as Alice continued to professionally present the Skurian government proposal, Sophia and Vincent were asking more and more detailed questions, it was obvious that even if technology wasn't their field, thanks to the compatibility this technology showed they were becoming more and more interested
the content was very simple, the Skurians would continue to share their technological advancements in biomechanical technology, and abide by some basic laws of the Sun Federation, in exchange the Sun Federation would announce to the neighboring forces that the skurians were their vassal, station a group of sixth stage military officer on an embassy that will be built on Skuria II, and in the long term grant limited access to the Federation virtual network
like that 45 minutes passed and as the presentation was almost over Daniel said "I see, so that's how it was, mhm mhm"
Sophia looked at Daniel who finally came out from his thoughts and asked "have you found out something?"
Daniel nodded and moving his hand a holographic screen appeared, in the screen was the scene inside the crashed ship, with the biomechanical heart weakly beating above the stasis chamber and he said "one of the questions that remained unsolved, was what was the will inside the hearth, I can explain it sent data to tickles, but not what it was as it felt no different from a real-life, basically at that moment the heart contained a soul"
Daniel continued as another screen appeared he said "look at this data, this technology it's still immature and barely reached the level of near-space colonization basically low-sixth-stage but they somehow developed a soul storage device without even knowing, it works really badly, but it's impressive doing something like this with this level of technology, basically I'm almost sure that the heart at that moment contained the soul of one of the members of the crew, he or she held as long as possible to let whoever found the ship know how to save Almony"
while Vincent and Sophia were surprised, Alice nodded and said "so that's what happened, in fact, we used this method when enemies would board the ship and the situation was hopeless, one of the crew that had the necessary know-how would sacrifice themselves so that the enemy couldn't take control, after that, we developed the technology to make sure a sacrifice was no longer necessary as the soul would slowly dissipate after entering the hearth, even when an enemy with the necessary knowledge for the sacrifice would board the ship, the ship would reject their soul if it wasn't one of those who had ties with it"
Daniel said "that's why I said it was bad, but this doesn't change the fact that whoever did it, stayed inside for 200 years while her soul dissipated slowly, it's already a big achievement"
Alice was surprised this time and said "no, as far as I know, the one who lasted the most was 1 year and 1 month before the soul dissipated completely"
Daniel nodded and said "as I said bad, but whoever was that melded their soul inside the hearth was able to slow down the process, basically, she had to be a genius technician that found a different way or a good soul cultivator"
Alice looked like she was struck by lightning as she looked at Almony and exclaimed "Theresa, she was both the best biomechanic in my crew and a soul cultivator"
that's when old memories started flooding her brain, stuff Alice had put aside for a long time and tried her best not to think about, as she sighed she started to tell them the story "10 years before Almony was poisoned, for the first time she met with Theresa, a free spirit with a passion for technology, in spite of being close in age, Theresa appeared to be much older, as being a soul cultivator it would take a while before she could extend her lifespan reaching the fifth stage in one fell swoop, but this didn't matter to Almony and the two soon became close as sisters"
Alice patted Almony's head again and said "but she didn't just want to be her sister, Theresa was completely smitten with this blockhead, who couldn't see her feelings, in any case after Almony was put into stasis, before the incident we traveled to many people trying to find a solution for the poison, in that period Theresa finally managed to reach the colorless level, and instead of continuing to accumulate energy for a period of time, she immediately broke trough convinced that being powerful she could find a way to save her"
while Almony was shocked as she really never realized that her good sister had such deep feelings for her, she felt like something stabbed her through her heart and started to cry silently
Alice continued to narrate the story "but nothing worked, we didn't even manage to find out what the poison was, but a person pointed us toward a supposed genius alchemist, during that trip our fleet was attacked, to make sure Almony could reach that alchemist we moved her to a smaller frigate that remained hidden in a close nebula, I was supposed to attract the enemy away while she continued toward the objective once the coast was clear, I don't know what happened next between them being hidden in the nebula and when the young master found the buried ship"
Daniel nodded and said "we can only suppose that Almony was the objective from the start, someone hidden in the dark found the frigate directed toward the alchemist and attacked, how they end up so far it's impossible to know, but this raises the question, maybe they were tired to wait for Almony to die for the poison and tried to take care of her immediately, but there is one strange thing. . ."
Vincent interrupted him saying "if the Garian's knew that the poison was impossible to remove for them, why would they bother to attack, as she was virtually dead anyway, or something like that?"
while Daniel nodded Sophia added "but if it was the Garian's why bother to poison her, they could have just killed her directly"
Daniel said "to that, I have an answer, a hybrid it's a source of shame for them, after all, they sustain that the Garian race it's perfect and incompatible with other species, and as such they were trying to make that shame quietly disappear, if they were to send one of their brethren we would have heard a rumor about them from our spies or the information shared by the spies of our allies"
Sophia said "I can more or less accept it, but it sounds a little stupid"
Daniel added "just a little, a basic genetic test can easily say that it's true that Garian's are incompatible with many species, but it's not like there aren't any, in fact, the giant race it's more incompatible than they are, well as humans maybe we can't understand them as we are compatible with almost every species garian and giants included"
Alice said "so that's how it is, I fought you were all normal humans, there are no particular genetic traits I can see on you"
Vincent smiled and said "don't let appearance trick you, there are more races mixed in the Specter family bloodline than I can count, legend has it that my great-great-grandfather's wife was a mermaid"
sophia sighed and said "it's a matter of mixing too much, at first I was worried I would be giving birth to some sort of chimera, in the end, they have mostly a human appearance but some of them after cultivating start to exhibit peculiarities of other races, Alexander has slightly pointed ears, vincent here has bones so strong they seem to be made of metal and Joseph's skin it's too tender and supple to be that of a human, but it's true most of the specters look as human as one can be"
Daniel sighed and said "we started to digress, the point is this technology has a bigger potential than I had imagined, they are just using it wrong, they fixated on creating life diagrams from scratch by deciding what they want the thing they build to do, but like this the more complicated it is the more defects came out, they are basically trying to build semi-natural organisms"
Daniel made a few screens appear and continued "why would you start from scratch, something that already exists, study the body and genes of whatever has the characteristics you want and you can use how that body works to build 70% to 80% of the life diagram that does the same thing, the only problem that remains it's putting a nice bow on it and how to make it work together with other characteristics, to make an example, by mixing some thunder element beasts body traits one can easily build a super battery"
Alice nodded and said "we tried in the past, but our technology it's limited, we don't have the instruments to extract the necessary data from the body, so we could only continue to try"
Daniel said "right I hadn't thought of that"
Vincent nodded and said "that's good, Daniel can you make some example of how this technology can be applied to cultivation?"
Daniel thought for a moment and said "I can't make anything too complicated with this limited time, but I can add some theoretical things that should be possible, but I doubt it's necessary, the data speak for itself, whoever doesn't understand the potential should be fired immediately their either a spy or an idiot"
Vincent nodded and patting Daniel's head said "you're still young after all, just add 2 or 3 simple examples to the presentation, when you go to battle it's better to think of every possible and impossible scenario to be ready for anything"
Daniel shrugged and added an example each for alchemy, refining, and formations before going back to the lake shore to read, while Vincent, Alice, and Almony went to Rainbow city in the skyscraper to make the official presentation in front of the rest of the Sun Federation autorities