Night City Legend Chapter 14

Years of research, and tens if not hundreds of billions of Eurodollar's research could be saved if I shared my anti-gravity technology. Though that wasn't going to be happening.

Although there was 'some' anti-gravity technology as shown in the exo-suit that David managed to get ahold of at the end of Cyberpunk Edgerunners. It was hilariously inefficient to say the least.

David's exo-skeleton had the equivalent of a dozen nuclear batteries powering it and it still couldn't fly or anything on it's own power. It could only 'fall with style' at best and send pulses of gravity outwards.

But hell, I could do that by fucking waving my hand with my Mass Effect fields and own implants.

"That... Is a most impressive offer Jake Bariss." Hanako spoke out in a slow drawl as she clearly was listening to whoever she was streaming this meeting to.

"I would need assurances, proof of this technology and-"

I cut her off as I said with clear amusement.

"Sure, I can provide proof easily. But you aren't taking my tech with you. That is not going to happen, so this is what IS going to happen. Arasaka provides material support, bodies to throw at problems. And in return... I will send your materials and people to the Crystal Palace or even to the moon in specialized vessels though moving people will take some adjustments to the space elevator."

The Crystal Palace was a massive space station that was basically in the middle of the orbit between Earth and the moon itself. And by massive I mean it was a truly massive space station that comfortably hosted a constant population of ten plus thousand people.

And was the size of like a dozen Empire State Buildings stuck together with countless amenities, like restaurants, low gravity swimming pools, casinos, brothels, and other things that would be unspeakable in polite company due to the space station having it's own laws.

Hanako closed her eye's and took a breath before she nodded slowly and said firmly. "Fine. Show me proof of your words then."

I stood up from my chair with a smile and I said calmly. "Good, follow me. And I am sure your friends will love to be watching as well."

Hanako gave no reply to my words beyond just a bland smile, and having no retort myself I just headed off towards the industrial stations and once I got there... I just walked over to a forklift and I said with a grin.

"Now you see this forklift? It specializes in moving highly... Highly reactive substances and machines so I can't even use magnetic fields to lift up the things it is used for. So using this ray device here." I pointed out at the front of the forklift-like machine.

I then jumped into the seat, and with a hum, the machine came to life and the ray device crackled to life with a purple Mass Effect field coming to life as I used the Mass Effect projector to pick up a large nuclear reactor that wasn't done being built yet.

Japanese muttering broke out from Hanako's guards. Which I obviously couldn't understand as I had no such damned cheat for knowing languages, but still I saw 2B who was standing off to the side nod to me before looking twice at the two men.

Which told me that she was also recording their conversation and would share it with me later.

After showing off the gravity tech in question in several form's we moved back to the meeting room with the proof more than given. 

"Jake, I am curious. But what are your overarching plans? Do you plan to create your own mega corporation, or do you plan to keep to yourself like this?"

I gave Hanako a measured look before I shrugged and said honestly. "Mostly, I desire to stick to myself. I have no doubts that many people will be coming to mess with me just to mess with me to say nothing of the interests I may touch upon."

I took a breath before I continued. "I do have goals yes, but they are... Beyond this planet, I will NOT be stuck down in the cesspool that is the rat race of Night City or, just the mess that is Earth's corporate and political mess."

There was a long pause before Hanako's lips curled into a smile as she spoke sardonically. "A new super genius. And their entire current life goal is to simply get away from Earth so that their lesser's may not irritate them with their lesser minds."

My lips twitched and I said rather flatly. "Those are in fact, your words. Not mine."

I shook my head and then I went to shrug and continue, but I paused as Commander White sent me a priority message before a loud series of thumping noises rang out that shook the building.

"What was that?" The guard Goro spoke in a deep voice as his hand rested at his hip cannon. And I raised up my hand to keep the executioner models from taking their heads off.

Then, even as I spoke, I synced my mental implants with the site's systems, and I found out more about the noise, even though I knew the source of the noise anyway. "That... Was my anti-air system shooting down a missile, a Militech missile to be precise in fact."

The loud thumping noises was the sounds that the giant laser battery array system made when large amounts of air was deleted from existence when pillars of super heated plasma cut through said air.

I then waved my hand, and the computer on the table clearly displayed the missile that was previously heading for the Space Elevator that had been shot from a satellite in orbit.

"Hmm, Lady Hanako... I believe I should have to ask you and your men to leave. I am afraid I cannot host you in good faith if people are going to be shooting missiles at me and my belongings." I said firmly but respectfully.

But, I was surprised as Hanako sniffed and said likewise with respect but some admonishment. "I am an heir of the Arasaka empire young man... I have faced more than a hundred times of assassinations compared to the years that you have lived"

She elegantly settled her hands together on the table with her continuing to say seemingly without fear. "Now, may we iron out terms for space on the Space Elevator for materials to be sent to the Crystal Palace?" 

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Twice more, missiles and even rail gun fire from mass driver satellites in the atmosphere attempted to blast either the Space Station, the Space Elevator, and even this site entirely. But thanks to the... HUNDREDS! Of laser defense systems those weapons and attacks found no purchase.

"Well well... This is getting rather interesting, my record for assassination attempts in one day was thirteen attempts made by all seperate parties. I wonder if you will match that record within the next twenty four hours." Hanako spoke with cool amuesment.

Then she met my gaze as we were outside of the sprawling factory and she said calmly. "In either case, I do hope you survive the coming days. We can do much together, and as you requested in turn several containers of materials will be here by tommorrow morning, if not the evening barring... Any delays."

The way she rolled over the delay bit made me nod in understanding as it was all to likely for other mega corporations to hear about this deal we made and would attempt to sabatoge any deal we made.

To say nothing of assholes just trying to steal any hot goodies coming towards the 'magic beanstalk' that shot into the heavens.

With that Hanako climbed back into her heavily armored van with her body guards helping her in and then driving away, leaving my business like smile to fade before I tilted my head slighty to the side and said quietly.

"Any new's on the organizations who attacked us?" I asked bluntly.

Commander White's voice filled my ears as she came around the corner as I re-entered the facility.

"The first missile we tracked to a known Militech satellite seems to infact be just a Millitech attack on our own. As for the other's we tracked two more missiles to european interest groups, and the rail gun attacks seem to have been done by Vault Tech itself through a proxy in Poseidon Energy."

I nodded slowly and then I exhaled before I said. "Alright... I want you to drain the accounts of those european companies, burn any of their business deals, expose any crimes you can, I want them to be decapitated at the leadership level."

"Killing the squacking chickens will serve as a warning to the rest of the monkeys." I finished before I paused as Commander White asked with a cool tone.

"You don't just want them dead?"

To that I could only smile wryly and I shook my before I said helpessly. "Killing the CEO of one of these megacorporations doesn't work to make them better... These megacorporations are already living a life of survival of the fittest, us killing the CEO just means another ambitious person will take over."

I finished by saying coldly as I walked deeper into the facility. "The only way to truly make these megacorporations obey and clean themselves up... Is to destroy their interests and make everyone abandon them, killing the company entirely."

Heading deeper into the facility I knew that things were only going to get more complicated even if I had Commander White to strangle the 'offical' methods to fuck me over. As I had no doubt that a million law's were going to be invoked to steal my Space Elevator and Space Station.

But now that I had the space elevator for massive amounts of cargo movement. It was time for me to make my next step as I coudn't just hide here in my facility.

"Thankfully teleportation isn't even that fucking high in the Forerunner tech tree... But it's a massive energy sink. Not something I can use on mass for moving materials." I muttered quietly as I began drawing up several teleportation pads.

One of which I planned to hide back in Night City as there was still some things I wanted to do, and get from there discretely. But also... I wanted to nail Rebecca's blue ass as she was all to willing to give me a ride in return for helping her get back her tits that her implants had stolen from her.

'Thankfully, Arasaka will be footing the bill for my teleportation pads. Hmm then the next step will be needing to be taken care in space.' I mused as now my biggest issue was the scale in which I could do my projects.

Hence after a couple of hours of working on teleporation project, I went straight to the fabricators and got to work. 

'I have YoRHa to be the face of my forces... But if I am to face both an invasion of Batarian's and maybe even the council itself should they become an enemy. I need a true army, as just Earth cannot provide a true army.' I mused as I steadfastly shoved down the thought of needing to fight the reapers on my own.

Fucking god hopes within the next century I can get humanity into the stars and the population explodes when they can get out of the yoke of the mega corporations. But honestly, who knows. 

"As for the main battle, maintenance, and defense force of the army I am building... Forerunner Sentinel's will do perfectly." I mused to myself though I also made sure to note to myself to go above and beyond to give it the best software protections it could have.

There was no way in hell I was going to allow either the Reaper's or any hackers to jack the army I was going to build.

I spent the next several hours of the day and even into the night working on the modules that would begin printing out the three Sentinel types I had in mind. The first was a tiny one barely bigger than the digit on someone's finger, and very thin which allowed it to work in machines themselves with their extremely small size.

The next was the size of a large dog and unlike the smaller varient had an energy shield so it could take some fire and damage.

The last one currently was the size of a smart car that was armed with five layers of energy shields, could fly at five hundred miles an hour once it had the space to build up speed. And it was armed with larger laser weapons then the smaller variant's had.

And I was even considering adding micro reactors into the bigger one's that were rigged to explode as well so I could have my own mini-nukes to counter Vault Tech's happy little mini-nuke projects.

Finally it was Devola and Popola who dragged me from my work... Literally, and put me to bed with my tired eye's looking at them with disbelief. "You literally carried me to bed. What kind of bedside care is this?"

Popola being the snarky one said without an ounce of shame. "You made us to take care of your mental, and physcial health. You need to rest after working for more than eight hours straight."

I groaned before I sighed and said tiredly. "Fine... Just make sure I am awake if Arasaka's materials get here."

Devola in turn patted my head making me blink as she said with some teasing care. "Go to sleep, I left a button there on the side of the bed... If you need anything, just hit it and I will come to bring you a drink or something."

My lips twitched as I looked up at the beautiful red haired android and I responded with some amuesment. "It would be. Far, far easier for me to just send you a message with the literal computer system built into my brain."