"Stand by"
"…And here we are… no, I took a car, faster that way… Velazcos came here to draw, following a local reporting group, he scouted the place, the people, the gangs; shared some pictures… blocked the location, safer that way, reporters were shot or taken. But I know a friend who could find a speck of dust of any country, so I think this is the spot where that piece was made, we are on the slop over the green town…"
"It is different to see the place in the light of day, it's making me like the painting even more… lets go see if we can find where the light of the painting came from… no, no more BAZ5…"
"Huff, nearly there, we need to reach the last house, but looking at this place, now really abandoned, I can see more of what the painter wanted to show; look, black drapes, worn down by time, and at that time perhaps to add up to the scene for the raiders, to make the houses look empty… dang it…"
"…okay, I'm back… no, no; I'm fine, just my pride… so, this small town was made beside the farming land, it has always been their main work, there are like twenty to thirty or houses, but this area here, this hill was manmade… usually to level the farming ground, so, Velazcos painting was evoking hope by using a shimmer of light coming through that basement door… and it is chain locked, of course; let me see…"
"It will fit, let me hook it… lights on and off we go; big basement, if I'm right I need to move left, nothing here… well a pantry, buckets, and an opened brick chest of a sort… not a chest but a well, there is no water so let's see where it takes us… wow… I was right… Velazcos shared some photos of a cave, wasn't expecting this were those caves, with enough room for people to stay here, maybe by crouching a little…"
"So, we came down from a well this most likely is an aquifer, my guess is that later they made a new connection to a pipe, over there, and the well at the center town is where the water might be right now, maybe there is more during rain season… or perhaps it's already dried… back there must be center town, and to the other side we will reach the slope from below… the path is going down…"
"This is not a natural pathway anymore, I bet they built it years before the war gangs era; then those guys came, blocked the pathway to get water all for themselves redirecting the extra water from the rainy season… but when the levels were down the people in the town used it to their advantage, to hide goods and people, let's not go further…"
"Come back little guy… and grab the hook, and reel… optimized… so; odds against them, short on food, and vehicles to move everything and everyone away… but knowing full well where they were standing, while being brave enough to not give up…"
"And also knowing the enemy, which to be honest are not known for being bright, a person I met at school once said that evil doers take the easier path to get ahead; in this case they never thought that by drying the aquifer that fast, they would give the townsfolk a place to hide… every time"
"But that is not everything I wanted to show you, the art is good; I mean, I love it, hope is a powerful fuel to connect us into finding a way to solve our problems together, but there is an interesting thing as well over the hill… which has to do with the architecture of the tower, in this case its infrastructure; like I told you before, even with the biodome… yeah the nest…"
"…they made the case that they could not grow every type of plant or tree there, choosing to plant there some with short roots, and keeping young ones there until the right moment; there are some for show that look pretty and weird, and the ones for farming are taken here, to the functional farms around the tower, this one makes corn…"
"I didn't count the distance properly, nor how steep the slope would be… and now I need to stop talking or I will get more tired before reaching the top… so see you in a bit."
"As requested, Luka4.3Kj sent you the information; the estimations from the research group were made, Thyberius Doppel was informed, a summary of tomorrow's agenda has been added, would you like to add anything else?"
– No need, I'm going to bed after a shower, draw me a bath, display the notifications, the report can wait, begin with rhodium as usual. – Armand had classified the notifications in order of value rather than in order of importance, at times it was more valuable for him a meeting with senate than a lab emergency at the nest given than he was of no use when it came to natural sciences; this time rhodium intended to describe a situation in the economy of the country or one of his businesses, an update on one of his projects, a potential merging, a new discovery, one of his deals coming to conclusions, or just a person searching for an opportunity to work at the tower.
Platinum, had news reports, talks about the country or the tower, and regular communications with the people who worked directly with him; but the diamond, those were at a level that only he and Luk4 knew about, those were status of advancements, like the tower being completed; or direct threats to the country, the building people, or his secret projects. – So, the data transfer wasn't the issue, the amount of data can be transferred correctly to other satellites… different kind of data, nearly the same data load of required calculations.
"The professor suggests reducing the data transfer five percents per day until we reach an adequate temperature"
– That seems a bit much; ask him if he could do it five percent per week; if the answer is no, then we will use his plan; but do ask him to double check the data that's being received, and that he does it tomorrow while the mine is closed for the next few days.
"It will be done"
– Now show me the evaluation.
"The rest of the levels have no advance of significance"
– Between range, a bit in a hurry, some stress, extra hours denied, could the northwestern team be better? If so, it is a human factor, no matter how much information we shove down the main server, it is not a matter of knowing all, but of what? People? No, they are only three persons working there, managing a side of a continent, they are not enough in some areas… the information perhaps, we know more about those times that we do about the old civilizations discovering farming… so the value of all the information or the value of the right information? Meaning a human thing, how they manage perhaps. Ask Thy to do a background check on the character's creation, they are supposed to be creating specific characters and not random people.
"it will be done sir"
– We have an old teacher who is still a gamer educating the people; an economist running the country, and a character designer with an art history major. We had been working well with the other two… no setbacks, good grasp at the work, but their statistics are the same as the rest before she came along.
I don't get it, and then again, how did Gilbert manages to have so much faith in her, she is ordinary, and likes to be it… we use several of her characters… the hallucinations frame is in the parameters of weeks… she has a dark account, that is something… her best characters have been used for world leaders, Cayo, Americo, Oglethorpe; heroes of old, mythical lore, fantasy, battle style, battle formation, the Bering Strait, she wrote Scar the Neanderthal; so, we have romantic in our midst.
"The evaluation team suggest an incursion, the team is nearing a confrontation with some southern army, a naval battle with other team, perhaps after the supervisors visit"
– Would like to see a night battle, sounds promising. – Armand had his curiosity's peaked since Olivia managed to get the job at the KUo'SAR's central by simply walking in and asking for one; a friend of him Gilbert had already spoke highly of her, once he refused to do the job Olivia was doing with her video channel; but then she just walked by into the last floor of flower bud and asked for the job of creating characters for that project.
Armand thought he had managed to keep it a secret for twenty years, and yet in a single day it came crumbling down by her presence, nobody could find any ill in her intentions, her background was spotless, and her reasons were sounded, even her explanation as to how she was able to find out about the project checked; and after securing the leak Olivia found, Thy also accepted her for the job.
"There is an early morning battle set in some ship logs, and there will be enough residual energy to orchestrate the battle…"
– Let us make it fun for the rest, tell them about it, make it an event, it should take no more than an hour; shall we keep them there or make them watch? Leave her there and put the other two in watch, we shall see what she can do on her own; the southern team will have also a director working directly during the battle, but remove their administrations rights, they will only move and talk, no additions of any sort, only what it is available; now I'm going to bed.
"It will be done"