I hum softly at the micro-scale Relay Gate in front of me. It takes the foundations of Particle and Psionic technology from Stellaris, and I expand and modify it. By combining the Imaginary Space technology from Type-Moon, the Blades Technology from Xenoblade, and the Ultra Wormhole mechanics from Pokémon, I've managed to create this thing.
In Stellaris, a Relay Gate is a megastructure. I only took the basic framework of that concept to build this bad boy. Then I changed how the FTL system works. Instead of connecting one relay to another within the same galaxy through a stable wormhole, this one accesses the Imaginary Space — the dimension that links one universe to another.
That's why I needed Type-Moon technology. Imaginary Space is volatile and dangerous; it requires specialized systems to allow travel between universes. Unfortunately, most Type-Moon devices are designed only for quick escapes — temporary cracks between worlds that let you slip through before the rift collapses.
But I need permanence. A gate that will stay open for thousands of years.
To do that, I need something to stabilize it. That's where the Ultra Wormhole from Pokémon comes in. It's another technology that interacts with Imaginary Space — or Ultra Space, to use Pokémon terminology.
It's unstable too, but in the opposite way. While Type-Moon tech struggles to maintain stability, Pokémon tech struggles to open safely. The Ultra Wormhole itself is perfectly stable once formed; it's the act of opening it that's risky. Do it wrong, and you might blow up your entire lab — or worse, tear a hole in reality.
Combining the two technologies cancels out their flaws. Together, they create a stable wormhole that can connect two or more universes.
Now, where does the Xenoblade technology come in? Power generation.
It uses the power of the Conduit. And what is the Conduit? An ultimate energy core — a magnetic anomaly of matter, a perpetual motion machine that acts as both a power source and a dimensional bridge.
It produces limitless energy, endlessly and efficiently. It also creates a safe and stable bridge between the two relays and allows humans to walk through instead of using specialized equipment to go through the gate relay. The only problem is that the Conduit cannot exist in Realspace. It can only activate in Imaginary Space. Why? Because its existence destabilizes entire universes — it can unravel reality itself over time if left in the Realspace.
Lucky for me, I have the tech to bypass that little inconvenience. Anyone else would find creating and activating a Conduit nearly impossible.
Anyway, I sent Alice back to our universe to construct an identical gate using the blueprint I gave her. She should be done by now. The one standing beside me is her body double — a puppet I'm directly controlling — while her true body is back in our lab, finishing the real gate.
I blink as the gate before me lights up. She's done — the connection is live. Grinning, I open my Omni-Tool and interface with the system. Everything reads green. Perfect. I activate the gate.
A brilliant blue swirl blooms inside the frame — a wormhole, stable and spinning. Cheers and gasps echo through the room, but I ignore them. My focus stays locked on the gate.
"Testing the connection. Sending probing drones."
I guide a drone forward, letting it glide through the wormhole. The transition should be instantaneous, but this model is built to scan the passage itself — to peer into the space between the two relay gates.
It will gather data that I need to know if this is safe, and data that I need to expand the technology.
'Father, it's working. I have the drone. The readings are all green.'
Alice's voice comes through the Omni-Tool, calm and clear. I glance at the incoming data and smile. Everything checks out — no radiation, no dimensional bleed. The gate is completely stable. The drone is also able to scan the Conduit, and it is stable. It is ready for use.
Turning around, I find my people smiling proudly, while the locals stare at me in stunned silence. My team's already used to my nonsense, it seems. Oh well — can't keep blowing minds forever.
"It's a success! This is a gate between my world and this world. So!" I spread my arms with a grin. "Who wants to visit our world?!"
And that's when all hell breaks loose.
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With the relay gates working, I can take Genesis back home and start harvesting the asteroids scattered around the solar system. The Fabricator can produce anything it has a blueprint for, as long as energy feeds it. However, it also has another method of manufacture: feeding the Fabricator with raw matter.
It is an Energy–Matter / Matter–Energy fabricator.
That's why I installed a Harvester Array that sends swarms of drones carrying nanites to strip asteroids and even dwarf planets. What? Those asteroids are free — and I'm not letting them sit idle. I want to put a Star Harvester in place to harvest stars that have no life-bearing planets, but I need to expand Genesis first.
The point of harvesting asteroids is to build an army for Alice to command. We need a crew — not for the ship's piloting (Alice can control Genesis herself) but for maintenance. She needs units to care for the ship's systems.
I also need fighters. An android crew makes a solid fighting force. And Auxiliary Craft. I decided to fabricate two Corvette-class Voidcraft: 120 meters long, 50 meters wide, and 12 meters tall.
They have a two-meter-thick hull made of a composite metal that soaks up kinetic impacts and disperses some energy strikes. They share Genesis's Cloaking Field, letting them slip past advanced scanners. Each has a Hard-Light projector that throws a blue shield—very effective against kinetic attack, and decent against energy weapons.
Each corvette mounts a single Tachyon Lance that fires a superluminal particle beam. Supporting that are eight missile pods arrayed around the hull for mid- to close-range engagements. The pods can fire multiple missile types, either single missiles or in volleys.
The last production run is a mecha: an ARKS Interception Silhouette (A.I.S.) from the Phantasy Star Universe, though I upgraded and modified the original mech. It now operates in an atmosphere and a vacuum. Its primary role is boarding actions or land-assault missions.
It uses the same barrier tech as the Corvette and a slightly downsized reactor. Anti-gravity fields let it hover; a thruster system handles space maneuvers.
Armaments: twin wrist-mounted rotary autocannons firing 30 mm explosive or penetrator rounds. A back-mounted missile pod holds twelve missiles and can be reloaded in the field by a mini-Fabricator that produces ammo for both the autocannons and the pod.
For close combat, the mech has forearm plasma-blade emitters — dual blades for the win.
I shiver a little as I watch the Fabricator do its job and smile. There's a twinge of dissatisfaction at not building the thing with my own hands, but it's a 14-meter-tall mech stuffed to the gills with tech.
Handcrafting it would take ages — time I don't have. These three constructs alone chew through almost an entire day.
No way I can hand-make the mech, especially while preparing to expand the ship. Yeah — I want to expand Genesis and add systems to let me live on this ship for a very long time, and platforms to run genetic experiments.
Not on living people. Not how you're thinking. I want to test cloning, stasis, and carbonite-style freezing, and exotic biology from the Star Wars tech tree. I'll run prototypes on synthetic flesh first to see how it behaves before I dive deeper into bioengineering.
I want to see if I can reproduce something like the Astartes project from Warhammer 40k with my geneseed.
That's why I need to create a synthetic human or faunus before offering the procedure to Sienna. Speaking of Sienna, she's calling from Kuo Kuana. I activate my Omni-Tool and answer.
"Yes?"
"Orin. Are you on Genesis right now?"
"Yes. I'm still harvesting the floating asteroids. Why?"
"There's trouble. Alternate Sienna needs help. Her people see a massive Grimm tide coming. She says it arrives in two hours. They need our help. I think it's time to show them our full military."
"Ah — so you want me to unlock the big guns, huh?"
"That's right. Can you do that?"
"Sure. Be there in five minutes."
"Understood."
I look up and call, "Alice, take care of the projects here. I need to return to Remnant."
"I understand, Father."
Her voice plays through the speaker. I nod and walk to the Teleportarium, where another relay gate waits. I activate it, set the destination to Remnant, and step through. A breath later, I materialize in my lab.
I leave the gate and head to the armory. Time to prepare for a big fight.
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