Fortuna Verto

25-Orderly Distribution

Another nine days passed since the temporal visit, time the girls spent immersing themselves in normal routines. With how simple things had gotten in that time, it was all too easy to feel relaxed.

Through that time, Axln devoted her time to her studies, with her efforts landing her with a base reading comprehension even without her circlet. She had even adjusted her speech to a really believable accent, she had all of the sounds down really well. In turn, her studies had shifted more to a research of instrumentation and elements, possibly her weakest areas of knowledge at this point. Considering she had a knack for revising the function of an instrument so long as the principles flowed correctly, it was obvious that her understanding of the extent of such principles was a limitation of her own abilities. However, as the greatest expert in the Terran Mythos in the world by virtue alone of having lived a life with such technology, she was spending quite a lot of time with archivers who had questions of their own records. It didn't help that, after all this time, the mythos had really lost track of reality, overall feeling far more like a strange science fiction than what she had really experienced. That was not to say that she was ignorant to such fictions made reality though, the starlight citadel was still pretty much that made real. Luna had even started offering rift transit to the citadel so that they could unload that treasure cache she had found, a brand new vault of the archives made simply for the storage and research of the stuff found there.

Xwyhr had even shown up at a point, taking Axln out shopping as had originally been promised. Since then, Axln had unexpectedly found herself the proud owner of what was being called a cell. The small communications instrument was also a research utility, clearly similar to the cellphones back on earth.. the similarity of name possibly not being a coincidence. The similarities ended pretty quickly after that though, the instrument being far too advanced for the name. The thing was about as information exposed as a holo, able to take readings and scans, she hadn't even yet figured out the full extent of its capabilities either. Sure, she had to actually physically carry it, but the thing was completely in tune with the elements, it was an actual multi-tool device.. instrument.. whatever. Such a novelty took a lot of her attention, even though Xwyhr still had plenty else to show her. It seems Axln's sister was a cosmetology student, actively researching cosmic bodies of the stars. Axln had to wonder though if Xwyhr was finding such studies boring, because the girl had honestly started spending quite a lot of opportunities to instead just casually go places around the academy to simply spend time with her, doing nothing actually important. As a result at least, Axln had gotten really used to the layout of the entire academy, exploring new areas each night and day.

Lyun meanwhile had been finding plenty of opportunities to do her own tinkering. One of her most ambitious projects had been to work upon the power armor suits they had found. The things were a marvel of instrumentation, with a lot of key units that processed functions even she remained unaware of. However, everything was so bulky, the scatter of instruments packed into a density of metal that felt more like space padding. Even without deducing what stuff could do, everything could be dramatically compressed, units the size of her hand reduced to a sliver of the size. Most of the processing occurred in the base unit, a tiny thing that took almost no space at all, so much space was wasted simply in elemental saturation. The thing used some of the worst capacitors she had ever seen, not even using a decent kyuemu shard. Simply reducing the areas around instruments broke down the size of everything to being little more in size than the shard and core themselves, like really tiny buttons. The bulky metals were yet another thing. Of course, it was obvious that the purpose was to provide protection, but such expensive metals were just simply inefficient, even rather slow. Sure, it was an appeal of the Mythos, but she had seen real mythos protection, either a holo's kinetic factor or a sheet of metal that had a visibly low destiny factor. In fact, she had worked with cybernetics, core metals that could compact material durability at a very light density. If such protection wasn't as light as casual clothes without compromising in this current durability, it wasn't good enough. More so, crystal composites were perfectly okay, there was much more she could do with some good minerals than some difficult metals anyway. At least, that's how things were here.