Starship Obscurus, sowhere in the Chronus Expanse Star Region, so ti later.
Traveling through the Hyperspace was nothing new for Arcturus, but traveling such far distances was sothing new. Every Star Region was a humongous part of space, consisting of around a few Star Segnts, which in turn consisted of around 1,000 Star Sectors each.
And each Star Sector had sothing between thousand to five thousand Star Domains, and each Star Domain was ranging from thousand to sotis staggering 25,000 Star Systems, so yeah...
Every single Star Region was humongous, and even if soone was using the Hyperdrvie, it would take a very long ti to travel from one Star Region to another Star Region. Though Obscurus had relatively advanced Hyperdrives that were faster than the ordinary ones, he wasn't going the top speed.
He ordered the Red Queen to use only the basic mode of the Hyperdrive to save fuel; when the Hyperdrvie Engines were working at 100%, and the special speed mode was activated, then it was burning the fuel like nothing, and it was rather pricy.
One could even say that it was like burning money away.
It wasn't that far from the truth.
For most of the ti during his journey to the core worlds of the Eternal Empire of the Asurya, Arcturus decided to spend them by training and acclimatizing to the newfound physical strength after he took the Delta-Grade Physical Enhancent Serum and elevating his Warrior Grade to the Delta-Grade.
Most of his Universal Credits were spent by the Red Queen on the materials and other things that she needed to finish the upgrades on the ship that she planned and to build more battle droids, to expand the battle droid army on the Obscurus.
That also led them to today's discussion because, despite everything, Arcturus was growing short on money, though that was even a temporal problem as he could always hunt for so pirates or sothing.
In the end, there were plenty of ways to make money, and even the Eternal Empire of the Asurya wasn't an exception when it ca to the Space Pirates. However, their space pirates were rather problematic, as almost all of them were Asuryani, and they were far better ard than the average kind of space pirate.
Sotis the Space Pirates in here had so pretty advanced technology and equipnt because they were looting the Imperial technology, which was one of the most advanced around here.
In hindsight, even the bounties that were given by the Imperial Governnt were rather high for the Space Pirates of Imperial origin. Obviously, the Imperial Navy was periodically cleaning their core territories, but once again, the space was huge, and there were plenty of ways to hide.
Especially for the small space pirate bands that had only a few vessels; such ones were almost impossible to track down effectively because it was like searching for a needle in a sack of hay.
Not to ntion, many of the smarter Space Pirates that were of Asuryani origin were operating in rather a smart way, as they would be mainly active in the territories of the Mid-Level Civilization and Low-Level Civilizations while hiding on so Native Worlds that didn't even achieve the spaceflight.
So were even hiding on the primitive planets that were still in the age of sticks and stones because it was the most effective way, and practically nobody would bother with such worlds at all.
500 of the ABD-Spectre MK Battle Droids was already very nice number and if the Red Queen could make so upgrades to the ABD-Spectre MK Battle Droids, then it would be even better.
"How much upgrading are we talking about?"
Right now, the ABD-Spectre MK Battle Droids represented the core of his firepower for the large-scale mission because they were rather reliable and relatively strong, even if a bit outdated by the standards of the High-Level Civilizations.
Still, Arcturus was planning on taking tasks that were rather below his firepower?
Yeah, he was, for the ti being, only going to bully the weaker to gather experiences in the Star rcenary and Bounty Hunter business, and with his relatively sizeable contingent of the Battle Droids, that would be easy.
Another, and probably the main reason, was the fact that he already owned blueprints for the ABD-Spectre MK Battle Droids as they were sold to him by the Starlight Drive Yard Industries.
This was already better than Arcturus had initially expected. The Obscurus was an enormous vessel, and as it was largely unfinished, it could house many of additional facilities. When he was still creating the ship in the ga, he used an Egyptian pyramid as the idea because he wanted to create a Space Fortress and not a simple spaceship.
His idea of the Obsurus was to create the space juggernaut that would be shrugging everything that ca onto the shop, with the sheer power of the shields and the hull, while destroying everything with the overwhelming firepower.
Unfortunately, the price for it was that it would require an unnatural amount of materials, and the ship would not be that agile and fast, as those things were sacrificed a bit in favor of the power.
While sothing could be mitigated with the usage of the most advanced tech and so side repulsors and other things that could increase the speed and maneuverability of the spacecraft, he was aware that the Obscurus would never be so lightning-fast spaceship.
"What of the spaceship itself, did you already finish he upgrade plan to bring it on the proper Tier 3 technological level?"
Arcturus asked, as Obscurus still had a lot of room to upgrade, and one of the things that he needed to do as soon as possible was to bring the Obscurus to the proper technological level of the Type 3 civilizations.
There was nothing like the Type 3 Civilizations in the ga introduced as far as he could rember because when he was still actively playing, even the Psionics and Warrior System was the new addition that was added only a few years before his death on Earth.
Arcturus was aware of this striking problem that he was facing.
Right now, even though the Obsucurs were technically speaking Capital Ship and Mother Ship, that was according to the Star Citizen Online: Star Wanderer as was the entire title of the ga he used to play on Earth.
Yet, he learned that in this world, the proportions of the Capital Ships were...
A bit different.
Much less is being said about the Mother Ships, which were typically of the size of smaller moons in most cases.
Right now, if nothing else, Obscurus only had "Mothership" in the background of the system and nothing else; it would still be a lot of work to bring it to that level and hundreds of millions of Universal Credits at that.
According to what he knew, even the Eternal Empire of Asurya had only ten or so motherships because having a Mothership was a valid confirmation of one's status as the supre power in the known universe.
If needed, the Motherships could support entire civilization on them, and they were the force of nature; to construct one of them was an outrageous task. Even the flagship of the Mind Fleet Leviathan of the Mind Flayers that attacked the Alaric Star Domain was barely classified as a relatively advanced Mothership.
"Completely retrofitting the ship and adjusting its dinsions is right now impossible, not to ntion, even within the Empire, doing sothing for privateers is impossible... at least without the seal of nobility and personal permission of the Imperial Admistratum and another bunch of things."
During the stay at the Starfort Lycurgos, Bator-Commandant Irene Verinus Tarun often answered so question that he had about the Phoenix Empire and their approach to the privateers, people who wanted to own private fleets, and so on.
In the end, it was complicated as fuck that was the conclusion that he ca to.
Only the Bloodline Lineage Aristocratic Houses had the permits to maintain their own private Navy and spaceships, but even that was in very limited quantities. Aside from that, everyone who wanted to legally own the starship or use certain services and facilities needed a permit.
When soone wanted to be privateer and have his own space fleet and legally operating within the borders of the Eternal Empire of the Asurya, he would need permission directly from the Imperial Administratum.
Most probably, there was even so sort of agreent needed from Lord Padishah-Marshall on that matter, as the Empire took this matter very seriously.
It was clear as sky that the Empire didn't like people owning private fleets, and so, in many cases, it didn't end well for the governnt when the people always had the ans to overthrow it in a successful rebellion.
"For the ti being, we should be focusing on the more doable goals... right now, the top priority is cracking down the Dark Matter Engine Designs that we got from the Space Hulk during the siege of the Alaric Star Domain. If we can manufacture them en masse and start selling them, it would make a killing."
Arcturus didn't want to be just an ordinary Star rcenary and Bounty Hunter.
While for sure was entertaining and thrilling, it wouldn't make him as much money as he wanted because he wanted to be rich, and he was a greedy bastard.
So his own idea was to use the Star rcenary and Bounty Hunter business as a ans of obtaining exotic pieces of tech, reverse-engineering them, and selling them to the custors.
That was his priority, because he would be needing to work his ass off to obtain the resources needed to achieve his goal.
This was the easier way, and the mont he obtained the permit from the Administratum to establish the corporation and manufacture the engines and other techs, based on the databanks of the Space Hulk, he would be literarily swimming in money.
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