Chapter 483 An Unexpected Hitch in the Plan

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Chapter 483 An Unexpected Hitch in the Plan

[The second-to-last item on today's schedule is the military,] Nova said. [With the designation of Mars as ARES Command, Lab City is in the middle of the final push in materials science to develop a new alloy that'll turn the entire planet into a fortress. The design is finished and will include surface domes and a tunnel network that delves all the way to the solidified core, where we'll house the necessary reactors and quantum superclusters. Work on that front has already begun and the mobile atomic printers we deployed reached the halfway point two days ago.]

"How long will it take for the necessary advances to be completed?" Aron asked. "If necessary, I can join in on the research and cut the time down by quite a lot."

Only Nova knew that he was talking about purchasing another knowledge from the system. She thought for two whole nanoseconds before answering, [That won't be necessary for now. The research should be completed within a month or two, Lab City time. There are better things to spend your limited time on, sir.] The source of this content can be connected to n0v3lb!n★

"How long will construction take once the necessary materials are in place?" he asked.

"Time to create another higher-order AI to oversee Lab City?" Aron asked with a frown. He would really rather not add another AI to the higher order, as there were already plenty, in his opinion; that was why he had begun using more virtual intelligences of late. But for solving an argument like Trek versus Wars... he might have to authorize a new AI to oversee Lab City, and for herding researchers, only a higher-order one would do.

[Perhaps, sir. I suggest we give it a few weeks first. Chaotic clashes between research methodology and ideas often produce the best results in the end, so I'll keep an eye on things and let you know if the situation starts spiraling out of control and seriously affecting their work. But at the moment, there's nothing but beneficial rivalry between them.]

"Good. Let's set the cutoff date for that situation resolution to our next meeting in two weeks," Aron said, still with a slight frown on his face. He wasn't happy that the researchers he had spent so much time and effort to "recruit" were handing him petty problems like an out-of-control debate and holding things up even for a second.

"What's the status on Fleet Command?"

[We've inserted the appropriate influencing elements to the game. It should inspire a lot of people to sign up for our space fleet,] Nyx answered. [It's currently ready to be announced as soon as there's an opportunity when we aren't already busy announcing other world-shaking changes, so that people can focus on our new 'gaming' products.]

"Good. John, Athena, anything else to add?"

"Yes, sir. We need bodies. I know we just got fifty million new recruits, but that's still far from enough. In order to staff ARES Command, we estimate we'll need...." He looked to Athena to give the actual number.