I couldn't help but laugh at how close she was. "Not quite," I replied. "Colonizing it sounds... tedious. Too much work to maintain such a sprawling structure that we will leave from time to time since our eventual focus is about roving around Carcosa and going from citadel to citadel for a significant amount of our future."
"Huh, I think I'm quite stumped on this one. Can you explain what you mean by that, Narcy?" Verina asked. Her voice was monotone but her tone was that of a surprise.
"I don't want to colonize the Vault," I said, a small smile forming. "I want to pack it up and bring it with us."
Verina blinked. "You want to—wait. What?"
I gestured toward the spire. "The idea is simple. We expand the spatial expanse within the Landship. We'll dismantle everything important in the spire—the facilities, the materials, the constructs—and shove it all inside.
"Why bother anchoring ourselves to a single location when we can make the Vault mobile?"
