Another week had passed, for the people within the town of Raspberry it was the last day they'd be living within this town. People had voted, and the majority won, they'd join the Empire and continue to hold hope for a year or two that they'd be able to go back to Earth at some point, for now however it was time to say goodbye. Some didn’t want to go, others were enthusiastic about such a new opportunity, about 75 of the citizens happy to go to the point all they took was a suitcase with the bare necessities and perhaps a few small personal belongings, where either Scifi nerds, furries or bronies, or all three.

People that didn’t wish to join, gave light resistance, but, in the end they had no choice, people were allowed to pack whatever they wanted to go with them, hell if they asked they could have the entire contents of their house, minus things like the fridge and stove, packed up for them by androids onto a flatbed hovercraft. Overall, it took less than two days to move everyone out of that town, into a city within the Empire, and given citizenship, a charge card, and DNA and photo entered into the Citizen Identification System. I sighed, some people didn’t like the change at all, but like I had told them, there was no other choice. For now it was settled, some disgruntled people here or there, but it was relatively minor compared to the majority.

Weapons had to be taken upon becoming a citizen, pistols, assault rifles, a bolt action here or there…..a fucking Military Issue 50 caliber machine gun, my god. This was a pain in the ass to deal with, but people soon realized they had no choice, that and they could just buy a gun once within the Empire and set up in a home. Only the most avid of collectors were allowed to keep their rare collections, under the rule that the triggers and firing pin be removed, which the few who had collections agreed to. Another thing to note, everyone went through the same sign up process everyone else who ever joined my Empire had to as well, as such they were informed about the various laws for my Empire and how to avoid breaking them. Every human that signed up also had to go through a mandatory medical exam, and take some potions and chems to cure them of any diseases they may have, and slightly alter their biochemical makeup a small bit, nothing drastic, just altered their bodies to be able to take a LOT of sugar, perhaps not as much as say, the average crystal pony, but still, without that modification people would be dying from sugar induced diseases within a month, they where informed of this and consented to it.

In less stressful news, several more Starships had been finished, these would only be a mile long, and 160 feet wide. These had the goal of being transports and scouts for new colonization efforts once back on my Equis, and therefore, universe. They had the same shape as the Crystal Lorenzo, and Crystal City Starships, I was going to keep that shape as it was just the one I liked the most, but if I wanted I could make a starship in the shape of a fucking banana hahaha. These were armed with a rapid fire 80 mm railgun in the nose of the starship, DHER rounds only, and for y'all who forget all the time, DHER stands for Demented High Explosive Rounds, pretty much a tungsten railgun shell hollowed out and a fucking nuke put into the nose, the universes most violent armor penetrating bullet, fires at mach 15, up to 45 if NEED be and the gun is overclocked, several small deathrays for AA defenses, automatic plasma cannons, and various small, fast, and agile missiles, from Cold Fusion Bombs, Emp, and even Plasma warheads. Protected by energy shields the same as any Starship should be, various cold fusion reactors, with backup plasma and arcane reactors, just like the other starships it had generators to separately power things like weapons, shields, however, they were all connected with inactive connections, that if need be could be made active to share power between the systems in the event of an emergency from the bridge of the starship.

Twenty Five of these had been made, so I now had a small fleet of Starships, waiting to be used, these had been in construction for months which is why Crystal City had been working hauling fucktons of space rock into the Empire to be processed for their raw metals and ores, which worked out nicely since it was a large ship and could haul in chunks large enough to destroy the planet if they impacted anywhere, chunks of rock several hundred miles large. Those were to be broken into smaller chunks for processing by the automatic factories designed just to refine metals and ores from these chunks of floating rock.The fleet would be named The Crystal Empire Star Defense, While these factories may be automated, they did have organic supervisors in the rare event a machine broke down from overuse, or from simply being unable to process the amount of raw material being sent through it. Another bit of interesting news was I recently began to have all organic troops of mine connected with pipboys of my own design, touch screen, health bar and all that jazz.

The most important features would be that they’d all be connected, and show who was friendly and who was hostile, I called the network the pipboys would be connected to BDAAN, Battle Defense And Attack Network. Strictly on military servers only, cutting edge technology in all honesty, and even better is even my robotic soldiers would be tapped into this network, so they’d be able to update it, and get updates from it, in real time on the battlefield. These were almost nothing like the Pipboy I myself owned, despite my modifications to it it was still using the basic shell the in game pipboy used, these would be slim, thin, yet durable and more computing power than any normal pipboy from Fallout could ever hope to have

This network had slowly been built up and tested various times over the course of a few months as well while the Starship fleet had been built, and something else to mention, I had generalized foods like Cram, Pork n Beans, Blamco Mac n cheese, etc, the shit you’d find in fallout, and some of my own creations, sold under the brand name Empire Standard Foods, every company that wanted to produce food of any sort was required to keep it at Empire Standard levels of safety, meaning proper non confusing labels and exact information, and strict guidelines of what they could, or could not, add or put in their foods, for example corn syrup was banned. Except for certain candies of course, or recipes that actually needed the goop.

A few humans had tried to sign up for military service, most of them failed within the first five minutes inside a simulator pod, and thus where deemed unfit for service, however a human named Hunter had been exceedingly good as a fighter pilot in the simulation pod, if his training went well he’d become the Empires first human pilot.

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Jinks looked around, the city larger than anything he’d ever expected to see in his life, he had just been moved into a home, more like large apartment, two days ago, it didn’t feel right calling it an apartment, as you tended to pay rent and utilities, he was pleasantly surprised to find out paying for water, and electricity was nonexistent here, and about the Universal Basic Income, or UBI of a thousand bits per month, bits being the currency used, and most of it was digital so he got this place’s version of a credit card wired right into his account, and only he could use it thankfully. A tall person, at 6’2, and his skinny frame only seemed to exaggerate his height more than would be normal, at the moment he had on a simple grey hoodie and sweatpants. Being around lunch time, he had decided to go into a restaurant or something for a bite to eat. He made the mistake of walking into a brothel and came out three minutes later, face beat red. “Never again.”

Fred, Freddy, and Joe, had moved into one large apartment with one another on the 5th floor of a 35 floor skyscraper, and Joe had already gotten arrested for grabbing some anthro pegasi’s tits without asking, he also got sent to the hospital with a broken jaw, nose, and a black eye. Fred and Freddy just shook their heads as they stood by their friends hospital bed as he was being injected with various chems. “I fucking told you to just ASK first, but no, your stupid and horny, dumbass.” Fred said with a deadpan look.

Joe looked up from his hospital bed, jaw broken for the moment but soon to be fixed thanks to the advanced medical technology within his new home. “Phuk yop.” Joe pretty much gurgled out with a look of anger in his eyes as his two friends left the hospital room to get some lunch.

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I looked at the reports I had been given by Astral Starlight, whom was standing in front of me as I sat on my throne. “So the results were good enough that you want to mass produce those plasmablades for full military use on robots, and as combat knives?”

Astral Starlight nodded. “Indeed I do Your Majesty, I have done some more testing and research and refined them even further, to the point that I redesigned them to suck in magic for power, as such, no recharge, no batteries, ever.”

Looking over the progress reports one more time, I nodded. “Alright, you may begin mass producing these for military use only.” I handed the reports back to him and he tucked them away in the pocket of his lab coat, bowed and left, and Blue Gadget walked in.

Blue Gadget bowed, and hoofed me a report. “The progress upgrading Defender Prime to stay up to current standards has been completed, as well as the same for Crystal Prime, outdated as it may now be despite only being a few years old.”

I grinned. “No matter how many times we must upgrade them, we shall do so, now, anything else to report?”

Blue Gadget nodded. “I’ve gotten the performance and lethality of plasma grenades up by 45% after overclocking the circuits within, which with your permission will become the new standard for plasma grenades and mines.” I gave him the greenlight to change the standards of Plasma mines and grenades, which happened to be the most common type of grenade used by my forces. As such, Blue Gadget bowed, and left after being handed back the report he had given, my pipboy logged them the moment I finished reading them, so I had no need to keep the physical file itself.

The Abyssinian Empire, had been relocated to outside southwest of my Empire, just a few miles away from the walls on the military section of the Empire, and had all been informed by their ruler they where not to go beyond the small line of concrete walls I had constructed, for their own safety, and they were not allowed to build buildings taller than 5 stories, less the guns need to shoot at something over there and not smash buildings into dust. I had also given them the hydrogen car and jet engines, along with an efficient process to extract it from water for fiel, to replace their fossil fuel burning jets n cars, I had construction crews still building them homes and the like, their national currency was still bits, so no need to fix anything there.

Another weapon development had been made, a rapid fire, almost automatic, missile launcher, with new missile warheads available for it, from mininuke, pretty much what it says, to plasma, standard ballistic, and EMP warheads, more would be added later on as the weapon was developed more and its uses on the battlefield shown, it held 15 missiles, and was surprisingly lightweight due to enchantments, not TOO bulky, but still having some heft to it, it would fire rapidly one after another and these missiles would track the target they had been locked onto, so unless whatever they had been aimed at could go faster than mach 3, it, he, she, whatever, would be completely and utterly fucked. After making completely sure the town of Raspberry was empty of both humans, pets, and anything aside from insects, I pressed a button on my pipboy, and the town went up with a bright mushroom cloud as the cold fusion warhead detonated above the town, flattening it and vaporizing anything that had once been there, now the land could be used for its proper purposes, and since it was a cold fusion bomb, no radioactive fallout!

After that and getting the reports cleanup team would be sent in an hour later, I decided to take a walk in the Palace gardens for a bit, just to relax and see what the gardeners had planted since I’d last came into the garden, within five minutes of my walk I tripped on a rock and landed face first into a patch of some dark blue flower, which caused me to sneeze as I stood up. “Damn….the guy who planted those is gonna be pissed….” I had accidentally crushed several of the flowers, some of the blue petals sticking to my shirt and a few to my face as I wiped them off, and continued with my day, not knowing just what those flowers where, as I could swear I had seen them somewhere before, oh well, can’t be too important.

Author's Notes:

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