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Back in Liberty Dianna was doing a press conference regarding the Grand Mall opening as well as Grand Trading Corporation officially moving into space, and with that, they will be subjected to non-interference law.

And Dianna first big news besides the opening of Grand Mall was the creation of subsidiary company Grand Advance Technology this is the step that put them into military business and their first product a rank 6 space combat drones of course the appearance is not like the drones produce by mother drones of the drone cluster but more like very slick Ball like space shuttle with high maneuverability and firepower. It can be controlled remotely and also have a basic AI just in case a connection was lost.

The product immediately got the attention of GFA and many other humans and some alien races. Which Dianna and the rest were expecting. Dianna requested a new set of specialized personnel from Gaia and Gaia who has control over the cloning factory made a rank 5 Clones base on what Dianna needed, such as robotics engineer and other specialized occupation regarding weapons and warships that specializes in space and on land but mostly in space.

And with the help of Celeste technology, Dianna and Oda were planning on making their own Ships and weapons base on that. The reason is that like other alien technology Celeste's technology was made specifically for their race.

A whole building was dedicated to making weapons designs base on current technology and Celeste technology. Dianna also unveils many advanced weapons that can be attached to all kind of ships and those weapons are all energy base something humans are lacking as humans mostly use metal base weapons and rarely use energy base as they don't have the capability and technology to create an energy base weapon that can be used in actual combat.

GFA and many other human superpowers were in shock and at the same time confused as to how the Grand Trading manage to create something they themselves are trying to make but failed for a long time. Food Solutions are one thing as they didn't really pay much attention to it before the war. But weapons and drones far advance than what they possessed it shocks them to the core. Especially HFA who are waiting for Grand Trading to fail, so they can take over. But now with the power, the Grand Trading has shown, they finally realize why the Grand Trading never really cares about them. And that scared them. Not just them even GFA becomes cautious...

Of course, all of that is within Arc and Dianna's expectations. But the biggest surprise to everyone is the rank-8 energy shield strong enough to take a full-power attack of any mother ship. And that's the icing on the cake.

Dianna also informs and sends commander Markos the health solutions Arc promised him. That makes him ecstatic, almost forgotten the shock he got from Dianna's press conference.

The weapons and Drone's live public demonstration has taken place the next day, and with that, all skepticism about the product disappeared. As it shocks them more than the unveiling. Especially the agility and flexibility of the drones to handle any situations with AI autocorrect the drone's effectiveness in combat is huge. Autocorrect means correcting the controller by giving a better solution to ensure the success and survival of the drones.

Which pleases the higher up greatly as autocorrect can greatly lower human error...

Just after the demonstrations, Dianna was bombarded with requests to purchase in bulk. Especially GFA wants a huge number of Drones and Energy Shields.

Commander Markos immediately tried to call Arc unfortunately for him Arc was in deep space completing an urgent mission, so he called Dianna to negotiate.

Of course, Dianna obliged as it's one of Arc's order, to ensure Liberty and Earth's survival GFA needs to get stronger as they are the main forces dedicated to protecting human territories.

But of course, Arc won't do that for free, he will milk GFA of its resources in exchange for his products. So it is a win-win situation. GFA can upgrade and strengthen their forces and Arc can get the resources he needed, to slowly build his forces on Liberty as well on Earth.

Dianna also makes use of all the resources of Grand Trading mainly builder droids to create a huge non-system Super factory in the newly created Space Station they called The Messiah. It's the combination of damaged space platform they got from GFA, of course, it has been repaired and combined with Mother Drones disguised as regular drones protecting it along with 1-star energy shield it's one of the most guarded facilities in the solar system.

Countless Drones and unmanned Mecha protecting and patrolling The Messiah 24/7 without any weakness no one is willing to test the waters. Of course, it was Gaia's responsibility for controlling all the drones and droids protecting The Messiah. Dianna used the Messiah as experimental non-system shipbuilding facilities. Of course, many of the components like the engine and weapons are created by the system, but the actual ship will be designed and build by Grand Trading using Clones and experts hired by Dianna and Builder Droids to physically build it in mass.

All of that will take some time to really implement, but several ship designs was already been approved and being built, after some field-testing, they will then be added into Grand Advanced Technology collections.

Dianna concludes that the first ship prototype would be released to the public in a few months' time.

Dianna also releases many other products like beauty products like makeup, perfumes, and such as well as new communication devices for military use and public use in space, And many other similar products.

And three days after the product demonstrations The Grand Mall officially opened and receives almost 500k visitors in just a few hours. Luckily Arc and Dianna and Mia foresaw it, so they incorporate space folding technology when they are building the mall, so the inside is bigger than what it looks outside. Because of that, the Grand Mall's capacity is actually 10 million. And that can be expanded as well but in returns, it will eat up a huge amount of rare resources, so Arc just put it into normal settings that will not need many materials to maintain.