Chapter 194 - EVO
***Tirnanog, Moonbase***
***Magnus***
“Do you have any clue how vexing it is to find out that this blasted facility exists? And that only after I already did all the prototyping for my SMDs by hand?” I shook my fists in frustration. “I feel like some caveman who was sharpening a stick with a stone when a lathe stood right next door, ready to be used!”
“You are exaggerating…” Astra commented, not truly taking part in my plight.
“Still,” I continued, needing her to understand my suffering. “I was like a clockmaker of old, painfully manipulating gears and magnets, only to find out that digital clocks are a thing!”
Gilbert raised an eyebrow at the comparison. He was giving Astra and me a tour through the extensive facility. I had decided to invade his temporary office and didn’t stop asking questions until he finally spilt the beans about his newest project.
“Lad, it’s good to work out the details personally instead of having a finished workflow spit out a completed product, only to then find out that it doesn’t work and that you have to go on a quest of ‘whack a mole’ to find out where among the dozens or hundreds of assembly steps you went wrong,” Gilbert replied while we watched a set of biomechanical arms assemble one of the larger components which belonged to Tirnanog’s weather control system.
The whole facility was just a small part of the maintenance system, which was disguised as Tirnanog’s moon. The 3D printing factory, as Gilbert liked to call it, wasn’t a traditional 3D printer as one would imagine it. Though it got its name from the central component which stood at its heart.
It would be more accurate to say that the whole installation was a fully automated robotic factory which had the capacity to assemble the components for most devices our alien opponents could dream up.