After Esmond was cleaned up and attended to, which Carter objected to, however Rubys opinion far superseded everyone else's, when it came to her childrens health.
The other mothers and parents among the Zadris people understood so many rushed forward and helped Ruby treat her boy.
She was amazed how an alien species could speak fluent English so easily, but it turned out to be one of the traits of the Zadris people to pick up languages quickly.
Astonished, Ruby enquired about much more, as was Daniel who was connecting with the fathers and elderly who stood in the Summoning Square.
Only when they noticed some of the children and elderly were about to sit down did Carter suggest they leave the square and move inside to the palace.
Everyone, including Esmond at times, were utterly amazed and taken aback by the sight and brilliance of the palace.
The Zadris people felt a little inspired and their creative genes exploding when they eyes would come across some artistic expression or piece that made them stop and admire its beauty.
Only the voices of the elderly were keeping the people in check and moving inside so they could understand what exactly had happened to their people.
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Everyone got settled in one of the larger reception rooms with Carter commanding the drones to bring more furniture for the people to sit on as well as some food for everyone, preferably fruit for now as everything else would require time.
Seeing everyone finally settle and their attention was focused on him, Esmond began to tell them of what came upon their people after they were gone from that world.
"After the surprise attack and invasion from the Antaqulian Empire, the Zadrisian people were moved to my personal territory within the Trozikatrol Republic Domain, however my father became aware of the bounty on my head and the price of your people among slavers…
In the end, I was killed by my father, while he collected my bounty and sold of the rest of the race to fulfil his greed.
However, the Zadrisian people refused to submit to their new 'masters' and the race soon died out…"
Because of the kids in the room, though they weren't through hell and came back, Esmond refused to bring up certain topics what shouldn't be addressed before them.
In particular he didn't want to talk about their beloved princess being sold into slavery and the prince that both races held great hopes for, end up bringing down a Starcruiser as a last ditched suicide effort to harm those who brought harm to his people.
"Mister Esmond… I wish to ask, why exactly are we here now?
What are we supposed to be doing?"
Esmond had no idea how to answer the question asked of him.
He could see the worry and fright, similar to what he used to feel when he would awake in a new world after each death.
"*Sigh* To tell you the truth… I want to build an empire… a Galactic Empire that will rule above all else.
I have knowledge from an unimaginable number of lives that will come in hand as I expand my forces to rival those from my past lives that still haunt me to this day.
This place as been given to me as well as your races genetic code, probably to build my forces, but I have no intention to force that upon any of you.
There is more than enough space and things to do within here that you should be able to find some peace and rest.
However, I will continue to work hard to create my empire that will protect all of those that were harmed in my past lives and those others that might come in the future."
Everyone was quiet for a while, not saying a word and just trying to absorb what was just said.
Some felt they were being fooled or thought of as foolish, but every Zadrisian here had someone beside them that they loved and cared for, who would be the reason that kept them from making a decision they might regret later.
'"What must be done… My Lord?"' a family stood up together before kneeling on one knee before Esmond.
Soon, everyone followed and copied the family as they kneeled before Esmond.
A sight to see in the eyes of Esmonds parents who couldn't believe their son was able to receive the support and help of an alien race that looked identical to humans other than the small colourful gem like item fixed within the middle of their foreheads.
"Please rise… you've already gone through so much, yet you wish to go through more.
Are you positive?"
"Yes, My Lord, we are…
The injustices our race faced must be paid for… but in the meantime we wish to save others from similar fates as our own.
We will serve you, Lord Esmond Manston…"
The man from the first family to kneel spoke up, having connected with his brethren using his Psionic energy to find out how they felt about everything that was going on before he spoke.
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With the allegiance of the Zadrisian people, Esmond used the Summoning Square, which had a daily limit of 3 uses, to bring another 200 Zadris people into the space.
The ones that'd been summoned first used their psionic energy to relay the information about their race and what had happened earlier.
Some were annoyed that a rash decision like swearing allegiance was a big matte, but the voice of those who agreed drowned out those disagreed.
Carter then started to sort through everyone, by first adding their information to his database with a scan of the each Zadris person which gave him all of their details.
After that, he allocated them jobs all around the city as well as residences, but before they got to work or anything of the sort, they were preparing to help Ben with an important matter.
Obtaining his own supply of Ogryx.
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As it turned out, Pure Ogryx was formed from psionic energy being fed to simple stone that would break away and leave a pure ore behind that is known as Ogryx.
Problem is, only those with great levels of psionic energy could fuse their energy with stone.
The Zadris that were summoned had the lowest level of psionic energy within their bodies, but there was room for growth.
For now, they could instead fuse their energy with minerals and materials to form an alternative Ogryx.
A perfect example of this was when Carter brought over steel ingots to the palace and Esmond asked a group of Zadrisian to fuse their energy with the steel.
It took roughly 5 minutes of stressful concentration that drained quite a few of the volunteers of their energy, however it was quickly replenished by the space, which was both unbelievable and frightening, not knowing what powers could achieve such a thing.
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*Ding*
[Scanning…]
[…]
[…]
[…]
[Recognised!]
[Ogryx Alloy Steel has been added to the Spatial Ark Land]
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The rumbling in the distance indicated to Esmond the space had added another mountain range with an unlimited amount of Ogryx Ally Steel, which was confirmed by Carter and the surveillance drones he sent out.
After that, Esmond called for all of the Zadris people to help him with feeding their energy into as many materials they could daily for the space to recognise it and add it.
Just from a basic test conduct by Carter on the Ogryx Ally Steel, it was found to be three times more in both tensile and yield strength, easily above 100,000 in both categories.
There were plenty of other characteristic Ogryx afforded the new steel, however a great deal of tests needed to be done before Esmond could get carter using the new steel for construction, equipment and weapons that were being built.
"Esmond… please tell me you're not wanting me to use these new alloys with Ogryx?"
"If you could… sure.
Look if even a portion of Pure Ogryx functions could be added to any of the materials in the space would be a freaking godsend!
Or have you already forgotten the 'ancient' ships we came across during our time as Shel the Menace, who caused the Irunlian Democracy to collapse after using his 'ancient' starships made with Ogryx which ate up any fleet that came before them.
Man, those were some weird days!"
Shel the Menace, another past life of Esmonds that caused untold horror to those that abused their great power, while he helped the many suffering from the actions of the few.
Eventually his death came from those within his organisation, influenced by the power within their hands, Shels demise led to the total collapse and civil war in the many territories that were protected by his fleet.
The war civil war led to the end of the great republic built by Shel and turned into the mining grounds for an adjacent nation.
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"While I agree those were weird days… I would like to tell you that it might delay the time of Phantoms operational start time if I start rebuilding a great deal of our equipment."
"Don't worry, I'm not asking for everything.
Even then, I've asked you to make things not too showy from the outside, what I mean is the instruments and equipment on the inside could be upgraded.
I don't believe a Ogryx Alloy Graphite would work at the same level as per say Pure Ogryx, however it would surely be an improvement than simple Graphite.
Give it a test against the normal graphite chips and see the difference."
Esmond left Carter with his work, not wanting to feed his laziness to not remake some of the equipment.
Majority of the work was done by drones, so Carter never needed to get his hands dirty, which was why Esmond couldn't understand why he would complain about changing it up.
They both knew Ogryx strengthened and improved the durability of materials, evident from the cotton that was infused with psionic energy which made it incredibly durably compared to the original product.
It was also waterproof and protective to an extent, which was one of the main reasons he wanted to use the materials with Ogryx.
But another point was part of the Zadris people were willing to join his armed forces and begin training alongside the human recruits.
It turned out, because of the summoning they had some clarity in their bodies which meant they could accelerate their training, improve their skills, and cultivate their psionic energy.
Another ability they received which became easier to perform than their past lives was the small illusion they could create to obscure the gem in their foreheads, which was known as the third eye.
Once it awoke and opened meant the person had reached a certain level to generate a huge amount of energy before one could blink and wipe through civilisations by infiltration their minds.
The once calm and peaceful Zadris people wanted to ensure their survival, especially with the second chances they had received so everyone agreed to train from the young to the old, while many wanted to join Phantom and help their lord with his work outside the space.
Everyone was coming to learn they would be interacting with humans.
Some found it annoying that they hadn't adjusted to their own lives here, yet they were to coddle another race, however nobody objected to the idea knowing they were all working in the service of their lord.
Esmond knew if he could get the Zadris people to fight beside the human forces, they could use their psionic energy during battle to help stimulate the materials that make up their equipment for enhancements.
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Before Esmond went to have a look at the F/A-37 Talon, he wanted to use the Upgrade Token he'd been rewarded by the system and use it on the Golden Knowledge ability.
His reasoning behind it was the lack of information the clarified how the tech worked.
The EDI UCAV from the same film, and also the antagonist of the film in part, could disregard G-forces and complete sharp angle turns which would likely make the pilot pass out in a heartbeat.
So, the knowledge he would receive from his ability would include those preposterous laws and physics of that world which were near impossible to replicate now without a polymath with technology from times ahead.
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*Ding*
[Golden Knowledge Ability Upgraded – Spectral Consciousness Ability!]
[- Hosts consciousness can enter the media art form of their choosing to enter the world and explore, gaining the knowledge and experience of the media, firsthand]
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"What the fuck…" Esmond moved to the cabin with just a thought and went to his room to find his laptop before calling for Carter.
"Did you pick up on the change of my ability?"
"Hold on…" Carter checked the system through their connection and found some changes to Golden Knowledge.
When he read over the changes, he couldn't believe what he saw, because it meant they could not just enter the worlds of films, video games and much more, but it also meant Esmond could summon Carter through the space and use the drones so they could gain knowledge beside the half assed method of Golden Knowledge.
"You want to go into the Stealth world?" Carter asked Esmond, who had a look of disgust on his face, as he wasn't a fan of the film after all the time, he'd wasted trying to recreate the Talon and now the EDI UCAV which was far more of a headache.
"Well, I'm wondering more so if I could actually bring the damn EDI UCAV straight here if I enter the world."
Carter checked the systems and the abilities restrictions which were deeply ingrained in the system database that no host could ever access, leaving them always to flounder and panic when the system stops them from going beyond its guidelines.
"The systems got zero issues with it, but I suggest if you are thinking of doing this, make it quick and do it when people aren't around.
In and out, that's all.
Got it?!"