David Brown
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Countless calculations were run in my head, equations and proofs being run and run even further. Idly I tapped my fingers on my waist, humming to some unknown rhythm as more and more equations kept on filling my head. 'No, no not that' An equation that could have explained the disappearance of Rhea passed through my head but when I simulated it, it did not hold up. Cracks appeared in the equation as I pushed it further and further before it completely cracked, no longer being able to describe…-
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Although there weren't many buttons in the cockpit there were a great many things that I needed to connect myself to before I could even think of starting. My arm, the one that I had created, needed to be connected to the chair. An untold amount of wires wrapped around the arm, various diagnostics happening before it let go and I could feel my vision expand, the ship entering my awareness. With just a thought the engines were flipped on, the platform under me lifting up and up before the jet was pointed…
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The days passed by as if they were a dream, hundreds of prototypes had been made and remade. Looking at the model before me I thought that I had finally got it right, the fuel pump, the air compressor, the thrust, it was all done. The only thing left to do was test it, to find out how far it could take us, if this was a viable way of space travel or if it would ultimately end in a failure. I turned my head away, my feet carrying me to the matter generator where the final prototype would be made. If this…
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It had been a few days since my apprentices initial failure, the numerous prototypes that were sitting around all in various states of disarray were a testament to how much progress she had made. Before all of the models that Rhea had made all failed, none of them were even improving. They were all just different variations but now, whatever idea that she had came up with when I had pressured her was truly growing. Each and every failure that had been made on the previous prototypes was addressed and…
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BOOM Another failure, this time though it was because of the material, I had tried to create a compound metal that could take more force and also be lighter but I had only succeeded in making it lighter and weaker, which was worse than just using crude steel. At least with crude steel it would at least fly a bit before the pressure destroyed it from the inside. Looking at all the destroyed failures I held my head in my hand. "Tsk" I clicked my tongue while doing so, none of them had worked, everything…
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It took no more than a minute to reach the generator but those seconds were agonizing as hundreds of ideas flew through my head. Each of them having minor differences and each of them resulting in a new result. My feet fell and rose from the ground as I walked towards the matter generator, the calculations running through my head as models were built and discarded to further sections of my memory, although the ones that I had discarded were likely not to work, I still noted them down to build. Even in…
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I woke to the sensation of a warm something hugging my form. I moved my arm and felt a soft blanket holding it down. Flicking my eyes open, I blinked the sleep out of them, or at least as much as I could get looked around only to see that I was tucked into what seemed like a mattress and blanket sitting in the corner of the room I had used for yesterday's experiments. Further down I saw Delta, her eyes closed leaning against the wall. Though immediately after I had looked at her the green eye that wasn't…
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BOOM BOOM The recoil that resulted from the shots helped to clear my head. Where before it was all murky as I tried numerous solutions, vying for the one that may work, now my head was absolutely clear. Again my arm tried to adjust my aim subtly, but I was not one to let it do that. If it was during combat then yes, but not now. Right now I wanted to feel the gun against my hands as I aimed it at imaginary targets. BOOM Another shot rang out as I pulled the trigger. The imaginary target that I had…
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On the other side of the planet like land that we had been placed on was the workshop that I had set up. It had taken the whole three months that I had spent teaching Rhea to construct, and now was as good of a time to show it to her as ever. Initially I was planning to research space travel on my own using the free time that Rhea spent resting but that was not possible. Darwin had used the term dual evolution when he said that he would evolve us implying that this was a team operation. I would never deny…
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According to my sensors, it had been approximately three months since I had started to teach Rhea. Of course the meals that I had to make for her were good indicators of time but I preferred the hard data that my sensors gave me. I had started a timer immediately after we had reoriented ourselves meaning there was maybe an hour or two margin of error but not enough that I would mess up how much time had passed. Moving on from that though, Rhea had made remarkable progress in the time that I had been…
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