To Infinity and Beyond

[Mission: The First Mark in History

Description: Start the rise of the Legend. Complete the Mission from the Star Mercenary Assassociation and Bounties from the Bounty Hunter Guild with a perfect score.

Rewards: x1 EsPsion Crystal]

This was the mission he received from the System some time ago, as he knew that the EsPsion Crystals were incredibly rare and were typically used to awaken someone's Psionic Potential.

Usually, Psionic Crystals, in general, could be only found in the areas of the Universe that had a very high concentration of Psionic Energy in the Cosmos. So, they were very rare and only some of the most powerful factions within the known universe had direct access to the Psionic Crystals.

EsPsion Crystals were even rare, according to what Alice found on the NetSphere, because the EsPsion Crystals could be found only in the core of the Veins of the Psionic Crystals.

Otherwise, they would be almost impossible to come across anywhere in the known universe. So, due to that, Arcturus was very happy that he got an opportunity to get opportunity to obtain the EsPsion Crystal because he would obtain a lot from it. 

The EsPsion Crystals were noted down for not only being the best for awakening the latent Psionic Potential but it was also noted that the people who used the EsPsion Crystals showcased unprecedented strength, and their Psionic Abilities were vastly stronger.

After his talk with the Master of the Lycuros Dojo, Arsit Byrmellir he knew that chances of him obtaining something as precious as EsPsion Crystal was null within this entire region of galaxy.

One had two solid chances at obtaining something as precious as EsPsion Crystal, and that was to either go into the Core Region of the Galaxy, where countless very unique planets were located and where Primordial Psionic Energy was in high abundance.

The second possibility was to go into the Unknown Regions of Space, something that was created through the expansion of the galaxy.

A rare occurrence that happened only once in a few centuries, a new Star Systems would appear through the collision of the Intergalactic Void with violent Primordial Psionic Energy and Cosmic Storms. 

When these three things met, it would usually result in something that could be called the "Big Bang," albeit on a much smaller scale, and voa la... new Star Systems were created. 

"Alice is the ship ready for departing?"

Arcturus asked as the journey to the Chepotai Star Segment from the Frontier Star Segment, Ruusor Star System, would take him almost a week due to the vast distance, and this was only thanks to the advanced Hyperdrive.

While his ship wasn't armed with the most advanced Faster-than-Light engines, it was still top-notch Type 2 technology that was not that very far from the Type 3. Unfortunately, the engines of the proper Type 3 civilizations like Eternal Imperium of Asurya and Veren Republic cost a fortune.

"All systems ready; we can jump into the Hyperscape any time."

Hyperspace was an alternate dimension that could only be reached by traveling at or faster than the speed of light. Hyperdrives enabled starships to travel through hyperspace lanes across great distances, enabling travel and exploration throughout the galaxy.

The Hyperspace Travel wasn't the sole FTL method, but it was generally accepted to be the best and most reliable, safest, and operatable of all available methods of the FTL.

Naturally, this didn't really mean that every species or nation was using the same FTL methods; some were using their own, and some were using different types of FTL.

Hyperdrives manipulated hypermatter particles in order to thrust a starship into hyperspace whilst preserving the ship's mass/energy profile. This shortened travel distance significantly, allowing the vessel to "jump" from a specific point to another without having to travel directly between them, therefore reducing journey time by an extraordinarily large margin.

A vessel's ability to travel through hyperspace depended on it being equipped with a hyperdrive engine; thus, vessels that suffered a hyperdrive failure while in hyperspace, or lacked a hyperdrive and had separated from a vessel with one, would immediately fall out of hyperspace. 

"Commence the jump."

Arcturus said from the command deck of the Obscurus as the ship disappeared from the Ryloth Star System into the Hyperspace.

***

Obscurus, a few hours later.

From the time, he bought the Construction Droids from the Starlight Drive Yard Industries, they were working on modifying the Obscurus almost non-stop. While right now he lacked funds to upgrade the ship significantly, Alice could do much even without that. 

Just the modifications and other things, she learned since she got the access to the Extranet and Imperial NetSpehere. Even Arcturus was shocked to say, when he found out that how much information about the starships and other things were just put on the net.

And without any protections, in fact, which was even more staggering. Even though it was just general information about various models and so on, it was enough for the Red Queen to learn; together with the complete blueprints of the Obscurus and her learning capabilities, she started working on the Obscurus.

The ship was largely unfinished and there were a lot of things that could be done, as Arcturus didn't really finish the starship when he was playing the game. That would require a lot more time and investments, but he could finish it in this life.

Step by step...

He had more than enough time for that.

Even the standard Asuryani specimen lived for around three centuries; those who reached the highest Grades of the Genetic Augumentations could live for even longer, and those who were Psionically Awakened could, after reaching certain mastery over their powers, completely stop their aging process.

Even now, the Imperium had a few Perpetuals, as they were called, the Eternals ones who lived since the establishment of the Imperium and existed for almost one millennium, and according to what the genetics said, they would never die from old age.

For example, the Thevarians were Psionically very potent species, and their biology in supplement with the Psionic Energies allowed them to naturally live for around two to three thousand years.

They were one of the founding species of the Veren Republic and also the dominant species of it.

If not for the legacy that the precursors of the modern Asurani found on their new homeworld, then they would have been long ago destroyed by the Thevarians and the Veren Republic in fact.