Chapter 22

"You have permission for recruitment, on to the division for ship weaponry".

"Your majesty, we are working on a capital class beam-based weapon and a lower-powered beam-based weapon for starfighters, as for funding and people we are all good".

"hyperdrive division?".

"Your majesty, we are working on a hybrid drive between the primitive stigquit, Casesseian, and Vore drives, to what end we hope a relatively fast and cheap drive for civilian and less important military ships, as for funding we have enough".

"Shielding Division?".

"Your majesty, currently we are working on an array that would allow for temporary overclocking for extreme strength but at the extreme cost of recharge speed, as for funding we require 3 billion".

"Done, Experimental Devices Divisions?".

"Your majesty, we are working on the development of a device that can safely implant languages and skills into a chip which would connect to the brain, we are also in desperate need of funding 3.5 billion would remedy that".

"Alright I look forward to what you come up with".

"We will try not to disappoint your majesty".

"On to cloning" To which Aleister immediately started to really pay attention as this was one of the divisions he placed the most importance in, almost instantly a quirky old man stood up and began to talk "Your majesty we are currently growing our first specimen, within Five weeks an 18-year-old will be grown, of course, this would be an 18 year old with the intelligence... well no intelligence whatsoever, however now we are simply seeing the effects of rapidly speed up growth before termination, then for the next specimen will have twice the time, no funding is required however more communication stations between my division and the extremely helpful genetic engineering division would be helpful, another thing that would be needed is a giant cloning facility as we have almost perfected a way for cloning an individual. Therefore, we request eight billion for a cloning facility on the moon 81-45b off the planet of Dochion''.

He did not know why that specific moon was chosen, but this quirky old man was a member of the royal family, his great uncle, and although with the example of Aleister's brother he was 100% certain of his loyalty– loyalty not to the royal family but to science, in fact, this man was the only reason he was king, as the crown prince he had denounced the throne and forced his father to pass the throne to his second child which was Aleister's grandfather. Of course, the science back then was primitive and based on the stars, and geology if not a military science like did this sword shape kill better than this one or did this armor protect better than this one.

"Alright a cloning facility on moon 81-45b will be constructed, on to Biomechanics".

"Your majesty, we are working with the experimental devices division for the creation of a chip that would allow instant or speedy acquisition of skills and languages, however, we are focused on the chip itself, no funding required".

"Alright finally with the AI division".

"Your majesty, we are currently constructing a giant learning facility filled with computers that would allow an AI to absorb battle tactics, test them, improve on them, and create new ones with hundreds of billions of different scenarios with ship type, ship weaponry, and amount on both sides; we are also building another AI learning facility for the creation of an Administrative based AI via simulation of hundreds of billions of different scenarios on planet-wide economies and organizational based scenarios, along with kingdom-wide economies, as for funding we require two billion to continue operation".

"So the two AIs are being separated?".

"Yes your majesty, we have separated them into Tactical advisory, Weaponry guidance, and Administrative Advisory additionally they will be coded in a way that would completely stop them from interacting with each other directly and instead would eat them alive, this is just another of the many measures that will be used to limit the power and control that they would have".

"If the weapon guidance AI and the Tactical advisory systems can't cooperate then wouldn't that create an inefficient bog of a mess?".

"Yes your majesty, It would however what I meant was the administrative and military-based AI won't be able to interact, while the Military based AI in a fleet can advise a tactic to the Admiral while the Admiral can say yay or nay, but it's still recommended that the Admiral still have the same amount of skill as no matter how accurate the AI would be it will never possess creativity that a competent enemy would possess, the AI could also fail or could fall into predictable patterns that could be devastating".

"Under my rule, there will never be a time where an incompetent person would be allowed to command even one ship let alone a fleet so that you don't have to worry about that" Laughed Aleister "Additionally with the six-month period in between this meeting and next I don't really want there to be any requirement for funding, therefore, a shared fund of 100 billion will be available to all of the departments".

And after a half-hour meeting Aleister was once again off, this time he was going to the main palace on Dochion for a good rest until tomorrow due to another Court meeting.