Chapter 10: Chapter 10: TRILLION – Kill the Planet

Trillion stood on the bridge, holding a projection of the planet they were orbiting around in her hand. It had green all over it. She turned it over, examining it. “So the life here could evolve fast enough?”

The orb flashed green to signal affirmative.

Ship filled in the details. “Based on the modelling we’ll have to do it slowly. If we do it over ten thousand years, there’s a ninety-eight per cent chance all the life will evolve fast enough. Over one thousand years any life that takes more than nine months to reproduce will not evolve fast enough.”

“Can we do it in a hundred years?”

“We can, but it would cause a rapid change to the oxygen and nitrogen levels on the planet. Only microbial life will survive.”

Trillion waved her hand, dismissing the hapticgraphic projection she was holding. “So we take our time?”

“Yes, I agree. I think we do things properly. We’ve got thousands of years to―”

“I’ve got an idea,” Trillion interrupted him, waving an index finger in the air. “Let’s spend the next ten thousand years building a magical city so everything is ready for the humans.”

She started listing items on her hands. “Let’s build airports, roads, skyscrapers, status. Everything. We could build architectural beauties.” She paused, scratching her head. “We need to make sure all animals survive. Imagine my children having alien animals as pets!”

Trillion couldn’t contain her excitement. Her mind raced with the possibilities. She started to think about world-building games she played – Age of Empires was her favourite. “It was all about resource management,” she muttered to herself.

“What is about resource management?”

“Oh, just an old game I used to play. It’s relevant here though, because we need enough resources to build exactly what I’m picturing. So how many fabricators do we have?”

“We only have one.”

Trillion furrowed her eyebrows. “Only one? How is that possible?”

Ship shrugged. “We’ve always only had one. We left Mars in a hurry.”

“Hmmm.” Trillion scratched her head. “We need a lot more for what I’m thinking of.” She stood on the tips of her toes – she liked to get higher when she was thinking. “Ship, I’m excited about this. I get to build a city! But now that I’m awake, I want to get started now. I don’t want to have to wait around until we have enough fabricators and pallets.”

Another thought popped into Trillion’s head. “Ship, do you think aliens built the pyramids?” She cocked her head to the side. “Do you think it was humans? Or aliens?”

“You think aliens visited Earth?” Ship asked.

“Yeah, like how we’ve just showed up to this planet.” Possible scenarios began to tick over in Trillion’s mind. “I wonder if we breathe oxygen because an alien terraformed Earth.” Trillion started pacing around the room, almost floating as she bounced from toe to toe, her creative juices flowing. “Ship, do you know much about the Cambrian explosion?”

Ship nodded. “You mean when life first learnt to turn carbon dioxide into oxygen?”

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Trillion raised her eyebrows. “Do you think we’re going to create something like that on this planet?”

Ship shook his head. “No chance.”

Trillion made an encouraging hand gesture, spurring Ship to explain why.

“The Cambrian explosion happened over fifty million years – we’re changing this planet in two thousand.”

Trillion laughed. “Good point.” She thought about it a little more. “Maybe they were just more patient than us.”

Trillion pointed towards one of the screens in the bridge. “Can you list out all the resources we currently have? One fabricator. But how many resource pallets do we have? How many ants do we have?”

The orb flashed and a table appeared on the screen in front of her.

“Thank you Lex,” Trillion said. She scanned through the list. “It’s not that much.”

Ship nodded. “We need fabricators. With them we can create almost anything else.”

Trillion agreed. Having a large number of fabricators would make building anything possible.

Trillion began giving out orders. “Ship, can you build the terraforming equipment we need to start changing the planet over two thousand years?” She pointed at the orb in the corner. “Lex, can you start using the fabricator to build more fabricators? Then begin mining the planet for fabricator pallets and building ants.” Trillion laughed a little, thinking of what Atlas had named the large ants. “And build some eleph-ants.”

Fabricator pallets were the raw material that fed into the fabricators. Depending on the type of pallets available, almost anything could be created.

Ants had generally the same design. A machine that looked similar to an ant. Six legs used for moving, but with a mechanical arm pointing where its head should be. It used that for manipulating objects and could be fitted with different attachments depending on the job required. They ranged in size from almost microscopic to as large as a house. The large ones were called eleph-ants.

Trillion stood with her hands behind her back. She looked at Ship and Lex. “Team, it takes us a month to build a fabricator and we need sixty of them to build what I have in mind.” She took a deep breath. “We need ants and fabricator pallets too, so alternate between building fabricators and ants to collect resources.”

She pointed at the screen with the list of resources. “At a rate of one fabricator every month it should take us about five years to build enough.” She pointed at Lex. “You crank them out as quickly as you can. See if by the time I wake you can build more than sixty.” 

She pointed to Ship. “Ship, you wake me up in five years. I can’t wait to get started.”

The orb flashed green, signalling affirmative.

Ship nodded. “Consider it done.”

Trillion teleported out and went to bed.

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