Outside

The miner squadron walked out onto the open ground on the other side from the entrance of High Grand. Once they found out a good area to dig on, one of the miners set down a cloaking field in 30x20km area. To the outside eye and satellites in orbit, it would only be a little more mountain.

The miners then beagn to measure out the 28x18 area and began to dig down into the ground with their equipment starting from the west side of the area and went made their way to the east. They'd repeat this process for another 8km.

3 carts, stacked full of energon, entered the construction site. The carts were being pushed by Protectobots. One for each cart. The protectobots carried the carts to a corner of the site and left them there and started to head back up to command centre to bring more through. One of the Protectobots stopped and shouted out to his cousins that the energon had arrived and it was time to start building proper.

Now that the previous parts had been built, the first group began to add another part to the barrel. It was just like the first one, except this one had a small hook on one end. The hook was meant for attachmet purposes as that was how far in the barrel would reach. A group of protectobots ran over with the huge metal plates, slowly welding them together so that they could put it together with the previous piece. Now you could start seeing that the combined form began to look like something other than a big cylinder.

The other group did nothing. The energon was out now so that couldn't do anything at all... what a shame..

More energon, just what the protectobots needed. A good portion of both groups began to haul the energon that they had been given by their cousins. Not all protectobots were the same actually, these were builder class, bigger than the normal one but unarmed. The first group grabbed the first two carts and began to get to work. They started to fuse a third part onto the barrel, adding extra length and thusly extra accuracy. Three bots mounted a crane to lift the entire barrel up above the ground, allowing the protectobots to get under it and weld everything together on that side too. Now it was to add the last part.

At the end of the barrel, there were a larger circle added outside, with holes top, bottom, left and right. This was to add extra places that the fumes went out of after firing the bullet. This created decreased reload time and not to mention, it looked awesome. The ones in the crane waved at the bots down bottom thet thier job was finished now. Now they just had to wait.

The secon group grabbed three carts to make up for what they had missed before. They had to create the breech to make sure it could fire. They had finished the ground section and now build the upper part of it. It was a high pillar that was being built. It was hollow though, so that the barrel could fit in. It towered up above the protectobots, but it didn't stop them from actually building it. The bots were literally crawling over it to attach bits and pieces to it. This one was a lot more complicated than the barrel. This had technical parts that were required for manually firing it.

The big pillar drained a lot of enrgon to be built but all the computers were now functioning. The hole in the middle would make the barrel fit perfectly into it once it was inserted. The cannon was able to rotate in 360 degrees vertically and 180 horizontally. All was in working order, this was the first time in a long time that the bots built a gun of this size. Hopefully they wouldn't have to build a third one of this size, as a secons one was going to be built on Regenesis.

THe protectobots had now gotten the last carts of energon, meaning they could finally finish their project. The crane that lefted up the barrel moved, making the barrel slide into the breech, fitting perfectly as the cannon now was complete. The bots ran up to it, beginning to weld it together so that it didn't beak apart after firing, because that would be a real shame if it happened. The finished product was a massive cannon, bigger than any other that had been built for a long time, and not the last one of its kind. It would be alone for now though, they had no resources left to build the next one. This one would do however, as it packed a lot of firepower. A signla sounded and suddenly everyone jolted awake. It was a directive from high command, a target. They hesitated a brief moment before turning the cannon into the general direction that it was ordered to fire in. The sound of gears cranking was very loud as the giant cannon lined up and began charging up power. For this special occasion, a special bullet had been made. A hole in the back opened and allowed a bullet to be put in the slot. This was handled by two cranes as the massive bullet weighed a great deal.

With the bullet in place, the cannon charged for a few more moments before firing, creating a shockwave that sent all the protectobots tumbling to the ground, a big cloud of smoke erupting from the barrel as the projectlie exited at immense speeds, flying straight up to hit its target on the way down. When it hit, the result would be devastating as the bullet was armor piercing high explosive fragmentationl, or APHEF. This would be fun to watch..

((I honestly have no clue how ships are made and I have no clue on how ro go into really strong detail. So this the next few posts on Regenesis's construstion are gonna be underwhelming. I just honestly can't. If there is anything that should be added please tell me.))

A few hours passed and the Protectobots came rolling in with two carts each between the 10 resource mines. This was a small start but it was an important start. The engines were in place as was the scaffolding. The carts that contained metal minerals were quickly transferred into sheets of metal that were thick enough to withstand the vacuum of space. Once that was done, the 453 Protectobots began to start proper production while the Protectobots that rolled in the carts walked out to collect more materials from the others and maintain a steady supply line.

Production of the ship was split up into three parts; The front, middle and back. Right now the Proctectobots were focussing on the back of the ship. With the engines now being here they might aswell start of there. First step was to build around the engines by building from the bottom up. It took 10 hours to build the the bottom floor and another 15 to work upwards.

At this point in time the ship looked like a cube. But the rest of the back had to be done. Two wings had to be built on two sides of this cube. This job did bot pay well. But orders are orders. More scaffolding was placed and moved so that the wings of the ship could be made. The wings were made to kind of look like a cross between a Y and a T on it's side. The wings were made in 7 hours seperatly. Making it 14 hours total.

Skyspray exited the main base, taking the tunnels underground as to not draw too much attention. There weren't that many bots around to see him, but he preferred keeping it a surprise anyways. The door to the tunnels was heavily guarded too, one of the few places where protectobots were situated nowadays. Five protectobots equipped with heavy duty blaster rifles stood guard, accompanied by two sentry guns with twin rotating 75mm cannons. After the incident with The Nemesis, they really didn't have too many protectobots to work with anymore and this took priority above all else. Without this, they had no hopes of survival, that much was for certain. They couldn't fail, not now. Sky would not allow it. His heavy steps echoed throughout the hallway until he finally arrived at his destination: The construction site.

The light from the setting sun just reached his optics as he stepped out of the tunnel. It wasn't the real sun, as he was underground, but it was an artificial sun on the roof indicating what time of the day it was. While there hadn't been much activity around the rest of the base, the same could not be said about this place. Everywhere you looked, there were at least one bot moving parts or building something. This was the place all their resources had gone to. Sky was also just standing on a small piece of ground in a giant hole, most of it covered by a huge frame, the frame of Regenesis. A lot of it had been built already, which made Sky nod in approval. However there was a lot more to be built. This wasn't the biggest autobot warship that had ever been built for nothing. He couldn't even see it all from where he was standing, but the part he did see looked promising. It didn't have the weapons online or mounted on and just the basics and essentials were there, but it still wasn't a bad job.

Hey, Worm! What's the status on Regenesis? I want to see her in all her glory.

A protectobot that had been checking a data-pad jerked his head up when called upon and went over to Skyspray. His real name wasn't Worm, it was Protectobot 23-15-18-13. The numbers just happened to be spelling Worm if you matched the number with the letter. The bot gave Sky a salute before beginning to speak.

Skyspray, Sir, Regenesis is going according to schedule. We have just mounted the engines we stole from Nemesis and getting all of that set up. Forward deflector shields are also almost complete. Weapons systems are functional but far from finished, Sir.

Good, good. Seems like you have it under control then. Now bring a dropship around so I can get a better look.

Right away, Prime.

Worm spun around and shouted something at a nearby bot who began to run away to get a dropship. It was remarkable how quickly these guys operated. It didn't take long for a dropship to arrive and when it did, Sky and Worm entered. The dropship took off when they were all inside and flew up high, above the entire site, providing a view over the project as a whole. It was a very deep hole, a very very deep hole that had been dug out for this. Now, Sky could see a lot more going on than before. Protectobots were right now focusing mostly on getting the hull together, the bridge had not yet been built. Soldiers were wielding parts together, placing giant parts down on the massive structural frame. Where the weapons would sit, there was currently not much on except for a few pairs of 25m cannons on the left side. These were some big cannons, except they were around the smaller ones equipped on this ship. A single pair of 75m cannons were placed on the top of the hull. This was a cannon worthy of recognition. And more pairs were planned to get built too, how glorious!

The dropship kept circling above Regenesis, letting them observe it as much as they wanted. Worm kept quiet for most of the journey, only talking to respond to questions Sky had. They estimated that they could be able to continue production just as they had done thus far, they did have plenty of energon and metal as the Ark was being dismantled to make way for Regenesis.

They still circled around the construction site when Sky received the comm. At first there was no real reaction, but once Tarn was mentioned the atmosphere changed. Sky clenched his fists as he leaned back against the interior wall of the dropship. He vented heavily before flipping down his battlemask.

Worm, take us to those coordinates. We're going hunting.

Right away, Sir.

The dropship began to rise up, climbing higher and higher until it reached the ceiling. The ceiling split apart enough fir the dropship to pass and closed behind it. The doors on the ship closed as the ship picked up speed, blasting off towards the place where Tarn was last sighted.