Anthony Grey - Storm King
Humming to myself as I worked, the world fell away as I wired up the aquatic terra-forming creation before me. A little bit of TK had wires going through pathways, a minor turn of a screw, and the insertion of grills that doubled as water filtration units and propulsion.
I had made a few of these with my tesseract and microbots, but I wanted to see if I could build this by hand because if I could. Then Glynda could sell it or market it to the nation since it was capable of being made by normal human beings.
Wired ground to ground with a hummed tune, hot to hot and negative to negative. I even had to do a little finger wiggle to reach a spot, then made a notation to double-check the dimensions of that bracing point, taking into account a person's hand size. Panels were put in place along with the seals being checked, the miniature reactor housed within the abdomen fed off pollutants, and various other things that could be found within the bay.
Honestly, the horizon zero dawn tech was so fun that I didn't even want to keep things simple and easy. Yet, I had to since this would be a thing used out in the bay by the Coast Guard and Dockworkers. I could have my people take care of it, but I needed allies in big places since I was giving the finger to the PRT.
A single man couldn't hold up the world, and I never wanted to be like Atlas.
Closing the panel, I smiled as the hydraulics kicked in and caught the panel before it closed, then slowly pulled it into place.
My hands worked the controls of my hover unit as I gave the massive machine some space, "Hit the lever!" I called across the workshop.
There was a whump, and I couldn't stop myself, "Wrong lever!"
My chuckle started small; then the switch flipped as I released a burst of full belly laughter, a hand going to wipe a tear away. After calming down, I turned to my assistant, "Okay, okay, go ahead and activate the systems."
Chun Li released a sigh of a woman long-suffering, "You really need to go outside and touch grass, you know that."
"Har, har, har, I get more than enough sun as it is already," I replied back in the mutter as I watched the scanners lower from the ceiling. The scanners went over each of the mechanical machines in front of me before another arm came down. Then I leaned against the rails of my hover unit as a large hologram screen popped up for me to take a look.
On it was the family of otters, a pod of dolphins, and a group of whales. I decided against a family of seals and went with beavers since I could give them the same laser cutters and paws the otter variants came with.
While the four-limbed mechanical creatures dredged the bottom of the bay, the whales and dolphins would look cute while also filtering the bay of its filth. Combined over a twenty-two-hour period since I wanted the machines to take at least two hours to cool down and get checked. Combined, they can filter a whopping six hundred and sixty thousand gallons. This is the equivalent of an Olympic-sized swimming pool per hour on the hour. That meant that within a day, they would have filtered the equivalent of twenty Olympic-sized swimming pools.
There were other ways to increase that by sixfold or even by twenty times if I decided to say fuck it and put a giant megaproject into the bay, but nahh. I was already pushing things to the limit as it was, and I didn't want to tip things over that far right now. I would wait for the next Endbringer fight to show off a true mega-project.
Already, more machines were in the queue to be built and added to the fleet of cleaner bots.
From the cover of my vision, I noticed Chun Li did a little jog; then she was up with a jump to land lightly by my side on the hover-craft station. "You know, whales don't have gills, right?" She questioned me with a smile.
With a snort, I waved her away even as Chun Li bumped my shoulder.
"I still think you should have gone with the foo-skin," She stated from my side; an idle hand went out and scrolled through the information on display.
My face shifted a little in cringe, "Yeah, but Piggot would flip her shit when she heard about the giant Otter in the bay."
Chun Li looked at me, then raised a brow, "It's maybe better that she only keeps her eye on these things than what's happening on the second floor then."
I snorted at that sly little comment as I paid it no mind as my hands flew across the control screen. Then I stopped and thought about things for a bit, "Make sure that level is off limits for any sent from the PRT, also have Cortana crack their ice; I don't need to know what's on the files, but I want them on station in case we have to run cross-references."