I Woke Up Piloting the Strongest Starship, so I Became a Space Mercenary

After confirming the balls' reaction to the mental amplification material, we decided to calm down and organize and exchange information. Whatever it is, the first thing to decide on a course of action is that it will lead to the efficient progress of things.

"For now, it's clear that those balls are exchanging information by telepathy, and that they are significantly interested in spiritual amplification materials."

"Shit. I was just showing my interest, but what are you going to do?" Are you going to eat it? "

"I wonder if it's something like eating something...?"

The mechanic sisters are all tilted around their necks. I'm curious about that, too. I don't see anything that's equivalent to their eyes or their senses, and I don't think they have a mouth somewhere. Well, the objects that are originally visible only as black metal spheres will deform there, so maybe those organs are hiding there too.

"I'm sorry to tell you this in the first place, but what is the policy towards them, or research direction?" If it's just a matter of using their crusts or armor for military purposes, we should just look into their bodies. But by calling Kuki, you mean that the policy has changed in the direction of communication? "

"We were trying to establish communication with Kugi-san from the stage before he was invited." It was thought to be a kind of combat weapon originally built by an unknown alien civilization. If it's a weapon, there's a protocol for accessing it. "

Mr. Wells, angered by Lieutenant Robitson, exaggeratedly shrugged his shoulders after saying so. By the way, Captain Robitson went back to his work.

"But I can't say that it's a thionic ability." It's not very bright in your field, but how about Shoko-san? "

"I'm a little overwhelmed by my full-time job." However, my specialties are genetic engineering and nanomachine engineering. I have some knowledge of material engineering, but I don't have any mechanical engineering knowledge. It's impossible to design a device. "

"I'm also a major in Materials Engineering." Your daughters are engineers, right? Is it possible to design equipment? "

"It depends on things." I don't think you can do that if you know the direction. "

"I have investigated the spiritual amplification material to some extent, so I think the processing itself will be managed. However, it seems difficult to create a communication protocol that uses mind waves from scratch."

"I think we'll manage around there." I'll build a nanomachine engineering facility around it. "

Researchers and engineers are arguing about technology, but I and Kugi are completely figurines with no knowledge of your side.

"Tea is delicious, my lord."

"The automatic cooker loaded on the Imperial Navigation Space Force's ship tastes like a dish, but the tea taste is good." I think the people who came to inspect our ship before said something like that. Oh, no, I wonder if it was Colonel Serena? "

"That's right." I've heard that the Empire cares about tea time. ”

"Is that so... if you say so, it feels like that."

I haven't really cared about it until now, but I think Mimi and Elma often drink tea in between. Tina and Whiskey aren't so different, so is the culture a little different?

"Even so, telepathy... I have no idea what they're thinking?" I can't feel it. Will I be able to use it if I train too? "

"In my case, you have a lot of strength, so you have to learn to control it first." Unless it's a strong wave of thoughts, it'll be difficult for me to reach you. "

”Ahh, the power overflowing from me is too strong, and even if you send telepathy, it will bounce off your mind waves?”

"That's the way it is. On the contrary, I think it will be difficult for you to master if you just convey your heart." However, even in that case, if you do not properly control the power, it will not only be passed on to certain people, but also to everyone within the range.... "

”It's not the same as shouting a big fucking voice... I can't use it that way”

"It's not easy to do anything, right?"

I don't know if the world is going well, but when I smiled unexpectedly, I was laughed at by Gigi.

"If you wish, I will help you with your training." I was also a shrine maiden in the Kamikaze Province. I am also qualified to teach. ”

With that said, Kugi puts his hand on his chest and bows his chest to show pride. The proudly standing beast ears are cute. I have recently learned that there is a rather innocent part of Susuki's tea eyes. I didn't have much of a disorienting attitude in front of me.

"I see. I feel like it's a waste to just let them play with what they have... but I don't know." It's a bit hard to be apart from people anymore. "

I don't feel like training my psychic abilities because I was told I could blow up a mountain alive. If you go that far, it's not like Jay○'s knight anymore, it○'s like a world of gumballs. Ah, but it might be convenient and cool if you can use the power. Thunder and lightning from your hands. No, this is○ for Sisi.

"Really... whenever you want to train, please tell me?"

Yeah, if you want to.

Before that, I looked at Kugi's beast ears, which had changed and drooped, and I laughed unexpectedly. It's really easy to understand, that.

Can I have a word with you both?

Oh, of course.

Shoko-sensei called out to me and nodded and looked at her.

"I'd like to hear their opinions, but after all, is that balls an intelligent creature?" Or is it a biological weapon, or is it just a protozoan? Do you have any opinions? "

"I don't know about that at all." Kugi, it's a pass. "

I don't feel like a wave of thoughts. From my point of view, that balls look like a very troublesome and dangerous murder weapon.

"Well, yeah... I can't say for sure, but I think the feeling of this wave of thoughts is close to that of an animal. I've never confronted a biological weapon before, so I don't know what you're talking about. just....."

Just?

"Normally, I don't think much, but the thought waves emitted by [Ikko's] are almost all of the same wavelength." Usually the same kind of creature, but each individual has a different wavelength than the thought wave. ”

"I see... so?"

“Yes, and the other thing that bothers me is that they're constantly connecting with each other through a wave of thoughts. Besides, I'm looking for a connection with something else... I'm looking for something I've lost sight of... I'm sorry, I can't explain it well. Perhaps they are a very small part of the bigger" connection "."



The Shoko teachers who heard Kugi tilted their necks together. I'll tilt my neck too. I may be trying to tell you something important, but I don't understand it at all. A bigger connection...?

“A large network, part of it, using the same protocol? In other words... are they collective intelligentsia like machine intelligence?"

"It's possible." It may be the same mechanism as the machine intelligence operating in the Empire. Kugi-kun, what is the range of the thought wave they are using? Will it reach anywhere beyond the distance between stars? "

“The mind wave jumps through time and space when conditions are right, but it takes a lot of strength. Given the intensity of their waves of thought, I wonder if they could jump as far as the interstellar distance in the system."

"I see... then maybe we should try to keep the waves of their thoughts out somehow before we fly to the system where we found this balls." As soon as they reach such a star system, the "large network" that catches their waves of thoughts may wake up at once and become a nuisance. I have to report this to the Colonel. "

Why don't you destroy them all and stop generating waves of thoughts? I don't think I'm good enough for that. Well, it's a common development in movies and other movies, so it's better to proceed with caution. Colonel Serena will be the judge of the area.