ALPHA 2
There was just a moment of blackness before I regained my senses, as I regained my bearings. I was sitting in the same char as I was before, just now it looked over an empty white space.
"Huh? Ok what now?"
As I thought this a screen to my right materialled showing me all the functions of the chair and the interface that scrolled only as fast as I could read it.
"Well this is sick and it opens up so many options."
What the screen was telling me is that I was now in a virtual space that I am now for all intents and purposes god in this place as in the show Caprica. In this space I could call up all the information stored in the data banks of this ship. This was because of my roll of ALPHA I had root access to everything, other people to log in later would have to get specific information rights to gain access or they would just remain in the blank area with just a chair and nothing else.
In this space I can talk to all VI's that are connected to the ship, monitor all the cameras on or outside the ship basically anything I wanted. I could do things myself or tell the ship what I wanted done while I worked on something else. Also, the time factor here was X3 because I was getting straight jacked in with my Cylon brain that could handle the overclock. I could even build this place to look like the playboy mansion if I wanted, that's if I knew exactly how it looked and it would stay here for every time I logged in as if it was my "desktop".
So how am I suppose to learn how all this technology works? It's not like I can stay ignorant if I want to get some tech and integrate it into the Cylon database and add to our total knowledge. I thought.
With that thought another screen appeared and I started reading. It was showing me courses from elementary education to university doctorate courses all taught by an interactive dumb VI. The colonials created it after the VR craze, because it became so main stream that there was no reason for kids to a school building to learn, when they could do it through VR at home. At the same time, it let everyone go at there own pace and let the classes not be dictated by the slowest learner, so they aren't left behind. The list of courses was enormous, and I was also given the information that all human/Cylon's new only basics when they where created, and then of their own free will were, they able to choose what they wanted to learn and do.
This setup was done because they Cylon's didn't feel they were true AI's, so they stole as much research as possible and improved Dr. Daniel Graystone and the first HC Zoe-A techniques on creating HC. They wanted to create a true AI that could innovate, as right now the Cylon race with the help of research VI could only go through the scientific procedure on how to improve things. There were no leaps of intuition or ideas on creating new technology, it was just "here is a bullet how can I make it better?" then the VI would add 1% more blasting powder and check results then 1.5% and so on, then try thicker or smaller casings. None of it was innovation just trial and error using the scientific principles of mankind. Sure, they could refine anything to a ridiculous degree when using all the knowledge they had to try and make something better but that is why they were still beholden to the humans in some way and saw themselves not as an independent species because they would still take ideas from the 12 colonies. Hence the creation of HC (human Cylon's), and now with the rob changing the root programing of all the Cylon's to obey me and follow me. This is opposed to Dr. Daniel Graystone and Zoe-A programing of the Cylon's to constantly improve themselves and think for themselves so they can improve individually. Now the Cylon race is more a hive with many drones but with the Queen being me, and smarter ship VI's being more along the lines of supervisors. All now are working for the betterment of the Hive and not themselves. Add into the fact that all VI's could be "resurrected" if destroyed and you had a very stable command structure that would not change unless necessary.
With all this new knowledge I thought.
Ship?
"Yes ALPHA"
Do we have something like stealth or stealth running to try and minimize our signature to our enemies?
"Yes ALPHA"
Can we initiate that right now and what are the consequences before you start?
"Stealth running is done by reducing power to non-essential systems, and putting the fold system into a state of trickle charge meaning it will now take 14 hours to charge for a jump. Also, during this time nothing can be built, as to minimize spikes in power that could be detected. The outer layer of the ship was already wrapped in energy absorbing material that either deflects or absorbs most known ways of scanning. This is along with extra shielding around the reactors that power the ship. The reason why all this was done for the ConstructShip was because it was made under the assumption that they had lost, and would be running as fast and far as it could to start again and would have all the colonials after it so it would need to stay hidden for as long as it could. Initiating stealth running now"
I noticed nothing when this changed, I guess it's because I am in the control centers VI bridge and the true way you control this ship.
Ship please send 15 of the 20 Raptors out with start charting / mapping packages installed, if they have some, out to scout the system while its empty and then to start to collect information on the nearest systems. I want them to work on the idea of an expanding bubble and to keep to stealth tactics and if they are discovered they are to run in a random direction into black space and wait min 30 hours. Or if they still think they are being watched to resume scouting until they calculate that by the time, they return they would only have 20% fuel remaining. Also notify me when the information on the first 20 systems come in for me to go over.
"Affirmative ALPHA."
With that done and nothing else of priority to get done right now, since I didn't even have a place to jump my ship to get out of this system. This so Ra doesn't find me, I think to the ship to start the elementary school lessons without any religious information. The reason I am starting at elementary level is that I don't want to miss some underlying social concept that has a more thorough root elsewhere. Hell, there might be some tech or knowledge that I would miss if I didn't look at some kids shows also so my break time should be watching some of them also. God this was going to take a long time but I guess I have all the time in the world since I am essentially immortal in the agelessness sense as long as my ship doesn't get found.
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So, my first month turned out very boring in this universe. It was me going through the first 2 grades of the education system along with the occasional wake up out of the chair and eat and use the bathroom. A space bathroom is still the same as a normal bathroom except there is no toilet paper. Cleaning is done by bidet that also has a drying function with warm air built in. This is because we have no trees to make useless toilet paper with. I would also eat some food that was prepared for me, it wasn't horrible but nothing I would crave either. I would then log back in for more learning, and TV watching. Then when all this was happening, I found out the ship had sent a team at night to get the information on the recordings of the pyramid without me telling it, the ships VI had apparently understood what I had wanted done and followed through on this. I would have to watch this incase it ever got me in trouble, luckily it also understood that I wanted everything operating in stealth mode and working under the assumption we are in superior enemy held territory. When I reviewed the footage the only thing, I saw was 3 people showing up to try and clean out any excess sand inside and nothing else. So, I settled down to wait more to see if anyone came or they sent something out.
With the Raptor scouting situation the 50 closest star systems from Abydos, 3 of them are G2 type stars that are in the same range as earth sun. The rest lye in the range where it would not work for earth type life to form, most being red dwarfs. In those 3 G2 systems I didn't find any life baring planets but I did find 1 that I could terraform over a long period of time possibly because it had a high concentration of CO2 with trace other gases on a moon orbiting a class I planet that being a Gas Supergiant. Many of these systems have asteroid belts but most not dense enough for my tastes to set up a mining base. The reason for this is because the mining the Cylon's use is orbital, and uses tugs to push and pull rocks into an area that they can be mined or broken down for smelting. 2 systems did have a dense belt that I could use but were orbiting stars that would put out low light of a red dwarf star. One of those though put out a lot of EM radiation that would help mask my mining operation and I decided to set up there. this system was 18 LY out and I ended up moving the ConstructStar there to begin mining after it was discovered the belt has 1.3% Tylium. Doesn't sound like a lot but when you take into account how much rock is out there and what other minerals and metals can be found it's a huge amount. Its as if no planets were created and created a Saturn esc ring around the systems at a distance or about Venus is. But probably it was just the way the system was formed because there wasn't a gas giant to help pull in materials and setup a solar system, earthlings are used to. This just looks to be a dead system that will never amount to anything except a very nice mining system for me.
Before my ship moved, I had a number of spy satellites installed in the system to monitor ship movements nothing was put in orbit of Abydos but were around the gas giants because their storms would hide the signals better. I had 2 satellites at the very least always looking towards the pyramid / settlement on Abydos all the time even if they had to switch satellites based on planetary rotation. Still every month a raptor would come at night and collect data from burst transmissions from the satellites and from the pyramid to review, in my new system that I will call M0001. In the future I will name systems based on there start type and the order found if they do not have a name already for example G20001 but the difference will be if I start a refinery they will start with R, mining with an M, colony with C, Hub with an H, and finally a B for a manufacturing system.
In the M0001 system the mining station and refining station ended up being one larger one that looked more like a Octopus that was eating rocks. The design was done so that there was many docking and access points on the legs to move workers while having anchor points to secure larger rocks that are being broken down. Then pieces with metal ore are moved to the beak of the octopus to be eaten and moved into the large bulbus area that was loaded with high temp furnaces and other ways used to extract minerals and metals from the rocks. This station had legs that were movable at a very slow speed that were alone 2.3 km long with the body being large at 3Km wide and 4Km long the inside ended up being filled with worker Cylon's, that constantly added to it using refined materials to keep building it. the ConstructShip only had enough materials to make 2 legs that started off only at 200m and the shell of the refinery section being 550m x 800m. It would take from projected metal intake 2 years to get it to 100% operational. All the time it would be building itself and anything not needed would be stored in an unused section until bulk storage could be created that could be moved around.
The eyes of the station where docking ports for the bottom of the ships to allow mass movements of materials. As for gasses needed for the process to work, I will need to setup a gas refinery in the next system when I have spare materials, for now the ConstructShip will be the one that will mine the gas that it was built to do it slowly compared to a dedicated station. This will be necessary because normally they would keep both in the same system but the amount of materials in M0001 is just too big to ignore it for a system with a gas giant. This means I will also have to transport the gas to the station for the furnaces using the ConstructShip until I have a dedicated ship that transports gasses in bulk. All this is a hassle but one that I can live with for the next 3 -5 years.
The reason I can deal with this is that I have no reason to rush anywhere, and during this building time I have so much schooling to go through. My first path of schooling will be robotic engineering so I can design new and different chassis for the Cylon's depending on the jobs needed to be done. Unlike right now where they are all humanoid and standing at 2.1 m. I plan to make some into robotic pack mules like how the Americans where building just not with all the noise. Also, some dedicated repair and maintenance robots that were smaller in size and possibly in a spider like design so they can move everywhere even in 0 G environments. All this will depend on what my schooling will tell me, along with the design programs the Cylon's use. The unit I will spend the most time on will be a spy/recon unit that I will built to get into the settlement to see if there is that room there that has all those addresses on it, I want to at least know where to go by ship and scout before stepping tough the Gate if I don't need to.
While all this is happening, I am still having the Raptors scouting every system for at least bare bone information of the system and if anything, interesting is found to do a more detailed survey. The reason for this is that I remember somewhere Earth is supposed to be within 400 LY. This is based on stellar drift since they don't use a DHD and have "hacked" into the stargate. Even I am skeptical about this and if I find one by itself on an abandoned planet, I am stealing it and having my VI's take the gate and DHD apart and see if they can understand it. If not more schooling for me to help the VI's with insights into its operation and manufacture.
The reason I want to find earth is that I know it has a Goa'uld on it, a resurrection sarcophagus, 2 gates, 2 DHD's though one has a depleted power source that is perfect for disassembly. I'm sure there is more there but since I don't have anymore knowledge based on the show, I can't just assume that's it. I might try raiding every Egyptian tomb there is and screw the timeline. As long as no one leaves earth Ra will have forgotten about it and wont attack it. Especially if I start to fuck with his gate addresses, he has at Abydos, that is if he ever looks there. Hell, maybe if they see my Cylon's looting their sites on earth, I will create some new myths or spur on some sort of technological advancement. Hmmm there's an idea fly the ship in low atmosphere all around the world and really F with the time line. Haha.
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Its now been a little over 5 years and a number of things have come up.
The first one is that Abydos does not get a Ship landing on the pyramid at all in these 5 years. On the other hand, every 6 months a Goa'uld from what I can tell, along with 10 Jackal guards like in the movie come and collect the ore and transfer it though the stargate and leave being as showy as possible. The gate address they use to return is always the same and I don't plan to follow. Though it is designated in my systems as a planet of interest.
Second thing of note, I found earth. I have yet to go there but I have setup a number of satellites that are documenting everything that is going on, on the planet for historical value. I plan to go there when I have built a ship to take me there.
Third, using earth as a start point, I started a new spherical search for the planet Heliopolis since it was dialed without a DHD also. This was found 8 months ago and has been looted of everything that wasn't nailed down other then the gate and DHD. It will need a ship bigger then the Raptor to carry it.
Fourth, the mining/refining station is complete, along with a Gas extraction station in the adjacent system. Even a bulk Gas transport barge that was in the colonial data was built to move gases back and forth. Only one is built because I want to change its design but have just finished a starship engineering degree. I might now know how to make the parts but I know what's needed and how to put it together. The design systems fill in the blanks with the VI's help.
Fifth, I have 2 doctorates and a masters under my name right now. The reason for this is I have been learning for basically 15 years, but also everything I learn now I don't seem to forget with whatever was done to my brain. Sure, I might not remember instantly but I do remember everything its just not always ready to go. This has made it so tests are almost pointless and its more on the learning and practical side. Fake practical projects are done in VR and if its something that has not happened before, a Cylon does it in the real world and the results are imported into the VR.
Sixth, the last thing I have accomplished is I created a small 6-legged unit that looks like a dog sized TACHIKOMA from ghost in the shell that is mat black and has no obvious red light as optics. That was one of the first things I changed when I was give that as an option in the design program. The rear where someone can sit is not just there to hold things or store extra equipment. I then sent 3 of those units into the settlement and had them scout out everything. It took 22 days to find the room that I was looking for because they only moved at night when everyone was sleeping, and had been for some time and hid long before anyone normally got up. When they finally found it and pictures of every address was taken, they left before they could be found since it had taken longer than expected.
Finally, the last thing I have done is redesigned the Cylon Chassis that will be seen by people and not working in the ships. I have designed them to look along the lines of people in power armor so no one goes "oh no killer robots" or "robots maybe I should do that". The chassis looks like ODST armor and they have been scaled down to 1.8m so they do not tower over people. all over the thighs are ammunition pouches along with a built-in back pack like the ones the TACHIKOMA have, to keep loot and spare equipment. Also, each unit comes with a bullpup assault rifle, 5 fragmentation grenades, 5 Flash Bang Grenades, along with what looks like a Barret M82 attached to the side of the back pack. All of them are in a mat black / mat grey color scheme that lets them blend into the night when they operate at the time or blend into corners of room when not moving. All units have a wireless connection that is keeping them all in contact with each other so if anything, were to happen they can all coordinate along with upload enemy position and weapon loadouts. This all then it connected to a relay unit out in the field so all information it uploaded into the Cylon net so battle strategies and best way to confront the enemy can be refined. Currently the units work on small unit tactical warfare that is scalable to full blown army warfare. Units currently work in 5-unit squads with one being the relay unit.
Now though I am trying to decide on what I should do. I was thinking of making a heavy lift vehicle for surface to orbit lifting along with being able to drop troops and extract them when I want to. But on the other hand, any tech I take from here I would probably want to add it into my ships so I think I will have to do the search and seizure. What I really want to find is the world with the mirror on it. there was so much tech there for the taking. The only issue is that I don't know if its there right now or not. It could be very old or new I don't know. because of all these things going through my mind, I will sit on it and go through some more classes to try and bring up my knowledge on the organic systems of Cylon technology.
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It has been 7 earth years since I came to this universe and I finally understand the biotech that we use, also I have decided to create small remote Quadro copters that have onboard camera capabilities. These units will also have a onboard thermal explosive to destroy all onboard electronics and also have a very low noise profile as to not be noticed that easily.
These units will be tossed through the gate, and at that point a VI will take charge and either do 2 options
1. If its out in an open area it will go straight up 20m and then do a spiral pattern outward trying to take in as much information of the surroundings as possible and if any humanoid life is present to head in that direction. All this will happen until the gate shuts down and it will transmit the data back while the gate is open. When the gate closes it will continue on with its last orders and when the gate opens 30min later it will transmit the saved visual data. At this point it can be told to land for pickup or we can scuttle the copter.
2. The second option is if we are in a room it will move to all corners of the room taking visuals in normal human range along with IR. If any entranceways or exits to the rooms are available it will try and map them. If not, the unit will fly back into the event horizon especially if there is no DHD present so the unit is atomized.
The gate addresses will picked by our computers that have mapped out earths constellations and will be attempting to choose the closest addresses to earth and working there way out. This will hopefully lead to the Mirror world. If not, it will give me an idea of who controls what and where.
Also, another idea that has come to mind while working on my schooling is that all Cylon units will carry a Ninjato to dispatch all Goa'uld, and larva in the Jaffa stomach pouch. This will make it so they do not need to get their hand dirty while making sure they are all dead. Although this is for later and of right now all Goa'uld are to be captured and secured individually in thermoses like containers carried in all back packs of the Cylon's. I have also decided to go on these missions so I will need to find a place to install a Cylon Resurrection Hub. With this in mind all the places will first be scouted with a copter and once the hub is finished, I will step through to any worlds that are covered in range of the hub. Hopefully if can find something interesting that will help the Cylon's improve their tech base. When I queried the ship on the best place to put the hub based on my requirements. It located a brown dwarf solar system 23 LY from earth further out on the spiral arm. It will take 3 years to build mostly because of the movement of materials and setting up another mining and refining station there. I know I should put things closer but I don't want the Goa'uld finding a Resurrection Hub and stealing its technology. That is why all of them will be created so they can be upgradeable, and have places on them for weapon installations unlike the original designs.
For now, though I have launched the ConstructShip to earth and it will be in geostationary orbit over Egypt. The reason for the ship to go is that it has the best sensors of my fleet and since earth doesn't have electronics and no power sources it should help finding items. If I was to do this in 1997 I am sure it would not work because all of the other sources of power emanating from the planet would be to hard to filter out. Especially since I am looking for things in standby mode or running on reserve power. I am going to find the Egypt gate first because it will have the most power and then go to Antarctic for the other.
After that I will have the new heavy lift shuttle, I designed to pick it up. The new ship is fold capable but looks and operates like the ship from the TV show Thunderbirds, its shape is that of the green Thunderbird 2 but with VTOL abilities. It will land and lift them into space since the raptor won't be able to with the gates size and the number of units, I will need to unbury it. The reason why I am getting the Egypt gate first is that I can scan it so that can help me track down what I am looking for, when I am hunting down a DHD or a Gate, especially since the second gate is low on power.
When all this is done with the Gates, I will have all my ships that can scan from a distance fly all over the world during the night to see if they can pick up any more traces of Tylium. Or any power signatures, because right now there should be none and if I do some crazy sensitive scans with all my ships looking, I should be able to pick up anything that's active. So, no staff weapons or stuff not being used like a ribbon device but hopefully I can get my hands on the sarcophagus that's supposed to be in Mexico or South America I can't remember. My memories from before turning aren't as clear as my new memories and the less I use them the more they disappear. It was a good thing I wrote everything down I could remember about this universe when I first started schooling, because now 21 subjective years have passed because of VR I have forgotten almost everything.
I still can't believe I haven't gone insane from lack of socialization, but there where a number of VI's programed to simulate inane chatter to me during my schooling, and I was never a social person to begin with too, it was just enough interaction for me. But I sure as hell want some attention from a woman its been to long. I might have to make some detours around earth to satisfy myself especially since I don't care about the time line. I won't go out of my way to rule the earth or something stupid but it won't stop me from going there and if I see something, I don't like I will change it while im on the planet. Because to me right now the Cylon's are my people and they need my help more then people of earth because there are humans all throughout this galaxy even though I got my start here from an alternate reality.
What I need to find is people who would want to join the Cylon race, with the all the technology from the Caprica TV show in my Data banks and how they where able to upload people into the VR landscape permanently, I can start to move then into CH bodies if I get some DNA from them also to base the shape from while I add upgrades to the body. After I get a stable population we can choose when we give birth on both sexes. when I read this, I found out the premise of the show that we can't have kids without love was just a side plot that added more plots to the show. We could always have kids it's just we didn't want to before we won the war.
What I figure is that once I am settled, I will find orphans from whatever society and ask them if they want to live with me. from there while they grow up and get a proper education, I can create their new bodies. Since the body that has been made does not age past 25 if we do not want it to since it's a very advance biotech construct that we designed, I will wait to change their bodies till there 25 to make sure they do want to become part of the Cylon hive race. I have a sneaking suspicion that when they upload that the ROB has put something into the coding that makes my new race more hive like. I suspect this because just making an "immortal" human race won't be fun and there should be some changes to add some diversity to my race to make it different from humans. I'm sure this will kick in either during my first death or the first upload of a new person.
Uhhhh. I don't want to think of that anymore, I think I need to take a walk about earth for a while and talk to people and get to know a real person not an advanced VI that's simulating a conversation.
So, with all that in mind its time to get everything organized to move this ship to Heliopolis to grab that Gate and DHD, to scan it and after to scan the planet for left over tech other than the pedestal that shows the atoms. After that it's time for earth. I ended up just changing my mind about going to earth first when I thought about it. That's why it will be the second destination.