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

TrueGuardian32 · 2026-06-22T04:59:41+00:00

[Celestial Forge has activated] [First Perk: Wonder Artisan] [300 0 Celestial Points] [You are incredibly talented at arts, drawing, music, writing, and more. You are a talent at creating wonders that people would pay millions to view.] [Claimed] I was in school when this perk hit. I had no clue I even had the thing. I was just going about life. Reincarnated in a slightly different version of my former world in 2004. When bam, while in elementary school in Texas I got this perk. It was in the middle of class and I was just lightly working when it hit. Suddenly my scribbles became neat little words that looked incredible. Considering I was scribblin in paper to turn in it revealed my new found talent before I was even ready. What's more, the next class was art. Needless to say I suddenly had people interested in my unearned talent. Well, at least this life I had something unreal going for me. The Celestial Forge, when I closed my eyes and meditated it took the form of a single blue orb, and it had a line building slowly out of it. "David you okay in there honey?" My mom of this life spoke beyond the door. I opened my eyes, I was in my room at the moment, just chilling. "I'm fine. Do you need something?" "Can I come in?" I looked at the mess of papers spread around the bed in front of me. I was testing the limits of my perk, drawing stars, the sky, random things in my room. They were all intrinsically detailed. Well, no point in hiding it. "Sure." She opened the door, only to pause as she looked at the drawings on the bed. She had wanted me to try this a long time ago but I hadn't shown much capabilities. "You made these?" She came over and took a look. Her eyes open in wonder. I nodded. "I'm not sure what happened. Suddenly things just… clicked today. Now I can do this." She gave me a hug. Much to my surprise. "You are talented David. Mr. Adams from your art class is in the living room right now. He's been praising your work since he arrived. You seemed off when you got home so I hadn't come to get you till now." I stretched and made my way off the bed. "I figured it would be impressive. It's fun being able to bring things from my head to life so easily." After that, I was followed mom into the living room to meet an excited teacher, who asked if the school could display my work I made in class earlier. I agreed. I didn't really care to refuse. But I did ask for them to preserve it since it was the first masterwork I had done. I'd like to come back to it when I am older so I can see my first steps to greatness. Yes, I already have a large head from this. Kind of hard not to when a casually drawn signature looks like a work of art. Not to mention in my current era, it would be a while till I had to deal with neural networks stealing possible future jobs. My days slightly changed after that. I started to ace every class. I didn't know everything, but I was still dealing with elementary level materials. I could learn quickly. I got some contract jobs, with my family as the intermediary. Getting us more income. Way more than dad made. Solved some of the issues we were facing economically due to that. I had a handful of friends before this happened… they grew apart fast. The attention I was getting was making them jealous at worst, but I think what hurt more was the inferiority some of them felt. Turns out, acing every test at your age level, making works of art, and being absurdly good at things makes it hard to make friends that are actually friends. I didn't let it bother. I mean, it did. But I didn't let it bother me for long. I just kept at it. I made a script for the school play. I kept it simple enough for kids our age to understand. I made the props and stuff for them as well. I refused to participate in the acting. The teacher had taken me to a private room to ask about that and I simply said I didn't want to show up all my other classmates and the other students. I was taking credit for the script and the art pieces. Luckily I had enough social skills to know it would be better if I dragged some of the students who were into art into helping me. Some of them were real talents. Those who weren't? I showed how to improve. Eight months since I got my first perk. The Celestial Forge activated. [Dragon Crap!] [400 Celestial Points] [Metallic Crap from a legendary metal dragon, this crafting material can be adhered to existing weapons to cause them to absorb the properties of it. These properties are Near-Unbreakable and Reforming. The weapon will also gain enhanced strength and power. Every time the item you used it on breaks you will find it in your warehouse completely reformed.] [Not Enough Points: Current Points 092] [Lock In or Pass] This is when I learned the Celestial Forge worked like a system. I could bring up a menu that displayed my current perks, and I could retrieve a key that could open any door to a personal warehouse. Regardless, I passed on the Dragon Crap perk. I wanted to prioritize stuff that would advance humanity, not increase personal strength. For now at least. Not sure what gains me Celestial Points though, or how I got to 92. All in all though, I kept going. My family moved into a bigger house, one with a workshop for me. I got the money for it from a deal with some rich guy. Well, a couple of rich people. Dad was starting a business with his cut. I was using it to procure tools and set up stuff for myself. Mom was just having a good time. She brags a lot about me. I kept at it, working, going to school, studying. I was refreshing my knowledge before I even got close to graduating Elementary School, I caught up on stuff I missed in my previous life as well. I had gotten to High School math and I was in the process of refreshing my knowledge. My social life wasn't a complete wash despite my high intelligence reputation. I had fun playing games with the other kids and field trips were pretty fun. Not to mention I didn't intend to get as over weight as I was in my previous life so I couldn't just study all the time. I had gotten really into the routine I was in when the forge triggered again. [Genius] [600 Celestial Points] [You are now capable of understanding even the strangest of theories. You are now able to keep up with geniuses capable of understanding how things can work at a fundamental level. To the point where with enough materials and time you can do things to the laws of physics that shouldn't be possible.] [Not Enough Points: Current Points 140] [Lock In or Pass] I paused, I could pass off as highly intelligent right now but this is an insanely good draw. Could help me a lot with any future rolls I got, and if I got it before I graduated high school it could path my future heavily. So I decided to lock it in. That means no rolls till I unlock it. After that, I went back to my life. I had a generally good time. Christmas came and went. I was still refining my knowledge, future genius or not. I wanted to have a basis for my knowledge that could be passable to the public. By this point I was on contract for multiple art projects. Including a RTS game similar but different than Command and Conquer. I was excited by that one despite dealing with the hardware imitations of the era. I could work with minimal pixels though. I made sure of that. Plus the artwork could be sold separately and would be a constant source of income for me till the game died. At this time I finally went to Middle School. Once again I top in every class. Well, except for History, I got a B in that. Some of the history of this version of the world was slightly off. So I was basically researching from scratch. While the U.S. seemed similar enough to me, other countries? Wildly different. For one, interference in other countries was at an absolute minimum beyond funding and strategic bases to protect the U.S. This led to the terror attacks that would have happened in my universe simply not occurring here. The other thing to note is that the U.S. wasn't in debt. Not yet at least. Too many successful ventures here in the states so the import industry wasn't as important as it was in my original world. This meant I couldn't really trust future knowledge. For now at least. At least I knew I wasn't in Fallout. Or at least, if I was I wouldn't be by the time I grew up. I had the celestial forge after all. So I went day by day, kept my grades up, kept studying, kept trying to make friends and failing. I kept making amazing pieces of art as well as doing contract work. Till when I was 14, three years after I locked in Genius, I bought the perk and the world opened to me. Figuratively and literally. All the studying I did? It paid off. I was suddenly able to connect everything I learned at a level I wasn't able to before. I blasted through every piece of homework I had. At this point I started research higher level physics. It took one read through every chemistry, science, or other book to learn it and actually retain the information instead of it going out of one ear. I started submitting tech from my previous life to the patent office by this point. Recreating it in this universe with my newfound knowledge. I was focusing on computers and computer tech. A few weeks later we got a visit from the Federal Government. To put it shortly, I was hired. But in the long term it was complicated. Tooks days of negotiations to end up with a contract that wasn't practically indentured servitude and didn't stop me from pursuing my art career. I kept expanding my knowledge after that though, but this time with knowledge that wasn't publicly shared. Namely classified knowledge regarding things like rocket fuel and weapons technology. I went off the deep end studying when I got access. Couldn't help it, Genius allowed me to not only understand the tech, but figure out how to apply it elsewhere. That's how I came up with E-Fuel. Which was just gas but with 1% of it being oil. Way cheaper to produce, it wasn't a water powered engine, but it'd let us stretch out fuel reserves hard, plus it didn't require engines to refine the design since it was just a different kind of gasoline. I was focusing on one thing at a time. I had paused all other projects to work on the fuel. It would prevent us from going through reserves as quickly. It didn't take long for me to see my work start getting pushed out to the public. I was incredibly excited about that, even if I wasn't credited. Classified Asset and all that. After that project, and well and all the advancement in computer technology I was working on. I was given a new highly advanced facility in South Dakota. Well, I say advanced, it was mostly empty. But it was secure and I could requisition supplies and equipment for it. The only thing is that I had to move to use it. So I went through the process of skipping to college. Skipping grades and all that. Then the Celestial Forge triggered again. [Dungeon Creation] [Celestial Points: 600] [You have the ability to create dungeons, while you can control the general theme of the dungeon you can't control the actual dungeon. Enemies will not treat you differently than other intruders. As the dungeon grows stronger the more valuable loot will drop. This ability gets stronger with you.] [Not Enough Points: 240] [Lock In or Pass] Pass, hard pass. This isn't a fantasy world and I have access to resources already. Plus it's the Celestial Forge, I don't doubt that I can get other strong resource generators that outpace this one. Sure legendary weapons would be cool and all. This is still way too risky to use. After that, I went back to work. I was fifteen when one of the rockets I designed left Earth's orbit. Watching it I already had ideas to improve it. I had the plans for the first Spaceship capable of leaving and entering drawn up in a month after that. They tried to put me in a team with other geniuses. I was able to match them in knowledge but my age caused them to try to treat me as an underling. After that debacle I was given solo treatment. I will admit, it was a bit lonely. Most of my friends were digital at this point. My family barely even called me. They keep going on long trips now using the money I got them. Good for them I suppose. It was 2010 when my homelife got a lot worse. Parents split and there was a bunch of court drama. I pushed for emancipation after that. I didn't want to deal with it. They had practically abandoned me more than a year ago and then suddenly they divorce after getting all that money? I dived into my work. Putting my all into refining industrial machines and working on figuring out how to build a fabricator capable of matching those in my old life's video games. I was set for life by this point but I still wanted to reach the stars. I crave space. It's become my obsession by this point. I need to keep studying, keep learning. The Celestial Forge triggered during a late night. [If you want it done right] [200 Celestial Points] [You can do the same amount of work as teams of people on a project. It may require the same amount of time per person, but you can do all the work yourself without things getting harder.] [Current Celestial Points: 210] [Purchase or Pass] I was tempted to press purchase, but I can use those points later. Plus I'm a government asset, I can just delegate my building projects like I've been doing so far. I passed.

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Author Notes: Celestial Forge is altered somewhat, All rolls are reworded to remove connections to existing franchises and altered to fit the story.

David Gard, reincarnate and holder the Celestial Forge seeks the stars.

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This cheap device was made to harvest solar energy at an powerful degree, requiring no power the Starplucker was capable of collecting solar energy within several yards of where it was placed, reducing the light in the area.

The jailbroken version requires genius level knowledge of kinesis drives and energy based thrusters to replicate. This version is capable of pulling massive amounts of energy or mass at a time. However it requires the corresponding amount of energy. That means several of the largest designed fusion reactors worth of energy to pull something like, say. The moon out of orbit into the Earth.