I Shall Evolve Everything

A rumbling came from the sky, trails of fire were blocking the sight of the planets. Rhea was back, my apprentice had finally appeared again. The jet that had disappeared 5 months ago let its landing gears down as the platform raised up, ready to catch the jet as it fell from the sky.

However I was not able to greet her, the gauss cannon in my hands still needed to be set up, if I neglected it then all the work that I had done to make it would disappear as it was exposed to the elements. I had majorly improved on the design, the one I currently held in my hands was sleek, looking more like a hunting rifle than the gauss cannon that it was.

The only problem with the design was that the gathering of energy would destroy it unless it was shot at the exact moment which was right now…

BOOM

The brace that I had made for it absorbed most of the impact, and although I could still hear the bang of the gun as it discharged the round it was faint as the sound of the jet landing covered the boom of thunder like noise it carried when shot.

Finally ready I headed towards the dock, however when I got there a good amount of time had already passed meaning that Rhea was most likely in the room that she had been using.

I changed course from the dock to the room, my footsteps were light allowing me to sneak up to the door without making any noise but it was all pretty much for naught as the sound of the sliding door opening alerted my apprentice to my arrival.

"5 months" I stated firmly, my eyes locking on to her own.

"What?" My apprentice questioned, a puzzled look on her face.

"Time dilation, for you it was 10 minutes, for me it was 5 months" I simply state, my deadpan having more effect than I had thought. Rhea's eyes opened wide as she took in the reality of what I had said.

Throwing a piece of paper that I had picked up on the way over to Rhea, I lean against the wall waiting for her to read and understand the equation.

"When you left, I racked my mind for answers and that is what I came up with, the faster you go the more time passes for the one that is still" I added, watching her understand the equation.

…

"Come, we are leaving" I commanded, waving my hand towards the jet.

"Huh, but it's not ready yet?" Rhea asks, most likely a handful of problems that she had already come up with from the short ride that she had taken.

"Doesn't matter we are completing this mission now" With that I got up from where I was leaning on the wall and walked towards the jet, a reluctant apprentice following me.

After we had reached the hangar that held the jet I snapped my fingers allowing the sound to be heard throughout the room, the noise detectors that I had set up activated, raising the jet upwards, towards the sky.

Of course this couldn't be done without aether, the noise detectors, the hangar, the dock that the jet was held in, they were all made using aether. It seemed that whatever was testing us was more focused on us soaring in the sky technologically that it had neglected to fail the other inventions that would help.

It was the whole reason that the matter generator even worked, of course the one on the jet was purely technological but because of that it was severely restricted only being able to make food and fuel, nothing else.

Once the jet was raised a ladder fell from the bottom allowing me to climb up and into the hull, behind me Rhea had followed, her form slowly ascending with me.

Though it seemed that she was a bit reluctant to get on for some reason, that wasn't going to stop this. I wanted to get this over with, no matter how much fun I had building these things. They weren't real, they were just things that would be discarded immediately after we finished evolving.

Once I had confirmed that Rhea was in the hull I had her strap down to one of the chairs, ready for takeoff as I climbed up into the cockpit.

…

Mechanical wires were deployed, feeling up my implants and allowing me to fully interface with the jet.

A series of mental buttons and checklists were run through as I started up all of the engines.

3..2..1

The landing gears were up, all the restraints that were holding us down to the ground were left behind as the stars rabidly grew closer.

However I wasn't going for the closest one, no, that would be too easy. Instead I was aiming for the farthest one that my vision allowed me to see.

It was the same in how we were able to use aether to construct support buildings, I had used aether to allow me to see far off into the distance without the need to wait for the light to reach me.

This had allowed for me to see the last planet, one that was light years away and would take approximately 2 years to traverse to. While the jet only had enough thrust to accelerate it to 10% of light speed, that was only when it had to constantly maintain the speed. Now that we were in space there was no need for it to fight the air.

Now it could constantly accelerate allowing for us to accelerate faster and faster until we were going so fast that light couldn't reach us.

Though that might be a problem in the future it was not one now, the current problem was resources. During our journey we would need to stop and gather resources from asteroids but to do that we would need to get out.

'How would we do that?'