"That will do nicely, Ms. Smith."
Abel was accustomed, by now, to speaking his good-byes to nothing. His assistant had a unique approach to manners and mannerism alike.
His official shift ended in seven minutes, and he spent them in his official chair. His unofficial shift was continuous. He lived in his office, worked in his home. There were certain private areas, and one that was completely private. Most would not have wanted to enter his bedroom if given the chance. Many did not believe he had any such thing, given his sleep schedule.
There had not been any initial provision for a live-in caretaker, but one of the laboratory's early acquisitions had been a Mag-man corrosion gauntlet. The primary delay had been finding a stretch of wall that was not load-bearing. Abel kept the suit and its prototypes in his own tunnels, because he had nowhere else to keep them.
After numerous iterations, it appeared rather sleek. The majority was an endless tessellation of hexagonal motes, wrapped into a skin-sheath too functionally tight for modesty. At Kiki's suggestion, it was a sapphire blue with non-functional strips of orange at joints and mounting points.
The conversion apparatus occupied the back, and looked propulsive and purposeful, offspring of a beetle and something from Apple. The final touches were gauntlets, and a helmet, blank and faceless. Both were cosmetically enameled in blue composite.
Abel stroked the helmet and weighed his guilt.
The field suit required redirecting thirteen kilograms of non-inertial Null Metal. The material's original source had been an anti-gravity bomb deployed by Gerhardt Ullver, A.E. Doktor V5. There had been twelve confirmed fatalities from the incident, and recovery was partial. Gravitational Anomalies persisted in the area, necessitating forfeiture of the properties involved.
The gauntlets were primarily composed of Mjollnir Conductive Fiber in a shell of synthetic Impervium; five and twelve and one-half kilograms, respectively. The original source was a meta-materials facility on St. Cristophe, under the aegis of Crimson Claw personnel. Seizure of the material was complicated by self-destruct charges place throughout the facility. Recovery was partial and fatalities could not be ascertained until radiation levels allowed non-metahuman personnel into the vicinity.
The helmet was based on an Intention Circuit cluster recovered from one of the laboratories of Dr. Cortex 054. It was a rare intact sample of his attempts to create true artificial vision and a direct neural interface by integrating biological components, specifically pieces of the occipital and frontal lobes. The laboratory had seven prototypes, one of which had been removed for cleaning some months previous.
Many people wondered why Abel did not leave the laboratory.
The simplest answer, but not the one he gave, was that outside was where the things he kept originated.
He put the helmet down and went to check on the door chime.
Abel was accustomed, by now, to speaking his good-byes to nothing. His assistant had a unique approach to manners and mannerism alike.
His official shift ended in seven minutes, and he spent them in his official chair. His unofficial shift was continuous. He lived in his office, worked in his home. There were certain private areas, and one that was completely private. Most would not have wanted to enter his bedroom if given the chance. Many did not believe he had any such thing, given his sleep schedule.
There had not been any initial provision for a live-in caretaker, but one of the laboratory's early acquisitions had been a Mag-man corrosion gauntlet. The primary delay had been finding a stretch of wall that was not load-bearing. Abel kept the suit and its prototypes in his own tunnels, because he had nowhere else to keep them.
After numerous iterations, it appeared rather sleek. The majority was an endless tessellation of hexagonal motes, wrapped into a skin-sheath too functionally tight for modesty. At Kiki's suggestion, it was a sapphire blue with non-functional strips of orange at joints and mounting points.
The conversion apparatus occupied the back, and looked propulsive and purposeful, offspring of a beetle and something from Apple. The final touches were gauntlets, and a helmet, blank and faceless. Both were cosmetically enameled in blue composite.
Abel stroked the helmet and weighed his guilt.
The field suit required redirecting thirteen kilograms of non-inertial Null Metal. The material's original source had been an anti-gravity bomb deployed by Gerhardt Ullver, A.E. Doktor V5. There had been twelve confirmed fatalities from the incident, and recovery was partial. Gravitational Anomalies persisted in the area, necessitating forfeiture of the properties involved.
The gauntlets were primarily composed of Mjollnir Conductive Fiber in a shell of synthetic Impervium; five and twelve and one-half kilograms, respectively. The original source was a meta-materials facility on St. Cristophe, under the aegis of Crimson Claw personnel. Seizure of the material was complicated by self-destruct charges place throughout the facility. Recovery was partial and fatalities could not be ascertained until radiation levels allowed non-metahuman personnel into the vicinity.
The helmet was based on an Intention Circuit cluster recovered from one of the laboratories of Dr. Cortex 054. It was a rare intact sample of his attempts to create true artificial vision and a direct neural interface by integrating biological components, specifically pieces of the occipital and frontal lobes. The laboratory had seven prototypes, one of which had been removed for cleaning some months previous.
Many people wondered why Abel did not leave the laboratory.
The simplest answer, but not the one he gave, was that outside was where the things he kept originated.
He put the helmet down and went to check on the door chime.
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