Interestingly enough, as Remian concluded the seventh round of mana-hunting, the Quarin did in fact, offer to sell him a bigger ship.This was a Quarin Castle, Galleon-sized with 6 towers and more capacity than George’s, Tim’s or Darian’s flagships. It would come fully equipped, and with a handful of old staff who absolutely refused to leave regardless of who owned or commanded it. That proved particularly problematic when the Wilkins wanted to scrap the old vessel entirely, thus the offer to sell it to Remian instead.The price? 100 million mana. Given that he’d just reaped nearly 20 million today, he should be able to afford it within a week if he saved up.“We’ll even let you delay payment up to a month.” This generous offer was made over the comms by Eric Wilkins, sales rep for the Wilkins family.Remian considered for a bit. “How about a test run?”“A test run?”“Yeah. Let’s bring out this ship of yours on a little trip. Nothing dangerous, just a salvage run, maybe pick up some re

The Moon Farms had huge advantages over Farm Ships.Using the Star Hearth for comparison, Sorrelia’s current tech allowed for 25 acre farm ships. This was with 5 decks of farmland, each deck hosting 5 acres (each acre around 40 meters by 101.2 meters each). These farms used vertical farming with near 20 times the yield per area as flat farms, plus they planted Elven crops with quarterly yields roughly four times the yield of regular Sorrelian crops. A quick estimate would be a quarterly yield of 240 tons per farm ship.A Moon Farm, on the other hand, nestled in some crater or the other, could easily be 1000-2000 acres. For safety’s sake, they’d be separate and nestled in different, smaller craters, but either way 1000 acres of vertical farmland using Elven crops was more than enough for the entire Migration’s theoretical food needs (240,000 tons of produce, while the million-strong Migration would need some 189,000 tons quarterly).Of course, their actual needs and yield would vary, pl

Ten hours later, Remian was fuming privately, on the verge of ditching Enetar entirely, or better yet, opening fire.“Those arrogant…!” Remian almost wanted to punch the wall.“Darian said the exact same thing.” Tim said mildly.“What is it about long-lived societies that turn them into self-centered snobs?” Remian bit into a peanut butter sandwich ferociously. Such a sandwich seemed more like lunch than dinner but seeing how fiercely he was biting, none of his crew mentioned it.“Well, they’ve got lots more time. That’s a lot more learning, experience and expertise than we have or would ever have on our own.” Tim mused.Remian glowered. “You seem oddly calm about it.”Tim shrugged. “That’s because I’m not trying to buy tech, or hire anyone, and I’m not trying to convince experts to migrate or flee from world-eating Mitigok who may or may not arrive just because you say so.”“You’re not?” Remian slowed down. He looked at Tim’s face and then suddenly had a rather sneaky thought.Tim saw

After the Zhao and Xue Clans completed their migration to space, Starbright finished its next phase upgrades.There were two starship yards running at full capacity. One was specialized for Long Hauls, Galleon-sized, both DE and H1 versions. The other was Frigate-sized, specialized for Turtles of any kind, whether Artillery Turtles, Utility Turtles or Star Turtles, it could do them all. Dozens of ships had been churned out by them, and were surrounded by modular scaffolding, being outfitted, or painted with protective layers, or having some sort of work done on them.There was an orbital Lynxmice Habitat, where around forty Lunar Lynxmice clans enjoyed moon-like artificial gravity. Right next to it was the Drone Hive, where hundreds of thousands of Drones were housed and maintained.Between them and the shipyards was the 3D Megaprinter. Rather than call it a factory, it was better described as a single huge machine in itself, one big enough for mechs to fly into for work. Just below it

With the now-widely available photonic computers offered by Gary’s Comtech, J&J United finally rolled out the first Fourth Generation Mech locally designed and built by the Sorrelian Migration; the Pixie. Rather than combat, the fourteen-foot tall Pixie was an Ultralight Mech built for utility and repair jobs, such as flying around a damaged portion of hull with a tool kit and enacting repairs in space, or retrieving delicate salvage or any number of sensitive tasks requiring intricacy, delicacy, or specialized tools.If they really had to, they could pick up a suitably sized rifle, pistol or sword, but nobody seriously considered them as combat assets. There were at least ten times more mech-sized tools getting sold than mech-sized weapons.Nevertheless, the release of the Pixie on the open market qualified as the entry of 4th Generation Mechs in the Sorrelian Migration. They were controlled by holographic interface. They had plenty of agility and finesse. As far as Remian was concern