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(BUS)Chapter 16: I ship it
🕑 Added 2024-09-09 14:58:11 +0000 UTCI left the traits unintegrated because I wanted to collect much more in hopes of getting a better graded trait after fusing them with my already existing traits. The only trait I could fuse now due to it not being a part of my current traits was the [Bone regeneration] trait. I didn't have any healing traits so this one was a standout trait that effected nothing once integrated. I retrieved my house from my inventory and went inside before activating stealth mode. That was a fascinating discovery that I had only found out about coincidentally.-
See Hammerlock pointed out how vulnerable having a big glowing portal with one way in and out of it would leave me if any enemies could track down where I set the place up. I doubted the Eridians would have left such a fucking stupid shortcoming in something like this and I was right. Near the inside of the portal archway in the house there was a small orange crystal switch that upon hitting turned the portal and archway invisible. You could still enter the place by going through the portal but you'd never see it before you did so.-
This in addition to the teleporter room meant that I was suddenly one of the hardest motherfuckers to track down in the six galaxies, or I will be once I get a bunch more planets marked. Right now I just had Baal three, Pandora and Eden six marked but at some point I'll have every life planet marked. Anyways I stealthed my house and immediately integrated that nice set of traits to get that sweet healing factor for my bones. I felt a bit of an itch as the traits got added to my body but otherwise I felt nothing change but that was to be expected. -
I had no broken or missing bones so naturally the trait didn't DO anything at the moment but was just waiting for the bone damage to activate. With that done I put away my house again and continued my trek. The dirt crunched under my boots as I walked down the road and I couldn't help but marvel at the lack of industrialization I could see. In fact according to my history lessons Eden six was nearly untouched by mankind with the exception of the few habitations and logging apparatus.-
Despite this however the place looked downright apocalyptical as there were crashed spaceships all over the place from the planets weird ability to drag the things into itself if you didn't take care to keep that from happening. Strangely though none of the locals thought to strip the ships for parts even though that would have been an extremely easy way to craft a ship of your own. It was a superstition of sorts that the crashed ships were now a part of Eden six and thus you'd get fucking haunted or some shit like that if you scav'd the things.-
That wasn't going to stop me though since as far as I was concerned these ships were just waiting to be repurposed and I was more than happy to do so. Any loose piece of metal or tech that I came across went straight into my house in an empty room to be fed to the fabricator later. Most of the tech was waterlogged or infested with plants or Ratch. Disgusting creatures out of fucking nightmares those creatures were. Like if you hybridized roaches and rats and then making the resulting offspring way larger.-
Ratches multiplied extremely fast, were famously hostile and destroyed whole environments with their ravenous consumption of literally anything they could get their big ass teeth through. Trait wise thought I had to admit they truly were blessed creatures.
{Ratch
Lifeforce: 600+
Traits: [Armored hide-Uncommon grade]- 1000 units, [Strong vitality-uncommon grade]- 1000 units, [Colony mind-Common grade]- 500 units, [Caloric bolstering-Rare grade]- 5000 units, [Poor vision-Trash grade]- 500 units, [Rapid reproduction-Common grade]- 500 units, [Multilimbed-Common grade]- 500 units.}
This was just the most common "type" of Ratch too as there were four others as well. There was the swarm, the defender, the hunter and the broodmother types as well even though they were all technically the same species. It was sorta like how ants in a colony came in different shapes and sizes based on what role they had.-
So far I had only encountered the drone or common and the swarm type that were basically just a bunch of small flying Ratch grouped up to tear apart anything they found like piranhas. They also didn't have any traits beyond those that a common Ratch would. I LOVED these creatures though because their strong vitality meant they had a lot of lifeforce and usually were found in groupings no smaller than fifteen and going up to whole ass colonies of hundreds of individuals.-
I myself came across no less than fifty as I scav'd these downed ships near the manor. Thanks to this I was able to get over 30,000 units of lifeforce after merely four hours of scaving and killing. Of course I also grabbed two extra copies of [Armored hide] and [Strong vitality]. I thought about grabbing [Caloric bolstering] as well but it had the rather bothersome downside of increasing your metabolism drastically. Still this large amount of lifeforce finally let me grab some traits I had been eyeing hungrily since I was on Baal three.-
[Corrosion resistance-Uncommon grade]- 1000 units and [Energy projection-Epic grade]- 20,000 units. The corrosion resistance skill went nicely with my fire resistance version but the real catch was [Energy projection]. It knocked me back down to 5,410 units of lifeforce to get all three copies of [Corrosion resistance] as well as the one copy of [Energy projection] but it was SO fucking worth it. The reason I say this was because of what energy projection allowed me to do, remote harvest lifeforce and traits.-
This was gods damn game changing as until now I had to physically touch the corpses to drain lifeforce or traits from them but with this single trait I could now grab everything in a fifteen foot radius. It was ominous as shit when I did though as threads of red energy flew through the air whenever I did. I also still had to touch anything still alive if I wanted to see what I could gain from it without killing it first. Merely adding a ranged aspect to my powers increased their utility by an ass load as If i didn't want any traits from a thing I could run through a whole group of the things gunning them down while simultaneously draining the lifeforce.-
I honestly spent maybe three days stripping the crashed ships of anything I thought was worth grabbing and at the end of each day broke it down in the fabricator and had it rebuilt smaller and more up to date based on specs I ripped off the echo net. That was the awesome thing about the crafter thing, it didn't give a flying fuck whether or not minimizing a part should be possible or not.-
Just from recycling maybe twelve ships I was halfway to making a ship that should be theoretically impossible with humanities current manufacturing abilities. The only really annoying part was that I couldn't minimize the thrusters or implosion drive or the whole ship would be nothing more than a fast hovercraft when it was finally done. Both of those pieces of the ship weren't very small either as the implosion drive that made FTL travel possible was the size of an African elephant and naturally the thrusters needed to be large enough or powerful enough to move such a large amount of heft off the ground and into orbit quickly. -
Even with this being the case I was well on my way to creating the smallest "manmade" galactic ship ever. I wasn't looking so bad on lifeforce either after slaughtering Ratch, Jabber and Saurians alike in droves. My first encounter with Jabbers was interesting as the clever little shits threw exactly that at me when they saw my back turned. Jabbers were a fairly smart species of simian creatures closely resembling a mix of Spider monkeys and Mandrills. General shape wise they were closer to the latter with long arms and short legs.-
They however tended to be closer to the size of a Spider monkey and had long prehensile tails that they used like third arms. As a species they were typically yellow eyed and striped with a long fucking list of mischief both benign and malicious attributed to them. Throwing literal shit at people who weren't paying attention was amongst the more harmless of pranks they regularly play, didn't mean I didn't slaughter the whole fucking troop though. Got some sweet traits from my angry retribution too.
{Jabber
Lifeforce:400-1300
Traits: [Dexterous hands-Common grade]- 500 units, [Clever mind-Uncommon grade]- !000 units, [Strong nose-Uncommon grade]- 1000 units, [Strong body-Common grade]- 500 units, [Coarse fur-Common grade]- 500 units.}
All of these traits save for the last one were well worth grabbing an extra two copies of at least. Considering the troop had almost ten members I didn't suffer a loss in lifeforce either. I earned only a little under 2,000 units of lifeforce from the troop even after grabbing the traits I wanted putting me a 6,310 at that time since it was shortly after I grabbed [Energy projection]. I ended up spending a week just hanging around this part of Eden six kinda ignoring my hunting goal in favor of stripping parts from the crashed ships to make my own ship.-
That wasn't to say I hadn't gotten a fuck ton of lifeforce thanks to the Jabbers and Ratch that tended to live near or IN these ships not liking me doing so. 147,289 units of lifeforce, mostly from the Ratch by the end of the week. That was a frankly crazy amount of lifeforce that was nearly a hundred times what the colossus had. I had also made an estimation thanks to the six months learning time that I hadn't gotten any new lifeforce in that one hundred units of lifeforce was more or less equal to one year of life.-
That meant even if I did nothing but sit on my thumbs all day I had a lifespan of over fourteen thousand year at this exact moment. Can you even fucking imagine what that would be like? All the time you could ever want at the tip of your fingertips. Me though? That shit was like fucking toilet paper with how valuable it was to me. If I ever made a planetwide killer I could harvest all the lifeforce on a planetary scale which was likely in the Billions or even trillions of units.-
So much time that at the low low cost of genocide on a planetary scale seemed well worth it. The only prerequisites needed to pull that off is being able to cover a whole fucking planet with my powers and to somehow be able to kill everything on a planet, that's it. When you consider that there were billions of life planets in just the six galaxies you can suddenly comprehend just how busted my powers were, or rather could be if I went full evil douchebag.-
Obviously I wasn't going to do something so absolutely evil but the idea still stood.
'Well actually if it was like a planet full of Ratch I might. Should probably fuse and integrate these traits while I am here too.' I thought with a chuckle as I finally fabricated the last part of my ship.
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Alexander Drake
Lifeforce: 147,289
Integrated Traits: [Gun expertise-Uncommon grade], [Clever mind-Uncommon grade],[Enhanced senses-Rare grade], [Omega body-Rare grade],[Dense bones-Uncommon grade],[Armored hide-Uncommon grade], [Fire resistance-Uncommon grade], [Bone regeneration-Uncommon grade], [Corrosion resistance-Uncommon grade], [Energy projection-Epic grade]
Stored traits:[Predator muscles-Common grade]X4, [Tough skin-Common grade]X4, [Strong teeth-Common grade]X4, [Dexterous hands-Common grade]X2, [Clever mind-Uncommon grade]X2, [Strong nose-Uncommon grade]X2, [Strong body-Common grade]X2, [Armored hide-Uncommon grade]X2, [Strong vitality-uncommon grade]X2.
Comments
Loskro
Meh I'll fix it before officially posting it
Acolyte_Of_Boredom
Don’t know if this will still get proof read before posting or if it’s already past the proof read but you’ve made a mistake with the math for the years he will live after that harvest it should be 1400ish years not 14 thousand
Christian Jeffress
Good 👍
Loskro
Yeah just taking a day
Christian Jeffress
Hope you’re doing well
Christian Jeffress
Ah, understandable
Loskro
Of course he could but at some point it would become useless as any "excess" he lost would be so potent it would destroy most disposal methods.
Christian Jeffress
Thank you very much for another entertaining chapter. At a curiosity, could he build himself a reinforced and security protected capsule he can go into when integrating traits? Something that would keep him safe while also allowing him to clean up the resulting mess incredibly quickly.
SilverWolf
Thanks for the chapter
