Their research had been abandoned halfway through, leaving only a rudimentary method for creating the Star Brand for Daisy to review. What a shame!
The Builders were like gamblers cutting rough jade. They had found a raw stone with excellent promise, then cut a small window into its outer layer. Thinking the jade inside had poor color and translucency, they set the stone aside without continuing to cut it.
Now, the small and underpowered Daisy had to continue working the stone from where they had left off. She knew there was jade inside, but she did not have the tools.
Overwhelmed with frustration, she cursed out those weak-willed Builders. How could their perseverance be so poor? They stopped researching just because they had hit a dead end? They gave up over such a tiny difficulty? The Builders had deeply disappointed Director Daisy!
"Something is better than nothing." She consoled herself. There were two sides to everything. If they had figured it all out, there would have been nothing left for her to do. Things were not all that bad as they were.
She had seen the Star Brand creation process, but she could not activate it immediately.
The Star Brand was created through a program called White Light. The super-energy work platform issued a command, energy gathered within the target universe, and then it was released into a sapient being.
If she activated it now, there was no telling who would benefit. She was not here to do good deeds.
She needed to return to Earth.
Moreover, the universe corresponding to her current work platform was not her own universe. The Builders possessed tens of thousands of work platforms throughout the Superflow World. This was merely one of them. Even if it issued the White Light command, it would create