Save the Day Program, once again. (Gundam IBO/Satisfactory SI): Chapter 26

Deep within the outer reaches of the Solar System, even beyond Pluto and in the realm of the exoplanets, A colossal object left a spaceport while being escorted by five Skipjack-Class ships and two Gwazine-Class ships.

The ship, which was easily four kilometers in length, slowly lumbered into the void as its owners observed it from their command center.

[Oblivion-Class Combat Chassis. Designation: Shoggoth. Online]

Within its Neural-Quantum Processor, it received the orders of its master the moment it reached the minimum space distance.

“Begin Power System Diagnostics.”

[Command Confirmed]

[Beginning Diagnostics]

[Primary Power Source: Twin-Ahab reactor system: Online]

[Secondary Power Source: FICSIT Ship-Grade Anti-Matter Reactor: Online]

[Tertiary Power Source: FICSIT Liquid-Fuel Burner: Online]

[Power System Diagnostics Complete]

“Begin Internal System Diagnostics.”

[Command Confirmed]

[Beginning Diagnostics]

[Assembly Line #1: Macron Production: Online]

[Assembly Line #2: Drone Production: Online]

[Assembly Line #3: Mobile Suit Production: Online]

[Assembly Line #4: Heat Axe Production: Online]

[Assembly Line #5: Mobile Suit-grade Macron Gun Production: Online]

[Assembly Line #6: Macron Shield Replenishment Macron Production: Online]

[Assembly Line #7: Nuclear Warhead Production: Online]

[Particle Accelerators: Online]

[Ariadne Network Blackout System: Online]

[Nano-Furnace x10: Online]

[Smelters x10: Online]

[Assembly Line #8: Emergency Backup Assembly Line: On Standby]

[Assembly Line #9: Project-Outsider: On Standby]

[Self-Destruction System: Online]

[Anti-Tampering System: Online]

[Anti AI Systems: Online]

[Internal System Diagnostics Complete]

“Begin Weapon Systems and Armament Diagnostics”

[Command Confirmed]

[Beginning Diagnostics]

[Main Armament: 10,000Hz Macron Cannon: Online]

[Secondary Armaments: Electron Beam Cannons x6: Online]

[Tertiary Armaments: Multi-Warhead Launcher x2: Online]

[Point Defense Laser Network: Online]

[Weapon System Diagnostics Complete]

“Begin Propulsion System and Mobility Diagnostics”

[Command Confirmed]

[Beginning Diagnostics]

[Primary Propulsion System: Ship-Grade Thermal Propulsion Rockets x2: Online]

[Secondary Propulsion System: Ballistic Warp Drive x1: Online]

[Tertiary Propulsion System: Ahab Particle Propulsion Rocket x2: Online]

[3-Dimensional Adjustment Thrusters: Online]

[Propulsion System and Mobility Diagnostics Complete]

“Good. Confirming the completion of Phase 1 of Project: Outsider. Proceed with Phase 2.”

[Command Confirmed: Initiating Scan]

[Scan Complete: Resources Located. Initiating Phase 2]

With the conversation complete between the true AI of FICSIT and the rudimentary VI of the newly created ship complete, the Eldritch horror that would be classified as a Mobile Armor by Gjallarhorn started moving quickly towards the nearby asteroid field, intending on its current primary objective until it received new orders.

To multiply. To create more of itself with the help of its drones, inbuilt smelters, and assembly lines.

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As I watched the machine that would one day become the backbone of my plan, I could not help but feel a little bit afraid of what we had created.

Which means that I had achieved my primary goal with this unit. To induce fear and to act as a deterrent against my enemies.

But, fear and deterrence alone are not enough to change the status quo and get rid of Gjallarhorn as it is right now.

To that end, I need power. Power that simply cannot be stopped by anyone but me.

That is Project: Outsider.

To create an Automated Weapons Platform in a similar vein to the Mobile Armors of old.

However, unlike those ancient Angels of extinction, my machine is an Eldritch Abomination that can do everything that a Mobile Armor can do, and even things that it can’t do.

Of course, I am not a fool who cannot learn from the mistakes of my predecessors. That is why the units are only equipped with VI and are heavily shackled by ADA to ensure that the issue with the Mobile Armors never happens to us. Not to mention the fact that ADA will constantly keep an eye on them through an instance of herself that will secretly exist within every single Shoggoth that will ever be produced, hiding within their operating system and kernel code.

Combined with Project: Aether, which will place secret Space stations, Manufacturing Colonies, and Starports across the Solar System that nobody but us can locate, allowing us to keep churning out our Skipjack and Gwazine ships, this will allow FICSIT to maintain absolute dominance in space conflicts.

I know that Space superiority alone will not help me stop Gjallarhorn and the Economic Blocs. But as I said, this is just the first step of the plan.

For Space, there are Project: Aether and Project: Outsider. For ground combat, there is Project: Legion. And finally, for atmospheric flight combat, there is Project: Fallen Host.

Soon, ADA and I will be ready.

And when the time comes, We will uproot this corrupted system.

Will it be through diplomacy, economic dominance, or violence? That depends on Gjallarhorn and the Economic Blocs.

I cannot control how they will react to my plans, I can only control how I respond to their actions.

That being said, I believe there is still hope for a fairly promising resolution to this mess if my upcoming meeting is anything to go by.

“How are preparations going for the Opening Ceremony?”

“Good. The media outlets, big and small, from across the solar system have already received their pass along with the guests. Speaking of, we should start heading back to HQ.”

I nodded at her words and headed towards our shuttle.

Tomorrow is the opening ceremony for our Mining Colony that we built in the Asteroid Belt. We project that more than a thousand families will soon call that place home and will help boost my resource gathering operation several fold.

However, it is not the opening ceremony that I am focused on. It is the meeting that is to take place after the ceremony.

A meeting that has been disguised as an auction held by the Kujan family for one of their abandoned space colonies near Venus.

And it is none other than Rustal Elion who has invited me to this meeting.

What is the reason for this meeting? I don’t know. But given what I know of the man thanks to extensive research that ADA and I did into him, It could be something with far reaching consequences.

Soon, our shuttle left the secret space station and headed for Mars.

Time to see what the de facto leader of the current Seven Star families has to say.

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