chapter 5 Construction of a base.

"now lets begin"

As I got up I find myself in a small room. white walls with blue decoration. the door on the other side of the room opens and a sentinel floats in. it just looks at me before beeping. but I under stand it. it was like I know what it just said.

"follow me" was all it said before it left the room. when I got out side the room I see a big screen in the middle of the room and down five steps. it showed a hologram of the building and a radius of around a mile. I was shocked to see how many green people walking on the screen that looked like the machines from earlier. I smiled and walked in to the far corner of the room to see the sentinel floating by some terminals (think Alterin computer stations with a big plasma screen in front of each one). the room was square in shape. about 20 by 20 meters and 5 meters tall.

When I looked at the terminal in the middle it showed me the designs of each unit that i could make. the one on the left seamed to have building designs. so I walked over and started to skim read though them. "lets see reactor, war factory, tech-lab, bio-tech-lab, refinery, storage dumps, weapon factory, med-lab (hospital), air fields and what's this" I say to my self as I look over designs like housing, water purification and schools.

When I clicked on the refinery it said on the screen.

'refinery: cost 4500 minerals. requires reactor before it is built or this structure will work at minimal efficacy.'

I click and drag the item to the data pad that the sentinel just gave me and began to do the same with the reactor. that was when i saw it information.

reactor: cost 3000 minerals. vital structure. needed to power a base properly or risk structures to work at minimal efficiently.

walking over to the holo table in the middle of the room I drag and drop the structure's onto the holo table. in the corner of the table a number goes down from 15000 to 7500. that is when I note the fact that is how much minerals I have. I sigh at this that is when i get the idea. "sentinel come with me" I say to it and it follows as I leave the primary factory/ command post. when I get outside I see that it is dark but I can see the builder making the reactor.

"oh no mam will be pissed" I said as i start to run to the cave with the sentinel following close behind. get to the cave I can see a little coming from the entrance. so I slow down and walk the rest of the way.

the second I get in I get pushed over by the little blur that is my sister. "your back, your back" is all she says to me before she see the sentinel and try's to grab it like a toy. sighing I think this is going to be a long night.

the next morning I get an ear full from mam about staying out so late and then starts to ask questions about the sentinel. I begin the boring explanation and say that the sentinel is here to look for minerals to mine.

that was strange as the sentinel's only words where. "massive mineral field detected. trinium, naqahdah and Neutronium detected. please tell organics to leave so that mining can begin".

to this I had 8 omni bots come to move all of mine, Jesse's and mams stuff out of the cave and back to the base. To say mam was shocked was a understatement. When I got back both the buildings were built and operational.

I ordered the construction of a house, water purification facility. with the hose costing 800 minerals and the water purification facility costing 2200 minerals. I was left with only 3500 minerals left.

The house was at two-story home that had a living room, kitchen, two bathrooms one up steers and the other down steers and 3 big bedrooms that had big bes with a cupboard, drawers and a bedside table with a little lamp on it. both my mother and sisters loved their new home so much. I went back to the factory and ordered 8 new blade-bots to be built along with 35 omni bots and 4 sentinels and 1 builder.

this made my minerals drop to gust 110

with blade bots costing 150 mins each, the omni bots costing 50 mins each, and the sentinels 25 mins each and the builder costing 120 mins per unit. that meant that I spent 1200 on blade-bots, 1750 on omni bots, 100 on sentinels and 120 on a builder.

All I had left was 330 minerals left.

that was when I sent most of the sentinels and blade-bots to mine the massive mineral field.

the next morning Ridick was happy to awake on a soft metres. with that I stretched and walked out me room that was in the command centre factory and going outside the aroma of egg's filled me nostrils.

after a good breakfast I got a shower. then went back to the command centre/factory. when I got to the holo table it showed that I had 20,000 minerals. in the corner a message appeared. taping on the message it read.

'warning mineral count full. use minerals or construct storage dumps to be able to get more resources'.

I sighed and clicked on four buildings.

two storage dumps, tech-lab, bio-tech-lab.

storage dumps costed 1000 minerals each. storage dumps enable the Didact to hold more resources in beam storage. each storage dump can hold a maximum or 10,000 minerals each. bio-tech-lab and the tech-lab cost 2500 minerals each. this costed me 7000 minerals in total.

3 days later and I had built a second factory, reactor and 5 new storage dumps.

this never help the fact that Jess with her curiosity had found a unit to her liking the huragoks. when she made one it costed me 400 minerals to make. the three up good things about this engineer where the facts that one it keep's jess happy and two the upgrade, build and maintain the other units and three they can build tech the builders cant. this is so that a builder can't be hacked and all the tech that I have gets stolen.

I look at jess who is playing with firefly. firefly is the name she chose for the organic unit. firefly is a young female Huragok that does not leave Jesse's side and love to play games.

"what am I gonna do with you jess" I say to my self. just then a message appears on the screen of the holo table.