Flight of the Avali: Season 2

Twilight followed Einuli down to his lab, not actually having seen the inside. She was floored by the advancements inside the lab itself. Einuli smiled back at her for a moment. “Like it?” He asked, walking up to a console and typing in a few commands. Within moments a pipe came out of the wall and attached to a box like machine.

“Um… Einuli?” Twilight asked.

“Ah yes, I’ll explain as much as I can about all of this.” Einuli turned and smiled at her. “First off, this has some of the most powerful technology on the ship. Including this…” He walked over to a large machine. “This is a Quantum Reactor. It’s highly efficient with any fuels put in it, making it useful for when we can’t harvest solar energy. Specifically on Dark or Dying stars. It powers everything in here, but, it’s incredibly delicate.” He explained, motioning her to follow him around the clean and sterile lab. “It’s wirelessly… yes wirelessly, connected to all of the machines in here.”

“W-wireless power transmission?”

“It’s a lot less efficient, allowing only three machines to be powered effectively at once. If I hardwired it all up… yes I could power more. But it’d get cluttered fast.” He continued. “So, I keep it this way… it’s a strange function of the Matter Manipulator. I can’t… well figure it out myself. So I just treat it as is. Now… these sets of machines…”

“Centrifuges! Yes, I know what those are.” She nodded.

“Great! Now, these are actually two different types. These on the tables are used for liquids… for ease I’ll call them Lab Centrifuges from now on.” He explained. “These…” He walked over to two large machines, they were separate from the major part of the lab, and had a strange outline in the area around. “Are called Gas Centrifuges. Now, they don’t centrifuge gas mind you, but liquid forms of it. As well as other super-chilled liquids and super-heated liquids, or even plasma if it can be contained.”

“W… wh… what does it produce?” Twilight asked, summoning a note-pad and pen to take notes on everything he was explaining now.

“Ah! I was hoping you’d ask. Come over here.” He motioned leading her to a wall mounted console. “Go ahead touch it.” He said.

Twilight did just that and immedietly the screen came to life, there were lists of things, a search bar, and two different options. ‘As Inputs’, ‘As Output’.

“Now, select the item your either extracting from, or trying to get, and it should appear on the screen.” Einuli explained. “It’s also connected to the Xeno-biology lab, which is used for extracting specific genes or traits from seeds and plants. And the Extractors around the lab, which as the name implies extract things, but instead of from liquids they do it from solid matter, breaking down things to a molecular level at points, giving us the basal objects.”

“Gods above… this is…” Twilight mumbled.

“Did you want to give some of the stuff a try?” Einuli asked. “Right now I’m extracting Carbon from Diamonds. It’s an effective process, more so than getting it from coal… for some reason. That of which I still have yet to grasp.”

“I’d love to!” Twilight nodded, her magic surrounding her body, instantly changing her clothes to that of a scientist. “Where can I begin?”

“Before you begin, there’s two more things I need to explain to you.” Einuli said, leading her over to a grouping of machines. “Now, these are specific, as instead of extracting resources, they take the extracted resources and various other ones and produce things. Now, it depends on which one you use as to what resources they’ll take.” He explained. He began with the one on the far left, nearest to the doorway. “This is the Matter Assembler. I produces other machines used in the lab, namely the extractors and centrifuges. As well as other ‘crafting’ stations as I’ll call them from now on.”

“Alright, what else can it do?” Twilight asked.

“It produces complex parts, namely Power cores, AI Chips, and other complex circuitry. An incredibly essential part of the lab… though not as essential as the next thing, the Bio-Chem Lab. Now, it’s essentially it’s own contained lab, and it can produce biochemical reactions in a safe environment. It can produce Graphene, advanced plastic, morphite, bio-goo, calcium nitrate… and many, many other things. It is the most essential part of the lab. Without it everything would cease to work, as it’d just be useless to m- us.” He corrected himself with a smile, his eyes slightly glimmering.

“It’s wonderful that such a thing can exist… I can’t wait to see it in action.” She smiled back, hugging him warmly.

“Now, why don’t I continue your tour?” He asked.

“That’d be great! What’s next on the list?”

“The Nano-fabricator. Now… this is an interesting piece of hardware. It can produce nanite augments for our armor and EPP’s. As they are powerful, only one can be put onto a given section of armor, helmet, body, and legs. And one on the EPP. They’re… hard to produce however. Requiring rare and hard to obtain materials. But, it can also produce specific upgrades to armors Nightbloom can make, strengthening them given the right materials. It can also produce a three special pieces of tech, they’re notable for their usefulness in the field. They’re the Mining Laser, which can be made more powerful through reinforcements made to it with various materials, a cave-detector, which can be improved as well, and an ore-detector… which like the other two can be improved for better ore-detection.” He motioned for her to follow once more, leading her to the last two machines. “This first one is the gene-design lab. It can, given the right genes and traits, produce any seed I have records and the gene designs for. Meaning, essentially given a solid store of genes…”

“If the farm dies… you can just replant it…” Twilight said.

“Yep. Meaning we’ll never go without food.” Einuli nodded. “But, it also can give us hard to find plants, like the Dark Bloom… it only grows on planets devoid of UV light…”

“That’s impossible! How could a planet block out UV light?” Twilight gawked.

“It does happen.” Einuli said. “You… might get to see a few stranger planets when we head out… but enough on that, this is the Power Station.” He lead her to the last machine, and it did look more industrial then the others, with a conveyer belt leading out of a huge box on it. “And… well it produces ways to make power. Solar panels, converters, batteries, generators… as well as some more technical equipment that requires a lot of energy. More then our suits onboard generators can produce that is…”

“W… wow…” Twilight mumbled.

“Now… I won’t even ask if you have any questions because I have a feeling you’ll be figuring everything you want to know out shortly.” Einuli smiled. “Now… two rules. No producing radioactive materials unless we’re both suited up for it… and don’t produce explosives unless I’m monitoring the amount you’re making, okay?”

“Got it!” Twilight nodded, smiling even wider. “I’m ready!”

“Then let's get to work!” Einuli grinned, the two immediately beginning to produce SCIENCE! (I had to do that, sorry)