A spherical martian spaceship flew through space near Abbayor. The spaceship has been traveling for a few days now and is starting to run low on fuel. Within a laboratory of a mad scientist and his alien assistant. The alien, a martian, of course being the one piloting the ship while the scientist is busy working on one of his inventions. Due to the error one of his clones suffered in one his Battle Mechas due to a design oversight, he worked on making sure a problem like the one his clone suffered doesn't happen again. Thankfully the mecha he left back on Earth was just nothing more then a prototype.

While on their way to Abbayor to refuel Morton, the martian, turns to the scientist Dr. Nikolas Grey to speak with him.

"So uh Nick, how are we exactly supposed to land on Mitra the Galactic Empire. I mean they might see a strange spaceship and be awfully suspicious of us and shoot us down or something. And if they don't how are we gonna go like meet the emperor and get him to make you a scientist." Morton asked.

"Well about that Morton, I hadn't exactly figured that out yet." Nick replied.

"WHAT?! You tell me we've been flying through space for three days already and you didn't have a plan!" Morton said.

"It's not my fault Morton! We were in a rush cause of the Earth military came before I finished repairing this ship. I mean shouldn't I have planned ahead and thought things through more? Yes! Could I have done that? Yes! Hindsight is 20/20 Morton. Besides I don't think they'll think this vehicle is suspicious." Nick said.

"Attention suspicious unidentified spacecraft! You are in Galactic Empire space, please identify yourself!" an Imperial Patroller yelled at them.

As Dr. Grey's eyes bulged Morton furrowed his brow and gave Dr. Grey a very disapproving glare. Nick then sighs and walks over to the communicator.

"Hello there is nothing to be suspicious of, this vehicle is just a rebuilt martian spacecraft. I am Dr. Nikolas Grey, a scientist from Earth, and it's just me and my Martian assistant here. We are running low on fuel so we decided to go to Abbayor to refuel." Dr. Grey said.

Silence for a bit.

"In any case we are coming in for inspection, see if everything is up to code." the Imperial Patrolman said.

"Alright, Morton let them in." Dr. Grey said.

Morton was about to ask why he is doing before Dr. Grey gestures him to be quiet and just do it. And reluctantly Morton presses a button to open the hatch to let them in. Dr. Grey walks up to the fridge and grabs a soda and begins drinking from it as he walks to the lab looking at all of the weapons.

"What the hell Nick! Once they see these weapons they are gonna be even more suspicious and arrest us! I don't want to go to prison Nick! Do you know what they do to aliens with tentacles in prison?!" Morton said.

"Morton shh. Relax, I got this." Dr. Grey said.

He got a remote out of his lab jacket and pressed multiple buttons turning all of the weapons in the lab into capsule form again. He then picked up the capsules and put them in a secret compartment hidden on one of his lab tables. He pressed a button hidden under the table that was covered in a wad of gum. A very smart way of camouflaging a secret button cause most people usually don't want to touch table gum. The two Imperial Patrolmen walked in seeing a green man with white hair in a lab coat drinking soda while sitting in a chair and a small squid like alien giving an awkward smile and waving at them.

After giving Dr. Grey a pat down and about 30 minutes of looking around the ship the Imperial Patrolmen say the ship is clear and leave. Morton lets out a breath of relief as he goes back to the driver's seat to bring the ship in for a landing on Abbayor. They parked near a refueling station and Morton walked out and began dispensing fuel into the tank. Dr. Grey then walked out and marveled at the sight. He was standing on an highly advanced alien planet surrounded by space stations and is a bustling central of prosperity. He looked at all of the many different alien lifeforms walking around. The sight was enough to bring a tear to his eye.

His eyes then gazed towards a library, one of the most greatest collections of information there is. Better then the internet in his opinion.

"Morton I shall be going to that library to do research. Stay here and watch the ship for me." Dr. Grey said.

He then walked to the building and tried to contain himself. He then got as many books as he could and brought them to the table. History books on many different alien civilizations, alien language books, many different books on spaceship engineering, and many others and brings them to a table in a bunch of a large stacks that looked like a large fortress. Many onlookers looked on with weird gazes looking at the man with all of those books. Dr. Grey manages to speed read through them quickly as he is able to flip through pages and retain the knowledge with ease due to his mutated brain. A lot of the people there wondering if he's cramming for the final exam for college or something.

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Dr. Grey is too engrossed into the book he is right now on Galactic Empire Law. He needs to make sure he doesn't get in trouble with this government's laws again. While reading he notices that time travel is illegal. Makes sense, time travel causes more harm then good. Too many paradoxes and is too dangerous and unpredictable. Now inter-dimensional travel on the other hand that is something more people need to work on. Exploring other universes, and from what he has heard around the grape vine some visitors from other universe came here so it would be best to figure out how to travel to other universes. Especially when a bunch of stars collapses and start swallowing everything in their place and the universe is torn apart in the process and they need a new universe to live and also a quick escape. Of course he needs to read more to make sure that is not illegal to just in case.

He was then broken out of his concentration as he heard a bunch of thuds as he turned to see many of his stacks of books have been toppled over. He turned and saw a strange pale woman in black robes. He assumed to her outfit and appearance she was another alien tourist. She also had a lot of books floating around her as well. He then began grabbing the books from off the floor. He saw she was holding one of the books he picked out, one called Secrets of Abbayor. He wanted to read it thinking it was about some unknown history about the planet or something along those lines.

"If you wanted to borrow one of the books I picked out you could've just asked. I do understand things probably work differently on the planet you are from so if anything I understand and you can borrow that book from me if you so desire. I am working on becoming a member of the Galactic Empire and I wanted to do some research while my ship is refueling. So I am gonna be here for a while. After all you seem to be a pretty avid reader yourself due to books you have with you. That is quite a impressive display of psychic powers. And might I say those are some also some lovely robes." Dr. Grey said.

He then finished stacking all of the books that fell down back onto the table as he looked towards the woman.

"Oh wait, pardon my manners, I forgot to introduce myself. Dr. Nikolas Grey, known as Nick for short to close colleagues. And you are my dear?" Dr. Grey asked

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"Lilith Nevermore eh, it is nice to meet you. I didn't realize I was speaking with a noblewoman the pleasure is all mine." Dr. Grey said.

Dr. Grey didn't believe in fate or luck, but he can never look a gift horse in the mouth. If this lady is a high-ranking member of the Galactic Empire, then perhaps she can not only tell the Emperor of his arrival but also recommend him to the emperor. And Morton was worried about how they were going to get into a meeting with the emperor. This woman could be his best chance of getting in. He then stops when she asks what he has to offer. He must think up a way to convince her quickly.

"I assure you I can bring a lot of advancements to the Galactic Empire. I am an expert in many fields. Medical, biology, engineering, and many more. Plus, I have acquired a meteorite with a strange unique energy within it that the empire might be interested in. Well as you can see the energy affected me quite a bit as well. Altered my genetic structure and made me more durable while also increasing my IQ, memory storage capacity, and many other mental capabilities of mine. I have even figured out how to take the energy known as Ki and store them into stasis spheres. After all a scientist's main duty is to make science fiction fact and the impossible possible." Dr. Grey said.

Well as for the Ki experiments he meant to try to make them into makeshift floating mines or even power sources or batteries by the Ki spheres stay constant in the state they are in and are just nothing more than makeshift fancy light fixtures of course she doesn't need to know those parts. He can still at least provide cybernetic enhancements or replacement limbs to soldiers and perhaps even develop combat droids or other kinds of things he could make with his biological or technological expertise. He can be able to make clones of himself for crying out loud. That is without divulging his more "controversial" experiments to her. Which could end up getting him in trouble and arrested if he does so. And he doesn’t want to spend the rest of his days stuck within an alien prison for the rest of his days.

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"Ah yes forgive my insolence, Lady Lilith Nevermore." Dr. Grey said apologetically.

That little slip could've cost him his possibly one and only chance. He must make sure not to do so again. He noticed her use a strange metal rod to make a teapot, cup, spoon, and even tea leaves. Even creating a strange blue liquid to help brew her beverage. He thought it was some kind of strange device that manipulated matter to create inanimate objects out of it. It reminded him a lot of the fairy tales of witches he heard about on Earth. Come to think of it she looked a lot like what some people think a wish would look like and that rod did look a lot like a wand. No of course not it's probably just coincidence he thought.

He then waited in anticipation when the talk of the meteorite catches her attention and she starts sipping for a bit dwelling on it. Makes sense cause a possibly rare energy source or even undiscovered one from a meteor could prove really interesting. And then with a smile she responds. Telling him how Polaris himself could be interested.

"I have heard many great things of Emperor Polaris and his exploits Lady Lilith Nevermore. He is not only powerful, but very intelligent from what I hear. A leader that goes out and help his people himself by fighting on the front lines and one who knows how to be a leader is one I would definitely follow. Also his race's biology is very intriguing from what I heard. I read a bit of their species in one of the books I gotten and learned that they can even survive the vacuum of space. Not a feat to scoff at." Dr. Grey said.

Of course that wasn't just him giving needless praise to the emperor to try to get on good favors with him. His face and excitement shows how genuine his interest for Emperor Polaris is the strangeness of his race is. They are a biological marvel to him and fascinate him greatly. The only other species known to be able to survive space are a microscopic entity known as Tardigrades from Earth, but an actual sentient species who probably took many years of evolution in such a harsh environment to adapt to so they can be able to survive in such conditions. Not to mention their incredible ability to change their body structure to not only limit and control their power, but also increase it. Which is quite different compared to the other species that can transform that only do so to get stronger.

And now she wants something in return in order for him to get an audience with the emperor. He can't give her money cause that she already must be rich, one of his inventions maybe, wait the meteorite.

"Milady, what if I were to not only show you the meteorite I collected, to confirm that it is actually special and worth your time and the emperor's. But would also allow you have a piece of it as a sort of, keepsake if you will." Dr. Grey said.

Letting someone have a piece of said meteorite is risky, especially if she is careless with it. But if it helps him get into the empire then he is willing to take that risk. He waited to hear from the noblewoman's response once more.

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"I am glad we both share something in common with our love of Frost Demons. And don't worry I don't carry it on my person. It's in my spaceship, heavily protected and contained. It's right across the street if you would follow me." Dr. Grey said.

He of course let the lady go first cause it is common courtesy. He maybe an immoral crackpot, but he can't forget good manners. As they walked outside he lead them towards their spaceship with his martian assistant Morton sleeping on the ramp. Sprawled out on it like a jellyfish washed out on the beach. He made awfully strange snoring sounds. Grey snapped his fingers next to him and waked Morton up who was shook from his slumber and groggily asked what was going on.

"Oh dear excuse me milady, but this is my assistant Morton a Martian. Morton this is Lady Lilith Nevermore she is a noblewoman representing the Galactic Empire and she is here as a guest." Dr. Grey said.

"Oh uh hello. Morton is just a nickname my full name is Maximus Orion Regalus Tyranus Octavius Nova the 42nd." Morton said extending a tentacle in friendship to Lilith.

As Dr. Grey walked inside and led the three he got out a remote and pressed a series of buttons opening a secret compartment and within it is holding the meteorite he was talking about. Held together within three force fields generated by many laser like devices.



Within the force field the meteorite can be seen and it does not look like an ordinary meteorite. Besides the strange energy coming from it one could even see what appears to be small yellow glowing eyes inside it. It's almost as if the meteorite itself is alive.



"Alright from what I gathered in my research the meteorite appears to be made out of many microscopic organisms no different to coral from Earth. I am not sure if the micro-organisms from this meteorite are a result of it's strange properties or what causes it. All I do know is that it's not contagious to one affected by it. All I need to do is give you a shard in a special container." Dr. Grey said.

After going to a console and pressing the proper buttons a bunch of robotic arms come out and begin making a small incision on the meteorite. One then takes the piece off and two others hold a container. The piece is placed into the container and another robotic arm seals a lid onto the container. The arm then takes the container to Dr. Grey who holds it up to Lilith. It appears a strange glowing orange shard that is shaped like fire.



"Now you must be extremely careful and cautious with this. I have yet to unlock all of the secrets this meteorite contains." Dr. Grey said.

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