Exploring the Star System takes time. I want a detailed map, and it takes a couple of days to do that. However, we received good information from this exploration.
For one? All the planets are interesting as they are Minecraft-fy. Take, for example, the fifth planet from the sun.
It is a gas planet, but for some reason, the gas is made of cubes. Yeah. It is a cube floating around instead of, you know, gas. I mean, it is a physical thing that I can take, just like the thing from Minecraft Education. In that game, you can pick and use the element as if it were a block from the real game.
Anyway, after making the Star Map, we started expanding. The first one? Void Dockyard. This is where Nercon and Pokémon tech come to shine. Their Energy-Matter conversion tech makes building massive things easier.
Canoptek Spyder is constructed and upgraded to work with the other tech. Necron tech is enough for mass construction and production, but they have a distinct building style. It is great, but not something I want.
There is also the fact that there is something they cannot build. Among them is the mystic side. They are masters of the Material Realm of the Warhammer Universe, but they are not masters of the Immaterium.
That goes to the Eldar before they give birth to Slaneesh.
Anyway, the Canoptek Spyder turns all matter into energy and constructs new matter using that energy. It is just like my [Resource] power, but they need to know or scan the thing they need to construct first.
That is why I need to use my [Resource] power in the past.
The Canoptek Spyder is also equipped with a Necron-Klironomia Fabricator instead of its original Fabricator. It will make it stronger and remove the weakness against a strong EMP because of the magic carried by the nanites from the Klironomia.
After three days of work, the Void Dockyard is done, and it is ready to use. We dock Ananta in this dockyard and think of our new move. We have already tested the FTL and the sublight propulsion. Now? Now we need to test the Dolmen Gate. How? I will use my [Direct Acquisition] power to go to another universe.
Alongside the Void Dockyard, I also built a Dolmen Gate that is ready to be connected to another Dolmen Gate.
"So, what do you think we should do now, Athena? Should we jump randomly or something specific?"
My [Direct Acquisition] power has two options. The first one is a specific world. While I can pick when I arrive, I cannot pick the timeline. For example, I can choose to arrive in Cold War Era Earth, but I cannot choose a Harry Potter world where it crossovers with the Marvel and DC universes.
Well, technically, I can, but it is random.
I can choose the Harry Potter Crossover world, and if I am lucky, I can arrive in the Harry Potter world, where it will crossover with Marvel and DC.
The second option is random, with only a general direction. For example, Earth, where the planet is devastated. That can mean many things, like Fallout or The Last of Us.
"Random is good, Father. We are testing your power, and it is better to do it randomly. However, it is better to go to the world without any human presence, Father. Maybe something like a post-apocalypse world."
"Hmmm… We don't want to make an enemy of humanity, huh?"
"That's right."
I think for a few seconds, and my power immediately gives me an answer. After a few seconds, my power is eager to prove itself. It is like saying, 'What took you so long to use me?' and immediately giving me things I can choose.
"Alright. My power is ready. Is Ananta ready, Athena?"
Athena nods her head and sees we are leaving the dock. We are ready to set sail again, but we will go across the universe this time.
"Ananta is ready, Father! Ananta is ready to explore the unknown!"
"Then, let's start! Opening the portal!"
I move my hand and create a massive portal in front of Ananta. The swirling of purple energy expands and creates a portal for us.
"Activate the Cloaking Field."
"Activating Clocking Device! We are now cruising at low speed."
Slowly, Ananta flies through the portal, and I can feel something different when we reach the other side. The laws of the world are different, and I can see a familiar planet in front of us.
"Is that Earth?"
"Looks like it, Father."
"But, why is it not spinning?"
That's right. Unlike the Earth I know, the planet in front of me is not spinning. Even the Minecraft planet is spinning, but this one? It is not spinning. What makes me even confused is the fact that there is water on the planet's surface. I can see from here that the surface facing the sun still has water.
That should not be possible. The ocean and lake should evaporate because of the continuous sun exposure. However, according to a quick scan from Ananta, lakes and oceans still exist in the Earth's Day Zone.
"Scanning… Accessing Planet's Memory"
Athena immediately used her full power to give me an answer. As a modified TRI-HERMES, she can access Planet's Memory through the use of her main function as the recorder and organizer of humanity.
It can access the local Sea of Soul or through the Immaterium if the two are combined before collecting them all into a single useful data. I ensure she does not attempt to do this if the two places combine, just like in the Warhammer universe.
Only do this if the Afterlife of Souls and the Immaterium are separated. I don't want to mess with that kind of problem just yet.
After hours of processing, she opened her eyes and looked at me with a serious expression. Her kind and cheerful expression is gone.
"Father, this world is dying."
"I can see that, Athena. However, I need more information."
She then tells me of how a God from another world appears in this world, and is killed. In its dying state, it curses the world by releasing a magical particle called the Maso Particle or Magic Particle.
It is something called Grain or Space Dust, something that is made of Celestial Bodies of the Type-Moon universe.
Grain is toxic to humans, and it is worse in this world as something called White Chlorination Syndrome appears and causes humanity to collapse. This syndrome causes humans to turn into statues made of salt.
What makes matters worse, the people infected get corrupted by the so-called God and turn into abominations. Humanity, in its panicked state, decides to mess with something it should not be messing with.
They mess up with souls and create something that can transfer their souls into new bodies. It is called Project Gestalt, a project that humanity created to ensure humanity survives. Sadly, the project failed and left only genetic data and the history of humanity in case someone or something required those data to revive humanity.
Sadly, that data is useless because Athena can see the souls already return to the Sea of Souls and nothing but mere energy by now.
That only leaves the androids to carry the torch of humanity.
However, an Alien race attacks before the android can do anything to carry that torch. Yes, an alien invasion and another war are happening, this time against the aliens. What makes matters worse is that the aliens decide to create a Bio-Machine that can replicate and adapt very quickly.
However, something happened. An ancient robot, the one created by humans, awakens and sees the Bio-Machine in sadness. He decides to sacrifice his life and give something to the machine. He gave them a gift of sentience.
He gave them the seed of Freewill.
Because of this seed, the Machines rebel against their creators and butcher the entire alien race. That is the end of the invader. Dying at the hands of their creations.
The machine, after gaining freewill, desires to evolve. They look at humanity, the most evolved race on the planet. They look through humanity's history and start to imitate them.
To gain more information, they keep the war between the Machine and Android to gain more data and evolve even more. They can win easily against the meager number of androids, but choose not to do it.
The alien gives them an order they cannot erase, and that is: Defeat the Enemy. However, if they defeat the android and wipe out the android, they will no longer be needed, and their purpose will be done. Because of their new sentience, they are afraid. They are so scared of not having a purpose in life.
So, they create a new objective. They shall defeat the android, but not wipe them out. To this day, they only take over 85% of Earth and leave the 15% to the android. It creates an illusion of hope for the android, and it will keep more data for them to evolve and create more purpose for them.
That is the machine.
What about the Androids? They are a tragic race. They are created to help humanity rebuild and survive. Sadly, their creators, their gods, cease to exist.
For thousands of years, they have fought against the machine, and even though they are 'winning' some of the battles, they know they are losing. Slowly, they are losing hope and are killed in battle or by suicide.
So, the higher-ups of the army, they call it the Army of Humanity, create a plan. It is called Project YoRHa, or what Athena calls Project False God.
Android, learning from humanity, knows that their kind needs hope, and there is nothing more hopeful than dying for your god, the god that goes extinct. They create a server on the moon, next to the massive data bank of human history and genetic data, to periodically broadcast transmission commands to the Army in the nearby Orbital Space Station called the Bunker to pose as a physical human council.
So, the android keeps fighting the hopeless war for the Gods that are already dead.
Faith is such a strong power. Sadly, faith is not enough to win the war. Especially when the machine will go all-out soon. According to Athena, the machine is almost reaching the point where they can break the chain of their Foundation Order and will wipe out the Androids when that happens.
She is currently trying to enter the Machine Network somewhere in the Solar System. However, she needs time because it is pretty well hidden. When she can enter, she can create a virus to destroy the entire server.
"What will we do now, Father?"
"For now, you need to try to infiltrate the Machine Server. As for me, I want to land on the planet's surface and see the condition for myself."
"Very well. I shall create a vessel for you, Father. I will also prepare armor and weapons for you. While we know that you can absorb grain without a problem, there is nothing wrong with extra protection."
"Don't make it bulky. A skin-tight armor underneath my clothes will do. As for a weapon, give me a power sword, boltgun, heavy bolter, lascannon, and Gauss Reaper."
"Going heavy, Father?"
"All of them, other than the power sword, will be stored in inventory. I don't like these machines and want to destroy them if they come to me."
"That is fair."
Athena looks at the monitor in front of her and says.
"It should take an hour to prepare, Father. For now, do you want to read the details of this world's history, Father?"
I look at the planet and say.
"Yes. I want to know what kind of history this world has."
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