Angelarium Bizarre Adventure: Ether Ocean [Eteru/Richard] [Dropped]

It’s discovered the compound composition is structured in a way to let exotic energy to flow through it. While they can’t determine what the energy is. They did learn that the metal is a great conduit to flow psionic energy through it. The infusion rate much greater than with other forms of metal. Regarding the value of the Faulkon breadbasket it’s certainly a great strategic. While the global population is under a billion it would still be wise to get started with establishing an agricultural drone industry and development in electronics to be ready for the future such as possible population booms like the Pale Season.

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Albrecht did not paid much mind to the buzzing activity. In his perspective such activity is normality to him. Considering it's only been a year since Angelarium was fully terraformed by the HZD project. It takes a lot of time to rebuild society from the ground up. Civilization building aside he finally reached the rooftop with Vellia. Ever so casually placing an arm over her shoulder as they look out into the sprawling grasslands. “It’s sad in a way. To see untainted lands unaffected by urbanization, and know that in a few decades it may be gone. I do wonder Vellia, have your people done Eco-cities before? It would be cool to see what they look like.” He spoke to start a conversation with the noble.

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“Athilians and their toys.” She tease in a smug manner. The Acnologia Dynasty certainly did have their fair share of automatons over their course of history. But in general they generally specialized in super soldiers and naval forces. Their dreadnoughts were feared far and wide across Auinozoaun. Capable of pulverizing entire entire continents and taking on entire fleets on their own. Another oversized ship that the Dynasty liked to make was flying fortresses. “It’s not wrong to improve what you specialize in. But ensure you don’t become a one trick pony.” She continued in a teasing manner. “Hah, anyhow, I can see that look on your face. Heh I don’t mind putting a personal together. I’ve done a lot of that during my time with Acnologia.”

Discovering just what they could about the metal so far, it made it quite valuable already. Though the science team's curiosity remained with the innate energy that dwelled within the metal currently, trying to see if they could get it into a container or some sort of battery. Even seeing if they could use it to power a simple robot. And the uptake was quick on the front of putting the province to use. The Kamina Foundry was quickly put to work constructive new farming drones while the people already settled in the enclaves started to expand their fields, building more homes and storage sheds too as planeting soon began.

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Vellia did certainly notice as she felt his arm wrap around her shoulder, even looking to it as a small smile nervously formed on her lips, her cheeks brightening as she shifted subtly from side to side as a spell of shyness seemed to hit her. Though she was brought back as she heard him talk about eco-cities. "An eco-city? Well, yes actually. Though we did that because we had a special type of tree that protected our kind in the very early ages of our development. It fed on psionic energy and formed shelter, even forming the limits for farming and walls." She explains as she looks down into the town and points to a strange sapling in the enclave centre, it was a small white barked tree with purple leaves and what seemed like small crystals pertooding from the bark. "In basic, they are called Herald trees. I heard from one of the sins, Stran. That he found a wild one after he met his current lover."

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Badrick looked to Aelius as she teases him, he didn't mind it. He liked that she found herself at ease in teasing and treating him as she did, he came to love that about her. Treating him as an equal instead of some young Emperor who's gone through as much as he had, he liked it that way. Though he did listen to what she had to say on not becoming dependant on that trick "Ha, like I would grow complacent when we have a great task ahead of us. My people made the sins as well as our Leviathan and Guardian AI. We're hardly one trick ponies" He says with a hearty smile before he tilts his head back "But right now there has to be more development. Make our forces stronger and better... We can worry about a fleet at a later date, once we've settled the land and strengthened our claim here." When she told him that she would start putting some personal together, he just smiled to her before he does some teasing of his own "Make sure you hold back on them, not all of them are as weathered as me."

While it's new it would be a matter of time they will discover something out of this world. It will be amazing, it will be grand, but most importantly. It will be Bizarre. The first bread crumb to this discovery is when a group discover the fossilized remains of what seem to be alien miners. Following the trail of bones lead them down a tunnel system that opens up into a large tavern. Where they find what seem to be an abandoned research station.

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"Mmm" There was not much that Albrecht Beausoleil had to say. He was pretty much a introvert by nature despite the life he have lived. Before he came to the organization he was just another face in the crowd. Just a nobody to fill in the numbers. Even to this day he found it crazy to believe the things he had done. Even his friend Huelyn had admitted once that it all felt like a big dream. In a way it was. For no one beside them and a slight few are the only witnesses to what they have went through. Afterwards when he was brought back to his city of birth he found it odd that he was chosen as the Grandmaster. There was obviously strings pulled behind the scenes to put him in a position of power so he would not be targeted like Huelyn had been. That had been a experience to learn that. All these thoughts aside he knew it was rude to leave the conversation hanging so he gave a question. "Never heard of these 'Sins' before. What are they like?" After all he was a fish out of water. Zether had mentioned them before but he was still interested in them.

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"Holding back is more determinant. I don't do half-punches. When I punch I mean it." She spoke in a semi-joking manner. While she knows the limits that does not mean she will be easy on them.

Finding the fossilized remains of alien miners, a science team was quickly brought to the dig site so they could learn what they could about them. Fearing some more surprises were around the corner, a security team was brought into the mines as they found the strange tavern... And with it the surprising discovery of the science facility. With this astounding discovery one of the surviving imperial scientists, a Doctor Genia Belsom, not that the security team could keep her away once she caught wind of it. With her personal team of droids she started to pick through this facility to learn everything she could about it.

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Vellia had come to understand that he was abit of an introvert from spending time with him, but that was okay. She was more than happy to try and bring him out of his shell more. As he asks about the sins she looks over to him with a smile on her face "Oh the sins? Each of them is pretty unique. Though I only met them afew times while they were growing up. My favourite two to talk to were the twins, Stran and Piper. They had the sins of Lust and Greed. Though even with sins like that they were still really nice to talk to. And their powers are pretty cool too. I only ever met 6 out of the 7 though... I never heard about what happened to the Sin of Gluttony until recently. My father exiled him because he was created from my brother's DNA. Now he's living somewhere on this planet."

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Badrick just gave a soft laugh as she half joked about not holding back on the new recruits. "Just as well really, we can't have our personal guards be weaklings now can we? We'll be the laughing stock of the rest of the galaxy. We'll need to come up with a decent name for them too." He says before he pushes away from the window to start stretching his back. "I'll also have to hold some sort of conference to explain all of our sudden movement. Pretty sure the other two civilisation close by are watching us pretty closely for what we intend to do."

It soon turn out to be the correct choice to go in safe. For whenever a droid gets too close to the structure their signal goes completely out. The last sound they hear being'"ZA WARUDO!". The droids that were nearby could see the droids going to close be fine one second than completely smashed to pieces in the next. The scientist would get data from one of the miners data pad was a digital note containing a password to give to the station sentry in case it goes online. If one of the droids look up to the top of the building they could see a faint outline of this supposed sentry which seem to be some sort of automaton. Possibly the defense system for this station that manage to remain online after all these years.

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"Huh they sound interesting. How did they come about to get their titles?" He knew titles and nicknames are attained when someone does something very significant. A symbol of their deeds of fame and/or infamy. From the sound of it he feels it was titles that were forced onto them as they don't sound all that malevolent. Given from what he remembers from Zether as well though from a pessimistic standpoint he could've been lying. But he's the sort to give people the benefit of a doubt.

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"A conference will be a good idea. Aggressive land grab will make any neighboring nation worry." She noted in agreement.

Genia was there to watch as her defensive droids were suddenly smashed to pieces after hearing the sound of a strange dialect being shouted. That was when one of her droids saw it, the automaton that culled most of her escort team. "A rather strange sentry... Completely golden..." Knowing that approaching the structure would likely mean death, she opted to stay away for the moment as he tries to decipher the data pad, seeing as the sentry was online it would be good to have that password so she can get into that structure and nose around.

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Vellia placed a single finger against her pursed lips as she thought about how they got their name "They were born with the titles. The races that we created them from exhibited heavy influence in each sin. Ours is gluttony given our 'appetite' for knowledge and befriending other races. The likes of Draco and Zether came from a very proud and wrathful background. Though I'm glad they both grew into more than just a war machine." She says before looking off to the distant mountain ranges, letting her long ebony hair flowing in the wind "In truth, for the malevolent titles they sport all of the sins, even Emalia, are all softies. We forced them to fight a war that was forced on us... Even with all their power we are backed into a corner... And ended up bringing our problems here too..."

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Glad that she agreed with his sentiment, Badrick started to make his way towards the staircase to leave the keep "Exactly, we can't have the empire fade before its rival from ashes. How about we travel to Faulkon then, we can hold the conference there since it will be the site of our official revival."

She would be able to find a data file containing the password that when spoken to the Sentry will grant whoever spoke it access to the factory. The password being 'Steel Ball Run'.

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"I see." Was all Albrecht could respond with. A far cry from his more talkative days. But like his friend Heulyn he too has stuff to deal with of his own. As a result he's more quiet that usually is like his days at the park. Drifting on by through the days in silence. Taking his arm back to his side he looked over to his companion. "Want to get something to eat?" He simply asks her in a casual manner. He was feeling peckish and felt it was a good opportunity to experience alien cuisine.

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"Sounds good love." She spoke with a smile.

Now with the password in her possession, Belsom stepped back into the room to look at the Golden sentry "I hope this works... Ahem. 'Steel ball run'..." The good Dr looked up at the sentry, just hoping it wouldn't kill her before she got to study everything down here.

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Vellia just smiled softly at his single word response, it was true it was a far cry. But at the very least he was answering more questions instead of nodding and hoping she say him do it. She was trying her best to be supportive since she figured that he wanted to deal with his past his way instead of burdening her with it. Even though she has said on a few occasions that she was happy to be a shoulder to lean on if he needed it, he didn't need to suffer alone.

When he asked for food, the Imperial princess looked up to him as a smile formed across her lips "I would love to! Though what do you feel like eating? Our food palate is alittle varied but I wouldn't say it was... Exotic like most other races. We're a warrior people, some being diplomatic or scientifically clever. I can't say we have many chefs in our society..." As she speaks, and the Emperor leaves the Keep, an older looking robot walks into the keep from the entrance downstairs, starting to walk up the stairs to them.

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As the pair of them get outside, and the older robot passes them by as it heads inside the keep, Badrick summons a dropship to them before they start heading for Faulkon. Inside the dropship would be 4 Templar Androids acting as a temporary Imperial guard for them both. Being sat down inside of the craft, Badrick starts to think on how this should go "I've already had a good 4000 of our troops start to set up outside the city, more than enough to get their attention. Convincing the Firstborn should be easy too."

The Sentry did not attack on site but he did leap off and made a superhero landing in front of the factory door. Standing up he heard the password and as a result he seem to become more aminated, not so rigid as before. Extending his arms he spoke to the scientist. "Oh? You're approaching me? Instead of running away, you're coming right to me?" The air rumble with its menacing presence but did not seem hostile yet. If she paid attention very closely she could swore she could faintly make out some characters in the air as as well.

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"I'll eat whatever sounds good." He responded to her as they walk down the stair. Not paying much attention to the robot coming up down the stairs.

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Sitting next to the emperor she gave a nod but seem to be thinking about something else. "On a irrelevant note, on the way here I caught whiff of what I think is blood in the air. It's very distant, many miles away." She spoke to him. Having told him about her great senses due to her racial blood. "I don't think it's anything serious but it reminds me of my time with the boys in the black wastes. I don't think I shared much of our band tales. We had quite a few exploits, from ending up blacklisted as raiders to over half the monastic cities to being hunted by them on some occasions. My mercenary band was certinally infamous for we had a different code of honor compared to Outremer. Profligates were nailed to the cross and secluded communities were burned to the ground for their deeds. With all that is going on I truly wonder if Amzielean is fully accepting the word of the more civilized galaxy or they are hiding their darker nature."

Watching the golden sentry superhero land right before her, Genia wasn't very sure if she should approach at first, though she her curiosity for studying this Sentry was outwaying every thought in her mind to take things cautiously. With a smile crossing her face she strutted forward towards the Golden Sentry as she pointed to him, stuffing her other hand in her lab coat "I can't study the shit out of you without getting closer."

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As the pair of them continue down the stairs their immediate path is blocked by the robot as it stops in front of them. Halting their descent down as it blankly looks at their feet. Vellia looked completely surprised by this as she gawked at it "An old Hekan series? These were first generation AI... We didn't have any aboard our ships! How did this make it here?? H-how did you get here??" She tried to ask the bot with a lack in a response.  After  a moment it starts to peer up at them, it's gears clearly weathered as a shrill cry of rusted gears and actuators cry out before its single grey eye looks to the Princess before it's synthetic voice box starts to quietly squeal and crackle before sound finally broke free from the corroded droid. "Id-tity co-irmed... Ve-lia Wolfi-... D-ivering me-age" A port in it's chest opened up, dispensing a more modern looking data disc that did not fit the old robots design or style.

Vellia slowly took the disc from it before the droid's screeching gears squealed as it looked to her hand before it beeped "T-T-Task Completed. Mission success after... Critic - rror. Shu-ing down..." At first it stepped back down the stairs slowly before getting to the landing before the droid's lights flickered off, finally taking a rest from what was very likely an extremely arduous journey if it followed her out this entire way.  Vellia just stood, stunned for a moment before looking to the disc and seeing the Imperial insignia on it. "Would... Would it be okay if we take a look at what was on this first before we see what's on this?" She says looking back to Albrecht.

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Listening to he worlds of his Champion and lover, the Emperor did start thinking about what she had to say. Her methods sounded severe and barbaric on the surface but it made him wonder if perhaps such methods were necessary in times like these. How will the Amziel react to the larger galaxy and will they try to fit in or will they just retaliate at what they don't understand... Their people underwent a radical transformation in both the personal sense and in the sense of their planets new look. That will be something he needs to think more on for the future... "You know I haven't heard many stories of your Mercenary band, I know I was there to help with the Hydra, a rather cathartic fight I must admit. But other than I don't think you've told me much, what were they like? We have some time before we reach the capital"