Nico's run was predictably smooth, and Max suspected that she had forgotten to turn the gravity control systems that she had built into her body off. She didn't think about them at all anymore, so it was quite likely that she was just unconsciously altering the surrounding gravity to help herself out, the sa as always.
That defeated the purpose of this course, but she was having a lot of fun, and she wasn't using her innate control very much if she was still using it, but the way that her body flowed from one gravity pool to another was just uncanny.
She made the extre training course look like a well-choreographed dance, even though the gravity wells moved around the room and changed in intensity so that no two trips through were ever the sa.
She finished her run to a standing ovation from the small group in the gym and smiled at Max.
"We should co here more often. That is a lot of fun. I would say that it would make a great the park event, but the safety asures would take all the fun out of it. You can't just let random civilians hurtle at walls or bash their face off the ladder." She sighed.
The Gym regulars chuckled at that. They had all suffered that fate at least once when the gravity suddenly changed on them, and they were braced in the wrong direction. But it wasn't their chin that they were the most concerned about bashing off random corners of the equipnt. Their scales would heal quickly enough, but the pain of your first nut shot was never forgotten.
"Well, we should take our leave. We're going to organize a surprise light show for tonight to celebrate the first residents of the new floor arriving. We will do the celebration on the upper floor in a couple of days, so today is just for this one. Watch for it as the evening starts, but we will make a public announcent in a few minutes." Max inford the lizardn with a conspiratorial wink.
"We will look forward to it then. There's still plenty of ti, and we will be able to wear ourselves out and then rest and be ready for the evening event with plenty of ti to spare." Titan agreed.
Nico prepared the announcent as they headed out and began to program the light show into the holographic array that served as the sky inside Absolution. The ceiling was many kilotres above them, but it was better to have a more natural-looking sky to help everyone feel like they were living in an actual world.
Sure, there was a limit to the sky, but for non-flying species, and even most flying ones, it was a once-in-a-lifeti experience to be over a few thousand tres in the air without being inside a vehicle of so sort.
[Attention everyone, this is a public service announcent. Tonight, there will be an aquatic-thed light show over the cities on the main floor to celebrate the first residents of the second level arriving at their new hos. Please look forward to it.
For rural residents, the show will begin at 22:00 ship ti and will occur over every major city at the height of two thousand tres. Public Transit on affected routes may be delayed as it is rerouted around the show.]
The broadcast went to hos and personal devices so that it didn't really disturb anyone. At least not any more than a standard text ssage would.
That would keep everyone excited for the day. The hologram system was capable of amazing things, and if Nico was putting on a light show, then it was bound to be a good one.
Nico was almost as excited as anyone in the city. She hadn't gotten to play with the ship's systems much since it was built, a situation that she intended to rectify once she finally had so downti. Soone was always requesting them for sothing or another, and it seed that she never had a full week to herself. She recalled in her past life that she often travelled between worlds at warp by herself, with her cha, throwing everyone off her trail and then suddenly appearing at a new location.
At that ti, they could trace a portal, but after a battle, there was so much lingering energy in the area that they couldn't track a ship in stealth mode going to warp.
Now that she had been thinking of it, she had a great idea of how to improve the stealth functions that she had been designing for the new ships. Trying to hide sothing as large as Absolution was a joke, but for the morphable Cutter that they had disguised as a pleasure yacht, it was completely possible.
Not only could she hide it, but she could also disguise it. That was a trick that had evaded even the developntal legacy of the Alliance, and it wasn't sothing that she would share. Not even with her mother, no matter how much cake she offered.
"You look like we should go by the lab on the way to whatever we're doing next." Max laughed after having seen what she was thinking about.
"No, that's fine. I will take care of it this week as long as we don't have to do anything else.
The cha Regints are on a break, but after that, they have to head out again to clear the last few planets that still have a Klem infestation. That should be the end of our part of the job, and the rest of the Terminus Fleet is nearly done with the planets that we were supposed to clear at ho.
I would say it's been productive, and it has been, but sohow it feels more like busy work than actually advancing anything." She explained.
"Then what is it that your tiny little chanical heart desires?" Max joked.
"Other than your mother's cake recipe." He anded.
"One day, I'm going to get that recipe, and it is going to be glorious. I've already gotten four ingredients. Now I just need the rest and the quantities. But that's the easy part. The hard part will be learning her special preparation thod that makes it so fluffy." Nico sighed.
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