Time Spent on Autumn's Fall

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Now that Pleiknor and Meiklare are done with what they need from me, it's time that I finished working on Autumn's Fall. I get up from the couch, and I walk out of the apartments and through the offices. I enter into the workshop and see Autumn's Fall waiting for me on its platform.

I make my way over and get on the platform. I place my hand on the ship, and it hums to life. "It's time to do some work, girl..." I can't help talking to it. The pilot's seat opens, and I climb in. I get the computer console fired up and start working.

The number of changes I've already made to Autumn's Fall since I made it have been extensive. All of it has been internal infrastructure. Coding, Encrypting, changes to flight controls, and problem-solving for any possible mistakes I make.

Autumn's Fall will pick up the slack. It's the perfect ship to learn how to fly in. With players already having left Empyrian, it's rather simple to get a pilot's license, from what I've seen. However, having the knowledge and the actual skill are two different things. I know all there is to fly Autumn's Fall.

I've never actually flown it, though. That's why I'm going too many extra miles to make sure that it's going to keep me and the flight tester safe for the duration of the test. Ensuring that I pass it and get my pilot's license.

Autumn's Fall needs some other upgrades in terms of weapons and armor now that I know a lot more about ships and parts. However, I need the corresponding exp to upgrade the ship. I don't have that much exp. Not enough to upgrade a significant part of Autumn's Fall. I could always build another ship.

However, that causes the problem of always building newer and better ships once I get the knowledge. A cycle starts that way and one that I don't want to be in. I still haven't decided if I should start my own starship company, private or public.

It could have many advantages, and I'd be able to run it myself. The problem is what every major producer faces—mass production. I don't have the resources that Aegis and its competitors have. Leaving that option off the table for now. The true credit value is unknown to the public of these companies.

It's definitely higher than hundreds of trillions. I can't give an exact number on Aegis worth without data. All I have on them are rumors. Based on their starship prices alone, the bottom line is 600 Trillion credits.

That's not including everything else, the exclusive parts they make and weaponry. "What do you think, AF? You think I should start a starship production company?" I jokingly ask Autumn's Fall a question. Of course, there is no response. I have nothing else to talk to right now. A man of my intelligence is bound to suffer in isolation from my mental capabilities.

It's damning to be trapped with my own thoughts. There are billions of them, thinking about multiple things simultaneously, solving problems faster than any other organic creature.

Absorbing knowledge at a level unseen before. "You could have a bunch of brothers and sisters! All of them would be better than you, though. That wouldn't be so fun now, would it..." I need to find someone to talk to. At least sometimes.

Being alone before wasn't hard, mainly because I wasn't this damn smart. Compared to before, my old self was as dumb as a bag of bricks. It's strange.

I halt my thoughts and calm my mind. I'm glad I can do this, and I'd probably be a mad man right now if I couldn't. What kind of environmental conditions caused The Primodium Race to turn out like this? After all, aliens and creatures are crafted and formed by their surroundings. The situations that formed them.

Now, what in this universe could create something like The Primordium? The conditions would have to be hard and ever-changing. Questions I'll find answers to one day. Right now, I need to finish this coding for Autumn's Fall. I focus on the last few lines of code and take a breath, and stretch. That's all done. Now it's time to run simulations in the computer to see how it handles and make adjustments there.