Back upstairs, we were joined by Judith. As we walked toward the large barn-like building, MIke said to her, “I owe you an apology too, Judith. Percy pointed out that I had made a bad assumption regarding need-to-know. Henceforth I will share with both of you any information that is shared with the others in the core group. That’s the Barbarobo team, Marc, Sandra, Michel, and Carter.”
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“Yes in the large building next to the secondary elevator shaft. Stainless steel, empty and clean. They just held brine from the water jet cutters until it could go to the evaporation pond. I’ll have them flushed out, ready for the plastic liquids. If we’re done here for now, let’s go take a look,” Percy said.
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“Excellent!” I said. “Something else came up yesterday. We’ll need storage tanks for liquid raw materials. Apparently the feed stock for the robots’ plastic body comes as two different liquid plastics. I vaguely remember seeing some tankage in one of the surface buildings. Am I remembering correctly?”
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“Understood. Now let’s move on.” Percy led us to the third gallery. “This gallery is closest to the secondary freight elevators, once we punch a hole right there,” he said gesturing at a rock salt wall. “It’ll make a good goods staging area.”
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The Ultor’s head drooped, then looked again straight at Percy. “As Carter knows, my Gaia component has no direct experience dealing with humans. Thank you for the lesson in sensitivity.”
“Wow Percy!” I said. “You just received an apology from a goddess. Don’t let it go to your head!” I grinned to make sure he knew I was trying to make light of a heavy situation.
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“I suspected something like this, as did Judith. I understand about need-to-know, but both of us need to know. You either trust us or not,” Percy said straight to the Ultor.
MIke paused for at least a half minute. Percy was getting antsy. Finally, it said “You are correct, and my sincere apologies for doubting you. Either you are better at hiding things than I am at finding them, or I have made a bad assumption.”
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“Actually, and this is privileged information, not even for Judith, they will be much smaller. Small enough to fit in my chest,” MIke said through the Ultor. “We will need to exceed combined Ultor and avatar production quantities. But Michel and my avatar are just now talking about design. All we know so far is that we think it’s possible, and the casing outer dimensions.”
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“Very good Percy,” the Ultor said. “More efficient all around. We can use the second gallery for storage of finished units waiting for delivery.”
Percy led us to another large gallery, this one without equipment. “I was thinking this one for the Petisol lines. Those units are car-sized or less, right?”
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“As you see,” Percy said gesturing around an unused gallery, “The excavation equipment is here and ready to go first thing Monday. Floyd sent me the specs on the production equipment. We can do a double, maybe triple version of what they have in Trollbridge. But instead of a separate gallery for the avatars, why don’t we just put another line in here? This is the largest open gallery, we have the room.”
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“OK, so I’m planning three separate manufacturing and assembly areas,” the Ultor said in MIke’s voice. “One for more Ultors, that’ll be the biggest priority. Percy, Barbarobo have offered to reroute some production equipment already on order and I have increased the order. That should all start arriving by the middle of the week.”
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The Ultor joined the rest of us on a tour of possible factory areas.
“How late did things go last night Percy?” I asked.
“Not very. Everyone left not long after you did. Only Randall’s regulars stayed, chattering away about all the new opportunities. I think inviting the locals was a smart move.”
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We had all just finished breakfast when we heard the backup beeping of a delivery truck. The crew were a bit surprised to see MIke, but pretty much took it in stride, especially once MIke started carrying the heaviest pieces. All the new furniture was in place, assembled, and ready for use within a half hour.
“That should spread some rumours to our benefit,” MIke said after the door closed.
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“You are still adequate. Now go get cleaned up, the delivery people should be here in a while. I already flushed myself, and am fully charged. I’ll go start the coffee for the meats.” MIke unplugged and headed downstairs.
Floyd, Veronika, and Barb came downstairs looking cheery and eager for work. Michel was a bit sleepier. He probably had been up half the night thinking of the new reactor possibilities.
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As the room brightened, Mica was sitting on the floor, back in MIke mode. “Good morning Carter, did you sleep well after our refresher? And did I perform as well as before?”
“I did, thank you, and you did. Actually, you are even more agile now than when we were in our twenties, while I’m less so. I hope you found me adequate.” I was referencing our oldest joke.
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I peeled, peed, and slipped into bed. Mica was already there, in her young Mica form. “Thank you for asking permission to allow me to experience the forms of the others, but I like you as you,” I said to her.
“I suspect if you play your cards right, you may enjoy the originals at some point,” Mica said, as she started to refresh my memory of her skills. Her batteries lasted longer than I did, and I eventually fell into a peaceful and satisfied sleep.
“Would you mind terribly if I emulate both your figures for poor Carter here?” Mica asked. “And Betty’s too, of course!”
“Please do,” Barb said.
“We would be honoured,” Veronika concluded.
The tea was done and we were warm. With a group hug, we headed to our two rooms.
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“So you see Carter,” Veronika said, “this level of attention is nothing, just flattering. I’ll show you pictures when you visit us again.”
“I loved her figure then, I love it now,” Barb said. “But now her back doesn’t hurt all the time and we’re more evenly matched!”
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The walk back was indeed quite brisk. Back at the house MIke had a big pot of herbal tea waiting for us. He and Michel had covered the basics of the Petisol design, with Michel learning a whole new area of nuclear physics. He had already called it a night, exhausted but wide awake, thinking of the possibilities.
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On the way out Judith assured me that she and Percy would stay to the end and keep things under control. A few people had already left, having put in their socially expected appearances. No-one was getting rowdy, a very good sign.
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“I don’t know about the three of you, but I’m fading. And tomorrow is another big day for us. Time to go get horizontal?
“Yes please,” Barb said. “We have planning to do. I think I’ll ask Veronika to fly us back home, I’m pretty done.”
Her comment had the desired effect. A few people who had been jockeying for a view backed off with a new respect. Floyd just smiled.
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