Chapter 195 - EVO
***Tirnanog, Mount Aerie***
***Magnus***
Thankfully, we didn’t have to directly run off to another mission once Astra and I consulted the elders.
The clans would inevitably have to contact all human settlements on Tirnanog, but we currently had our hands full with the kingdom.
Additionally, while the Thich were no longer a concern, Vier’s home city was completely untouched. Hostilities had been put on hold for the time being, since Vier’s airship fleet had been decimated. There was no way for them to rebuild their forces before winter. And while we got reports about sightings of scouting vessels, everyone was of the firm opinion that Vier was no longer capable of mounting a meaningful assault.
That left us with all the time we needed for preparations – and for Gilbert and his people to figure out how to get us to the other continents. The teleportation sphere got us connected to the kingdom, but only by random chance. I wasn’t keen on spinning the wheel any further after we had already lost good people to these scouting missions. And who guaranteed that most of the sphere's destinations were even on Tirnanog in the first place?
It would be ideal to find some sort of map or register with all the possible destinations neatly explained, but I was beginning to believe more and more that this wasn’t in the cards. The alien’s alien-ness, pun intended, included a serious lack of documentation for all devices and installations.
Apparently, being a single, super smart operator who designed most of their devices on their own meant that writing convenient user manuals was a waste of time. So, our people had to reverse engineer almost everything on the moonbase, except for the most obvious tech. It was only lucky that we had a few very smart people. While the clans had lost most of Earth’s technology, it didn’t mean that all the theoretical knowledge had faded. The problem had been access to the right resources, and my people helped out with the things that were truly lost.
And if something was completely incomprehensible, Gaia, our generous super mind, was always just one chat message away – if she deemed it worth her time to share her knowledge.