"Mmm… H-hello…?"
Esmond sleepy voice carried through his phone, earlier scrambling to find it as it started blaring aloud and disturbing his sleep.
'It seems like I've disturbed your sleep, Mr Mars…'
Like the wind was knocked out of him, Esmond sat right up, as the drowsiness left his body…
"Not at all… *cough* just resting a little, after a long day… anyway, how may I be of service?"
With no clue who was on the other end, other than someone important through Anton, Esmond did his best to sound authoritative and relaxed.
But being caught off by his sleep made him ill equipped for the conversation, he soon fell back into rhythm and took hold of the conversation.
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'My… child, Anton, has given me your letter… as well as this simple phone…
While I appreciate the two, it seems the wooden box is more of an important gift than the two.'
Esmond smirked as he listened to the older voice croak through the phone talk of the wooden box.
It was done on purpose, made with the precise and advanced control of the drones, it was made from wood that was spread throughout the Spatial Ark Land.
There was no shortage or end of the trees as they could easily grow back to an adult age within no time.
The tree used to craft the box was a 1000-year-old tree that lost only a branch to make the small case.
The Spatial Ark Land accelerated the growth of items and would continue to grow them if they weren't harvested.
Carter precisely controlled the management of the ecosystem of the space, but he wasn't perfect and needed more help so there were oversights sometimes, which were managed by Echo now, but still, it needed better management.
Of course, produce like fruits, vegetables and of the sort would go bad if they weren't harvest, with only the rarest of cases, the produce wouldn't go bad.
But with the addition of Spiritual Essence now able to be infused with the produce and livestock, all sorts of items now contained essence if was farmed as such.
The case in the old man's hands wasn't made from essence infused materials, but simply a rather old and well protected tree which lived in excellent conditions.
That alone, made the gift worth more it seemed at first.
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"It's made of 1000-year mahogany that's been very well maintained and looked after.
Crafted by our in-house specialists, who took extreme care of the amazing texture of the wood."
'Ohh, well it just means I must take good care of such a priceless gift…
Another gift, might I ask about, was the message you've sent in your letters…'
"What do you think?" Esmond had some idea who the person was from what he'd been told earlier by Carter, so he wasn't ill prepared, but thinking things over now, he wasn't too sure about changing an old man and his orders habits.
'While I admire your ambitious thoughts… could you possibly be speaking some truth…
It's hard to understand…'
"Well… I can say this.
Without you, I plan to be heading up by 2012… with you, I could go earlier, but that depends on you, sir."
'…'
The old man had to stop and think for a second before he gave his answer.
In his mind he was trying to understand how Mr Mars was so sure, did he perhaps know of the orders operations?
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'Mr Mars… I will say this much, our order might be what you seek, however it definitely isn't in the same state as you may believe it to be…'
"I do not mind or care.
I'll manage those hassles within no time, but if I have your approval and allegiance then I can also begin your protection and care…"
'Oh, how will you protect and care for an old man as me…?'
"There is much to see that you might not be privy too, however that will soon change I believe…"
'… Very well…
The Order of…'
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"Thanks Carter, hope to see you soon."
Anton ended the call as he looked up the annoyed and angered Aamir who was informed he needed to prepare everyone to leave the orders headquarters.
Nothing was to be left behind, with some bare essentials to be safety secured for any brethren that might come across in dire times.
Carter had called Anton after he had met his master, who ordered to dissolve the headquarters and leave for one of their ships at a port in Iran before heading to one of their jets that would send them all to the Thailand private villas.
More space was organised for their arrival by Carter for the new arrivals in Thailand, much to the delight of the villas company.
Esmond just need to prepare to leave soon than earlier now for Phuket and bring all of the people over.
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"Time, we prepare to leave as well Aamir, the helicopter and vehicles should be arriving soon to help us away."
Anton wanted to quickly get going, not wanting to waste any time and get to Thailand as soon as possible.
Aamir hated the fact that he was ordered to listen to Anton by his master, but he chose not to argue and helped diligently, wondering what the future held for his beloved order and people.
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֍ Meanwhile in the Spatial Ark Land ֍
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"Stars Wars?!"
"Yes! Go their next!
Or Star Trek!!
Come on! We need something better than the shit we have now…
I haven't even started with the load of crap I am having to rebuild for the army with Ogryx, while I stored the rest."
"I said it before Carter, we will use the items you have already prepared, just make some new things with Ogryx alloy which we will use eventually.
Anyway, if your so sure about Star Wars, set it up on my laptop and I'll go dive in.
But once I'm back, show me what you've made already, plus the adjustments you've prepared for… remember, the strength and power of the soldiers will increase the Buklish serum and pod body transformation."
"Don't worry, I've prepared for everything, now shoo!"
Esmond was downstairs with Carter, earlier wanting to argue that he wasn't informed about the call from Antons master, however Carter beat him too it and brought up Star Wars which was playing around in Esmonds mind now.
Heading back upstairs he told Carter and Echo to be prepared for anything, more so for Echo as he might end up in some random area where it might be too dangerous for him.
He had some basic special forces armour to protect him, but it wasn't strong enough anymore.
Instead he bought one from the system store earlier on the cheap and asked the two A.Is to make improvements.
For 1000 credits, he bought SK-45, a geared and interlocked armour that completely sealed the person within the armour.
The armour was made in parts, so the armour for the arm was separate, as well as torso and so on.
The helmet was designed after warriors of the Manuio Krie, a god for the Manunanso people, a mercenary faring race whose helmet were built with a wide visor across the face, that displayed a HUD system.
On the outside, below the visor were the vertical grills near the mouthpiece and two circular valves on either cheek that acted as filters.
It was all white and silver in part because of the electronics and lightweight steel, but with Carter and Echo at the helm of its redesign it changed into a nano tech-based suit of armour that could be spread across his body in an instant.
They used a combination of ogryx alloy materials like silicon, graphite, steel, aluminium, gold, and plenty of others to give the suit a sharper look with more protection.
That wasn't all, the helmet kept the wide visor look, but the bulky shape was thinned out with the blackened steel creating sharp cuts that emphasized the helmets dark look.
Unfortunately, Carter hadn't made the new plasma rifles with the battery cells he'd created in the Virtual Lab.
Esmond wasn't too concerned about weapons because he planned to use daggers Carter made from ogryx steel, however he wasn't too sure about their effectiveness in the Star Wars world.
Without waiting any further, he grabbed his laptop that was already loaded with Stars Wars: The Phantoms Menace.
As he pressed play, Esmond also activated his Spectral Consciousness ability.
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*Ding*
[Scanning surroundings… Analysed!]
[Quest activated in conjunction with Spectral Consciousness Ability]
[Media: Film]
[Name: Star Wars: The Phantoms Menace]
[Year of release: 1999]
[Roger Roger!]
[Viceroy Nute Gunray is about to invade Naboo with his droid army at the orders of Darth Sidious]
[He plans for global domination under his Siths control with himself as Emperor.
Naboo, just scrap in the path of his overall plans, he has ordered the Trade Federation to create a blockage around the planet.
Plans to attack are imminent, however, before they are sent out to attack, an engineer felt a little to eager and updated the accuracy and orders of the drones to behave crueller and more sadistic.]
[Host needs to:
- Stop the engineer from completing the updates to the drones
- A new directive should be uploaded into the drone's system by the Host which will favour Queen Padme
- Ensure the Lucrehulk-Class Battleship droid system does not catch Host infiltration onto the ship]
[Reward:
- 10,000,000 EXP
- 10,000,000 Credits
- Common Grade (Serum) - Midi-chlorian microscopic sentient organism
- Common Grade – Skytrooper schematics
- (Based on results)
[Time to complete: 5 Minutes]
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'Fuck!' Esmond appeared in a small holding room without anyone around it seemed.
He quickly summoned his armour, the modified SK-45, remained CE-01, after it's two builders and designers.
A small gate opened, a few drones came out, flying straight onto Esmonds back before the gate closed.
"Echo, Carter, are you ready?!"
'Fuck yeah!' >Affirmative<
Echo didn't seem as estatic as the two were, with his emotional profile still building, so he was beginning to understrand but not as the same level of Carter.
Either way, all this yelling was happening in Esmonds mind, before he reached the door to exit the room.
There was a panel to his right that he needed to press before exited, which happened to be all digital and touch pad, Esmond placed his hand on the glass the nanobots from his armour tore off and entered the system panel.
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'We're in'>Infiltration complete<
Two to A.Is spoke at the same time in Esmonds mind as he exited the room when the door opened.
As it slid to the side, Esmond peaked to his sides before moving out the room and headed along the corridor.
Not coming across anyone immediately, Esmond dashed, using his body energy to cover his energy person to reduce any sound be made.
Carter directed him in the general direct he needed to move.
Soon Esmond arrived at the sever room of the droid control ship, wondering why there weren't any guards around.
Just as he was about to move, a swath of droids came out from around the corner in the far distance, closest wall to the server room.
Esmond thought about pulling back, but he quickly asked Carter and Echo, who he knew were helping him out as much as possible because of the time limit and Carter's obsession with this world.
"Can you two send those droids else?"
'Why not use that Jedi trick!'
"Because… I'll be shot dead…"
'Right…'
>Master, current system infiltration is progressing slowly.
With 5 percent system controls in our procession, new orders may alert the system<
'Don't worry, I have it covered…'
Carter didn't wait and showed his magic, quickly ordering the droids to another sector, leaving enough space for Esmond to race towards the door.
Echo opened the door to the server room before hand, as it commanded one of the drones on Edmonds back over just a bit before his master moved.
Having entered the server room, the place seems quite cold and dimly light, but it didn't concern Esmond as he had less than 160 seconds till the quest failed.
"Hurry up you two!"
'Don't worry, things will be easy now.'
>As sir has stated.
It will be easy now, Master<
Esmond let them control the drones and get to work with the nanotech and hack into the system, while he found a monitor and tried his best to understand the language to be of some use, unfortunately he failed to be of any use and just left it to the A.Is
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"Guys…!"
'Hang on!'
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"Fuck!!!"
>97% Completed and Uploaded<
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>…Done<
'Told ya… *sigh*'