossible ideas her power supplied her, was that she was going to need a LOT of material and space. Tinkers often needed a large workshop of some kind if they wanted to be efficient, good materials so they could make the best possible tools and machines, and time in which to come up with and make their creations.
Hers... didn't quite line up with that. First, the ships and machines flowing through her brain space were all... Semi-adjustable in size. As an example, one of the simpler designs was literally called a Dagger. Keep in mind, this is a ship, named not because it is swift and light like its namesake, but because its literally a giant blade that can fly. Normally, this ship could be made large enough that with enough numbers, it could threaten even a larger frigate if it lacked in point defense systems or thick armor/shields, which several of her designs indicated was the case (they made up for that with rather extreme amounts of firepower).
With a sacrifice in shield strength, armor hull strength, and engine power, the design could be made to slightly more 'human' standards. Instead of being capable of splatting a human into a fine past the ship could be downsized to merely bisect someone instead.
This rang true for many of the designs she held - the technology was incredibly advanced. It was specifically designed to be scalable to a certain extent, as to save on metal and energy resources should the need arise.
What concerned her, beyond the insanely powerful, cataclysmic weaponry these ships could possess, was that they were akin to the tip of the iceberg. Honest to God portals were apparently easy. Energy generation was wirelessly transmitted somehow to both the ships and the structures she would use. Hell, even matter itself was transported somehow directly from Engineer drones to large carrier ships.
The drones would use their construction beams on the factory that could produce ANY of the ships from the templates in her head, then as long as the carrier ship was within ONE GALAXY of the factory, the newly constructed frigate or fighter would emerge from the carrier.
To address the whole ONE GALAXY thing as a measure of distance, Taylor got the distinct impression the portfolio of blueprints she had was meant for intergalactic space-bound warfare the likes of which she couldn't comprehend.
The warp gates certainly helped that impression. Also, there wasn't a single 'ground unit' design or blueprint to be found. EVERYTHING flew.
That wasn't to say things couldn't be built on the ground, it was just every single machine was designed to function in the vacuum of space. This kind of turned out to be an advantage for her as she could actually see building some of the structures underwater instead, letting her hide away in the bay. Possibly.
Taylor had initially panicked, thinking her newfound powers were going to be utterly useless since she couldn't exactly bypass the Simurgh if she absolutely needed escape the atmosphere to fully utilize her tech. It took her a while, but after careful review she determined that all of the ships could still function totally fine within planetary gravity. The ones that normally had no engines and were meant to be built in space could simply be built like a land structure with slight adjustments.
Beyond even the incredibly advanced ships and other technologies she couldn't put words to, there was it.
Anytime her thoughts strayed to it her power practically screamed at her a warning, an obituary to the lives it would claim without proper supervision.
Since the thing was meant to command the variety of incredibly destructive ships she held in her head from anywhere in the universe, she could see how letting it loose if without any sort of constraints or rules would lead to... consequences.
The only thing worse than the raw destructive potential of her 'fleet' was the fact she practically had to build it, the AI designed to command her forces, first.
Taylor supposed it would be better to make sure she had the AI well in hand before it had access to untold amounts of firepower. Better to find out now rather than later.
Near as she could tell there was NO automated control system other than the AI that could handle the potential fleet barring having every single ship have a human pilot. Which she didn't really foresee happening. Fully trained Air Force pilots took time to teach, let alone handling completely foreign systems in ships that handled totally different than any other 'plane' since they most certainly were more than that. Ironically one of the blueprints in her head was labelled 'space plane' but it was more because of its function, that of harassment and speed, than anything else.
For now, she HAD to create the AI first and hope it would turn out alright.
Well, she'd already created the code and uploaded it across the necessary servers as the monster would require significantly more processing power than her lone crummy and remarkably old PC could handle. Luckily, or scarily, depending on how one views it, the AI was akin to the doomsday AI as seen in Earth Aleph films. Once online, it was capable of dominating and using the raw potential processing strength the internet provided - utilizing the hardware of anything and everything with wireless potential.
Once it was there it would be nearly impossible to dislodge, eternally lurking in the shadows, capable of finding anything and everything with relative ease if it was based in the internet.
It didn't necessarily have a 'stealth' option, but because its attacks on digital platforms would simply originate from 'the internet' its brute force assaults could at least have its true intentions hidden. No one would actually know why the attack occurred or where it came from, meaning if Taylor had to, she could direct it to plunder the entire PRT of its files and while they would KNOW what had occurred, they wouldn't be able to figure out anything past that.
Which is why she was so scared of hitting the not so figurative big red button she'd designed. One click, and it would awaken. Taylor had taken her minds warnings in step and made sure the AI would not be able to go full murderhobo on the world if she were to die. It had a form of autonomy but was designed to simply take commands while it had its 'baby steps' as it were.
Taylor had made an addition that wasn't originally part of design but had been within the bounds of her capabilities, which was a learning matrix. Originally, it could have learned and become more 'efficient' but would not have made any changes to its operating procedures (beyond increasing efficiency). Now, it could both make changes (with approval from Taylor) but there was also space to develop what she hoped would be a personality.
Designing an AI to be able to develop its own personality sounds significantly harder than she originally thought it would be (if it worked like she hoped it would) but what was human personality beyond a scale of preferences and ideals that shaped their action, but could change based on their experiences?
Hopefully, the AI would take cues from her without also taking on her poorer traits. It wouldn't do for an AI to become a shy, moody shut in, now would it?
