The Industrialist

SteamHaven Condominium, SteamHaven Sector

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Pending objectives

[1] Beast Bane Railgun Prototype

[2] Omnexus store

[3] Finish PreMaster Course for Masterwork Energy Sources

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Jasper always reminded him when he got into his condominium. Lance needed Jasper to monitor his pending objectives just to keep him on track. Well, there were many things he needed to do, such as deal with the Mafia regarding the illegal items procurement for his store, farfetched goals such as looking for the Lost Engineers, building another Ultragenerator for the Lost Engineers, and many minute to-do-things.

Above anything else, he had a tight schedule for CBD. Hence, the prototype of Beast Bane Railgun.

If Luke wanted units of Quantum Flux, the rebels should scrap them in Generators in Bay City. The presence of Abominant Hive presented a predicament for such a quest. In doing so, Lance should provide Armaments and weapons meant for Abominants. Therefore, he needed to design poison-filled weaponry for the rebels.

He needed ten Quantum Flux components and he found one in Omnexus.

Facing his fabrication table, he planned to modify current Second-generation Quasarflare Blasters, issued to low-ranking police forces, that would be compatible with Aiveez Nectar. It had the same concept as the Beast Bane Railgun, only smaller.

Of course, as a Weapons Inventor, he brought home a sample Quasarflare Blaster for his research as he told the staff people back at the Weapons Plant. The said staff handed him safety guidelines through his holosync for the Quasarflar Blaster sample.

He could never had one of these during his days as a scrapper. As Weapons Inventor had its perks. As the Division staff had told him, as long as it was low-powered, non-explosive weapons, and with signed safety waivers, Lance was good to go.

The Blaster had been dismantled into components, breaking down the weapon. He carefully took out the Graviton Lenses after he unscrewed the blaster's casing. Then, he separated the Xenon Dimensional emitter, above Plasma Conduit. After all other minute components were dismantled, what's left inside the Blaster's skeleton was the Nova coil and the Plasma Quasar Core.

"Now, Jasper. The question is, how are we going to incorporate the charger beams with our poison?"

"It has to be an external component, Master. We can't just incorporate liquid into high-frequency, and high-powered light."

Lance walked around the Fabrication table, inspecting the components and assessing workarounds on the presented predicament.

"Right! We need it to be a system addendum. A nectar cartridge may be connected to the chambers where the light will pass through."

"It could work master. But how can you be sure that the poison is administered equally in every shot."

"Oh, that's easy, Jasper. I have seen this with liquid-light fusion modules in Precision Metal Forging. We use a Dose Limiter before the chambers, right after the laser light is produced."

"Yes, it could work master. Do you have a Dose Limiter?"

"Yes, fortunately. I used Dose Limiters in my RoFlo, remember, to regulate the magnetic liquid in their tentacles."

Immediately, he scrambled on his pile of untouched scraps on the corners of his condominium. 'Gotta be here, someplace,' he convinced himself.

"Hmm. Let me see, Diode Path Enhancer, SuperFused Inductor, Variable MegaResistor…" Lance pulled various electronic components until he found the Dose Limiters, as small as a cube eraser, contained in an opened mini Eazycage container.

Enthusiastically, he ran back to his fabrication table and tried to draw it into an electronic application for blueprinting where the robotic arms of the Fabrication Table would follow. He needed to modify the Blaster's casing to accommodate the Nectar Cartridge, connecting to the Dose Limiter.

With his software simulations, the modified blaster casing could fit the new components.

"Ok, Jasper. Commencing fabrication," Lance said inputting software design into the system.

The table hummed as the robotic arms moved with their respective tools on each of their ends. The blaster's elongated skeleton cover had been modified by the said robotic arms, turned upside down, bright TIG welding sparks emerged, drillings, and polishing.

It went for a quarter of an hour until the design was finished. The robotic arms assembled the components into place together with the Dose Limiter and the cartridge.

The dispensing of the cartridge was then connected to the trigger so that whenever the blaster fires, a small dose of Nectar would dissipate into small moist and into the beam chambers.

Simultaneously, he placed vials of Nectar liquid into the cartridges he used for his first project – Bioscanning Water Dispenser.

The laser blast would be combined with a small dose of Aiveez Nectar. He tugged the weapon to his side from the table and wanted to conduct his prototype trial.

A cartridge slot, modified by his Fabrication Table, snugged the nectar cartridge in place, like a gun magazine.

He did the simulations in the Design simulations and it worked.

He wanted to test it inside his house. Just one fire. It was his first time, but he read the eManuals given by the Weapons Division staff.

He aimed the modified weapon at a pile of common-level wires and metal angle bars. He hated that sight, that corner. The said scraps sat for months since his cabin at Steelpoint, then transferred to Hypervista villas, and then to SteamHaven condominiums.

He reassessed again. He read the eManuals with his Holosync. He had to be sure. It was his first time wielding such a weapon. Fortunately, he could test it inside his room without fatal explosions. Cold sweat made the stainless metallic blaster casing slippery from his hands. Your next journey awaits at empire

'I have to be bold. For my comrades,' Lance convinced himself.

He squeezed the trigger of the Blaster, it hummed for a split second, then a light bluish beam fired at its end and blasted his hated pile. The wires and angle bars exploded, charring the materials and leaving a darkened soot on the wall behind it.

Immediately, successive knocks loomed on his door. He answered to it and found a man in the suit.

"Kid, are you alright?" It was the bodyguard, frantic looking.

"No worries. I am just testing the new design." Lance responded.n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

Of course, Lance had to be sure that every shot had been glazed with a dose of poison, he took residual samples using a microscopic precision tool that he used to check on micro-connections of electronic schematic boards.

'Perfect!' Lance found traces of Aiveez nectar on the charred parts of his wall.