When Peter opens his eyes, he immediately knows that all of his charges have already been refilled. He has another ten Tinker Charges that he can spend. However, he decided to hold it for now.
He leaves his bed and walks to the bathroom. He cleans his body and walks to his workshop.
Yesterday, he spent all his time creating Tinker Tech to help him clean the radiation on Earth. However, he has one problem—energy consumption. It is too big, and the current energy generator in my base does not have enough energy output to power this machine fully.
Because of this, Peter decided to create the Tinker Tech in front of him.
This is Aetherion Core. It can generate massive, clean power through a stabilized micro-fusion loop and natural geothermal catalysts—suitable for powering colonies, drones, or large-scale restoration equipment.
He has already connected the generator to the entire facility, which is ready for use.
Now he only needs to deploy the machine to clean a certain area of the land. However, to do that, he needs to make something. He can put them there manually, but he doesn't want to do that. With that in mind, he put one charge into [Mobility], one charge into [Survival Systems], and one charge into [Automation].
After he does that, his mind expands, and now a lot of blueprints appear in his mind. Without wasting any more time, he picks up his tools and walks to the vault. He needs to Tinker once again.
Without saying a word, he starts his work. He is making a drone. However, it is not a normal drone. It is a drone that can survive a very harsh environment. He also makes sure his drone has an in-built self-decontaminating surface and radiation-absorbing gel on its surface to ensure no radiated dust sticks on its surface.
He will also make a washroom for the drone, but there is nothing wrong with going overboard, especially in his situation.
After a few hours of tinkering, his drone is ready. Its shape is like a combination of a falcon and a manta ray in silhouette. It is roughly the size of a motorcycle, and he put an anti-grav thruster to make it fly.
Its wings were broad and angular, capable of folding inward or flaring out like solar panels. In fact, they were solar panels—feathered with micro-louvered photovoltaic plates that shimmered like beetle carapace in the light. Each "feather" could articulate independently, allowing the drone to adjust its surface for maximum energy absorption, signal direction, or even stealth.
A pair of mechanical limbs folded neatly beneath its chassis—multi-jointed, spiderlike, ending in versatile, omni-tool manipulators that could weld, drill, grip, or inject any kind of solution. When deployed, these limbs allowed the drone to land and help him in his tinkering when he explored the surface.
Its "head" featured a curved visor of sensor glass, rimmed with adaptive optics and scanning lenses that glowed faint blue when active.
The belly of the drone housed its fabrication port: a deployable hatch that could release a pre-manufactured machine. It can store seven of the machines he prepared.
And what kind of machine is in its belly? It is another machine that he created.
Peter named his new drone, the T-Arc Drone, a Modular Drone that will become his assistant when he explores the surface.
Anyway, the drone will carry another of his creations. It is called Verdancy Beacon. It is a beacon that rapidly clears radiation, chemical toxins, and heavy fallout from a targeted radius—creating a clean, livable patch of Earth.
Once activated and placed on the irradiated surface, the beacon drills three root-like anchors into the ground and opens its petals, revealing a light-focusing prism dome. It then begins a 24-hour purification cycle, unleashing advanced Solarpunk cleansing systems over a 50-meter radius.
Peter shakes his head and connects the drone to his computer, and moves it around the room through his computer. Seeing there is no problem, he controls the drone to the elevator and takes it to the surface.
When the drone arrives at the surface, Peter immediately runs a program that he made so it plants the beacon automatically without his direct command. He leaves his drone to do its thing, and when it is done, it will land near the bunker hatch.
For now, Peter needs to make the washroom for the drone while it is doing its work outside of the underground facility.
*Grumble*
"Right. I need some breakfast. I didn't have any dinner either last night."
With that in mind, Peter leaves his workshop and walks to the kitchen to cook some food.
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While waiting for his food, Peter thinks about which specialization he should take next. Should he take a new one or upgrade the one he already has? After thinking for a few seconds, he decided to add a new one. He would rather have a lot of specialization than focus on one.
He needs more variety than power at the moment.
With a hum, he decided to put 1 Charge and create [Construction] because he wanted to expand his base. He cannot make a base outside at the moment, but he can expand his current base here.
After he did that, he felt his mind expand and a new rush of knowledge appeared in his head. He smiles a little and quickly eats his food. He immediately entered his workshop and started to make another tech.
Instead of making a new tech, he decided to take what he already has and modify it. T-Arc Drone is a modular drone that he can modify for anything he requires. Because of this, he decided to make the drone into a construction drone.
Like before, making the drone takes him a few hours. Unlike the Original T-Arc Drone, this one is not an aerial drone. This one is a land-based drone that looks like a combination of a tortoise and a tank. Peter named it T-Arc: Earthshaper, and the Original called T-Arc: Forgewing.
Two massive forelimbs extended from its front—multi-jointed digger arms tipped with molecular disruption claws and diamond-tipped boring heads. These arms could pulverize bedrock, cut reinforced debris, or shape caverns with millimeter precision. The rear limbs, squat and piston-driven, provided stabilization and heavy load support—allowing it to anchor itself when digging or carrying modular building frames.
A rotating equipment carousel was mounted beneath its main body, allowing it to swap between attachments: a mining laser array, a hydraulic press, a 3D geostructural printer, or a deployable subdrone swarm. Along its spine ran a segmented tool rail where construction arms could fold up like the legs of an insect when not in use.
The drone's head unit was squat and protected beneath a layered visor—housing seismic scanners, mineral analyzers, and thermal-mapping optics. With terrifying accuracy, it could "see" through Earth, reading fault lines, gas pockets, and subterranean radiation.
Instead of wings, the Earthshaper had stabilizer plates—foldable panels that could brace it against shifting ground or slide outward to act as shielding walls when operating in unstable zones. These panels could also function as solar arrays when deployed on the surface.
Though it couldn't fly, the Earthshaper moved with surprising agility—its limbs unfolding in fluid arcs as it scaled crater walls, descended into fissures, or reshaped dead terrain into usable land. It left behind smooth-cut tunnels, reinforced vaults, and layered bunkers.
This drone is twice as big as the Forgewing because it contains a lot more tech inside of it to support its job. Just like before, Peter has already made a program for the drone, and with a click, the drone comes to life and starts its job.
With a satisfied nod, he wondered what he needed to make next. However, before he starts tinkering one again, he decides to spend his charges first. He decided to expand his specializations. He decided to add [Miniaturization], [Fabrication], [Communication Systems], [Defensive Systems], [Sensors], and another point to [Automation].
With all that, his mind gives him a lot of blueprints that combine a lot of specializations. He wants to create a massive machine, but decides not to do that because he lacks the space he needs to put the machine.
Because of that, he decides to make something small but crucial for his survival. He takes the tools and starts working. He is now working on a water generator that will give him clean and drinkable water.
He works on the device, and it is already 9 PM before he knows it. It takes six hours to make the device, but Peter is happy with the result.
This is the AquaSynth Reactor. This machine can create clean water by extracting hydrogen from local material and bonding it with oxygen from the base's sealed air, forming pure H₂O with no environmental risk.
It breaks down scrap plastics, carbon waste, biomass, or contaminated soil. This is the reason why it takes a long time for him to finish. He needs to recall his Earthshaper to connect the new chamber it made to the outside world so that he can connect this device to the soil outside his bunker.
He even made a new program for his Forgewing to push the soil from the outside for this device to use. The drone also gathers as much trash as possible from the outside.
Even though he still has a lot of water in his base, Peter wants to make a farm inside his base, and he knows the one he has will not be enough for the farm.
After activating the machine, Peter releases a sigh and leaves his workshop. His body is stiff from all the work he has done. He needs a good night's sleep because he knows he will be even busier tomorrow.
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Total Specializations: 20 Charges used
Solarpunk (8 charges)
Tools (2 Charges)
Mobility (1 Charge)
Survival System (1 Charge)
Automation (2 Charges)
Construction (1 Charge)
Miniaturization (1 Charge)
Fabrication (1 Charge)
Communication Systems (1 Charge)
Defensive Systems (1 Charge)
Sensors (1 Charge)