Chapter 97: Zero; The Cosmic Mothership

Command room.

The projected starry sky remained constant and ancient, with the vast remnants of Krypton's explosive dust cloud glowing with high-energy particle arcs. The red sun stood eternally in the starry expanse.

The distant, radiant Milky Way and the nearby harsh dust cloud clusters formed a juxtaposition of two landscapes.

H'el placed the cold, textured key on the control console. The surface of the AllSpark in his palm briefly flashed with the arc of activation, and the interior space came to life. The coding inside the AllSpark began to transcribe.

H'el continuously channeled his psychic power into the AllSpark. Through the AllSpark, it merged with the existing code, as he had already fully comprehended the Transformers' coding.

Inside the AllSpark, every bit of the Transformers' coding was meticulously recorded, without any reservations. H'el could manipulate it effortlessly, and it was difficult not to understand it.

H'el could even claim that, when it came to the coding of the Transformers, he understood it better than the Kryptonian bloodline genes.

The current H'el, manipulating the AllSpark, was more proficient than the Transformers on Cybertron.

He could create Transformers that were completely loyal to him. The coding within the AllSpark of these Transformers included an important part of their talents, emotions, and character chromosomes directly encoded through psychic power. Any Transformer created by him would have its genetic code imprinted with a name - H'el!

The surface of the AllSpark shimmered with arcs of light, controlling layers of overlapping spatial layers inside. It began to flawlessly combine psychic power coding to create Zero, a commanding personality with strong learning abilities, rationality, calmness, strategic thinking, decisiveness, determination, and meticulousness.

In H'el's future plans, he had great expectations for Zero. Zero would be the most trusted general to lead his forces and command the cosmic mothership.

The surface of the AllSpark flickered with arcs of light, containing coding that H'el had compiled and altered using psychic power. This coding was then transcribed into an energy surge of over ten megahiggsbyte segments, forming an electric arc that struck the key, which was no larger than a finger.

'Crack!'

The electric arc shimmered with silver light as it struck the key.

Instantly, a tiny Higgs field was generated on the key's surface, and the internal metal began to transcribe into chromosomes. Information began its work, writing down metal elements and then coding cells, initiating the process of division.

'Click, click, click...'

The key trembled and levitated from the control console. Within its twenty-centimeter diameter, there was a faint force field reaction, with silver electrical arcs flashing inside.

Two toothpick-like legs extended from the lower end of the key, and toothpick-sized arms emerged on both sides of the upper body. The 'S' emblem at the top transformed into an '∞' symbol, then split open, revealing a small metal mechanical head that emerged, with white twin pupils shining.

Zero, standing upright with limbs toothpick-sized, had an '∞' symbol on its chest, and the steel head displayed a wise glow in its white twin pupils.

Zero's transformation was exceptionally straightforward; it only involved limbs extending from the upper and lower sides, an '∞' symbol on the chest, and the head emerging from within. He was just a twenty-centimeter column, about the size of a finger.

"How do you feel?" The AllSpark stopped its shimmering arc in H'el's palm.

"Better than ever, master."

Zero looked at his palm and clenched his 0.5-centimeter fist. In an instant, he transformed from artificial intelligence into a real life form, experiencing rich and intense emotions that seemed ready to overflow from his 'heart.'

His thoughts flowed as smoothly as a galaxy, unbelievably streamlined. The vast knowledge database stored within him became his wisdom, and inspiration erupted like a volcano.

In his view, the starry sky was both merciless data and a pristine landscape.

From now on, he was a living being.

H'el wore a smile. Strictly speaking, Zero was the first flawless Transformer he had created, possessing all the outstanding qualities and virtues he had bestowed upon him.

"Well then, Zero, show me your abilities. In the shortest time possible, give me a plan to use the AllSpark to accelerate the construction of the cosmic mothership and speed up its journey across the galaxy," H'el challenged.

The white mechanical eyes of Zero flickered with intelligence, and he confidently replied, "Master, I had already come up with the simplest plan 0.0035 seconds after you finished speaking."

"Oh, let's hear it."

"All we need to do is transform the power engine section, living quarters, important command room, energy ammunition and resource manufacturing section, detection communication, cooling, weapons, armor protection, reconnaissance ships, escort ships, cruisers, and battleships into Transformers. This way, we can accelerate the construction of the cosmic mothership while different modules combine to form a unified whole – the cosmic mothership."

Zero proposed a simple and feasible plan that perfectly met H'el's requirements.

H'el pondered.

It reminded him of the Transformers' world, where numerous Transformers engaged in civil war that shattered Cybertron.

These machines were not devoid of personality, thoughts, or intelligence. The variety of personalities and thoughts led to different approaches.

While having each part of the cosmic mothership as Transformers would make it more flexible and efficient, it would also bring about a challenging level of thought unity.

Under the premise of loyalty to oneself, differences in opinions would inevitably arise sooner or later, each acting in the name of loyalty.

Every being had its unique way of being loyal to itself, and in the end, these differences in opinions would lead to conflicts even under the banner of loyalty.

The cosmic battleship was the product of his painstaking efforts, and he didn't want too much chaos or discord here. He could already see the destructive potential of these Transformers from Cybertron's future, and this cosmic mothership contained advanced technologies collected from many worlds.

He didn't want to go to sleep or visit other worlds for millions of years, only to return and find that a group of loyal subordinates had dismantled everything, all in the name of loyalty to him.

"Zero, as the cosmic battleship, what's the ratio of effectiveness when compared to each module being a life form?" H'el asked involuntarily.

If the difference was too significant, he would still consider making each module of the cosmic mothership a Transformer.

Zero seemed momentarily stunned.

To transform himself into such a massive Transformer? He contemplated briefly, considering the entire cosmic battleship as external parts, loading it onto himself to become the cosmic battleship. It seemed like this would enhance his efficiency since he was created for spaceship control, after all.

"After all, I won't be inferior to a cosmic battleship formed by the combination of multiple modules. In fact, my overall coordination would be even higher, and the utilization of each module of the cosmic battleship would be improved. Without the need to consider the circumstances of the master's other subordinates, I can achieve partial part replacement, modification, and repair, and my overall capabilities will be superior. This is because I am the central brain of all spaceships," Zero reasoned after contemplating.

He hadn't considered becoming the cosmic mothership directly. Instead, he thought of himself as the supreme leader, commanding all mechanical life forms. However, becoming the cosmic mothership and leading mechanical life forms didn't conflict with each other; in fact, it made command more straightforward.

"In that case, Zero, redesign a plan for you as the Transformer of the cosmic mothership, including the additions of the stellar harvester, planetary turbines, central control platform, energy converter, and a copy of Unicron's spark. Utilize them to empower yourself. You are the cosmic mothership. Additionally, the reconnaissance ships, escort ships, cruisers, and battleships in the combat system will become prepared combat mechanical life form soldiers."

H'el issued the command.

Since allowing Zero to become the entire cosmic mothership increased overall efficiency, there was no need to transform each module into a Transformer. He intended to make Zero the Transformer of the cosmic mothership and have him command the war system soldiers comprising reconnaissance ships, escort ships, cruisers, and battleships that were also Transformers.

"I understand, Master."

Zero immediately grasped H'el's intentions. He retracted his limbs, jumped into the keyhole with a 'click,' and began connecting to the devices brought from the Transformers world, understanding them, and designing a new cosmic mothership.

The combat system, and even firepower, for galactic wars were already complete. Next was the land invasion combat system.

With millions of Kryptonians landing in combat, there would hardly be any planetary surface that remained unconquered.

H'el didn't wait in the command room for Zero to finish designing the blueprints; instead, he left the command room and headed towards the storage room.

Inside the shrunken city of Kandor, there were still seven million Kryptonian lives.

Before he had a Life Creation Chamber and obtained the Life Codex, these seven million Kryptonian lives were the best source of subordinate troops.

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