Taking Space 2

- Departure -

Catherine stood on the command deck of Alf staring out the viewport at the half finished three hundred feet in diameter Lion and Lamb mobile base command deck now appropriately named by popular vote Zion. The millesimal armed construction vessel that they had paid well over a billion crypto for danced about it poking and prodding as it slowly but surely added to the structure. A long train of drones continuously added resources to its hopper then made their way back to the three massive mining arrays they had purchased for a little under ten million crypto a piece.

Already the asteroids around the construction site were starting to thin out and by her calculations they would eat through the entire asteroid field in four months they would also need at least three to four more asteroid fields of this size before all was said and done.

Finding said off the books asteroid fields was going to be a chore but nothing compared to procuring four more sets of construction and mining vehicles like she had help obtain. Well sort of help obtained, her husband unbeknownst to the rest of them had purchased the current set from a company that couldn't move them out of the sector due to the governmental regulations in the area. She the ghost of Snoire and several other lionhearted ghost had spent the last twelve hours delicately arranging the transportation of them, and then their sudden disappearance.

Such a thing happening once probably turned quite a few heads such a thing happening twice could send the entire galaxy into a tizzy. They would have to be much more delicate in their next appropriation of equipment.

Daniel's impetuous nature had once again put them in a rather hard spot, though she couldn't be too mad with him like the others were because of his mistake she had gotten to spend some time with Snoire whose real name despite her elaborate mysterious profile saying it was Snow Fire Snoire turned out to be Katerina and she was surprisingly a lot like her. Catherine glanced back at everyone diligently working and sighed, It was sad to think that Katerina and the others would be permanently gone in just a little bit under an hour.

"Ready for controlled transfer," Zephyr stated.

Stephanie walked up beside Catherine, several holograms floating in front of her. "Are you sure this is a good idea?"

"I'm sure," Steven assured Stephanie. "All the protocols have already been installed and even though we don't have a personality matrix set up yet it's perfectly capable of controlling its own construction."

"That's what I'm worried about," Stephanie muttered.

Catherine looked back out the viewport at the giant circular command deck that was being constructed and her eyes drifted to the exact spot where the Myrmidon's AI core had been installed. Even though it was common practice to have an AI control this type construction work she had to admit she wasn't exactly comfortable with the idea herself.

"AI takeover has always been a threat, but I personally much prefer her having control then you, just the thought of you having control of three world eaters scares me to no end," Daniel teased

Stephanie rolled her eyes in agitation. "Weren't you supposed to be confined to quarters or something?"

Daniel shrugged nonchalantly.

"No, I just revoked his access to the accounts," Michael answered for him.

"I still don't see what the big deal is I got an excellent price on the millenarian and the world eaters," Daniel moped.

"The price is not the problem and you know that," Stephanie stated then reached down and tapped the hologram. "All right releasing control."

Steven who stood beside his control counsel nodded and tapped his own screen. "Good, beginning transfer."