An Ton's Journey

So, after talking with smiths and finishing it off with some small talk and telling them to begin depositing half the vespene to my Nexus, I went back and began searching through the possible adequate rides for land.

I looked at tanks and various versions of it, because I kinda liked possibilities of the siege form, but it was too big for daily use and I would like to have something less eye-catching.

Still, I wanted to check many stuff, so I looked at :

SCV:

Nice costume to impersonate human, but looks a little bit strange in my opinion, and Does not really have any interesting qualities that interested me.

Hellion

A car, with changeable weapon and secondary form that can be used to look like human in heavy armor. Extremely heavy armor. Looks pretty interesting and have potential, but wheels are rarely used in star wars universe, if I remember correctly. The walking form might be good though, I will try to remember it, maybe I will need it one day.

Vulture:

Fast and agile. Have space for up to two people in basic blueprint. Looks close to speedster from this universe, have versions with and without wheels. Looks promising. One of the fastest available forms. From terrain, obviously.

Now that I think about it, maybe it was bad idea to try and make my spaceship using protoss tech, ugh. Fck!

And I better find a way to hide it's beautiful form as in this universe, having something like that can bring troubles, and I don't want any of this. Especially when I don't have any way to resist for now.

Seems I will have to tell smiths to modify its outer look. Or maybe I should get another terrain spaceship?

...

No, it costs too much, as I don't have any terrain tech, especially space related. I costs too much for just this.

After looking through other tech, I finally chose Vulture, because technology is not that pricey, and it looks closest to speedster.

I spent around two and a half millions for all the technologies for vulture, and now I can make it, and it modified too.

As shooting with exploding barrels is ridiculous in here, and not really that efficient. And even forces to carry a lot of ammo, I changed frontal weapon to dual ion cannons.

My place in this Vulture is to the back. inside it, so I will be protected and not seen from outside. In the center and partly on the frontal part, was space for two people.

Their seats were protected by metal from sides and special armored glass on the upper half. Also, I asked smiths to install shield that will protect the whole body, and not in circular shield.

I was placed to the back, and could open any side at any time, so I could shoot out of it or anything else I would need to do.

On it's lower part, where it had ammo in classic model, I left empty space and decided to place there some tools and weapons that we might need.

As smiths began working on modifying My vulture and Arbiter, I decided to buy some tools and weapons as I will not be going alone in my travel.

I will take Fenix with me, and a couple of other protoss. Smith and templar will definitely be needed in my travel.

As smiths began planning additions, they told me that ad Arbiter was made from very hard material, they would have to connect one part to another using in-built connectors, So it will have two main parts - Original, and added.

Seems okay to me, as it is not big problem for me. Important thing is, basic arbiter could house four people easily, so additional space would be mostly used for storage and protoss that we will take for our Safety, as warping them in space would be hard.

Only possibility is warping spaceships close to us, but not inside the ship. So, If we ever get trapped and with no way to warp ships, we would have better chance at getting out in to space or on land.

In space, we will be able to warp scouts, carriers, and many other spaceships to our aid.

On land, using pylon I could easily warp anything that I might need, even army. Using single pylon.

Oughhh. Even this though makes me shiver.

For protoss, single pylon is needed, and they could invade anywhere. I already feel bad for people who would try to mess with us in the future.

After two weeks, trees became much cheaper, and there was no reason to get them. Now it is only ores, living animals, and some plants.

Not as much as using trees in the beginning, but enough for expanding all across this planet.

With present gathering speed, after stopping unnecessary tree gathering, In a day we will make around hundred thousand minerals.

Yes, not ax much as before, I was surprised at first, so after searching for a reason, I finally talked with Nexus helper and it began its search.

After a couple of seconds, it came to conclusion, that the reason for such a decrease in prices, is that the trade system already have enough stockpiled materials from this place, so as these are now not really that rare items, price had gone down.

And hundred thousand a day comes from gathering from all across this continent, at least from currently found gathering spots.

And it is only two digging places, couple of fishing, farming, gardening and other kinds of places.

Every single work give part of their products to convert to minerals, other is used in needed ways.

Also, when I asked why do they need farms, they explained that they can eat. And like to eat, but they don't necessarily have to eat, as they can survive using their psi energy. Even thought they would feel hunger.

Present Continent is not fully used and its resources are not fully researched, It is already covered by energy net using warp prisms placed all across the planet.

Well, their energy net already covers the whole planet, but that is not the point.

So, where was I? Ah, yes. In those two weeks they scanned, planned and created additional and covering shell to my Arbiter.

It now looks like an arrow with front being Arbiter encased in metal and special glass, where needed.

Connecting parts are two tunnels that from sides of the main arbiters body, and lead back in two corridors.

Engine from arbiter was not removed, but was turned off ȧss this additional part now have engine based on the one that Pepegas had, as it would do us good to be as hidden as possible.

To the sides of the corridors, on the outer ring, are living rooms and any other rooms that people will use.

On the inner ring inside the ship, was storage rooms, small forge for two smiths that would travel with us, healing room that is needed in case of some infection that protoss have no immunity to, yet. This is new universe, so obviously there is a chance to get sick.

The back part looks like back side of an arrow with entrance gate in the center and engines to the sides, where normal arrow would have feathers. Even though ship only had two sides with "feathers", not four, but on every back wing, there were three engine outputs. Or how are they called, I never asked.

As we would need to be ready to fight on this ship, it had four small interceptors docked to the part where main shaft connects to the arrowhead( Main Arbiter body).

This ship also have guns that are operated automatically and have additional shields on them for more protection.

In total, this ship have : four interceptors with pilots, four moving ion double guns that could turn in any direction and get to any place on the hull, Shield that protect guns and ship itself separately, disconnection protocol, where main Arbiter body separates from added part and they both could fly separately, and a lot of Probes inside the ship with unusual outer shells.

I decided to call it "Arrowbiter" Lul, And when separated, the Arrow and Arbiter parts.

The vulture is now presently finished, modified, and filled with a kit for warping pylon if needed ( Without needing Probe or me) , small shield generator that can be placed, basic protoss full body armour.

And it was saved as schematic. Now I have four vultures placed in my Arrowbiter. Why? because for now, it will be basic transport for protoss outside this planet.

Why just four? because if needed, I could warp more on any planet whenever I want.

My personal Vulture was obviously modified more, after it was saved as schematic, but this is talk for other time.

Now I look at how probes carry supplies, parts, and everything else inside my ship.

In it, I decided to have : Me, Fenix, three smiths, Eight pilots, ( Four for interceptors, two for main ship and two as back up) And eight Zealots trained personally by Fenix. They had room each.

In total twenty protoss and me.

As for the ammount of probes? I don't know. Active at the same time? around ten. They keep watch for any problems, bring food, help everyone and basically do what you ask them.

In storage? I don't know. Never asked.

When It was time to board the ship, I saw cannons placed inside the garage and in corridors, so it seems I missed some parts of explanation. Nah, not surprised. There were too much stuff, so I am happy that I at least remember basic things.

After boarding, triple checking everything from my smiths and pilots, it was time to begin my first space adventure.

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Hello there. please point at all mistakes or inconsistencies in this Chapter, it was written partially without thinking at some parts.

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