Celestial Forge, The Stars Beckon Forth [Mass Effect / Celestial Forge SI]

[TrueGuardian32]

Any chance the MC is going to try and synthesize his own element zero when he's established enough?

Click to shrink...

he already knows how, its just he doesn't have the level of equipment or power output to sustain enough pressure and environment to make it.

 

[TrueGuardian32]

2020, January 17.

The start! The dawn of a new starship!

The Highsta-

"Hey…. Yard?" I asked the air as I looked outside the view port at the finished Starship.

His hologram appeared in view, he had chosen a green hologram and generic human body, all details were green.

"Why does the starship have hundreds of guns on it?" It had turrets on every empty space, that was left purposely empty for emphasis on alliance not military. All the color theory and design philosophy I stuffed into the thing to make it look inspiring instead of terrifying was blocked by several thousand emplacements.

"I noticed they were lacking! Now this warship is truly a warship. No enemy will be able to stand the rain of firepower it can produce!"

I pinched the bridge of my nose between my eyes. "Damn it."

"What? Whats wrong?"

"What's wrong is that you just delayed this project again! Why in the world did you do this without atleast informing me?"

He had a hurt expression at my tone of voice and looked a little scared… Damn it. I can't stay mad.

I just sighed. "The ship was designed as a pioneer for the future. Not a warship fundamentally. It was made to explore the stars and bring confidence to people. The colors, the positioning of the weapons and the design over all? It was to inspire majesty, inspire people for the future, and make people believe in the future." I pulled up the original design on the holographic display, and put it next to the actual ship on screen. "What do you think when you see the current Highstar."

"It looks awesome! Guns on all points with full coverage!" He said excitedly.

"Now picture it facing your servers where all your data is stored."

He froze. Frowning. "That… wouldn't be good."

"That feeling? That is a small taste of fear. You don't understand it fully just yet. But people on Earth? They see this, they don't see a ship that represents the future. They see something like that, but on a larger scale."

Yard paused for a bit, before turning to the design, a second design, looking like the one displayed through the window popped up. I raised my eyebrows as began to work. First he stripped 90% of the hardpoints, then started altering the size of the guns. Still doing a new design, but this time with a new philosophy.

I blinked when the designs were finished. The ship had changed shapes a bit. He put two large canons on the front. Likely coilguns combined with kinetic drives, along the top he had a large mass accelerator cannon.

"That…" It lost some of the design I originally put into it. But it gained something else, a bit more confidence without insanely increasing fear factor. "That's good. Can you change the Highstar into that version?"

Yard looked it over. "It'll take me a few days to strip the excess weapons. But I can do that. I should be able to reuse the parts from the weapons."

I pointed out some of the lower parts. "Can you place turret emplacements here, here, and here?"

He blinked, looking at me. "I thought you didn't want that many guns?"

"I like guns. The idea was what was important. Honestly it's a cool ship." I said looking the mass of guns outside the viewport. "But it's just not what we need right now. Symbolism at the moment is incredibly important, especially since we are just starting out the space age for humanity."

"Alright… Yeah. I understand! So I can add weapons, just need to make sure I don't lose the core philosophy of the ship!" He replied.

"Now you are getting it! I think." I replied with a light smile. Then I sighed, "Well, since I'm not going to earth right now. Shadow?"

A black hologram popped into view. This time while the hologram was humanoid, it had no details on it whatsoever. "Yes David?"

"Can you take the stealth ship by Earth and let them know we will be delayed a couple days."

"Yes sir." The A.I. disappeared as one of the ships disappeared into the void of space.

I nodded, "Armistic." Another green A.I. appeared. He looked like a federal agent in that outfit he chose.

"I am here sir. Do you need something?"

"Prepare an escort for me would you? I've located something in the solar system that had dragged my interest." I had a celestial forge perk to visit.

He nodded. Yard spoke up, "You are leaving?!"

"Yeah, something of importance came up that I needed to investigate." I replied. "Could help shape future technology."

Yard frowned, "I wanted to show you some of my other designs…"

I chuckled. "I'll take a look when I get back. We'll go over them together."

He brightened up and I noticed the shipyard drones in the distance start moving in a flurry as they started to work on the Highstar.

Maybe I'm putting too much on these A.I. They are practically children, they have to learn about things to understand them and it's not intuitive. Sure they grow quickly but it hasn't even been a year. "Hey, Medical." I whispered after putting my helmet on.

"Yes Father?" I blinked.

"Uh, can you add something to my notes? I need to put at minimum a year of training for new learning A.I. before fielding them." I don't know how to respond to the father response. First time hearing him call me that.