章 3: Arrival

I awoke out of sleep mode at my destination or sort of I had arrived in system at least but it would take months before I got close enough to start processing ore out of the relatively close asteroid belt so I began cobbling together my magnetic drag net once more as my plasma drives had burned out their coils and died the final death. I collected a great number of things some was little more than bits of unprocessed asteroid but there were a couple pieces that obviously were processed metal though severely warped and burned possibly from an explosion in the distant past. I kept collecting the various bits of material I could and soon had a decent stock pile of materials maybe a ton of iron and double that of quartz a quarter ton of silver and maybe a half ton of cobalt and surprisingly two tons of titanium dioxide. I processed my materials into easy to process bricks and began construction on my starship I unfortunately didn't have the tools to try my hand at alloys much but I had plenty of time and so the skeleton of what would become my intergalactic starship began to form. I used a hexagonal cell system to create the framework for the rest of my work the first was a copy of the navigational computer out of my current subpar transport though I added more capacity each part required such finite precision and timing that I was completely in aware of my surroundings. After a month of putting together my starship I had used up most of my resources I had even managed to build a shielded computer core though I didn't have a operating system as yet still I managed to construct a faraday cage and a thin shell made of what little gold I had bonded to a layer of cobalt and titanium each only a thin layer but better than nothing I even installed a permanently places version of my magnetic net system though I didn't have the parts to assemble a new set of plasma drives I did have just enough to build a new ion drive though no fuel for it as of yet and certainly not enough for any kind of power source.