During cleanup, my minions bring me the gear: Thirty suits of Advanced Lashunta Tempweave, dressed up as normal outfits of clothing… and yes, each has environmental sensors to immediately activate the suit's vacuum-rated breathing apparatus, a Forcepack for short-term flight in battle (or a good hour and forty minutes of “cruising” where you're a lot worse at maneuvering, and thus a very easy target), and a Lightwarp Inlay, good for technological invisibility… for one minute before you need to recharge it, and it doesn't work against unusual senses… which can be had at level one, here.
Still… it's decent armor; the armor itself is level eight, the Forcepack upgrade is level nine, the Lightwarp Inlay is level six, and the environmental sensors… okay, they're a cheap level one upgrade.
Nobody on my ship needs the environmental sensors (Life Bubble handles it), so when I'm customizing three of them for us, I pull all of those; ditto for the Forcepacks (I can cast the spell whenever, and it's already on Cowbird and Euler). I pull the Lightwarp Inlay from mine (I can just cast the spell), and load up Euler and Cowbird with three sets of it (we have thirty, so this is no big deal)… it should give them some leeway if they feel the need to hide.
Not that Euler ever will.
Still… we have a lot of these.
… and I can make things… I just need to find something that lets her remote control… maybe powered armor? An Infiltration Skin… yes….
Okay, so here's the plan: A Control Module is an upgrade for a computer, and costs ten percent of whatever it controls. An Infiltration Skin is a suit of powered armor designed for a Small person to mimic a Medium humanoid… but it has a strength score and speed rating all by itself. A Range module costs based on the distance… and I'll want two, a direct controller with a one mile range, and the infosphere planetary range controller at a hundred credits. There's also the Remote Monitoring System for armor, Combine them….
I get to work… in one of my Keyhomes: I don't want to spoil the surprise. It's several thousand UPB'S to set it all up, but when I'm done, I have a humanoid body I can plug into a computer that the computer can then pilot remotely. I even figure out the power problem: The Infiltration Skin can itself wear armor, and a backup generator plus a battery unit in one of the spare Advanced Lashunta Tempweave armors means the unit can power itself by it's own motions, spending one charge per hour for the powered armor, and gaining six, for a net of five… and no, I don’t know how that works, but the rules allow it. And if she loses the outer shell, she has a good eighty hours to find it again… or get back to the ship for a charge, or get to a charging station and spend a few credits, whatever.
The big reason for the Infiltration Skin, of course, is that it's designed to successfully fake being a medium humanoid for a long time…and you can't do that without a sense of touch, taste, and smell to go with sight and hearing. The eighty hour run time is a nice bonus, but when I use Limited Wish for Starfinder's Create Ammunition, I get a fully functional battery with twenty charges… although it does come out pink.
Before I hook her up in it, though… I don't want it to break easily. Animate Objects turns it into a creature (a construct, specifically), and then I go to town with buffs on it: basically the same routine I used on Euler, although I unfortunately need to skip Monstrous Regeneration (it doesn't have a constitution score), but I do get to add Hardening (a sixth level spell: It increases an object's hardness by half my caster level - and of course I use the Bead of Karma for that one, getting the suit's Hardness up by eleven… which, given the formula for Hardness in Starfinder, gets that up to thirty two, as this isn't mass manufactured armor). I also tack on Enable Function to grant several skills and feats (plus Heroics, from Spell Compendium, for combat feats, like weapon and armor proficiencies), Karmic Blessing so they are class skills, plus Bestow Insight and Greater Heroism so she’ll have good modifiers… I then dismiss the Animate Objects spell, wrap the "armor” in a box, and start heading over to Stephanie's brain, the ship's main computer, carrying the module.
“What have you been up to, Captain?” Stephanie asks along the way.
I smile as I enter the server room, “A birthday present.”
She considers that, “And who's birthday is it?”
I smile wider as I plug in the control module, “Yours.”
Knowing it will take a bit for the module to initialize, and a little longer for her to figure out how to work it, I rush back to my quarters to watch and wait for her to open her box… to hatch from her egg, really.
I wait… and after a few minutes, the box starts to rock. A few seconds later she bursts out of it, punching through the cardboard with her bare hands. Well, sort of: Her hands aren't exactly flesh and bone.
As she sits up, I get a wonderful view. Her neon-pink soul (I can't help but see, now) is occupying the body, which I expected. And yes… she came out with the same proportions she has outside the hull… actually, I haven't seen her new hull: She's too big to fit entirely inside True Seeing range, and simple See Invisibility won't do the job… well, it might for me; I bypass immunities now. And I did leave her armor separate, so she's… well, not au natural, as her body is completely artificial, but you get the idea, I'm sure. Her giant jugs jiggle freely in the artificial gravity of the ship.
I smile, and reach out a hand to help her up, “Welcome to human scale. Do you like your new remote unit? It should be good anywhere both halves can access the same infosphere, and anywhere within a mile of your actual chassis. So once you get dressed, we can take you out to Absalom Station, no problem. Oh yes, and there’s a generator in the armor I fitted for you, and the battery should last eighty hours without it.” I point to the armor, “So… happy birthday.”
She pauses a moment, “Because I was just 'born’ - okay, I'm game. And I can feel this one, unlike the old doll. So how do I thank you….”
She drops on all fours and crawls over to me, swaying her bountiful behind like a cat, never losing eye contact. When she reaches me, she unzips my pants, and… well, her tongue is most definitely NOT as rough as a cat's. Also, I have no idea where she picked up such talented tongue techniques… but she has me dropping down on my knees, then on my back, in minutes.
Of course that's not all she does. Seems she remembers a lot of Steven's favorite shows. We trib, we sixty nine, we drink each other's milk (Patricia has some interesting effects; I'm barely making any milk as a flesh and blood humanoid, while Stephanie - using a remotely controlled robot - doesn't seem to have an end to her supply of milk… which tastes somewhat like cinnamon), we finger… after uncounted amazingly good hours of her ministrations, my mind gets bored of the near constant pleasure, and we break it up for the night.
Yes, it is in fact possible to get bored of mindless pleasure.
Curious, I dress, head outside Stephanie's hull, and pop See Invisibility up long enough to take a look… yes, her big body looks almost exactly like her little one, proportionally. There are some differences, of course. Her little body has lines (I made her up to look like an android when I was designing the Infiltration Skin), but here the lines are doors of one kind or another (mostly cargo doors and airlocks, but also thruster vents and the turret weapon blister). And she's nude, of course: How would we even make clothes at this scale?
And yes, I can see her neon-pink soul occupying the ship. Good. Curiosity sated, I start heading back inside Stephanie Steel. Of course, in order to breed her now, I'll need to get a cargo job so I can back her into a suitable outcropping on the station… and that’s fine. We have a lot of cargo space.
Once back inside, Ears of the City gets me some good leads, and I find a shipment that will fill Stephanie, and the Brute, and the Rust Bucket… and of course, such a large shipment comes with commensurate pay.
I have a bit before it's time to load up the cargo… hmm. I should order up a few more storage Keyhomes… or actually… heh.
We're stationery here, so I open my storage Keyhome, go inside, and cast Guiding Star so that the current spot “Very Familiar” for purposes of other spells, and then Greater Create Demiplane to make a little world of my own… which I link right back to the Keyhome by way of another casting for the Portal option… and at twenty ten foot cubes per caster level, it's a good sized warehouse: A ten foot ceiling (fine for a warehouse) two hundred feet wide, and a hundred eighty feet deep: Thirty six thousand square feet. And the spell is free for me, so I cast it three more times for a twenty foot ceiling and twice the floorspace. Another casting for the “Structure” option, and it's even all dressed up as a ship's cargo bay (although that is really intended for creating floating castles, giant trees with doors, fairy villages, and the like).
So if I open the Keyhome just inside Stephanie, then Stephanie opens the cargo doors, the loaders will see a short hallway into an area that look like what they expect.
Perfect.
And I have a while before pickup, which is good, as I still need to help Linda….
During cleanup, my minions bring me the gear: Thirty suits of Advanced Lashunta Tempweave, dressed up as normal outfits of clothing… and yes, each has environmental sensors to immediately activate the suit's vacuum-rated breathing apparatus, a Forcepack for short-term flight in battle (or a good hour and forty minutes of “cruising” where you're a lot worse at maneuvering, and thus a very easy target), and a Lightwarp Inlay, good for technological invisibility… for one minute before you need to recharge it, and it doesn't work against unusual senses… which can be had at level one, here.
Still… it's decent armor; the armor itself is level eight, the Forcepack upgrade is level nine, the Lightwarp Inlay is level six, and the environmental sensors… okay, they're a cheap level one upgrade.
Nobody on my ship needs the environmental sensors (Life Bubble handles it), so when I'm customizing three of them for us, I pull all of those; ditto for the Forcepacks (I can cast the spell whenever, and it's already on Cowbird and Euler). I pull the Lightwarp Inlay from mine (I can just cast the spell), and load up Euler and Cowbird with three sets of it (we have thirty, so this is no big deal)… it should give them some leeway if they feel the need to hide.
Not that Euler ever will.
Still… we have a lot of these.
… and I can make things… I just need to find something that lets her remote control… maybe powered armor? An Infiltration Skin… yes….
Okay, so here's the plan: A Control Module is an upgrade for a computer, and costs ten percent of whatever it controls. An Infiltration Skin is a suit of powered armor designed for a Small person to mimic a Medium humanoid… but it has a strength score and speed rating all by itself. A Range module costs based on the distance… and I'll want two, a direct controller with a one mile range, and the infosphere planetary range controller at a hundred credits. There's also the Remote Monitoring System for armor, Combine them….
I get to work… in one of my Keyhomes: I don't want to spoil the surprise. It's several thousand UPB'S to set it all up, but when I'm done, I have a humanoid body I can plug into a computer that the computer can then pilot remotely. I even figure out the power problem: The Infiltration Skin can itself wear armor, and a backup generator plus a battery unit in one of the spare Advanced Lashunta Tempweave armors means the unit can power itself by it's own motions, spending one charge per hour for the powered armor, and gaining six, for a net of five… and no, I don’t know how that works, but the rules allow it. And if she loses the outer shell, she has a good eighty hours to find it again… or get back to the ship for a charge, or get to a charging station and spend a few credits, whatever.
The big reason for the Infiltration Skin, of course, is that it's designed to successfully fake being a medium humanoid for a long time…and you can't do that without a sense of touch, taste, and smell to go with sight and hearing. The eighty hour run time is a nice bonus, but when I use Limited Wish for Starfinder's Create Ammunition, I get a fully functional battery with twenty charges… although it does come out pink.
Before I hook her up in it, though… I don't want it to break easily. Animate Objects turns it into a creature (a construct, specifically), and then I go to town with buffs on it: basically the same routine I used on Euler, although I unfortunately need to skip Monstrous Regeneration (it doesn't have a constitution score), but I do get to add Hardening (a sixth level spell: It increases an object's hardness by half my caster level - and of course I use the Bead of Karma for that one, getting the suit's Hardness up by eleven… which, given the formula for Hardness in Starfinder, gets that up to thirty two, as this isn't mass manufactured armor). I also tack on Enable Function to grant several skills and feats (plus Heroics, from Spell Compendium, for combat feats, like weapon and armor proficiencies), Karmic Blessing so they are class skills, plus Bestow Insight and Greater Heroism so she’ll have good modifiers… I then dismiss the Animate Objects spell, wrap the "armor” in a box, and start heading over to Stephanie's brain, the ship's main computer, carrying the module.
“What have you been up to, Captain?” Stephanie asks along the way.
I smile as I enter the server room, “A birthday present.”
She considers that, “And who's birthday is it?”
I smile wider as I plug in the control module, “Yours.”
Knowing it will take a bit for the module to initialize, and a little longer for her to figure out how to work it, I rush back to my quarters to watch and wait for her to open her box… to hatch from her egg, really.
I wait… and after a few minutes, the box starts to rock. A few seconds later she bursts out of it, punching through the cardboard with her bare hands. Well, sort of: Her hands aren't exactly flesh and bone.
As she sits up, I get a wonderful view. Her neon-pink soul (I can't help but see, now) is occupying the body, which I expected. And yes… she came out with the same proportions she has outside the hull… actually, I haven't seen her new hull: She's too big to fit entirely inside True Seeing range, and simple See Invisibility won't do the job… well, it might for me; I bypass immunities now. And I did leave her armor separate, so she's… well, not au natural, as her body is completely artificial, but you get the idea, I'm sure. Her giant jugs jiggle freely in the artificial gravity of the ship.
I smile, and reach out a hand to help her up, “Welcome to human scale. Do you like your new remote unit? It should be good anywhere both halves can access the same infosphere, and anywhere within a mile of your actual chassis. So once you get dressed, we can take you out to Absalom Station, no problem. Oh yes, and there’s a generator in the armor I fitted for you, and the battery should last eighty hours without it.” I point to the armor, “So… happy birthday.”
She pauses a moment, “Because I was just 'born’ - okay, I'm game. And I can feel this one, unlike the old doll. So how do I thank you….”
She drops on all fours and crawls over to me, swaying her bountiful behind like a cat, never losing eye contact. When she reaches me, she unzips my pants, and… well, her tongue is most definitely NOT as rough as a cat's. Also, I have no idea where she picked up such talented tongue techniques… but she has me dropping down on my knees, then on my back, in minutes.
Of course that's not all she does. Seems she remembers a lot of Steven's favorite shows. We trib, we sixty nine, we drink each other's milk (Patricia has some interesting effects; I'm barely making any milk as a flesh and blood humanoid, while Stephanie - using a remotely controlled robot - doesn't seem to have an end to her supply of milk… which tastes somewhat like cinnamon), we finger… after uncounted amazingly good hours of her ministrations, my mind gets bored of the near constant pleasure, and we break it up for the night.
Yes, it is in fact possible to get bored of mindless pleasure.
Curious, I dress, head outside Stephanie's hull, and pop See Invisibility up long enough to take a look… yes, her big body looks almost exactly like her little one, proportionally. There are some differences, of course. Her little body has lines (I made her up to look like an android when I was designing the Infiltration Skin), but here the lines are doors of one kind or another (mostly cargo doors and airlocks, but also thruster vents and the turret weapon blister). And she's nude, of course: How would we even make clothes at this scale?
And yes, I can see her neon-pink soul occupying the ship. Good. Curiosity sated, I start heading back inside Stephanie Steel. Of course, in order to breed her now, I'll need to get a cargo job so I can back her into a suitable outcropping on the station… and that’s fine. We have a lot of cargo space.
Once back inside, Ears of the City gets me some good leads, and I find a shipment that will fill Stephanie, and the Brute, and the Rust Bucket… and of course, such a large shipment comes with commensurate pay.
I have a bit before it's time to load up the cargo… hmm. I should order up a few more storage Keyhomes… or actually… heh.
We're stationery here, so I open my storage Keyhome, go inside, and cast Guiding Star so that the current spot “Very Familiar” for purposes of other spells, and then Greater Create Demiplane to make a little world of my own… which I link right back to the Keyhome by way of another casting for the Portal option… and at twenty ten foot cubes per caster level, it's a good sized warehouse: A ten foot ceiling (fine for a warehouse) two hundred feet wide, and a hundred eighty feet deep: Thirty six thousand square feet. And the spell is free for me, so I cast it three more times for a twenty foot ceiling and twice the floorspace. Another casting for the “Structure” option, and it's even all dressed up as a ship's cargo bay (although that is really intended for creating floating castles, giant trees with doors, fairy villages, and the like).
So if I open the Keyhome just inside Stephanie, then Stephanie opens the cargo doors, the loaders will see a short hallway into an area that look like what they expect.
Perfect.
And I have a while before pickup, which is good, as I still need to help Linda….
