*Ding*
֍ Updated, Revised, and Edited: 11/09/2022 ֍
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"Ahh… yes, yes!
Let's get down to business." Minister of Waste Management Jioke Obea said frantically, still a little numb from the stress on his mind.
Unaware of the pressure Esmond exerted onto his body, the fatigued stricken Minister fell far behind the starting point for the duo in the meeting.
From the moment Esmond entered the office, Jioke was on the backfoot, struggling to keep himself from drowning under the dominant oppression of his opponent.
"Perfect, Minister Obea," gently smiled Esmond as he clasped his hands together above the waist in a calculative manner.
"My team has reported your government, more specifically, the department of waste management and control requires assistance dealing with mounting pressure from a build-up of rubbish.
Based on preliminary data my team has gathered from various landfills, both legal and illegal, our organisation can reduce the pressure on your department's resources, since we'll use our own equipment to transport the waste."
Esmond's little comment regarding illegal landfills didn't slip past Jioke, who made a note of it to ask later, but at the same time, he wondered how 'Mr Mars' came to hear of it.
Each illegal landfill site on conservation parks could only be visited once, during which an enormous number of trucks would drop off rubbish for several hours straight, in a methodical system.
No one would ever go back to the site after the waste was dumped.
Not even the drivers could remember the way back or gain the same access to the parklands.
Jioke made sure to institute plenty of failsafe's to remove all possible traces leading back to his department and office, but nothing was foolproof.
Sadly for the Minister, Esmond came equipped with an Artificial Intelligence who had knowledge and experience gained through an eternity of lifetimes.
With Carter's help, Esmond easily traced back all actions regarding the illegal dumpsites to Jioke's office.
Esmond had evidence on the Minister of Waste's crimes but chose not to past it over to the authorities for now, when he could gain something that would benefit the public, rather than the government for once.
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Continuing from earlier, Esmond said, "The operations of our business will introduce plenty of jobs into your economy, ranging from five hundred in the beginning to several thousand after a couple months.
As our operations increase within Nigeria, we'll establish processing plant factories for the waste to turn into reused material of various sorts.
We'd also ship over waste from other nations to our facilities here for processing, but at that point in time, the company hopes to settle a strong presence within the African oasis known as Nigeria."
Esmond thought his little speech roused enough attention to wrap the corrupt Minister around his finger, but the man resisted, only to set out his own points for cooperation.
"I'm more than happy to cooperate with your business enterprise, Mr Mars…"
More obvious than the sun or moon in the sky, Esmond watched Jioke gesture their being an issue for the deal being finalised.
It wasn't hard to realise the Minister requested a bribery of some sort, but Esmond wasn't willing to oblige the man.
Jioke noticed Esmond wasn't pleased with his antics and tried to back peddle for a moment, only to stop and bury hard into a ridged path of the past.
"You see Mr Mars… to accomplish business, certain people require… a little incentive to move things along, otherwise we'll end up waiting a long time for approval."
"Even when you're the Minister of Waste Management?
You serve the Prime Minister of Nigeria, so why exactly do you need to grease the hands of those below your authority…?"
Questioning Jioke's power pushed the man in the right direction Esmond hoped to drag the vain Minister down as it would further aid his plans for Nigeria.
"Ah… Well, no.
They'll move in a heartbeat if I give the order-"
"Great!
The deal is assured then, and we can start operating within your borders in under a month or so, as long as you've provided the necessary authority and licensing for us to operate.
However,…" now it was Esmond's turned to gaslight the Minister to bend to his will further.
"What is it, Mr Mars?" a little anxious of Mr Mars demand and concerned the conversation moved far to quickly past monetary 'donation' for his liking, Jioke Obea couldn't help but fall in line with Mr Mars direction of conversation for now.
"Well… we need to operate out of a location and to cover the entire country, our business enterprise will require a minimum of 10 sites across Nigeria that we can acquire from the government for various purposes."
Esmond's opened ended nature of his answer allowed Jioke to regain some strength in the discussion, even if he wasn't aware that he'd played right into the client's trap.
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'Wasn't that too much…?
I mean, we've only just started hiring people in Adelaide, so it's a big move to be prepared to operate straight away from Nigeria.'
Carter had a front row seat to everything Esmond did outside of the Spatial Ark Land, unless Esmond chose not to show Carter anything specific.
Usually, Esmond would stop Carter from ever witnessing private moments with a sexual partner or intimate moments, however there were slip ups here and there over the course of eternity.
Anyway, Carter couldn't help but feel astonished Esmond received seven large operating sites across Nigeria, from where their business enterprise could operate from.
As it turned out, the seven sites would aid in the collection and management of waste gathered across Nigeria.
From processing the waste into relevant categories, only to go through degradation before separation into the original material source.
Carter figured each of the sites required plenty of work to operate as necessary, but the locations were split across Nigeria.
In a strategic capacity, Esmond felt glad Jioke acted anxiously and provided a great sum of land, even if it was split across the nation.
On the other hand, the divided locations meant a greater dependence on resources.
Additional people had to be hired and trained, along with an increasing number of machinery and hardware to support the staff in their tasks.
"Hey Carter… if I remember correctly, three of the sites are in disputed lands which are being fought for by the local tribes and villages, while the opposition is an international corporation."
'Mmm… you're not wrong, but besides fighting for their land, the people in the region want the corporation to fix the damage its caused to the environment and local economy.
Fishermen and farmers aren't able to survive because of all the harm the oils spill off and waste has done to the land.
Health and the welfare of the local communities has been brought up by external media and experts, but it seems the legal system of Nigeria can't sort out a date for the hearing to commence.
For the time being though, it'll be a good idea if we set up a charity and send goods from the Spatial Ark Land to help the affected communities.
I guarantee if they are left alone to their vices, the situation will turn dire for the suffering communities, leaving them to rely on unsavoury methods to fund their survival.'
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Esmond agreed with Carter's decision regarding the rural communities affected by corporation's acting in bad faith.
Carter made a note to contact Anton's team to organise several local charities to operate alongside their business enterprise within certain rural regions.
They'd be allowed to set up a branch of their charity offices on the worksites across Nigeria, since Esmond and Carter agreed it would foster a cooperative relationship.
So far, the deal between the Waste Management department of the Nigerian Government and Esmond remained sealed from all prying eyes for the next few months.
Jioke wanted to wait till the seven worksites became operational and equipped with a large number of trained and educated workers to improve the publics evaluation of the government.
Esmond figured Jioke wanted to improve his public standing to possibly vie for the office of the Prime Minister.
No part of Esmond believed Minister Obea would gain the publics vote to become Prime Minister, especially with SARS operatives protecting most of his businesses as security guards.
Nigerians weren't receptive of SARS operatives after more than a decade of brutality under their so called 'protection'.
Towards the end of the meeting, Jioke pushed to gain certain rights for his department and own interests, though it felt pointless to Esmond.
The man fought for certain rights and powers to strengthen the position of his current office, which wouldn't transfer over to another position if Jioke became Prime Minister for example or found himself demoted.
But it didn't matter to Esmond anymore, as he headed straight for the airport, instead of the hotel to stay the night in Lagos.
Esmond hoped to be back in his own bed as soon as possible and continue practising the Imperial Training Manual.
The small amount he'd practised up until now ensured Esmond could function without requiring rest or sleep for close to three days without any harm to his cognitive abilities.
Esmond ended up paying an exuberant price for a first-class seat on the last flight out of Lagos for the day so he could rest throughout the duration of the flight.
It wasn't entirely necessary to rest during the flight, but Esmond figured sleeping would help settle the absorbed Spiritual Energy.
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'Are you sure you can't wait any longer?
We aren't equipped to deal with an accelerated growth plan beyond what we've already discussed, Esy…'
Carter tried to sway Esmond away from rushing the creation of a large business enterprise to operate beyond the borders of Australia.
The reason he tried to stop Esmond from rushing ahead with the business's rapid growth was the inevitable crash of the global market in the second half of the year.
They were still in the month of January 2008, and Carter already found plenty of businesses across the globe beginning to fail.
Certain banks tried to recover part of their debt in Europe but already found themselves in a difficult situation recalling the money loaned out.
Carter managed to keep track of each bank and financial institute currently struggling with their finances.
There wasn't a firm decision to purchase any of the banks right now, but Carter began considering the idea long ago.
After review memories from another lifetime that contained information related to specific events in Earth's timeline, Carter figured it was practical to purchase the business enterprise's that'd eventually fall.
Many would be bought up by other organisations, so Carter didn't feel any guilt making the most out of the market collapse.
He projected their personal business enterprise would be large enough and capable to push forward the growth of the failing organisations to stop massive layoffs and other drastic business cutting tactics.
The only problem they'd come across so far was ensuring their actions didn't ring off alarms with governments around the globe.
Esmond felt certain the government would begin spying on him and the family to learn how exactly he took advantage of the falling market and economy.
So, the paranoia kickstarted a thorough revision of information and documents related to Esmond and his family members to save them from governments striking up false claims and charges.
"Start with selling basic items we can produce freely inside the Spatial Ark Land, before we look to further develop new projects.
Gain several investors we can hide ourselves behind to seem legitimate to governments with monopoly laws against corporations.
Though this will be reserved for smaller business enterprises we either acquire or build ourselves."
Giving Carter some instructions to work with for now, Esmond left to design several new buildings for the Spatial Ark Land, as it was necessary to increase the strength of the Hidden World.
But just as he left Carter, Esmond became aware of the System Notification.
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[Host should enhance System Level through pooled Experience Points immediately!]
[Please bring up your status!]
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With nothing really bothering him right now, Esmond listened to the System and called up his 'Status' through the System Interface, only to see something he wasn't expecting…
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[Status!]
[Name: Esmond Manston]
[Experience: ?¿?/1000] [Please Upgrade System Level!]
[Body Condition: Healthy]
[Body Status: Human → Primordial Human]
[Status: Healthy]
[Strength: 5 → 20]
[Endurance: 5 → 20]
[Stamina: 5 → 20]
[Dexterity: 8 → 30]
[Intelligence: 10 → 40]
[Agility: 4 → 20]
[Wisdom: N/A]
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Esmond felt the changes were fair and occurred largely due to the body transformation into a Primordial Human.
It means Esmond's physical and mental attributes increased by a significant amount, though to capitalise on it all, Esmond needed to seriously test himself without having to worry about those nearby.
The Spatial Ark Land was perfect for this, and Esmond planned to make the most of it, but right now, his focus drew to the System Interface.
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*Ding*
[System Upgraded!]
[Level 5 Acquired!]
[Experience: ?¿?(1000)/1000]
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*Ding*
[Host's System Level Upgraded!]
[Level 5 Acquired!]
[Experience: ?¿?(16,000)/16,000]
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*Ding*
[Host's System Level Upgraded!]
[Level 10 Acquired!]
[Experience: (999,489,000)512,000/512,000]
[Stats upgrade +2/Level]
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*Ding*
[Host's System Level Upgraded!]
[Level 19 Acquired!]
[Experience: 475713000/524,288,000]
[Stats upgrade +3/Level]
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*Ding*
[Current Exp levels: 48,575,000/1,048,576,000]
[Host has been awarded System Reward for reaching Level 10!]
[Host has unlocked – Daily Wheel of Chance!]
[Host Spatial Ark Land Has Upgraded!]
- [Speed of maturation of plants, crops, and other planted materials will increase!]
- [Composition, Health Properties, and Characteristic of material sources across the Spatial Ark Land will improve several times over!]
[Golden Knowledge Ability awarded to Host for reaching Level 15!]
- [Host can place their finger on the media form producing the art the Host wishes to absorb the knowledge of]
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[Status!]
[Name: Esmond Manston]
[Experience: 48,575,000/1,048,576,000]
[Body Condition: Healthy]
[Body Status: Primordial Human]
[Status: Healthy]
[Strength:20+(20+27) = 67]
[Endurance:20+(20+27) = 67]
[Stamina: 20+(20+27) = 67]
[Dexterity:30+(20+27) = 77]
[Intelligence:40+(20+27) = 87]
[Agility:20+(20+27) = 64]
[Wisdom: N/A]
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All while the System Levels increased, Esmond felt a cooling sensation wash across the whole body, mind, and soul.
Every wave of the cooling sensation that washed over Esmond condensed to a point that it became painful to go through the cooling effect.
Eventually Esmond felt the wave slicing through each fibre of the body, down to the bone, only for it to heal up instantaneously.
By the time the repetitive cooling sensation ended, Esmond first heard a familiar voice cursing at the top of their lungs.
"WHAT. THE. FUCK. ASSHOLE!"
"Ahh the voice of my guardian angel…
Have you come to bless me with passes of our holy father?"
Calling on every fibre of his sarcastic being, Esmond tried to act as innocent as possible in front of a fuming Carter, who suddenly appeared beside him.
Esmond was crashed out on the ground, so when he looked up to see Carter, Esmond noticed his other half was beet red and furious.
Aware the reason Carter appeared had to do with the System Level upgrade, Esmond couldn't help but smirk at the fact his other half had to experience the bone chilling and crushing pain as well.
As it turned out, if Esmond went through an upgrade, then his body, mind, and soul would also improve, including Carter, who'd been with Esmond ever since the first lifetime they sent to.
"Calm down and tell me what happened to you, including myself?"
Carter wanted to thrash Esmond but held back for now since he was amazed by the improvements to his own strength and capabilities, even if it meant excruciating pain.
"Well… fuck me… Never expected that…" tracing his hands all over parts of his body, Carter reeled back in shock by a certain discovery.
"Huh? What are you on about, Carter?"
"I got a willy… my dear friend…
Come here…
LET ME SHOW YOU MY CROWN JEWELS HAHAHA!!!"
Carter tried to annoy Esmond who squirmed away from his grip, only to showcase his own newfound strength.
Esmond took the first swing and connected directly with Carter's jaw, causing the Artificial System Spirit Core to fly back several metres.
Crashing hard into the ground, Carter rubbed his sore jaw from the strengthened punch Esmond launched at him, leaving the man heavily dazed for now.
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"Hows the jaw…" spoke Esmond, while walking over to Carter's side to help the poor sod off the ground.
"sssore...ssso bloody ssore…
Did you really have to hit me that damn hard?"
Carter had a little lisp from the swollen lips and tongue from the sudden punch Esmond sent his way.
Laughing with a grin that stretched across his face, Esmond went to answer Carter, only to find himself in the receiving end of a kick to the ribcage.
This time it was Esmond's turn to fly back and hit the ground hard, while Carter smirked before dragging his brother away to their Cabin Home to rest for the time being.
"The house… it looks different?" commented Esmond, as he heavily breathed in and out through the words he struggled to voice.
"Hmm, yeah well, we've added a little farm for mother to personally garden, while father asked for a shed to set up an area for building miscellaneous things.
Besides that, I've added some new wildlife to the parklands surrounding the cabin to add some depth to the natural environment.
Some deer's, rabbits and other animals that were indigenous to various parts of the world are added to the parkland.
They were bought or either scouted by the Drones I sent out of the Spatial Ark Land with your help." Carter specifically referred to the task they conducted a couple days before the trip to Nigeria.
Esmond travelled to the beach during the middle of the night and opened a portal gate leading to the Spatial Ark Land, from which Carter released a great deal of Drones.
Some went into the sea and collected water, plants, and wildlife, while others moved further away to other parts of Adelaide and beyond.
Part of the System Function, in relation to the Spatial Ark Land, allowed for the mapping of visited areas increasing the possible points where a portal gate could be opened.
So far Esmond needed to travel around to new places for the System to open the area for the System to give Carter access.
Through these points, the Drones were moving back and forth between the Spatial Ark Land and Earth, transporting materials and goods at an alarming rate.
It saw the introduction of sea water and fresh river water into the Spatial Ark Land that added an ecosystem and category of animals to the increasing vastness of the Hidden World.
Carter used the introduction of the fresh water to add a large body of pooled water into the parkland reserve, with plenty of fish and underwater fauna to shame the great barrier reef.
Funnily enough, the large body of water Carter set up came into the plans of the first city undertaking construction.
A river flowing through the city with a functioning public transportation system was achieved in various cities across the globe, but Carter wished to achieve a harmony between human society and flow of lifestyle combined with nature and its flow of life.
An aquarium built beside the river became part of the city construction plans, with plenty of depth, planted fauna, and animals to attract visitors en mass.
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Esmond couldn't help but explore the Cabin House to discover a laboratory built to serve both brothers and their experiments.
In a large clear glass container, Esmond noticed the dark moving liquid stored within, that flowed like rushing sea water crashing into rocky shores.
"It's nanotechnology mixed with biotechnology to create a weaker but effective self-repairing material Drones can be made from.
The conductivity of power and signals sent through the equipped CPU ensures the machines made with the Bio-Nano operates several times faster than the base version.
I made a Construction Drone with Bio-Nano and its operational capability exceeded everything I could have thought for the machine."
Carter went into a detailed explanation of the altered Drone which laid on the large steel desk counter within the laboratory.
"I don't know how to explain it other than the Space and the System somehow interfering, but the Bio-Nano liquid has altered the make up of the Drones it is used as part of their construction.
For example, the Security and Battery Drones can fluidly manage an assault while managing the alteration of a battery cell for another Drone in the field.
The Construction Drone can replicate tools and certain equipment that I didn't believe we'll possibly replicate so soon.
After some deep searching for the origin of the tools, I learnt the System supplied the information into my Limitless Database, from which the Drones achieved a small evolution of their own.
It comes down to the System Knowledge you purchased from the System Store, which is far from normal, since the information wasn't bound to Earth alone.
Rather it was a mixture of knowledge gathered for a specific civilisation level range that has the strength to end up a force capable of acting in Galactic Society."
Carter went further and displayed the new Construction Drones made with Bio-Nano liquid, altering the shape of the machine and its function to a much broader sense.
To Esmond's delight, Drones equipped themselves with the knowledge bought from the System Store, allowing to creation of certain architectural styles, and designs through otherworldly crafting methods.
The city being built around the Cabin Home Parkland incorporated the styles and designs of otherworld's and civilisations to create a unique home for the first citizens of the Spatial Ark Land.
Skyscrapers were designed to reach heights of 1,000 metres and further on, though the only reason the buildings maintained their shape and stability came down to the materials used.
Combined with construction methods not of Earth, the buildings were looking much more futuristic, and advance compared to the present marketed style across the globe.
Esmond couldn't help but laugh at the vehicles produced by the Construction Drones to test their capabilities, since each of cars would draw the hearts and eyes of gearheads.
Sleeker bodies to glide through the air turned each of the vehicles into aerodynamic masterpieces as the engineering further evolved them into a league higher than 'luxury supercars'.
The materials sourced for the interior came from all over the Spatial Ark Land after being located around Earth.
The best example of the Construction Drones at work was the updated and upgraded 1967 Ford Shelby Mustang GT500.
It combined modern technology with classic American Muscle style and flashes of improved aerodynamic and material features.
A sleeker body shape around the guards, hood, and body, combined alongside tougher materials compounded inside of the Spatial Ark Land turned the car into a fortress on vehicles.
From what Esmond could see after examining the Shelby Mustang, caused him to question why certain components of a vehicle weren't improved over the years.
Bulky engines and heavy suspension systems for various types of vehicles caused plenty of problems for efficiency and effectiveness in both short and long term usual.
Yet the Construction Drones and their operational algorithm found their own unique method to enhance various components.
In the case of the Shelby Mustang, a smaller engine that functioned like a twelve-cylinder monster was installed, though it wasn't as fuel thirsty as one would believe.
Esmond found the Shelby Mustang could in fact drive upwards of 1,000 kilometres and more before it requires a refill.
Even then, Esmond figured the efficiency of fuel consumption could improve with time and plenty of research.
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Another Drone type to surprise Esmond and Carter were the Mining variety which collected an increasing number of materials easily processed and ready for transportation or storage.
Carter pushed to mine various materials across the Spatial Ark Land and even on Earth if there wasn't an account of the material source within the Spatial Ark Land and System Database.
So far, materials like Iron, Manganese, Nickel, and more were being mined and processed for possible production or storage.
On a daily basis at this point, millions of tons of materials goods had been stored safely within the Spatial Ark Land.
For the last 23 days, production of various sorts within the Spatial Ark Land brought close to 20 million tons of various metals, and minerals to the Storage Cities being set up nearby one another in the vastness of the Hidden World.
Esmond figured if the Spatial Ark Land continued to improve, it wouldn't be long before the production of a Spacecraft could possibly be achieved.
With the improved Drones assisting the development of the Spacecrafts, Esmond thought it might be wise for the creation of defensive systems and tools to protect not just those considered dear, but employees and properties across the globe too.
'If I bring in electric propulsion combined with Dhrinx Qaazk Kingdom's Obstian Energy Cells, I'll end up hastening my plans for entering deep space before Earth is settled and 'whole' as a society.
that could power planetary and deep space faring Starbase's for several generations before they require recharging.
Maybe, I'll make my personal starships with it… but it'll definitely need to remain hidden from the rest of the world… for now.'
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Esmond made his way to the first Automated Drone Factory, which was bought from the System Store, only to go through an extensive improvement.
Since the day it became operational, Esmond noticed the factory expanded to a rather large size to accommodate the ever growing and changing production line.
Too many materials were sorted and sent to the factory, so the orders of Drones were interrupted.
When looking around the facility, Esmond eventually recognised several new production lines meant for variants Carter designed and styled off the current range of machines in action.
The automation of the facility proved to do wonders for Carter's requirements of Drones, just as Esmond came to understand the range of production lines had to increase.
To keep up with the improvements made in the Spatial Ark Land, and further on, Esmond decided to make the visit to the factory.
Entering one of the laboratories set up within the factory, Carter's voice reached Esmond, who moved straight for a desktop computer to assess the current Drones active.
Yet, his mood soured only moments later after the data of the Drones progress in the field caused Esmond to wonder why they operated so ineffectively.
Calling through his mind, Esmond started an urgent conversation with his other half, "If I remember correctly, we've designed a series of Drones capable of recreational measures, from which we learnt and set the generational Identification.
Should we move onto the fourth classified generation for the Drones we're producing?"
Carter wasn't overly fond of the question, but answered back nonetheless, "Tch… *Sigh* No.
Third Generation Drones, as we classified, requires a full 360-degree video camera with 4K capabilities and body transformative instruments.
Only issue I've got with activating the next generation Drones is the sheer cost, time, and effort it'll require to manage them.
My computational strength currently can only take us so far…
Not just that, Fourth Generation Drones require operators which means a human factor we need to account for, either in the Spatial Ark Land or on Earth somewhere."
Comments from Carter left Esmond to wonder whether it was wise to make the move to a new generation.
The argument became furthered weighted in favour of sticking with the current generation, largely due to the lack of a workforce that wasn't tied to Carter in one way or another.
"Have you thought of introducing a variation of the Drones which can operate and behave much like those from certain lifetimes of our past?
The Construction Drones along with the Security ones could be improved to operate in a wider capacity, yet it comes down to your operating strength, Carter." Said Esmond while wandering through the ground floor of the factory.
"I have Esmond," sighed Carter, "Sadly the only thing I've come to believe will work is the algorithm used by the Xtric Kingdom of the Seklan Galaxy.
They were the leading space faring Kingdom to focus on the continual development of sciences in relation to nanotechnology and biotech.
By maybe added their algorithm for drone operations, I think we might improve marginally in how they operate within the space."
Carter believed if the Drones were enhanced much like those from the Xtric Kingdom, then the creation of warships, weapons, and much more would be vastly easier to produce en mass.
Further yet, Carter began to remember other forms of technology which became rampant across the entire kingdom and aided the monarchy to keep peace and control over the masses.
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Esmond continued to examine the Drone Factory, while Carter went ahead and attached the updated coding and algorithm to the Drones, increasing the efficiency and identifying factors for the machines when they operated.
To Carter's delight the Drones performed to a greater extent during the testing phase, but he found the batteries would need to be replaced far more often than usual.
It made things difficult for Carter to consider the creation of various warships and weapons which were vital for the private military company to operate on Earth.
Most of the designs inserted into the construction matrix of the Drones believed it was near impossible to build the war machines largely down to the current capacity of technology and materials.
The aircrafts and weapons Carter wished to produce and employ required technology that wasn't available right now to be capitalised upon.
Esmond understood the respective technology would need to be developed as soon as possible but right now he wasn't concerned with introducing fighter jets capable of exiting the Earth's atmosphere.
More so, he wanted to develop military equipment that could be utilised immediately without requiring intensive training and education.
It was at this point that Carter suggested to Esmond that his new skill might come handy to gather various design blueprints and technology from entertainment media itself.
Instead of trying out the Wheel of Chance offered by the System on a daily basis, Esmond chose to utilise the Golden Knowledge Ability.
His goals was to activate the ability on a film from the year 2005, called Stealth, which featured Jamie Foxx, Jessica Biel and Josh Lucas as pilots for the United States of America air force.
They were flying highly developed fighter jets while competing with an autonomous fighter jet with an Artificial Intelligence designed for aerial warfare.
Carter figured it was wise to learn the knowledge regarding the fighter jets from the film, including the Artificial Intelligence program.
He figured it was possible to replicate the fighter jets within the Spatial Ark Land, alongside the Artificial Intelligence in the hopes of kickstarting the private military company and its own branch of an Air Force personnel.
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Downloading the film straight to Esmond's personal laptop back in Adelaide, Carter told Esmond to travel back to the suburban home to test the Golden Knowledge Ability.
Esmond didn't waste any time and activated his ability by pressing his finger onto the screen of his laptop once the film started playing.
His index finger on the right hand started to glow bright gold as various information from within the film entered Esmond's mind, drilling itself into his memory.
The sheer pain of the experience caused Esmond's to reeling back, as his mind felt like it shredded apart in the barrel of a harvester.
Carter also experienced the gut-wrenching pain, though not to the extent Esmond suffered since the information downloaded from the film instantly came under the purview of the Artificial System Spirit Core.
After a couple seconds, the golden light disappeared from Esmond's index finger, alleviating the throbbing headache and gifting Esmond and Carter a mountain of information they needed to analyse right away.
The duo spent the next couple of hours within the Cabin Home research quarters to go through all of the data they'd sourced from the film, while practising the Imperial Training Manual from time to time.
To their surprise, the enormous amount of data from the film contained design schematics for not only the F/A 37 Talon Stealth Fighter Jet, but the other aircrafts present in the film, such as the Mi-8 helicopter to the Russian Su-37s.
Esmond also discovered all the data for the Artificial Intelligence though he didn't bother wasting time going through all of the information.
Rather Carter found it more valuable than Esmond, since it would improve his operating capabilities within the Spatial Ark Land and possibly beyond.
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"I've only studied around 5 percent of the data and I can say for certain, that everything we've gained from the film exceeds the current fighting capability of the world's superpowers." Commented Esmond.
"No shit, Esy," replied Carter, not bothering to hold back his scorn for Esmond, who'd caused them to suffer unnecessary pain.
Carter continued "I can already tell we don't have a fuel source to supply the Talon Fighter Jet to manage the stealth capabilities alongside the processing power for real-time computations.
Honestly… I don't see how it'll be possible to find a fuel source to manage the massive expenditure of energy from the stealth fighter."
The film showed it too be a highly economic stealth fighter that could continue fighting without any issue, but in reality, it was far from that after checking all the details and information gathered by the Golden Knowledge Ability.
Carter understood the Spatial Ark Land had the necessary materials to build the Stealth Fighter Jet, since he hadn't stopped acquiring materials for the Hidden World ever since he'd become active as an Artificial System Spirit Core.
Esmond would bring over the materials on a daily basis from various warehouses and even utilised the Drones active in certain parts of the city to move the goods over.
But even so, materials like uranium, titanium and tungsten couldn't easily be acquired for the Spatial Ark Land.
They were especially necessary to form a functional Stealth Fighter Jet, so the frame of the aircraft wouldn't twist mid-flight from the excess G-Force during certain manoeuvres.
Without those materials, Carter couldn't begin the mass production of military equipment for the private military company, leaving the Artificial System Spirit Core to instead focus on building the first city of the Hidden World.
It came down to waiting for the last few materials before dedicating resources into building a dangerous and highly advance military for the Spatial Ark land.
Esmond made sure to keep in contact with Anton and his team of burned spies and special forces operatives to find personnel willing to join the private military company.
Most of the candidates came from broken lands stricken with war and poverty to join the military, with the assurances of a healthy lifestyle for all involved, including family members.
Esmond had informed Carter to prepare facilities within the Spatial Ark Land to accommodate the training of the military personnel, including housing space for the families they'd come along as well.
It was risky to move a large number of people into the Spatial Ark Land, but Esmond and Carter knew it was necessary to ensure no information leaked out into the world about the creation of a new private military company with zero ties to a nation or corporation.
So, until a time when they had their own territory on Earth where they wouldn't need to hide the presence of the military, they would all be staying within the Spatial Ark Land.
That wasn't all!
According to Carter, Esmond could set up points which allowed Carter to enter Earth through Drones to move people or materials, reducing the need for Esmond's aid to open a gate between the two places.