I sat alone in my office at Site-999, a mug of bitter coffee in one hand and a tablet filled with reports in the other. Page after page flashed by in glowing blue light—progress logs, efficiency charts, research notes, personnel updates. Every metric climbed at a speed that would make any conventional foundation site implode from disbelief.
Honestly?If the research wasn't moving this fast, I'd be disappointed.
After all, Site-999 wasn't staffed by ordinary Foundation employees.
It was staffed by some of the greatest scientific minds in the multiverse—cloned, enhanced, memory-stuffed, and trained until they were walking embodiments of hyper-competence. I had engineers from universes where physics behaved like suggestions, biologists who could regrow organs faster than they could write their notes, and a few theoretical physicists who didn't even need sleep anymore.
I glanced at another report.
Imperial Project: Progress 79.4%
My most ambitious undertaking yet.
The construction of full-scale Imperial Star Destroyers—not replicas, not approximations, but true war machines directly copied from the blueprints burned into my mind by the system.
The goal?Earth's first true interstellar defense fleet.
The moment these ships reached orbit, any alien empire foolish enough to approach the Sol system would be greeted by kilometer-long wedges of durasteel, armed with turbolasers powerful enough to rewrite their geography and shields strong enough to laugh off asteroid impacts.
And that wasn't even mentioning hyperspace travel.
With these vessels, humanity wouldn't need to fear extraterrestrial threats ever again.
We would become a threat.
Site-999 had transformed into a titanic assembly line.
Massive construction hangars sprawled across the underground caverns—each large enough to fit a Star Destroyer, each filled with the screams of welding torches, the roar of anti-gravity cranes, and the hum of army-sized labor teams of D-Class clones. The Ethics Committee had no jurisdiction here. They didn't even know this place existed.
Only the O5 Council.And me.
This site wasn't listed in any Foundation registry.No files.No backups.Nothing for an information leak to grab onto.
Here, we could perform research with no restraints—ethical, scientific, or moral.
Because Earth's survival depended on it.
Because sometimes saving humanity meant dirtying your hands beyond recognition.
I scrolled down to the engineering section.
Star Destroyers: Outer Hull Completed
That was the hardest and easiest part simultaneously. The hulls were enormous—massive triangular monoliths forged from hyper-durable alloys. Even with near-unlimited resources and the occasional Reality Stone shortcut, building something this size was painfully slow.
But the superstructure was done.
Now came the true challenge:
• Turbolaser battery construction• Shield generators• Ion engines• Reactor core assembly• Hyperdrive calibration• Command tower systems• Internal crew infrastructure• Navigation and sensor arrays• AI integration• Gravity well generators for the Interdictor variants
Almost every line of the report showed near-impossible progress rates. Entire departments working on nothing but hyperdrive coils, tractor-beam generators, and durability field stabilizers.
The good news?Nothing was behind schedule.
The bad news?
Even with nearly infinite manpower, even with resources pouring in from reality manipulation, even with cheat-level blueprints…
Star Destroyers were just that big.
And even I wasn't strong enough physically to bend reality into giving me an entire fleet instantly.
I leaned back in my chair, letting the soft hum of Site-999's engines vibrate through the floor.
Project Imperial was working.
Slowly.Painfully.Colossally.
But working.
Soon, the first Star Destroyer would rise from the underground dockyards, ascend into the upper atmosphere, and ignite its engines in orbit—becoming the first human-controlled capital ship designed for multi-galactic warfare.
And then?
Mars.Europa.Titan.Even the outer Kuiper Belt.
The solar system would belong to us.
Earth would be defended by the greatest war machines ever conceived.
And no alien empire would ever take humanity lightly again.