Your second month of life was different in tone than your first. Syra and the other children of the depths were given access to the higher levels and with the slight temporal rearrangement of existence to ensure the depths of the station had enough food they never went hungry now.
Although, your father seemed happier than before over the month as he got to know Syra closer and began to shift into being a proper father figure for her. The others of the station seemed to be disgusted by this for some reason, although you were not sure why they seemed to fume when they noticed her feathers and scales. They were just part of her biology, nothing more and nothing less, they were features and could actually be useful in her life.
Regardless of the strangeness of the behavior of those around you, you focused on figuring out how to fix the most critical of the systems. The Heat Conversion system namely, it was responsible for the creation and maintenance of a conversion field that turned pure heat into energy for the greater station. You were honestly confused about why there was two systems one for kinetic and one for heat when at the fundamental level, both of them are the same thing.
However, your fusion research payed off as it explained the difference in a sensible fashion. In short it was due to one being designed for gas and the other for solid. The HCS was meant to consume the heat and energy of any form of directed energy or otherwise ambient radiant energy to turn into more power for the station at large, the KCS was designed to sap the kinetic energy from impactors against the shield. Both were tuned in such a fashion as to only trigger when their own parameters were met, allowing it to deal with the two major threats separately thus increasing the relative integrity of both systems by reducing the load on them.
This insight into how the basic systems of the two parts of the station functioned, was enough to lead to some minor conclusions on how to possibly repair them in the future. But, there was still much unknown about the systems in question to the point where even your mind struggled to understand just what needed to be done at the moment.
Shelving the research that had been completed and the questions that remained unanswered you turned your focus towards, the other focus of your month of work. The study of the station and the improvement of the map that you had made previously.
Most of the station remained unchanged save for simply better diagrams and schematics of the hallways, leaving the depths less of a chaotic maze of tunnels and metal. Instead the interest came from the blank spots in the walls that you had noticed on the first go over, now with some minor tinkering of the ASDC you had managed to break through a level of encryption and managed to determine that the blank spots inside of the walls, were the locations of what the relic designated Reality Anchor Nodes.
Unlike, with other systems, it presented only the name and system integrity of the newly found systems with only a flashing message that burned your eyes. Beyond the reality anchor system, in the very bottom of the station you found yet another hidden system that was abjectly terrifying to you with your new understanding of gravity, fusion and the principles behind conversion fields.
There was a massive spherical gravitational wave conversion field built into the very core of the station. Everything in the station seemed to wrap around the center point and it was clearly designed such that no one would be able to tell that the center was occupied. Even though the viewing relic was resolute when it came to prohibiting your investigations into the secrets of the room, you were more than able to finagle ways around its safeties.
Thus, you discovered a stable black hole only a few meters wide, held in gravitational tension by the gravitational anchor systems and that the fluctuations in the station's gravity weren't due to the gravity system failing, but the black hole being moved creating waves in the very topography of reality.
It was very much clear that the annihilation reactors were in truth secondary power supply compared to the sheer amount of power that this system labeled in its entirely as a Penrose reactor could produce if the conversion field was working properly. It also brought with it new insights into just why the station was falling.
From your new calculations the station wasn't falling into Olynn, the world was coming towards the station as the gravitational systems began to fail to keep the gradients even, the station began to exert ever greater impetus towards the star that it was built within and thus it was indirectly causing the star to fall up to it.
You scowled down at the paper as you trace out the power formulas and principles you used, as you once more reaffirm your math and came to the conclusion that the exhibited systems of your home would drain less than a thousandth of a percent of the provided power from the Penrose reactor alone, leaving the other power generating systems absolutely superfluous.
The only reason the other power sources would be used is for backup options, but the Penrose reactor was fundamentally the best option for power generation if you had the ability to convert gravitational waves into electricity. It was completely silent, the conversion field would take the waves and simply not let them pass its boundaries, thus providing nearly invisible power gain from any external sensors possible. The only type of sensors that could perceive this kind of power source would be ones that would be able to look through other dimensions.
It was simply a fundamental fact as far as your research went, that only an internal sensor could hope to read the existence of the Penrose reactor and anything beyond would be consumed by either the star Olynn or one of the other conversion fields that surround the station.
Shaking your head, you turn from this thought and towards the next month that would start tomorrow. You had done little beyond just sit in your room and work, which although not something you found boring or otherwise detrimental to your mental stability, it did make your month boring with the lack of general interactions with others.
Flicking your eyes towards a tally on the wall, you frown as it came to you that you hadn't yet truly prayed to Him, in one of the many temples erected to His honor. Something that you hoped He would forgive due to the disasters that you were having to deal with.
Author Note
For any update where all Actions are poured into research or otherwise somewhat boring topics that I can't figure out good ways of dealing with. Will result in shorter and more summary type updates in the future.
There is no good way to make an update about a person sitting in a room for a month tinkering, fun to read or write and frankly after this I am not going to do it again.
So any purely Research updates will be much more abbreviated or done in a formate of Anatol speaking to someone else about his progress.
