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The Life Machine is a great treasure, and may be your people's more valuable asset. Aside from the potential of using it on yourself, which you write off as to not be corrupted by your own greed from your earlier life, you could use it to gain great scientific knowledge, the shift the social weight of the Hegemony's races, to gaining high value members of your society...
But in the end, you decide to use the Life Machine's once in a lifetime power to <span class="mu-s">revive an Andoen alien</span>. Simply creating one from scratch, while possible, seems less valuable then trying to revive one with existent memories and knowledge from that ancient culture. But how could you accomplish this? The last times the Life Machine was used, Starseers and beings with knowledge could interface with the machine to attempt to revive Cijan, or transform Bluey into the ideal Jaxtian form; you have no such resource this time. All you have is a half digested slurry. Regardless, you feel compelled to try.
You order the Andoen alien's remians into the machine, with as much of the worm cut out as you can, before sealing the doors. You bring an Andoen skull into the room.
<span class="mu-g">”I want you to give me this. Not some freak hybrid, or a bunch of perfected germs still alive in there- I want this. Bring me this. Do you understand me, oh mighty machine?”</span>
The glowing machine says nothing. It simply stands there, working its magic. How little you have changed from the spiritualists, praying to an unknowable force to get what you want out of it. This skull is even a totem. You place it on the table in front of you and leave the room, the hum of the life machine is all you hear within. After a few hours, its doors do not open. Then after a day- it remains closed. This is quite unusual. Did something go wrong? Or does this one simply need more time to cook?
<span class="mu-s">Year 129 of the Resurrection Era</span>
On Skik IV, a desert plant in the Hazaar cluster, new industrial centers have been set up to be as close to the Esaal's front as possible, mass producing AI cores from the plant's rich silicates. Honoring your trade deal with the Esaal hasn't been easy exactly, you've paid out the nose for the unique alien planet and put a roadblock in the way of your expansion with your economic turn-down, but this habitable planet has provided ample opportunities for some basic industry. However, a small snag has hit production.
