1056 Keeping The Lights On

Max ignored the annoyed tapping of feet on the floor as the shuttle slowly circled around their location to move the sphere into place for the second test. They were still getting an increasing amount of data as the circuits came online, and currently the process was far too experimental to be subjected to a warp field.

It probably wouldn't hurt anything, but honestly, they just didn't know.

[The sphere is in position. Drone shield at maximum. Moving the assembly to the prime layer.] Nico reported.

The shuttle vanished, returning to their home layer of space, while the Cutter waited safely in this one to see what happened, with only a small portal open to provide them sensor data through a probe array.

As soon as the shuttle moved between layers, the lights on its exterior all came online, and the reported power production spiked to an astronomical level.