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[Transcripts] Disparity- Chapter 7: In the Lap of Luxury

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Xant found himself holding on for dear life, his body crammed into a vehicle it clearly wasn’t designed for. His tail was squished between the tall seat and the frame of the machine, his legs too far apart for them to sit comfortably in the narrow footwell, so he was almost sideways in the forward-facing seat, but that also gave him a clear view of its pilot’s insane method of ‘driving’ the shaking contraption.
Jasmine didn’t even need to look where her feet and hands were going, moving them simultaneously to shift in and out of gear by instinct, all the while singing harsh, deep-throated songs at the top of her lungs.
Xant had been observing the human since her revival, and while she had had her ‘aggressive’ outbursts, brought on through stress and despair respectively, to see her exercise such aggression was fascinating. She was entranced, focused on some unknown ‘enemy’ and screaming her pent up emotions at ‘it’. Xant had never seen such emotional power simply blasted into the atmosphere without worry or consequence, but he couldn’t deny he was caught up in the triumph and relief the song gave her.
With practised ease, Jasmine stopped the car at the base of the enormous craft, then gleefully jumped out to climb atop the roof again. “Up here, Xant!” she called.
The doctor squirmed his way out of the car and stood on the ground, looking up at the human. She pointed to a small thin ladder welded to the side of the ship’s stern. “We need to climb that to get on board.”
Xant stared at her and then at the wide jump needed to cover that distance.
“Is this another attempt at humour?” The human did laugh, so he supposed he was right.
“Well, we could always wait for Rynard to throw you!” She smiled, making a hand motion of hefting a ball. “Like tossing a dwarf!” She giggled.
Xant for the first time questioned Jasmine’s intelligence.
“Perhaps we left you in stasis too long…”
He quickly examined the gap. It was going to be an extraordinary effort for him to climb atop the vehicle, let alone cross the divide with his physical ability alone. He tried to mimic Jasmine’s method of climbing on the car, but his hands and feet were not able to find the small gaps her narrower ones could find. In the end she had to pull him up, and felt the roof bow with his weight. From up top the distance to the ladder seemed even greater. “How exactly do you propose we climb the ladder from here?” he asked her, but Jasmine was still riding the exhilarating high of being ‘thunderstruck’.
“Like this!”
Without so much as a run-up Jasmine leapt towards the ladder and landed with precision, her elongated limbs showing an agility Xant had not considered during the physical examination. “Let me reframe the question,” he huffed. “How exactly do you expect me to climb the ladder from here?!” “Oh it’s not that far, it’s barely a jump!”
“Zenthi don’t ‘jump’.” “That offer for Rynard to throw you is still on the table.” Xant scoffed, took a deep breath and rationalised the situation.
He was in a military-grade suit, so while his weight and aerodynamics would be affected, his strength was increased and any fall damage negated through the armour and pain blocker chems. So, even if he fell, the only thing that would suffer would be his pride. Another uncomfortable thought peeked through the rationale.
He said he wanted to follow Jasmine. This would mean having to keep up with her. He couldn’t do that if he forever deliberated his shortcomings.
Xant inched closer to the edge of the car and Jasmine helpfully reached out to him, hanging precariously from the metal bars. “I’ll catch you!” She encouraged him. Her arms closing the distance boosted his confidence considerably, and he swayed his body back and forth, ready to leap. This would count as the most adventurous he had been in the steel suit, forever wary of Rynard’s warning of torn ligaments. Xant closed his eyes and pushed himself forward, the suit multiplying the force needed to get him across and almost smashing into the side of the yacht. Thankfully, Jasmine was able to correct her friend’s trajectory and guided his hands to the ladder’s sides, which he clung to for dear life. Jasmine gave a loud cheer. “You did it! Way to go, Xant!” And she patted his shoulder. “Now we just have to get to the top! Did you want to go first?”
Once again, he looked at the human as though she were lacking in common sense.
“How do I ‘go first’? You’re clearly ahead of me!” Jasmine could only smile as she maneuvered so only one hand and arm were on the ladder, her body swaying in the open air, unafraid of the drop below. “There you go! Now you’re clear. I’ll make sure you don’t fall!”
Xant shuddered, flattened his ears and forced himself to climb up the ladder. He could almost feel the thin aluminum bars being crushed under the strength of the suit, but one step at a time he climbed higher. The top was open, no hatch or easy step, so he had to scramble his way over and landed with a thud. By comparison, he heard Jasmine’s light footsteps make quick work of the ladder, and she was soon helping him up to his feet. “Careful,” she teased “you’ll scuff the deck!” “Scuff the what?...” “Take off your helmet, you’ll see things clearer!”
Warily, Xant let the locks of his helmet click and examined his surroundings. It was an ‘open air room’, the floor layered like in his office, multiple steps divided for different purposes, with a deep pit made of what looked like blue plastic as the focal point of the main room. Jasmine threw her arms open. “Welcome aboard, matey!” she announced. “Enjoy the pool deck!” “Pool? Was this filled with water-” Xant took a step closer but his ears were tickled by the sound underfoot. He had assumed the floor would have been of the same steel or plastics the ship was composed of but no, underneath him, the entire floor was made of wood. The doctor spluttered, reaching down to the floor to feel it. There was more wood here than he had seen in his entire lifetime, and humans used it for *flooring. *
“Ooh yeah, nothing beats a pristine hardwood deck, that’s why I told you not to scuff it.” Jasmine smiled, walking towards the glass doors. “Let’s check inside! I wonder if everything is still here?” Xant followed her. The whole building catered to a human’s sensibilities. He would be stepping into a truly alien environment.
And it was beautiful.
He was welcomed to a room detailed with wood and gold, whose glass windows shimmered even in the dim light. Displaced furniture, long couches and tables made of wood, extravagantly painted cloth with the shimmer of arvas pupa silk gathered dust, their beauty was comparable to imperial belongings. He ran a finger over the cushions and inspected the thin layer. “Phew! What a mess. Help me clean it up a bit…” Jasmine began lifting up an over turned chair, sliding it into a corner with an almost innate knowledge of where everything should go. The chairs, a long couch and two armchairs had all been pushed into the corner of the room the tables had slid to either end. Xant was almost too scared to touch anything. “What should I do?” he asked, afraid to risk any delicate work.
“We’ll start by dusting off the chairs, then I’ll tell you where they go, okay?”
“Alright...”
The chairs were covered in a soft cushiony material. Xant couldn't stop brushing his hand over them as he delicately placed the furniture, and was dismayed when he saw none of them had a hole for his tail.
“I’ll need help with this!” Jasmine called. The space beneath a large window was taken up by a long lounge, on which Jasmine promptly plonked herself. “Oh my god…I missed cushions.” She patted the space beside her. “Don't be shy! Take a load off!” “Just a moment.” Xant tapped his suit. He couldn't contain himself in steel any longer, the temptation to feel his new environment was too great. The suit splayed open and he was able to step out of it onto fluffy, soft carpet.
Xant lost himself rubbing his feet on the soft fibers. First wood, now fabric? It was obscene!
His own carpet was a precious momento, why would humans consider a laborious resource worth turning into a construction material?
“Is something wrong, Xant?”
“The floor, is this a common fixture?”
“The carpet? I mean, the owner was a madman to have white carpet on a boat, but if you can afford something like this you’re not cleaning it yourself.” Jasmine shrugged. “Carpet’s not uncommon, but generally going out of style because it's so hard to keep clean.”
Xant was both relieved and perplexed by the answer.
“So the reason it is not more common is maintenance?”
“Yeah, keeping carpet, let alone white carpet clean is a nightmare,” Jasmine explained, happy to be talking about the mundanity. “If you think the carpet is amazing you should try out the couch here!” Xant looked over the seat. It appeared all human furniture had a tall back support, with no consideration for large tails such as his own. He did spy a more accommodating stool, however, with the same cushiony substance on top.
“I think this might be more appropriate.” He flipped over the stool and sat, comfortably, very comfortably. He let his body relax as he took in more of the surroundings through naked eyes. There were still so many things thrown about. Cleaning against the wall next to his seat Xant spied an intricately carved container. It was rectangular, heavy and for whatever reason, had uniform, pyramid-shaped protrusions on the outside decorative surely, but the design made it difficult for him to hold. He had to be very careful picking it up.
Jasmine's eyes lit up when he inspected the object more closely, opening the stopper to sniff the contents within.
It smelled of disinfectant.
“Oh my god, yes!”
The human scrambled off the couch and started rummaging through the shelves in the lonely island bench.
“Jasmine?”
“Ah ha!” she cried triumphantly, pulling out another uniquely shaped bottle. “Now this is going to be great!” She skipped over to Xant, picking up more glass rectangles, handed him an empty one and placed his original find on the table. She poured out an amber liquid, a drop in his glass and a more substantial pour in hers.
“What is it?” Xant asked.
“Old enough to vote,” she giggled, then closed her eyes and took a small sip before exhaling and shivering pleasantly. “This is...well, I'm guessing it's older now, but aged whisky, a.k.a, human alcohol.”
Xant wrinkled up his nose.
“Is it supposed to be this colour?”
“Yes! When you drink it, you can taste the oak barrels and honey. But I know you guys use this for disinfectant, so, you get a drop if you're brave.”
“Considering what it does to your physiology, I doubt my own constitution can handle it.”
“Shame.” She shrugged and took another sip.
Xant couldn't taste it, but watched as Jasmine melted into relaxation.
“Ahhh, like drinking warm silk,” she described.
He took a sniff of the sample she gave him.
It was woody and sweet, but the second sniff burnt the inside of his nostrils. Xant graciously placed the ‘drink’ down, while Jasmine chuckled at his reaction.
“Yeah it’s not a drink for a first timer, I think it gets even more potent the longer it sits… and who knows how long we were floating out there.”
“By my best estimates, it could be anywhere between 10 to 1000 [quarters]. Calculating in the unexplored regions of the system, what is currently reachable by galactic council gates and the limit of stasis pods.” Xant informed her.
Jasmine sat quietly for a moment, staring into her glass, before she threw back her head and the drink in one go.
“Whoooo!” She coughed. “Okay, we've seen this room, what else is there to explore!” She swayed getting to her feet, but charged forward anyway. Xant followed close behind, in case she lost her footing, or incase the alcohol began interfering with her Freq control.
The hallways connecting the chambers were very narrow, almost too narrow for him, and all of them had such sharp ascents and descents. The human led inside to one of the many inner chambers, each one as tossed around as the last. There was an entire ‘library’ of paper books, another room dedicated to the act of ‘entertaining’, featuring a destroyed dataslate the size of an operating table, and smaller ‘bedrooms’ that appeared just to be filled with more cushiony furniture.
“And here is the master bedroom.” Jasmine pushed open the ornate wooden doors to reveal yet another spectacular room, almost as large as the entertainment deck, but was sparsely furnished, all Xant could see was that it contained a bed with tables either side, but the bed was nothing short of magnificent. The tapestry stretched across it was nothing short of breathtaking, where giant intertwining flowers embroidered with gold thread sprawled across its majesty. He’d never seen anything as intricate made from pure cloth, the designs were simply beautiful.
“You really like that bedspread, huh?” Jasmine questioned. Xant ran his hand over the quilt, picking it up and feeling the weight of it, wondering what it was like to not be mesmerised by it all.
“Are humans always surrounded by such beauty?” he asked.
The question caught her off guard, and she looked around the room.
“Not always, but, at the same time, this is closer to what it’s like on earth than either the station or the base.” She held her arms wide as she took lazy steps across the room.
“Windows, pictures and paint on the walls, bedsheets and pillows...we like ‘beautiful’ surroundings.” She fell backward onto the large bed, rolling on the blankets and looking up at Xant. “You’ve got no excuse not to feel what the bed is like.”
Xant sighed, took a deep breath and mimicked Jasmine’s actions, letting himself flop forward onto the bed.
It was fluffy and soft.
“I think the sheet’s a genuine 1000 thread count too. Maybe I could make a proper cape out of this, huh?”
“It is absolutely fascinating that humans sleep on such luxury.”
“The lucky ones sleep on such luxury! But I do appreciate bedsheets after going without for so long.”
Her attention was shortening by the moment, as she rolled off the most comfortable place in existence to peek around a door.
“The ensuite!!” she squealed. “Oh Xant, you have to see what a real bathroom looks like!”
If the master bedroom was the most comfortable place in the world, then the ensuite was the most ornate. Xant couldn’t even identify what half the items were in the room, but they apparently all pertained to the simple act of grooming.
Long, wide mirrors lined one entire side of the room, double marble basins and chrome taps sat beneath them. Frosted glass windows, a bath big enough to fit four and a bidet decorated with gold made up the rest of the fixtures. Jasmine once again began rummaging through the shelves, making happy noises with every new discovery.
“Xant, hold out your hand!”
The doctor reluctantly did so, and Jasmine placed a small white blob in it. “Smell it!!” she insisted, fever in her eyes.
He took a quick and wary sniff, but the burning sensation he expected never came.
A fresh and vibrant perfume filled his senses, a sweetness he’d never known.
“It's jasmine hand cream! This is what my namesake smells like!” She dotted her entire arms with the cream and rubbed it into her skin.
“A moisturizer?”
“Yes! And here’s shampoo and conditioner, for hair, moisturizer, face cream, body wash, exfoliant, oh god please, oh please let the water be running!”
She dived for the taps to the bath, wrenching the handle as hard and as fast as it would go, but to no avail.
“Noooo,” she sobbed, hanging her head. “S’pose it was too good to be true, the water in the tanks would be dry…”
Xant curiously looked over the bathtub and jasmine could feel his freq overflowing with curiosity.
“So humans clean themselves in still water?”
“Well, soaking in the tub is fun, it's not exclusively how we clean ourselves, the shower is better for that.”
“So what is the difference between a human shower and our own?”
Jasmine pulled a disgruntled face.
“It’s the difference between a warm gentle rain and a cold pressure hose!” she exclaimed. “Oh, I wonder if we could get it running again…?” She absent mindedly lifted up a wicker basket, finding a few clothes the previous owners had left behind. “So, what do you think?” she asked, lifting a floral summer dress up over her figure.
“The patterns are beautiful, but, is it a cape?”
“No, it’s a dress! Hmmm, but I’d have to lose a few kilos for it to fit.”
“I beg your pardon?”
“Well, I’m a little bit bigger than the supermodel who stayed on this boat, but nothing a few weeks of exercise and diet couldn’t fix. Since there’s no junk food I really don’t have the excuse.”
“Are you not already in optimal condition?”
“Pfffft! No, god no.” She pulled at her stomach fat playfully. “Too much good food and junk food makes for chunky humans.”
“Junk food?”
Jasmine grinned ear to ear.
“Junk food, food that holds almost no nutritional value but is all about taste, glorious morsels of sugar, salt and colour dye.”
“There’s a chance sugar could be found aboard this vessel? We’d need to destroy it if there is any intact, its addictive nature can destroy a Sulins inhibition perminately.”
“Well if it’s going to be anywhere on the ship, it’ll be in the kitchen!”
They headed down to the bottom decks and stepped into a stainless steel wonderland. Jasmine was in her element, running her hand over the many pieces of specialised equipment as Xant watched on in wonder.
They found a perfectly polished kitchen, filled to the brim with human utensils, and all of it for the sole use of producing food. Jasmine lifted a book from the floor and brought it over to Xant.
“Here, this is what human food is supposed to look like.”
The graphical fidelity of the pictures was phenomenal, given that they weren’t on a computer screen, but the colours and shapes didn’t even seem similar to what he knew as ‘food’. He had seen sculptures that didn’t have dimensions nearly as interesting as those of the consumables depicted, and there was page after page of them, dish after dish, each one a work of art.
She showed him the variety of knives on display and the stupid amount of cutlery for eating said food. This was an entire industry to these people, the production and skill devoted to it was…
Garish.
Jasmine stood before a giant set of doors, her hands hovering over the handles.
“This is a refrigerator, we keep perishable goods inside… I wonder if anything is still…”
She jerked open the doors and they were both greeted with the foulest stench. The rotting and liquefied remains of meat and vegetables slopped onto the floor. Sealed inside the fridge, the smell had fermented to overpowering levels.
“Air!” Jasmine shouted as she scrambled past Xant. “I need air!”
They ran up several stairs to escape the toxic gas and were able to breathe a sigh of relief once above deck. They appeared to have come out the other side, more couches and pools littering the area Jasmine made her way across to get to the bow of the ship.
She walked to its peak, then climbed over the safety railing to hold the spearhead.
Puffing out her chest and throwing her arms open, she proclaimed for the entire engineering wing to hear,
“I’M ON A BOAT, I’M ON A BOAT! TAKE A GOOD HARD LOOK AT THE MOTHER FUCKING BOAT!”
An echo of uproarious laughter soon followed suit, a joke Xant wasn’t privy to, then Jasmine climbed back to join him.
“You know, I think I’m done for the moment. I need a break from all this excitement…”
She flopped herself down on one of the sunbeds, and Xant stood over her.
“Jasmine, I’ve been meaning to ask...”
“Go ahead?”
“All of this, it’s wonderful, but it’s nothing like the memory you shared with me. All this is pure opulence. Your memory was far more humble and comforting…”
“Well, that’s because this is a superyacht, and not a lower-income one bedroom apartment…” The human shrugged.
“So, what measure of wealth allows people to live such drastically different lives?”
“... I, dunno know, they're mostly owners of companies, corporations, kings, queens, people who run economies…”
“What expertise defines their worth to be that much more than yours?” Xant asked pointedly.
Jasmine faltered for an answer. While she could throw around words like investment portfolios and trust funds, she didn't actually understand the system as well as she would have liked.
“They study finance, have rich parents, inherited gold mines…luck, I guess? There’s many different ways to get there.”
“So, every human has the chance to attain this level of contribution credit?”
“No…”
“That doesn’t seem fair,” Xant remarked, finally lying down beside her. Jasmine stared up at the steel enclosed ceiling, reflecting.
“No it’s not, but it’s getting better,” she replied. “Slowly but surely, it's getting better.”
 
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Signs of Collapse 2020 - Summary of the year

Hi /Collapse! I have been working on an ongoing project for 5 years now nick-named “[Signs of collapse]”.
I try my best to not make this series into a rant about every little problem or mishap that’s going on. Even in a sustainable society accidents would happen and natural catastrophes would occur, seasons would vary in intensity from year to year and so on. So what I present here is my best attempt at distilling out anthropogenic anomalies.
I define a “sign of collapse” as a negative market externality that the current socioeconomic system for whatever reason hasn’t dealt with and is now ending up hurting people or the ecosystem. I try to pick studies and news that shows the occurring consequences of the current system’s failure to deal with externalities.
You are not the intended audience for this project, you're already agreeing with everything it presents. I post it here so that you can help me spread it and use/reuse the material elsewhere. Also feel free to solve any or all of the mentioned problems, it's fine if you only pick one.
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Signs of Collapse 2020 Summary of the Year

Human well-being & non-specific climate change
Economy, Politics & Industry
Police riots in the US
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Pests, viruses and bacterial infections
Coral reefs
Ice and water
Hurricanes, storms and winds
Heat waves, forest fires and tree loss
Pollution
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Signs of Collapse 2020 - Summary of the year

Hi /FridaysForFuture! I have been working on an ongoing project for 5 years now nick-named “[Signs of collapse]”. We can all see how the natural world that we’re depending on is degrading at an increasing pace while the warnings of the scientific community are ignored. I think in order to reach a world that is truly sustainable and free from fossil fuels, it's imperative that everyone fully understand where we are now and which path we are on. To progress, we have to identify the problems and accept them for what they are if we wish to have any chance addressing them.
I try my best to not make this series into a rant about every little problem or mishap that’s going on. Even in a sustainable society accidents would happen and natural catastrophes would occur, seasons would vary in intensity from year to year and so on. So what I present here is my best attempt at distilling out anthropogenic anomalies.
I define a “sign of collapse” as a negative market externality that the current socioeconomic system for whatever reason hasn’t dealt with and is now ending up hurting people or the ecosystem. I try to pick studies and news that shows the occurring consequences of the current system’s failure to deal with externalities.
Urgent action is needed now and there's close to no upper limit to how radically environmentalist one can reasonably become at the present time. I hope this collection of catastrophes can serve as sharp ammunition in whatever project or strike you participate in.
Feel free to share any of the material or repost this on other suitable subreddits. If you would like to get involved in this project, don’t hesitate to chat me up.
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Signs of Collapse 2020 Summary of the Year

Human well-being & non-specific climate change
Economy, Politics & Industry
Police riots in the US
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Ice and water
Hurricanes, storms and winds
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Pollution
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Eye Care Set $25:
-111Skin Rose Gold Illuminating Eye Mask (BN)
-111Skin Space Defiance Bright Eye Lift Gel DS (BN)
-Glow Recipe Avocado Eye Retinol Mask DS (BN)
-OleHenrikson Banana Bright Eye Cream FS (usage shown on picture after bundle picture)
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Moisturizer Sampler Bundle $15:
-Clinique Dramatically Different Hydrating Lotion Jelly DS (used a couple of times)
-Clinique Dramatically Different Lotion+ DS (BN)
-Clinique ID Dramatically Different Oil Control Gel with Blue Cartridge for Pores and Uneven Texture (50% remaining of gel, 90% remaining of cartridge)
-First Aid Beauty Coconut Water Cream Moisturizer DS (BN)
-Proactive Green Tea Moisturizer DS (I don’t remember if it’s been used or not)
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Drugstore Moisturizer Bundle $12:
-CeraVe AM Moisturizer SPF 30 5 ml (BN) x3
-Cetaphil Deep Hydration Moisturizer DS (BN)
-Differin Oil Absorbing Moisturizer SPF 30 FS (BN)
-Goldbond Strength and Resilience Moisturizer DS (BN)
-Vichy Liftactiv Peptide C DS (BN)
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Skincare Foil Bundle $3:
-Charlotte Tilbury Goddess Mask foil
-Charlotte Tilbury Multi Miracle Glow foil
-Glow Recipe Banana Soufflé Moisturizer foil
-Farmacy Honeymoon Glow foil
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Body Care Bundle $10:
-Bliss Fabgirl Firm FS (+85% left)
-Calvin Klein Hair and Body Wash in Eternity DS (BN)
-Lancôme Le Vie Est Belle Shower Gel DS (BN)
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Individual Items:
-Dr. Dennis Gross Meltaway Balm FS (BN) $10
-Glow Recipe Banana Soufflé Moisturizer 0.85oz (BN) $18
-Minon Acne Care Set $5 (BNIB)
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Freebies(1 per $10 spent
-Bellepierre Kiss Proof Lip Cream (swatched)
-Clinique Foundation Sampler Foil
-Etude House Pearl Bright Complexion Sheet Mask
-Freeman Revitalizing Peel Off Mask DS
-IBY Beauty Eye Shadow Single in Fire + Ice
-Innisfree Brightening Mask foil
-JJ Young Pore Green Tea Sheet Mask
-Laneige Lip Sleeping Mask (used several times, cleaned with rubbing alcohol wipe)
-Loreal Lipstick from MUX used
-Lush Rose Lollipop Balm (used several times, cleaned with rubbing alcohol wipe)
-Milk Makeup Kush Lip Balm (used several times, cleaned with rubbing alcohol wipe)
-St. Ives Soothing Lotion (heavy)
-St. Ives Softening Lotion (heavy)
-Tarte Foundation Foil
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[Launch] XMG CORE 14: Compact all-round Gaming and Content Creation

[Launch] XMG CORE 14: Compact all-round Gaming and Content Creation
Hi everyone,
this week we finally revealed the most compact XMG laptop ever: XMG CORE 14 and the companion model SCHENKER MEDIA 14.
https://preview.redd.it/84r3orofv4361.jpg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=da82cd519db215b44a3b0a2dae24348cd89b6dc2
And contrary to most tier-1 products launches this fall and winter: it's not a paper launch! We already have it in stock! :-)
Press Reports:
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XMG CORE 14 vs. SCHENKER MEDIA 14

Both models are based on the same hardware, firmware and drivers.
  • MEDIA 14 starts with Intel Xe iGPU only; can be upgraded to GTX 1650
  • CORE 14 already starts with GTX 1650
Comparison table:
XMG CORE 14 SCHENKER MEDIA 14
LCD identical identical
CPU options identical identical
GPU options GTX 1650 iGPU only; GTX 1650 optional
Default Warranty 2 years 3 years
SSD and RAM options identical identical
Color Night Blue Night Blue
Branding options XMG or de-branded SCHENKER or de-branded
For the rest of this thread, I will refer to XMG CORE 14, but everything I write applies to SCHENKER MEDIA 14 as well.
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Unique Selling Points

Selling points for both CORE 14 and MEDIA 14:
  • Full-HD 120Hz IPS-type Panel
  • GTX 1650 or iGPU-only (MEDIA 14)
  • Intel Core 11th Gen in the full-powered 28W node
  • Intel Iris Xe Graphics in the fully unlocked G7 node
  • Dual SO-DIMM DDR4 Slots (no soldered memory)
  • Full-Size Card Reader
  • RJ45, HDMI 2.0, 2x USB-A 3.0
  • Thunderbolt 4 with DP 1.4 and Power Delivery
  • Precise, low-noise Trackpad
  • 1.5kg, 17.6mm z-height, 49Wh
  • Lid Cover made from metal, despite the low weight
  • Very tight construction, very stable base unit
Selling points for Intel Core 11th Gen (Tiger Lake UP3):
  • Willow Cove Architecture
  • 10nm Manufacturing Node
  • Thunderbolt 4 support directly in CPU
  • PCI-Express Gen4 for M.2 SSDs
  • DDR4-3200MHz support
  • Native HDMI 2.0 (no LSPCON required anymore)
  • DisplayPort 1.4 via USB-C/DP
  • Adaptive Sync Support (see paragraph further down)
  • Intel QuickSync with AV1 decode
  • GNA 2.0 for emerging audio/voice AI usages
Following up, some more points of interest.
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External screens connected to iGPU

No matter if you configure with or without NVIDIA dGPU, both external display connections (HDMI 2.0 and Thunderbolt 4) are connected directly to the Intel Xe iGPU solution. CORE 14 and MEDIA 14 use NVIDIA Optimus (aka MSHybrid) to manage the handover between dGPU and iGPU (see chart on the left).
Image Source: really old article about NVIDIA Optimus on Notebookcheck
Having HDMI and USB-C/DP/Thunderbolt connected to the iGPU has a key advantage: power consumption is lower. With most gaming laptops, connecting an external screen would wake up the dGPU, increasing the Idle Power Consumption by a factor of 3 to 4x. This results in higher temperature and fan noise while doing low to medium tasks on the system in docked mode. Another typical use case is business meetings and stage presentations. When you connect the laptop to a projector via HDMI, a typical gaming laptop would deplete the battery much faster due to the dGPU usage. XMG CORE 14 does not have this problem and will give you a long battery life, even in such presentation scenarios.
Not using the dGPU also has some downsides such as not being compatible with most VR headsets, but that’s an acceptable trade-off for a system such as XMG CORE 14.
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Adaptive Sync on external screens via iGPU

(VRR, Variable Refresh Rate, also known as FreeSync)
Intel Tiger Lake is the first mainstream CPU platform in which Intel’s iGPU is supposed to support Adaptive Sync according to Intel’s marketing claims. (Ice Lake might already have had support, but only saw limited release)
We tested it. VRR output works fine*** on via Thunderbolt 4 (aka USB-C/DP) with external monitors as long as those are marketed either with “AMD FreeSync” or with “G-SYNC compatile”. Essentially, those are monitors that implement the VESA Adaptive Sync industry standard. However, monitors that implement the proprietary method of NVIDIA G-SYNC (with the built-in G-SYNC module) are not able to support VRR from the iGPU in our tests.
VRR is called ‘Adaptive Sync’ in the Intel Graphics Command Center and is enabled by default.
\* Curiously, VRR currently only works for content that is rendered on the NVIDIA dGPU even though it is indeed displayed through the iGPU framebuffer. If you force Windows to run your test tool, game or content on the Intel iGPU instead, it’s currently not able to use VRR, so you will see some tearing.
Current Situation (as of December 2020):
Table: iGPU, dGPU, G-SYNC-compatible and VRR
According to Intel, VRR with content from iGPU already works on the “Windows 10 Iron” Build 21H1 19624.200504 (and later), which is only available under the Windows 10 Insider program. It's currently unclear when this patch will make it to the public, but the 21H1 naming scheme suggests some point in the first half of 2021.
The internal screen of XMG CORE 14 (Full-HD 120Hz) unfortunately does not support Adaptive Sync due to hardware limitations of the screen refresh rate range. This is not subject to change in the short term, even though widening support for Adaptive Sync is one of our long-term strategic goals.
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SCHENKER MEDIA 14 without dGPU shares the same dual fan cooling solution

The mainboard layout (with external ports routed to iGPU) enables us to easily create a SKU without the dedicated Graphics Card. This SKU is launched under the name SCHENKER MEDIA 14.
The iGPU-only SKU is using the same dual-heatpipe / dual-fan cooling solution for the CPU, similar to the SKU with dGPU. Picture comparison:
Animated GIF comparison: iGPU-only vs. iGPU+dGPU. Please excuse the overhead light glare in the dGPU picture. Shot on different days by different people.
Please note how the dGPU, MOSFET and VRAM spots on the PCB are just left empty on the iGPU version. Both use exactly the same mainboard, making the design very cost-efficient. If you buy the parts on Aliexpress, you can solder your own GPU. ;-)
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Performance Modes / Fan Control / Fan Speed

Important things to know:
  • The system is using different fan tables and power limits, depending on the selected Performance Profile in Control Center. See table below.
  • You can switch between Profiles with the hotkey Fn+3 (not F3)
  • You can manually enable 100% fan speed with the hotkey Fn+1 (not F1)
  • In Control Center, you can manually adjust an % offset on the fan speed (default: 0)
  • In Control Center, you can also create a manual fan curves with a simple 4-point curve editor (2 points customizable) for CPU and GPU individually
Power Profile Table:
Profile CPU PL1 (Watt) CPU PL2 (Watt) CPU PL1 Tau (seconds) TCC Offset (Kelvin) CPU TurboBoost
Power Saving 8 15 28 13 off
Quiet 10 20 28 13 enabled
Entertainment 15 60 28 13 enabled
Performance 28 64 128 2 enabled
These values are the same, no matter if Core i5 or Core i7, no matter if with NVIDIA dGPU or without.
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Benchmarks and Classification

All data taken in ‘Performance’ mode. Power Consumption measured at the AC wall socket.
Core i5 vs. Core i7 in CORE 14 and MEDIA 14
As you can see, at 28W TDP the Core i7 can really flex its muscles in Multi core and gains and extra advantage when you leave out the dGPU (even though the dGPU was inactive during the run on XMG CORE 14). Overall, these numbers are still to be taken with a grain of salt. We received a massive BIOS update shortly before launch which improved scores on the 15W TDP level. If you see scores in independent reviews that are higher than ours, don't worry. System is working as intended.
Max-P vs. Max-Q / Intel vs. AMD
Not all GTX are the same. Other brands tend to use “Max-Q” variations in their thin & light laptop. This has the curious effect that the more expensive GTX 1650 Ti with Max-Q is actually slower than our GTX 1650 Max-P.
By the way, the GTX 1650 in XMG CORE 14 is the ‘Refresh’ version. NVIDIA’s codenames identifies them:
  • Original: N18P-G0 (launched in 2019)
  • Refresh: N18P-G61 (launched in 2020)
On the CPU front, AMD is the multi-core rendering queen, but the 28W Tiger Lake CPU is taking the Single Core crown away from the 45W Renoir. And as we have seen in reviews of SCHENKER VISION 15, the 4-core i7-1165G7 can be almost on par with the 6-core Ryzen 5 4600H in Geekbench 5 Multi, which reflects a more diverse and varied set of benchmarks (not only tile-based rendering).
Comparing XMG CORE 14 with two competitors
In the 13~14” enthusiast laptop space, XMG CORE 14 proudly competes against Asus and Razer.
Benchmark comparison of XMG CORE 14 vs. two competitors
Sources:
Razer and XMG in this comparison were benchmarked in their maximum performance profile to achieve best results. The used profile for Asus is not made clear in the text of the Notebookcheck review, but we assume it is the maximum profile as well.
Obviously, Asus takes the reign with the higher-priced RTX 2060 in 3D rasterization and all-core rendering with the 8-core 16-thread CPU. XMG CORE 14 scores well against Razer and wins against Asus in single-threaded CPU benchmarks. In other benchmarks and real-world scenarios, the numbers might shift a little bit – but 3dMark and Cinebench are a good indication of “raw performance” in each discipline and provide a reasonable comparative baseline.
(If you find any methodical mistakes or inconsistencies in this comparison, please send me a PM or e-mail us to [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]))
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FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions

Q: How repair-friendly are XMG CORE 14 and SCHENKER MEDIA 14?
A: This chassis is very repair friendly and neither RAM, SSD nor Wi-Fi are soldered to the board. The battery is attached with screws, not glue. The keyboard is removable without removing the keyboard.
Due to the very firm build quality of the base unit, the disassembly might take a minute more than your usual aluminum unibody chassis. We have 14 screws in the ABS plastic bottom case, which makes that chassis appear very rigid and solid. Due to the very tight gaps, unlatching the first latch of the bottom case might require a regular plastic opening tool.
14 identical screws, marked red in this picture
Instructions:
  • Remove all 14 screws from the bottom panel
  • Use a plastic opening tool and very gently find a leverage point
  • A good point is behind the hinges as marked in the picture (1)
  • Once you have the first gap, slowly work your way sideways with you opening tool along the back edge of the laptop and unlatch each notch (2)
  • Once you have the whole back unlatched, it should become much easier to unlock the rest of the latches
The Bottom Cover is not attached to any fans, cables or antennas. Once you have it unlocked, you can just remove it from the system without worrying about any connections.
Other than that, component upgrades and re-assembly are trivial. A full service manual will be provided in our download portal a few weeks after launch.
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Q: Which LCD panel is being used?
A: This might change over time, but for mass production at launch we're using Panda LM140LF1F01 for FHD 120Hz on both CORE 14 and MEDIA 14. Vendor Spec Sheet:
Item Value
Brightness 300 nits
Contrast 1200:1
Gamut 72% NTSC
Gamma 2.2
G2G Response Time (average) 12.5ms
Device ID NCP0050
In our test, we reached ~89.8% sRGB Color Coverage based on two units.
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Q: How does FnLock work? How are the F keys assigned?
A: This is how it works:
  • If FnLock is activated, the F-keys swap their position with the Fn functions on F1 to F12.
  • For example, with FnLock enabled you can control the screen brightness with one finger without holding Fn down.
  • The selected state of FnLock is remembered after restart/downward/standby.
  • In the BIOS boot process (POST) FnLock is briefly suspended, so that you can still use the hotkeys F2 (BIOS setup) and F10 (boot media manager) without holding Fn down.
  • F4 and F5 are sort-of relieved of their Fn duty so that you can still press Alt+F4 (close window) and F5 (reload website) even if FnLock is activated
Reference Table:
Key Fn Function
Esc FnLock
F1 Audio Mute
F2 Volume down
F3 Volume up
F4 F4
F5 F5
F6 Disable LCD
F7 LCD Brightness down
F8 LCD Brightness up
F9 Disable Touchpad
F10 Activate Webcam
F11 Flight Mode
F12 Standby
Fn+Space Toggle Keyboard Backlight
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Q: Will it be possible to apply Undervolting (Voltage Offset) on the CPU or iGPU?
A: We currently see no avenue to apply undervolting on any of the Tiger Lake systems we are launching. We have discussed the matter with the author of a popular free tool for Undervolting and tried a few unreleased Beta-versions and we are pretty confident in saying that Voltage Offset was still possible in Ice Lake but is currently hard-disabled in hardware for Tiger Lake. We have discussed this with our contacts in Intel and we'll make sure to send any feedback and concerns upstream to Intel.
Apart from Plundervolt which is discussed in this thread, another reason to disable Voltage Offset might be the relocation of the voltage regulators (CPU FIVR, PCH FIVR) in the new architecture. We have reasons to believe that this have has strongly reduced the gains you can make with voltage offset. In other words: the system might already be working at peak efficiency by default. This might warrant further discussion in the future, perhaps when Intel is launching their Tiger Lake "H" series designs (still under NDA). If you have any unique insight on this topic, feel free to share your information in the comments below or via PM.
What we can confirm is that the lowest Idle power consumption of TGL-UP3 has been greatly reduced compared to previous generations. It's now between 3 and 6W in all of the Tiger Lake systems we're currently launching where their Comet Lake (CML) predecessors were usually more like in the 10W ballpark.
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Q: Any plans for Linux-Support?
A: TUXEDO will bring this chassis under the names TUXEDO Book BC14 (iGPU-only) and TUXEDO Book XP14 (iGPU+dGPU). Stay tuned. Only customers who buy directly from TUXEDO will get access to TUXEDO firmware, software and support.
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Q: Are there any plans for a SKU of XMG CORE 14 with AMD Ryzen?
A: No, there is no plan to release an AMD version of this particular chassis in the foreseeable future. With AMD CPU supply still being very limited, we won’t be able to split it up further right now. Comparable models with AMD CPU (but without dGPU) include TUXEDO Pulse 14, Pulse 15, Aura 15 and SCHENKER VIA 15 Pro.
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Reviews: coming soon

A few review units have already been shipped. XMG CORE 14 will participate in a Tiger Lake benchmarking round-up which should go online on Youtube in the week of December 7. Full reviews such as on Notebookcheck might still be a few weeks out.
However, XMG CORE 14 and SCHENKER MEDIA 14 are in-stock right now - everyone who is interested is welcome to buy now already. If you want to write a user review, send me a PM and I will link to your review in this thread. Our 14-day refund policy will guarantee that there won't be any negative surprises. The 14-day period starts counting on the day you receive the package.
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Where to buy

You can find our product pages below and configure your individual XMG CORE 14 or SCHENKER MEDIA 14 in our official BTO online shop: bestware[dot]com
SCHENKER MEDIA 14
XMG CORE 14
That's all, folks.
Thank you for reading and we are looking forward to your feedback!
// Tom
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You Don't Kill Larvae

The Hive continues to expand beyond our wildest expectations. Worlds are assimilated. Weaklings burn. And here I am, an elite war-breed, born to lead The Hive's armies in glorious conquest, a warrior whose victorious spoils are counted in entire worlds, sitting in the bloody wake of the most disappointing battle I have ever fought.
I had received orders from The Queen that I was to lead my personal squadron to annihilate a potential hive cluster from an altogether foreign species that had strayed into our territory. Naturally, I accepted with the utmost loyalty and glee, joyous in the prospect of wetting my blades on the blood of worthy enemies. I set out immediately with my squadron to the coordinates listed in the report. Soon after arrival in the sector, my lookout spied the foreign object, and we sped headlong into combat. The exterior of the hive cluster in question was smooth, rounded, subtly reflective, and marred with colours whose shapes we could discern no purpose from; it was a substance we soon conjectured to be a form of polished chitin not too dissimilar to that which shielded our own transport-breed. Regardless of its shell, I knew we had a glorious duty to perform, and I commanded the mind-driver to bring us in for a headlong assault.
The mind-driver commanded our transport-breed to envelop the hive cluster with its forelimbs and take it into its jaws. Once inside its oral chamber, the transport-breed's proboscis was put to work, slowly dissolving the chitin of the hive cluster with an acidic solution; the substance and its method of delivery had only been recently added to the sequence of its breed, and they were something I was all too willing to use. I assembled my squadron and waited, ready and eager to show these upstart weaklings the glory of The Hive. It took some time, and the smell was noxious, but before long, the cluster's armor gave way, and the path was clear for battle. We charged into the wound, hoping for the kind of battle that would circulate the All-Mind back at our native hive for countless generations to come.
Instead, we found an empty cavity. It was smooth, and made of the same shell that coated its exterior. White bioluminescent light spilled into every corner from rigid sacs embedded into the ceiling of the hall we entered. More illegible markings were visible on every surface; it was in this moment that I realized that said marking may in fact have a purpose, but what, I could not discern. My squadron followed me as I raced down the corridor, and we soon came into contact with a blockage of the same material as seemingly everything else on this Queen forsaken vessel. I ordered the mind-driver to seek out my location with the proboscis, and I had my squadmate direct the tip to the blockage. A hole was soon burned through.
BANG
The sound of an explosion ripped through the air, and the top of the transport-breed's proboscis was pierced by an unseen force. I ordered a squadmate to look through the hole, and when they did, their head was promptly torn asunder by another unseen force, I presumed the same. In this moment, I grew furious; who were these lowly creatures to not only cower behind a shield, but to deny us the glory of true combat by tearing us apart with this, thing of theirs? It was no matter, however, for if they were not to fight us of their own volition, then we would force them to. Luckily, the proboscis was still functional, given some rudimentary clearing of viscera, and it was put to work melting the blockage. But I didn't have it melt right through the substance, but rather most of the way through, leaving only a sliver of material remaining to keep it held together. As this process was undertaken, I heard from the other side of the blockade the sound of what I conjectured to be the upstart species encroaching on our rightful territory. They were shrill and unceasing; I wished in the moment to drive my blades through them if only to make them cease their wailing. Luckily, we soon heard no more of the creatures' noise, and we were left to work in peace.
Soon, though, my stratagem was completed, and the shield was held together only by a thin sheet of chitin. The bulkiest of my squadron, alongside myself, packed ourselves tight and crouched low ahead of the remainder of my forces. And upon my command, we, in unison, charged the blockade with all our might, and it shattered and fell to the floor with a mighty thud. We were in.
The defenders killed another of our number with their unknown methods, wounding two more, but were quickly slain in return on the tips of our blades. Their flesh yielded easily, as they lacked the exoskeletal plating we enjoy. The battle was over in a flash.
The rush of combat having passed, I took a moment to study the pair of creatures daring enough to intrude on our territory. They were larger than I, and with only four limbs in comparison to our twelve; their bodies, hidden beneath layers of fabric as was typical of less hardy races, were coated in a spongy flesh that offered little to nothing in protection, and they lacked in anything that could be considered competent natural weapons, no blades or horns or sharp mouthparts could be seen. We noted that they were covered almost completely in fine hairs, but they lacked the rigidity that made ours so effective as sensory organs. All in all, this race appeared to have no evolutionary advantages or purpose, seeming in all areas to be bred fit for little more than fodder for The Hive. Curiously, they carried on their persons a tool made of the same kind of chitinous material that surrounded us. In exploring it, my squadmate accidentally discharged it into the already wounded leg of a soldier, severing the limb completely. In that moment, I understood what had killed my subordinates. I ordered that the devices be brought in for study at our native hive, along with the bodies of the defenders.
There was more vessel to explore, however, and I would not rest until every nook and cranny was thoroughly explored, and every single one of these primitive, useless beasts snuffed from existence. We scoured every corridor and every corner of every chamber we came across, finding nothing. That was until we returned to our original entry point and looked past the battleground. I suspected that there was something behind the defenders, but I was damned if I would not be present for it. I had the soldiers standing by move out of the way so the proboscis could make its way through, and began the same process of melting the obstruction. Once we burned through, we once again heard that same grating wail and chattering in a tongue we neither understood nor cared to understand. This time, I was determined to snuff out the noise permanently. Luckily, our efforts this time were not impeded by the same tools of destruction that hampered our righteous culling the last time. Once more we put the proboscis to work cutting a hole out of the blockade, and this time, there was no charge necessary; to the horrid tune of these creatures' cries, the shield fell flat to the ground, and all was silent.
At the lack of defensive measures arrayed against us, I took a moment to study the numbers we were to slaughter. Fifty strong, with ten of the same breed of beast stood defensively in front of the remainder. The rest, however, appeared to be smaller, misshapen breeds of the same species. This was proof enough in my mind that their purpose was colonization, for what could these smaller forms be, but larvae? I gave the order, and in mere moments scored by the same shrill wailing and punctuated by their ceasing, it was over.
At length, the rest of the colonization pod was scoured, and determined to have no more sport to hunt. I had it cast into the bile pit to sustain the transport-breed, and ordered that we return to the hive. The Queen would be glad to hear of our success.
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The information we could glean from the corpses of those creatures was scant, the only scraps of intelligence we could truly decipher using out mind-scrapers was that one: they feared us, as they should. And two: the vessel we destroyed was not for the purposes of colonization, but rather served as a tool for education, for the purposes of taking their larvae on a trip to observe the universe. I myself have a hard time believing that this is the case, and think rather that this was what they were told before they left their hive. A third message, damaged beyond legibility mentioned "more". I had tasted their machines, and even without such advantages, my intellect and our blades were more than enough to tear them apart. I fear nothing from whatever forces they may muster in revenge. Let them come so I may wet my blades in the righteous act that is wiping their kind from the face of the univer- BANG!
Something rocks the transport-breed, throwing me to the floor. What was that? "Tell me, mind-driver! What struck us?!" I bellow.
"Another vessel, leader!" it responds. "It appears to be from the same species!"
"What weapons did they hit us with?! Bile missiles?" I ask, eager to know our chances of victory.
"They hit us with, the vessel, leader!"
... "What?"
"I am attempting to fend them off, but they are formidable, le-"
BANG! The transport-breed rocks again. The mind-driver screams in agony, and collapses to the floor, clutching its arm. "What is happening?! answer me!" I demand of it.
"Le-leader! They have severed the right forelimb with an explosion from their chitin-tools!" it says between groans of pain. Before I can properly process its words, it screams again and quickly falls silently in a heap on the floor. At the same moment, everything within the transport-breed slackens for an instant, then returns to normal; the mind-driver has fallen into shock, and its connection with the transport-breed is severed.
I order my soldiers to take defensive positions, and that the secondary mind-driver take their post. They do, and the proboscis is quickly poised to strike. But again, they groan in pain, slowly withdrawing on themselves, clutching at their head. They too scream and collapse to the floor atop their superior. "They are breaking in through the head! Be ready!" I yell. In truth, part of me is excited to face foes of such might as to incapacitate a transport-breed.
I group with my squadron and we make for the transport-breed's head, near the bottom of the creature. By the time we arrive, we can see the impacts begin to push inward on out transport's flesh, and everything begins to shudder and slowly slacken. Finally, everything falls limp; the transport-breed is dead.
And here we stand, on the fringe of the Queen's dominion, with nowhere to go. We fight here for the Queen, knowing that the battle will never be heard of by any of our kin. But we don't care; we were literally born for this. More impacts shake the chamber, and my squad arranges itself in ambush positions, ready to pounce from any and every angle.
We tense in anticipation and finally, something breaks through. It is large; easily the size of my entire body, and entirely encased in a glossy shell. It retracts slightly, with another of its kind joining it in the gap made in the transport-breed's flesh. Then they part, tearing asunder the wall of the chamber and threatening to pull us into the void beyond. But we hold firm, digging into the walls, ceiling, and floor where we wait, and we observe what we can only assume to be the warriors of this upstart species.
The first dawns into the room, and we quickly realize that the tool that broke through the wall was little more than an appendage of the goliath that steps through the freshly-torn hole in the wall. Its body is coated entirely in chitin, with the same shape as those inferior beasts we culled prior. From their heads, piercing lights peer out of pitch black shell coating their faces, and we know that they can see all of us, but still we hold firm. Then another steps through the wound gouged by the first; this is going to be the greatest and most glorious battle in the history of the dominion.
"CHARGE!" I command, and the entirety of my squadron leap into action. Upon contact with their bodies, they spasm violently, and fall to the ground, dead. I realize in that moment that these are not soldiers, they are monsters.
Knowing that I would surely be cut down if I remained, I retreat and make for favourable ground. As I relocated, however, the titanic creatures neglected to give chase. Trusting my gut, I intuit this as a moment of communication between the two, but for what?
I peer around the corner, and all goes black.
I feel chitin press in on me, and I am soon held in the enormous beast's grasp, surprisingly, alive. It holds me up to its head and appears to study me. I can tell that the two are communicating, but I still cannot determine what their message is. Their heads turn to face one another, their heads gyrate downward, and they retreat back through the wound and out into the void, taking me with them.
Prisoner. They are taking me, an elite war-breed born to fight and die for the Queen and the glory of The Hive, prisoner! It is a disgrace on a level I cannot fathom, and I will not stand for it! I attempt to maneuver my blades such that I may die with honor, but the titan's grip is fast, rendering my arms immobile. Soon, we alight on their vessel, far larger than the first, and are taken within. We come down into a large, dark chamber. I feel an impact rock the beast holding me in its grip, and I wait for something, anything to let me know what's happening. That's when a harsh light bathes the chamber, and I witness a sight that chills me to my core: an army's worth of the goliath warriors, all standing stock still in a display of true discipline. This force would be able to take entire worlds on its own; I fight back the horrifying thought that there may in fact be more of these monsters that what is present here.
Before long, I notice movement coming from behind me. I swivel my head to get a good look, and I see three of the small, fleshy variants of these creatures saunter up to the giant beast without fear. They vocalize in a horrid, barking tongue, that is answered by the same language emanating from the titan holding me tightly. The conversation goes back and forth for some time, until finally, the three small beasts leave.
They soon return with a flat slab of some description. One of the small ones bark again, and I am slowly lowered to face them. Their hideous faces contort as they study me; I sling curses their way, I want them to know exactly what I and the rest of my kind thinks of them. Then, they produce a small instrument with a long stinger on the end. I squirm in a vain attempt to avoid its prick, but they inevitably drive the point into my neck. They retract it without killing me, and I begin to laugh at this display of ineptitude, especially in comparison to their prior efforts in death-dealing. But then the room begins to spin, my thoughts grow fuzzy, and I begin to swoon. The last thing I see before I pass out are the three disgusting faces baring their mouthparts.
Pain. Excruciating, mind-raking pain courses through my body. I awake, and look down to see that I am strapped to the slab I saw them bring into the warrior chamber, and that I am disemboweled. I squirm and writhe against my bonds, but to no avail. Then I feel a sharp, burning pain envelop the entirety of my head. I scream in equal parts agony, anger, and utter terror, and pass out again, unsure of my future. Forgive me, my Queen.
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Cycles passed, and the squadron was nowhere to be found in any of the hives in the Queen's dominion. She debated sending out another squadron to cover for the obvious abject failure of the first, when she felt a blip in her mind; a transport-breed had returned, of the same bio-signature of the squadron she sent out. She relaxed, safe in the knowledge that her task was completed. But she felt something, a disturbance in the mind of the war-breed tasked with leading her forces, as though it knew its actions weren't its own; it was akin to the odd feeling she got from the transport-breed, as though it were traveling not on its own power. She rationalized this as the results of bloody combat, and relaxed.
Within minutes, the war-breed in question made its presence known in her egg chamber. It appeared haggard as it stumbled toward her, clutching at its stomach, taking as much care as it could in its hobbling not to come into contact with any of the innumerable clutches of eggs strewn about the chamber, their embryos writhing inside their translucent shells, looked over by drones bent only to that purpose. Sentries quickly moved in on the war-breed, bound by their very physiology to defend the Queen and her eggs with every fiber of their being. Soon, they had the intruder bound, and began to lead them away.
The chamber's fleshy walls quivered rhythmically, sending a clear message to the guards. Seat them with me. it meant, the Queen speaking through the chamber. I wish to speak with them.
The guards understood, and lead the war-breed to a sac just outside the egg chamber. The sac filled with fluid, and tendrils extended out of the wall, fusing with the war-breed at the nape of its neck. In an instant, the soldier's mind was connected with that of the Queen's.
Report, war-breed. The soldier could hear their Queen's voice in its mind, it radiated supreme power and authority.
My Queen, the task you sent us to accomplish is complete, the vessel is destroyed. But I tell you now, attacking it was a mistake.
How could the order of your Queen have been a mistake, soldier?
Because you sent me to attack their children, my Queen.
The children they sent to colonize our territory! I will not stand for this insubordination, soldier!
You made an act of war, and they respond in kind. Then, suddenly, its mind seemed to spasm, forcing it to speak in a tone utterly alien to its kind. You don't kill kids, you fucking bug.
In the instant before the nuclear device implanted in her war-breed detonated, the Queen realized what had been troubling the soldier. The Hive was engulfed in nuclear fire faster than any of its inhabitants could comprehend, and it was no more. All that remained was a field of fleshy pulp and ash floating in the void: a monument to the righteous and vengeful wrath of humanity.
Eventually, The Hive passed into memory, then into legend. And before long, it was completely and utterly forgotten.
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Third Jump

Jumper: Sordahon Jump: Fallout New Vegas Race: Human Origin: Scientist Faction: Brotherhood of Steel Starting Location: Hidden Valley Perks: 1300
Essential Body Mod CP Conversion - 1200 CP(100 EP)
Retention - Free
You read blisteringly quickly and better yet you remember everything you read perfectly. Finally it seems as though things that you’ve read occur to you exactly when they would most be useful providing you with solutions to problems, handy tips and relevant facts to aid you in arguments.
Power Armor Training - Free
All Brotherhood members are taught in the use of Power Armor but on your body you can really make it sing. You move as one with the armor with no loss of dexterity and instinctively know how best to position yourself to protect any weakspots so that bullets simply glance off you as you charge around as an engine of destruction on the battlefield. Semper Invicta!
War Never Changes - Free
When you decide to mosey on to another setting you find that a familiar voice (Ron Perlman) begins speaking of your time wherever you were, the consequences of your actions for various groups and, without further meddling, something of the fate of individuals you had an impact on. You also get to watch a relevant slideshow as this happens.
Swift Learner - 1000 CP Discount
You learn extremely quickly and often gain seemingly irrelevant proficiencies while you train in other things. Practise with a gun and you’ll make a marksman in no time but you may also find yourself getting a little more skilled at talking to people. Get better at haggling and you may just find your machete arm to be a touch more deft at chopping. Maybe it’s a confidence thing.
High Times - 800 CP
An unfortunate fact of chems is that you develop a resistance to them over time and can’t quite feel the same kick you once did. Luckily for you narcotics are consistently both strong and extremely pleasant ensuring no bad trips, comedowns or accidental psycho-related murders.
Whiskey Rose - 700 CP
You remain as capable as ever and do not experience the negative effects of alcohol or drugs at all suffering no addictions or hangovers. You actually become slightly more durable when drunk as well making you marginally more capable in a bar brawl (or fire fight) when intoxicated.
Items:
Basic Gear - Free
Recon Armor + Laser Rifle
Doctor’s Bag - Free
A small doctor’s bag with basic medical equipment, the means to fix crippled limbs, and a supply of Med-X and stimpacks that replenishes daily and should be enough to cover at least a few people stepping on land mines.
Sierra Madre Vending Machine - 500 CP
A vending machine that can fabricate food, drinks, cigarettes, clothes, medicine, ammo and other supplies containing all known codes of the resort. Requires chips but comes with a hatch that provides a needlessly large stipend daily.
Euclid’s C-Finder - 200 CP
What looks like a kid’s toy laser pistol but is actually a rangerfinder connected to a satellite floating in space. Pulling the trigger will cause the massive orbital laser to blast the hell out of whatever you're pointing the gun at and this recharges every few seconds. Satellite is self maintaining and solar powered.
Companions:
Companion Import - 150 CP
Newly created companions and imports gain a history in this world, a Background and Faction of your choice (along with any freebies that come with these) as well as 600 Caps to spend as you like (although they cannot purchase further Companions). Canon characters purchased must be persuaded to come along with you and do not gain any Caps, a Background or a Faction.
Deathclaw Egg - 0 CP
Currently unhatched but will eventually grow into a Deathclaw so large and monstrous as to become a legend. Extremely fast and agile with 12 inch long razor sharp claws that go through power armour much as they go through everything else. Thinks you’re it’s mama so will follow your directions as best it can. Alternatively you may choose to have it grow into a deathclaw the size of a small dog that still somehow packs the punch of the fully grown variety.
Drawbacks:
Guardian of the Wastes - 200 CP +
You’re destined to have a lot of work come your way, unfortunately nobody else seems to get anything done so if your side is going to win a war you're going to be dealing with the enemy top brass (and half their army) personally and when ferals need exterminating or a lost caravan needs finding it’s going to be you doing it or no-one.
Ant Misbehavin’ - 100 CP +
Mutated insects are attracted to you (particularly the fleshy parts of you that they can eat). Walk through the wrong part of the desert and you’ll have a horde of giant fire-breathing ants chasing you halfway across the Mojave and if you veer into cazador country... well try not to veer into cazador country.
McCullum
Origin: Soldier Faction: Brotherhood of Steel Race: Human Perks:
Heave, Ho! - Free
You’re perceptive and accurate by nature making you a fair shot even with an unfamiliar firearm and you’ve got one hell of an arm on you. Whether a tomahawk, a javelin or a grenade you have a knack for throwing things ridiculously accurately and with a fair bit more distance than your strength should allow.
Power Armor Training - Free
All Brotherhood members are taught in the use of Power Armor but on your body you can really make it sing. You move as one with the armor with no loss of dexterity and instinctively know how best to position yourself to protect any weakspots so that bullets simply glance off you as you charge around as an engine of destruction on the battlefield. Semper Invicta!
Basic Gear - Free
Recon Armor + Laser Rifle
Big Iron - Free
Whether a Ranger Sequoia, a scoped hunting revolver, your lucky sidearm or something more mysterious this is a powerful revolver with a theme of your choice that packs a punch greater than it has any right to. This is like Ranger Sequoia but slightly different design to not be mistaken for it.
Power Armor - 500 CP
A fine suit of Power Armor with the design (and paint-job) of your choice, a level of protection greater than even a T-51B suit, a huge increase to your physical strength and a tesla drive improving energy based attacks. Comes with basic operational training if you do not take Power Armor Training. This is X-01 Power Armor like in Fallout 4.
Heavyweight Ordinancex2 - 200 CP
A really great gun of some sort. Whether energy or ballistic this is a unique, beautiful weapon which is simultaneously more lightweight and powerful and has a faster rate of fire. You may also choose the basic theme/design. Here are some suggestions: Plasma caster, gauss rifle, gatling laser, minigun, anti-materiel rifle, brush gun, combat shotgun. You also get a replenishing stock of various special ammunitions (explosive rounds, hollowpoints, etc.). This is Sprtel-Wood 9700(Gatling Laser) and YCS/186(Guass Rifle).
Sierra Madre Vending Machine - 0 CP
A vending machine that can fabricate food, drinks, cigarettes, clothes, medicine, ammo and other supplies containing all known codes of the resort. Requires chips but comes with a hatch that provides a needlessly large stipend daily.
Scenario:
OLD WORLD BLUES
There is an expression in the Wasteland: "Old World Blues". It refers to those so obsessed with the past they can't see the present, much less the future, for what it is.
Big MT, a research base before the war and now a legendary treasure trove of technology. “Controlled” by a group of think tanks (unique brain bots with the not entirely stable brains of brilliant pre-war scientists) called the Think Tank and Mobius their former colleague and current adversary (also a think tank). The Think Tank do not know it (currently running on the theory that there is no world outside Big MT) but many of their experiments and creations (cazadores and night stalkers chief among them) have escaped into the wastes and brought death and destruction with them. Your task is to fight your way through lobotomites, mini- deathclaws and robo-scorpions alike to either destroy the Think Tank and permanently stop any further threat their experiments pose to the Mojave or to reason with them and convince them to work together on your behalf for (hopefully) a brighter future.
Your time picking through the labs of Big MT have afforded you a certain way of thinking. As if possessed by the will of SCIENCE! itself you find yourself constantly coming up with scientific breakthroughs that you’re sure will work. Unfortunately, while potentially possible to turn to good, these ideas are always initially somewhere between pointless and horribly insane. You may not be able to cure diseases or invent tools that improve basic quality of life but the creation of new species of monstrous mutants or the invention of sapient neurotic sinks is now, not only possible, but downright easy. If removed you may also take your own brain in a jar as a companion. Don’t ask, it just works. You also get your own pet X-42 giant robo-scorpion that seems to run without an energy source.
Story Interlude:
The moment we both appeared in my warehouse, McCullum was quite stunned about such a place. He asked why it looked like a big warehouse that could be seen in docks but I replied I had no idea honestly, but told him I can change it later with sufficient WP. He just looked at me with a questioning expression.
It took some time to explain how all this worked but in the end he understood. He went around but commented how empty this place is when he noticed that I don’t have many things beside my tent that works as a barrack, which is a tent because it looked better for one person. I know I can make it a building like the military has if needed, and so I did. The tent vanished with my thought and a small building appeared, along with two beds and some basic furniture.
Next thing we did was to go to my medic bay area, which also had vending machine sized diagnostic tool for medical things.
It was supposed to scan McCullum and correct anything bad in his body, he stepped closer upon my explanation. I pushed the button and he was covered in light for a moment before the screen changed and various data started appearing. Seems like he is healthy and being Ekon for so long has removed all diseases he had as a human. No defects or any other problems detected, good.
With check up done we went back to the area near our new barrack. My seven day rest time automatically activated so we had time for him to get ready for our next jump and also to acquire some information relevant to the setting.
For now I told him to leave his sword and revolver in the barracks and to let us test both of our abilities, since we didn’t spar or anything during our journey throughout europe. Taking care to be near the medicine bay just in case. I showed him my power to spawn blood packs, which he found interesting but also inconceivable.
I gave him a good supply of them if he needed to drink. Next thing was comparing mastery over our powers.
As a 2nd generation ekon with 9 years of experience he managed to learn all ekon powers aside from the three ultimate attacks, while other powers weren’t maxed out. Seeing as he wasn’t like Mary, going on and slaughtering people and drinking blood like nothing, he merely approached her in power after 9 years. He also learned how to make 1 shadow clone, which seems like a limit that a normal vampire can make. His physical body is near peak human.
Meanwhile I by the time of final fight with Red Queen maxed out my powers as normal ekon, learning all powers, even ultimate ones, all due to fighting and evolution ability, which only worked to maxing out to game level. After that I had to train and use my capstone boosted less limits perk, which removed them all together.
After 9 more years of training my abilities went beyond those of even 1st gen ekon. My blood barrier became strong enough to easily handle attacks of skals and other creatures like sewer beasts. Even if I tried the same thing that cut off my arm back then wouldn’t work easily. I could hit myself three times at full power while it remained active, needing another weaker hit before it broke, tested after using someone else's weapons of course.
My shadow mist ability became about two times larger, now able to cover significant areas and damaging enemies swiftly and deadly. Invisibility power became very easy to use and now I could sustain it by using barely any stamina, even if sprinting. But not using super speed. I could also sustain it even if bumping into something or being attacked, but not when I myself attacked, seems it’s still beyond me.
I was also quite versatile in usage of my powers, not being a specialist like in the game, I could use both forms of powers combined if I so desired. Like a hard blood barrier and an exploding one, though this decreased power if used at the same time so I keeped to what I liked.
I didn’t figure out shooting homing blood spears but I could shoot them in quicker succession than normal, needing about 1s between use. I could also shoot several smaller ones each for different targets rather than three in a wedge.
My claws became one of my more used abilities in close combat now too, claws made of blood are capable of persisting while I strike for three blows instead of one like normal, can make it for both of my hands if needed even. They are also tougher than my saber is and more damaging.
Coagulation ability wasn’t trained as much as others but I can still use it easily enough for a bit longer than what is allowed.
Meanwhile my ultimate powers stayed relatively normal, I can handle using them more often though.
Other than that I am about double that of peak human in physical capability, my body mod didn’t stack at 100% with my ekon stats and ended up like this. Though I can feel I’m slowly growing in body strength, it’s quite a small boost.
So the next few days was spent on me feeding Geoffrey blood packs, while he can’t easily evolve like I can, he can train with limitless supply of blood, only being limited by stamina for shadow powers.
Between his training I also told him about my original world and my first jump. He was interested in a world without monsters, though he stopped calling ekons as such. Thankfully he came to terms with his powers.
Then I myself spent some time on choosing my next jump, which will be Fallout New Vegas and one of my favorite games. The reason for jumping there is due to amazing technology I could acquire and how it will help me when I decide to jump to Mass Effect. This came with a crash course on Fallout setting for Geoffrey so he could handle it more easily. His expression was amazing when I told him what kind of world this will be, but also sad on why it was as such, meaning nuclear apocalypse.
So without further rambling I started setting up the next jump.
I decided to be member of the Brotherhood of Steel as a scribe scientist, combining it with learning perks and 100 CP transferred to my body mod, which made me intelligent and gave me resistance to disease and toxins, which are something I hate and am not certain my new body will handle easily, which I made to look just like my Ekon one.
I got a few free perks for this origin even, mainly power armor training so that it’s as easy as breathing for me to move efficiently in it, quick learning perk, and something akin to the ending slideshow I saw in the game.
For the ones I bought was the ability to learn even faster, combined with my body mod and free perk I should be at least a genius in intellect… hopefully. In addition to not getting resistant to chems and immunity to bad things that could happen when I take them. This is crucial for getting various boosts I will get.
Next was the item section, free gear which is laser rifle and recon armor, not bad. A doctor bag with respawning supply of stimpaks, med-x and limb fixing package as well as basic medic tools. Very good.
The things I bought were two, Euclid’s C-Finder.which is a rangefinder for orbital laser cannon like Archimedes II, very powerful and useful for me, and also a cool asset. The other one is Sierra Madre Vending machine with replenishing supply of a large amount of chips. This will help me with supplies and my plan on giving it more blueprints, which should in theory work.
My next thing to do was getting companion import, I wanted to have McCullum as my friend in arms and a paladin of the brotherhood. So he became a soldier and a member of my faction there. I asked him what he wanted when he had break from training and he came up with these perks and items.
Basic gear just like me, free powerful revolver, which he imported from his own one, now upgraded tremendously. A set of X-01 power armor, keeping in mind that most people use T-45 or T-51 I wonder how it will work in the jump. We shall see.
He then bought two heavy weapons to fight against both armies and powerful singular enemies, with a unique gatling laser and unique gauss rifle. I doubt he will have trouble killing much of anything in Fallout.
He told me then there wasn’t much he needed so I persuaded him to buy us a second Vending Machine. He easily agreed after I explained to him how powerful of a tool it is, with two of them our options will expand even more.
Geoffrey was a bit troubled when I told him that I also want to buy a deathclaw egg, since after learning how much of a killing machine it can grow into he understood he was weaker than it, at least as he is now. But I assured him it will be friendly to us. Eventually he agreed.
Good thing we will get vending machines for food. I hope it hatches easily as I don’t have experience with such things.
Later on I saw I’m short on CP and had to take drawbacks, one will make mutated insects attack me, while other will make it similar to in game quests, meaning that it will fall to me and companions to deal with stuff and we will not get help in terms of people. I don’t really mind it as I intend to train my ekon powers away from curious eyes, same for Geoffrey.
Oh, wait. How do we hatch deathclaw as members of BoS? I think we will need to leave the egg in the warehouse for some time and then get some mission and hatch it. Hmm I can use my access key to sort of teleport so I could visit the egg even if inside the Hidden Valley. I will buy more of these keys to give to McCullum one too.
Just before the week of training and preparation is over I tell McCullum my plan and the scenario I have chosen. We will acquire advanced technology, weapons, armor, chems, robots maybe while trying to make Mojave a safer place, he agreed to that readily. I smiled and then explained I have chosen the scenario to be Old Worlds Blue, a super high tech facility with brilliant minds such as Think Tank and Mobius who I intend to make peace with and gather more technology, in addition to super powerful giant robo scorpion.
I told him it will be a dangerous battle ahead, at least to get to Mobius and we will need experience and plenty of tech to do it. I chose to start in BoS bunker instead of in Big Mt. since it would be too dangerous for now and I know how to get us teleported there, at least me, he can then step through the warehouse to help me. While I’m averse to getting lobotomized, it’s probably my only option for now, at least until I get smarter. Perhaps I will be able to avoid such a thing and other bad events from the plot.
For now we stood there as the countdown approached. My warehouse didn’t have a cleaning facility so we were dirty as ever, hopefully our new bodies will be clean.
Space Shattered after I initialised the jump.
Story:
In a blink I appeared in a metal room, it was my bedroom inside of Hidden Valley bunker. Geoffrey seems to also have appeared inside of his own. I wasn’t wearing my cloak and suit but scientist clothes that were basic clothing of scribes around here. Looking around the room it was similar in design to how I remembered from the game.
Still the sight of a big egg sitting peacefully on my bed startled me a bit. Thankfully there wasn’t any sort of camera system so I covered it quickly with my blanket and immediately opened the door to my warehouse to put the egg inside, I couldn’t teleport it as other things as it was alive.
Not wasting time I placed it only on my bed in the barrack and left before anyone would try to open the door to my room to talk with me and just a few seconds later I heard the door opening as I remede my bed sheets. McCullum has entered the room. I asked him how he was, having jumped the first time with me and he explained it was strange having another but the same body. Lack of his ekon powers in his new form surprised him. But he was also happy to lose that weakness, which was inability to eat or drink normal food. He has long since wished to taste it once again so we went to mess hall.
There I asked him what about the power armor he bought and it seems that it wasn’t in his room. Good thing as X-01 top tier pre war prototype appearing in a paladin room would be bizarre. I considered explaining that I made it or something but I doubt it would work here. Even more with his two top tier weapons. At least his revolver which he has won’t make others cast strange gazes at us.
I told him about the deathclaw egg and how it appeared near my bed and we agreed it would be dangerous to have someone stumble upon us having it. Could perhaps get us exiled or court martialed. With that said our new fake memories were certainly useful. We had pretty much most of what we needed to not stand out in the chapter. McCullum also had extensive knowledge of weapons and experience on using them and his power armor while I had a variety of subjects I was expert at regarding fallout technology. With my current level I inherently understand and would not have a problem creating power armor as long as I had schematics for it, and repairing armor and weapons is a breeze.
Making new weapons and armor is also possible if a long term subject, but still I’m not the best in the field. Based on my understanding Courier should be laying in his grave right about now as it’s night time. Big Mt. story should happen towards the mid or end of his journey, at least after Nipton and meeting Vulpes. So we have at the least a few days and at most months. I even with my current intellect have a worry about continuity of self so I do not intend to be teleported and lobotomized by the Think Tank so I will enter the area by conventional method, it should be possible as I know the rough location and that Elijah did it.
So the first thing to do would be to try to get some field mission to get outside. I don’t know how we can raise our deathclaw inside. Though currently we know that there are a few recon squads gathering information regarding the situation in the Mojave, we probably won’t get a mission. Due to this next week was spent reading through the BoS database for all technology I had access to, which was most actually.
We also had some time to check out weapons and armor we bought for the jump, and the deathclaw egg looked fine too, and didn't change in any way yet. The items were as impressive as I thought they would be. I have shot the armor with McCullum new weapons and it managed to endure quite a few shots even in the same place before melting or breaking off. Then I tried attacking it with my own powers but only managed to leave deep scratches with my claws, blood spears also made a few shallow holes.
On the other hand my Abyss ability managed to barely pierce the chest plate protecting the frame, it could probably injure a person inside more akin to a gunshot. It wasn’t able to lift it off the ground like it can with skals or humans though. Perhaps it can be strengthened. Later Geoffrey used his upgraded revolver to shoot my blood barrier. It managed to block one shot and broke after two. Next was shooting my arm, it hurt a bit but I regenerated in a moment.
Last test was him using Gauss Cannon and Gatling Laser to attack my blood barrier, of course aiming at the edge. Gauss pierced it like it wasn’t even there, Gatling took a few shots. Though considering both can eventually damage power armor I don’t feel bad. My next goal regarding mastering my power even more is blocking gauss cannon, which is probably the most powerful kinetic weapon in this desert. I also need to be able to do more damage with my claws and spear to power armored enemies, these roboscorpions will be tough as nails.
With not much else to do, McCullum was honing his skills with the basic gear he got like a laser rifle, which he was good already in using. I hoarded knowledge with my perfect memory. In due time I started to get some ideas in regards to how Sierra Madre Vending Machines work. We haven't yet tried them out because I want to leave it after we are in the field.
Then as the third week was starting I managed to give a convincing idea in regards to a field mission. Mine and Geoffrey's mission is to leave the bunker and deal with powder gangers that have set up a base of operations a few km from the base. Perfect opportunity. McCullum was to deal with fighting while I was to interrogate them and see if they know anything about technology nearby and information about the factions here.
So Geoffrey was allowed to take T-51 power armor and a minigun for this mission while I followed with my Recon armor and Laser Rifle. Obliterating them was easy enough, even with just the weapons we got. I also used a blood barrier which was quite visible, but provided me protection from their shitty pistols.
Once we killed most I used my mind control power to force questions out of the guy we left alive. Some useless info, news about some Courier saving Primm from raiders. We were pleasantly surprised he managed to arrive in Primm after so much time. Now we had a brief time to start our real operation here. I had McCullum patrol the surroundings while I took one of our vending machines outside to this place, while I could teleport it here, I didn’t want to have it break if it appeared in the air or something. Next I have uploaded several blueprints I managed to create during my two weeks on my personal computer and uploaded in holotape.
I have given it the ability to produce several different ammunition, frag, plasma and emp grenades among the combat ones, in addition to some chems like Jet I managed to get info on the components it is made of without having to reinvent the dung recipe someone remade.
Still the most important thing I got was a blueprint for a mister handy robot and mister gutsy robot, the basic ones. I was quite nervous if it was gonna work but by the evening we managed to make enough parts for one of each of them. By the dawn I have put the parts together and activated them using one of fusion cores I managed to get from the person in charge of supplies. I didn’t have time to make a blueprint for it yet but I will have to make one sometime later to return the two I took.
About 10am in the morning we were done with checking to see if it will work and proceed to activate them. I activated personality subroutine in both and they proclaimed their loyalty to me. I have given Geoffrey a secondary access so he could give them orders as long as they did not go against my own orders or intended to harm me.
We still had two days left to return as our mission duration was three generous days. The four of us left the Raider camp while I returned the vending machine to the warehouse. We went south from the camp and rushed to NCR correctional facility which was just a prison. By the time we arrived it was already afternoon.
The facility was quite empty, it seems that Courier has killed Powder Gangers inside. So we occupied it as our new base of operations. Geoffrey cleaned whatever scum had managed to hide in the basement of this place, which was also a few ghouls, a scary place indeed. I meanwhile took the building with the biggest space inside and set up my vending machine once again there. Also by using the door there I could later on teleport here if desired. Very cool.
My Mister Gutsy was instructed to stand guard outside the building door and watch out for hostels or anyone really. Mister handy was told to watch while I make parts for another batch of them and then make them a complete whole. He easily understood how it worked. I told him that his and the other one job is to make another 8 mister handies and teach them how it all works.
One mister handy to operate the vending machine, one to create more robots out of parts. I set up another machine at the other end so altogether four of them were to work on making new robots, while six of them were to clean the whole facility so it’s nice to look at. Once 10 of mister handy were in existence they were to switch to making mister gutsy and produce fifty of them. This is gonna take a while but I can’t easily secede from BoS without measure of power. I only really needed them for their knowledge.
Based on current estimates I will get four robots per day per vending machine. Generous supply of chips for raw materials also is within capacity, though really close to limit. Nonetheless I expect great results.
Mister Gutsy outside is also made supreme commander of my Mr. Gutsy army. I intend to upgrade him later if time allows. He is told to make 5 other Mr. Gutsy as his lieutenants and each of them will have 9 subordinates to call on. Their job is to secure the perimeter of the facility and protect it from harm at all cost.
Next I used computer present in the facility to create fusion core blueprint I needed for the rest of my free time, made a few and instructed my Mr. Handy to properly power up the other one i made but lacked power and do the same for every other robot. Which also pushed production to the limit. I took two fusion cores to return and with McCullum we traveled back to give our report.
Next two weeks I created blueprints and read through the database more. I had some responsibility but it was quite an easy job as a scribe, while McCullum was training younger members of the chapter.
Two weeks later I had created as many gutsies as the area of my base could hold, even the basement. I sent two of them to monitor the area around the place that the satellite was supposed to crash in case Old World Blues was to start from. Thankfully Courier did his quests in NCR outpost and passed through Nipton. It seems he is a good guy from the rumours I had heard.
As he slowly journeyed north I spent another month figuratively eating knowledge of the brotherhood. It was exceedingly vast but I had absorbed the majority already. My vending machines already had blueprints for all BoS armors and weapons, for a computer, foods of all kinds and medicine. I also managed to crack creation of power armors, the schematics were locked so I had to study T-51 that McCullum can use for training and his X-01 he trains on sometimes in the warehouse.
Speaking of warehouses, we have long since took the deathclaw egg away from it. Now it sits in one of the buildings at our base, with mister handy taking care of it, we of course uploaded knowledge regarding deathclaws and all around medicine so he can take relatively proper care. Biosigns detected through a device I made told me it will hatch within next month. I will probably need to make it go around the wasteland for experience and so his growth is not stunted. I hope he recognizes me as a master or parent of some kind properly. But I have little worry as my benefactor powers seem great.
I sometimes took McCullum on a stroll around our base, during the night of course as we were supposed to be in our rooms since he looked bored and was asking me how our plan was going to which I replied it was better than I realised it would be.
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