Well... here i am once again to present another fic that i have decided to do. this was kind of a fic that decided to do after reading tons of gamer related fics. it alwas features an OC or an existing character (mainly Naruto) that is granted the absurd OPness but awesome power of the gamer. but what is the difference with my fic? well it is mostly to do with RTS games (Realtime strategy) and the cinstruction and unit producing concpt behind the RTS game is the main power that i am focusing on here.
now the concept that i am including will mainly feature the concept used by two existing games, one that is in my opinion a legendary game and the other the follow up, but not official sequel of said game. those games are total annihilation and the expansion game along with it, the core contingency. and the other game being the Supreme Commander games.
this fic was mainly done to help fix my indecisiveness of what i want to do with my fanfics.
Without further ado, here is my fic and please rate and leave a comment of your thoughts and reviews. flames will be ignored and/or deleted so don't waste your energy typing it i the guest reviews which i think is a stupid idea to allow that feature on this website if people are going to abuse it.
Well here is my fic so please help yourself to a read and see what you think.
Ultimate Annihilation
Chapter 0
Rise of the Supreme commander
Narration: On
What began as a conflict over the transfer of consciousness from flesh to machines escalated into a war which had decimated a million worlds. The CORE and the ARM had all but exhausted the resources of a galaxy in their struggle to dominate one another. On both sides, now crippled beyond repair, the remnants of their armies continued to battle on ravaged planets. Their hatred fuelled by over four thousand years of total war. This was a fight to the death. For each side, the only acceptable outcome was the complete elimination of the other. Nobody at the time really knew the outcome of the once devastating war that had been responsible for the destruction and deaths of many lives and worlds. Their long immovable grudge of one another grasped onto their resolve like it was their only purpose in life.
However, for the first time in four thousand years did the ARM secure their victory over the CORE. Thanks to the shrewd and resourceful strategic mind of the ARM commander who led the charge against the ruthless CORE forces straight back onto their home world of CORE Prime. All the way from the counter attack that drove the CORE invaders off of their home world of Empyrrean, where The ARM rebellion, who were once vastly outnumbered and outgunned, began to make preparations for a counteroffensive. The turning point of the war began when the ARM commander captured the galactic gate that was secretly built and used by the CORE to sneak their way past their defenses and deployed their own troops and build factories that constructed an army at a vastly accelerated rate. In a matter of minutes, they could have an army of unmanned tanks, planes, Kbots and ships at their disposal.
After the destruction of the central consciousness which was a conglomeration of millions of people that were selected for their minds that contained their knowledge and abilities in various areas, whose central purpose was the control and administration of the CORE Empire. Its size was primarily located underground under a huge bunker that protected the supercomputer that was connected to millions of people's minds that had been selected for the data patterning. The central consciousness was the mind behind the CORE's war machine that directed most of the forces on the planet. With the command center destroyed and the processors wiped out, the power systems fell to ruins.
Not even the Krogoth experimental Kbot was enough to turn the tide of the war. With its gantries (Factories, but that is what they are called in the game) destroyed, no longer supplying the CORE forces with its sheer maximum yet staggering firepower that would leave many quaking in their boots, but the project was soon crushed along with it as the ARM forces marched on to their inevitable victory. CORE forces were severely weakened and with the only remaining CORE commander and CORE forces on the planet, their only choice was to regroup and make a final last stand. The last stand only lasted a few hours before ARM forces smashed through their defences. On the dome stood the CORE commander and the ARM commander. The ARM commander towered over the battered, dismembered and utterly defeated CORE commander before tearing his head clean off.
For the first time in over 4000 years of total war, the galaxy had at last now known peace. The ARM's victory over the malevolent CORE Empire saw the birth of a new era of peace and the rebirth of a civilization that had lasted over a glorious 100 years of undisturbed peace.
But as of now, ARM intelligence has discovered disturbing reports and rumours of a terrifying CORE contingency plan. Just before the war ended, the CORE forces had enough time to deploy a dormant commander on the watery world of Hydross located in the Ossilon system. The dormant CORE commander's pilot was the daughter of the original commander who had led the charge of Empyrrean before he was pushed back to his home world of CORE prime and where he was utterly defeated by the ARM's commander, aka the war hero who ended the four millennia war. For decades the daughter was left alone with revenge plaguing her mind. She remained dormant and frozen inside of her commander Kbot's cockpit. Until her mind suddenly reactivated for the first time in centuries before she received her orders for the CORE's contingency plan.
She was charged with a delicate mission that must succeed if the CORE was to be revived once again. Her mission was to search throughout the Ossilon System and to locate a beacon which would give the CORE commander the coordinates of where in the Ossilon System was the location an alien artefact. The artefact itself was actually a super weapon of cataclysmic proportion. With enough modification to the beacon, the weapon could be converted into a much more powerful implosion device. Once the super weapon device activates, the galaxy will implode into itself. The intention was for a galaxy wide apocalypse and the complete genocide and elimination of the ARM. The CORE commander will then step onto a platform which will be the centre of the device and only after the destruction she will able to step out unscathed. With no other forces to defy the CORE, she will be left to her own devices to rebuild the CORE race and return the empire back to its prime.
A seasoned ARM commander was dispatched to crush this plan and take out the remnants of the malevolent CORE once and for all. The seasoned veteran in question was that the pilot of the command unit herself was the granddaughter of the war hero that led the charge onto CORE Prime and she will do him proud to finish the job. The hunt for the CORE commander went from planet to planet in different terrains, starting from the watery world of Hydross where the CORE commander reawakened.
The first planet of the ossilon system Hydross is a world covered by a single vast ocean, a result of the planet's close proximity to its Sun. Because the ice caps had never formed, the planet had no landmasses. However, there were coral reefs in some areas that even Kbots and people could walk upon, but cannot support structures. The seas of Hydross are also home to a vicious species of fire-breathing Sea Serpents that roam across the waves in search of prey.
The hunt soon led her to Lusch, a steamy and swampy bog planet that had left the ARM at a distinct disadvantage over the CORE forces who were better established than before. The CORE forces invented hovercraft technology used specifically for this kind of terrain that dominated over the the clumsier ARM wheeled and caterpillar tread vehicles that struggled to navigate through the bogs. Once the ARM forces managed to capture and duplicate their hovercraft technology did they manage to turn the tide and take over Lusch. but the CORE forces were not the only thing to watch out for on the planet… scorpions the size of tanks were a huge danger to both forces on the planet as their stinger was capable of firing a concentrated energy beam that was lethal to hovercraft. Soon the ARM manged to capture the alien beacon and began to study it in order to determine what its capabilities were.
They discovered that the alien beacon found on Lusch, works on similar properties to their own Galactic Gates. When incorporated into the device, it could be used to initiate a chain-reaction that would remake matter on a mind-boggling scale, causing a complete galactic collapse. Such a cataclysm would ensure the total obliteration of the ARM. While the galaxy is torn apart by the implosion, the last CORE Commander would take shelter from the destruction, and would then emerge to rebuild the CORE Empire when the galaxy had reformed itself. The ARM would not falter and allow such a device to exist.
But before they could study the beacon further and devise a way to neutralize it without destroying it, the beacon was stolen right underneath their noses by CORE infiltrators disguised as survey and analysis bots. The bots killed the team of scientists and made off with the beacon, escaping to Lusch's neighbouring planet of Temblor.
Temblor was a highly unstable world. Its tectonic plates are constantly shifting and colliding, resulting in spasmodic earthquakes. The misshapen landmasses are divided by vast bottomless chasms that vent noxious gases from somewhere far below, and asteroid fragments fall in sporadic showers from the skies above. However, Temblor also possesses abundant metal resources, compensating for its many hazards.
The plan was to take over Temblor and secure the metal rich planet and deny the CORE the advantage of resources to provide for their army construction. However, once the planet had been seized, the ARM commander realized that this was only a stall tactic, as their commander had been given enough time to convert the alien beacon to complete the device and then retreated to the last planet of the Ossilon system, an icy planet named Gelidus.
Gelidus is a glittering ice world on the very edge of the Ossilon System, and the 2nd most inhospitable of the Ossilon planets. Fierce winds drive snow from glacier peaks, which fall to the ground as hailstones the size of boulders. Despite the planet's hazardous nature, the CORE had built their main stronghold here and had assembled the Galactic Implosion Device within their glacial fortress. The ARM commander ignored the hazardous threats as she needed to destroy the CORE commander and the device before the terrible plan was initiated.
After the battles that took place in the frozen seas that pushed the ARM forces onto the frozen wastelands, and being constantly battered by the icy boulders, did they manage to gain a foothold and a clear path to the device. The many victories on the icy planet had left CORE forces running out of room on the planet, but the ARM forces were running out of time as the device was nearly ready to blow.
The ARM staged a desperate assault onto the glacial fortress that housed both the commander and the device. With the ARM forces blasting at their gates, the last CORE commander ordered her forces and defences to hold out for a short while longer, as nothing else mattered to her as long as the device was ready.
The stubborn defences of the CORE blasted away the main battalion forces of the ARM blitzkrieg, who barely reach the gates. However, in a bid of desperate hope did the ARM commander charge through the gate ignoring hails of laser bolts, plasma shells, rockets and missiles aimed at her. She suffered major damage to her right arm that housed the laser gun and the disintegrator gun and her amour suffered major damage too. If her weapons didn't work then she will use the body of her Commander unit to simply smash it apart.
But as soon as she made it, time was up. The galactic implosion device was ready and powering up. The CORE commander stood in the central platform as if she was mocking her and had the last laugh. The CORE commander stood in the centre platform completely idle as she was already preoccupied in firing up the weapon. The ARM commander took her final chance to stop this once and for all and used her commander unit as a battering ram to knock the CORE commander off and hopefully disrupt the sequence. Unfortunately, the CORE commander held strong over the weakened ARM commander, but was in a major dilemma. The platform could house only one Commander and couldn't accommodate two and the CORE commander knew the consequences of that happening. For the first time since the destruction of CORE prime did the CORE commander know fear as her 100 years of waiting and planning were about to be meddled with by an unruly human. She cursed, pushed and bashed on the enemy Commander, desperate to shove her off of the platform. The ARM commander refused to budge, but it was already too late for the both of them.
It was already done, vengeance and destruction was assured. The defences held out long enough for the implosion device to activate with a quiet beep. The galaxy silently collapsed, drawn inward upon itself. Ever smaller, and denser, until at last it could be squeezed no more and then it screamed as it exploded anew. The CORE commander who was the victor had also been defeated. Her sworn enemy had interfered at the last second in a desperate attempt to stop the cataclysmic super weapon, but ultimately failed in her mission. However, she did receive the final laugh as the irony of it all was that the CORE never defeated the ARM completely. In fact, what was truly ironic was that during the implosion sequence the centre platform, which was supposed to keep the user safe from harm, malfunctioned from the stress of holding two beings on the same platform.
What happened next was that both commanders from the two separate factions had merged with one another in both body and mind. Rather, it was more the bodies of their commanders that had ultimately merged into a far superior model of a commander unit, the only model of its kind to survive the rebirth of the galaxy. As the minds and bodies of the pilots of the commander had finally merged into the machine, both of their bodies had disappeared, but their consciousness remained encrypted into the machine.
(Total annihilation OST: Blood of the Machines)
As the galaxy silently collapsed, it was quickly reborn into a healthy new galaxy springing with new life in multiple sectors and star systems. Many worlds soon developed life and housed many new species that were given a chance that the old galaxy denied over two selfish races' grudges and blood lust for one another. But the main surprise came with the reintroduction of a familiar species that surprisingly survived the rebirth… the human race. Like cockroaches, they have proved time and time again that they were just too stubborn to die out, or maybe it was the fact that their DNA relates way back to the last surviving human that barely survived the implosion process.
The planets then started to build up and manage their first civilizations for the first time in their history. As expected, wars were soon ignited for the first time on many of the worlds own soil and in outer space... Some things never changed. Some races proved to be highly advanced due to the terrain and the biology of the inhabitants that led to some unique special powers exclusive to their race and the people that lived on their world. Some of the alien races quickly pioneered their way to the top and dominated certain sectors of technology. After a while, systems and sectors of the galaxy soon initiated war on some of their rivals or enemies.
Despite the craziness that happened in the void of outer space, the little blue planet laid in its own undisturbed solar system. The once proud human race was now reduced back to the drawing board and had reverted back to the ancient and painstakingly slow advancement of the ancient civilization of feudalism and imperialism that had monarchies and empires to rule over the people. Each land was split into states or countries and just like the human race, they love to hate one another and soon conflict rose to divide land, people's opinions and society right in two.
But despite all the wars that was bound to happen anywhere, nothing could match the legends of the war machines that ravaged and decimated countless worlds. However, no civilization or individual being will ever learn of the true history of the birth of their galaxy and worlds no matter how much their speculations point out their evidence to some truth.
The legends of the two opposing commanders were no more than undocumented legends unknown to all. Their only remains of evidence lay within a large armoured commander unit, transformed after the conversion of both commanders fused together with the knowledge and technology of both races. Their commander's capabilities made it far superior in fire power, mobility, efficiency in construction and resource production, as well as overall defence.
The whole point to the contingency plan was to destroy the galaxy and rebuild a new home from the ashes of the CORE Empire in the new galaxy. But there was no sentient being available to pilot the mighty war machine as it had both conscious minds of the pilots who lay dormant inside the computers of the command unit. Thus, nobody was up to the task, as all it had left behind in the aftermath was a deactivated commander fully merged with both ARM and CORE commanders, along with the knowledge of how to operate their technologies. It was left to drift alone in the vast emptiness of space for millions of years until the planets had finally developed enough to become inhabitable and hospitable for inhabiting civilizations, both advanced and primitive alike, to roam around their home worlds and outer space.
Suffice to say, not a single space advanced civilization found the drifting commander for the past millions to billions of years. Despite all of that time it spent drifting through space, the commander never deteriorated. Eventually, after spending almost an eternity drifting motionlessly in the cold emptiness of space, the commander got lucky as it managed to get hooked onto a gravitational field of a certain blue planet. The force of the gravitational field managed to pull the commander towards its surface.
Coincidentally, this was actually the first time that the human race was visited by an alien race. The visit however was actually quite an explosive entrance. The commander entered the atmosphere unharmed as it fell through the sky like a burning meteorite until it impacted the surface with a mighty crash. The commander managed to inadvertently find a planet by luck as it no longer had to be a drifter anymore, but there was worse news to come. The inhabitants of the blue planet were strangely human for some oddly impossible reason and they were so primitive and barbaric that they were unsuitable for being chosen as the primary pilot of the commander.
The commander luckily landed on an island far away from the main land so it didn't have to deal with civilization for a long time. So for the time being the commander sat in the crater and waited, unmoving and on its back completely helpless as it waited for an opportune time to reactivate itself with the help of a new pilot.
After the conversion of the two commanders minds into one, which merged them into the computers of the commander unit, it replicated their appearances and minds to create an AI as a failsafe, as well as a warden for the two opposing pilots. Its primary mission was to find a new pilot to serve, all the while keeping the two former pilots at bay, as was their punishment for causing the destruction of the galaxy. After all the seemingly endless time spent drifting, it was a miracle that she didn't deteriorate, but her control of the commander was limited.
After landing on the planet and discovering the human race for the first time in this rebirthed galaxy, she was disappointed. The men and women had devolved into a state of primal savagery. The humans, curious as they were, approached the crater buried in a mountain with animal fur clothes, sticks with sharpened flint at the tip or blunt tips that acted as hammers and axes.
The AI ordered a scan as it sent out drones to perform a scan on these primitive humans. As it performed a scan by shining a particle scanning beam on their bodies, the humans got spooked and tried to attack it. The attack failed and the drone retaliated with a laser beam to one of the savage human's chest. The rest of the humans that followed him shook in fear and then bowed to the drone. The drone then spoke but neither of the humans under stood it.
"Assessment complete. Results indicate 13% compatibility. Chances for potential pilot… impossible." It spoke before flying back to the Armoured command unit.
The humans for a time stayed beside the commander unit believing it to be a superior being. But eventually they left as threats began to surface, such as conflicts between humans, dangerous animals threatening their homes and natural disasters reshaping the land. Eventually, the crater it resided in was soon buried underneath a mountain of earth and was soon forgotten.
All that the giant command unit and the AI could do was sit and wait for anyone worthy enough to pilot her once again. However, according to the drones that were cloaked and unseen to the human eye, she figured that it wouldn't happen for a very long time. The command unit and the AI were in for another long and lonely wait as the humans continued to thrive according to their complicated and unpredictably selfish nature. She witnessed the birth of great nations that slaughtered many in their name; she also witnessed great civilizations that invented many great things that would've pioneered its way into the future but again were lost to humanity's avarice.
She witnessed manipulations of the masses by leaders of great nations and religious and political organisations that led to more hate rather than love and respect. The result led to a mass genocide of innocent people just for their beliefs of a different god or system all in the name for their god, system and countries' leader.
She witnessed forced extinctions of exotic species all in the name of poaching and profit, she also witnessed fanatical extremism, again all down to manipulative inspirations of a twisted lie that somebody must've made at some point in history. An example of this was the crusades as both sides of the religious table of Christianity and Islam battled one another. The people behind the religious wars were at fault all due to their refusal of tolerating one another and the extermination of the opposing religion along with all its adherents, solely to glorify their God was unnecessary.
Then there were the diseases that led to the planet's worst plagues in history that could've been prevented if it wasn't for the primitive knowledge of medical field. Because the health facilities weren't available in the middle ages all due to lack of doctors for the poor people which led to further spreading as the rich and wealthy nobles and royalists were provided with the best doctors in order to prevent the plague that spreads on them and not the commoners which soon led to anger and civil unrest.
Injustice was another sore point in human history like the witch hunt that had led to many innocent women accused of witchcraft and soon to be burned alive all for narrow-minded accusations, even petty accusations, mass hysteria, lies, and corruption. There were even some cases where justice can be so corrupt that it could be bought for the wrong person to be given a slap on the wrist despite being clearly guilty of murder, rape, trafficking, and all sorts of the worst crimes a human could get away with if they have the perfect man to back them up and set them free.
The wars soon escalated into new and innovative ways of killing one another for simple reasons such as expansionism, territory and hatred. Fighting wars for noble reasons were such a rarity in history. The two world wars came fairly close but yet were so far from it. But late into the 20th century she soon discovered that humanity would soon be her only answer of regaining a pilot once again. Computers, vehicles and information technology were being reborn again. Granted it was nowhere near the level of the commander's processing power, but she soon had hopes that she may find a suitable pilot… If somebody finds her, and is not like what many humans are known to be.
Luckily she will soon get her wish in the form of a young man who many consider a total loser.
Ah Japan, land of the Bushido samurai and silent ninja, home of the 2nd best schooling system in the world, as well as the land of anime and otakus and some pretty weird and amazing stuff... So why fuck am I here?
My name is Marcus Ulysses, and I have hit rock bottom. Why? Well for one I have no more family ties as I am an only child. My mother passed away recently, and my dad is in the same boat as me, only that he has given up on everything and surrendered himself to the bottle. At the rate he is going, it won't be long before he follows after mom.
My lack of friends is due to the fact that they all moved on and soon forgot about me. I was also socially ignored by everyone else, as it is a lot harder to make friends now than it was back in school. Enemies and bullies from school resurfaced into my life and soon targeted me again only this time they were more vicious. My relatives wanted nothing to do with me and my grandparents are gone. My only relationship walked out on me after a year and a half. A perfect relationship all ended in tatters as she just left without a word. I never knew what I did wrong or what she had against me? it was just a silent departure from my life.
Of course, I refuse to let depression be the end of me. No, that would be pathetic. Nor would I waste my life in misery drinking and taking drugs. I just regressed back into a state I thought I had left behind as I became more socially reclusive and stopped caring about anything apart from entertainment from games, manga, comics, movies, music and anime. I was a hard-core fan for that sort of stuff. It is a part of my life that I held dear, no matter what other people say or think, fuck em.
I then discovered that my mom had a lot of Life Insurance policy saved up and that I was the only recipient named and addressed to it. I was surprised and also glad that it was addressed to me, as my dad would just waste it on booze and add more debt to add to the misery. So I paid off all the debts which left me and my dad off the hook for now before my dad would soon land himself in more trouble, but I won't be in the same country to deal with the fallout anymore.
Instead I had half a million saved up in my savings account and I used the remaining money to get myself out of the country. Luckily, I managed to move to Japan and land myself in an old Japanese style home that used to be my grandparents' home on my mother's side. Luckily, I had a claim on the house before the property businessmen could knock it down and replace it with homes twice more expensive than my price range could handle. I had spent at least 200,000 of my own money and whatever it was in yen and renovated the house to a slightly more modern look.
After the work was done, I still had plenty of money to keep me preoccupied for the rest of the year. The house itself was not too far from the city of Tokyo, as it was in fact quite far into the outskirts and near the mountain ranges of Mt Nyoho in a small city of Nikko. The town itself was small but it was considered to be a popular tourist destination like the shrines and the mausoleum of shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu or even the Futarasan Shrine, which dates back to the year 767.
Many people would be bored at that stuff, myself included as I was more of a technology guy than the historian guy. But I didn't mind, I liked it here. The people were friendly and the change of scenery was refreshing and far better to look at than back in England. But despite the change of scenery I was still feeling low. I was still not ready to go into the job field just yet as I was still feeling the grief inside. So I decided to take a hiking trip on my own into the mountains.
Boy did I soon regret that.
For starters, I was no good at reading paper maps and I lost my phone after I lost my step on a loose edge and it fell off a tall cliff. So I was on top of the summit of Mt Nyoho with my camping gear all set up as it was already night and it was too dark to find my way back. It was cold and wet on the summit which made me very uncomfortable and the rocks underneath the tent kept poking into my back. So I decided to gather some wood to build a fire and sat down to make myself a midnight snack by the campfire and sitting under the stars.
The sky itself was actually rather pretty. Especially when you are on top of a mountain, as I could see the cities in the distance still currently busy. I was in for a treat as I had the best view and I never knew this was going to happen as I was now witnessing a shower of shooting stars in the night sky.
At that moment... I felt as if my life wasn't as shitty as it was made out to be. It was almost like I could just look up and make a wish to the falling stars. I decided to sit down and waited with anticipation while they orchestrated the wish that they were making for me.
'I wish… that I could make a difference with my life, to have adventures and to stand up for myself and others. It doesn't matter who they are, if they need help I will give it to them, if somebody is making them suffer, I will deal with it… I just want my life to mean something….' But that was just wishful thinking and reality would soon show it's ugly face once again.
Unfortunately, I spoke too soon, as fate had other ideas.
I noticed that the sky suddenly got a bit brighter. I turned my head to the right and I saw a burning meteorite hurtling my way and hit the summit about 20 feet under my current location. And there was worse to come as the summit underneath me crumbled and I lost my footing as I fell into a deep crevice that travelled deep into the mountain. The impact of the meteorite stunned me and the ground crumbling underneath me knocked me unconscious as I hit my head on a slab of rock and I fell down deeper into the depths of the mountain.
For a few moments, I thought I was dead as I was staring into the pitch blackness. There were no golden gates barring me entry because they would say that I was guilty of sloth and envy. Then I would say that they were technically right about that, but that they are natural human traits to have and I hadn't done any wrongs against anyone else and I only cared for my mother as my so called friends just up and left me. I was no bully or criminal, in fact I just minded my own business most of the time. I was barely conscious after I skidded all the way down into the centre of the mountain. It also did not help that I was injured and suffered from scrapes, burns, cuts and bruises and luckily only a few sprains. I then landed roughly at the bottom and the last thing I saw was this blue light shining what looked like a blue laser pointer at me. At first I thought it was annoying, but I soon drifted into a deep blissful state of unconsciousness.
The last thing I heard before blacking out was, "Compatibility 71%. Result… acknowledged."
Another voice followed after the first, "He will have to do," said a soft female voice. "He has the will to survive and he is not like the rest of the humans." those were the last words I remember hearing before drifting off.
So instead of getting banned from heaven and landing into the devil's playground. I instead felt a chill on my skin as if I was naked and leaning on a cold metallic surface. I woke up and found myself in a really comfortable leather chair with several futuristic computer screens and holographic keyboards and other things in front of me all powered by a glowing dark blue neon light. Not my first thought of what hell would be like. I find myself inside a small room with several screens and keyboards in front of me along with some buttons on the armrests. Oh and I am currently naked…. Why the fuck am I naked?
"Greetings master" a voice called out and a hologram of a woman appeared from holographic board right next to the right side of the armrest. The woman was dressed in a pure white yukata with a light blue bow. The design of the yukata looked strange, but also unique as I could see codes of white shining computer text and numbers just manifest in the yukata and disappear a few seconds later. She had a Hime hairstyle coloured in silver and the rest of her hair clipped back and trailing down to her mid back. Her eyes were a bright sky blue with more computer codes that could be seen appearing in her sclera.
"Guh!" I panicked and covered myself up.
"Is there something wrong?"
"Erm?…. Well I am naked for one… Where are my clothes?"
"Your clothes were ruined and very dirty so I disposed of them"
"Oh… lovely… So what happened to me?" I said feeling pretty calm about this as I was talking to a blue hologram like Cortana from Halo.
"You had been selected for the patterning."
"I'm sorry what?"
"In simple terms you were chosen for this. I have chosen you for the patterning process."
"Patterning?
"It is an advanced process that allows the human consciousness to be transferred safely and efficiently into an artificial matrix, thus supposedly granting indefinite life to a human. However, this patterning is different and superior to the obsolete patterning process that was responsible for a galactic war that took place eons ago. This patterning will convert you into a human symbiont that is infused with artificial intelligence. Physically, this takes the form of computer augmentation of most parts of the brain, with the substantial replacements or upgraded augmentation of many parts of the occipital and parietal lobes, the corpus callosum, the brain stem, and the reworking of the spinal cord with fibre optics."
"Hang on?... You just did all that to my body?"
"Yes."
"Without my consent?"
"I needed you to trust me. If I told you before, you would've hesitated and called me crazy and may have even gone into a state of panic."
"Suppose I would… but this is my body I'm talking about here! I mean come on immortality? Why the fuck would I want to live forever in this shitty society?"
"You don't have to live with it as there is an option not to have it on."
"That's more like it… So are there any other benefits beside immortality that I should be aware about?"
"You will be able to process data at superhuman volume and speed, as well as possess the ability to interface with, or attempt to do so with pieces of computerized technology by connecting to them either wirelessly throgh mental willpower or alternatively you could manually plug in cables into your head and into computerized technology."
Okay, the last option made me uncomfortable as it reminded me of that one scene in the Matrix where Neo connects to the computer for the first time with a cable being connected through the back of the neck and into his brain. I was glad that I didn't have to do any of that, as i wasn't keen on the idea of having a long pointy cable skull fucking me.
"You will also have accelerated reaction times and focus as well as a photographic memory."
"Will I still have my human emotions?"
"You will… its part of the reason why the ARM rebellion resisted anyway."
"Who?"
"You will know in due time."
"Why was I chosen for this exactly?" I asked her
"I do not know" the AI shook her head. "Throughout the years that I have been trapped down in these mountains, I have bared witness to the greatest and the worst developments of humanity's evolution. I saw them evolve from the dim-witted primal Neanderthals into homo sapiens. I have also watched as they progressed from the early civilizations of Ancient Rome and Egypt, to the medieval Europe, the Chinese dynasties, the Japanese Shogunates, the occupation of America, all the revolutions, the plagues and pandemics, the world wars, the space missions and everything else up until this point. I spent eons alone waiting for someone that I can deem worthy of accepting the responsibility of piloting this ACU (Armoured command unit). You have the compatibility of piloting an ACU despite this current timeline and you were the only person on this earth to have found me. I know this was a mere coincidence between us both, but I couldn't risk the chance anymore if you were to run off and inform the authorities of my location. If they were to discover my existence, do you understand what they may do to me?"
"Well…what is it that you can do?"
"Despite the firepower this ACU holds, it's main ace is the Nanolathe Fabricators that accelerates construction and production of buildings and weapons. To explain it better to you, do you understand the concept of 3D printing?"
"Yeah"
"It's the reverse of that concept. The fabricators use something called Nanolathe. The Nanolathe is used to remove small amounts of natural resource materials at a time until the desired look is achieved. It is quite similar to the 3D printing, but works in reverse. It works from a pre-defined blueprint in memory and the layout is used to represent what the building would look like and if it is suitable to place it in a certain area. A construction unit or the commander that has the fabricator gun sprays down microscopic particles, layer upon layer, until the building is complete." She explained.
The explanation of that left me in shock and awe. On the shock note, that sounded insane and yet amazing at the same time. I could cut the production time for the mars mission by at least half the time.
"The Nanolathe Fabricators can also cut down construction time by at least 99%. So instead of it taking 9 months or more to construct a skyscraper as tall as the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, you can make another one next to it in just 9 minutes provided that you have all of the materials required for the construction. You can also cut the production time if you have another construction unit with a fabricator to assist in the building, but it will cost you double the amount of energy and resources."
Ok I was wrong about that one, but Jesus Christ! I could actually build a spacecraft for mars just before Christmas depending if I build a good spacecraft.
"So how do I use the construction mode?"
"There is a menu of options available already provided in the database."
"I should probably test this feature out." I said quite eagerly.
All of this excitement made me feel like a little kid again that actually looks forward to something in the future or when Christmas had come early. At least I still get to retain my humanity and not become a lifeless machine. But then again there is me being acknowledged as this AI's… master, and being granted the entry and usage of this powerful and technologically advanced war machine that can start World War three in just fewer than three days or less. While being accepted as the master of a cute, intelligent and beautiful AI was a thrilling honour, it was also a dangerous risk to take. While there is that whole human paranoia against machines and sentient AI that people fear the AI rebelling against its human "masters", I however will avoid all if not most of their crucial yet stereotypical mistakes and not use her oppressively as a blind servant or slave and she later decides to have me killed because of that. So if I play my cards right, I should be able to gain her trust eventually and we can be more than master and servant but more like partners… Yeah that would be for the best.
But the whole unneeded paranoia was washed out by my excitement that I was given the controls of a giant mech that has the capabilities to construct an army of robots that are fearless, ruthless and unafraid of death. The possibilities of this were limitless as I could literally build an empire…of robots and machines. Okay the empire part does appeal to me… a bit, but the robot and machine part?... Not so much. I may have to think around the box for the possible future on that dilemma and find some way that the people won't be entirely mechanical.
Then there was another thing that got me thinking and that was the ACU's current location. "Why are you under a mountain? How deep down are we?"
"We are in the centre of it master"
"So I've landed somewhere deep in a mountain that a meteorite crashed into the side of the mountain and opened up a huge crevice where the mountain houses you, and you've been down here since the dawn of the homo sapiens and civilization.?"
"Yes."
"That's… actually impressive. For who knows how long you've been down here, you still manage to look unaffected after all this time."
"Your praise pleases me master" The AI smiled with delight.
"You don't have to address me as master you know, if you want you can refer to my name: Marcus Ulysses or just Marcus" I waved off the master comment.
The AI cutely tilted her head in confusion and pressed her index finger against her lips innocently. "Is that an order master?"
"Noo… more like a suggestion, otherwise that would defeat the purpose of giving you the option of calling me by my given name that was given to me by my parents."
"Okay then master" she smiled and then nodded.
"You're not going to call me by name then?"
"I will if you order me to."
I resisted the urge to face palm, damn this AI's stubbornness. "Again that would defeat the whole point," I was almost convinced that she was messing with me in some way as I swore I saw a glint of mischievousness in her eyes. Hopefully that was a good sign that I am heading somewhere with her.
She then tilted her head and asked me a question "What did you mean by parents?"
"Oh… what I meant was that like how AIs or robots are generally created by humans or other races and then programmed by them, they're like children being born from their creators… Like how a man and a woman conceive a child and then the mother gave birth to said child."
"Well then that would mean that I was born from the two people that were responsible for the galactic wide destruction and rebirth of the Milky Way galaxy."
"... I'm sorry what?"
"There are two female commanding officers imprisoned within the firewall protected databases of this ACU. It is their punishment for their actions of destroying the galaxy and for the crimes of their ancestors during the annihilation war that caused the destruction of many worlds."
"Don't you think that they had already served their time?"
"Master… if I were to release them what makes you think that they won't be at each other's throats? Or better yet, if they manage to set up an army to destroy each other once again?"
"Is their grudge that bad?"
"Abysmal… I wouldn't put it past them to find a way to start another war with one another. They both come from two factions that use the ACUs and the Nanolathe technology. They also use an advanced quantum mechanics technology known as the Galactic Gates that are used for teleporting users and ships deeper into space or on different planets provided that they have another gate link connection on that planet. They used that to their advantage and they fought everywhere in this galaxy and caused a galactic war that lasted 4 millennia."
"4000 years! How in the bloody hell is that possible!?"
"The size of the galaxy is much larger than you think; it can easily fit in a million worlds both hospitable and uninhabitable."
"Look… all I'm saying is that they should at least be given another chance, I'm sure they won't try anything."
"Master… these two commanders that used to be the galaxy's most formidable commanders are the last of their kind. The ARM commander I know she won't try anything because she lost everything the moment when the CORE commander detonated the implosion device and destroyed the galaxy, but she will go against that if she feels as if her counterpart is still a threat. If anything, the CORE commander is the one that needs to learn her lesson the most. If the ARM commander hadn't jumped into the platform where the CORE commander was standing on, then you may have lived your life to this day as a slave to a computer."
"So what is her problem then?"
"She lacks human compassion and emotion. After the CORE's patterning, she was stripped away from all her basic human instincts and emotions."
"Is there a way to bring them back?"
"Possibly… Yes, it is possible."
"Good, then we will make her learn her lesson the hard way and then she will relearn what regret is."
"Very well Master, it shall be done."
"Say…What is your name by the way?
"I like to be called Saiko , as it is my title in Japanese, Saikō shirei-kan."
"Supreme commander huh?... That name suits you." I smiled at that. "Sooo… how do we get out of this mountain?" I asked Saiko.
"Oh that's easy, now that you are authorized to pilot this ACU, we can now use some of its key features to get us out of this mountain."
"Like what?"
"A teleporter for one"
"Oh!... Well what are we waiting for then… but where can we go where we won't get caught?"
"There should be some uninhabited island to the south east pacific that we can go to at 20% charge."
"Well it should still be relatively dark so we should be fine. So can you get the coordinates for a specific island Saiko" I assured myself.
"Already done master, do you wish to teleport?"
"Absolutely"
"Initiating quantum teleport in five…four…three…two…one… teleportation initialized." She announced before I felt the ACU rock and shake as well as hearing lightning bolts hitting the exterior and then a massive jolt hit the exterior and it shook briefly for a few moments and then it stopped.
"Are we there?"
"Why don't you take a look master?"
"So… how do I get a good look outside of this ACU? What does it look like exactly?"
"Well the design was not the standard issue look of most commanders of the CORE or the ARM, but after the merging it has definitely evolved into something far superior than the two command units. Here is the look of the design of your ACU." She said before an image popped up on one of the screens and I was really surprised. This design was clearly a hybrid design and looked to have been inspired by the works of some designs off of some websites like Deviantart. It had the sturdy build look of the skeletal frame that looks to be able to handle a lot of stress and looks incredibly mobile, fast and strong. It had the cybernetic lines or wiring and power modules that looked like veins in between the Armor plating's of the ACU, and the smooth but dense streamlined beauty that the Armor gave off looked very sci-fi but still gave off the utilitarian look of the commanding unit. The head looked like the helmet of Spartan Jameson Locke's from Halo 5 with the blue visor and everything and the body was coloured in black and crimson red, not my choice of colour scheme but I rolled with it. On another note it actually had hands instead of a Nanolathe fabricator that is used for primary construction and laser gun built into the arms.
"Where are the weapons and the fabricator?"
"They are equipable by mentally calling them from it's own quantum inventory pocket dimension. If you mentally think up of the weapon or tool you wish to use then it will materialize on either arm or shoulder." She explained.
"That is neat. It's like titan fall…." Wait so does that mean it has data on every unit in every… "Saiko is it possible that I could construct something entirely based on… fiction?"
"I'll upload them into your mental link… done." Her avatar flickered briefly as she sorted through the information in an instant
As soon as she said she was done, my mind was assaulted by images and memories of blueprints and the designs of every unit I could imagine. Then I saw the units that were allied with both of these factions and somethings that I have never seen or heard of before. Despite my curiosity on learning what some of these units could do, I was twitching my leg in anticipation on the fact that I could bring certain elements from some of my favourite games, Animes Movies etc. to life.
Now that news made my blood boil in excitement and anticipation. This was even better than I thought. If this… CORE or ARM or whoever they were managed to obtain this entire tech then it would have been much easier for them to have turned the tide of their war. As exciting as all of this is, I needed to learn the basics of operating the mech.
"Saiko, how do I control this?"
"You first need to relax and focus on what you need to do and what you want the ACU to do." Okay that sounded easy enough. So I tried closing my eyes and sitting back on my chair. Once I gained my focus and my desire to pilot the ACU, my perspective suddenly changed as I was now aware that my environment had changed. From a small room to a large body of water right in front of me and I was standing on a shore line with some palm trees and a small mountain behind me. There were also features of a HUD displaying on my ACU's vision, along with Saiko's voice calling out inside my head.
"This master is what you are experiencing through the Pilot's view from the ACU's point of view which is mainly used for combat. You cannot access the build function while you are in combat mode as you can access that remotely if you are not in combat. In this mode, you are the ACU and you fight as the ACU. It is like a second body that you can control as well as direct and command units on the battlefield. What you see on your HUD is every indicator that shows your available unit and building options, ACU integrity, energy and metal/mass availability, map area overview, shield and cloak status, weapon status, and teleporter and quantum shifter status." She explained as she listed off every indicator.I listened very intently to her explanations and I decided to test this ACU bad boy out, but first… baby steps before I go to the big boy's toy box.
After a few minutes of trying to figure out how to move this ACU, I learned that it was actually surprisingly easy. You just had to move it like it was your own natural body. Another surprise was that this ACU was a lot lighter than I imagined as it can move pretty fast despite its weight. By this I mean that it moves quite well, like a human and not sluggish and robotic like what you see in most modern day robots and machines.
So next on the list were the weapons testing. So I mentally called up a menu that displayed all of the ACUs weapons that were available for use. I selected a light laser cannon and aimed it at a large moon rock. Once I fired it, the effects were overkill as the rock and part of the landscape kicked up a lot of dust and scarred a lot of the landscape. Granted, this demonstrated that my ACU was more than working effectively, but it was absolutely devastating towards the landscape… I may have to hold the ACU back a bit and focus entirely on units.
I looked at the statuses on my HUD and saw that I had plenty of resources in the tank to build up a small tier 1 base on this island. In addition, there were two more things that were indicating that it was ready and the other was nearly ready but still charging and that was the teleporter and the quantum shifter.
"Saiko? Did you mention what a quantum shifter was? You don't need to explain teleporter as that is self-explanatory."
"A quantum shifter is based on the technology behind Galactic Gates. Both are the exact same concepts, but I discovered that there was more to it and that the Galactic Gates can be used as a dimensional teleporter same with the quantum shift teleporter. I haven't tested that theory out as some theories are very questionable, but I believe it will finally pay off and we will ave the ultimate teleportation device that can travel anywhere in the universe and the dimensions. I have spent eons researching new and improved ways for this ACU to benefit for my new master. By the time you came along, I have made the ultimate ACU, but's it's still untested."
"But why me exactly? Out of all of the other billions of people on this planet?"
"Despite how primitive earth is, you know a lot more about tech despite it being a part of fiction and something that is far advanced beond today's earth tech. The tech that you have requested, they really do exist in another universe."
"It does?"
"Yes" she nodded.
"Even the characters from said fiction?"
"There is a great possibility of that yes."
"I… might check that theory out… Anything else that you find promising in me rather than the rest of earth's population?"
"The rest of today's earth's population are incredibly weird. At one point your people dressed really weirdly and your music suddenly devolved into really sexually explicit meanings in their lyrics. Then there are electronic music that sounds like a robot malfunctioning, there are some people bragging about how great their life is in their lyrics when in reality it isn't, then there are some music bands that make a lot of noise and scream down their microphones where most people don't understand them at all lyrics wise or the meaning behind it. I don't hate music because there is a lot of variety and I do like some genres. "
'Ah…' I grimaced at that blunt remark, but true otherwise.
"There's also lack of kindness in this world, real kindness that is. It seems that quite a lot of people just love to hate in this world."
'Yyyeaaah...' I suddenly felt uncomfortable about that
"A lot of your politicians are incredibly selfish and greedy and mostly doing it for self-gains. And why are these people called Americans considering a foolish idiotic businessman who has no experience in politics and a criminal who has such a controversial past and conspiracies against her that it is surprising that she isn't in prison yet and they consider both of them as prime candidates for their leader?"
"Don't ask, because the fool has won." I groaned at that fact that I refuse to accept.
"People take religion too seriously"
'True...' I nodded with disdain
"And finally, there is a lack of people standing up against all this suffering. Are people that lazy and ignorant on your planet?"
"While you do say it like that, I will confess that I was not the most active person in society, but by no means was I ignorant. We mostly can't stand up to prevent suffering in other places because of the government. They mostly have the capabilities of stopping it, but they don't use it."
"But you do have common sense and you know the rights and wrongs do you not?"
"Yes, but I show kindness to those that do deserve my kindness and respect. I am mostly neutral towards other people, unless proven otherwise. I am somewhat in-between and even I do have some grey thoughts that others may find bad, but I sometimes think of it as necessary"
"Then what do you plan to do with this ACU?"
"You mean will I go on a vigilante spree and make the world and other worlds a better place using this ACU to build my very own private army to stop suffering and take out anything that is causing it? Yes, yes I would without hesitation, but not here… at least not yet."
"Why's that master?"
"I'm not exactly ready yet and I don't see the need to cause chaos on my home world as of yet… and I am still naked." I pointed out to my cold birthday suit.
"Would you like me to provide you with clothing?"
"Please do, it's pretty cold in here." I said with a shiver
Saiko snapped her fingers and a skin-tight bodysuit appeared on me in a matter of seconds. The body suit was mostly black, but with blue highlights around the elbows, shoulders and knees, and both sides of the torso. This suit didn't feel mostly uncomfortable as it felt like secondary skin to me that showed off my now toned muscular body that I never had before. Seriously, the muscle definition was well balanced to perfection and looked as though I had spent months in the gym or the swimming pool to perfect this. It also came with its own helmet which reminded me of CRYSIS game but the visor being blue.
"Not bad, but I wouldn't dare walk around the streets in this, Also how did I get this much muscle?" I said poking at my abs; surprised at the density of it "That wasn't there before."
"The augmentation didn't result in just the brain, but it also involved your body's muscles being accelerated with strength augmenting by adding nanomachines along with reinforcing the skeletal structure with liquid metal coating the skeleton."
"Nanomachines!?... And my skeleton is part metal? Is that like adamantium?" I asked her
"Yes… they are also incredibly useful in healing the body from internal bleeding or trauma. It's also good for exterminating and preventing diseases or poison. But they can also be used to augment your strength to super human levels. And for the metallic skeleton, it is incredably close to this… adamantium, but different. The skeletal coating is used to prevent major bone breaking injuries or damage through combat so with the nano machines you can lift up to 2x the normal capacity that your mortal body could not, but that depends on how you use the nanomachines in your body, as they can increase the rate of power you put into your muscles. "
"That's a little bit hax don't you think."
"If you're saying it's unfair, keep in mind that there are forces out there that will not hesitate to annihilate you without mercy with just a flick of their finger."
"Fair point" I nodded at that point. If I was to go dimensional hopping then who am I to complain about fairness when there were plenty of hostile opponents that will kill me without hesitation… like lord Freiza from dragon, just No! But that doesn't mean I can be a little fair on some enemies before I go overkill on their arsesl.
"Would you like a tutorial?"
"Yes please, but not near Earth. let's try out the quantum shifter first. Oh and can we save the coordinates for this place because I'd rather not lose my way home.
Saiko's avatar flickered briefly "Coordinates saved master."
"Awesome, let's get going shall we."
"Where to master?"
"Erm? You said that it is possible that you can travel to any alternate universes right?"
"Yes"
"Is it possible to travel to that universe if you know of it, even the time and date?"
"It is possible that you can do that. You would need to be specific about it in the coordinates though."
"Good… because I have a place in mind where I really want to test this bad boy out." I said before inputting the coordinates mentally into the computers connected to Saiko and she nodded.
"Coordinates confirmed commander, initiating quantum teleport shift jump in 5…4…3…2…1… Shift initialized!" After the countdown, I braced myself for whatever adventure awaits for me on the other end as the blue field of quantum energy enveloped my ACU and we were all pulled in, disappearing in a storm of blue lightning bolts that arced around the sphere and then disappeared in a flash like lightning.
"Master?"
"Yes Saiko?"
"Why are we heading towards an anime related world?"
"…Why the hell not?" I shrugged.
"Won't people think of you as a Weeb?"
"Fuck em!" I casually shrugged without a care.
Saiko actually gave off a cute giggle until she stopped her giggling to ask another question.
"Why this world in particular? From what I gathered on this world or the series is that it is a really cruel world, much worse than the world you're from."
"Let's just say I have fantasies of punching a certain smug, arrogant, selfish, greedy cuntbag's face in when I take away everything that he has worked so hard for by sacrificing the lives of innocent people in order to get to where he is. In other words, I'm declaring war on him and everyone that supports him." I smirked to myself.
(End of chapter 0)
This fic has been Beta read by CrossoverNaru so big thankyou to him. despite me being from England and he is from Canada, the grammar may confuse some people ("SOME") or no one at all.
so yes i am doing a semi gamer fic crossed with RTS elements and other elements drom games and animes and etc. that will serve as the bulk of the military force that will be made available for construction.
if people are thinking about that this characer is a godlike/overpowerd character that i am doing here... not exactly. i am not aiming for that, but yes he is powerful but thre are other who are stronger.
Gary stuness?... currently no...not too sure if it will, but i wouldn't really care otherwise if it turned out like that. Most gamer fics i see have that one main guy who is generally overpowered kind of OC and i know one fic for example which i will keep to myself (Hint: it is on the same page on the akame ga kill crossovers)
Dimensional travelling: yes i know...pretty generic concept. but i like the concept of world travelling, Marcus will be doing plenty of it. new places to see, new villains to thrash.
Unit list:
Commander - The Commander is classified as its own unit, despite it being a walking unit like most Kbots; the Commander has the unit most resemblance to a human, especially the ARM Commander. The Commander is classified as a hero unit that is essential to the success of the relative faction that they command, should the Commander be destroyed, the mission is failed.
The role of the Commander is varied, though it is usually used to build an initial base and construct a basic army relatively fast. The Commander can be used as a powerful battle unit to ward off any early attacks by the enemy, allowing the Commander to then resume building the base until units can be produced to ward off enemy attacks if they were to return.
The Krogoth- The Krogoth is an experimental Kbot encountered by the ARM during the latter part of the final days of the great war. It has extremely durable armor, capable of withstanding seven nuclear missiles. Its main weapons are the Gauss cannons mounted on either arm, its secondary weapon is an Annihilator-type laser mounted on its head and its third weapons are two Starburst rocket launchers mounted on its back that are used as effective anti-air weapons. A single Krogoth can destroy a sizeable ARM base if it isn't well defended. The Krogoth is built from its own factory, the Krogoth Gantry, rather than the second tier Adv. Kbot Lab.
Kbots - A Kbot (Kinetic Bio-Organic Technology) is a basic unit for both the CORE and the ARM. For the CORE they are patterned machines and for the ARM, clones in armored suits. They perform a variety of roles ranging from construction to heavy assault, and have the added bonus of being able to fit through tighter spaces than Vehicles. In order to build Kbots, the Commander (or any construction unit that is able to) must first build a Kbot Lab.
Vehicles & tanks - A Vehicle is a land-based unit available to both the ARM and the CORE; the CORE use an artificial intelligence module in their vehicles, while the ARM use clones as drivers. Vehicles can differ from poorly armoured cars mounted with small lasers to heavily armoured tanks that fire powerful plasma shells. In general, vehicles are well armoured and provide enough firepower to push back enemy forces and take down bases when used in mass numbers; on the downside however, most powerful vehicles are slow moving and have poor turn rates. Despite this, Construction Vehicles provide one of the best nanolathe rates in the field. In order to build vehices, the Commander (or any construction unit that is able to) must first build a Vehicle Plant.
Aircraft - Aircraft are aerial units available to both the CORE and the ARM; the CORE use patterning to produce aircraft run solely on an intelligence module, the ARM use clones as pilots to fly aircraft across the land and sea. Aircraft are generally known for their high top speeds, long build times and poor armour, although they can simply fly over any terrain elevation unhindered. The aircraft all take off and land on the spot using the science of VTOL, allowing them to lift off quickly from the ground (which is when aircraft are vulnerable); unlike other units, aircraft do not turn on the spot instead having to complete their turns while flying slowly, they are able to be targeted by many enemy units while they do this though. Due to their high top speeds and extendable sight, aircraft are most commonly used to explore the area and seek out enemy bases. Construction Aircraft are the slowest builders because they can fly above other units, which makes them more suited to repair work. In order to build aircraft, the Commander (or any construction unit that is able to) must first build an Aircraft Plant.
Ship/submarine- A Ship is a unit that is limited to water masses, both the CORE and the ARM can utilise these units for water based warfare; the CORE use patterning to produce ships that operate using some form of large artificial intelligence module, the ARM use clones as crew members that operate the ship. Ships are heavily armoured units, they are capable of taking serious punishment from ground units while they fight back with weapons powerful enough to deal significant damage to towers that would otherwise take little damage from other units or submarines that can attack naval vessels and land units from the depths. because of the strength of ships and submarines, they take a long time to build and drain resources more than other units during the building process. In order to build ships, the Commander (or any construction unit that is able to) must first build a Shipyard.
Hovercraft - Hovercraft are primarily land-based units, but can (as the name suggests) hover across water. They are available to both the CORE and the ARM; the CORE use an artificial intelligence module in their hovercraft while the ARM use clones to drive them. Hovercraft are generally fast both on land and water but have poor armor. Hovercraft weaponry differs, ranging from standard shell ammo to rocket launchers. In order to build hovercraft, a construction unit or the comander must first build a Hovercraft Platform. (Technically in the game only the construction units can build the hovercraft platform but not the commander, so i am letting it slip in this fic.)
Till next time with wathever i plan to do next when iget round to it.