A starship is born, part 3 of 4

Yesterday, we saw a throwback white spaceship descend from the sky carrying who knows what? Actually, I do know. The starship itself carried sufficient computing power to eventually become the Library OMCOM. Its insides were hollow but of course nobody knew that at the time...

“OMCOM!” Rome exclaimed. “I don’t understand. What is going on? Whose ship is that?”
     “I am not exactly your OMCOM,” replied the livetar in a human-sounding voice. “More of a subset or clone but you may still call me by that name. And that ship is me,” said the livetar. “I computed that it would be the easiest way to transport the necessary components to put at your disposal.”
     “Yes,” said MINIMCOM. “However, we were not expecting your building to be in place so soon.” The livetar pointed to Rome’s new library. “This poses a problem.”
     “Why?” Rei asked.
     “It is not a problem,” the new OMCOM interjected. “MINIMCOM, you can simply excavate a sub-basement with sufficient volume. I will transport myself into the cavity directly. My memrons are self-powered. I do not need a physical connection to the rest of the library.”
     “Good idea,” said MINIMCOM. “Why did I not think of that?”
MINIMCOM’s livetar melted away while MINIMCOM the starship lifted off the ground and drifted silently until he hovered directly over Rome’s new library. MINIMCOM’s “roadgrader” cylinders extruded from the front, below the cockpit. When they were fully extended, the ends fanned out. They then changed from fan-shaped to a conical shape.
     “I have detected some porous rock and a few small caves 700 meters down. I will extract the strata there,” MINIMCOM announced in their heads.
     There was a rumbling noise and suddenly, the ground began to shake.
     “Is that an earthquake?” Rome shouted as she grabbed onto Aason. Rei steadied the two of them.
     “No,” replied OMCOM. “That is just a large volume of soil and rock being sent elsewhere.”
     This went on for a few minutes but eventually, the temblor subsided. The two cylinders retracted back into the spacecraft’s body then MINIMCOM returned to the landing strip. His livetar reappeared in front of them.
     “It is ready,” the all-black figure said.
     “Very well,” replied OMCOM. “This shell will return shortly.”

I had to build the storage compartment for the new OMCOM's memrons deep underground because as the cover of The Ark Lords there is a mini-nuke coming and I needed the OMCOM clone to survive. Meanwhile, everybody is confused. You can see that. But everything will be explained tomorrow. We get the new character, the new starship, Aason's cousin and best friend, all at the same time!