Date Friday, August 27, 2275

  Waking up several hours ter from my fortable sleep, I turned my head to my right side to see if Amata was awake.

  Good, she's still sleeping just as peacefully as she was when I joined her in the nd of dreams with her arms ed around my right arm... Alright time to get up, I'll let her tio sleep for a while longer since she did have quite an active day yesterday. And while she's busy recharging her batteries, I'm going to head downstairs and grab a snack befetting to work on making an upgraded ser rifle, ohat's powered by microfusion breeder cells instead of the normal run-of-the-mill cells.

  With many things I both needed and wao do awaiting me, I checked my Pip-Boy for the time and saw it dispying 5:00 am. Simultaneously, as I was doing that, I used one of my many thought processes to see how my robots were making out. Cheg in with all of them, I found that they were making steady progress across the board on the variety of tasks assigo them. Including the hydroponics project I gave them, which they had finally finished building aing up.

  So, seeing that they were done carrying out that order, I reallocated those worker bots to begin the stru of a massive freezer ssh refrigerator o the hydroponi the sed level of the basement. I'm uo start using the hydroponics just yet because my water produ system hasn't been pleted.

  Hence, I might as well have them begin w on that task, so we'll be able to prevent our food from perishing immediately. As for wheher workforce will be doting together the water purification system, they should have it fully taken care of by tomorrow, given their current progress.

  Plenty satisfied with how everything roceeding, I took over the robots and turrets that were manufactured while I was asleep. And had the retly manufactured Worker Bots hop oing an automated on magazine manufacturing mae made and assembled, which they should be able to get out of the way by the end of the day.

  The moment I was doh all that jazz, I used my new perk Ghost briefly to slip out of Amata's hold ohout waking her. From there, I climbed out of bed and headed for the bathroom, where I took care of my daily hygienieeds. As soon as I was ready, I took a ride in the elevator and grabbed some food, specifically shelf-stable high-protein meals.

  After taking the elevator down to the first floor, I spent the 10 minutes chowing down on three high-protein meals. The moment I had pletely inhaled all the food, I set off to the manufacturing area to get busy w on that ser rifle upgrade. It won't be long before it's getting mass produced by my robots and the automated on manufacturing mae that's been ing out AER 29 LMGs ever siurned in st night.

  ...

  An hour or so ter, I had the brand spanking new ser rifle model in hand. This design was substantially better than the inal iteration.

  | AER10 Laser Rifle |Damage: 85DPS: 1,133Fire rate: 800 Fully Automatic, Semi-AutomaticWeight: 10Ammo Type: Microfusion Breeder CellValue: 10,000Attats: ted Red Dot Sight, Laser Sight, Variable Zoom Scope, Vertical Frip, on SlingItem Description: A durable single-barreled full auto ser rifle that shares some simirities with the creator's past designs. This rifle features a heavy barrel, the test version of the improved microfusion breeder cell, hardier and sturdier materials throughout the ey of the on, a quad rail for mounting a variety of attats that range from different types of grips to under-barrel grenade uhts, and a toggle to ge the ser beam from a visible red to an invisible infrared ser. Designed by Harold Todd Woods.

  Whilst I was looking over the newly finished ser rifle, I headed over to my improvised testing area and ran the on through a variety of tests. Once I was tent, I sent the automated on manufacturing and my robots the new design with Mechu-deru and had them initiate produ of it.

  Having taken care of that, I returo my workshop in the manufacturing area of the facility and busied myself by making some Mining Bots in preparation for when it es time to clear out the nearby metro and begiunneling process to link it up with the sed level of the basement.

  ...

  Another hour passed with me grinding away and the mihe clock's hands 7:00 AM, I detected the Hill brothers heading downstairs, likely going to get something to eat. So, pausing my work momentarily ohird Mining Bot, I picked myself up and made my way over to them and joihem for breakfast.

  The four of us quickly prepared everything necessary, sat down, and began to eat. Iween bites we discussed the details regarding what exactly I was going to have them do. Around 20 minutes into our meal, we had all the details ironed out and all four of our ptes cleared. So, with nothing else needing to be discussed there, I led the brothers to the manufacturing area and got them set up with their jobs.

  Following that, I hightailed it to my workshop and got back to work on my third Mining Robot.

  ...

  The hour ent as such, at least until I detected Amata waking up via my Assaultrons guarding our shared spaeeding to pause my wain, I spent the couple of minutes applying some finishing touches on my sixth Mining Bot. As soon as I was done, I took over all of them with Mechu-deru and proceeded in the dire of Amata a up with her on the first floor.

  "Good M, how'd you sleep, Amata?"

  "Good m, Harold. I slept great, but I was hoping you would be there when I opened my eyes." She replied, sounding somewhat sadde the fact that I wasn't there when she woke up. However, I could tell that she utting on an act, thus it didn't elicit a response from me.

  "..."

  "Moh..." She pined, puffing her cheeks out.

  tinuing to ignore her antics, I moved things along. "You ready to get fueled up for the long day we have ahead of us?"

  "Sigh... Sure."

  Presenting my arm to her, tched on to it before we proceeded to go get her a bit of breakfast. On the walk over to the improvised eating area, I sent several of my Worker Bots up to our room to begin renovations ohroom.

  ...

  After another 20 minutes had epsed, Amata finally finished eating her m meal while I finished my third one for the day, which I'll certainly be needing for our trips bad forth from the vault. The two of us chatted for a few more minutes before we got up and headed around the facility to see where we were going to put the gym/training area, the pool, the eai area, and the dining area.

  Wandering through the pce, we settled on putting the gym on the sed underground level, mainly because there is a ton of unused space down there. But there was also the fact that the new equipment I pn on fabrig to keep up with my training needs is going to weigh ieral 10s of toually. Therefore, it made the most seo put it on the lowest level so I wouldn't have to worry about the above ones g in from a shit load of weight trated in a small area.

  As for the specifics of the space, it will house a variety of normal-weight maes, free weights for retively normal people to use, and a heavy-weight se that will probably only be used by me. Unless I recruit one of the friendly super mutants like Fawkes, for instance, or recruit someo there in the wastes that is either gifted or has a special mutation...

  Thoughts of recruiting unique and powerful individuals aside, the heavy-weight se of the space will sist of a variety of weighted maes and free weights that will max out iens of tons. Those monstrously heavy weights will allow me to keep pushing myself and my limits further so I keep making progress.

  Other than those two areas, there will be a training area for training my perception. That specific pce will be equipped with the usual setup of baseball pitg maes rigged with turret targeting modules and 10mm ballistic turrets that will be loaded with rubber bullets initially. Those rounds will ter be sed out for live ammunition and probably sed out again in favor of projectiles with even faster velocities.

  Following pig out a spot for that, we selected one for the pool, whided up being located right o it, so they would both have access to a shared locker room. However, due to there not being enough crete on hand, nor the materials required to produce it at the moment, stru of this project will be deyed until I mao get some arc kilns fabricated and find a good source of limestone.

  That tter one be aplished by my robotic workforce via mining and seeing how limestone is just about everywhere, I'm all too ed about log that resource. On top of using the lime for crete, it also be used for other things, such as in the process of making steel and various other metals and alloys. Which is something we will be doing a whole lot of when the arc furnaces are made and we possess the ore and scrap to feed them.

  Moving on from there, we started our search for where the eai zone should go. This took us a det while, but we eventually went with throwing it on the first level of the basement due to the fact that there was an abundant amount of space avaible down there for it.

  With that spot settled on, we began discussing the details of what sort of things will be housed there. And after a bit of bad forth, we eventually got all the details in order and would be acquiring a number of arcade games from Vault 101 i so distant future.

  Finished assigning areas to the underground floors, we moved on up to the levels above. The two of us walked around together for a short time before deg to put the dining area up on the sed floor because there was already a cafeteria there. Although an old one in a very poor state.

  "Now that we have that all pnned out, let's head back up to our room, get suited up, and ready to head out."

  "Okay... Ohh, but before we head up, do you want to have lunch at the vault?" Amata replied.

  "Sure, it beats the hell out of eating the stuff we have here."

  Having covered what we wished to do for lunch, we headed upstairs, threw our personal form fitting suits of Shadow Armor, and climbed into respective power armor suits before moving on to equipping the rest of our loadouts.

  Whilst we were in the midst of doing that, I had one of my increasing number of thought processes send my usual group robots to the loading area to get ready to depart for the vault. And as one of my thought processes was managing that, I had another send signals with Mechu-deru to my workers in the manufacturiion of the facility to inform the Hill brothers that Amata and I would be heading out to transfer more of my loot over.

  Shortly thereafter, we arrived in the loading area ready to set out into the wastend once again, armored from head to toe and armed to the teeth. With me wielding my gatling ser Purge, my 12G Laser Pistol magically attached to my waist along with ando Knife, and more than a dozen MFC Grenades and Pulse Grenades magically attached to my power armor's built-in war belt. As for my partner, Amata, she was equipped with her own freshly produced AER 29 LMG, a Ripper on her waist, and a dozen MFC Grenades and Pulse Grenades each.

  Doing a double check of everything, I found everything was in order as expected. "Alright, we got everything and all the robots are here. Let's set out."

  "Okay, boss." Hauler responded while many meical forces responded with variations of that.

  Ready as we'll ever be, I opened up the massive bst door on my own this time, since I figured out how to finally take over simpler meical structs.

  *Chirp...Chirp...Chirp...*

  ...

  *Grrrnnnd-*

  As soon as the massive door settled into the open position, I stepped outside, first followed by Amata, and then the rest of the group. Ohe st of us were through, we set off for Vault 101.

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