NOVEL NEXT Chapter 5: unusual energy readings
The slow but steady expansion of the NEX is careful when calculated expansion plan once there, signs vessels mapped out six star systems, and found three planets nearby their home system that is suitable for colonization.
With their vast efficiency they took no time at all, the construct the necessary colony ships as well as the necessary drones and leader AI's needed for the new worlds they have discovered.
Combinatrix renamed those three worlds after they were seeded with new machine life, the first one was renamed Tribon and it would be labeled as a forge world, where most of its infrastructure would be forging new alloys.
The next two was in the same System together the small on became known as Radion and the bigger planets would be called Toroidus, Toroidus would become another forge world while Radion would become a generator world where its main function would be producing the necessary energy cells needed for a large portion of the NEX economy as well as creating a credit system, just in case they come in contact with other events life within the stars this way, they would have actual money to be used to trade with or buy things, but that will be further problems down the road.
With these world seeded with new machines would also be slowly produced on planet, in order to further fuel, the infrastructure of those worlds.
Combinatrix later, would receive a transmission from one of the signed ships the leader AI of the signed ship multiplex states in his report [Multiplex Report:We briefly detect some unusual energy readings in knitting from this moon in the Chara System it might have been a glitch in our systems or it could be a sign of something more permission to investigate].
Combinatrix thought about it for a minute and gave multiplex the permission to investigate, within 14 days, investigation revealed dormant combat drones of unknown design, which leader would become active because of multiplexes investigation. Several options were presented, or to either engage and destroy the drones or send a virus that would confuse their targeting system switching friend to enemy.
Combinatrix gave the order to send the virus which later in a few days, how did the dormant drones attack each other which eventually led to the destruction, their fragments were collected and studied revealed that their construction was similar to starships, but based on their design, they were more certainly attack drones made to engage in fighter fights.
With this insight, Combinatrix and his research AI assistance were able to come up with a new branch of research which he likes to call fighter attack drones, which he would use these designs in their future cruisers.
Which him and his assistant AI's are already close to figuring out destroyer class ships they're just missing a few components of understanding engineering which will take time.
Ping!!
Combinatrix received another report from a different sign ship, Combinatrix constructed five science ships to map out the stare systems surrounding the home system and the best way to do that was to create several sign ships each one houseing several drones and a leader AI.
[Mechanus Report: some kind of unknown structure are floating in the gas, giants, upper atmosphere they appear to be using aerostatic lift to remain buoyant in the Seb System].
After that Combinatrix started to receive more pings indicating more reports from the other sign ships, and each one was just as interesting, Combinatrix started to enjoy these reports, revealing potential secrets within the cosmos even though some of them later, turned out to be nothing, but that wasn't the point the point was discovering something new out there in the stars before when he was human this was the dream of every human to sit out on the new frontier.
It was a glory sensation. Something he retained, even as a machine, his sense of adventure and wonder.
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