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

[TrueGuardian32]

Any chance the MC is going to try and synthesize his own element zero when he's established enough?

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he already knows how, its just he doesn't have the level of equipment or power output to sustain enough pressure and environment to make it.

 

[TrueGuardian32]

2020, January 17.

The start! The dawn of a new starship!

The Highsta-

"Hey…. Yard?" I asked the air as I looked outside the view port at the finished Starship.

His hologram appeared in view, he had chosen a green hologram and generic human body, all details were green.

"Why does the starship have hundreds of guns on it?" It had turrets on every empty space, that was left purposely empty for emphasis on alliance not military. All the color theory and design philosophy I stuffed into the thing to make it look inspiring instead of terrifying was blocked by several thousand emplacements.

"I noticed they were lacking! Now this warship is truly a warship. No enemy will be able to stand the rain of firepower it can produce!"

I pinched the bridge of my nose between my eyes. "Damn it."

"What? Whats wrong?"

"What's wrong is that you just delayed this project again! Why in the world did you do this without atleast informing me?"

He had a hurt expression at my tone of voice and looked a little scared… Damn it. I can't stay mad.

I just sighed. "The ship was designed as a pioneer for the future. Not a warship fundamentally. It was made to explore the stars and bring confidence to people. The colors, the positioning of the weapons and the design over all? It was to inspire majesty, inspire people for the future, and make people believe in the future." I pulled up the original design on the holographic display, and put it next to the actual ship on screen. "What do you think when you see the current Highstar."

"It looks awesome! Guns on all points with full coverage!" He said excitedly.

"Now picture it facing your servers where all your data is stored."

He froze. Frowning. "That… wouldn't be good."

"That feeling? That is a small taste of fear. You don't understand it fully just yet. But people on Earth? They see this, they don't see a ship that represents the future. They see something like that, but on a larger scale."

Yard paused for a bit, before turning to the design, a second design, looking like the one displayed through the window popped up. I raised my eyebrows as began to work. First he stripped 90% of the hardpoints, then started altering the size of the guns. Still doing a new design, but this time with a new philosophy.

I blinked when the designs were finished. The ship had changed shapes a bit. He put two large canons on the front. Likely coilguns combined with kinetic drives, along the top he had a large mass accelerator cannon.

"That…" It lost some of the design I originally put into it. But it gained something else, a bit more confidence without insanely increasing fear factor. "That's good. Can you change the Highstar into that version?"

Yard looked it over. "It'll take me a few days to strip the excess weapons. But I can do that. I should be able to reuse the parts from the weapons."

I pointed out some of the lower parts. "Can you place turret emplacements here, here, and here?"

He blinked, looking at me. "I thought you didn't want that many guns?"

"I like guns. The idea was what was important. Honestly it's a cool ship." I said looking the mass of guns outside the viewport. "But it's just not what we need right now. Symbolism at the moment is incredibly important, especially since we are just starting out the space age for humanity."

"Alright… Yeah. I understand! So I can add weapons, just need to make sure I don't lose the core philosophy of the ship!" He replied.

"Now you are getting it! I think." I replied with a light smile. Then I sighed, "Well, since I'm not going to earth right now. Shadow?"

A black hologram popped into view. This time while the hologram was humanoid, it had no details on it whatsoever. "Yes David?"

"Can you take the stealth ship by Earth and let them know we will be delayed a couple days."

"Yes sir." The A.I. disappeared as one of the ships disappeared into the void of space.

I nodded, "Armistic." Another green A.I. appeared. He looked like a federal agent in that outfit he chose.

"I am here sir. Do you need something?"

"Prepare an escort for me would you? I've located something in the solar system that had dragged my interest." I had a celestial forge perk to visit.

He nodded. Yard spoke up, "You are leaving?!"

"Yeah, something of importance came up that I needed to investigate." I replied. "Could help shape future technology."

Yard frowned, "I wanted to show you some of my other designs…"

I chuckled. "I'll take a look when I get back. We'll go over them together."

He brightened up and I noticed the shipyard drones in the distance start moving in a flurry as they started to work on the Highstar.

Maybe I'm putting too much on these A.I. They are practically children, they have to learn about things to understand them and it's not intuitive. Sure they grow quickly but it hasn't even been a year. "Hey, Medical." I whispered after putting my helmet on.

"Yes Father?" I blinked.

"Uh, can you add something to my notes? I need to put at minimum a year of training for new learning A.I. before fielding them." I don't know how to respond to the father response. First time hearing him call me that.

 

[TrueGuardian32]

"Well then… what do we have here." Armistice was pulling the ship to a landing on the ruins I located. We had arrived at one of the rings of Saturn. The outpost I was searching for looked like a space station, but it was completely invisible from scanners. If I didn't know that it was there, or where to scan? I'd never find it.

Well, I suppose technically the celestial forge located it.

[Alien Outpost] [200 Celestial Points]
You know the location of a nearby alien outpost. The outpost is decorated in ominous decorations. Under the outpost lies as a labyrinth filled with creatures, these creatures can track element zero which they use to find intruders. You won't be hunted by these creatures unless you provoke them. Along the walls you can find veins of element zero, and at the end of the labyrinth you can locate a pool of element zero that can cause things placed within to develop biotic effects. The outpost still has running water, working electricity, life support, and connects to civilian networks in range.

Armistice spoke, "Creator, I've detected the structure still has power. We should approach it carefully."

I nodded. "That's fine, take your time." I let go of the controls as Armistice brought us low. "This was a long trip." I said looking out the view port as I relaxed. It took nearly a month to get here. Namely cause we kept having to slow down and alter the flight course. Or slow down to recharge the Kinesis Drive Deflector shields as they took on too much damage. I spent most of that time either joy riding with the controls, which definitely made this take a little longer. Or working in the warehouse. Since there was a door I installed in the back specifically to go there.

A few minutes passed before Armistice contacted me. "We have landed. No weapons have been observed." I tapped and deployed my spacesuit. Drones were instantly in the air around me as we approached.

"Creator, how did you detect this." Armistice asked as drones scanned the decorations. They were certainly ominous. They depicted metal squids attacking planets, and different aliens getting overrun by black dust.

"Luck." I replied. Running my gloved hands over the grooves stone carvings. "Have you found the entrance?" Most of the structure appears to be made of stone instead of metal.

"I've found it."

Following my escort we went to the entrance. Stepping in, Armistice panicked. "Creator, the ruin is reacting to our presence."

"Calm down." I replied. Reaching out I messed with another stone tablet, I recognized it as a control panel. Messing with the buttons a large stone wall rose up behind us sealing us in. "I know what I am doing." I said as I turned another stone knob. There was a hissing sound.

Opening a panel on the arm of my space suit, I watched as it tested the atmosphere. Breathable. I'll take that. Armistice spoke up. "It's an airlock. Why is everything made of stone?"

The wall in front of us dropped. Armistice shut up instantly as a rather homely room appeared. It reminded me of a tavern from Skyrim. There was a gently burning fire in the center of the room. My scanners were detecting unknown elements running through the floor and the walls. I already could guess that was related too. Armistice's drones had launched their thrusters to stay upright due to the artificial gravity.

"It's homey." I spoke looking at it all. "This… this may not have been an observation post."

Armistice spoke allowed as beams of light fired from the drones, "I am detecting the fire in the center of the room is fake."

I started to explore. The entire structure seems to be made out of a mix of stone and iron. Medieval in design, but still functional. There was a dock, there were multiple rooms. Everything was made out of stone. Everything. The only exception being the eezo lining the walls and acting like wires. "I have a theory." I said allowed as I observed the life support systems.

"What is it creator?" Armistice asked, curiosity showing.

I opened up what looked like a crate of stone, which showed all kinds of different minerals, but primarily iron and copper. "This wasn't made by a normal race. This was made by living stone. Lithoids." I say picking up the minerals." Which is fascinating. "I have no clue why they needed an Earth-like atmosphere. But maybe it is to enrich their food. The kitchen looking room has a stone grinder. They likely would grind minerals into dust and biological material to make food that tasted good to them. Or at least healthy."

"Do you think they will return then Creator?" Armistic asked.

I shook my head. "This place… it's completely functional, but it has been abandoned for a long time. The race that made it? Either gone, or don't know it exists anymore." I sat down on one of the stone benches in the living room area. "Can you survey the place, I need to clear my head."

"Yes Sir!" Armistice's drones started flying about scanning the place. Meanwhile I just sat there. Thinking.

 

[TrueGuardian32]

"How do they get rocks, just regular rocks, to act like wires and parts?"

I responded to Armistice with a shrug. "It's not just rocks. Whoever these people were? They had a degree of understanding of electrical charge. The minerals inside the rocks replicate wiring. I'm not sure how exactly they did maintenance. But that is something that research will show me. Still. We have a more important thing to investigate. It's right here?"

"Yes sir." I glanced at the floor. This room had the thinnest floor in the ruins. Which was weird cause everything else had extremely similar details. I examined the surroundings, before finding it, hidden in an alcove on the wall. Tapping the hidden stone tablet the floor started to rise. Drones were immediately surrounding me, weapons pointed at the hole.

It shifted, till it revealed stairs… that were only slightly too small for me. "The lithoids likely had either small bodies, or feet that could crawl on these stairs." I replied looking at it. "Either that, or they were working with size constraints."

"Creator I am detecting large amounts of unknown radiation."

"I see…" I replied looking at my own scanner. "Worrying. Might not be safe for me to make the trip down there in my current suit."

"Creator, I'll scout ahead."

"No. Not yet." I replied. Before thinking for a moment. "Record the data from the radiation. I'll see if I can get some radiation shielding built before we venture further down." His avatar nodded on my visor as I tapped the pad again, and the floor closed beneath me. "For now though… we should pause."

Armistice tilted their head on my visor. "Why Creator?"

"Did you forget, I have prior duties. I need to get back to Earth in the new Highstar to facilitate the process." I replied.

Understanding dawned. "Yes. I know. Is there any chance you can change your mind about that?"

I blinked. "Why?"

Armistice spoke, "My job is to protect you. These other humans are unknowns. Possible threats. Yet according to my code I can't take action beyond restraining or stopping them. What if they decide you are not worth listening to?"

I paused, considering it. I have thought about it in the past. "I have considered it." I replied. Running a hand on the walls of the place. "But… that isn't what I want to do. I didn't start this to remain safe, to take things the slow way. I want to elevate humanity. To show them what the stars can hold. The good, the bad, and the incredible. To be honest I was sure I was going to die before I got to this point."

Concern was obvious in Armistice's look. "I'm not depressed or anything like that Armistice. No I just expected someone to do something stupid and get me killed. Someone could have hated humanity and targeted me. Or someone from another country could see me as a massive threat and organize my assassination. Or someone did it by accident. Messed with something in my lab in the wrong way and got everyone near it killed."

"But, despite that. I'm still here." I replied with a gentle smile. "Despite everything that could have gone wrong, and has gone wrong. By some insane stroke of luck? I was able to make all this progress unimpeded. Even now, I'm developing freely in space. Showing off the first Cruiser ever made by our species."

Then I got up and walked to the entrance, the drones following me as I opened up the door. "So despite the danger, despite the risks? I'm going to risk it. Bring everyone I can up with me. Even if in the end it costs my life. Because to do otherwise would be a betrayal of everything I have accomplished."

There was silence. Armistice was considering my response as the shuttles docking plate lowered for me to enter. Time to head back.

 

[noblej7]

"Well then… what do we have here." Armistice was pulling the ship to a landing on the ruins I located. We had arrived at one of the rings of Saturn. The outpost I was searching for looked like a space station, but it was completely invisible from scanners. If I didn't know that it was there, or where to scan? I'd never find it.


"Creator, how did you detect this." Armistice asked as drones scanned the decorations. They were certainly ominous. They depicted metal squids attacking planets, and different aliens getting overrun by black dust.

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"Do you think they will return then Creator?" Armistic asked.

I shook my head. "This place… it's completely functional, but it has been abandoned for a long time. The race that made it? Either gone, or don't know it exists anymore." I sat down on one of the stone benches in the living room area. "Can you survey the place, I need to clear my head."

"Yes Sir!" Armistice's drones started flying about scanning the place. Meanwhile I just sat there. Thinking.

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Dude should take recordings of this to use to break it to people that first contact is indirectly made via this finding. We're not alone and Sol system was already a hermit bolthole for what looks like an genocide war.. the wider galaxy is not one of guaranteed peace.. although further evidence will be needed on the extent of this .... Depiction.. (also he should just make some basic bodyguard robots that are VI and can help protect him.. BX commando style(a star wars droid) although he might have to just use whatever bot he has on hand and some programming to be his secret service take a bullet for him behavior with a lesser extent of hostile action. Limited hardware so it can't go full AI etc .... Look forward to story . Pushing optimism is nice. Doing it with robot guards and a bullet proof underwear layer is nicer lol.

 

[ScottisI]

No! I'm all caught up.

 

[Evanescalon]

Binged it, loved it.
Looking forward to seeing what you cook up next, Author.

 

[TrueGuardian32]

Earth, it's incredibly beautiful, especially when you haven't seen it in a bit. Way better than the terrain of Venus.

I was receiving communications the moment Highstar entered orbit. I had gone back to the Hangar Station to meet with Yard and now? I was riding the Highstar. It's a different feeling walking around in rooms four times the size of the small ships I've been in till now. I'd be sitting in orbit for a while… let's do something fun.

—

"Welcome to 32 News! We have an exclusive interview today."

On the screen across several countries, was David Gard. He was lounging in a Captain's chair on the Highstar.

"We are interviewing the legendary David Gard! He hasn't landed yet despite his ship being in orbit. How are you today Mr. Gard?"

"I'm alright. A little distracted. But that's pretty normal when you got so many ideas and so much knowledge flowing through your head." He replied.

"You've made quite the impact, your Kinesis Drives are widely used even today, not to mention the electric thrusters and e-fuel. Your computer tech is still the foundation of what we use today. Do you have anything to say to people who want to follow in your footsteps?"

David thought for a moment, moving the chair back and forth. "Doing what I do is going to be incredibly difficult for the average person. Not impossible but just really hard. My mind automatically links knowledge together and builds on what I know. Most people? They would have to do that manually. Tons of papers and data as they try to find out how something works. Still, that doesn't mean they shouldn't try. Kinesis Drives as they are today wouldn't exist without Kinetic Field theory by Dr. Rossman."

That caught the interest of the reporter. "You use other peoples research in your work?"

David nodded, "All the time. It's improved my efforts by decades. I take a theory, test it. If it doesn't work I see why it didn't work. I combine theories and data to get what I need. Kinesis Drives alone were based on the work of twelve different researchers."

"Couldn't these researchers claim copyright on the kinesis drives then?"

"Nope." David replied, "There are a couple of reasons for it. For example, since I already mentioned him I'll start with Dr. Rossman. Despite his work being groundbreaking in my research. His math was severely off. If I didn't fix it, the file would have just been an unproved theory for decades. Not to mention the kinesis drives were not public domain at the time. They became public after testing was done."

"Have you heard of a team managing to recreate your kinesis drive gravity gun without your control program?"

David perked up in interest. "Seriously? Someone managed that? Adam show me." He sounded incredibly excited. He looked over a pad that was brought by a drone. "Wow! That's impressive stuff. You think they'd be interested in a job?"

"I'm sure they would be." The anchor replied with a slight chuckle. "Speaking of the control program, some programmers had complained about your initial claim that gravity guns were unhackable, and just called them air gapped. Do you have anything to say about that?"

"That's accurate." David replied. "That was the easiest way to explain it at the time. Although I suppose the core functionality behind the unhackable claim would be the programming itself, I can't really share that yet."

"Yet?"

David nodded. "Nearly all my technology will be public domain after being monopolized by the United Star Front for a few years."

"Can you expand on that?"

David nodded, "Right now my goal is create an organization that will facilitate the spread of humanity across the stars. This is the most important and the primary goal I have for the next five years. However this organization will have other duties, one such thing is the sharing and preservation of human knowledge. I want to make a situation where humanity losing access to any of our technology is impossible. No matter how much time passes." He took a breath before expanding further

"The United Star Front will be the forefront of this ideal. They will share technological progress made by humans, to the rest of humanity. This would be their secondary objective line. Nations would get to keep exclusivity to the technology for a few years if they were the ones to develop it, in order to let them take advantage of that. After that the discovery would become public among humanity."

"Are you sure that is a smart idea though? Does that mean the knowledge to make nuclear weapons would become public? How would you stop someone from building a nuke in their home." She rapid fired questions.

"Well, I'm not really against someone being able to do that. Sometimes you need a homemade nuke. The tricky part is doing it without accidentally killing yourself. Aside from that, I already have advanced scanning technology that can detect nuclear weapons." David replied.

"Wait… you can detect nuclear weapons?" She asked with raised eyebrows. "Can you tell us about that?"

"Surprisingly enough I can't tell you about the nuclear stuff. It could affect future negotiations negatively. I can explain why it's needed though." David replied with a shrug. "But scanners like this are necessary for the future and will allow for several possible future disasters to be dealt with before they happen. Scanners, the ones I have now are made to detect all types of things on a wide spectrum. Tectonic movement, sound, radio waves, heat, and more. They were primarily made for solar navigation. To prevent ships from running into space dust and tearing themselves apart when the deflector shields can't handle it."

"Wait… you have shields? Energy shields?"

"Oh yeah. I forgot that isn't public knowledge. I redesigned the Kinesis Drives into a shield generator for starships." David said excitedly. "Very useful for realspace navigation. Cheap to build as well. Power draw is a bit of an issue but I am working on that. It's not a complete energy shield. But it imitates the function well enough for the difference to be minimal."

It was silent for a moment as the reporter looked through her phone. Before pulling something up. "Right now you are still wanted by the U.S. government. Are you worried that might complicate things?"

"Not in the slightest." David replied confidentially. "I have been dealing with the U.S. gov ever since I became space faring. It wouldn't be too hard to get a pardon. Who do you think came up with the latest treatments for cancer?"

That got her interest immediately. "Wow, there is a lot to unpack there. You mean the White House approves of your actions?"

David shrugged. "Who knows. They might not, but at the same time they aren't going to burn bridges with me because of one lost starship."

She probed a little more but mainly got the same response before switching to the other discovery. "You cured cancer? That's a bit out of your normal specialty right?"

"I have been studying biology, medicine, and the human body in the past few months. I was wanting to make an equivalent of a magic healing potion for humanity. I thought since cancer has to do with cells it might hold the key. But while enlightening. It didn't hold what I was looking for. Made a lot of progress in other respects though. I may have the ability to clone body parts by next year depending on how my research goes."

"Are there any other advancements you made while studying biology?"

"Several. But they are mostly technical jargon that you would have to be knowledgeable in those categories to understand. I am still relatively surface level in my understanding of things like biology. I need to improve further to get stuff like biotech or other medical technology. Well, actually I suppose the new medical scanners are pretty insane. But that is a work in progress technology." David answered.

There was a moment as the reporter took a drink from a water bottle. Meanwhile David reached over and picked up a platform holding a floating mouthsized ball of water which he swallowed. The reporter noticed. "What is that?"

"Huh?" David asked, a bit confused.

"The floating waterball you just took."

"It's just a kinesis drive plate, it's tuned to water." He replied, showing it off. "I thought it was fun so I did it as a quick piece."

"Well, is there anything else you want to share before we end this interview?"

David hummed, "Well, I confirmed the existence of aliens."

There was silence, complete and utter. "Are you joking Mr. Gard?"

"Nah, I found two alien build sites so far. Belonging to two different species, believe it or not."

"Wait, what?! You didn't lead with that?" She asked completely surprised with excitement in her voice.

"Well, I didn't classify it. So I guess I can share a bit. I've found two separate alien sites. One in the rings of Saturn, the other near the north pole of Mars. I am still investigating the sites at the moment. But from what I can tell they are from two completely different races. The Saturn Race were Lithoids, Rock Aliens. They seemed to do everything with stone and minerals. Likely was a part of their diet as well. I've only recently discovered the two alien constructs so I'm still investigating them. I've only personally looked at the Saturn construct thus far."

"So we aren't alone in the stars. Were you able to find the age of these alien constructs?"

"No, not yet. I found them a few days before I went back to Earth. Oh, I've got to go. I'm suddenly getting calls from… well that is a lot of nations." David said, distracted. "Good bye."

David's feed cut as he got up from his chair.

The reporter sat there in silence as they began to truly weigh everything that David had said. The video cut off there.

 

[Leo_turtle]

Thank you for the chapter

 

[noblej7]

Well it's just a interstellar equivalent to a fallout shelter/ hiding hole.. and they seemed tok be hiding from some bio synthetic robots hunting them down to extinction but otherwise nothing too interesting..... Now about my research....

 

[Jiggling]

NOOOOOO!!!!! I NEED MORE!!!!!!!! Thanks for the chapter!!! BUT I NEED MORE!!!!!

 

[TrueGuardian32]

"Armistice, what are you doing?" Yard asked, popping up in the virtual space.

Armistice blinked. Before registering that Yard was there. "How are you here?! You should be at the hangar."

"I am! This is an instance of me. I sent myself cause I wanted to come but knew I still had work todo. I will combine my instances when I return." Yard replied. "The others are here as well." Several more forms popped up.

Armistice sighed. "I am working on security right now. Making sure no one sneak attacks the Highstar while the Creator and Adam have their meeting with the nations of the world."

Yard nodded. Then he shimmered before appearing next to Armistice and looked down. Below both their feet in this digital realm were thousands of lines of code that formed windows and structures that had odd geometry and psychedelic looks to them. Yet in the A.I.'s vision this became orderly as everything was arranged neatly and they were able to observe thousands of video feeds at the same time.

"Security huh?" Yard spoke in a teasing tone.

Armistice did a shrug at that. "Real Time Strategy games are practically practice for someone like me."

"How many account bans do you have?!" Yard spoke looking at the history.

"They keep banning me for cheating when it's my natural talent." Armistice had been banned from every multiplayer shooter game. "But they don't ban me from rts games."

Yard chuckled. Looking as Armistice played. "Probably because you play like a human, just with insanely good strategy. Not to mention you aren't using predictable moves that bots would use. You're a grandmaster playing with stones at this rate." He said as Armistice won his next match.

The rest of the instances of existing A.I. were also doing research and studying data from the internet. Yard sat next to Armistice as they both pulled up different things. Armistice was now studying the Art of War while Yard was looking at historical car designs.
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I know that Adam wasn't really made for it, but thank god he decided to manage human relations. because right now he was the translator for over a hundred nations in a world wide zoom call hosted by me.

"The United States should not have exclusive rights to an alien remains!" One of the leaders of an African based Nation spoke.

That was probably a mistranslation. Likely meant the alien structure. I spoke. "These discoveries are not under the United States, they are under the United Star Front. Naturally those that wish to investigate or study the alien sites can join the United Star Front." I replied with a small smile.

"The United Star Front is not a recognized entity!" A U.N. representative shouted. His volume was lowered.

The Russian Leader spoke. "If we were to join this United Star Front of yours, what would the obligations be?"

I beamed. "I'm glad someone finally asked. United Star Front has a few rules. I'll start with the beneficial ones. The United Star Front shares technology among its members. The United Star Front does not restrict Nations under its umbrella's ability to go and make their own stations and colonies. There are caveats on that of course. The United Star Front is also dedicated to help resolve tensions between its member nations. Let's say you have a colony a few star systems away that is going through a massive disaster and can't grow food. That colony would be able to contact a United Star Front station or fleet to get assistance. To put it simply, the United Star Front's goal would be the preservation and forwarding of human life."

There were murmurs at that. Many faces looked contemplative. The British Leader spoke after requesting it. "You said there are negatives, how so? This sounds beneficial thus far."

I sighed, "Well, first one is technological and informational advancement. If you make an advancement in technology or information regarding the universe, you have 10 years from that point to share it with the United Star Front. We don't mind temporary exclusivity. But at some point that tech needs to be useful to all members of the United Star Front."

There were a couple frowns at that.

The Canadian Leader spoke next. "So we won't get access to these alien sites without joining this organization?"

"Obviously." I replied. "The Sites are United Star Front property, only accessible to United Star Front members." Immediately Adam went to work lowering the volume of shouting people. In my vision Adam linked the ones shouting to ones that were going to join the Coalition. As well as the multitude of promises the Nations leading the effort to form the Coalition had made. There were hundreds. They would get a lot more out of a Coalition if the big countries joined than the United Star Front.

But by this point? I knew I had them. 64% of the people in this call had shown favorable behavior to the idea of a United Star Front. Sure it only had one member. Me. But I was also the only one other than the U.S. with reliable space transportation. Sure it wasn't interstellar travel yet. But give me time and that will be fixed. I relaxed as I kept answering questions.

 

[TrueGuardian32]

NOOOOOO!!!!! I NEED MORE!!!!!!!! Thanks for the chapter!!! BUT I NEED MORE!!!!!

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I'm workin on them. Slowly but surely.

 

[Leo_turtle]

Thanks for the chapter

 

[noblej7]

I'm surprised he doesn't just bring a bunch of high school graduates from the states and a few other places that are legal 18, the fresh recruits, eager, more idealistic, and more easily molded into settling into the United Star front as an identity and. Home . Working on star front bases, getting "hooked/hitched" having kids in space station habitats/living quarters.. to draw at least a small population into identifying as United star front first over earth nations. If he had cloning and Matrix style skill downloads that would be an option as well for starter populations along with helping boost humanities numbers faster to natch other species that had millennium to spread and multiply into trillions.

 

[TrueGuardian32]

I'm surprised he doesn't just bring a bunch of high school graduates from the states and a few other places that are legal 18, the fresh recruits, eager, more idealistic, and more easily molded into settling into the United Star front as an identity and. Home . Working on star front bases, getting "hooked/hitched" having kids in space station habitats/living quarters.. to draw at least a small population into identifying as United star front first over earth nations. If he had cloning and Matrix style skill downloads that would be an option as well for starter populations along with helping boost humanities numbers faster to natch other species that had millennium to spread and multiply into trillions.

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Pretty simple actually. It hasn't been built yet. Takes months to get frameworks in place and it costs resources which are currently invested into the Shipyard and Highstar.

 

[TrueGuardian32]

Automated shuttles were now heading planetside. I had been in contact with various nations for the last week simply working things out. As well as paving the future for the United Star Front. I had my first member nations as well. Key points Russia and Canada, as well as a handful of smaller nations have jumped the gun and joined the United Star Front. They will have a representative on the council and I had to make up some crap about how things will work.

The United Star Front. In its infancy will be a republic/dictatorship. Hybridizing the concept. Why? Because sometimes you will have to skip the red tape. Now it wasn't only me working on this. The Russian Leader was shocked by the balls on me for proposing the United Star Front when I had basically nothing prepared. Now they were helping me set up the thing. What I find interesting was that they were the ones to bring the United States into working on this, and now suddenly there are teams of lawyers, common people, buisiness leaders, and more all helping set up the foundations.

That meant they were trying to strike a balance. Not too much interference from the United Star Front, but while also avoiding making the United Star Front as weak as the UN was. I was of course overlooking things. For the moment I would be acting Director of the United Star Front. Eventually I would get to step down and go to my true passion, Director of Research and Application.

From what I can tell the United Star Front will behave autonomously from the Nations under its umbrella. But it will have the ability to recruit from all nations.

I was curious as to why this was occurring though. I got a response eventually. Every nation agreed that a United Human Government was needed to deal with any alien groups. Someone that would cross national borders to defeat possible attackers and protect one another. As far as why my idea was getting so much support despite being a skeleton of an idea? It was better and more freeing than the Coalition's rules. Which would have stripped power and removed national autonomy.

Sure the tech sharing was causing a small amount of tension. But that tension deflated the moment kinesis drives were involved. To this day Kinesis Drives were only produced in the U.S.. Sure they wanted to keep their own tech advancements, but they also wanted what I made more.

So the next step begins. I sit here in orb-

"Creator, a situation has occurred." I looked over from my sandwich to Armistice. Who had chosen now to pop up.

"Whats wrong?"

"The Coalition of Nations have fully formed and have declared war on the United States. They are preparing nuclear weapons."

I looked down at my sandwich. Did someone invoke murphy?

 

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Did America officially join yet though? It sounded like they got lawyers involved but it wasn't clear they actually joined up . Though now i gotta see which nations are still coalition.