Chapter 6

'Well then my pretties I see that you made yourself at home' Vlad thought as he looks at the large Dunkleosteus in his new habitat.

The giant armoured fish currently swimming around in his new home seemingly swimming around quite anxiously.

Within the same tank are other animals such as Pikaia, Osteostraci, Anomalocaris and various others.

Of course with the giant Dunkleosteus around most of the creature tended to stay at the shallows or hides behind the reefs, unless they want to get nommed on.

On the surface this current fish tank is about the size of an Olympic size swimming pool but depth wise it's 10 meters deep. Obviously it's built to accommodate Vlad's prized armoured fish.

Obviously this is not the only one as he there's still a few other giant fish tanks in the ship to house the rest of Vlad's catches.

Having watched enough Vlad turns back from the large glass window and returned to his seat to continue his meal.

Vlad is currently dining in a large well decorated dining room (think of France's hall of mirrors but instead of large mirrors and windows it's replaced with a large fish tank) with a large rectangular table in the middle.

Obviously the table is much to large for any single person to use... heck it might even be too large if even if you call all your friends and family but Vlad having the ego as large as that of a battleship made his dining room ridiculously big.

'People just don't get it' Vlad sighs as he recall all the criticism people directed at him of having such a large useless room and it's not just that, he also has more of what others call "useless" rooms and other "useless ornamental" stuff.

Take the steak on his table for example, due to the lack of sense of taste and the player being essentially immortal most player won't even have a single piece of food in their entire ship and occasionally some would have a few tasteless ration bars laying around.

But not Vlad! as he has his food stores is filled with beef, pork, chicken and various other spices.

Yes, he has food stores! that alone puts him quite the odd ball amongst the vast majority of the player base.

In Final Frontier food is pretty much just for aesthetic without much value... well maybe for non-player human NPCs it might be of some value but as pretty much all non-player humans are limited on the Sol system... it's pretty much useless.

Obviously Vlad is a bit special as you can see and it all started when he was a child. After watching a certain "TV" show from the past he has since been fascinated by so called "gentleman villains" in those old movies and "TV" shows.

Usually it's the hero you would be rooting for but for Vlad he thinks the villain is more fleshed out.

The ambition, the personality, the ego and the refined demeanour, These traits made the character more... dare I say it?

Alive and Human

Vlad often found that it's gentlemanly villains has more interesting traits then the so called main character.

Vlad's childhood is shaped by his fascination towards these characters and suffice to say it lead to him to acquire... certain special taste and preferences.

Like a large highly decorated room with gold and silver gilded on carvings on the walls and in the middle of the room lays an Organ (one of the largest musical instrument ever made), of course there's another similar right next to it but this time there a piano in hit.

There's many such bazaar rooms across the ship.

The most extreme example is a domed room called the "Observatory" now one might assume that it's used to watch stars.

Yes, there is bright dots on the roof of the dome... but! Get this room is located right in the middle of the ship! And no, the dome is not a projection of the outside. That picture on the dome is just a painting painted with luminescent paint.

"WHAT FUCK MAN!?" Is most of the people's reaction when they heard of this.

To which Vlad replied that the room has a philosophical meaning.

Anyway, Vlad continues on his meal as he moves on to the main course.

Crack

He opens up a large shelled arthropod on the table before proceeding to take a bite.

'Hmmm... taste like... a lobster? A Shrimp? Tho it has a bit more texture than them' Vlad thought as he ponders on the taste of the Anomalocaris that laid before him.

After as the Vlad considers what to do with the planet as design a custom seed module to be dropped.

While Vlad has little intention of destroying ecosystem of the world so he modified the expansion plan of the seed module to concentrate most activities on land.

While there's will be a few underwater bases built near areas of interests but it can't be built in all of them.

Saying that it's not like there's no work around , One possible work around is that by tunnelling under that sea bed and digging long tunnels to the various resources points.

This of course presents a set of unique challenges and drastically delays development speed.

Defensive stations and armies will naturally be needed to defend this place. It is a life bearing world after all, which makes it quite important valuable and thus needs to be heavily defended.

Saying that there are other planets and celestial bodies in the systems which would automatically defend the whole system, but it's still a planet worth of resource we're talking about here. It's no small amount and it's enough to turn tides of a battle.

Fortunately the land doesn't seem occupied so he has 10% of the planet at the start to work with, then he'll build a few sea bases scattered throughout the world's large sea which it will harvest sea's rich untapped resources, it will do this by tunnelling under the sea bed as to not disturb the marine creatures living nearby.

Saying that he proceeded with such a major construction plan, while he did try to alleviate most of the impact but it's unavoidable that there will some environmental impact as the ground excavated will need to be dump somewhere.

To which Vlad thought why not just dump at the deep ocean trenches.

It's devoid of life anyway .... mostly.

Well... they're not that important anyway (Vlad's own opinion)

Look! Vlad want to dump a large quantity of dirt and conveniently there are large holes laying around... Hmm... seems like an easy problem to solve. (imagine that scene in the movie Idiocracy where Joe is given the test of putting round, square and triangle blocks into round, square and triangle holes.)

And so thus Vlad just created the largest fossil layer in Paleozoic Oceania's history which future archeologists would wonder what caused such a large quantity aquatic animals to be buried and fossilized in perfect condition. Some would speculate a mass extinction event must have happened in the past while others say that large tectonic movements caused lose earth from the side of the trench to fall off burying and preserving these wonderful creatures. (this part is a joke.... Mostly )