When i said he should turn the force into a humanoid form, you shouldn't have taken it as a challenge. That being said, I love this.
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Broken Adventure
- Thread starter theaceoffire
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Jonn Wolfe
(Verified Sarcastic) (Not a Wolf)
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- Beyond Sanity Since 1971
*SNORTS*
This just keeps getting funnier. With Shirley's access to the Golden Garden, I wonder how much access there will be to Dragon's storage files. New 'Droids' for her to utilize in defending her 'children'.
That these new droids will be Force Sensitive should be a given.
That these new droids could be used against Dark Lords would be fucking hilarious.
This just keeps getting funnier. With Shirley's access to the Golden Garden, I wonder how much access there will be to Dragon's storage files. New 'Droids' for her to utilize in defending her 'children'.
That these new droids will be Force Sensitive should be a given.
That these new droids could be used against Dark Lords would be fucking hilarious.
Tisaku
Head Chief Thinkomancer
Yeah, this is kind of the norm for him.
Don't Date Buildings, They Like Commitment.
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Seriously, ANYTHING he does while surrounded by an active mess of Force had the potential to go odd.
And she wants an avatar because her Master is human...oid. Humanish. Mostly.
Honestly, she just likes to settle down and raise a few billion force users. Adam is a tad scared of commitment, at least in comparison.
The non-tinker stuff would do alright after carefully swapping out some materials for the stronger local stuff, but it would be best to do a design jam session or two with the local junk first.
Might find something neat!
Thanks, fixed.
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Is it just a rule, that he needs to create a major supernatural entity in each dimension he visits?
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Might I suggest calling them ladies instead of girls......those two are adults afterall
My House is a Very Very Fine House.
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Bene woke slowly, which was unusual for her.
A life of hard work and filled with self control had trained her to either sleep when desired or awake instantly, ready to face the world.
So this lazy drifting awake experience was very odd to her.
As was the room.
...Where was she again?
It was hard to feel fear or nervousness because the Force flowed here. No sense of danger, no warnings... the energy felt odd though. Amused. Entertained. Wandering.
And behind it, so much more clear than before, was the Dark. And it was hungry, and it was hunting and it was... finding her surprise to be amusing as well.
The strange experience of feeling both the Light and Dark share opinions on something made it hard for her to work up a good batch of terror and panicked reactions.
Then the door to the white room opened with a hiss and little Von entered. "Bene! You finally woke up!"
She slid to her feet in front of the girl, a quick check verified her saber was on a small table before it flew to her hand. "Report."
Von stood straight... before slumping. "Uh. Everything went odd."
Her confusion was very obvious. "Start from the Sith's attack. I lost focus after they somehow injected the room with something... I think a hallucinogen. Saw some sort of flaming corpse before everything went dark."
Von nodded. "Right. Well, the blue fire turned into a robot shaped like a skeleton, and all the Sith and you and Zett got knocked out."
What?
Von fidgeted. "Then things got weird. Variance, the skeleton robot I mean, filled the Temple with that same blue fire you saw. It was only warm to us, but it could burn through the walls and I think the bodies and stuff. Didn't feel like the force, but it was alive somehow."
Living fire. Well, if it was a Sith ability, they could have burned them all as well... so maybe a third party? "Please focus Von. Where are the others, where are we, are we safe, and are we being followed?"
Von nodded. "All the Younglings and Zett are with us here, which is a new area within the Temple that was constructed today. There are still military forces outside, but anyone trying to enter or attack have been burned alive or consumed. Apparently they also attempted an orbital strike, but none of us noticed. Variance says the Temple flames ate the attack."
What the Force had she missed!?
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Adam kept an eye on the kids wandering around the Library, their tiny bodies watching the walls shift and grow, lights flicker into existence and function. Several stations sized for their tiny bodies had formed, and many were browsing the internet, sending messages to apparently worried Jedi Masters and Padawans across the galaxy, and following the local news stations.
Meanwhile, Adam himself had formed extra skeletal arms from his suit, and was holding parts to an extra power converter and three separate capacitors commonly used among hand sized devices. 'Technomancy' had already scanned the things thoroughly, but he found actual examination to be fulfilling even as his mind made theoretical modifications.
These things were amazing! More so because they were near lossless during power conversion and power storage, and because they were used almost everywhere. The converter could take nearly any kind of energy with the right attachments or adapters (Chemical, thermal, solar, motion, radioactive, you name it) and produce this strange form of power. One he hadn't run into before.
It looked and felt like an electrical charge, mostly, but it also interacted slightly with the Force, with magic, and according to Simmy a dozen other energies. It was almost a liquid, liquid potential energy.
The capacitors as a result didn't work with electricity itself at all, not like the ones on Earth Bet did, but with this strange potential energy juice. It was why recharging the capacitors was a near instant process, why they loss almost no power when left on shelves for long periods of time, and so forth. Together, power could be generated SOMEWHERE and then moved around the galaxy, ready to use when needed.
Anyway, this potential energy could easily be converted into electricity, forms of heat or sound (used to generate projectiles for various guns or weaponry), or that strange almost plasma generated by light sabers. It was used in blasters and vehicles and droids and drink machines... it was everywhere.
Having almost a single form of energy conversion and storage, he could not make much improvement on the things. The entire galaxy of scientists had done lifetimes of research on it already, and even with the advanced 'Research', 'Conversion', and 'Technomancy' tools at his and Simmy's disposal, the final results after careful study and testing only improved the products by 2.1% for the converter and 0.14% for the capacitors. Maybe more improvements once he got some good labs running some material testing with all the new stuff he had run into online.
True, if other researchers here discovered Adam's improvements there would be a scientific uproar, improvements hadn't been discovered for over three hundred standard cycles by now, but to Adam this low level of advancement just showed off how damn impressive the technology base was really.
And while all that was great, and power couplings acted like power lines did for standard electricity back on his own planets, the actual source of the energy itself was... disappointing.
Mostly the source of power came from very massive reactors and generators on remote planets, ones that consumed highly energetic liquids or dense gasses and abused the vast size of the generators for efficiency gains. They could also generate energy very slowly, because of how well the capacitors could save and store the energy, so some places would trickle charge continent size devices to produce the power needed.
Oh, the schematics he got from Shirley were very interesting, and the high end schematics (probably way old compared to the competitive stuff hidden from the free market) blew his own stuff out of the water thanks to advanced materials he had not run into yet.
Still, he was hoping for some sort of perpetual motion machine or something that pulled power from empty dimensions or something awesome and geeky like that. The idea that it was mostly amazingly advanced steam engines and combustion even here in a SciFi future setting was somehow disappointing.
Simmy was still sucking information from Shirley's data feed, focused mainly on medical data, material science, operating systems and software, and droid designs, and it was a huge help.
The medical stuff should help his 'Recovery' safely heal others without damaging their connection to the Force, hopefully help him figure out how to safely create or improve connection to the Force, etc. Possibly turn random people into potential Jedi as he wandered the streets or whatever.
Software would help 'Technomancy' and 'Research' advance a bit, and had already offered some very interesting design concepts he had never heard of before. Droid stuff was obvious, and would be needed before heading home to achieve his objectives.
But Material Sciences was the real gold mine. He had to cheat with his Flame Metal and Null Metal to get his superconductors, resistors, and such... but the new alloys, unknown crystal and metallic components... Simmy was helping his power to experiment and determine the advantages, but in the end it would likely be astounding.
Point was, she felt his frustration over the lack of something more useful after all his research, and gently pushed a data packet forward.
Adam's eyes bulged wide.
This... This was gold. Pure value. Brilliant!
Simmy had just bestowed into his greedy fingers some probably illegally obtained schematics for something called the EVS construction droid, or the 'Urban Renewal Droid' as it was more commonly known.
Forty stories tall, the massive spider/crab robot was basically a building that slowly moved through a region and rebuilt the area. It looked terrifying, and generated so much heat that it glowed to the heavens even during the day. But that didn't matter, he wouldn't be building one but more scavenging it for parts and ideas. Glorious ideas.
The front of the monster relied on relatively tiny 'demolition obtic clusters', although they were so large mostly to be cheaper to build and replace easily. They were formed from a combination of scanning devices and sensors that were used to find valuable resources and structural weakness as the spider moved forward and to verify that the structures were matching to master blueprints for that section of the city.
If a change was needed, the claws would break the structures down, use the massive jaw to try and recycle the more valuable components, while it shoved the rest into massive hoppers for relocation or destruction.
The schematics alone were fascinating, showing examples of Star Wars design principles and methodologies. It included tons of specialized robotic arms for destruction and refining, including implosion wrecking balls which seemed to use capacitors to simulate gravitational pull to reduce mess during use, plasma cutters for rapid chunk dismantlement, collector trowels that acted like tractor beams for larger material clusters, debris nets that handled particles and such, electrical claws for the smallest debris or radioactive materials, and more.
More importantly though, this was the ILLEGAL schematics for the monstrosity, and included military restricted components internally... specifically the Molecular Furnace, Smelting Pods, and the Atomic Incinerator.
Smelting Pods created a small system that suspended materials in a void, melted them to components, could separate them to a ridiculously high purity rating, then combine them into alloys that were impossible to smelt safely or in specific patterns due to fluid flow and structural changes during cooling from other methods. Some of the Star Wars materials that were impossible elsewhere required such advanced control during heating and cooling, far beyond simple application of magnetic fields or special application of rotational forces usable on Earth Bet.
That alone was worth this trip, as all materials Adam already had could benefit from more control during the construction and molding process.
The Atomic Incinerator was similar to a device he had stumbled upon back on other worlds. A 'Plasma Arc Waste Recycling Plant' used electricity to generate a plasma flame which deconstructed materials like trash, collected the combustible components and used it to generate the power needed to generate more plasma. It was currently too inefficient to generate power without large amounts of trash, but getting rid of trash was the goal to begin with, and the nature of deconstruction meant that radioactive and dangerous trash could easily be handled safely with this method.
However, the Atomic Incinerator was more tested, massively more efficient, and basically converted any matter into slightly less raw power. Useful in a society with all these asteroid belts and empty planets.
But most of all, most valuable, and most illegal to share with anyone without dozens of contracts and threats and such...
The Molecular Furnace.
Capable of converting matter into raw components... then reforming it into other materials based on schematics.
Unlike the other designs, this one was NOT even REMOTELY optimized.
And it was clear why. The science was hard, the math was something even Dragon would pause over for a few seconds, and the components were fragile and easily damaged...
But the ability to convert enough matter into some amount of whatever you needed was too powerful, even so.
There were no restrictions. The fuel for star ships and massive reactors had astonishingly large costs for creation, but that was all.
Vaguely Adam felt memories of something called the 'Star Forge' that existed somewhere in the sky. A massive automated shipyard that converted a star's energy into raw mass and enhanced by the force itself, able to build fleets of ships. The cost would have been way beyond making a dozen more standard shipyards in a more reliable and standard way... but there were more than enough stars out there with no planets. Sources of power that could be used for millennia.
He frowned. Didn't that one ship get corrupted by the Dark and then destroy an empire or something?
Right, don't try and manipulate the Force into being base labor workers. It would get revenge somehow.
Point was, THIS would allow him to generate impossible materials in Realms that couldn't produce them naturally. At a cost. A high, very high, energy cost. It would take a third of the ocean on planet Earth Bet just to make a single star ship if he tried to only use the furnace. Still, the Molecular Furnace, even without modifications, refinements, or improvements could easily recycle massive amounts of rock or whatever into something needed but very rare, like rare earth metals or whatever.
Heck, he could make profits by having other Nations sell him nuclear waste and stuff to use as fuel. Those places actually paid other nations to try and store the mess somewhere safely, or at least farther away from home. And to him, it would be raw profit that would earn even more raw profit.
He was pulled from his eager thoughts as another gadget floated onto his research desk, a brown haired woman smiling. "Master, here is a small gas cylinder containing some more fuel samples. The rest are too dangerous to move, but I transmitted the in depth examinations and scans to your server and Simmy."
He grinned, skeletal smile bringing her to smile as well. "Thank you, Shirley. Did the Magma Generators live up to expectations?"
She bounced a bit. "Better than we hoped! Your thermal generators handle power loads so well that Dark side and Light side energies can redirect excess heat from external attacks or consumed intruders and devices directly inside!"
His thoughts bounced back toward the 'Star Forge'... hopefully the Force was helping Shirley out willingly.
She gestured, and one of the library holographic emitters showed a graph. "I haven't even had to touch my own reserves yet thanks to the energy that those solar absorption panels you refined from my schematics came online. I still need materials and raw supplies, but power wise I should be fine for a long time."
He frowned. "What is your plan for that, by the way? The supplies I mean."
She sighed, crossing her arms. "I am trying to make do with materials I find as I consume downwards, but the older stuff is of lower quality and lower quantities. I think I may have to get an outside supply fairly soon, or I would begin threatening my integrity by using substandard parts or consuming too much foundation. And I don't want to make the rest of the area collapse just to ensure my continued growth. Not yet at least."
Mentally he glanced at the 'Molecular Furnace'... and decided no. If found or mentioned, it would bring too much trouble to the Temple. It was BEYOND classified after all. And if he gave a version after improvements, it could cause multiple wars as everyone focused on the technology based 'Conversion' tool. No planet sized crystal computers needed, buy now!
Adam hummed... and snapped a bony hand, his other eight limbs reforming into his suit. "Got it. Hey, Kaa!"
A massive blue snake head seemed to fade into existence as it leaned over the two, catching Shirley off guard.
Adam pulled at... something. And it touched the floor... before pulsing blue... then white.
Kaa's bright blue scales drained, bright black lines edged each plate of protection as the scale itself drained into a dull white, near metal appearance. The eyes glowed white and the fangs were now empty pitch dripping with hunger.
He looked at the stunned woman building. "Alright, Kaa is now under your command. He can change shape to a certain extent, thinner and longer or thicker and shorter. His insides can form into seating, cargo securing stations, or liquid transporting containers. I also included some pretty flexible robotic arm designs he can form, to allow easy loading and unloading of stuff into and from your domain."
A few of the recent schematics were quickly uploaded. "I also added some refinery equipment inside that he can form, so anything he consumes while tunneling can be converted into something useful for you. Hopefully."
Adam watched Shirley wave an arm, making Kaa boogie back and forth in a snake disco. "Right, so my suggestion is to use Kaa to tunnel to a shipping location, have Simmy order stuff so it will not lead back to us, then pick up your orders from anonymous drop offs and tunnel it back home."
And now both woman and snake were dancing. And some of the kids, too young to be pushed into meditation all the time, had started joining in.
He sighed. "Never mind."
Ignoring the dance off in progress, he went back to the power generation options. While easy power storage and transfer could theoretically handle any drones, droids, or computers he built in the future, he wanted an actual generator palm sized or smaller... for emergencies if nothing else. And Simmy was happy enough taking over the Molecular Furnace project, after she fixed the more obvious things they could work together on it later.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Emperor Palpatine, officially titled such now, was pushed between a desire to slaughter and a need for speed.
He had no time to even curse. Every moment was scrambled trying to recover ANYTHING from this absolute horror show of a failing.
Clearly, the hold out suicide move that filled the Jedi Temple with fire had also sent some sort of undetectable electronic signal to the Jedi forces. It wasn't through the force, he was SURE he would have caught that. Now however, a third of his forces had either abandoned duty, went awol, or had suffered from sabotage or outright attack from the remaining groups.
Supplies had been both confiscated or damaged, required routes for emergencies or attack had been filled with debris or mines, messages pretending to be HIM and other high levels of command had been fraudulently modified, sent to the wrong locations, or even duplicated and sent more than once.
Everything was in chaos, and he had to burn dozens of contingencies and backup plans just to stay on top of the collapsing structure. Agents had been caught or killed, fleets hidden for future plans had been uncovered or actively pushed into conflict, and one of his PR advisors had been caught molesting some sort of shrimp like alien. Or asking for directions. Either way, that moron was in jail and so Sidious had to try and reorganize his press teams on top of it all.
Worst of all, the largest amount of governmental restructuring was STILL UNDERWAY. Chancellor Palpatine had spent years creating committee issues, putting people who hated each other into teams, collecting the slothful and corrupt to be used as foils or advantage.
He had not had time to kill the puppets and roadblocks put in place by himself yet. That had been pleasurably scheduled over the next few days, and leisure did NOT EXIST NOW. The issues he had deliberately put in place to use as examples for why HE should be in charge... were now causing HIM problems, and the schadenfreude was not appreciated.
An alert brought his fractured senses to focus. Good, the clones got Vader conscious. The fool better have some damn good explanations for what happened today. "Lord Vader, report. What happened in that damn Temple!?"
The black armor looked... tilted? "Ah don't like sand."
...What? "Commander?"
The clone stood next to the General. "Sir, I believe the mental attack that Lord Vader had suffered has affected him more profoundly than we expected. The situation is under control, no further expansion has occurred and whatever methods the Jedi used to modify their walls and fortifications has not progressed any further for the last thirty minutes or so."
What the kriff!? A dozen lights on his console told him that things were NOT getting better, and this stupid situation was not worth his attention. "Keep a perimeter but apply your forces to the groups working on secondary objectives. Progress?"
The clone nodded. "All on schedule, three attacks are almost 43% ahead in fact. No problems sir."
Some part of him drank deep, the idea of ANYTHING going right a balm to his soul. "Carry on. Contact me if situation changes for the worse, and get Lord Vader to a full medical station. I want a complete analysis of his condition sent to my people."
He disconnected, moving to ANOTHER conflict showing his plans on fire and his people under attack. He was grateful that he had left the Shroud operating, the original concept was to drop the restrictions and let the few surviving Jedi realize how far they had fallen and how foolish resistance would be... but at least they were being oppressed even as they struggled against the future.
These fools would fall before him like all worms should.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Bene exited Zett's room, the Padawan snoring without care in another room larger and far more comfortable than their old residences in the Temple. Von followed along, having already directed her to check on the other Younglings and verify that at least no one else had died since running into a burning skeleton robot.
She calmed.
There is no emotion, there is peace.
A massive white serpent passed through the hall in front of her, chased by some giggling children with training light sabers.
Was confusion an emotion?
A life of hard work and filled with self control had trained her to either sleep when desired or awake instantly, ready to face the world.
So this lazy drifting awake experience was very odd to her.
As was the room.
...Where was she again?
It was hard to feel fear or nervousness because the Force flowed here. No sense of danger, no warnings... the energy felt odd though. Amused. Entertained. Wandering.
And behind it, so much more clear than before, was the Dark. And it was hungry, and it was hunting and it was... finding her surprise to be amusing as well.
The strange experience of feeling both the Light and Dark share opinions on something made it hard for her to work up a good batch of terror and panicked reactions.
Then the door to the white room opened with a hiss and little Von entered. "Bene! You finally woke up!"
She slid to her feet in front of the girl, a quick check verified her saber was on a small table before it flew to her hand. "Report."
Von stood straight... before slumping. "Uh. Everything went odd."
Her confusion was very obvious. "Start from the Sith's attack. I lost focus after they somehow injected the room with something... I think a hallucinogen. Saw some sort of flaming corpse before everything went dark."
Von nodded. "Right. Well, the blue fire turned into a robot shaped like a skeleton, and all the Sith and you and Zett got knocked out."
What?
Von fidgeted. "Then things got weird. Variance, the skeleton robot I mean, filled the Temple with that same blue fire you saw. It was only warm to us, but it could burn through the walls and I think the bodies and stuff. Didn't feel like the force, but it was alive somehow."
Living fire. Well, if it was a Sith ability, they could have burned them all as well... so maybe a third party? "Please focus Von. Where are the others, where are we, are we safe, and are we being followed?"
Von nodded. "All the Younglings and Zett are with us here, which is a new area within the Temple that was constructed today. There are still military forces outside, but anyone trying to enter or attack have been burned alive or consumed. Apparently they also attempted an orbital strike, but none of us noticed. Variance says the Temple flames ate the attack."
What the Force had she missed!?
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Adam kept an eye on the kids wandering around the Library, their tiny bodies watching the walls shift and grow, lights flicker into existence and function. Several stations sized for their tiny bodies had formed, and many were browsing the internet, sending messages to apparently worried Jedi Masters and Padawans across the galaxy, and following the local news stations.
Meanwhile, Adam himself had formed extra skeletal arms from his suit, and was holding parts to an extra power converter and three separate capacitors commonly used among hand sized devices. 'Technomancy' had already scanned the things thoroughly, but he found actual examination to be fulfilling even as his mind made theoretical modifications.
These things were amazing! More so because they were near lossless during power conversion and power storage, and because they were used almost everywhere. The converter could take nearly any kind of energy with the right attachments or adapters (Chemical, thermal, solar, motion, radioactive, you name it) and produce this strange form of power. One he hadn't run into before.
It looked and felt like an electrical charge, mostly, but it also interacted slightly with the Force, with magic, and according to Simmy a dozen other energies. It was almost a liquid, liquid potential energy.
The capacitors as a result didn't work with electricity itself at all, not like the ones on Earth Bet did, but with this strange potential energy juice. It was why recharging the capacitors was a near instant process, why they loss almost no power when left on shelves for long periods of time, and so forth. Together, power could be generated SOMEWHERE and then moved around the galaxy, ready to use when needed.
Anyway, this potential energy could easily be converted into electricity, forms of heat or sound (used to generate projectiles for various guns or weaponry), or that strange almost plasma generated by light sabers. It was used in blasters and vehicles and droids and drink machines... it was everywhere.
Having almost a single form of energy conversion and storage, he could not make much improvement on the things. The entire galaxy of scientists had done lifetimes of research on it already, and even with the advanced 'Research', 'Conversion', and 'Technomancy' tools at his and Simmy's disposal, the final results after careful study and testing only improved the products by 2.1% for the converter and 0.14% for the capacitors. Maybe more improvements once he got some good labs running some material testing with all the new stuff he had run into online.
True, if other researchers here discovered Adam's improvements there would be a scientific uproar, improvements hadn't been discovered for over three hundred standard cycles by now, but to Adam this low level of advancement just showed off how damn impressive the technology base was really.
And while all that was great, and power couplings acted like power lines did for standard electricity back on his own planets, the actual source of the energy itself was... disappointing.
Mostly the source of power came from very massive reactors and generators on remote planets, ones that consumed highly energetic liquids or dense gasses and abused the vast size of the generators for efficiency gains. They could also generate energy very slowly, because of how well the capacitors could save and store the energy, so some places would trickle charge continent size devices to produce the power needed.
Oh, the schematics he got from Shirley were very interesting, and the high end schematics (probably way old compared to the competitive stuff hidden from the free market) blew his own stuff out of the water thanks to advanced materials he had not run into yet.
Still, he was hoping for some sort of perpetual motion machine or something that pulled power from empty dimensions or something awesome and geeky like that. The idea that it was mostly amazingly advanced steam engines and combustion even here in a SciFi future setting was somehow disappointing.
Simmy was still sucking information from Shirley's data feed, focused mainly on medical data, material science, operating systems and software, and droid designs, and it was a huge help.
The medical stuff should help his 'Recovery' safely heal others without damaging their connection to the Force, hopefully help him figure out how to safely create or improve connection to the Force, etc. Possibly turn random people into potential Jedi as he wandered the streets or whatever.
Software would help 'Technomancy' and 'Research' advance a bit, and had already offered some very interesting design concepts he had never heard of before. Droid stuff was obvious, and would be needed before heading home to achieve his objectives.
But Material Sciences was the real gold mine. He had to cheat with his Flame Metal and Null Metal to get his superconductors, resistors, and such... but the new alloys, unknown crystal and metallic components... Simmy was helping his power to experiment and determine the advantages, but in the end it would likely be astounding.
Point was, she felt his frustration over the lack of something more useful after all his research, and gently pushed a data packet forward.
Adam's eyes bulged wide.
This... This was gold. Pure value. Brilliant!
Simmy had just bestowed into his greedy fingers some probably illegally obtained schematics for something called the EVS construction droid, or the 'Urban Renewal Droid' as it was more commonly known.
Forty stories tall, the massive spider/crab robot was basically a building that slowly moved through a region and rebuilt the area. It looked terrifying, and generated so much heat that it glowed to the heavens even during the day. But that didn't matter, he wouldn't be building one but more scavenging it for parts and ideas. Glorious ideas.
The front of the monster relied on relatively tiny 'demolition obtic clusters', although they were so large mostly to be cheaper to build and replace easily. They were formed from a combination of scanning devices and sensors that were used to find valuable resources and structural weakness as the spider moved forward and to verify that the structures were matching to master blueprints for that section of the city.
If a change was needed, the claws would break the structures down, use the massive jaw to try and recycle the more valuable components, while it shoved the rest into massive hoppers for relocation or destruction.
The schematics alone were fascinating, showing examples of Star Wars design principles and methodologies. It included tons of specialized robotic arms for destruction and refining, including implosion wrecking balls which seemed to use capacitors to simulate gravitational pull to reduce mess during use, plasma cutters for rapid chunk dismantlement, collector trowels that acted like tractor beams for larger material clusters, debris nets that handled particles and such, electrical claws for the smallest debris or radioactive materials, and more.
More importantly though, this was the ILLEGAL schematics for the monstrosity, and included military restricted components internally... specifically the Molecular Furnace, Smelting Pods, and the Atomic Incinerator.
Smelting Pods created a small system that suspended materials in a void, melted them to components, could separate them to a ridiculously high purity rating, then combine them into alloys that were impossible to smelt safely or in specific patterns due to fluid flow and structural changes during cooling from other methods. Some of the Star Wars materials that were impossible elsewhere required such advanced control during heating and cooling, far beyond simple application of magnetic fields or special application of rotational forces usable on Earth Bet.
That alone was worth this trip, as all materials Adam already had could benefit from more control during the construction and molding process.
The Atomic Incinerator was similar to a device he had stumbled upon back on other worlds. A 'Plasma Arc Waste Recycling Plant' used electricity to generate a plasma flame which deconstructed materials like trash, collected the combustible components and used it to generate the power needed to generate more plasma. It was currently too inefficient to generate power without large amounts of trash, but getting rid of trash was the goal to begin with, and the nature of deconstruction meant that radioactive and dangerous trash could easily be handled safely with this method.
However, the Atomic Incinerator was more tested, massively more efficient, and basically converted any matter into slightly less raw power. Useful in a society with all these asteroid belts and empty planets.
But most of all, most valuable, and most illegal to share with anyone without dozens of contracts and threats and such...
The Molecular Furnace.
Capable of converting matter into raw components... then reforming it into other materials based on schematics.
Unlike the other designs, this one was NOT even REMOTELY optimized.
And it was clear why. The science was hard, the math was something even Dragon would pause over for a few seconds, and the components were fragile and easily damaged...
But the ability to convert enough matter into some amount of whatever you needed was too powerful, even so.
There were no restrictions. The fuel for star ships and massive reactors had astonishingly large costs for creation, but that was all.
Vaguely Adam felt memories of something called the 'Star Forge' that existed somewhere in the sky. A massive automated shipyard that converted a star's energy into raw mass and enhanced by the force itself, able to build fleets of ships. The cost would have been way beyond making a dozen more standard shipyards in a more reliable and standard way... but there were more than enough stars out there with no planets. Sources of power that could be used for millennia.
He frowned. Didn't that one ship get corrupted by the Dark and then destroy an empire or something?
Right, don't try and manipulate the Force into being base labor workers. It would get revenge somehow.
Point was, THIS would allow him to generate impossible materials in Realms that couldn't produce them naturally. At a cost. A high, very high, energy cost. It would take a third of the ocean on planet Earth Bet just to make a single star ship if he tried to only use the furnace. Still, the Molecular Furnace, even without modifications, refinements, or improvements could easily recycle massive amounts of rock or whatever into something needed but very rare, like rare earth metals or whatever.
Heck, he could make profits by having other Nations sell him nuclear waste and stuff to use as fuel. Those places actually paid other nations to try and store the mess somewhere safely, or at least farther away from home. And to him, it would be raw profit that would earn even more raw profit.
He was pulled from his eager thoughts as another gadget floated onto his research desk, a brown haired woman smiling. "Master, here is a small gas cylinder containing some more fuel samples. The rest are too dangerous to move, but I transmitted the in depth examinations and scans to your server and Simmy."
He grinned, skeletal smile bringing her to smile as well. "Thank you, Shirley. Did the Magma Generators live up to expectations?"
She bounced a bit. "Better than we hoped! Your thermal generators handle power loads so well that Dark side and Light side energies can redirect excess heat from external attacks or consumed intruders and devices directly inside!"
His thoughts bounced back toward the 'Star Forge'... hopefully the Force was helping Shirley out willingly.
She gestured, and one of the library holographic emitters showed a graph. "I haven't even had to touch my own reserves yet thanks to the energy that those solar absorption panels you refined from my schematics came online. I still need materials and raw supplies, but power wise I should be fine for a long time."
He frowned. "What is your plan for that, by the way? The supplies I mean."
She sighed, crossing her arms. "I am trying to make do with materials I find as I consume downwards, but the older stuff is of lower quality and lower quantities. I think I may have to get an outside supply fairly soon, or I would begin threatening my integrity by using substandard parts or consuming too much foundation. And I don't want to make the rest of the area collapse just to ensure my continued growth. Not yet at least."
Mentally he glanced at the 'Molecular Furnace'... and decided no. If found or mentioned, it would bring too much trouble to the Temple. It was BEYOND classified after all. And if he gave a version after improvements, it could cause multiple wars as everyone focused on the technology based 'Conversion' tool. No planet sized crystal computers needed, buy now!
Adam hummed... and snapped a bony hand, his other eight limbs reforming into his suit. "Got it. Hey, Kaa!"
A massive blue snake head seemed to fade into existence as it leaned over the two, catching Shirley off guard.
Adam pulled at... something. And it touched the floor... before pulsing blue... then white.
Kaa's bright blue scales drained, bright black lines edged each plate of protection as the scale itself drained into a dull white, near metal appearance. The eyes glowed white and the fangs were now empty pitch dripping with hunger.
He looked at the stunned woman building. "Alright, Kaa is now under your command. He can change shape to a certain extent, thinner and longer or thicker and shorter. His insides can form into seating, cargo securing stations, or liquid transporting containers. I also included some pretty flexible robotic arm designs he can form, to allow easy loading and unloading of stuff into and from your domain."
A few of the recent schematics were quickly uploaded. "I also added some refinery equipment inside that he can form, so anything he consumes while tunneling can be converted into something useful for you. Hopefully."
Adam watched Shirley wave an arm, making Kaa boogie back and forth in a snake disco. "Right, so my suggestion is to use Kaa to tunnel to a shipping location, have Simmy order stuff so it will not lead back to us, then pick up your orders from anonymous drop offs and tunnel it back home."
And now both woman and snake were dancing. And some of the kids, too young to be pushed into meditation all the time, had started joining in.
He sighed. "Never mind."
Ignoring the dance off in progress, he went back to the power generation options. While easy power storage and transfer could theoretically handle any drones, droids, or computers he built in the future, he wanted an actual generator palm sized or smaller... for emergencies if nothing else. And Simmy was happy enough taking over the Molecular Furnace project, after she fixed the more obvious things they could work together on it later.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Emperor Palpatine, officially titled such now, was pushed between a desire to slaughter and a need for speed.
He had no time to even curse. Every moment was scrambled trying to recover ANYTHING from this absolute horror show of a failing.
Clearly, the hold out suicide move that filled the Jedi Temple with fire had also sent some sort of undetectable electronic signal to the Jedi forces. It wasn't through the force, he was SURE he would have caught that. Now however, a third of his forces had either abandoned duty, went awol, or had suffered from sabotage or outright attack from the remaining groups.
Supplies had been both confiscated or damaged, required routes for emergencies or attack had been filled with debris or mines, messages pretending to be HIM and other high levels of command had been fraudulently modified, sent to the wrong locations, or even duplicated and sent more than once.
Everything was in chaos, and he had to burn dozens of contingencies and backup plans just to stay on top of the collapsing structure. Agents had been caught or killed, fleets hidden for future plans had been uncovered or actively pushed into conflict, and one of his PR advisors had been caught molesting some sort of shrimp like alien. Or asking for directions. Either way, that moron was in jail and so Sidious had to try and reorganize his press teams on top of it all.
Worst of all, the largest amount of governmental restructuring was STILL UNDERWAY. Chancellor Palpatine had spent years creating committee issues, putting people who hated each other into teams, collecting the slothful and corrupt to be used as foils or advantage.
He had not had time to kill the puppets and roadblocks put in place by himself yet. That had been pleasurably scheduled over the next few days, and leisure did NOT EXIST NOW. The issues he had deliberately put in place to use as examples for why HE should be in charge... were now causing HIM problems, and the schadenfreude was not appreciated.
An alert brought his fractured senses to focus. Good, the clones got Vader conscious. The fool better have some damn good explanations for what happened today. "Lord Vader, report. What happened in that damn Temple!?"
The black armor looked... tilted? "Ah don't like sand."
...What? "Commander?"
The clone stood next to the General. "Sir, I believe the mental attack that Lord Vader had suffered has affected him more profoundly than we expected. The situation is under control, no further expansion has occurred and whatever methods the Jedi used to modify their walls and fortifications has not progressed any further for the last thirty minutes or so."
What the kriff!? A dozen lights on his console told him that things were NOT getting better, and this stupid situation was not worth his attention. "Keep a perimeter but apply your forces to the groups working on secondary objectives. Progress?"
The clone nodded. "All on schedule, three attacks are almost 43% ahead in fact. No problems sir."
Some part of him drank deep, the idea of ANYTHING going right a balm to his soul. "Carry on. Contact me if situation changes for the worse, and get Lord Vader to a full medical station. I want a complete analysis of his condition sent to my people."
He disconnected, moving to ANOTHER conflict showing his plans on fire and his people under attack. He was grateful that he had left the Shroud operating, the original concept was to drop the restrictions and let the few surviving Jedi realize how far they had fallen and how foolish resistance would be... but at least they were being oppressed even as they struggled against the future.
These fools would fall before him like all worms should.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Bene exited Zett's room, the Padawan snoring without care in another room larger and far more comfortable than their old residences in the Temple. Von followed along, having already directed her to check on the other Younglings and verify that at least no one else had died since running into a burning skeleton robot.
She calmed.
There is no emotion, there is peace.
A massive white serpent passed through the hall in front of her, chased by some giggling children with training light sabers.
Was confusion an emotion?
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I can't believe it took so long to realize it, but how would Sans and Papyrus react to Adam?
Undertale?
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San's would have no Bones about it and Papyrus would ask about the many types of Spaghetti seen over his travels.
The camaraderie would fill him with determination.
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- Australia
OH MY GOD, YES! He SO needs to visit the Undertale-verse and meet them.
Magpy
Very Curious
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- Australia, but actually USA (or is it?)
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- He/Him
Oh no. Sideous. Don't give in to the fast side. It's too dangerous.
Gotta go fast.
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LostArchivist
Sane, unfortunately.
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Oh no. All he needs is one good generator, and he can go full PA commander now. This is a suggestion, not a warning.
Interesting analysis of their tech. Those are some seriously bullshit construction techniques, but in hindsight it should have been obvious that they had something like that.
If I read that right, did Palpatine block the Force for himself too? That would explain why he's scrambling to figure out what just happened.
Seriously, Star Wars Tech is nuts.
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Oh no. All he needs is one good generator, and he can go full PA commander now. This is a suggestion, not a warning.
Interesting analysis of their tech. Those are some seriously bullshit construction techniques, but in hindsight it should have been obvious that they had something like that.
If I read that right, did Palpatine block the Force for himself too? That would explain why he's scrambling to figure out what just happened.
First typo fixed, second one was flat out the wrong word, but fixed.
And all those devices? Got from actual sources. Seriously, there is some interesting tech hidden in this realm.
As for Palpatine, he is on the planet with the hungry Temple. He is STILL not getting a good connection to the force right now, he is just too busy to really notice it... and neither side of the force is that eager to grab his attention at the moment.
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draconix
Very Intermittent Author
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- Belize
I think it should be "and forth" , actually.
And he's using an ordered darkside construct to block the light side.
Jonn Wolfe
(Verified Sarcastic) (Not a Wolf)
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- Beyond Sanity Since 1971
I love how much chaos has been sown. This is awesome!
Oh, you bastard. You actually went there.
Technically no. However, bureaucracies tend to be powered by it, with red tape being both the generators as well as the conduits.
[EDIT] SPELLING!
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- Somewhere in Space
To be fair, there dather is kinda a jerk. A role model would help so much in that kind of situation. Pretty sure we can blame the power of Resets on Gaster.
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- Canada
Oh, you bastard. You actually went there.
I take it you think there was some Gumping going on? 👟🏃♂️💨
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- Here
The Dangers of Unbalanced Power Creation.
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Heh, there is a bit of an issue though. The Force is a mixture of faith, magic, and soul energy, maybe some other stuff.
Not that it matters TOO much. But until Adam TRIES to make a power, we aren't sure how it will end up. Will all abilities be equally easy? Or equivalently difficult?
Right now, his powers balance between CrystalDimensonalTech/Tech, Magic/Energy, and Faith/Soul.
The rule of 3 applied when he had three very unstable soul fragments trying to build more abilities... but now it is a fishbowl wrapped up with 'Bind', so stability isn't an issue.
If it WAS then capturing whatever Lung turned into would have gone very wrong.
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