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Chapter 152

Book 5 - Chapter 149

The Daedalus Academy

Y: 2143 – 1 week until Southern Europe regional inter-academy first round.

Daedalus Financial Position: <5.23M> bitcreds 

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Daedo attached the last cord and checked the other group's progress. There were six of them, but they had the larger section of Amphibian to drag.

Daedo: good. Keep that pace up until you reach the island. 

Myrmidon checked t...

Chapter 151

The Daedalus Academy

Y: 2143 – 1 week until Southern Europe regional inter-academy first round.

Daedalus Financial Position: <5.23M> bitcreds 

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“You built this craft just for this mission?” Picard asked.

Daedo answered without breaking focus from his tactical display. “No.”

Picard looked confused. The sleek vessel was surely new.

Vannier explained, “Marais built it from our concept designs. And it’s not just...

Chapter 150

The Daedalus Academy

Y: 2143 – 1 week until Southern Europe regional inter-academy first round.

Daedalus Financial Position: <5.23M> bitcreds 

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Chica peered downwards towards the blur that was the ground. She said something, but it was unintelligible.

Barran tapped his helmet and spoke over the comms, “If you want anyone to hear you use this.”

“How fast is this thing,” She shouted after donning her helmet.

The s...

Chapter 149

The Daedalus Academy

Y: 2143 – 4 weeks until Southern Europe regional inter-academy first round.

Daedalus Financial Position: 15M bitcreds 

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Getting ready for regional - Specialists had been recruited for most of the tech projects with only Daedo and Mace continuing to work hard on R&D themselves

Tech – mechs, discussion direction problems

Calming down of tension – international (snip of daily life)

Axel-Zero perused the la...

Chapter 148

The Daedalus Academy

Y: 2143 – 10 weeks until Southern Europe regional inter-academy first round.

Daedalus Financial Position: -33.9M bitcreds 

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Jia sighed as the craft landed between Mace and Vannier they directed her down within range of a temporary entrance into their base. It was still 100km away from the base and newly constructed. The mining bots dug a new access point in the last few hours linking into the existing underground web.

Huaw...

Chapter 147

The Daedalus Academy

Y: 2143 – 10 weeks until Southern Europe regional inter-academy first round.

Daedalus Financial Position: -33.9M bitcreds 

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Jia woke with her head aching like there was a knife embedded to the hilt in the back of her skull.

“Fark,” she bleated uncharacteristically. She then opened an eye and regretted it as light streamed into her iris. She couldn’t activate dimming on the ocular implant fast enough. At least she did...

Chapter 146

The Daedalus Academy

Y: 2143 – 10 weeks until Southern Europe regional inter-academy first round.

Daedalus Financial Position: -33.9M bitcreds 

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There was no time to wonder what the effect of the barrage would be on their recent agreement and future presence in Dakar. Daedo’s squad kept off the mag-roads, in hindsight it was a mistake to show spy satellites their speed across the surface. But in doing so the enemy would now have to factor that spe...

Chapter 145

The Daedalus Academy

Y: 2143 – 10 weeks until Southern Europe regional inter-academy first round.

Daedalus Financial Position: -33.9M bitcreds 

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Daedo sat in the Mag-train with Axel-Zero and his squad. They were all in nanosuits with the new ocular implants and although the technology was new it was serviceable. It was easy to implement their normal HUD and communication platform across everyone’s vision. They were no worse off with a few extra fe...

Chapter 144

The Daedalus Academy

Y: 2143 – 12 weeks until Southern Europe regional inter-academy first round.

Daedalus Financial Position: -31.3M bitcreds 

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Moisture collected on the clear acrylic and ran down in droplets along previously established routes. Axel-Zero watched Daedo as he watched the water.

“Is something wrong?” She asked.

“No,” he said as another drop made its way down the partition between the hydrofarms and the rest of the...

Chapter 143

The Daedalus Academy

Y: 2143 – 15 weeks until Southern Europe regional inter-academy first round.

Daedalus Financial Position: -39.3M bitcreds 

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Mace strode down the corridor towards her squadroom. She exhaled in an attempt to dispel her frustration with Daedo before facing her squad. They were currently working on their individual projects whether they were academic or research in nature.

As she entered, she didn’t look or sound calm as she...

Chapter 142

Daedalus Academy

Y: 2143 – 15 weeks until Southern Europe regional inter-academy first round.

Daedalus Financial Position: -39.3M bitcreds 

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“I’m struggling to make sense of this,” Krecke said while describing the information passed on to her by Daedo.

“If you are asking if I can - then you will be disappointed,” Daedo replied.

Krecke sighed, “I just can’t relate it to anything that I know.”

“That bad?” Daedo as...

Chapter 141

The Daedalus Academy

Y: 2143 – 15 weeks until Southern Europe regional inter-academy first round.

Daedalus Financial Position: -39.3M bitcreds 

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Daedo: send in three squads on the third wave.

Master Haddad: you asked for it.

There were twenty-four squads altogether, however, five were missing members due to squad zero defending their base.

The three arenas were joined into one massive arena which was one and a half times larger tha...

Chapter 140

The Daedalus Academy

Y: 2143 - M2 

Daedalus Financial Position: -46.3M bitcreds 

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“We can’t discuss this at the spiral AGM. Closed or not,” Leo Vardy, the CEO of DaVinci, stated firmly. He was in a secure virtual meeting with both Svarski and Huawei. As the major shareholders of the spiral corporation, they were the real decision makers and knew that the more that were included would lead to a diluted result. 

Except of course if...

Chapter 139

The Daedalus Academy

Y: 2143 - M2 

Daedalus Financial Position: -52,500,000 bitcreds 

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Barran strode down the corridor thinking about his new squad and he suddenly thought of something else to ask Daedo. He halted and considered disturbing him again until he finally decided upon sending a message like Daedo asked. If he said he would check them in a day, then he would be true to his word.

After he sent the message regarding his personal mec...

Chapter 138

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The Daedalus Academy

Y: 2143 - M2 

Daedalus Financial Position: -52,500,000 bitcreds 

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Barran burst into Daedo’s quarters. 

All the former squad zero members, the educators and civilian experts possessed apartments of identical size. The open ar...

Chapter 137

The Daedalus Academy

Y: 2143 - M2

Daedalus Financial Position: -52,500,000 bitcreds

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External Cadet Eli Morton granted Daedalus Military permission to install and remotely launch an AI foundation utilising his cybernetic implant. Technically it was his property; Daedalus had gifted him the implant as well as a bundle of equipment that was worth more than his parent’s house.

After a gruelling month trying to beat the game - Thou shall not...

Chapter 136: Preparations

Y: 2143 - M2 - DA

Daedalus Financial Position: -22,220,000 bitcreds 

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Her usual bounce was subdued into a purposeful stride. Axel-Zero entered Daedo’s quarters and announced, “Your replies are not helping.” Her bob of dark hair had a few out of place, but otherwise, she looked her normal self.

He raised an eyebrow, “Why are you so concerned? Your forecasts for sales of exos and antimatter and our royalties from the PPC and aurora shield a...

Chapter 135 - You shall not pass

Y: 2143 - M2

Daedalus Financial Position:  -10,040,000 bitcreds (includes a 10M windfall from Troika Royalties)

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“How are their vitals?” Master Haddad asked Mace. He could easily look for himself, the question was more about her mental health than his need to be informed.

Mace didn’t look at Master Haddad but replied evenly, “Nothing has changed. Both heart rates are slow and steady, with delta waves as far as brain activity.”

Official winner

It was a tie, both Mechanical Killer Owl and Ancient Greek warrior on 26 votes. I selected this image because, well, we have it and its awesome, therefore breaking the tie.

Thanks again Kingorgg

Daedalus - Thoth Squad Zero

Picard in the foreground and Vannier in the back.

However in exosuit combat in the early chapters they both use railguns not pistols. They are the best shots of squad zero. Their skill is utilized in suppression, flanking and sniping roles.

Daedalus - Axelzero

Pascale Axel. Twin pistols in her suit, no exo armour. This suit forms the underlayer for exo armour.