The Tandish Assembly

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Chapter Eighty-Six - More Mysteries! *SIGH*

The First Thinker woke up to a beeping. The tele-room had a package that the machines felt needed to be seen by Sebakhir at once. It had decided that there was beeping the emergency beep. Not to be confused with the offspring are calling beep or important government official calling beep.

It woke up confused but went to the tele-room as swiftly it could do so. The information from the ISS Lomatik was....interesting.

The third planet around Chergamore had a massive underground bunker. All scans suggested a computer. The size of a spaceship.

The crew suspect it had been there for several thousand years and, this was the important part, it was working still. Trying to solve something.

Sadly, the thinking machine was protected by some kind of security. Which had to be destroyed after frying some of the crew. But before it was destroyed it sent off a message.

So there was three choices. One, scrap the computer for parts. Two, use it to boost Tandi research. And third, let it continue on its calculations. The First Thinker told the ISS Lomatik to leave it alone. The First Thinker also reminded itself to send some more crew members to the ISS Lomatik.

Then, later, there was another message from the ISS Lomatik. Seems the moon of Chergamore III had a resource the crew has called Zro. The source of Zro seemed to be metor impacts. If ingested by psionically-gifted individuals it could enhance their abilities. But it could also be addictive. The Chergamore system was full of surprises.

On top of that, while scanning the moon, they also detected structures that peaked up out of the toxic clouds of the moon's atmosphere. Structures that the ship's computer said were artificial. Too many edges and points to be natural. The First Think told them they could research it.

Yes, the Chergamore system was becoming one big series of surprises.

 

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Chapter Eighty-Seven - Rolling Along

The Tandish Assembly kept clicking along even as the big surprises hit the tele-rooms. Government officials audio-recorded their reports, miners went to work gathering materials, and educators updated the students new data bases with the new maps. Meals were prepared, buildings were grown, and offspring were hatched.

But there were also important choices. It was decided, within the government, to push more Faith in Science. And a new Tradition was adopted.

The ISS Bemalon the Distrustful had finished the Mining Station in Hauer system and was sent to Fevallion system. Hopefully the system would soon be mapped and they could start building stations.

Elemano and the ISS Lomatik were still in orbit above Chergamore IIIa. No doubt it was happy about all the data is was gathering.

As this was happening the ISS Linntyl the Sharp was coming to study the Fungal Trail. In other words the giant spores.

And life continued.

 

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Chapter Eighty-Eight -Energy Needs

It was brought to the First Thinker's attention that the Empire was cosuming more energy than it was producing.

Sebakhir ordered that the colonies try to do something about this. They needed to produce their own energy.

Toiubos Prime placed a Generator District on their Build Queue. Under the Alloy Foundries and the Agriculture District.

Dongar Prime placed a Generator District on their Build Queue. Under the Alloy Foundries. Where they would place them with so little dry land available was not something discussed at the time. They would figure it out.

Syrma Prime placed a Generator Districy on their Build Queue. Under the Alloy Foundries.

And Tenecca Prime, the Arctic World...well, a Moon really, also started working on a Generator District. Though there some worry still about the developing factions among the colonists.

Next the Toiubos Station was given permission to build a Shipyard, a Trade Hub, and Crew Quarters.

So while the Empire wasn't growing bigger it was growing stronger.