Gates of War - Chapter 4 (commander SI - Multiverse)

CID: Day 30.25

“I really hate slow build times.”

During the five hours I had been in the ocean I had built an sub-nautical naval construction dock and a ton of submarines. I also built something the game was lacking, which I blame game mechanics on since there was never a need for it, which was a Fabricator Sub. Nanomachines move more slowly underwater, but that was the only problem I had found. With them I constructed an underwater base, followed by my constructing of a Robot, Aircraft, and Land Factory. The base also possessed access to the ocean surface via extendable elevator, from which I launched 10 scout drones, and a few flying fabrication planes to build a Teleporter on the nearby land mass.

Over the last two of the five hours, I quickly discovered that this world wasn’t simply a lifeless planet, but one with a population upon it. I didn’t know if they were human or not, since I didn’t have the planes go near them. With the telescopic optics however, I would be able to get an idea of where they were in development compared to myself.

I quickly had the planes change their color scheme to blend in with the sky as they traveled, and altitudes in which they would fly before sending them off. I made sure they stayed above thirty thousand feet, as the last thing I needed was the locals to notice something in the air that wasn’t something easily explained as “it’s a bird.” I was a bit surprised the scout had actual color changing polymers, even though I had read about it. Seeing is believing.

According to the data they had gathered from afar, it was what the Progenitors called a “Class-E” Settlement world. That means it was inhabited by a non-space faring civilization. The world classification system was a nice distraction for my mounting depression fest as I realized the similarities to that of the Tech Levels in GURPS. There were Tech Levels, but also various levels of Civilizations.

The Class system had seven classes. Class-S was the highest, and the lowest was Class-G, with numbers denoting whether it was high or low on the scale of that class. One was the highest, and five was the lowest. Earth in 2021 would be considered a Class-D2, with it being Class-D3 around when the first World War took place. Why the system even existed was interesting to me, so I looked into it a bit further and found that the wars prior to the Century War had at one point or another blasted mankind back to the stone age. Some cases were quite literal. Some of these worlds had existed even during the war between mankind and the machines. Whether they existed still or not was something to think about. Due to this, mankind had developed the system to determine where a society was when it was found, and whether to pull a “Prime Directive” or not.

This world was Class-E. I couldn’t give it a number just yet since I hadn’t seen every bit of it to give a number, but given what I have seen so far, I’d rate it a 3 or 4. Which means I had landed on a world where the civilization over all was either in the Victorian era, the renascence, or early middle age with hints of medieval societies still around in the more civilized areas of the world. Other places will run the gamut of better or outright stone age. So I, being a Commander, is pretty much an OCP here. I alone could pretty much run them over, like a titan of the old world come to life.

Speaking of my being here. I looked over that file that I had installed against my will and found out how I had been brought here. It seems that at some point in the distant past, the group of Progenitors didn’t simply die out or whatever. Some had decided to amscray out of the galaxy, or rather out of the universe entirely.

There isn’t any real detailed information about how and why they came to this solution, which is bizarre to me given what had been shoved into my brain, but to summarize, they built the sphere to create an area of space that acted like a dimensional nexus. Where all the dimensions were in flux due to the immense mass of the structure itself, making space, and time malleable to their whims.

Then using unimaginably powerful energy sources, would rip open a rift in space/time out of the universe and into another one via gigantic Halo like Gateways.

Problem, is that a universe they opened up to could be worse than the one they were trying to leave. So instead of one gateway which would have to be energized, checked, shut down, repeat over and over again, they made 1,000,000 such gateways. I had only seen 300,000+ of them, but there were in fact One Million of them. They would only open a few dozen at a time, but the ones they didn’t open would always have a full charge, and the ones that were closed down after being checked would do the decade long recharge they require.

Of course, they had Commander units check the universes to see if there were threats to them, and deal with them if the universe was too nice to just leave. Eventually they found that new universe, and then left the home universe, leaving behind Pillar and the empty there.

Small detail which enraged me was the fact that you needed someone on the other side to find you and pull you back, or barring that, build yourself a gateway that would connect to the gate you had passed through via dimensional frequency. Since I have no one back home...I would have to build one.

Fucking yay.

Sigh. Well, at least I was tossed onto a primitive planet with no threats. I’ll need to make the gate via materials which will require a solar system to do so...and honestly, I don’t plan on...

Wait a minute...what’s this?

Defense Platform in orbit? Kinetic Artillery? Dozens of Laser and missile satellites? That doesn’t fit this world’s development class…

My drone planes got a good look at it. It was a pretty large thing. At least the size of a football stadium. Given that its guns were pointed at the planet however, it didn’t have much in the defense department against objects coming from space. Oh, it had guns, but they were defensive only from what I can tell...oh wait. No. There are at least four large cannons that were pointed to space. Okay then. I better take care of that, should it actually be on, and decide I am something not allowed.

I got building to do.