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In that instant of pain, rage, humiliation, and loss, he decided that if his mother didn’t want paradise, he would take it from her as his first, and final, act of revenge.
Getting a Technology System in Modern Day
Sci-fi · Agent_047
“First you took my father, and I could do nothing. I was powerless to stop you! But now you impy dogs stole my mother without my permission!?” he growled, his bloodshot eyes beginning to faintly glow red. His hair also began turning bright red, like the heart of a fire. “This place will BURN!”
Getting a Technology System in Modern Day
Sci-fi · Agent_047
A few minutes later and a whole lot lighter, he opened his eyes and looked at the television screen in the waiting room that was still tuned to the coverage of the incoming disaster. The timer on the bottom corner of the screen still showed six hours to the end. “So this is what they were after...” he muttered to himself, then slumped in the chair he was sitting in and laughed at his own powerlessness.
Getting a Technology System in Modern Day
Sci-fi · Agent_047
Aron swiped the file closed and paused for a moment, updating his plans. “Looks like I’ll need to visit Mars sooner than I’d originally planned,” he said. He would need to personally erect a planetary defense shield there regardless, but the upcoming Carrington event had lit a fire underneath him. Just because the solar system had survived billions of years, if not trillions, it didn’t guarantee that something would happen the very next day that would render the entire area uninhabitable.
Getting a Technology System in Modern Day
Sci-fi · Agent_047
“No. I don’t, you don’t, our families don’t... all those closest to me are exempt from brain data monitoring and uploading. It’s too... I dunno. Not invasive invasive, but regular invasive.”
Getting a Technology System in Modern Day
Sci-fi · Agent_047
Sure, that would have some severe downsides, but when given a choice between bad and worse, bad would win every time. Bending light around the planet to provide optical invisibility would essentially blind everyone on the planet, but it would be better than having humanity wiped out by hostile marauders. And that was just one of the countermeasures he had included in the complex shield.
Getting a Technology System in Modern Day
Sci-fi · Agent_047
“Now that you mention it, I wonder how the empire is going to deal with retirement. It used to be that people could retire in their early sixties, then spend their twilight years gorging themselves on the fruits of their earlier labors. But now, with the average lifespan skyrocketing to two hundred years, and the time dilation in the simulation doubling that, can you imagine how people will react when they realize they have to work for hundreds of years before retirement age? Ha! People will absolutely revolt when that particular nugget of information hits home.” The comms officer shuddered as his whole body broke out in goosebumps.
Getting a Technology System in Modern Day
Sci-fi · Agent_047
“This is not a fascist empire. Moving to the fortress cities will naturally separate the noncitizens from the populace, and that’s already in the works. There’s been too many instances of internment that hasn’t worked out for the governments involved, and we can’t afford that kind of backlash now. The empire is too young and our foundation is still settling,” Aron sighed.
Getting a Technology System in Modern Day
Sci-fi · Agent_047
“Absolutely out of the question,” Aron interrupted. “I will not be responsible for massacring a significant portion of the human species.”
Getting a Technology System in Modern Day
Sci-fi · Agent_047
He pulled a small box from his pocket, then opened it and continued, “Rina Ariel Rothschild, will you marry me?”
Getting a Technology System in Modern Day
Sci-fi · Agent_047
The city was surrounded by a tall wall with four gates in it, each connected to its opposite gate by an eight-lane highway. There was a buffer layer of 25 kilometers between the wall and the first buildings rising from the ground in the distance, two-thirds of which was farmland, and the other third was virgin forest, left mostly untouched by human hands and surrounded by a tall fence, separating the wildlife in the forest from the humans outside of it.
Getting a Technology System in Modern Day
Sci-fi · Agent_047
When the people logged in, they rushed to the new model city. As they approached it, unrelated people began fading from view, shifted into different instances of the simulation to reduce the overcrowding from the hundreds of millions of people swarming a city that was designed for dozens of millions, at best. If they stopped to consider for a moment, it would be odd that the groups who intended to tour the city together had remained together, none of them being shunted into different instances.
Getting a Technology System in Modern Day
Sci-fi · Agent_047
{Imagine you’re in a cold room. If you light a fire in the fireplace, that’s the only heat source in the room so it’ll be very obvious to someone standing outside the room. However, if you turn on the central air conditioner, the whole room heats up, so the change is less easy to pinpoint. That’s the current situation—when the only mana source was the reactor beneath Avalon Island, it was very obvious, like a lighthouse on a dark night. But now the entire planet, and the solar system it’s part of, is filling with mana.} She showed them images from before and after the “great mana event” as seen from the Panopticon satellites. {That’s the difference, and why we aren’t worried about the increasing mana density in the solar system. But we think the reason they managed to discover us is because of the flashing signal given off by the mana converter on the fusion reactor. Hopefully, by the time they arrive, the mana density will be high enough that our awakeners will have a deterrent effect on any potential hostile actions on the part of the aliens. That would at least be something of a silver lining to the whole situation we find ourselves in, at least.}
Getting a Technology System in Modern Day
Sci-fi · Agent_047
Meanwhile, Aron, having rushed his announcement to completion, had logged out of the simulation and headed to where his and Rina’s parents were. Herschel and Virginia, at least, deserved to know that Rina was safe, though she was undergoing her awakening and wouldn’t be present in the real world for a while. Sure, she could explain all that by meeting them in the simulation on her own, but they still deserved to be informed face to face and brought to the secure pod vault where they could stay beside her through the process.
Getting a Technology System in Modern Day
Sci-fi · Agent_047
“I suggest we implement an empire-wide minimum wage focused on actually being a livable wage. A single person requires a minimum of 500 END to maintain a subsistence-level existence that covers all of their absolute necessities. So a 40 hour workweek should cover at least that much, plus some for luxuries and savings.”
Getting a Technology System in Modern Day
Sci-fi · Agent_047
As we walked leisurely, my eyes wandered around the place. Beautiful paintings plastered on the wall, large windows that are wide enough to see the view outside, and polished wooden floors which are so bright due to their cleanliness that you could even see your face on them.
A Nobody's Transmigration
Fantasy · Ordki_Hozei
{Imagine you’re in a cold room. If you light a fire in the fireplace, that’s the only heat source in the room so it’ll be very obvious to someone standing outside the room. However, if you turn on the central air conditioner, the whole room heats up, so the change is less easy to pinpoint. That’s the current situation—when the only mana source was the reactor beneath Avalon Island, it was very obvious, like a lighthouse on a dark night. But now the entire planet, and the solar system it’s part of, is filling with mana.} She showed them images from before and after the “great mana event” as seen from the Panopticon satellites. {That’s the difference, and why we aren’t worried about the increasing mana density in the solar system. But we think the reason they managed to discover us is because of the flashing signal given off by the mana converter on the fusion reactor. Hopefully, by the time they arrive, the mana density will be high enough that our awakeners will have a deterrent effect on any potential hostile actions on the part of the aliens. That would at least be something of a silver lining to the whole situation we find ourselves in, at least.}
Getting a Technology System in Modern Day
Sci-fi · Agent_047
The world was still in the recovery phase after the economic and financial crash. Thanks to an immense amount of stimulus and other aid payments on behalf of the government, companies had been hiring people in droves, driving down the global unemployment rate by quite a lot.
Getting a Technology System in Modern Day
Sci-fi · Agent_047
Moments after realizing the difference between their reaction and others’, they both connected the dogs and realized that, whatever that hovering inscribed circle was, it had to be the doing of someone with a blessing.
Getting a Technology System in Modern Day
Sci-fi · Agent_047
Reguku
[A/N Please rewrite chapter 572 as it was replaced after the original one uploaded was an unedited version. Sorry about that]
Getting a Technology System in Modern Day
Sci-fi · Agent_047