The Last Guardian

Part 2 Beetles and Infostructure

Sophia had no idea what was going on a massive metal door had saved her from the wolf that was hunting her but now she was trapped. There was a funny noise and then the dim lights in the room had brightened to the point it felt like she was outside in the middle of the day. She wasn't sure what type of tunnel she was in, but everything was tilted slightly to one side and judging by the fact she had to climb up into a doorway upside down. In many places, the tunnels had collapsed and in others, there were doors she couldn't open. She tried to explore for a few hours before she finally gave up and found a relatively safe looking hole in a pile of rubble. She had to back into it on her stomach to fit but that meant next to nothing was going to come looking for her. She did her best to curl up and stay warm as she hugged her bag of herbs to her chest. She needed to get out of there and get them to her village as soon as possible to help her mother. Austin watched as the small human child crawled into a hole to sleep. He had no ability to look outside or check the local time so he could only guess. Though it must have been rather late for her to be this tired.

He-He was annoyed to discover that he was yes in fact upside down and if that wasn't bad enough what little of the ship, he had access to was broken into three pieces. It was likely that more of the ship had survived but he couldn't directly connect to it. The part of the ship he was primarily based in was near the rear engine module. While the engines had broken away from the ship for the most part a cable connection still remained. He had even managed to establish a wireless connection to another part of the ship. Since it wasn't part of the three that had a connection to the reactor and its capacitor banks it would be stuck on what limited battery power was available. Which was far more limited than he'd like. He couldn't try and switch the systems on without risking the connection. Altogether though he was definitely not going to be flying out of this one. He would likely have to build a subterranean facility and scrap most if not all of the ship he still had access to. While relocating any functional infrastructure. His first priority had to be a very simple mining unit to clear out enough space so he could begin to set up the bare minimum infrastructure. The reactor, assembly bays, and refineries, could all be disassembled and reassembled relatively easily with the few construction units he already had on hand. Once he had a way to start processing resources and constructing more complex units. He could worry about expanding his infrastructure and moving himself to a more stable network. He could easily rig up a hardline connection once the AI core was built and just transfer over. Un-until then he was safe enough for now. Thankfully after a few rough tests, he was able to establish that the surviving infrastructure was partially capable of functioning in its current state. It was mostly designed to work in zero gravity so the main refinery unit that refined and processed whatever he fed into it worked. The ability to move resources throughout the ship or make anything more than resource blanks was currently beyond him. It-it was pretty much just dumping the resource blanks in the middle of the room. It couldn't even cool them properly so that was a problem one he had partially been able to account for by setting up a tractor beam emitter to create for lack of a better word a catcher's Mitt. He had prioritized his drones to work their way toward the unnetworked facility to establish a network connection. He was mostly making his educated guess on what had, roughly been where, when the ship was still intact. He was extremely relieved when he discovered what was in fact a drone bay. The old fighter drone bay to be exact. While he had lost his old fighter drones it had a collection of maintenance drones in storage. While they lacked the power cells like his specialized units those units could be used to recharge some of the repair drones. He had one of the larger mining drones still in there, but it was designed for zero G and was more like a small spacecraft. He could probably repurpose it with a little work to be a large scale excavator but that would take time and a lot more complex tools that he currently didn't have. While the bay wasn't large enough to fulfill all his requirements it was a decent start for his new facility. At the very least he could start moving some of the manufacturing bays into the room.