The transmission I'd received from the box included a schematic of some sort. It appeared to be some kind of scanning structure, if the giant radio telescopes were anything to work by, and they appeared to have a really long range, since my systems just flat out gave up trying to calculate the distance after exceeding the length of my hub universe (ROB included that in my commander's databanks, for some reason). Clearly, whoever had made this wanted me to have an early warning system. But why?

Well, I decided, better to have it and not need it than the other way around.

I found a nice patch of land and set the structure to construct there.

Only, it didn't.

ERROR: CANNOT CONSTURCT HERE. NO AVAILABLE ATTACHMENT POINT.

Attachment point? The hell is that?

I tried a different. Same message.

Another spot. Same message.

I repeated this six more times and found myself receiving the same answer.

Great, the little bit of help I get from this mystery benefactor isn't even useful to me.

I turned back toward the dimension portal...

And found that there was now a green outline of the structure I wanted to build.

Along with a connector.

To my dimension gate.

...what?

Why was this connecting to my dimension gate?

...

Something told me that whatever this was, it was either going to screw me over or make me all powerful. I was inclined to believe both. So, without much thought, I set up the structure, while ordering a few engineers to start building a crap-ton of turrets pointed at the gate, in case something nasty came through it. Better safe than sorry.

Apparently, it would take an hour for the structure to finish. Not really surprised, I decided to spend that time examining the various biospheres that my creations had lived in and compare them to what I'd imagined for them. Surprisingly, it was mostly the same as what I'd envisioned. Look, this stuff is under my 'Empiropedia' (unoriginal, I know, but Civilization is a good series). The aquatic creatures were especially well detailed, all things considered, given that most of my pictures form them had been hand drawn.

Anyways, an hour later, my defense grid and portal add on were complete. With that done, I decided to start up the portal and head to the next universe.

This time, though, I received a new prompt: the device asked me which universe I wanted to go to: Hub, Spore, or Random. Whom, nice touch.

Well, Random was the only one that was any real interest to me, so I decided on that one.

As I did so, though, I suddenly detected a surge in activity from the attachment I'd made to the portal. It seemed like it was scanning something, but I couldn't tell what.

Was it scanning the multiverse for a specific destination?

Suddenly, I felt very glad that I'd set up a defense grid around the portal.

The activity was over in a few minutes though, and the portal soon opened to its new destination. With nothing else to do, as I'd already informed my creations what I was doing (and asked them to not follow me, because I didn't want them sacrificing themselves in my service, since I was an unstoppable kill bot), I marched through, along with a small horde of tanks, planes, and bots. I was not going through the portal alone when someone seemed to be putting me on a very specific path.

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A few moments later, I exited the portal, along with my army.

I surveyed the land for a moment, trying to find any signs of life. Unfortunately, the side of the world I'd ended up on was not facing it's star, leaving me stuck in darkness, so I couldn't see anyting.

Okay, switching to sonar.

Now I could 'see' things.

Including the five thousand things circling around me.

That was worrisome.

Quickly, I activated my commander's floodlights (yes, it had floodlights. Go figure).

Before me were a horde of weird creatures: some were insectoid, some were reptilian, but all of them were odd.

Also, none of them looked sapient, and all of them were smaller than me.

I wasn't sure how they'd react to me, but my gut told me that they were animals and would probably be easily intimidated if I made a threat display, so I stomped my commanders legs, did some pushups with said legs, then let out a metallic roar. I still couldn't believe that was possible with the commander. Did the progenitors enjoy playing Metal Gear?

I thought that would intimidate the creatures.

WARNING: PROJECTILES ON COLLISION COURSE WITH COMMANDER

Obviously, it didn't.

My response was a volley of lead, plasma, lasers and lighting. So much for being cautious.

Also, WHO SENT ME HERE?!

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Looking back, I probably should've brought a larger force with me to that universe. The final battle there really changed my journey up quite a bit. But, all things considered, I don't think I'd be who I am today if that battle ended any other way.

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