Lawrence turned around. "There's someone you need to meet."
Lawrence led him back down the hall and into a side door. A slender, black haired woman wearing glasses met them. Glancing up from her notebook, she saw the two.
Bowing deeply, she greeted them. "Hello! I'm Kitah, the fore expert on Space Whale biology and cultivation. May I have a moment of your time?"
"Yes." Luke replied. "What is it?"
"I've been contracted to create a cultivation plan for your space whale. However, this is a unique opportunity."
"Up until now, we've only been able to observe them from afar and create conjecture based on their habits. If a researcher happens too close upon a space whale, they teleport and disappear."
"I would like to not only create a cultivation plan, but observe your whale's growth and help it grow. During this time, I'll be able to clone and research its organs, which will allow us to learn how they move in space and even allow us to replicate a small space whale army."
Luke spoke into the air. "Battalion. Bring the space whale."
The lovable blue menace appeared. "Ooooowgaoaooo!!"
"Kitah, is it a boy or girl?"
She rubbed the whale it until it showed its underside. "Boy." She stated firmly. It appeared she knew her trade.
"Battalion, show me the options for the various fabricators sold in the Federation."
The list appeared on his Holo. Fabricators started at around a million Federation Coins.
They were differentiated by five standards. Size, Fabrication Size, Material Creation, Speed, and Projection.
The first was the size of the fabricator. The bigger the fabricator, the the larger the items it could fabricate. As the fabricator became smaller, the size of creatable items became more limited.
The second standard was the size of materials. 'Microfabricators' could print at much smaller sizes, but 'Molecular Fabricators' could reach the smallest size possible and change the atoms they were working with.
This caused them to run at a slower speed, but it allowed them to reach the third standard: life. Fabricators had three types in this category: Biological, Mechanical, and Spirit.
Mechanical Fabricators were limited to metals and non-biological substances. Biological Fabricators were not limited in this fashion.
However, Spiritual Fabricators were unable to fabricate either mechanical or biological substances. Instead, they created spiritual lines to match the pathways generated by the other Fabricators.
Spiritual Fabricators were both the bane and forever companion of Card Creators. By duplicating the creator's work, they could commit to bigger business- but in the process, they wouldn't advance their Original Cards.
Speed was also important. The faster your fabricator was, the more items you could fabricate.
Projection was the last category. A newer technology, it broke the reasoning of the first category itself. Using quantum duplication, it could "project" the items on it's tray to the area nearby it.
Luke Jaywalker again looked at the prices. Filtering them, he looked at the cost of the highest speed, dual-biospiritual, projection fabricator with a size bigger than 3 meters.
It was ridiculous. An initial listing was 100 Quadrillion Federation Coins, and went even higher up past 200 quadrillion.
There was no way he was using up his well-earned credits yet. He tried another tactic.
"Battalion, pull up the lowest cost Fabricator that can build all of the parts for the best Military-grade all-encompassing fabricator within three days."
[Selection changed.]
A Biowolf fabricator appeared. It could fabricate everything he needed in a space of 2 cubic meters.
Best of all, it was only priced at 2.8 Billion Federation Coins.
He clicked on 'buy' and set the address as his new research department.
Quickly accessing the portal for his department infrastructure, he changed the division name to "Space Whale Research Division."
Setting Kitah as the department supervisor, he quickly filtered and hired several researchers for her. "Congratulations Kitah, you're hereby conscripted in as the Space Whale Research Division Supervisor. Your rank is set at Commander."
He looked at the dazzled Kitah before adding, "Report to the Consignment Building immediately. You start next week."
"Yes!" With a salute, Kitah left the room.
"And you…" Kai said, slowly turning to the space whale, "Your name is Razer Tsunami."
"Owwwwhaoaoaoahdoao!" The space whale did a flip and nuzzled up against him.
"Lawrence, what's next?"