Disengaging thrust in five, four, three, two, one.
I let out a sigh as I looked out the window. In my view was a three star system with planets. The color of the gases made the sight actually look really pretty. I leaned my seat back. To think. We went from a single planetary species to an interstellar one only ten years ago. I was currently just chilling in the Explorator Six. It was a small ship, only the size of a minivan really. Had to crawl around most of the time. But it worked for what I wanted it to.
I put the Explorator Six into orbit as I moved, turning on the spell for artificial gravity I crawled to the back. Laying sideways I pushed out human core energy into the Adaptive PC. It responded instantly as my HCE was verified. Opening it up I opened up youtube. I turned on some relaxing music as I laid down.
What was I doing? I was taking a break. I've just been phase traveling at FTL for the last eight hours. I'm exhausted. Maybe not physically thanks to being at level three, but I was mentally. Laying there I thought about how we got here.
Back in 2030, ten years ago. I made an advancement. One that revolutionized humanity. Accident really, I was trying to recreate something from my stories. I succeeded. Human Core Energy. Also called Qi by some. This was game changing. It was magic that could be easily taught and used, and most importantly. Improved.
It spread all across the United States. A few months later it leaked out of the U.S. There were conflicts of course. People got a little bit of power and suddenly thought they could take on the government. Not realizing that the gov wasn't going to just ignore a powerful weapon like HCE. I got in contact with Elon Musk a year later in 2031. I helped develop spells that could expedite his space program. In exchange he helped make sure I got my own shuttle. The Explorator Six is not that shuttle. It's back home on Mars.
Spells were pretty much all over the internet now. It had a few issues, the year 2034 was called the year of terror for pretty much everywhere but the U.S. Everywhere else practice of HCE was limited or controlled while in the U.S. if someone tried using it to commit terror they would be stopped by six or seven other practitioners. There were still troubles, but nowhere near at the level of other countries during the time. But by the end of the year things had entered a realm of relative peace. I wasn't really on talking terms with Elon at the time. I just worked with him. But commercial space flight was now possible and it was getting better every month.
Healing Spells and Rejuvenation Spells were all over the world by this point. Pretty much making everyone on Earth immortal. Those who were old or on their death build were healed. People with disabilities no longer had them. A lot of old people who would have died were now young again and a bunch of people that had alzheimers now really hated their family. Turns out healing doesn't cause the patient to forget what happened to them when they had it. That wasn't completely common. But it happened more than enough to be newsworthy.
With HCE replacing oil as the world's leading source of power suddenly a lot of people wanted to have more kids. As the strength of Human Core Energy increases the more practitioners and the more humans there are. I had quite a few assassins after me once the oil barons realized I had caused them to basically start the road to bankruptcy. Not all of them. Some switched over to hiring hundreds of humans to crystallize some of their HCE to be used as fuel which basically replaced oil at the pump. The ones that tried to take me with them failed, and the ones that went the other route? Well they are doing great last I heard.
I'm off topic. It's fun thinking back to all this. But it's only how I am here. Not the why.
I'm taking a book from another story of mine. World Factory. The idea of a single person capable of converting an entire world into a factory capable of producing nearly anything. Thanks to HCE? That's possible, and I don't even need resources to do it. HCE Energy to Matter conversion breaks the law of conservation of matter. In both ways, it can create and destroy matter. It takes less energy to create items than they give when you destroy them. Ex-Nihilo resource generation in the palm of your hand with a spell you can cast at level two.
This project of mine is a mostly independent project. I had four other people back home that helped plan it all out. I wouldn't be bored either cause with the Quantum Tunnel spell engraved on my modem I can play games on my PC from anywhere in the universe with minimal lag.
I'll be honest. 70% of my time here is probably going to be me playing games or cultivating. Maybe I'll put a day or so a week into the factory till I get a sudden burst of inspiration and work for several hours. Why me? The guy that made it all possible instead of one the others? Well. Since I was an early adopter of HCE, and the pyramid scheme nature of HCE. I was one of a handful of people with a Level Three Human Core. Meaning I had enough power in my body to rival a nuclear bomb. So I could actually build the factory without depleting my energy as well as travel using the phasing FTL to a planet that hadn't been actually claimed yet.
I had a gate set up so I could teleport back any time I needed. But I think I'll do pretty good out here.
Heh, that was a good recollection. Leaning back up I crawled back into the pilot seat. I snapped my finger and a form fitting suit covered my body. It would keep me alive while I traveled. I put my foot on the petal and let the thrusters fire as the universe shifted around me. I'll land on the fourth planet in the system in about thirty minutes.
