?5345 E-Object Development
Being able to construct a basicputing system in an entirely new universe was a massive aplishment!
The sessful development of a simpleputer opened up the possibility of creating more powerful ones.
Whether Ves primarily focused on quantity and covered much of the Blinkyverse with crude processor, or decided to focus on quality by rapidly climbing up the technology tree, it had be a lot more realistic for him to turn the Blinkyverse into the spiritual version of a cranial imnt!
Unfortunately, just because it was possible did not mean it was easy. Modernputing systems had millenia of development behind them. They not only incorporated the sum of human ingenuity and umtion, but also assimted bits and pieces of reverse-engineered alien technology as well!
Even if Ves did not have to develop all of these advancements from scratch and could just copy all of the existing works instead, it was still incredibly troublesome to develop decentputing systems in an entirely new universe.
Ves and Gloriana estimated that they would have to devote decades of their life in order to reproduce a spiritualputing system that possessed enough processing to provide material assistance in their design work!
The cold hard truth was that neither of them could spare the time to do all of this thankless work.
They were mech designers, notputer engineers. It was a waste of time for them to invest an excessive amount of time into designingputer systems. They needed to keep doing what was best and focus onpleting their mech design projects.
Given all of these circumstances, Ves decided to no longer invest too much time into furthering the development of a gigantic spiritual supeputer.
"What will you do, then?" Gloriana asked as she ced her hands on her hips. "You can''t give up now! The potential of a spiritual supeputer is too great. This may be your only way to increase your processing power and amplify the amount of work you can do. If you start to fall behind, our entire n will fall behind as well. It is imperative for you to finish this project."
Ves let out a deep breath. "Just because I don''t want to waste my time on this anymore doesn''t mean that I have given up. I just think that it is better to leave this kind of work to the professionals who are specialized in this kind of stuff. I''m quite fond of delegation, you know. Just like how I have delegated much of the development ofpanion spirit fruit trees to the T Institute, I can just pass off this spiritualputer engineering work to other specialists."
His wife blinked at that. "If you go down this route, it will be hard for you to keep your Blinkyverse secret."
"That''s fine." Ves replied with a shrug. "I never really insisted on keeping it confidential. So what if other people know? This is the Age of Dawn, Gloriana. People have begun to do plenty of amazing stuff nowadays. Creating a new miniature universe is not that big of a deal. Besides, just because people know it can be done does not mean they can replicate this feat. It is actually quite difficult to create a decent internal space. It is even more difficult to grow and expand its volume."
The Imaginary Universe Method was actually an amazing cultivation method. It had been derived from other cultivation methods and had especially been customized for Blinky.
Together with the refinements and optimizations made by Cynthia, Blinky had arge chance of bing a spiritual powerhouse in his own right!
"Who do you want to delegate this work to, then?" His wife asked next. "Do you want to assign a new project to the T Institute?"
Ves shook his head. "No. This project is too big for our research institute. No offense to them, but none of the existing researchers have a strong background in this stuff. The T Institute will almost certainly need to hire a lot of specialists, and given that it is still based on the Dragon''s Den, the new recruits can only be second-raters as best. If I want to gain the capabilities of a first-ss cranial imnt, I will need to gain the assistance of the best possible first-ss specialists."
"So you have decided to look for help outside of our n."
"Yes."
"There are only a handful of first-ss powers that you can cooperate with. Will you work with the Terrans?"
"No." Ves shook his head. "I thought about it. I am sure that the cultivators among them will be interested in my spiritual supeputer, but... I don''t think that the Terran ancient ns are united enough to pool their resources and manpower together. I would much prefer to work with the Transhumanist Faction. Human augmentation is their bread and butter, and I bet that they are actively working on reviving a lot of ancient cultivation stuff. I can think of no better candidate to cooperate with. The Transhumanists have much to gain from this research, so I think they will be the most enthusiastic out of all of the possible parties."
"Hmmm... I can understand your logic. Have you been in contact with the Transhumanist Faction as ofte?"
"No, but that doesn''t mean much. Just because I have developed a more intimate rtionship with the Survivalists doesn''t mean my rtionship with the Transhumanists have cooled. I know how the mechers work. They are only interested in research and progress. As long as I present a good enough case, I am sure that they will be eager to work on this promising project. They might have already developed their own version of a spiritualputing system. It doesn’t hurt to try my luck."
He went through with this idea. Later that night, he entered a more private section of Diandi Base and called his most familiar contact from the Transhumanist Faction.
The projection of Master Termaneo Dervidian appeared after a minute. The man looked a lot brighter and more vigorous since Vesst saw him. It was as if he shed anotheryer of his weak and original humanity.
This was a clear sign that the RA Master Mech Designer already benefited from thetest generation of augmentations that his faction had developed as ofte.
"Good day, Professor Larkinson." The projection of Master Dervidian bowed his head. "Thismunication request is not in our schedule, so I believe you have reason to approach me at this time."
It appeared that Dervidian was a bit pressed for time. He did not bother with any small talk and went straight to the point.
Since that was the case, then Ves needed to keep it short.
"I have started apletely new research project that should be of great relevance to you. Let me give you a summary of what I have worked on as ofte..."n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om
It took Ves 10 minutes topress his goals and ongoing research to Master Dervidian. While Ves had much more to say, he did not want to exin too much only to find out that the Transhumanists could not assist him in this capacity.
"Interesting." Master Dervidian eventually said. "Please wait for a minute."
The man fell in thought as he mulled over what he heard while also using his cranial imnt to ess any relevant information in the Red Association''s internal database.
Once a minute had passed, the Master Mech Designer looked at Ves with an intrigued expression.
"It is rather impressive for you to create an entire universe made out of E energy. We already expected that yourpanion spirits have high potential, but to be able to birth aplete new universe that contains its ownws of physics is a peak aplishment. The fact that you can convert a fraction of its expanding internal space into a viable and workingputing system has great promise. You have made the right decision toe to us for help. We have the knowledge and expertise to turn your primitive handmade proof of concept into a modern E-supeputer."
Master Dervidian began to share a few details on what the Transhumanist Faction had been working on as ofte.
It turned out that the Transhumanists had indeed begun to work on developing digital systems in a spiritual format. They had already recognized the potential of turning spiritual constructs intoputers!
The biggest difference was that the Transhumanists had not put any work into storing these prototype spiritualputer systems into separate pocket spaces that people could carry with ease.
This was a capability that only Blinky possessed for the time being!
"E-objects are rtively fragile by nature and easy to break." Dervidian exined as he used the Red Association''s definition of a spiritual construct. "It does not matter how well they perform when any enemy with the capability tounch E-attacks can easily knock out our work. Defense has always been our greatest concern. We have been forced to divert much of our efforts into developing defensive measures, but we have discovered to our dismay that high-ranking mech pilots can defeat them with ease. The only effective means we can use to protect our E-object from external harm is to defend them with our own high-ranking mech pilots."
That was anything but ideal. Expert pilots, ace pilots and god pilots had better things to do than to babysit a fancy spiritualputer.
Ves understood what this meant. He could already predict what Master Dervidian wanted to say next.
"Are you interested in my method of creating a separate universe inside mypanion spirit?" He asked.
"We are." Master Dervidian frankly admitted. "If we can create internal universes that can be attached to anypanion spirit, then we can carry around much more powerful and useful E-objects without easily exposing them to external threats. The strategic possibilities are endless, especially if the internal universe can amodate matter as well as E-energy. You would be making a great contribution if you can donate your unique method to our faction."
"It is not that easy to create a separate universe inside apanion spirit." Ves warned. "I only managed to do it because I took advantage of special conditions. I am not entirely opposed to sharing my method to you, but... you will have to adapt it to your own circumstances if you want to create aparable internal universe."
"Let us discuss this further..."
A negotiation ensued between the two. Both sides wanted something from each other, and their desires were strong enough that they made quick progress.
Although Ves was not willing to expose every secret rting to hispanion spirit, he knew that he needed to share a lot of important details about his cultivation method in order to satisfy the Transhumanist Faction''s greed.
After a lot of haggling, Ves and Dervidian eventually struck a new deal.
The short version of it was that Ves agreed to share the Imaginary Universe Method Version 2.0 to the Transhumanist Faction. He promised to transfer theplete text aside from a few redactions that revealed too much sensitive information.
While the outdated version of this cultivation methodcked the optimizations made by his mother, Ves was sure that the Transhumanists could rely on their force of cultivators to flesh out their own versions!
In exchange for sharing this crucial information, the Transhumanists agreed to set up a new research team that was devoted toputerizing the Blinkyverse.
This research team would not strictly be responsible for developing Eputers from scratch.
The Transhumanist Faction already set up existing research departments for this important purpose.
Instead, the new research team would focus on tranting existing designs of standard Eputers into Blinkyverse-adapted Eputers!
This effectively allowed Ves to benefit from the work that the Transhumanist Faction put into developing intangibleputer systems. This was ideal for him as he didn''t have to invest arge amount of precious time to upgrade his spiritual processing power!
Both Ves and the projection of Master Dervidian smiled at each other while shaking hands. This was another win-win agreement for them. Not only would be they sharing valuable progress, but their rtionship had also grown a bit closer than before!