He wasn't certain if the soul space time achievements counted outside world time, or soul space time. But, he figured it would be ok to wait fifteen soul time minutes first. If nothing happened, he'd drop the acceleration back to 1:1 and wait another fifteen minutes.
He had GP to spare, and he wanted to minimize the time his body remained unattended, but he only had enough GP to increase his EP rate to 13. That wasn't a nice round number, so he left his EP rate at 10/sec. Done with EP increases for now, he turned his attention to the Template Catalog. Each item in the catalog had a name, a cost, a mental image, and sometimes a description.
Wood Chair
-Instantiation Cost: free
-Operation Cost: negligible
Wood Table
-Instantiation Cost: free
-Operation Cost: negligible
The first two items were a wood chair and wood table. Each item had two costs listed. One was the cost to instantiate an instance of the template, and the other was how much EP/sec the instance would add to his soul space cost. Both the chair and table were free to instantiate, so he selected the wood chair. As soon as he did, he felt a mental prompt that allowed him to place the chair anywhere in the white room. He set the mental projection in front of himself, then confirmed his selection. The chair appeared in front of him instantly and silently. One moment it wasn't there, the next it was. The chair's arrival was accompanied by a mental sense of the action succeeding.
He picked up the chair and examined it. At first, it looked like a simple wood chair, but then he noticed there was no sign of assembly. No seams, no joints, no nails, no screws, or bolts. As far as he could tell, it was made, or carved, out of a single piece of wood. The wood was a rich, dark reddish brown color and had a satin finish. Fran had dragged him through several furniture stores, including some with high-quality furniture, and this chair made all the other chairs he'd seen look like nothing but scrap. It was a plain wood chair, no decorations, no carvings, just plain flat wood, and yet it somehow felt like it was the best damn wood chair in the world. When he sat in it, he found it was also very comfortable, for a wood chair.
Room (Rectangular)
-Instantiation Cost: 1 GP/100 square meters of surface area
-Operation Cost: 1 EP/sec/100 square meters of surface area
-Description: Length, width, and height are adjustable.
Room (Cylindrical)
-Instantiation Cost: 1 GP/100 square meters of surface area
-Operation Cost: 1 EP/sec/100 square meters of surface area
-Description: Height and Radius are adjustable.
Room (Domed)
-Instantiation Cost: 1 GP/100 square meters of surface area
-Operation Cost: 1 EP/sec/100 square meters of surface area
-Description: Radius is adjustable.
Room (Spherical)
-Instantiation Cost: 1 GP/100 square meters of surface area
-Operation Cost: 1 EP/sec/100 square meters of surface area
-Description: Radius is adjustable.
Hallway Segment (Rectangular)
-Instantiation Cost: 1 GP/100 square meters of surface area
-Operation Cost: 1 EP/sec/100 square meters of surface area
-Description: Length, width, and height are adjustable.
Hallway Segment (Cylindrical)
-Instantiation Cost: 1 GP/100 square meters of surface area
-Operation Cost: 1 EP/sec/100 square meters of surface area
-Description: Length and Radius are adjustable.
He was excited to see that the next six items were rooms and hallways. Not because he was excited about adding rooms to his soul space, but because the presence of these items implied he might need more rooms in the future. And rectangular rooms and hallways made sense, being what most houses and building used. But why would he need a domed room or a spherical room? As far as he could tell, there was no size limit, so if he could afford the cost, he could theoretically create a room big enough to host an entire planet. Maybe that was the purpose of the spherical room? Though it seemed crazy just thinking about it. The cost would be astronomical, at least trillions of EP per second. He shook his head; the idea was just too far out there, so he discarded it as fanciful and looked at the next set of items on the list.
Room Door
-Instantiation Cost: 1 GP/10 square meters
-Operation Cost: 1 EP/sec/100 square meters
-Description: Width, height, and locking modes are adjustable.
Security Door
-Instantiation Cost: 1 GP/10 square meters
-Operation Cost: 1 EP/sec/100 square meters
-Description: Width, height, and locking modes are adjustable.
If there were rooms, then it made sense to have doors. But he had no idea why there was both a "room door" and a "security door". Both had the exact same description, so the only way to learn what distinguished a security door from a room door would probably be to instantiate one of each. He turned his attention to the last three items.
Environmental Controls (Normal)
-Instantiation Cost: 10 GP
-Operation Cost: variable
-Description: When installed in a room, allows control of lighting, temperature, and interior room surfaces. Light and temperature ranges are limited to levels that would not cause injury to room occupant.
Environmental Controls (Weather)
-Instantiation Cost: 100 GP
-Operation Cost: variable
-Description: When installed in a room, allows control of lighting, temperature, interior room surfaces, and weather. Light and temperature ranges are limited to levels that would not cause injury to room occupant. Weather is limited to non-disaster levels.
Environmental Controls (Extreme)
-Instantiation Cost: 1000 GP
-Operation Cost: variable
-Description: When installed in a room, allows control of lighting, temperature, interior room surfaces, atmospheric pressure and composition, and gravity. Levels are limited to what can be sustained with available Energy Points.
The first was fairly normal. It allowed environmental control of a room, not just light and temperature, but also room surface. He wondered if this was just color, or if he could also alter the room's surface texture. Could he give the walls an eggshell texture, and the floor a carpet texture? He'd find out when he created one.
The second was interesting because it also allowed control of the weather within a room. He wanted to know what the Genesis Heart considered disaster level weather. In Puget State, snow was infrequent, so two feet of snow might be considered a disaster, but in Ouisconsin two feet of snow was just another winter day. Some places saw golf ball sized hail at least once a year, so that might not qualify as a disaster. Though hurricanes and tornados were probably considered disaster level, no matter where you were.
The last environmental control, however, was surprising. It too could control lighting, room surface, and temperature, but it could also control air pressure, atmospheric composition, and gravity. And all of them could be adjusted without limit, other than EP costs. That meant with sufficient EP/sec, he could raise the temperature of a room to levels sufficient to sustain fusion! What would happen to him if he was in the room when that happened? Or to his soul space as a whole? Would he die? Could he die in his soul space? He certainly wasn't planning to test it out to see what happened. As far as he knew, death was permanent, and the last thing he wanted was for his soul to die, leaving his body an empty shell.
With that happy thought, he continued looking through the template catalog.