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- [May 26, 2166]
- [Testing Lab A]
- [Experimental Section - Hayden Station]
- [U.A.C Extended Colonization Facility Beta]
- [Viking 1, Mars]
- [Open Territory - U.A.C.]
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- The Experimental Section. This section is housed in the largest building offshoot of the titular Hayden Station and serves as the main test bed for all major experiments conducted at the Union Aerospace Corporation's Mars site. It is here where the top researchers of the Beta Facility are currently running tests on some of the ancient Kree technology uncovered by Lennon Station's Archaeology division, with guidance from Ronan the Accuser's testimonies on the matter.
- In Testing Lab A, a small but prominent machine, around the size of a coffee table, is the subject of study for today. It looks somewhat like an analogue to a three-dimensional printer, albeit it utilizes a stone-like substance as its building material and is covered in Kree symbols. The machine is held in a large glass casing; robotic arms are mounted within to safely handle the device remotely and allow the Human and Synthetic researchers to record their observations without worry.
- (Technician Albert Wu): So what are we working with today, ma'am?
- (Dr. Azra Sadik): Director Hayden has provided us with a sample of a mass production device of sorts, used by the Kree. It's only a small one and thus cannot create anything larger than itself, but it works on the same principles as the larger scale models.
- (Technician Albert Wu): How does the device function?
- (Dr. Azra Sadik): We'll have to follow Ronan's instructions and find out for ourselves.
- Dr. Sadik gives the thumbs up to the technician operating the robot arms; she carefully manipulates the arms to interact with some of the symbols on the top of the machine. After a specific pattern of symbols is inputted, the top of the device opens up like a hatch, revealing an empty space. Following Ronan's advice, the technician uses the robotic arms to move a pile of miscellaneous scrap and garbage into the opening.
- As soon as everything has been dumped into the machine's opening, its top closes up; the Kree hieroglyphs change from their original orange glow to blue.
- (Dr. Sadik): Intriguing. The machine utilizes a form of automation that intelligently decides when there is no more raw material to put inside of it.
- (Technician Wu): Speaking of, ma'am....... Why did we fill it with some of the random junk from the other testing labs?
- (Dr. Sadik): According to our current understanding of this kind of technology, it's designed to repurpose almost any kind of raw material into a new, usable form, regardless of the actual makeup of those materials.
- (Technician Albert Wu): Then how does it distinguish what components it requires from those that it doesn't?
- (Dr. Sadik): Only one way to find out. Lisa Anne-86, please continue.
- The technician remotely controlling the robot arms nods in agreement and proceeds to manipulate the fingers of the arms to input a series of commands into the machine via the glowing symbols located on the device's front. All of a sudden, the strange Kree replicator shakes violently, putting many of the staff into alert. However, Dr. Sadik remains stoic in the face of this; her interest is piqued more than anything else.
- After a few seconds of shaking, the replicator machine comes to a rest; its top opens up soon after. Several objects different from the scrap that was put in float out of the device; they're held in invisible suspension fields. As they do, a hologram is projected from the lens-like object mounted in the center of the replicator's front, showing images of several vacuum bots.
- Once the holograms are displayed, the floating pieces start to form into exact replicas of the vacuum bots shown in the hologram; the researchers are quick to record every possible angle of this phenomenon. Within seconds, semi-sophisticated machines that would take a factory at least a minute to build individually have been assembled, perfectly to the specs if not potentially even better.
- (Dr. Sadik): Did you get that?
- (Technician Wu): I did, ma'am! Incredible! Extremely precise atomic transmutation of the raw scrap to suit the needs of the input design, followed by holographic blueprints for the parts to be assembled in real-time! Will you tell Director Hayden?
- (Director Hayden): [COMMS] I already know. And I like what I'm seeing.
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- [Excavation Area 3]
- [Archaeology Section - Lennon Station]
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- After several more days of digging, an excavation crew personally headed by Director Samuel Hayden himself has breached a Kree sanctum, as described by Ronan the Accuser. Inside of this massive space is an enormous warship, definitely a space-faring vessel of great power in the current sphere of extravehicular combat. It's shaped like a large pine cone, or perhaps a drill bit would be more accurate. Aside from its rocky texture and ancient appearance, the vessel looks as combat-ready as ever.
- Along the walls flanking the ship are extremely large versions of the replicator machine being experimented on in the Experimental Section of Hayden Station, painting an ominous picture that the big man himself is taking in front and centre.
- (Director Hayden): I like what I'm seeing a lot.
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