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[color=Peru][b]The Great Artisan, Divine Mason, Builder of Civilisations
Level 4 God of Crafting (Masonry, Carpentry)[/b]
22 Might & 1 Free Points[/color][/center]

There was a void, the inky black sky completely devoid of stars, save for one. A red dwarf was the sole occupant of this miniature universe, and although it was one of the humblest of stars its light and warmth radiated throughout every corner of the plane.

Yet it would not be alone for long, and the power it radiated would be harnessed. Teknall pushed himself into an orbit about six million kilometers above the star, and from this vantage point even though the star was physically a quarter of the size of Galbar's Sun it appeared hundreds of times the area, a great orange disk interjecting itself upon the inky black backdrop. The solar wind beat across his face and glanced off his shell. The power produced by any star, no matter how modest in cosmic terms, is incomprehensibly massive compared to all mortal and planetary metrics, and is even a respectable level of power compared to the gods. The only challenge is harnessing that power.

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[center][color=DarkGray]~A red dwarf looms large in the empty sky~[/color][/center]

But before he could have that energy, he would need matter to harness it with. While the vacuum around him was devoid of material save for the traces of hydrogen gas and solar wind leaked by the star, the unique properties of his personal plane allowed Teknall to conjure matter just as he did in the void before the Universe. So at a wave of his hand atoms materialised out of nothingness- silicon, oxygen, iron, carbon, aluminium and others. Yet to have to forever summon elements manually would be tedious and inelegant, so the first part of his new workshop was a solution to that problem.

After perhaps an hour of mixing elements to form new materials and sculpting those materials by hand and with tools, although time was difficult to track in this featureless void, he had finished the framework. It was a wall of large boxes, each about a cubic meter in size, stacked on top of each other. The wall was one box deep, 33 boxes long and up to 7 boxes tall, although large parts of it in the middle were only one or three boxes tall, totalling 97 boxes. Along its length the wall curved upwards, as though it were designed to fit within part of a large circle. The composition of each box varied, although similar compositions tended to be grouped together. Some were built of ceramics, some stone, some adamantine, some solid diamond, but all were non-reactive, heat-resistant and durable. Each box had a hatch on it, allowing each to be opened and sealed, and due to these hatches most of the boxes were indistinguishable. For some the hatch was a relatively simple design, but for some boxes, namely the uppermost two boxes, all of the leftmost column, and a selection of those in the top left corner, had more solid hatches with airtight seals. The interior of each box was, presently at least, empty, but while many boxes were spacious on the inside a few had their interiors extremely restricted such that they could contain only a small volume of substance. These restricted boxes occupied all of the bottom row and a few in the second-lowest row. At present, this oddly shaped wall floated freely in orbit around the red dwarf.

With the physical structure complete, Teknall moved up close to give the wall function. At each box, starting at the top-right box and working his way across and down, he reached in his hand and etched symbols and numbers into the back of each box with raw creative essence, symbols echoing his own writings within the Codex of Creation and written in the pure language of mathematics fundamental to the majority of the Universe. After carefully empowering each compartment, Teknall sealed the hatch and moved to the next, until he had finished all 97.

Finally he had finished this strange wall. While it wasn't as big or impressive as the red dwarf sitting in the middle of the plane, its function would be just as important, if not more so. All that was left was to test it.

Teknall stretched out his hand, and the first hatch, one of the tightly sealed ones, flew open and out poured a stream of gas. Then the eighth hatch, of similar appearance to the first, also flew open and a gas poured out of it. At his command the two hatches closed, leaving the two clouds of gas floating in the void. Then Teknall brought his two hands together, and the gas clouds coalesced, mixed, compressed, and then exploded in a nearly perfectly spherical red fireball. From this violent combustion of hydrogen and oxygen came water, which hovered in the micro-gravity environment as a cloud of steam.

Teknall gestured again, and this time the 26th door opened, and out poured a red-hot stream of molten iron. The 6th door also opened, and a small amount of black powdered carbon came out. Half a dozen other doors also opened, releasing a small trickle of other molten metals such as magnesium, molybdenum and chromium, as well as mithral and adamantine. Once he had a few kilograms of iron, he closed the doors again, and then he mixed all the metals he had retrieved together into several different alloys of steel, shaping them into ingots and casting them aside to be used later.

With his tests, and through what he could see with his Perception, Teknall was quite pleased with what he had built. This device was the most important in his soon-to-be workshop, for with it he could summon any pure element he wanted. Each box represented an element, and they were all ordered by nuclear charge and grouped by electronic quantum numbers. From hydrogen in the top right corner, all the way to plutonium in the leftmost spot of bottom row (although it was closer to the right side of the wall than the left, for the bottom row only extended a third of the way across), and every element in between, including mithral, orichalcum and adamantine, they were ordered in what mortals might one day call the Periodic Table of Elements. And to this means of conjuring industrial quantities of pure elemental matter from the creative potential of his plane, Teknall gave the name the Elemental Siphon.

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[color=DarkGray]~The Elemental Siphon, a source of limitless elemental matter~[/color][/center]

Immediately he put it to use, extracting large quantities adamantine and mithral. He fashioned these into long thing alloy rods which he wove together as a mesh around the Elemental Siphon, as though he was outlining where walls would go. He also took some of this metal and made them into larger beams, which formed a solid skeleton. Then he extracted even greater quantities of silicon, oxygen, calcium, aluminium, sulfur, iron, hydrogen and a few other trace elements, and he fused them all together to form a sort of stone paste. He took this paste and layered in over the metal mesh, such that the metal mesh would be a reinforcing skeleton for the concrete once it dried. As he poured out the concrete, he took out a flat-edged tool and smoothed over the walls, and used his command over stone to prevent the liquid concrete from floating off into the vacuum of space. While the concrete set, Teknall took some magnesium, silicon and oxygen to create a fibrous stony insulator which he layered over the outside of the walls. Then he took aluminium and mithral from the Elemental Siphon and coated the exterior of the workshop like some kind of metal skin, one which reflected the sunlight and provided an extra layer of sealant.

After a few hours of work, Teknall had finished building the walls, floor and ceiling of the workshop. But the microgravity environment provided a unique design challenge, for it made little sense to create a classical box-shaped room when there was no 'up' or 'down'. And a microgravity workshop had disadvantages, for any small items, from nails and screws to iron filings and dust, would float freely and make a difficult to control mess.

To overcome this problem, without going to the extent of magically creating an artificial gravitational field, Teknall instead designed the workshop to be shaped as a ring, about 60 meters in diameter, 190 meters around the circumference and 20 meters deep. The 'floor' was the inside of circumference, curving up and around such that the floor on the other side of the workshop would curve above his head. The Elemental Siphon was built into one of the walls, where the curvature in its design allowed it to fit seamlessly. Several openings of various sizes were present across the structure like doorways. However, while the structure floated motionless the full reasoning behind the circular design was not evident.

To bring it into motion, Teknall flew outside the workshop, gripped the outer wall along the circumference, and then pushed it. And he kept pushing, until the whole thing was spinning fast enough to make a full revolution every half minute. Then he flew back up to the axis, entered through an opening and climbed down the wall slowly, until he reached the floor. Out at the circumference, the rotation of the workshop was such that the centrifugal force mimicked gravity to the strength of about one tenth of Galbar's- a modest quantity but adequate nonetheless. Teknall hopped a few times experimentally across his workshop floor, then dropped one of his tools, watching it lazily fall to the ground over a bit more than a second before clinking noiselessly onto the floor, the sound not propagated in the vacuum of the workshop.

Before he could work on making more complicated things, though, he would need more complicated tools, including larger tools than he could plausibly pull from his apron pocket. So he got the materials he needed, including steel for the bulk of them with adamantine or diamond as the working edges, and assembled a selection of tools he thought he would need. Over his workspace he made a lathe, a drill, a guillotine, a couple of presses, a saw, a couple of rollers, three anvils of different kinds.

Teknall had materials. He had space. He had tools. Now all he needed was energy. And now that he had the first three, he could build the means for acquiring the fourth. Teknall collected large quantities of orichalcum, tungsten and iron, and fashioned them into a large flat hexagonal alloy plate, about the size of a house. In this plate were many coils, angled panels and parabolic disks, connected on the rear of the plate in an esoteric geometric pattern which made it look almost like a Jvanic reinterpretation of a snowflake. Then he conjured carbon, silicon, oxygen, boron and aluminium, and fashioned those into highly heat-resistant composite ceramic and carbon tiles, which he affixed to the front of the alloy plate. Having finished one, Teknall built more and more until he had around two hundred.

To clear some space, Teknall pushed the plates out of the largest doorway in his workshop, which was level with the floor. The massive plates tumbled away from the workshop as they left the doorway, flying tangentially from the point where they were released because of the circular motion of the workshop. He would have to create a more elegant solution for offloading objects through this door, but for now he could retrieve them later.

Then Teknall started building something bigger, out of similar materials to the panels. This was some construction of tubes, prisms, and parabolic dishes. It was twice the size of a house- so big that he had to make it in quarters so he could get it out of the door. He offloaded those parts, then built enough for three more, dropping those into the void outside as well.

Then Teknall created one more machine, but this one he built into the workshop. Up at the axis of rotation, where the simulated gravity was zero and high above the workshop floor, Teknall sunk pillars of adamantine into the concrete, using his powers to meld the concrete around the metal. Then he constructed a large toroidal chamber, with thick walls of refractory tantalum hafnium carbide insulation, wire coils made of orichalcum and of a complex highly conductive alloy, heavy adamantine and tungsten plating, and an intricate web of pipes and nozzles. Some of these pipes and nozzles led from the inside of the chamber to the rest of the workshop, with highly insulating silica foam pipes inlaid with tantalum hafnium carbide to safely route their contents to their destination. The nozzles on the bottom of the chamber led outside the workshop and connected to a large parabolic dish, pointing towards the star.

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[color=DarkGray]~A toroidal chamber, made of materials and designs beyond the wildest imaginings of every mortal being~[/color][/center]

Now that he had all the parts, Teknall flew out of the workshop to start bringing everything into position. With each of the large plates he had constructed, he flew them into a circular orbit 1 million kilometers from the star and oriented them to face the star. And with each one Teknall imparted a tiny drop of his power. After the two hundred plates were aligned into their orbits Teknall took the four giant machines, assembled them, blessed them as the plates, and set them into an orbit thrice as far from the star as the plates. Their orbits placed them high enough and at the correct spacing such that between the four of them they had clear line of sight to each of the plates.

Finally, Teknall returned to the workshop and approached the central chamber. Slowly, he drew near the metallic wall and laid his hand on it. A golden light suffused the workshop as he channeled his power into the machine, kick-starting it. The workshop reverberated with a hum as the grand mechanical network Teknall had built came to life. Above the surface of the star the plates, with the sides facing the sun glowing red hot, began converting and capturing the energy the star radiated at them. This power was transmitted by invisible high-energy beams to the larger relay stations, which collected the power in their parabolic dishes. The relay stations then pumped all that power towards the single collector dish on the workshops, the beams still invisible in the vacuum of space but seething with incredible amounts of energy. Finally, this energy was funnelled into the toroidal chamber and only there did it become viscerally tangible, roaring into life as a cyclone of incandescent star-fire.

The Stellar Engine was now active, and though it was only operating at a tiny fraction of its potential it still provided an enormous amount of power for the workshop. For his next project, this would far exceed Teknall's energy demands, and as such it was adequate.

To use some of this power, Teknall built a furnace down at the floor and attached it to the Stellar Engine Core. A valve accessible from the floor allowed the flow of star-fire to be regulated, and the shape of the furnace controlled and contained the stream of raw heat. Now that he had a proper forge and tools, he could finally make his Avatar.

Before hammer struck metal, Teknall took out a sheet of parchment and a charcoal pencil from his pouch, not too dissimilar from how he had for the Codex of Creation, laid it on a slanted table of aluminium and sketched out his design. The Elemental Siphon and Stellar Engine, while complex in their own right, had very few moving parts, while what he was drawing now had many, many moving parts, which all needed to fit perfectly. And unlike the Elemental Siphon and Stellar Engine, which were sitting safely in this dimensional haven, this Avatar would have to be able to withstand substantial physical punishment and still be able to operate effectively. After filling the paper with sketches and designs of increasing intricacy, Teknall finally put his pencil down and got to work.

There was, of course, no compromise in the materials. Having an intimate knowledge of the elements, Teknall prepared an alloy of adamantine which exceeded even that superlatively strong metal in strength and durability. Joints and sliding surfaces were laid with sapphire bearings, a material both hard and with astonishingly low friction. And being a god, he was able to excise every impurity and defect from the materials which might compromise their integrity.

Many parts were built, from interlocking armour plates and a metal beam skeleton to perfectly sized joints and sliding clamps and pistons. These parts and others besides were all brought together to form a terrific metal beast. This beast stood upright, at an intimidating 3 meters tall. Its overall body structure was generally humanoid, yet each of its arms was split into three and legs split into two, such that it had six arms and four legs. Into two of its arms were integrated mechanical crossbows, and on another two arms were attached metal bucklers. Each of its feet had six great claws which radiated outwards and gripped the ground. A thick armoured carapace encased the beast's torso and armour plates covered parts of its limbs, although even the parts which didn't have additional armour were still made from the same, tough metal. In the center of its chest, where the sternum would go, was a circular aperture in the armour, leading to a darkened spherical chamber within. Its head was angular, its neck short and well protected, and its face was like a mask with two pairs of eyes, currently glassy and lifeless.

Yet this beast was no use lifeless. Teknall ascended to the core of the workshop and screwed an elaborate mechanical cap onto one of the outlets. From his fingers grew an orb of golden light the size of the cap, with which he tapped it and the light entered the cap, although a cord of golden light connected his fingertips and the cap. He descended back to the metal beast, and through the opening and into the heart of the beast he planted the other end of the golden cord. The light then faded, although the ethereal connection remained.

Then he tapped the side of his own head and drew a cord of golden light from it. Similarly, he planted the other end of this cord on the side of the beast's head. Again, the connection was formed and the glow disappeared. Yet this time the beast came to life. There was a deep and visceral roar as the spherical cavity in its chest was filled with a spiralling vortex of star-fire direct from the Stellar Engine. Its eyes were lit by a fiery red glow. Its once-still joints stirred and stretched, adjusting its stance. Over its new heart of star-fire closed a thick, armoured circular radiator, which warmed to a red glow in a few seconds. This metal beast was now alive, and it stood tall awaiting orders.

Teknall stood before this metal beast, which was several times his own present height. [color=Peru]"You are Goliath. And you are a projection of my will."[/color] The beast seemed to shift its head slightly in acknowledgement.

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[color=DarkGray]~Goliath, a mighty and deadly beast of solid metal, powered by the vast Stellar Engine~[/color][/center]

Teknall had designed Goliath to be fast, efficient and deadly in combat. Its six arms and four legs were all perfectly coordinated and capable of moving at superhuman speeds with superhuman strength, unhindered by its mass. Its perception and reaction speeds were godlike, as would be expected for an Avatar. For even greater mobility a jetpack was integrated into Goliath, granting it flight. And it was programmed as a single-minded entity, bound to follow Teknall every mental command and optimised for the task of killing.

Additionally, he had engineered Goliath to be robust. Aside from wearing thick armour plating and being built to be virtually indestructible, every single system was redundant to some degree. Six arms and four legs meant Goliath could still operate close to maximum if missing a couple of limbs. There was similar logic behind the four eyes, although in reality Goliath's entire head was optional, for its semiconductor mind was backed up in a couple of locations in its chest along with modules granting the sense of Perception. Goliath could even keep fighting if its connection to the Stellar Engine failed, for it had excess energy stored in three accumulators distributed inside its torso and two plutonium-filled radioisotope thermoelectric generators for backup power.

All that was needed was a few more weapons. From the same, nigh-indestructible metal he had built Goliath from Teknall forged a spear, two war-hammers, a battle-axe and four swords, and blessed them as well as the weapons already integrated into Goliath with his power to enhance their strength. As each was finished, Goliath reached down and picked up the weapon with its metallic hands in a seamless transfer from Teknall's own hand.

Finally Goliath stood steadfastly, and Violence would soon witness the power of this fully armed and operational battle robot. [color=Peru]"Now we are ready,"[/color] Teknall announced, [color=Peru]"Vestec's going to get one helluva shock when we move in for the kill."[/color]

Teknall stretched out his arm and a inky black rift tore open in the fabric of space inside the workshop. Goliath bent down and pushed through the rift, disappearing from Teknall's plane. Before stepping through himself, Teknall looked back at the workshop he had built. It was currently a concrete husk. There was no air. Only a few sources of light existed to illuminate the darkness and cast great shadows across the mostly barren floor. And due to the close proximity with the star temperatures were already reaching stiflingly hot temperatures. For now he had more pressing business, but this workshop was far from complete.

Then Teknall stepped through the rift, which closed behind him, and the miniature Universe of his plane was uninhabited once more.

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-Teknall starts building stuff in his personal plane, which at the start contained just a single red dwarf.

-His first creation is the Elemental Siphon, a source of limitless elemental matter, from hydrogen to plutonium. It looks exactly like the periodic table of elements, except curved to fit within his workshop. (-1 Might)

-His second creation is the framework and building of his workshop, a massive cylindrical shell of concrete and metal which rotates at a steady pace to exert a gravity-like acceleration on those inside. It orbits the red dwarf at an orbital radius of about 6 million kilometers. The workshop also includes a selection of tools and workshop machinery. (free)

-His third creation is the Stellar Engine, a Dyson Swarm of three parts: collector panels, large hexagonal plates which harvest solar energy from the red dwarf at an orbital radius of 1 million km; relay stations, of which there are 4, at an orbital radius of 3 million km which direct the energy transmitted by the collector panels to the workshop; and the Core, a toroidal chamber at the axis of the workshop which contains the star-fire harvested by the Stellar Engine and allows it to be redirected for useful work. At present, there are 200 collectors, although this can be easily expanded in future at minimal additional cost. (-1 Might)
(Bonus Info: I ran the full thermodynamics on the Stellar Engine, because I could. I assume the optimal efficiency for a heat engine, operating between the front and rear faces of the collector. Each 225m[sup]2[/sup] collector generates 25 Megawatts from the solar radiation. Thus the 200 collectors generate a grand total of 5 Gigawatts. This puts it on par with a very large power plant.)

-Finally, Teknall creates his Avatar, Goliath. Goliath is a six-armed, four-legged, three meter tall killer robot made of an alloy stronger than adamantium, powered by a magical link to the Stellar Engine, and remote controlled by Teknall's mind. Teknall arms Goliath with crossbows, bucklers, swords, war-hammers, a battle-axe and a spear. (-1 Might for the Avatar) (-1 Might for blessed weapons)

-Teknall and Goliath leave to go beat up Vestec's Avatar.

18 Might and 1 Free Point remaining
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