Eris

"setting course to Eris, 30 minutes travel time", victor announces.

"Eris?", Eva asks.

"yes, this is where 'the alpha' is taken care off, if we flying outside of federation space I want to be in the most secure spaceship I have, there are a lot of alien Races that want me dead, that's what is great about Eris, not too far from Earth, but not too close that non wanted visitors could appear without invite, I think they talk about the Eris base in the sky-city history museum", john replies.

"yes, they talk about that this is the place that you built 'the alpha' in 2027, so let me guess I am the first visitor there too?", Eva says.

"yes, as I said I want to show you everything", john replies with a smile.

'the explorer', gets to Eris orbit, and Eva looks at the dwarf planet and sees lights all around the surface, and also sees a lot of battleships orbiting Eris itself.

"welcome to Eris, the biggest factory in the federation, the main Hub of victor AI systems, and also the most secure place in the federation", john says while they descend.

"I see that you have a lot of firepower here", Eva comments.

"Eris is what I call last resort option, it is the manufacturing place of a lot experimental weapons, and also it holds as the main defense base of the sol system, it is the only base that is fully run without personal, so it also holds a lot of classified 'surprises', so yes I don't want anyone sniffing here", john replies while looking at the holo-deck.

'the explorer' descends toward the surface, from a close look all the lights turning into a Huge facility's surrounded by a lot of robot guard and anti-spacecraft weaponry.

"engaging alpha maintenance facility", and then she sees Infront of them a Huge hanger, with its doors opening for them, and then the ship goes inside and they land inside.

"atmospheric pressure assured, you can get out of the ship".

As they down from 'the explorer' Eva looks around, the size of the hanger is Huge, she sees 'The Alpha' surrounded by robot, fixing and upgrading the ship, and then Eva understands something "the gravity here is like on earth!".

"yes, I know that also in your earth developed spaceship artificial gravity like mine, one of victor first discovery's after the federation formed is how to create Earth like gravity on a planetary scale, and by this method he also found that the side effect is creating an artificial magnetic field around the planet, that how we terraform mars and other colonies, if you want I will show you the process on Tyson".

"yes, I am will be happy, you weren't kidding when you said that you could teach the professors in my MIT, what else you have here?".

"a lot, I also have here bio-engineering facility where victor works on microbes that help terraform Venus atmosphere in a matter of decades also developing here stronger fusion reactors that could manage moving ships in size of small planets and a lot of other projects, if we had more time I would've show you everything but it will take time we don't have right now, maybe on the way back we will stop and I will show you more".

Eva and john enter into the alpha, and the interior of the ship looks brand new, she sees that a new type of scout ship are inside the docking level and when they get to the control room she seeing it got redesign completely and this time there are transparent display on the control room window and that the control desk itself got a different look.

"you see, every time I send the alpha for maintenance and upgrades, I run the ship also through some interior redesign, what you think".

"the ship looks more advance then before, it looks so futuristic, I love the redesign!".

"thank you, now let's get the ship ready, so we need to sit and start launch procedures".

As Eva and john sit Infront the control desk, the maintenance robots are leaving the ship and then the roof of the hanger opens above them.

"the ship is fully functional, all system and interior upgrades are complete, the new weapons will be delivered before your return to Eva dimension"

"thank you, victor, now please set course to Tyson".

And the alpha powers on its engines and takeoff from the hanger and start to ascend from Eris.

"engaging warp drive, setting course to Tyson, expected travel time is 29 hours, all system ideal", victor announces.

Meanwhile a fleet appears in the Tiantang system, starting to attack the colony.