26 – Approaching The Installation
26 – Approaching The Installation
Ugh.
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One USD. Two SSDs. One primary droid that is known to the Rebellion as Theta. At this point I've just turned off the other 9 – or rather just let them go about preprogrammed behavior – while on the Golden Boy. The Mega Yard and Mega Dish – Mega Dishes now – are structures, thank god. The Commander body has never counted in that unit cap for some reason. Which means that I technically do have a couple slots but I don't want to give them up after going so long with a ridiculously full cap. All that time when I had to rely on standard fabricator bots still makes me shiver.
Which means that with the aid of the onboard fabricators of the Justice that I've got a super crew of HK-Reddington droids. 46 of the most deadly droids in space. All of them with beskar added into their armor alloy compositions with weapons that are frankly ludicrously powerful. I don't intend on letting Daala or her forces to live unless they really mean to surrender. Wookies and unwilling scientists get to live. Scientists who gleefully developed these monstrous weapons…don't. So now I'm just barely downscaling to weapons that are powerful enough for tanks except being wielded in the hands of my droids, missile launchers, gas weapons, the works.
I even dipped into mental acceleration and spent a few subjective months working on miniaturizing the stealth technologies I have access to as well as what this universe has further provided on the infantry level – available on the black market and holonet to wealthy buyers…and me… - to the point that I can install some stealth generators onto each one of these guys. Naked to sensors and the naked eye both. So basically an utterly terrifying invisible and nigh invincible group of droids.
Unlike the first Reddington, they don't get highlights though. Just pitch black from top to bottom and wouldn't you know it with the sensor suite that they have available there's no actual reason for photoreceptors. I still put the pieces in but instead of being real they're actually just hard points of metal that have been painted black as well. So basically I have a cadre of spooky all black killing machines. They'd probably make for a good troop type to overwhelm planets.
You know…IF I COULD BUILD MORE THAN FIFTY AT A TIME I - ah…what's the point.
They're going to kick the shit out of what forces Daala has regardless. They've even got their own personal shield generators to keep them from getting scuffed at all. I won't deny that they might get surprised or something but I'm hoping not. Not that making a single one takes a fraction of a fraction out of my still expanding economy.
Because the second Mega Dish finished a little while ago and I immediately had it and the first begin constructing a third and fourth. That is where the majority of my economy consumption is going and even then it's not even half at this point.
Eh, not important right now.
What is important is that I have superweapons to steal.
Like the fucking Death Star Prototype which is…I shit you not, just anchored onto the Maw Installation. One of the universes most deadly limpets, that. Still from what I'm reading its accuracy is shit even if the super laser is actually functional. Once I get ahold of it that can easily be fixed though, and with the Mega Dishes I can probably finish it up pretty quick now that I think about it.
As I stealthily approach said Installation with the Justice…my thoughts can't help to turn on just how many superweapons that this galaxy ends up developing all the time. They keep turning natural parts of the universe into incredibly powerful weapons. Like the gravity wells.
Or in this case, interdiction fields.
The usage of technology to produce an artificial gravity well. On their own they yank people out of hyperspace, and prevent those already in system from using it. That's not to say that people can't still run around with sublight speeds but if you just hang out along a hyperspace lane with enough ships you could make it basically impossible to move stuff around. Which is highly dangerous now that I think about it – the ability to utterly choke out the lifeblood of the galaxy in portions.
It's automated, now that I look at it.
Nothing stops the ships from continuing on and letting their quasi-physical shadow – which is left in the regular universe as they travel through hyperspace – smash into stars or get sucked into black holes. Well, except the navicomputers. Everyone and everything has those to keep coordinates plugged in and to prevent ships from exploding their asses or getting sucked out of the universe or…well a lot of things. Even the least advanced ships in the galaxy have basic programming to prevent such things. Those that turn those parts off run the risk of disappearing and dying.
Now, based on what I can tell, such a thing isn't 100% confirmed to happen. It's why people make blind jumps still and don't end up disappearing from history as a group. People still do it. But it's still pretty dangerous. Then again people back 'home' do horribly dangerous things all the time because they have no other recourse. But the fact that it can happen at all keeps most people from doing it and I'm not going to say that it's some stupidly low chance. It's actually quite high indeed that making a blind jump will end up killing your ass.
Worse, what happens when someone gets that hit is worse. I remember reading all about it back in my days when I wanted to know why the hell 'gravity well generators' worked at all. Oh Wookiepedia, your memory and pages live on in my databanks which will probably never fade.
Anyway. You want to know why it's so bad?
Hyperspace collisions can blow up planets. Solar systems. Fallout from eruptions of hyperspace collisions can kill millions on the planets that they don't destroy. The greater the gravity well of a system the worse things can be as the 'mass shadows' of planets left on gravity only means that people who don't calculate jumps run the risk of being incredibly destructive.
Anyone who wants to know how bad messing with mass shadows can be need only look at Malachor V and the plot of KOTOR 2.
So yeah, gravity well generators seem fine at stopping enemy convoys…but the Mass Shadow Generator obliterated an entire planet.
Then there's the Death Star.
And following that…all the various things that the Maw Installation has partaken in.
…and now it's all going to be mine.
Huh.
Anyway, the basic introduction of stealth technologies to the Justice are enough to keep the Maw Installation from actually detecting it as the ship gets close enough for me to go about my business. Not that it's full on stealth tech, it's still visible to the naked eye, but I've done something that I feel is a bit clever.
I've approached from 'above', on the same vector as the prototype planet killer. So no windows pointing straight up mean that no one is going to see the Justice.
No one ever looks up. Not until it's too late.
Against the blackness of space, no one sees my forty odd super powered droids slink out onto the anchor keeping the Death Star Prototype to the Maw Installation. No one sees them and their incredibly powerful maglocks which are allowing them to literally walk their way down. No one sees them make their way to a part of the station where I've taken complete control of the cameras and sensors…and where no one currently is. Even the droids on the station are given new programming to avoid that area.
Which is good, because the sound of explosive decompression would otherwise have brought quite a few people running.
I…nah. I'm the only one who would hear it.
Screw it.
The lead droid puts a hand up to the side of their head and says to the silent air, "I'm in."
Cause they're SECRET! AGENT DROIDS! SECRET! AGEEENT DROIDS!
In space, no one can hear me badly sing!
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