"Teacher I want to request an expedition to the Asteroid belt."
Augustus eyes lit up "Did you completed the program."
"Yes and no I cannot get the exact mineral compositions but it can identify ore rich asteroids which can save us the hassle."
This was what Sam found on way to the site that his program seemed to connected to the exploration system which made him excited then he edited to program to only show the ore rich asteroids which would not be too shocking.
Augustus quickly pulled him inside and asked him in a serious tone, "Sam this is not a joke you should know how important this is us. I am asking again did you really succeed."
Sam nodded "The program could use the data of satellite's to compare the Asteroids and I just want to go their check it reliability, and I am 80 percent sure."
Augustus looked into his eyes which didn't waver for a bit and made a call "I need a mining ship now."
Sam smiled.
"If you could succeed you should be able to become a professor with ease." Augustus smiled after saying this.
Sam then started to discuss about the asteroid's he found and on the basis of data given by the system he started to explain them with his knowledge.
Augustus listened to him without interjecting and soon started to give some idea's on which slowly Sam started improve the program, no making the program back how it was.
The conversation didn't stopped until the sound of spaceship didn't came. Both of them quickly boarded the ship as they knew urgency of this matter.
Augustus looked at the Captain of the Ship and showed familiarity "Bose Go to Sector 6A."
The manned named Bose had an terrifying scar on his face which could make children stop crying, he was quite close with Augustus and rarely saw seriousness on his face and then controlled the ship to rise.
Sam sat at the window as he saw the receding red lad which now had many green patches. Augustus came and sat besides him and asked "Excited."
Sam replied without turning his head "Yes." he stopped and continued "And afraid."
Augustus sighed and looked out of the window and saw something which made him smile. "Feeling insecure. The pessimistic society."
Sam didn't reply as he couldn't speak about the system to anyone at-least not now.
Augustus took it as granted and continued, "Look at the blue dot our home."
Sam turned his head and saw a shining blue dot among the bright night sky and memories came into his mind. His childhood, his education first time coming in contact with rocks, finding the mystery's of history and meeting his teacher who was like a father to his was his best part of his life.
Unconsciously a smile came on his face.
Augustus kept his hand on his shoulder "Don't worry Earth has got your back."
"Right"
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A spaceship treaked through the the dark space towards a shining river full of asteroids.
The entire Asteroid Belt was divided into 12 section which were sub divided into 27 parts.
While Sector 6A was one with large amounts of Asteroid with ore content.
As the ship headed closer to the belt one could se spaceship patrolling at a regular rate. This was the last Line of defense The LOC.
After this the Federation was naked in front of others one could easily surround the inner plant and set a blockade making humans trapped inside a well.
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Soon the ship passed the LOC and they were joined by two Frigates for protection.
As they arrived at the location Sam started to operate his laptop.
'Explore'
A progress bar appeared on the screen as an Electromagnetic wave radiated form the spaceship.
The Spaceship Captian join the duo looked at the screen intently.
After a minute the bar was was completed and a map appeared on the screen with 48 potential Asteroids, but Sam inwardly sighed as there were no Grade 2 Ore.
The scar man Bose ordered "Go the near light point and start to scan the composition."
"Yes Sir"
The spaceship started to move and came to an Asteroid which was 0.5 Km in radius and a laser was shot towards it.
Sam thought 'It is Gold a worthless material.'
after 5 minutes the person in charge reported.
"Sir, we have discovered large amount of gold, silicate and some trace materials."
Even though Augustus was disappointed with the material he was still excited and the same was with Bose who seemed to have seen a new world.
"Yes Go go to the next point."
The next Asteroid was slightly larger and contained important resource Iron ore which was still important.
Soon as the light points were checked on by one the excitement on Augustus face was increasing until the last point even if the Grade 2 ore was not found they had took the first and most important step.
Sam took a deep breadth and made a decision "Teacher I will make similar Laptops with the algorithm and bind it with a trusty person, when the laptop is not operated by said person and password it will be normal one so the data will not be leaked as for why because I don't think even level 2 or 3 civilization may not have such algorithm."
Augustus nodded it was indeed such matter when he thought deeply about it as it crossed the limits of his knowledge and remember earth has the Grade 2 knowledge but is only limited by energy and materials.
Soon Huge waves we felt in the higher levels of federation but it was soon suppressed like the success of nuclear fusion.
And the biggest change was in Sam who got his rank as Professor and his Authority was increased. And at this time it was Sam's turn to be surprised as he looked thorough the important information and was excited and knew that his system was the most timely help for the civilization.
In the next half month 50 modified spaceships set sail in the Asteroid belt in a silent way and thousands of tons of Grade one ore was mined. Half a month later the Galois Civilization reacted and started to harass the fleet but it didn't the situation a bit as Galois Civilization didn't take it seriously as they only need to harass until the resources died out the Earth is just a planet in their pocket.
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Two months later in an Spaceship Sam who did his regular scanning suddenly stood up and ran to the control room.
The Spaceship turned its direction and went towards an asteroid and parked near it.
In the control room of the Space Augustus looked at his student with surprise as he was even more excited than when he got his title as a professor. He frowned and looked at the asteroid and started to looked at the data. His face started to go through motion of emotions.
"This really."
Sam heard his teacher and smiled "Yes it is grade 2 ore."
Augustus regardless of his image started laughing which made rest of the infected with smile.
As soon the first success came more and more grade 2 ore was found and in a facility on earth a new type of spaceships were soon started production.
Two years passed silently.
In sector 12B a fleet of 5000 spaceships was assembled and at the center of the formation a huge mothership was looming like a sleeping beast. Soon Blue flames spewed out form the spaceships and they set towards their target.
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While on Earth.
Sam just walked out of his personal spaceship and took a deep breath.
"Nothing feels better than returning home."
Sam then booked a taxi to his house and rested for an hour and went out to take a walk.
Instinctively he used exploration and the results surprised him.
[Grade 0 - 2]
[Grade 1 - 0]
[Grade 2 - 1]
He was not surprised by the barren resources but by the Grade 2 resource as Earth was searched upside down by humans.
'No unless it is in the trenches.'
Currently humans may be able to survive in space, go to planets but the deep ocean trenches were still mysteries as the ocean bed in them were soft as sand and the current depth of many trenches were unknown.
Sam called the details of the ore and was surprised.
[Grade 2 ore - unknown]
The system didn't gave any names to the ores and were updated as humans named them but he could still see their properties.
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Normal temperature superconducting material with low tensile strength, and conductivity decreases on either sides of 320 degrees Fahrenheit.
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'Interesting maybe it will soon be discovered as the federation gets some spare time and resources.'
Sam looked at the setting sun and took a deep breadth.
'Tomorrow the fleet should start attacking and council has called to me to see it maybe they have some other plans. l should not think too much, by the way is there a Pizza Hut nearby I have missed pizza's for many years.'