Daniel gave the surplus nanites back to Tickles who was now 1.280 kg and started looking at the survivors through the itchy network
every itchy that had the chance immediately went underground to scavenge for materials, after all, they had a mission, but some were luckier
number 17 landed in a city and easily found his way to a scrapyard, the strange thing was that out of 20 itchy that were still working 18 landed on planets able to sustain life, but of these planets, only 3 seemed to have intelligent and industrious life on them, number 4 and 13 had various radio signals, while 17 even had an archaic form of internet
he ordered these three itchy to collect information, but avoid the attention of the locals, while they gather materials in a hidden location underground
but the most interesting one according to Daniel, was neither of these three since their technology wasn't advanced enough, it was the primordial planet full of dinosaurs, these giant creatures seemed delicious according to Daniel
he immediately ordered number 6, called like this because it was the sixth to be thrown in the puddle, to not only build a satellite, he had to build a cloudtrain fighter, and 30 scouts, so they could charge in it while they explored this planet and catalogued all the delicious dinosaurs before sending the data back
the same went for the boiling swamp where there should supposedly be delicious food, he ordered the construction of a section and 30 scout's to explore the planet
of course, there was a slight problem, anchor sand, and racer bronze weren't readily available so for now they had to gather materials and hope for the best and if necessary Daniel would once again look for an alternative to these two hard-to-find materials
if it was Tickles, with the materials at hand it wouldn't take long, but an itchy, it's only made of 10 grams of Tickles, and they also had to find the right materials, so it will take a very long time for them to complete this task, but they will do autonomously and Daniel didn't need to worry
as the various itchy explorers got to work, Daniel went back to think about his own work, he could make improvements to the spacesuit, but before that, he wanted to work on new batteries, better batteries, because different from a maru he didn't have that much space on the fassa and it was already bulky enough without extra weaponry
he also had to worry about energy production, the solar panels he created by using a blueprint and the golden crow series at home were working splendidly, but his energy consumption during a fight worried him, the new weapons and shield, when activated to maximum capacity drained energy at an alarming rate, and he needed something better, more powerful
Daniel and Tickles at this point had knowledge about many different types of energy production methods, but all of them were either too fixed to a location, like geothermal, and hydroelectric, or impossible to achieve on a small scale, like Retak's generator or the nuclear power plants he had the schematics for, all these were impossible to fit in a little cloudtrain section, even worse were fossil fuels who were reliable, but not as traceless and convenient
while thinking about it Daniel got sidetracked and decided to think about what would be the evolution of a solar panel, they were actually really good for his needs but lacked the reliability necessary in a fight, their power generation was constant but not powerful enough to offset the expenditure, and it stopped when sunset came, if in the future he ended up in a planet with no sun he would be screwed
Daniel of course had just got sidetracked by the solar panels because a shadow remained in his subconscious after the failure with the batteries the first time, and now he subconsciously found something to keep him busy, like a student stuck on a book would find even the dumbest video ever interesting or funny
but after thinking about them for 5 days, Daniel arrived nowhere and decided that it wasn't an immediate problem, he could raise a little the efficiency, but this wouldn't solve the problem, so he decided to look into his oldest enemy, the batteries, Daniel decided it was time to redeem himself
so he started experimenting again, causing some new interesting explosions, how was it possible some might ask, well he liked explosions and was quite reckless about his experiments
but something good did happen, of course, totally unrelated to batteries while reading a book he discovered helium he3 then looking into it, he discovered another book on the tablet talking about what a sun was made of and the helium generated by the fusion
the subconscious was a funny thing and Daniel got sidetracked again when he started to think about how helium he3 had potential in some of his experiments, but how could he get his hands on it
luckily the book had the answer ready he just had to improvise on some details, following the instructions in the book, just fifteen days later on the surface of the sandy unnamed planet a building appeared made of the recycled old cloudtrain section and other materials that were useless at this point for Daniel
in this building was a piece of machinery he created with the sole purpose of generating some helium-3, better known as a hydrogen fusion reactor, he was creating a fake disposable little sun that would work once, and then meltdown luckily the explosion should be not even as strong as a nuke
normally helium 3 would fuse into helium 4, but Daniel wanted helium 3, so he had to tinker with it, also there were some serious safety issues, but if everything goes well, he should be able to generate enough before a meltdown, and no one will cry for damaging a dead planet a little
Daniel was able to do this because this planet was already dead, and he had finished recycling the spaceship, with nothing interesting left he didn't care about it anymore since the scout that were still surveying the planet till now found nothing else and were recalled back
so while he was safely inside the train, on the other pole of the planet, five modified scouts, basically pressurized canisters with the ability to fly, were ready to escape as soon as they were full
based on the calculation he made using the book data, he should be able to fill 4 and a half of them before the critical point
to avoid damages to Tickles, instead of the usual method he made the canisters and the reactor controllable from the lab on the train, in the meantime, all the maru's and scouts and all the sections were already packed since just 26 hours remained before the Quilin v arrival
Daniel activated the systems, and the process started, hydrogen gas becomes plasma, and in plasma the negatively charge electrons are completely separated from the positively charged nuclei
the pressure kept building in the machine trapping the hydrogen nuclei, who together with the temperature crashed into each other at high speed defeating the natural repulsion and fusing to form helium
the little sun started to grow, and after it reached a certain size, Daniel butted in the process, using a piece of machinery designed to steal helium 3
inside the little sun, two protons combined and one of them converted into a neutron to form deuterium a heavy isotope of hydrogen
than the deuterium nucleus combined with another proton to form helium-3
normally at this point the helium 3 would combine and release 2 protons, but Daniel didn't want that and this machine he found in the book stole them away, this was a fast and continuous process, but being done in the atmosphere of a planet, and with very limited safety measures an explosion was just a matter of time, but it was ok, he wasn't trying to generate energy but helium 3 a light isotope of helium
the process continued and he happily filled all 5 canisters who were now flying to him, Daniel thought "apparently the book data were wrong" but something was happening, the process wasn't stopping, not for a moment, on the contrary, the little sun was growing
this didn't make any sense, soon the reactor melted and the building followed soon later, the little sun seemed to have become self-sustaining and started to feed itself with the hydrogen in the atmosphere, like a chain reaction, growing bigger, but a sun was a ball of hot plasma, and the planet was made of various solid materials, a catastrophic explosion many times bigger than what Daniel had calculated was imminent
Daniel had no intention of staying here to look, he pointed the cloudtrain up, and as soon as the canisters arrived, he put all thrusters to maximum power, trying to run as far as possible
like finding an oasis in the desert as he reached the planet's orbit the fat arrowhead-shaped ship appeared more beautiful than ever, the moment it opened communication Daniel interrupted Phoebe and said "open the cargo bay now! prepare to run away"
Phoebe asked "what?"
and Daniel said "just do it"
Sophia sensed what was happening and said "do as he said"
the train entered as fast as possible in the cargo bay, and the moment he was in Phoebe said "full reverse, let's make an emergency jump"
helmsman Trent said "full reverse, ready for jump"
the moment the ship was about to jump the artificial sun exploded, tearing away a chunk of the planet, that started to move in direction of the sun
Phoebe and everyone else finally understood why he was in a hurry to run, and the ship jumped away just in time to avoid the shockwaves, a little someone had some explaining to do
Phoebe arrived at the cargo bay to find a train perfectly stacked, suddenly one of the sections opened and Daniel wearing the spacesuit came out
this was the first time they saw him wearing it, since they just saw his back as he entered the wormhole, he opened the helmet and said "that was to close for comfort, there was one day before the wormhole ability charged again or i would have run away"
Phoebe said "what did you do?"
Daniel explained his experiment and ended up by saying "well i just wanted to make some helium-3, and somehow lost control of the sun i made to make it"
Sophia asked "what's helium?"
Daniel said "i discovered it thanks to one of your book, have you never read it?, anyway it's a gas"
Sophia said "i didn't read all those book about science, those are stuff rose put in, anyway you destroyed a planet, and possibly soon a solar system to make some gas"
Daniel said "well a dead solar system, and honestly, it doesn't make any sense, it should have exploded way before he reached this point, I don't even know how it was possible, luckily I had already collected everything"
Sophia and Phoebe rolled their eyes, what could they do, he should be just a normal person, but the damages he created were bigger than most cultivators could do, at least they never heard of a seven years old cultivator destroying a solar system
Sophia sighed and even if she was a little unwilling to explain said "it was suicide"
Daniel said "what?"
Sophia nodded and said "you yourself said that the sun started feeding itself, but it wasn't the sun you created feeding itself, it was the planet offering itself to it, a planet grows and dies with the creatures that inhabit it developing spirituality, with nothing on its surface and no possibility to develop new life that spirituality would slowly dissipate, he simply found a way to transform itself and he took it, if I'm right after a while everything in the solar system will merge and in time life will find a way to develop again, the spiritual energy in this area will augment several times as a result of the shift in the tide of spiritual energy that a stronger celestial body will cause"
Daniel said "I had no idea something like this could happen, and tide like the ones in the sea?"
Sophia nodded and said "why do you think our solar system is so simple even if it's the center of a powerful civilization, we move it to follow the tide and make sure Verulus never falls under ss class"
Daniel nodded, he had no idea that was how things worked, as a way to change the conversation he took out two silvery spheres and said "here these are itchy's, the Tickles based communication network, and soon-to-be satellite network"
Daniel spent some time explaining to them how the itchy worked and then Phoebe said "from now on you are not allowed to create suns, if you need a sun for something ask your aunt"
Daniel nodded while thinking "luckily I got off the hook easily"
but the truth was that a deep-seated fear of pushing Daniel away took hold of all four members of the specter family, rendering them unable to punish him