Revision

Prying open the alien databanks took a long time each little bit of progress too days until after nearly a year in deep space I'd cracked it finally I had gotten the database open like a stubborn jar of pickles and then I looked inside and became giddy this was far more than I'd thought possible. With the alien tech I improved my rail guns by 58% and my laser weapons by 203% going from a short range and weak defense to now a viable weapon system out to an au. I kept making discoveries and unlocking new ideas I even designed a new body that was actually smaller than my current one but contained everything it had and with slightly better specifications that alien ship was a treasure trove of valuable information.

I had improved nearly every piece of technology on my ship by an average of 48% or better and that made my giddy little robotic heart skip for joy every piece that I could upgrade I did even my hard light shields had received a significant improvement though my drive systems were only improved by a couple percentage points and the jump drive was improved by exactly 16%. After studying the alien database I even found some ai code that I modified for use in my minions that improved their independence by 22% and allowed them to have more tasks which simply meant that I'd have more free time to experiment with the technologies that we would find. The next time I encountered those alien ships I would be even more unstoppable than before and I was ready for some combat even if only to wipe out some enemy robots.

Yeah I thought I was ready but when I jumped in where I destroyed the 3 ships a ship so big it was nearly the size of Jupiter was waiting in system luckily I had jumped in on the extreme edge of the system and so I wasn't immediately detected. I opened up with everything I had pummeling the enemy ship with enough firepower to devastate a planet and even though their shields were down I only took out a single quadrant of this massive warship it was like it simply shrugged off the damage and then turned towards me my second struck it right on the bow but new formed shields absorbed the hit though they flickered for a moment and then I unleashed my newly improved rail guns pouring out every drop of dps I could manage.

My third spinal mounted plasma lance shot struck and pierced the shields though it only burned off much of the hulking ships armor and my fourth took out another chunk of the ship but now I wasn't feeling so cocky my shields were down to 25% and I was running out of ammunition for the rail guns again but I kept pouring the fire on and again my main gun blasted the last quarter of the enemy ship that was facing me. Luckily I had managed to get off the first shots before the enemy super ship had spotted me because my shields had dropped to 3% during that battle and my armor had started taking hits that it was really not going to defend well against most of my armor being dense rock and reflective materials.

Whoever these aliens were I'd have to build a bigger ship if they had anything bigger than this monster ship and knowing they had some kind of FTL coms I got the heck out of there with my tail between my legs and my unstoppable fantasy crushed. I fled to a new system that might have the resources that I required and I could certainly avoid the enemy forces if I tried so in I went. The system turned out to be a dud with nothing in it except for some tiny rocks and a surprisingly cold star so I continued on to the next system and it too was barren and I suddenly had a sneaking suspicion of where those resources had gone so I jumped back to the system that I was now calling the graveyard and found myself a hiding spot and waited for the enemy to arrive I figured that they would have more of these over sized monstrosities if they were cleaning up entire systems to build them and so I waited for one of them to show up and for a couple months nothing did so I salvaged the heck out of the enemy fleet and built 6 new aegis class warships. With the new FTL com in hand ok tentacle we set out to explore the entire sector and slaughter every enemy we found.