Early Morning - Mid Winter : Sirathan Acardi Laboratory
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*Beep* "Unknown device connection detected. Scanning."
-Please work this ti...- Anxiously watching the monitor as a loading screen appeared, I waited with baited breath before the Lab's voice ca back over the intercom.
*Beep* "Video feed detected."
My eyes instantly lit up. -Wait it recognized it...-
"Do you wish to preview it?"
"Yes!" Eagerly standing up, I spoke so fast I wasn't sure the AI would recognize what I said.
But after just a second of waiting with bated breath, the loading screen on the monitor was replaced by a window displaying the aerial view of a forest covered in clouds.
"HAHA, NO WAY!" Throwing my hands in the air, I felt adrenaline rip through my veins. -To think that actually worked!-
It had only been a few days since Father, Hera, and I finished inspecting all the satellites at that point, but while Hera and Father rushed back ho to prepare for the festival, I decided to linger about for a bit to see if I could figure out how to get at least one of the four older optical satellites usable before the day Mother wanted back by, but things weren't exactly looking great.
In order to get the satellite to connect to anything, I had to add another module to the satellite to allow it to communicate to the connection tower in the Death's Gape, and in-turn the laboratory, through quantum tethering.
It was honestly a bit of a shot in the dark, but after so trial and error, and taking the ti to look at the communication modules of the other old laboratories, I managed to recreate the Acardi converter that translated traditional electrical signals into qubit, and get the video feed stread to the laboratory with almost no delay. -Gosh, it's so beautiful...-
Not only was there not any distortion, there wasn't even any artifacting. -It's actually a clean signal...-
Now, it was true that I couldn't send any commands to the satellite, so if I wished to zoom out or aim it anywhere, I would have to move it manually. -But that's fine...-
Because now that I had a basis of communication established, it was just a matter of ti before I figured out how to have the lab give it commands. -It just sucks that I'll have to put that on hold for now...- Mom wanted at the estate in Atlas in just a few hours, so further experintation would be a bit limited.
And while I really wanted to create a fabric of space in the void, and experint there, the mont I tried, I found that electrons didn't care about divinity, the flow of ti, or sothing like the fabric of space, just like space mana. That ant, in order to test electronics in the void, quantum or not, I had to find sothing called 'divinity's constant', essentially being the pace of ti for Delphi so that the electronics would function in a way that seed normal.
But just as it sounded.. that was sothing way above my pay grade. Not only did I have no clue where to even begin with gauging the pace of ti, I didn't have the control over my divinity required for it.
-It's really a sha.. but...- Thinking back to the ARX satellites and their mix of runes, magic, and electronics, I had to wonder... -I wonder if ARX is a computer that bypasses ti dilation...-
It was just a guess, but at the sa ti was a possibility that made my mind race. "Hooh, but I need to calm down for now..." With a few hours to kill, I wanted to add the new communication modules to the other similarly dated optical satellites, hook them up to the lab, and then see if I could get them hooked up with a tablet.
But while I was a bit pessimistic about it, the AI seed more than confident.
After stealing a tablet from one of the many specin displays in another part of the lab, the lab's AI was quick to update its software, before explaining that it wouldn't be able to play a video feed unless it was plugged into sothing that could communicate directly to the satellite or the lab.
Which gave an idea. -What if I took the module I added to the satellites.. and added it to the tablet?-
Of course, with the tablet being small, I had to build it externally and connect it with a cable along with a few other modifications, but not too long later, boom. My tablet could receive a live video feed from the four satellites I managed to get connected to it.
-Look at that...- Having zood out the satellites quite a bit, each cara showed a different part of the world, from views of a vast sea, a huge forest, and even a city sowhere in the middle of the Main Continent being more than easily visible. -It'll definitely be a while before I can really use these things as an extra set of eyes like I wanted to,- At the very least I needed to be able to control them. -But, for now, it's a pretty cool proof of concept... Even if I was.. expecting a bit more...-
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But for now, it would have to suffice.
After all, it was ti for to start preparing for the festival. But unlike what I was expecting, being a Ragnarok, being Nott, and soone who'd stand next to Hera, saying I had 'a lot' on my plate was an indescribable understatent.
*Flutter* Cycling through several stacks of paper while several maids and tailors did asurents on my different forms, I did my best to multitask.
But it was hard with Mother talking to as well. "Gold will look really good with your black scales.. but the purple, hmm..."
"Miss, we actually have so new jewelry in. It is a type of mythril made from pure platinum." Quickly walking over to a wooden chest the tailors brought, one of the young, teal-scaled won pulled a piece of jewelry out of a chest with a vibrant purple tal decorated with a slightly pale jade. "It's quite a rare tal so we may need to order more if we want to make all his jewelry out of it, but it should be possible."
"Hm..." Mother quickly looked up and down a few tis before nodding. "Alright. Change the detailing to sothing white as well."
"As you wish." She was quick to bow. "For the armor, what kind of colors would you like? We think a white with purple and black accents would be best for contrast."
"Do a black, and use the glow in his scales for the main accent, with white as the tertiary."
Gently nodding, the tailor moved the jewelry she was holding back into the chest before walking back over to . "Please change to your humanoid form so we can get asurents."
-Uh.. okay...- *Flash* Quickly changing, I held my arms out to let them do their thing, pulling back my sleeves and undressing a bit to get asurents against the skin.
"And for the hair..." Walking out in front of , she squinted at . "Maybe we leave it... Spread your wings for ."
Following her instructions, I quickly spread them out before folding them up against my lower back again.
"Let's shorten it a bit." Waving over the maids, they quickly got to cutting away at my hair. "That's definitely better. What do you think Mistress?"
Mother was quick to nod with a pleased curl in her tail. "I agree. With so jewelry and a more formal attire, he'll be good... Use white-based jewelry for his humanoid form."
With a quick nod, the tailor had a short back and forth with Mother about what would look best before eventually, they finished and left, leaving just Mother while I tried to wrap up the paperwork I was working on.
"Okay, I guess it's about ti I give you a rundown on the festival now that they're gone." Sitting up, pridefully holding her wings back, Mother's warm smile slowly brightened with excitent.
Because of all the paperwork I was working on, I already had a general idea of what to expect, but Mother was quick to start her rundown regardless.
"The Coming of Age festival this ti around is going to work a little differently from past festivals. Starting next week, the younger generation of dragons will leave their nests in order to travel around Bahamut and make connections with others in their generation, and others in the cities they visit. The way this will work is that, next week, everyone is going to pick a city connected to their starting city on this map."
Quickly handing a piece of paper with a map, I looked at exactly a dozen cities that were connected in a circle around Bahamut.
"The city they choose to go to at the start will determine the direction they go around the circle, and they will follow that sequence of cities, stopping for about a month in each city until they reach the city they started in. Typically you can go at whatever pace you like for this, but it's frowned upon to leave early, so please keep that in mind. Take your ti to enjoy yourself a bit." Her smile widened the longer she spoke. "Each city will have different events taking place to help everyone mix and socialize, but individual noble families will be hosting parties for those that wish to attend, regardless of status, so do whatever you want and have fun!"
Gently nodding, I continued to listen intently.
"Then, after exactly twelve months, when most people should be returning to their ho city, everyone will co to Atlas, including parents to celebrate together and go over things like the state of Bahamut. This is when Hera is planning to reveal herself as Monarch, and when she wants you to expose to the people of Bahamut who you really are. At that ti, we will also go into more detail about the future of Bahamut, the governnt, and how things will work from then on."
-Interesting...- "So that's when all of Hera's changes will finally be set in stone?"
Gently nodding, Mother's expression brightened. "It'll be the day Bahamut's future shifts toward a new horizon! The next generation will be released to do as they please, and the historians will have to mark the beginning of a new era. You and Hera will finally be able to do whatever you want without care for the eyes of the public as well." Giving a sowhat smug look for a mont, I felt like the room suddenly went silent. "Speaking of you and Hera... Why don't you invite her to co with you during the festival?"
-Huh?- Tilting my head, I gave her an odd look. "Well I figured since she has already experienced the festival-"
"I'm not sure what her festival was like when she was young, if there even was one back then, but I can say with certainty that she's never been with you, so bring her along." Her smug look slowly mixed with pride as she spoke. "It's not like you aren't in a similar situation to her, so why not enjoy so ti together?"
Pausing to think, my gaze slowly turned to the ground before smiling and continuing more softly. "Alright... I'll go see what she wants to do after I finish this paperwork."
"Hoho~," Hiding her smile with the edge of her wing, she let out a warm chuckle. "I think that's a wonderful idea~."
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