Chapter 158: Security

Excerpt from the book “Energies of the world” By Rosalie

The void, or as I call it, how to clean up the gene pool. Many have braved the energy storm that rests beneath the world. How many have lived? You can count them on two hands.

This chapter will detail the most corrosive energy I know of.

Void energy is like an acid, eating through matter with ease. What separates it from acid is that acid eventually becomes satiated and stops working. Void devours, destroys, and breaks everything down into its most basic form.

We have tried to contain it, use it. Yet, it will eat the very container you keep it in. Once free, it slowly sinks down. Eating its way through the earth until it returns to the abyss.

It is believed bedrock is formed from repeated exposure to void energy and immense weight. Compressing cobblestone produces something very close, but many believe that swirling abyss to be the last ingredient.

Alas, I shall not be talking of bedrock within this chapter. I will be detailing the research and studies that have been…

Shortly after knocking on Cassie’s door, it opens. Walking forward, I grasp her in a hug.

“You are home early?” She prods.

“Something came up; let’s talk inside.”

Walking with her to the front room. “What’s wrong, Aeternum? You sound worried.”

“That’s because I am. I spoke with Felix.”

“What did he say that shook you up.”

“It’s more of what he’s about to do.” Feeling my chest grow heavy ever so slightly. “He has plans, but he needs peaceful times to enact them.”

“What’s the problem with that?” Cocking her head in confusion.

“He is starting the war to expedite the process.”

“He is what!” She shouts in disbelief.

“As I said, he plans to push the war into starting. Allowing it to hurry along so he can do what he wants to do.” Looking down slightly, feeling my body go numb.

She grasps my head and brings it to her chest, hugging me. “Well, this is going to suck.”

“Agreed,” I concur. “ Damned capricious god.” Feeling smoldering anger at his blatant disregard of life. Like a father casting his children aside for selfish reasons, it’s just not right.

I don’t know why I am so angry. It just feels wrong, unnatural. I am not even from this world.

Cassie cuddles me for a time, but the limited time pushes me to escape her grasp. “If you don’t mind, would you like to temporarily live within my island? It is as secure as it gets.”

“I would appreciate it,” she grasps my hand and nods in thanks.

“Use your secret telepad within and pick a room for yourself.”

“Will do. Now, something tells me you need to get going.”

Rubbing my head, “yeah, I feel like making a more secure island.”

She chuckles like church bells, “have fun, darling.”

“Thanks.”

Leaving, I head home. Cracking my knuckles as I head to my ME system. Making a few stacks of world interaction upgrades, item transfer nodes, pipes, filters, and a compression block.

Placing a cobblestone block with lava and water on opposite sides, adding the item node with the upgrades. Pumping the several stacks of cobblestone strait into the compression block. Using the item node and a filter, I transfer the compressed cobble into another for further compression. With this, I am producing sextuple compressed cobblestone. Adding one more, I am now making octuple compressed cobblestone, the densest possible block.

Using my virtually unlimited resources, I expand this setup by a factor of 20. Getting all that octuple being moved into a single item storage block. Steadily, I am producing quite a lot of the octuple cobblestone. Still unhappy, I accelerate the process with time in the bottle, making enough cobble to build a planet.

With my base material ready, I get balloons set up to be auto-crafted. Taking my dense cobble, I fly off my island. Using an angel block, I create a platform. This was the base for a 20x20x20 room.

Within this room, I begin to place the thermoelectric generators. Without regard for appearance, I make the entire room as dense as possible. Instead of wires leaving the block of power, I used batteries on every face of the cube. Creating a layer of vibrant capacity banks around the cobblestone. Having a single row of batteries leading up before surrounding the rest with more cobble. Even with my power staff, breaking this stuff takes ages.

With internal power and storage done, I begin to add layer upon layer of balloons. Abusing the crazy mechanics of Archimedes ships to the limit. Layers 23 to 30 were all balloons. That’s a lot of balloons, thousands in fact. Without the building wand, it would take me a century.

Throughout the balloons, I divided them like cells with octuple cobblestone. Finally, I circle the balloons with 2 layers of octuple compressed cobblestone.

It may seem excessive, but I want to push how far I can go. See how strong a defense I can make on the fly. It is just the circumstances that have made it a wise idea to construct now.

The island I am living on is beautifully made but does have its caveats. First, people can teleport in with ease. My secure island, which will work in conjunction with my main one, will have warding. Warding prevents most teleportation.

Second, it is just not made out of sturdy stuff. Perfectly functional, but could be bombed with ease.

I will make this new island the primary place my clones are stored, where my items are stored, and a safe house. It won’t be massive, but it will be a defensive masterpiece, or as close as I can get it. When I progress with other mods, I will add anything I deem a positive addition.

My goal is to keep it under 70x70x70 so it can fit within a geochest. I would also like it to have an internal atmosphere and be spaceworthy. In fact, the whole thing should be self-sufficient.

With the core done, I create another square around it. Leaving around 8 air blocks of space, I create a 3 thick layer around it. This is the external layer, the part everyone will see.

The core is 30x30x30; adding the air blocks around it made it 46x46x46. Another 6 for the 3 blocks thick outer layer, and I realized I am already at 52x. Another 5 air blocks, I then add a glass layer. Another air block and another glass layer, leaving me with 2 blocks to spare from the 70x limit.

To save space, I place the shield between the glass layers, allowing me to still ward them. Hooking up 2 shield generators to the power grid and activating it. With only 2 blocks to spare, I create the final layer, a magic pencil block layer. Invisible to the naked eye, untouchable, and indestructible without one specific item. Of course, you can hit through it, but with warded glass and shields, it’s a tough task.

Now, I can either work towards the actually warded glass, switching it out. Or ward the glass with the ward focus.

Bla, I will do thaumcraft last. Heading towards my little cube of safety, I get to work. With only 5 blocks of space around it, I have little actual space to work with. Anything I make will have to use the internal cavity. Should I create a planet like gravity or treat it like a funny-shaped skyscraper?

Thinking about it, making it floored like a skyscraper is more functional, if less cool.

Right at the bottom, I create a room for my ME system. Heavily reinforced with octuple compressed cobblestone, I place several drivers all hooked up to the power. This entire thing should be enclosed, so I use cable facades the hide the ME cables. These cables run along the outer wall up to the top of the cube. All I need to is actually add the drives, and it will work.

I plan to use input buses to pump items from my main island into the ME system. It is long overdue. Heading home, I funnel my farms now into a linked ender chest. Placing the same type within the ME room.

Biting the bullet and reading up about input and export buses, I realized I screwed up. The export bus is the complex one; the input is easy as pie. Crafting and then placing it onto the chest, it immediately works. Filling up the placeholder drive inside instantly.

Sitting in the corner in shame as I realize how much time is wasted doing it manually.

Once my depressed episode passed, I crafted a wireless access port. Adding 16 boosters to it before linking it to a wireless access terminal. Allowing me wireless access to my ME system.

Having already killed the wither, I just happen to have a wireless booster card. It means I can access my ME from anywhere, at the cost of stupid quantities of power. I don’t plan on using it unless I absolutely have to. I have the power to spare if I use the terminal sparingly. I boosted the wireless transmitters range so I could access it without a power penalty within my home.

Idly marveling at the funny-looking transmitter; before a thought struck me. Face lighting up with a smile in the realization I just did something I failed to do previously. I made a truly wireless ME system with even less information than on earth.

I always knew the theory, but never felt the need to do it.

Heading home, I begin to move all my storage drives. Wincing as the green lights disappear. Popping them into my new and improved ME system, I watch in joy as my terminal lights up with an array of items.

A wireless ME system with metric tons of resources being pumped into it; an incredible feat, I think.

With storage finished, let’s work on the self-sufficient parts of the build. Creating each floor to be 4 blocks high, excluding the top and bottom floors. To save on space, I opted to just paint the walls. Decorating each room with a different color theme. Warm carpets and a few bits of furniture bring it together. My first structure is a farm. A food farm. Adding an automatic farm with 1 of every variety of plant I have. It actually ended up taking one and a half farms. Along with that, I added a couple berry bushes, 1 of every tree, fruit or otherwise, and a few extra of my favorite fruits and vegetables. This was all on the bottom floor, funneled into my ME system. With the remaining space, I make a farm with a small array of every resource-producing plant as a seed bank more than anything.

With a farm in place, I work on the next most important thing, a kitchen. Given the large ciruculer nature of the floors, I divided this floor into 2. The kitchen within the first part; a clean white room with silver surfaces and every kitchen implement I knew of. Enough sides to cook a feast for an army.

The other side was designed as an eating and living area. Split in half again, one side with large tables and chairs for eating. The other with couches, cushions, TVs, tables, radios, and some free space for any other activity. In the middle, I placed an ever-burning fireplace enclosed in glass. The whole room was a healthy red with dashes of orange and yellow.

On the next floor, I divided it into 4. The first being a health area, having a host of workout equipment. A few yoga mats, a radio for calm music, and some parkour blocks and frames for running, agility, flexibility, and fine motor function. The second room I turned into a library packed with every book I currently own. Aged browns and greys made the room cozy.

After finishing this room, I started to feel really exhausted. A quick nap, before I continue the next few rooms.