How was your day ?

"Do we also care for children from outside this project? I heard that there are many orphans on the ship."

Mary answered in a low voice, "Yes, we have brought a large number of children from various orphanages around the world over the past years, this will help increase the population, and we are also creating a good haven for them to live in and have a wonderful experience.

They are also part of the care plan as well, but not in this section. We are keen to follow up on their health and development, and the eldest of them is now about 12 years old and is ready to start entering the adult world.

According to the laws of the empire, children after reaching the age of 12 are considered adults, and they are also entitled to marry at the age of 14 or 15, as I mentioned earlier,

This is a new policy to increase the population, otherwise it will take hundreds of years to reach the desired goal."

Linda listened carefully and agreed with the idea, but because of the laws and customs she lived, it made accepting the age of marriage difficult for her .

"With the development of available technologies, we can easily double production within the next few years. If things continue smoothly, we may reach a stage where we achieve stable population growth.

Work is now underway to improve every step of the process, from genetic screening to post-natal care to achieve the best results desired." Jenny continued explaining to the side.

Karl smiled. This was an important step in his next expansion. Population is one of the most important problems facing the empire, but there is nothing he can do and he can only take it slowly.

After talking about more details, Karl left. Jenny returned to her lab where she sat on her chair and busied herself with her work, wearing her safety glasses and carrying tools to examine the sample in front of her.

The place was silent as everyone focused on their work. This place was set up in the form of glass rooms to avoid disturbing anyone in the middle of an important experiment.

The only sounds that could be heard were the faint sounds of machines that made mechanical whispers in harmony with a steady rhythm, as if the entire place seemed programmed to a single pace that would speed up and slow down as needed.

This was not a lab. Like the rest of the laboratories. Here, there is no room for error. The institution was extremely organized, precise and clean, managed strictly, leaving no loophole for unwanted possibilities.

Linda was watching every movement and every step with tense nerves, and began to focus on her work, it was difficult, the level of experiments here is greater than what she can accomplish.

But she does not know that her current level is impressive, more than 90% of her colleagues did not understand even 20% of the parameters in the laboratory when they started, but she is far superior to them.

Most of them are superior to her now, firstly because they are geniuses of course, and Karl will only bring geniuses to sensitive and important projects, secondly because they all got the chance to open the genetic lock and more than half of them have passed rank 1, while the rest are between 0.8 and 1, so their intelligence is higher and they were able to keep up with this type of experiment

Dr. Mary passed by her, stopped next to her and asked her in a calm but slightly formal voice

"How are things going? Have you started to get used to the work a little?"

Linda raised her eyes from the screen and answered seriously and nervously, "Work is good so far, but I am not used to this strictness in work. Every step and every movement seems calculated with precision that does not suit traditional laboratories."

Mary smiled with understanding, and said in a teaching tone, "In this place, details are everything. Any small mistake can have an impact that we may not be able to bear, so we must deal with it more formally and there is no need for other feelings other than seriousness, a small mistake will cost us a lot."

Linda could only nod her head in understanding; she knew that the goals here went beyond simple scientific research. It seemed as if what was happening here went beyond the traditional knowledge she was accustomed to, and she also knew the responsibility placed on them as they were considered one of the most important departments in the empire.

With the end of the work day, Linda returned home. Her husband, Allen, was waiting for her sitting on the couch, browsing some information on the device in front of him quietly while fatigue was evident on his face. When he saw her sitting next to him, he put the device aside and hugged her with his head resting on her shoulder.

"How was your day?"

She answered in a tired voice, but with a tone full of thought: "Things here are… interesting. I expected the work to be advanced since they have reached space technology, but what I saw today is beyond my imagination."

Allen smiled lightly, and said: "From what I hear, I think that everything here is not ordinary. It's like we are in a science fiction movie, the tools and equipment we work with. I have never seen anything like it anywhere I have worked before. I feel like it came from a distant future."

''You're right, leave my day and tell me how your day was.'' She improved her sitting position to sit comfortably as she asked with her eyes closed.

''It was good, I got a position in the exploration unit, we are currently going through a learning period, after which we will go on a trip in special small vehicles to explore the places around us to search for any useful information…''

At night, Linda and Allen decided to visit the mall to buy some supplies. The place was noisy but clean and organized, there was a website to buy things online, but with all this futuristic technology, they wanted to feel the natural atmosphere again.

Karl knew this, so he tried to provide both sides, especially since it would be difficult for new people to adapt in a short period, and he also felt that the atmosphere among the machines and technology was soulless and cold, so he created many natural areas and playgrounds to get people away from this atmosphere.

While Linda and her husband were wandering through the corridors, something strange caught their attention behind thick glass, displayed as if it were one of the precious treasures. They approached it and read the identification card placed next to it, on which it was written:

"Lock-opening syringe, price: 3000 star points''