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Devastation Comes In Big Packages [Planetary Annihilation/Multicross SI]

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24 – Buying In
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    • 24 – Buying In
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    Oh~

    When whenever life gets you down~

    Keeps you wearing a frown~

    And the gravy train has left you behiiiiiiind~

    And when you're all out of hope…down at the end of your rope…and nobody's there to throw you a liiiiine~

    If you ever get so low, that you don't know which way to go…come on and talk a walk in my shoes….never worry about 'bout a thing, got the world on a string~

    'Cause I've got the cure for all of my blues~

    (All of my bluuuuuues~)

    I take a look at my enormous diiiish and my troubles start a'meltin' away~

    ….heh.

    Seriously though. With the judicious moving of the Mega Dish I've covered Faith in extractors and generators faster than the Vengeance or forty fabricator bots could ever hope to do. Honestly at this point I don't know if it's grown completely redundant yet. With the Mega Yard and the Mega Dish taking care of all my ludicrously gigantic fabrication device needs the Vengeance is just one pip on my unit cap that I don't really need that much anymore.

    And, as I've learned ever so painfully at this point, every unit pip is more precious to me than water or gold or metal or energy.

    …Nah. I'll keep the Vengeance as a super deadly repair tug I guess. If any of my stuff gets too badly damaged it'll need an outside force to repair it. If the Mega Yard and the Mega Dish end up getting damaged at the same time I'd be screwed without the Vengeance around. It's not like my Commander body, which has been sitting in the almost nonexistent atmosphere of Drich for…whoofa almost ten months now, is going to be able to do anything. By now my poor former body has nearly become one with the landscape with all of the dirt and dust covering it.

    With the Mega Dish and the Cry of Gimli tugging it around I'm pretty sure that I can utterly cover Hub in extractors and generators now in a far shorter time than I would ever have managed before. My economy by this point is basically constantly expanding at a ludicrous rate…just how I like it. Of course since I haven't actually been building that much while I focus on being Theta the single droid rather than Theta the overarching machine entity I've just been bumping against my resource cap far too often.

    Still, the fix is simple. I just add in storage buildings right next to my multi-kilometer swarms of building production that the Mega Dish is crafting. I even have the Vengeance start plopping down hundreds of storage buildings on planets that have already been covered. After a few minutes – and thousands of buildings later – I stop that entirely. I have no need to be using space that my generators could be filling between extractors…when I can just build things in space.

    To the Mega Yard!

    Instead of a Resource Cube sitting at a single kilometer by kilometer cube of slung together Resource Cores…I'll make a Storage Cube. In this case I'll make them…three kilometers by three kilometers of storage buildings of both metal and energy varieties. Unlike the Resource Cubes they take far less time to build due to the resources involved. In almost no time at all whatsoever I've got fifteen gigantic Storage Cubes on their way out of the Mega Yard. Still to keep them from just bumping against one another or drifting off into space I attach a connective lattice of welded containing metals. Basically like a giant mesh to keep them together. It's a matter of minor tractor beaming to deposit the Cubes just sort of…down?

    Down beneath the solar systems plain, I suppose. Not to galaxy plane breaking distances, but pretty far.

    Now I know that you might be wondering what's going on with the Rebellion. I gotta tell you, I don't think I've ever seen anyone react this badly to a gift. They seem kind of paralyzed by all of this stuff I've gotten them. To be fair to these fine men, women, and whatever the hell that short stubby thing that walked past my droid body a few minutes ago, I've basically just thrown more resources at them than the Rebellion itself ever possessed. Still that paralysis can't last forever despite the fact that everyone in the room is busy trying to sort out what to do with this huge windfall I've given them.

    I'll let them go about their business.

    Because now…now I just remembered I have a new target.

    The Maw Installation.

    One of the worst women in all of Star Wars…Daala.

    Isard might have been a paranoid wackadoo but she at least wasn't nearly as infuriating as Daala. I still can't get over the fact that she was elected for a position of leadership in the Republic after all that time. Seriously, this bitch comes swarming out of the Maw and blows up a bunch of people and things and then somehow gets elected? Oooh she just makes me so mad!

    On the better side of things, unless something has irrevocably changed then she's still just sitting in the Maw awaiting orders that will never come. She's dedicated enough to spend years like that…and the Maw Installation is where the Empire developed most of their superweapons. And hell, I'm a Commander aren't I? Grabbing superweapons is something that I should always be up for.

    Yeah, yeah you know what?

    I'm going to the Maw.

    I'm going to fabricate the outer appearance of an Imperial-II Star Destroyer and fill it with my technology. I kind of highly doubt that I could actually fit the Cry of Gimli in there even though I think that there is a Death Star Prototype sitting there inside the Maw. Somehow. Huh. Now that I think about it maybe I really could put my USD in there. But dare I go for it? The sheer movement of the USD through space is going to set something off I just know it.

    Nah.

    Not yet.

    But yeah. The Maw.

    So…now I'm doing four things at once?

    Hanging out with the Rebellion as Theta the droid.

    Slathering my entire system with extractors and generators.

    Hunting for SSD's as the Executor.

    And infiltrating the Maw Installation and killing Daala no exceptions.

    Yeah.

    Yeah ok.

    Let's do this!
     
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    • @torroar when was the last time you checked the Executor's hydroponics bay? Because IIRC there were still survivors there, and they might've gone tribal after 10 months.

    And Jesus H. Christ you just updated while I'm typing this in.

    That update speed. Yeah. Something something inadequacy something.

    I should go do something productive. No, I should go do something with my life, period.

    Yeah.
     
    He has RETURNED!!!! He has arrived to make us and our muses ashamed at our writing speed.

    Hopefully this will cause a huge rash of updates for all our favourite fanfics
     
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    Wobulator said:
    The "plane" that solar systems/galaxies tend to form is called the ecliptic. Also, "beneath" it doesn't really make much sense, given that "beneath" is entirely subjective.
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    It was enough of a subjective distance to be considered 'beneath' by the SI :p

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    @torroar when was the last time you checked the Executor's hydroponics bay? Because IIRC there were still survivors there, and they might've gone tribal after 10 months..
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    No, they died. The SI cut off everything in there, and they died clawing at the walls before he had the droids get rid of the bodies.
     
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    25a – Forging
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    It's simple.

    I don't know why I hadn't thought of it before.

    If I can use the Mega Yard to make more Mega Yards…why would it be impossible for me to use the Mega Dish to create another Mega Dish? I have the economy at this point, what with three of the five planets in my system being covered in a sea of extractors and generators. One hundred Storage Cubes are all strapped together like a horrible flat sea of cubes just below the solar system though I'd decided to add a few engines to the rockets with some generators attached to keep them from just floating away from solar winds or something. Man I don't know, I just want to feel secure about them.

    Oh! Ecliptic. The plane is called the ecliptic. Thank you gigantic database inside of my head. Right, the Storage Cubes are a few dozen kilometers beneath the ecliptic but with engines and stuff to keep them basically in the same place. If one were to look 'down' while sitting in deep space of the Hub they could probably see them far in the distance…maybe. Maybe not. It's hard to tell these days what with my sensor suites pushing what I'm aware of way beyond human bounds.

    Anyway. Drich, Faith, and Tiki are done, but before I get to Fusou and Anon I'm going to do this first. I'm also considering adjusting the design with enough engines and rockets to keep them moving on their own without constant minor adjustment from the Cry of Gimli. No, I'm not just considering it, I'm doing it. When the second Dish is done I'm going to have it turn around and add its upgrades to the second Dish. Then I guess I might be able to use those two Dishes to create a third one? Oh man.

    Oh man this is it.

    This is the exponential growth thing that I couldn't do with under the unit cap! Because these aren't units, they're giant structures!

    This is it!

    One picosecond after I've had that thought, the Mega Dish is being turned around and pulled into space further so that it can do its work without danger of falling onto the planet below within the time frame. If I had lungs I would be holding my breath before pressing the button…but I don't and there is no button except in my mind. When I make them do things, they just do there isn't like a keyboard or anything determining what is happening. The moment I activate the Mega Dish a cloud of nanites bigger than what the Mega Yard crafted but far more spread out appears.

    Boy did that take a vicious chunk out of my economy but amazingly enough I'm not actually redlining. I had thought I would but I suppose not. Despite that the creating of the second Dish isn't going to be complete any time significantly soon but that's fine. I have other things to create. Specifically the most powerful false Imperial-II Star Destroyer that I can possible make. When I send this thing to the Maw I want it able to take down the entire Installation and the fleet within. Which isn't actually that many ships but the sheer firepower of a single star destroyer is already significant.

    Aw to hell with it, if it's really required I could have the Cry of Gimli shadow it? I did equip my USD with the most powerful stealth generators that the Empire ever created. I mean they never got to distribute it to the rest of the Empire because I wiped the files after I took the ships involved in the projects but they did technically create them. My baby has just been waiting in the rings for some time now.

    Eh, I'll flip a coin when it comes down to it.

    But first.

    My trojan horse. I'm not going to name it that even though I was tempted, don't worry. Instead I was thinking of calling it something completely innocuous. Something that wouldn't make a real hardline Imperial like Daala even blink before it was too late. Or maybe she would but the point is that I wanted something not entirely out of the line for Imperial naming conventions for their ships. Oh, I know!

    The Justice.

    Hah.

    Justice for future crimes committed as well as the total assholery that she got up to before she got shunted into the Maw Installation. Did you know that after she and her lover Tarkin – another tremendous asshole – had the facility built that she killed the architects and engineers who built it? I mean you hear about supervillains doing that sort of thing all the time to maintain secrecy but seriously that is one of the most messed up things. I get that it was all in the name of secrecy but I'm not about to be ok with it.

    Worse, a lot of the scientists kept on the Maw Installation aren't there of their own free will. Or at least they just aren't allowed to leave. Oh there are also like a hundred wookies there. Or even more, I never looked at the number so I can't access my own memories to check. All I remember is that they were purposefully enslaved there to provide a work force that would never be anything but. How fucked up is that shit, right?

    Right.

    The Justice.

    On the first glance I plan on having it look exactly like a regular Imperial-II Star Destroyer. But because I don't need it to actually have that many parts in it for organics I can actually shrink the ship in question. It'll have an outer shell of a standard SD but I'm going to have its true hull be made out of my composite that comes from the strongest mixture of progenitor and this galaxies alloys put together. A lot of empty spaces get cut out while I basically carve out a crèche area for the organics that I'm going to be taking – guess what most of the Imperials don't get to come if any – and I need there to be food and water and such for them. But I don't need to give them that many extra spaces.

    The fabricating power of the Mega Yard is such that I basically finish the design the moment I think about it. A single humongous cloud of nanites later and then I've basically completely disobeyed copyright and licensing laws. If Kuat knew about this they'd probably protest right before I crashed their entire planets computer systems in response.

    Now then…away with you!

    Go be great…Justice.

    Heh.

    I'm punny.
     
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    • ...torroar, how are you writing so fast? Are you speach-to-texting and then editing that or something? That's the only way I can fathom your obscene rate the late couple days.
     
    torroar said:
    Did you know that after she and her lover Tarkin – another tremendous asshole – had the facility built that she killed the architects and engineers who built it? I mean you hear about supervillains doing that sort of thing all the time to maintain secrecy but seriously that is one of the most messed up things. I get that it was all in the name of secrecy but I'm not about to be ok with it.
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    Says the guy who routinely chokes the life out of dozens of thousands of crewmembers just to slake his kleptonanic lust for gubbins :V
     
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    Says the guy who routinely chokes the life out of dozens of thousands of crewmembers just to slake his lust for gubbins :V
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    Military men and women. People who swore an oath, took the pay, and knew they could be killed in combat.

    Or, alternatively, murderous pirates and slavers.

    Not innocent folk whose only crime was building a thing.

    Theta doesn't go after civilians if he can help it. Luckily only the most dedicated military folk are allowed in SSD's due to them being...well, SSD's.
     
    25b – Benefactor
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    Leia Organa – should she be using Skywalker now? – did not like the mysterious droid known as Theta, not from the moment he introduced himself.

    Even his name was odd. Most droids, even independent ones like the infamous IG-88 or her more cherished companions like R2-D2 and Threepio retained the usage of the numbers in their names. Some were called more casual names but all of those harkened back to the numbers as well. Instead…he called himself Theta. The weapons he carried had utterly defied all attempts to scan them though based on what he implied with his own technological prowess at somehow managing to upgrade all of the ships with advanced weaponry and programming they were likely highly sophisticated.

    And the things he knew…

    Or perhaps worse was how casually he referred to them. As if outright proclaiming that Luke had become a Jedi was all right despite how uncomfortable it had made him. Her…brother. People had heard and the news had spread faster than she was able to contain and now everyone looked at him like he was supposed to be some kind of savior that they'd always wanted. And if she was honest with herself…she was a little upset with that. He had disappeared for more than half a year and then he came back and it was like she, Han, Lando, and Chewie hadn't done anything for the Rebellion.

    Petty concerns, obviously.

    There were heroes all over the galaxy in the fight for liberty and freedom. Rogue Squadron for example. Admiral Ackbar was another. Even with Garm Bel Iblis having separated from the Rebellion proper even he fought his own private campaign. Mon Mothma herself had been a steady guiding hand since the formation of the rebellion entirely. Yet even so she would be lying if that hadn't peeved her slightly.

    Still.

    It had been confirmed with some minor testing. And that drowned the irritation out completely.

    This was her brother, and now she suddenly knew who her mother was. Of course she had loved her adopted mother and father. It would have been impossible not to, she had known them her entire life and they had been wonderful parents. Yet she had also known that something was off. And now she had confirmation. She had a brother, and she now knew enough about her mother to do research on her. Even as Theta managed to cajole Lando and Han into a game of sabaac on the other side of the lounge within Home One she had snagged Luke to find a terminal.

    Oh…the clips.

    She'd been a Queen. A senator. A hero. The images of her giving speeches or travelling alongside troops during the Clone Wars were amazing to see though she had to admit that it was a bit of a struggle to find information on her at first. It was almost as if the holonet had been scrubbed of Padme Amidala's presence but just as she had begun searching that information had come back. More than once now had she searched for something, seen nothing, and then found something else…only for the earlier search to suddenly possess results that simply hadn't been there before. In the end she could do nothing but blame the problem on them stretching up from the ecliptic of the galaxy making for a terribly poor connection.

    It wasn't as if the holonet was being adjusted just for her, the idea was ludicrous.

    But then her thoughts turned back to Luke…and Theta, who had apparently been the one to have him come back. There would be time to catch up and truly get to know the boy – man – who had rescued her from the Death Star and then...blown it up. Even months and months later everyone in the Rebellion hailed Luke as the hero who destroyed the Death Star later, and rightly so. Yet who was Theta to him…or who was Luke to Theta?

    She had no information on him.

    There was no sign of this Theta at all, and there had been much furious checking of every single one of their information sources. It was as if he had somehow appeared from nowhere but that should have been impossible. Where did he gets these ships? Where did he get the credits?

    At least the latter might have an explanation…if a terrifying one.

    Han had confided in her what the droid had said, she couldn't remember if she just hadn't been around or paying attention when he said it…but his words…

    The rebellion had lost a lot of good people in the Shadow Banking War. Contacts, benefactors, contributors of ships and more had gone up in the flames that had consumed the underworld. Infiltrators in various organizations had found said organizations disappearing entirely. Still, everyone in the galaxy knew that the big problem was that someone had managed to steal over a trillion credits from the most powerful and richest criminals in the galaxy and thus set them to fighting over who might have been responsible. At first it had been thought to be the Black Sun but the so called 'evidence' pointing to them had fallen apart as time went on.

    Which meant…who?

    The Empire made trillions of credits but that was spread out across the largest polity in the galaxy, and there was no reason for them to steal it. But the Hutt Cartels…the Black Sun which had been so unfathomably wealthy…the Zann Consortium…all of them had been swindled. In one go, if the tales were to be believed. Data security had become the most important concern across much of the galaxy as people panicked over the thought that their money might be stolen by what people were calling a dozen various names from the Shadow Banker to the Great Hacker to simply thief. From the Empire to the poorest citizens there had been a sudden tightening of belts and funds.

    Banks were even now struggling to maintain their businesses as people attempted to withdraw everything to somehow protect their accounts better as if the holonet wouldn't give access to them regardless. The production of credit ingots was up a thousand percent as people tried to switch over to hard cash entirely…but it was an entire galaxy. It just wasn't feasible to do that with any rapidity. Even so the economic crises had really only helped them even if she disliked how it was causing so much hurt and pain. When the economy turned bad even the notoriously powerful Imperial propaganda machine could not stop people from dissatisfied with whatever government was in power.

    If this Theta...this mysterious benefactor of the Rebellion...if he was responsible for that...

    What else might he be capable of?

    Leia couldn't help but shiver.
     
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    • Surprised that people aren't wondering who made/is the boss of Theta since as a droid most would assume that he had a master he was serving rather than be the boss himself.
     
    Obviously Theta should gain the Deathstars schematics, build a structure the size of a large gas giant, and cover it with Deathstars to act like turrets.

    It'll literally be a disco ball...

    Of DEATH!
     
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