3 Screwed Over

David was now in a mothership.

"More like a derelict holy crap," David thought.

It was dirty, and as he looked at the ship schematic it was worn down, and needed a lot more refurbishing. However he spotted two key points. Number one the reactor was a rank E. Each rank signified a 2x increase. However the rest of the mothership was atrocious. It was just a sphere with an oversized reactor that efficiently took anything. It had no rings as well.

The other thing was its armor was E rank as well. However this was offset by the fact that it was just an empty shell with nothing else. David looked at his counsole.

"13 days of power, 200 days for food and water, and I've spawned in the middle of no where; the Dead Zone. This place was seen as the frontier full of dangerous life. Mythical creatures, androids, infested anything imaginable.

"At least I'm next to a planet," David finally said.

[Hello Overlord, what will be your name?]

The system finally spoke.

"I want to be called David Blue," David said randomly. To him names were just names, and the mothership was blue.

[You have 1000 store credit bases on your start scenario of choice. Good luck overlord]

"Wait what?" David yelled out.

Most Overlords got an average ten thousand, while the more powerful ones got five thousand. He got a thousand?

David quickly thought of the most efficient use of 1000 in store credit. As he approached and scanned the planet it showed some data.

{Life forms: Giant Ants. Numbers: ~100,000 Other assorted life forms. High concentration of minerals}

David sighed to himself as he plunged into the atmosphere. He was buckled in, and awaited the shaky ride that would follow as his mother ship core landed into the earth creating a crater. The hull was undamaged, but now he had to think about what he was doing. Store credit was earned by the system awarding points, and the rankings. David smirked as he remembered all the sneaky ways the system gave points.

[Achievement get First OverLord to create combination skill with programming and mechanic creating Mechatronics]

The achievement took all of his points, but he gained a thousand in return. People wouldn't realize that skills could be combined, until about a week in anyways. David kept going at random achievements.

[First to create a military base 1000 points awarded]

A dingy dugout with a white flag and a shitty pistol on the window was made right outside the mothership core.

[First Overlord to create a military ranking system]

"I am general, sergeant, and private," David exclaimed loudly.

[System does not approve of projects that do not meet certain quality requirements from now on]

"That was expected" David replied as he looked at his total. The administrators wanted a fair experience, and closely monitored people like David who exploited the system. David looked around until he found what he was looking for. Mining robot. He could buy humans, but all he had an abundance of was power. A robot with a tread and drills started to created a hole into the ground. He was followed by 9 more. Each cost a hundred leaving David at around 1600 points. David then bought the first soldier variant with a rifle. It had a standard issue rifle for mechs, and had a few mags to spare. David was apprehensive of the mech's programming so he went in to look.

"What is this crap, I mean these obviously loop holes, fallacies," David mumbled as he got to work. David meticulously added his strategies to the mech. Flanking, effective cover, ammo management, aiming and so much more was overhauled by David over several days. The mining bots eventually created a hole full of raw materials that needed to be refined. David created two more soldier robots costing 200 each, before using the rest for construction robots that costed 250 each. They were half the size of soldier bots, but had better A.I. and a lot more limbs. Welders, grinders, saws, hammers, and they even had shovels. They built a fabricator, and started to build a refinery for the uranium found among the metals. Then metal was refined followed by rare earth elements.Dug outs were built and manned by the three soldier bots as the other robots were mining and refining the materials in a never ending cycle. The only downside was that David couldn't make any more. Everybody had a limit of 20 A.Is. David had 10 miners, 5 soldiers and 5 construction bots. As the fabricators had filled in the gaps. Two soldiers were stationed in the mines while three were on the surface. David traded hos excess materials to the system granting him points at 1/4 the cost. If he traded in a worker bot costing 100 it would give him 25. However it would take David a day to get that much metal, so David opted for a more unorthodox strategy. One of the reasons he was so good at strategy was his A.I. It was great at risk management. It would also increase the amount of A.I. He could control. David spent an entire two weeks just coding the A.I. on the console. He typed non-stop like a maniac as he furiously copied code from his memories into text. As he finished the last liens of code, a warning was heard from his soldier bots. A group of giant ants were attacking the miner bots. They got away, but now a portion couldn't be used slowing down their progress. David stretched his arms, as he got out a sniper rifle and went into the dark while wearing his night vision goggles along with a soldier bot. Gun shootings and cries of pain were echoing loudly, but David pressed onward. He needed to stretch his muscles a bit.