Deep Sea Wars 10.1

10.

The Surface

Lady Jan looked at the man who was recovering from his artificially implanted exo-skeleton spine. The healers were from the best of lands and armed with the new knowledge they have shared their skills to perform the feat. Kosovan stood next to the lady. They were in a secret establishment outside of the city in the country side. It was a huge structure in the shape of a four leaf clover. The structure was a green shaded standing structure with flat tops spanning over an acre each and vertical walls of over fifty feet in height. Each wall had their spaced out openings of clover leafs design in rows. Each structure was code named by the compass bearings of North, South, East and West. They were in the East Structure which was named the Centre for Automation where the sun was seen rising then.

The other structures were all research centres too but for different sciences. The northern one was on medicinal purposes the western one was on creatures breeding and the southern was the General Quarters and Barracks. The area was surrounded by the deep moat and outside of it was the one mile radius of open land before the outer thick walls which housed the sentries and the exo-skeleton machines. Then there was the extra one mile of open land which any trespassers will be exterminated by the patrolling military dirigibles.

“Was it a good idea to include him?” Kosovan asked. He was the second successful implant after the lady. He knew the pain of defeat but there was nothing compared to the pain of the implants. The person must not be sedated for that will hide the nerves senses to the new implant. Every nodes of the metal implant was mapped to the correct nerves points to infect the correct responses. The master who was subjected to the treatment had his vocal chords paralysed with acupuncture needles.

“You could have asked me when we defeated him. Why wait now after a week on his way to recovering?” Lady Jan replied. “The hydro treatment with the chemicals will speed up his recovery and allowed the nerves to assimilate. What took us months could now be done in days.”

“How fares my new exo-skeletons?” Lady Jan changed her focus to the six figures placed vertically in the new exo-skeleton frame. It looked like the ones that Lord Henry encountered but these were improved with the same works like the spine assimilation. The assimilation in the new exo-skeleton was more elaborate for the human operator was embedded into it. The new inventions allowed the machines moved like the human as it was powered by the former using the body nerves to move the limbs. It replaced the slower cumbersome stop and move found in the earlier models, but with the new models, they moved seamlessly.

“They are still in the final stages where they are fitted with weapons. The so called volunteers were …” Kosovan was interrupted.

“They are not volunteers. They are personal aides which were to assist the exo-skeleton in its ability. It was never the other way. We are living the world of technology. Five years ago, we were still in the steamer and coal works but we have advanced very far. New knowledge and skill sets have advanced our inventions. Today, we have electric but in the research side we hold the knowledge beyond it into electronics. Electrical transform the current it produces to generate energy but electronics converts the energy into something more useful like data signals and motions.

“It’s the era of automation. No more human to intervene. The machine does it. That will be how we will conquer the world. On the land and sea.” Lady Jan glorified her ambition. “But we are still outplayed by someone named Lord Henry. I wonder where he is now.”

“Perhaps I can give you the reply.” Lord Ian Stuart walked towards them. “They are at this moment on the high seas being pursued by the Army. We did not attack it as per your instruction.”

“My Lord I asked for his location and not your army reactions.” Lady Jan replied. “Tell me his coordinates.”