Chapter 108: Oversight

As the newly retrofitted SARS elemental ships surged through the star system at their maximum speed of more then eighty percent of light, their journey across the void took mere hours to reach every planet and even the burning corona of the central sun.

Upon reaching their targets, each kilometer-sized ship disintegrated into hundreds of small, five-meter probes. Sweeping across every corner of Star System One, these probes deployed their new siphon scanner mesh network to scan the planets, the sun, the asteroid belts, and deep spatial anomalies.

Shortly after, a massive holographic projection materialized around Keon, spreading outward with his exoshell positioned directly at the center. He glanced up at the night sky, already pitch-black and filled with shimmering stars, then brought his gaze down to the projection around him... identical to the celestial view above, yet filled with detailed telemetry overlay.

Nine distinct planets orbited the central sun, with UHS1 situated as the third planet in sequence. Keon pinched and zoomed out to inspect each planet one by one, bypassing UHS1 and UHS2. Secondary projections expanded beside each planetary globe, displaying detailed surface and atmospheric compositions:

UHS3: A dark golden gaseous giant, seven hundred times larger than UHS1. Its core and lower region comprised a liquid metal ocean making up 47% of its total area, with the remaining 53% consisting of mixed atmospheric gases. It was the largest planet in the system and one of two gas giants, with UHS4 located directly after it.

UHS5: A yellow-bluish planet located in close proximity to the sun. Eighty-nine times larger than UHS1, it is the third largest planet in the system. Its structure featured a 23% liquid metal lower crust and a core accounting for 7% of the total volume suspected to consist of gold and other precious extremely compressed metals. A 55% mixed metal middle crust layer made it the second most resource-rich planet in the star system, alongside 15% ice and mineral deposits.

UHS6: A bluish planet seven times larger than the size of UHS1. Eighty percent of its area consisted of hard ice, with the remaining twenty percent composed of quartz, silicate, and mixed minerals, holding a very negligible amount of metal resources.

UHS7: Another yellow-blue planet, positioned second-nearest to the sun between UHS5 and UHS1. The second largest planet at two hundred and five times the size of UHS1, 54% of its composition consisted of metal and precious resources like gold and platinum. The remaining surface comprised 19% desert, 3% ice and minerals, 6% quartz and silicate, 12% diamond and pure carbon deposits, and 6% sulfate, phosphorus, and other special mineral resources, making it the most resource-rich planet in the star system. This planet is suspected to be the reason for resource showers on deserted planets like UHS1, as this planet's atmosphere is extremely thin and sun flares disintegrate its crust as it phases through it.

Finally, UHS8 and UHS9 appeared as extra planets, having retained their original forms from the Kai Universe alongside UHS4.

Keon immediately recognized these planetary signatures; the Kai Universe star system was an exact structural image of the Solar System from his previous life's main planet. Following the Great Merging of both universes, these three planets that looked like Saturn, Uranus and Neptune had merged seamlessly into their exact positions in this new star system.

Keon’s optical lenses shifted across the floating holographic map, analyzing the resource distributions on UHS5 and UHS7. With their vast reserves of liquid metal, gold, platinum, and complex minerals, both worlds represented the prime nodes for his immediate resource extraction operations.

However, his primary focus soon shifted toward the outer rim... specifically toward UHS3 and UHS4, the two massive gaseous giants of Star System One. UHS3, in particular, bore the distinct gravitational and structural footprint of the Jupiter-like gas giant from the Kai Universe that had seamlessly merged into the system during the Great Merging.

‘I will begin my Great Transformation and Merging Plan from these two planets first,’ Keon thought, his gaze lingering on the flickering orbital tracks of the two gas giants.

With a swift gesture, he zoomed in on the projection, displaying the precise spatial coordinates and distances between the celestial bodies. UHS3 sat roughly eight hundred million kilometers away from UHS1, while UHS4 trailed much farther out at a distance of one and a half billion kilometers.

Keon paused, running a rapid series of orbital dynamic simulations through his analytical cores. ‘I should target UHS4 first. Initiating the transformation on UHS3 could destabilize UHS1 if any unexpected issues occur.’

He scrutinized the immense bulk of UHS3, a world seven hundred times the size of UHS1. Even in its current state, its massive gravitational pull was noticeably exerting a secondary drag on UHS2. If a drastic transformation occurred and UHS3’s gravitational mass spiked during the reaction phase, the resulting gravitational waves could ripple inward, disrupting the delicate equilibrium and ongoing development of UHS1.

His gaze drifted past the planetary orbits to settle on the blinding central star of Star System One... a colossal celestial body forty-nine times larger than UHS3, dominating the gravitational web of the system.

‘Looks like after my plan is completed, a huge change will occur in the orbital setting of this Star System One,’ Keon mused, a cold, calculated resolve settling into his neural nexus.

Without delay, he issued a direct command across the Neural Nexus, re-tasking the orbital fleet stationed around the central star. The command propagated instantly through the network to the three NARS elemental vessels maintaining a solar holding orbit.

Upon receiving the signal, the massive vessels shuddered in the vacuum of space, their hulls shifting and reconfiguring as nanite arrays altered their physical geometry. In moments, the massive starships dismantled themselves, reassembling into six sleek, hexagonal HFC Satellites.

The lower panels of the six satellites, directly facing the blinding stellar surface below, ignited with a vibrant brilliance as they began attracting and siphoning ambient sunlight and intense solar flares. On the front section of each satellite, heavy armor plates parted with mechanical precision, revealing a massive, crystal-embedded lens at the core. Cosmic light and superheated plasma instantly began gathering, condensing, and storing within the internal matrices of the satellites at an alarming, unprecedented rate.

Keon nodded in quiet satisfaction as he monitored the operational telemetry of the newly reconfigured HFC Satellites through the Neural Nexus. The energy intake curves were rising rapidly, matching his mathematical projections with extreme precision.

With the solar gathering grid successfully established, his optical sensors shifted focus toward UHS4, hanging cold and silent in the middle rim of the star system at a distance of 2.9 billion kilometers from the sun.

‘Next, I must construct the Planetary Aegis Vault around this planet to receive the siphoned solar energy from the sun and initiate the transformation phase,’ Keon thought, calculating the spatial positioning and deployment timelines across his visual HUD.

However, as he pulled up the structural schematics, his optical lenses froze. A sharp logic pause stalled his processor's mid-calculation.

‘Wait...’

He halted his line of thought, zooming in on the dynamic holographic rendering of the Aegis Vault blueprint that expanded before his visual field. A subtle oversight had surfaced in his calculations.

‘The original Aegis Vault blueprint was designed exclusively for solid, terrestrial planets, not gaseous worlds.’

Keon’s synthetic features grew deeply analytical as he scrutinized the detailed schematics of the geo-engineering capacitor network and the massive polar receptor obelisks intended for the northern and southern axes. The entire infrastructure relied fundamentally upon anchoring into solid ground and linking directly with deep elemental crystal veins to stabilize and distribute the immense energy loads throughout the planetary core.

A gaseous behemoth like UHS4... or its inner liquid based core possessed no solid crust, no ground, and no stable geological anchors upon which such obelisks could be built.

For several seconds, Keon stood silent on the rooftop terrace, his neural processing cores executing thousands of simulation loops to bypass the structural limitation. Then, a sharp, brilliant light flared in his green optical pupils.

‘If there is no solid ground, then building directly on the planet surface is an incorrect approach,’ he reasoned, his logic loops aligning into a novel architectural concept. ‘Why restrict the receptors to isolated polar obelisks when I can encircle the entire planet?’

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