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Chapter 68 In space with a junkyard ship

“So how was the delve?” Thoron asked me while sliding me a cocktail that seemed to have more fruit than liquid. I just spent a moment lookin

“So how was the delve?” Thoron asked me while sliding me a cocktail that seemed to have more fruit than liquid.

I just spent a moment looking at it. While part of the reason I was looking at it so intensely was to figure out if there was anything inside that I couldn’t eat—there wasn’t—it was also to understand the point of ad...

Chapter 67 In space with a junkyard ship

After two days of relaxing on the beach and swimming, I found myself about 20 minutes inland, looking at a building that housed the portal I

After two days of relaxing on the beach and swimming, I found myself about 20 minutes inland, looking at a building that housed the portal I came to clear.

The building itself looked like a small fortress—meant to protect the outside world from what’s inside, instead of the other way around.

Varkun was too busy to come with me, but ...

Chapter 66 In space with a junkyard ship

It was a good thing that I no longer had to worry about hangovers, because if I did, I bet I’d have a massive one right now. Of course, Thor

It was a good thing that I no longer had to worry about hangovers, because if I did, I bet I’d have a massive one right now.

Of course, Thoron had to join in after he saw me getting drinks for Khasindra. Then Varkun joined, and things just escalated from there. Good thing I got the room details before things really got out of hand.

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Chapter 65 In space with a junkyard ship

The time in the space elevator went by quite fast, and before I knew it, we stepped out onto the surface of the planet. I took a deep breath

The time in the space elevator went by quite fast, and before I knew it, we stepped out onto the surface of the planet.

I took a deep breath in and was reminded of the city I used to live in—although this one did seem a bit cleaner. Testing things a bit, I found myself actually able to tell that this planet had less gravity than Earth, but ...

Chapter 64 In space with a junkyard ship

---- It's good to be writing again :) As a heads up, where I live at this time of year, we get a lot of lightning storms, so the upload time

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It's good to be writing again :) As a heads up, where I live at this time of year, we get a lot of lightning storms, so the upload times might shift as I won't have internet for some time during that day.

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It only took me about half a day to finish writing a paper about AI and also write down all the ideas I knew about jo...

Announcement

I am sorry, everyone, but even with the pause I have taken this month. I am still feeling close to being burned out. I need to do something, but taking a short time off might not work, and I feel it is not fair to you all.

So for the first time, I am announcing that I will pause billing for a month. Will I be taking the whole month off because of that? Most likely not, as I don't think I can go so long without writing. That being said, I will still take most of the month off.

I ...

Chapter 63 In space with a junkyard ship

“How do you do it?” “Do what?” “You know… having so many AIs bonded to you. Doesn’t it get crowded up here?” Thoron said, pointing at his he

“How do you do it?”

“Do what?”

“You know… having so many AIs bonded to you. Doesn’t it get crowded up here?” Thoron said, pointing at his head.

“I have ways of limiting that kind of interference. Why do you ask?”

“Well, there’s talk about starting to learn about AIs and maybe trying to...

Chapter 62 In space with a junkyard ship

“No, Bob, I will not build you a 200-million-credit body to help you lift things only 12% better than an 80-million-credit body. In fact, Lo

“No, Bob, I will not build you a 200-million-credit body to help you lift things only 12% better than an 80-million-credit body. In fact, Lola, you’ve gone too far. The current design is a bit too over the top.”

They stayed quiet after I said that, but what I was looking at was ridiculous. It was nearly a three-metre-tall body that mo...

Chapter 61 In space with a junkyard ship

---- Change notice. In the last two chpters the reasoning why Remi chooses his own engine design has been changed. The changes come down to

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Change notice. In the last two chpters the reasoning why Remi chooses his own engine design has been changed. The changes come down to his design being more robust for battle.

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Building the new personality cores was quite exciting. There wasn’t as much need for most of the AIs to be too complex. The normal-sized personal...

Chapter 60 In space with a junkyard ship

---- There will not be chapters on Monday and Tuesday as they are national holidays. ---- I pushed the throttle up, watching the engine quic

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There will not be chapters on Monday and Tuesday as they are national holidays.

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I pushed the throttle up, watching the engine quickly reach its theoretical redline. It was loud with the propeller attached, but there was proper power here. Everything was monitored, and later on, I would be disassembling it to see which pa...

Chapter 59 In space with a junkyard ship

Getting onto the last train that will take me back to the hangar my ship is in, after drinking quite heavily with a new friend, is not somet

Getting onto the last train that will take me back to the hangar my ship is in, after drinking quite heavily with a new friend, is not something I expected to do.

It seems that the dwarves were a society quite similar to humans, and this wasn’t the only system that the dwarves owned. Although each place had its own government, they didn’t...

Chapter 58 In space with a junkyard ship

The dwarf named Thoron led the way as we walked toward a train station. Apparently, a small town-like structure where the workers slept was

The dwarf named Thoron led the way as we walked toward a train station. Apparently, a small town-like structure where the workers slept was also the main hub for everything else in this section of the shipyard.

Everything around us seemed quite bare, with just a metal-like substance made of plants that this entire place was constructed from, a...

Chapter 57 In space with a junkyard ship

The escort ships were leaving as we had reached our destination. All of us had a bit of a weird feeling because, as it turned out, we were t

The escort ships were leaving as we had reached our destination. All of us had a bit of a weird feeling because, as it turned out, we were the only ship being escorted by three warships. Every other ship—and I do mean every other ship—was only being escorted by one.

We were all a bit worried about that. Yet it was hard to focus on it righ...

Chapter 56 In space with a junkyard ship

We were approaching the location where we needed to drop out of FTL. The last 21 days had been quite boring. There was still a lot to do, but the ship flew so quietly it was a bit eerie.

When you weren’t in a current, it felt like flying through a vacuum where nothing disturbed you. The currents had some small bumps so flying through that made you feel that you were actually traveling.

Dropping out at the correct time and location was crucial here. In fact, just in case, we were...

Chapter 55 In space with a junkyard ship

"Get into standard formation," I heard over the radio. It wasn't too hard to manoeuvre, but I wasn’t letting the autopilot handle it. This was a good way to practise, and that's why we were doing it.

The refuelling station was behind us, and now on the display, I saw how all of the ships in the fleet were moving into a line formation with the battlecruiser in front. This was what was called the standard formation. It’s where you got your most defensible ship in front, and everyone e...

Chapter 54 In space with a junkyard ship

It took my new crew members a few days to settle in, but we did have very little room, so currently they were sitting in chairs that were against the wall. We managed to get some straps that should be able to hold them in place during hard acceleration.

They themselves wanted a table between the two chairs, and just half an hour ago, we managed to finish that installation.

I’m having a bit of a problem getting them some weapons. After they gave me the parameters, I came to the r...

Chapter 53 In space with a junkyard ship

When working on the final assembly for Sam and Dean’s droid bodies, I was constantly distracted by wanting to do things that went against the blueprints I had for these droid bodies.

This has happened to me before, but usually only when I thought things through properly. Yet now, those insights seemed to come out of nowhere.

It didn't take me long to realize that it was my new skill, 6th Sense. It now made more sense why the mechanist affinity was required for it.

Looks li...

Chapter 52 In space with a junkyard ship

There was silence between us all as I tried to think of names for my new crew members. Many ideas quickly came to me and then were rejected, as they didn't feel quite right.

When I looked into them, and specifically their ages, I realized that one of them was a few hours older than the other. They did also refer to themselves and other AI's as brothers and sisters, but specifically between themselves, there seemed to be more to the claim of brother.

I looked towards the young pers...

Chapter 51 In space with a junkyard ship

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An early chapter today for my return from a small break. Hope you all will enjoy it. ;)

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Flying in formation was a weird experience. Pretty sure I didn’t like having to hold certain distances between other ships. But I also couldn’t turn down this opportunity. As it would get me close to my destination faster and safer than I could on my own.

We were about to reach the correct speed to enter FTL. There were 26 ships in the fleet, including my ship, all of ...

Announcement

I am a bit sick, I am also feeling a bit tired overall, so I am thinking this week is finally the time for a small vacation.

To make it clear from today until next monday I will be taking a brake and not posting chapters.

It's unfortunate timing, but brakes are needed.

Chapter 50 In space with a junkyard ship

The pirate was walking in like he was the last boss. Now I don’t know how much his gear cost and weighed, but the way he was walking would have fitted in so nicely in some movie climax that was shown in slow motion.

Unfortunately, he wasn’t walking in slow motion, and even before he reached the point where I could shoot him, he started to pre-fire his minigun.

Those bullets started to scream out, carving a literal trench into the wall that was slowly getting closer and closer ...

Chapter 49 In space with a junkyard ship

“It won’t be long before the pirates decide to flank,” I informed the other ship’s crew.

“Then you better get a layered defence in place or we won’t be able to put up much of a fight.”

It seems my hesitation at not completely understanding what he meant made him realise something about me.

“Oh shit, you haven't done this. Of course, why else would you ask about the ship sizes? One of the most common skills everyone tries to get when they use guns is a skill t...

Chapter 48 In space with a junkyard ship

POV: Wefstrat, Commander of the Weratile Trade Station’s Security

He was smiling like he knew something I didn’t.

“So you still think it's amusing, even though I know that you’re a spy? The only thing I don’t know is where your allegiance lies, and before this day ends, you are going to tell me.”

Once again, he was just silent. There was something wrong here. Spies like him shouldn’t be so uncooperative, as no one wanted to die. So what was going on?

Look...

Chapter 47 In space with a junkyard ship

There were about 200 ships in the space near us. Already, we could see the ships that were further away turn around. They will most likely successfully escape.

The enemy fleet seemed to now be in position. They had their three battlecruisers, each one of them over 700 metres long. They were true terrors. But they also seemed to have 58 frigates. Most of their firepower was concentrated on ships. They had already disabled at least a dozen ships, with even more having surrendered.

T...

Chapter 46 In space with a junkyard ship

Time flew by as I started to work on upgrading my main weapon. The revolver will stay the same, as I don’t strictly need it to have penetrating power but use it more as a utility weapon. The bullets that go into it are big enough that I could make a lot of different kinds for different uses.

Currently, there were two finished specialty bullets. One was, of course, the atomic one, which was for last-resort use. The other finished one was quite easy to make.

The battery technology...

Chapter 45 In space with a junkyard ship

It has been a quick nearly three months. The roundabout seemed to have enough traffic that whenever we needed to refuel, there was a refuelling station that was big enough and busy enough that if pirates had attacked it, everyone would know almost immediately. That helped save some time, but that easy refuelling time was now over.

We had entered a new current that we will be travelling for quite a while. It was called The Line. When looking at the map, it was easy to think of the galaxy...

Chapter 44 In space with a junkyard ship

It’s been a week, a whole week, since I purchased this stupid computer. Almost wished I would have made my own; it would have been faster and simpler. But my 3D printer was working basically nonstop, making me necessary parts for my missile interceptors and a new, smaller kind of missile. Not for ship use but for in-person combat.

The idea came to me before I started working on this piece-of-shit computer that was filled with way too many components that would allow it to connect to n...

Chapter 43 In space with a junkyard ship

On the screens in the cockpit was displayed a large trade hub. The runways were quite busy when we dropped out of FTL, but they were nothing in comparison to the Haver Prime Trade Centre.

The station itself was built into a large asteroid that was nearly 10 kilometres in length and about four in width, looking like an oversized rock with cities built into it in various locations.

In actuality, those were access points and ship docks. All the living space was inside the asteroid. I...

Chapter 42 In space with a junkyard ship

We were about to reach the dropout location. My fingers hovered over the command button that had been programmed to cut thrust in a controlled manner, so the exit from the FDL dimension would be as smooth as possible.

There was a slight tremble in my fingers, with the events of the pirate fight that nearly cost me this ship and my life flashing constantly through my mind. I took a deep breath in and focused on this fear of mine.

Many things in my life have brought me fear. I still...

Chapter 41 In space with a junkyard ship

It was a weird experience listening to an argument happening in my head through the connection I had to my bonded AIs. Right now, the ship and Bob were arguing about the best placement of cargo for better weight distribution. Lola and I simply listened, along with the few other AIs that weren’t in hibernation.

It was not an argument fought with many words, they were a bit too basic for that, but this bond of ours allowed for more than these AIs would normally be capable of. Some of th...