At 22 years old he was fine with a plan that could take over a decade to complete. But after that morning's test and finding out he could climb onto the sofa then deciding to wait till after dinner to make his move for the view screen control. His mother was currently feeding him some sort of turkey and mashed potatoes thing.
'I ate rations for 4 years while I built my ship and designed Fox and his friends, among other things I can handle this for a few more months.' He thought while taking another spoonful in his mouth. 'Although this crap. It's definitely worse.' Finally the container was empty. His father was already in their room. His mother would soon set him in front of an educational program and go into her office. The panel that controlled the view screen was right next to a sofa he'd have to climb onto.
Finally the time had come she set him down in front of the view screen set out a couple of toys and went to the office. Without hesitation he stepped past the toys bound up onto the sofa, Well he eventually made it up there an 8 months old body wasn't exactly graceful. He was sure that he was still in his dimension the world he was on was in the Galactic collaboration. So as he reached over the arm of the sofa touched the voice command control of the view screen he asked for "galactic news current". Without a surprise the view screen clicked over. But what was a surprise He recognized the anchor and she didn't look any older. The anchors were different based on what solar system you were in so he was even in a familiar system.
The political show was over and they would soon start talking about surrounding systems. He decided it wouldn't be a problem if his parents found the channel changed and turned to climb down off the sofa. When the 8-month-old clumsy body started to work against him. While attempting the climb down his feet became stuck between the cushion and the arm of the sofa but his slightly exaggerated head and momentum continued pulling him forward losing all balance and no matter how he tried to crunch his body his head managed to bounce off the living room table. As the back of his head struck the table and his body fell between it and the sofa the strain on his right ankle became too much and he felt the bone snap. unused to pain in this new body between those two injuries he lost consciousness for a moment.
He knew he struck his head hard and the pain in his right foot screamed broken bones. though his vision was blurry he could tell there were flashing lights. his parents must have had some sort of baby alarm. But he couldn't hear anything and his parents weren't rushing to him. As his vision cleared he caught a message Just before changed multiple times.
*CRITICAL DAMAGE SUSTAINED.
*Activating System.
*System activation early/late.
'Something seems odd.' he thought, 'System activation early/late? What's all this supposed to mean? I thought I was reincarnated.....'
*Past life experience detected, Soul energy at 200%
*Adjusting parameters.
'???'
*Opening System.
And then as if there was an illusory screen in front of his face. All he could see was his name, level, experience points, and system access. A percentage that was rolling up, And beneath that a notification every 1% telling him 1 extra point gained. When it finally topped out at 100% a different notification came up.
*System access 97.99%
*1 extra status point gained.
*System access 98.99%
*1 extra status point gained.
*System access 99.99%
*System opened. Bonus first to reach 100%.
'First?' he thought.
*100 extra status points gained.
*Using past life experience to grant access to previous skills and new abilities.
and the notifications stopped.
Royce Shepard (Pierce)
Level 1
Experience 0/10
System Access 100%
HP 4/1
Mp 2/2
Sp 3/1
** 2.0
Strength 2
Endurance 2
Dexterity 1
Speed 1
Mind 82
Magic 1
Spirit 99²
Stat points: 199
Skills: Engineering/Forging lvl 87. Software Design/Development lvl 90 Weapon/Armor Design/Manufactur lvl 70. Ship Design/Manufactur lvl 79
Skill points: 22. available: 2
Magic: Mend lvl 1. Inspect lvl 1.
Available slots: 04.
Abilities: Summon Prototype lvl 01, Hardware manipulation lvl 01,
Ability points: 01 available: 04
From the fall to this moment took less than 4 seconds. Another notification popped up.
*Critically damaged
*Utilize spell slot
'Ok' He thought but as he lifted his hand to touch the illusory screen an odd menu opened up. 'I only have to think it.' for a system that was 100% open to him seems there were a lot of things he wasn't ready for most of the lists contents were blocked out or grayed.
The only three readable at this point were in a category topped by a white star. there are five other categories as well each topped with their own colored star black, red, brown, blue, yellow. But nothing in any of those were readable.
his options were between Diagnose and Heal The third one Cure, was grayed out.
Cure (5)
Diagnose (1)
Heal (2)
After thinking 'having a description might make these easier to choose from.' He got exactly what he was asking for. It seemed Cure was for illnesses and poisons. Diagnose would tell you about the person plant or organic matter you were trying to identify, But specifies it works better at higher levels. Heal could repair the damaged living and destroy the living dead.
hopefully that meant it can fix his head and ankle.
He chose Heal and after seeing the initial two was for the slots it would remove he picked Diagnose as well.
as soon as he closed that menu another one started blinking inside it were now four spells.
Diagnose .01
Inspect .01
Heal 0.1
Mend 0.1
Heal was flashing So he thought about it activating.
Almost instantly the pain in the back of his head and his ankle were gone since falling a total of 30 seconds had passed and he was now fine. He stopped his foot on the floor several times. 'This is awesome!' He almost lost focus and shouted. He almost forgot about the news getting ready to start looking over this system now in his head. But something very familiar caught his attention. The current story on the news was focusing on a ship but not just any ship, It was his ship.
"And after the 8th attack in shipping lanes where Kafka industries were the only ones to lose vessels, they've decided to put out a bounty on the AI ship."
"While several groups have put together hunting squads most of the big players are counting on protecting the shipping lanes and raising the security around kefka vessels."
"Also in your system, the Pandro are still calling for mining vessels. They're offering pay, fuel, and discounts at their stations. But many feel the refinement taxes are too high." But at this point he couldn't think of anything but Fox and the guys. 'It's obvious the ship survived' He thought not even focusing on the view screen anymore. 'Fox has a suspect already too.'
'He needed to get a message to his ship. So how is an 8-month-old going to send a message to a rogue AI controlled ship?'