Plant the Seeds

[Matsu Ike]

[member="Quinncolson"] [member="Relina Zhan"]

Matsu looked at the different things and soon there was a woman there with her as the jedi master bowed with a smile on her face. "Yes i am and welcome to our shipyard, we have been working on the ships here... and as you can see." She said it with a smile while some f the small droids moved around. "We are working on the final touches to really give it a look and feel. Once we have several they can begin their mission of mapping and scouting the galaxies to lead the way for the final project." She looked out the part of the viewport showing the large ship. "A factory and seeder ship to lay the way for colonies across the universe."

 

[Relina Zhan]

[member="Matsu Ike"] | [member="Quinncolson"] | [member="Quiet"]

Relina observed, her eyes stopping upon the AI construct's hologram, then back to Matsu. "i see. So, this is a grand cartography and colonisation project?" she asked curiously.

She considered the implications of the project. A seeder ship for colonisation would need fabrication technologies, which her own corporation was developing at great expense. Cartography was paramount in any colonisation effort, especially Hyperspace cartography. With the current border issues with the Hapes Consortium, she began considering a test bed proposal.

"Miss Matsu, I must first insist that any involvement with myself, House Zhan, The Hapes Consortium, and/or Paragon Enterprises be kept a tightly controlled secret under any and all circumstances regarding this project." she said evenly. "Is it so that you are affiliated with the Silver Sanctum Coalition?" she asked, recalling intelligence dossiers for Master Matsu Ike and the Sasori Corporation.

Ducha Zhan chose her questions and approach carefully. This project was interesting, but she was starting to see its potential in various fields.

 

[Quiet]

[member="Relina Zhan"] [member="Quinncolson"]

More humans, more work in these data processes and more things to do as going down the connections and information in the ship brought attention to the ones arriving. Those little droids are useful with their cameras while telling what is going on and gives a chance to show off as the display flickers and has a chance to surprise them. "Welcome to Project Saratai, the jedi Seeder Ships ultimate goal of extra galactic colonization." There we go, should be able to give them an idea and the factory of the ship is already operational making the crew for the ship. We should be able to begin launch procedures soon enough.

 

[Matsu Ike]

[member="Relina Zhan"] [member="Quinncolson"]

Keep it a secret... She could do that. This wasn't really something that needed to be announced to the galaxy and the ones helping it could be kept within her datapad on her forearm. "Easily done, these ships are made to go out and map a way that no one else knows about. Deploy drones and buoys that can chart across the universe relaying it back here. Your involvement doesn't have to ever be known in the project as I doubt the silver sanctum will even use or acknowledge these ships in the end." There was some sadness to her voice, she had been finding it a place to be and accepting but unless you were part of Coci's inner circle you pretty much felt like you were on the outside looking in. "We have been working on this ship and the parts of it for years and aside from one or two none of them have cared to help."

 

[Relina Zhan]

[member="Matsu Ike"] | [member="Quiet"] | @ Quinncolson

Relina nodded. She looked to the hologram a moment, then back to Matsu. "This ship is sentient?" she asked. "I have heard of Artificial Intelligence constructs that were basically digital sentience algorithms...." she trailed off in thought. "...Very interesting." The response from the hologram seemed a bit on the Human side to her.

"Colonisation can be a competitive business, Miss Matsu. Tell me, what can the ship do to defend itself, if no military assistance is reliable?" she asked. She wondered if perhaps worlds that didn't seem to fall in the sphere of influence of major powers could thus be claimed by such a faction through the use of such a ship. If so, this gave her ideas that she could bank on.

 

[Quiet]

This human was questioning something in a decent way but it makes one curious in the long run. "The Seeder Ships colonization efforts and mapping will release, reproduce and continue to release more of the probes we have within. These probes will remain in low power mode transmitting real time navigations information and system analysis to the map rooms. With all of it in place the manufacturing process using prefabricated paddocks, farms and ponic bayss will be able to begin and set up colonies using information recovered from the Golden Path." There that should hopefully answer a few questions people might have about these ships.

 

[Matsu Ike]

[member="Relina Zhan"]

Looking at the Hapen womant he jedi master took her in and she asked the right questions no doubt about that. The real trick now was going to be seeing if what she had to say was good enough for her. "It is controlled by an Ai yes... well all of them are. With the communication range of the mapping droids designed to basically span across the galaxy and beyond as they are sent out. We are working on them and they will be able to be controlled. As for defenses there are sadly none nor is there much hanger space. The ships it deploys are bilge mounted on the bottom of the ship instead leaving room for the manufacturing inside. We can construct them quickly and effectively as a ship of the line s if one goes down another several can take its place continuing to map the area. Same goes for finding dangerous anomolies to map like black holes and such."

 

[Relina Zhan]

[member="Matsu Ike"] | [member="Quiet"] | [member="Quinncolson"]

"So, then, I trust you mean to say that you need a reliable means by which to facilitate the colonial prefabrication?" she asked, curiously.

Paragon had been planning something that would make fabrication in the field easier and much faster, but the research and development was extremely expensive, even with a grant from the Hapan government, on whose contract it was to be developed. The end product would require field testing and a means by which to produce respectable amounts of the product without it being prohibitively expensive to field. Already, the price tag for a case of nanite gel was projected to be over twenty-five thousand Hapan Aureii, which after conversion, would approximate fifty-thousand Republic Credits at a fifty-percent profit to Paragon. Paragon's own board of directors was shooting for at least two-hundred percent profit by the end of the project. She wasn't yet ready to divulge this yet, but she was starting to hint at it vaguely. After all, most of the project details were classified. She kept this in mind firmly.

"Once our project is ready for field testing, I shall see if a derivative technology can be used for such a purpose." she suggested. Looking to the hologram, she sought elaboration. "The Golden path?" she asked curiously.

 

[Matsu Ike]

[member="Relina Zhan"]

Matsu looked at her as she listened and there was a lot of things for colonization eh could think of while going forward. "We have some things for that task. The ships are able to easily manufacture more droids and probes. It has ships to go down to planets and self replicate factories to gather and store resources, droid crew to process and repair as well are our special molecular converters that can manufacture just about anything needed." There was a smile though while she moved over by the woman and looked at her eyes. "But I am never opposed to new things and projects are fun, I would love to hear what you can say. With our converters we save on manufacturing costs within our factories that can g directly to our budgets or workers."

 

[Quiet]

[member="Relina Zhan"]

"The Golden path was a series of navigational coordinates discovered by jedi grandmaster Corvus Raaf and jedi master Matsu Ike on Belsavis leading them to companion galaxy within the Rishi maze and a jedi city. Primary goal of seeder ships is to locate and scout these locations." There we go, some of the more interesting things for the humans. Colonization was key but more then that people more and more are showing they like things when there is more eight behind them. If the coordinates could lead to worlds or information troves then of yes want to go after it with a keen observation and drive.