So, I was screaming through the atmosphere like a little bitch, unsure how I got there or how I wasn't burned to a crisp. Then there was white everywhere.

Oh, I hit the ground and glassed half a kilometer in every direction. I look at myself and see that I'm one of those planetary fuck-off commanders. So, lemme just plunk down a metal extractor and… Damn this planet is pretty barren. There are less than thirty metal deposits in a ten-kilometer radius. From what my sensors managed to get from my unhappy and terrifying re-entry this planet is about the diameter of Mercury or 4.8 kilometers. Hopefully I'll find more of them. No way that a planet can be this empty.

Also looks like the size of my commander is around fifteen meters. Considering that the game had the scale of units and planets in such a cartoonish way I'm not surprised that I'm actually pretty small. The model is Tykus? Tychus? Something like that. The gundam looking one.

So, I go on a walk for the nearest deposit. Which takes around two hours. When I finally reach it and start making the goddamn thing it takes another hour to build. You know how when you build something it looks like you're using a pepper spray or conditioner or something in a spray can? Well mine is like a sewer hole exhausting its viscous toxic sludge at extremely slow speeds.

Then I made a power generator and that took only half an hour. Holy shit if this takes so long how long would a vehicle factory or bot factory take.

C'mon isn't there some program that can calculate how long it would take to build something?

After few moments of searching I finally managed to find it. Huh. Bot factory would take an hour as well. I look through the blueprints of both the factory and the extractor and see why. The extractor is almost as big as me. I'd say around twelve meters. The bot factory is smaller. Like it has almost the same volume as the metal extractor. And the bots themselves are around two and half meters tall.

So that's another hour spent making something. Then after that I make ten fab-bots each one shortening the time of the other by a minute. Considering one takes ten minutes to make and with the help of commander, it got done quicker. Make five of them support making more whilst the other half helps me making more generators. I tried to look into how it makes energy like if it's fusion or something along those lines.

Nope. The shit in its documents don't make sense. Something about taking power from place between dimensions without causing a reality collapse, I think. I may be a robot in body but I'm just a shitty engineering student in mind. Considering I didn't get myself into the more advanced stuff like laser machining, preferring the mill and lathe with their CNC counterparts not much surprise here.

Where was I? Making weapons war, right.

As more and more fab-bots came out of the factory they immediately started expanding my resource base. When I felt comfortable with my energy output, I ordered deep space radar to be built and that's gonna take… five hours even though fifteen fab-bots are working on it.

Whilst by bots are working like the diligent little ant workers that they are, I sift through the files in my database. And boy, oh boy, does it have some juicy things.

Apparently, I'm not a war commander but an experimental colonization unit. Why would a colonization unit have access to titans and doomsday weapons? I dunno. I also have quite a lot on progenitor culture. Sports, music, paintings and other works of art and sciences and cultures. I have things about their anatomy and-oh now what's this? I locked file cabinet? Hmm.

I try to open it and only get a message.

[Requirements not met. Find habitable planet of classification 2B or higher.]

Yeah considering that this was locked by the guys who made this bot, I'd rather not mess with this file. Plus, it's not like I know the classifications between their planets. Unless… Aha! There it is.

2B is a classification for planets that support life and have at least some form of complex fauna and flora. Like dinosaurs and such. Which apparently if I'm reading their files on their biology and society correctly. They had dinosaurs as pets and farm animals.

As for the progenitors themselves. I..I just, like… how do I even begin?

Ok, organize, clear your head and from the start.

The progenitors are this weird mix of Adeptus astartes and the eldars. Their lifespan was around ten thousand years (human years). They were on average two and three quarters meters tall. Just like humans they had hair on their head but nowhere else. Their shades went from really dark grey to snow white. They had pointy ears that were hell of a lot better than humans. Eyes were also pretty big, again, compared to humans. The color encompassed the whole humanly visible spectrum. Their vision range is from ultraviolet like a bird to infrared in a similar way to snakes. Muscles eight times stronger and twice as energy efficient as that of humans. Skin color ranges from mauve to violet, orchid if they spent too much time in house.

And let's not get into description of certain 'assets'. Needless to say, these ubermenchs aliens would make any person of both genders feel inadequate in those areas.

As for their insides.

Pretty strong immune system. Three hearts of equal complexity to that of a human. Three lungs. Quick healing. Two stomachs. Thick bone structure to support all that mass of muscles and organs. All that comes at a price of course. Weight. If they charge like a rhino they'll stop like a rhino. They can't just stop with all that force.

I'm more than certain that extensive genetic manipulation is involved. And I have a reason to believe that their altered physique along with meeting other species (including humans) made their culture turn into BETTER followed by BIGGER ad nauseum. Then they met some extra galactic bugs with super rapid breeding and insane appetite. They needed to stop them dirty cockroaches

They shifted with that mindset towards making the commanders who made bigger and better things over and over and then…then they made this body. It's very experimental and has much higher data storage capacity but lacks, as you probably guessed, the speed and efficiency of the construction arm.

Moving the literature- PING!

Eh? Oh, the DSR is ready. Damn time flies when you engross yourself in alien culture and biology.

[B2 class planet detected. Requirements partially met. Begin colonization. Further information will be given after energy and mass on planet requirements met.]

Sigh. Alright. Let's make an orbital launcher and send Astraeus filled with fab-bots. How long will orbital take?

A week. Great. Ordering more bot factories ramping fab-bot production. Increasing metal deposit coverage and energy plant zone. Make more silos for metal and batteries for energy.

Now what? With all these limits there's so little to do. Is there something more about the solar system? Four planets with the exception of mine all have moons; one even has a ring. I'm the closest to the star yet far enough to not receive that much heat. I'd wager we're in the goldilock zone. I think that's the name of the life capable ring in space.

Then there's an anomaly, a metal forked stick with a lot of some sort of matter-dark matter particle in ridiculous quantities.

Funny thing about the DSR. It can tell me a ridiculous amount of information about planets in the solar system with the exception of the one it's built on. I looked over the documents of the thing and again I'm not a smart guy and being a robot didn't help me that much surprisingly.

Still that thing is worrying. Hmm. After Astraeus I'll build a Hermes probe to it and get a visual.

I should probably find a way to build new units from scratch. Oh, well I have time. Might as well check through as much as possible.

So, a week later I finally get my orb-factory and start building Astraeus. That's another three days with help of commander and twenty fab-bots. In all that time I have covered a third of the planet in extractors. Lucky for me, unlike in games these real worlds have several hundred of deposits. With my fear of lack of deposits gone I build the two hundredth metal extractor and order to build the advanced bot factory. Which seems to function a bit differently than in game. Not only does it build T1 tech fab-bots faster it builds five of them simultaneously. By now I have around two hundred and fifty fabs. I know it's little for someone who was making stuff for a week but I'm rather reluctant in expanding.

I am not good at real time strategy games. I like to build high and then wide. So, while around fifty fab-bots work on the advanced factory the others who didn't work on expanding my metal economy to make something resembling a proper military perimeter. Places dedicated to for certain units, barriers, turrets and anti-air and anti-orbital guns I personally started to work on air factory.

And now three days later the Astraeus is packed with ten fab-bots and ready to launch.

I had to wait only five hours to get to that world. I should really give it a name. Hmm, how about Progenus Prime. Whilst this will be Progen Militant. Now then Let's take a few fabs and make a teleporter. If I'm right, then after landfall they'll have full access to my economy, and it will take around three hours to make one for basic units.

Did I forget to mention that? There are teleporters for different sizes with the biggest being for commanders. This makes me wonder just how big the advanced units are. Wait! I have blueprints! Duh.

Oh, I see. A Slammer attack bot is six meters tall. It's a bot made for siege and defense compared to the adorable two meters Dox. The teleporter at it's highest is four meters.

When I feel them connect to the resource network again, I order them to build the teleporter and start it up.

Not wanting to be bottlenecked by a single teleporter I build a two more for now and send fabs through to build on planet economy.

Another week passes by as I build on planet and being very careful not to disturb the local fauna and flora. Though I do clear a large area to have some room for expansion. I was being very careful.

PING

[energy and mass requirements met. 50,000 tons per second reached. 30 terawatts per second reached. Unlocking colonization files.]

I'm not sure why a small colony would need that much power but ok.

Holy shit! Is that? Oh, ok that makes sense. So those files were blueprints for growing bodies for colonist whose minds are currently encoded in some program. They're like executables for a game really.

That energy intensity and complexity of materials… I see why now. I immediately send a lot, a lot. Of fabs through the portal and get to building. Several blocks of buildings for living. Indoor farms. Genetic codes for farm animals (including the dinosaurs yes!) and many other necessities for the living.

For now, I look through their files and see who I should bring to life first.

I stop at a woman or whatever is a designation for progenitor female and read through her file.

Alana Milala the smartest progenitor alive. Or well she used to be. Her history is fascinating. She had her hands in almost every field of science the progenitors had. She worked on this machine personally. Bit of an introvert really. Welp that's something we have in common. Not to mention that she made the FTL that progenitors used. Something that I don't have and will probably need.

That reminds me. Hermes was nearing the weird object.

It was goddamn Mass relay. Fucking!Kurva!Piča!Blyat!

AN: It's an idea I had in my head for a while. Mostly wanted to do it because I recently read a lot of mass effect fanfics where humanity pretty much steam rolls the council. I find it therapeutic. I save them in every playthrough and they're always such nasty assholes. Out of necessity but still but they always rub me the wrong way. Anyways, praised be the emperor. Humanity First!