Sentient Worm

Refit and Design

Refit and design

With her lab now set up, and the appearance at a Relay looming, Margulis takes her portable engineering setup to the old Orokin lab and looks at it thoughtfully. The organic suspension tube looks like it could be promising. Quickly heading back to the Orbiter with her Mag she looks at the foundry.

"Ordis, is there any way to get designs out of the foundry?"

"No Ma'am, the system was specifically designed to store all designs as energy imprints, so that they could be purged in the event the orbiter was compromised."

"Two questions, why do you call me Ma'am and the other two Operator, or occasionally Lotus? Also, where has this sudden knowledge come from?"

"Ma'am is Orokin, Ordis precepts preclude addressing you as anything but. Ordis has also been communicating with Cephalons Suda and Cy about the history of the Orbiter. It is frustrating as Ordis has forgotten so much. Though Ordis is starting to believe it was self-inflicted during Ordis' capture by the Grineer."

"Mercury Mines, this is unacceptable. Ordis, I need you to dock the Orbiter in the dry dock, and then take the lander and go do something elsewhere."

"Ma'am what are you going to do?"

"I'm going to overhaul the systems in here, so that things like the foundry aren't crippled. I'll also give you a better computing core and powerplant while I'm at it. Might as well add a prototyping system to the foundry, as well as a recording function so that we no longer need to keep looking for the same blueprints all the time. Why they decided to call them blue prints I have no idea, they're really skeletal structures that the system grows the finished product on. While I've got the ship in the dry dock I'll also repair the damaged rooms so that they're airtight again. That will give us some more space, maybe..."

Ordis quietly docks the Orbiter and leaves while Margulis continues to think aloud.

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It's almost two weeks later when an irritated Anet boards the Orbiter, "Margulis, what do you think you're doing?"

Margulis pulls her head out of a panel in the wall, "Oh, hey I've made you a series of gardens below the Dry Dock, just take the elevator from the back. It's two floors down. Each one has its own EmMat and interface system as well as a whole pile of organic material I bought cheap from the corpus. I recommend switching off your sense of smell before you go in though."

Anet turns around to look at her new gardens before, with an effort, she stops and turns back to Margulis. "That's not what I'm here for. You've been holed up in here for 8 days, Taylor's been playing in your lab, and I've been stuck using Cy to run Railjack missions because the Orbiter is currently out of commission. We also need to make an appearance at a relay in two days time. You need to get the Orbiter operational in the next few hours and then work with me to differentiate our spectres."

"Oh, has it really been that long? Sorry, I lost track of time. Let me just put this panel back on and it's done. Oh, and I turned the old Orokin lab into a spectre design studio. The specimen tube will how hold a spectre and allow you to change the features and textures. There's also a wardrobe function, where you can upload a scan of clothes, or scan them there and then. Those can then be applied to the spectre and recoloured as required. What else was there. Oh, yes if you use implants to do the design, the spectre will have a full suite of implants. If you use the simple interface, it will only have the implants required to use those interfaces. There, done."

"Margulis, if all you needed to do was replace a panel, what have you been doing?"

"Oh, well I designed your gardens and got Emmy to make them. I upgraded the Orbiter systems to use full Orokin tech with the simple interfaces left behind. Then I redesigned the systems so that EmMats are decoupled from the computer system. I tested them too with my sentient body. They work 5% slower, but in return making a direct connection, as another Sentient would do, requires that you manually control 10 to the 7 processes individually. Granted, that's to make a strand of DNA. However, connecting through the implants provides a simplified interface, still more complicated than the ones in my lab, but I think it would be safe to roll it out as a blueprint to the ships cephalons. I did a similar thing with the Mod station, it works the same way through the simple interface. But if you use your implants it has a full programming suite and can be used to copy Mods onto new chips too. I've upgraded the arsenal so that it doesn't use the pad anymore, instead it uses EmMats that I've installed around the ship. The transference room now has three sentient compatible pods in it, and I've hidden all the hideous cabling. It's also now the default location that our Warframes will appear. On the second floor there's a standalone maintenance room with research grade EmMats and sensors in it. I've also made a separate entertainment room to the existing Living Quarters. There was one more thing I did. Oh that was it. I made a cuddling room that also holds Taylor's plushie collection. It has the most extravagant bed I could remember seeing, set at floor level as well as shelves around the room for all of the Plushies."