The Mech Touch Chapter 2265 - Lovers of Mech Designs

The physical projection of Master Willix calmly inspected the design schematics of the Cat’s Paw.

Ves casually stood in the isolated chamber while the Darkbreak module remained active.

Perhaps in the past, he would have never dared to call an esteed MTA Master ch Designer, especially for sothing as trivial as seeking consultation.

Yet after frequent contacts and talks with the Master, Ves slowly lost his apprehension towards Moira Willix.

Certainly, he did not dare to act too presumptuously in front of other MTA Masters. They enjoyed a very high status in one of the most powerful organizations of human civilization. Each Master from the Association could easily affect the lives of entire star sectors with their words and deeds!

The fact that they remained distant and aloof from the local space peasants made them even more unfathomable. Many ordinary ch designers who never interacted with the core people of the MTA developed all sorts of wild fantasies about the great organization that represented their profession.

Ves was no different, once. Yet now that he had co into contact with both the Rim Guardians and Master Willix, he realized that the elite humans who were part of the Association were not as obtuse as he thought.

Familiarity slowly tore away the veil of mystery in front of Master Willix.

The more he talked to her, the more he realized that she was a very pure ch designer.

Her heart for ch design was not bothered by temporal desires such as greed or power.

Ves recognized that she simply wanted to design better chs. Nothing else.

Her status within the MTA rely served as a ans to an end to her. That said, it would be a mistake to think of her as soone who stood apart from the Association. She lived and breathed its rules down to her very bones.

That was both good and bad.

The advantage to Ves was that she possessed a very generous mindset towards young talents like him. Every ch designer bore the responsibility of bringing up the younger generation. Even though Ves was barely older than thirty years old, he already started to take on this role by teaching Ketis, the Larkinson seeds and the rest of his assistants.

The bad news was that she was quite strict with the rules. There was no way he could gain an exception from her. The most she was willing to do was to bend the rules, but if sothing was absolutely forbidden, she would never acquiesce!

Ves admired her for that. She held onto her principles like a solid rock. Her steadfastness presented an extre contrast to his.. flexible conduct in matters of principle.

Regardless, her nature as a teacher and her open favor towards him had made Ves a little bold.

Since Master Willix was willing to guide him, why not take advantage of it? As long as he no longer paid so much stock to her identity as a powerful and inscrutable MTA Master Designer, she was just a very enthusiastic lover of chs.

Ves happened to love chs as well!

Over the course of his interactions with many people, he gradually learned an important lesson.

No matter how different he was from others, he could still get along with them as long as he focused on what they held in common.

No one was the sa, and there were many people who possessed completely different backgrounds, ideologies and principles than him. Yet by finding so common ground such as originating from the sa state, fighting the sa enemy or participating in the sa mission, Ves got along with folks ranging from Ylvainans, Swordmaidens and other weirdos.

If he could befriend religious nuts and forr pirates, why shouldn’t he be able to have a normal conversation with one of the most influential people in the Komodo Star Sector?

Master Willix finally gathered her thoughts. To be honest, Ves didn’t believe this was the first ti she studied the incomplete Cat’s Paw design. Ves had collaborated with Gloriana many tis through the Darkbreak module, so Master Willix should have easily been able to peep at them while they slowly pieced the heavy artillery ch together!

"I didn’t have to study your record to know that the Cat’s Paw Project is your first heavy ch design." She began. "It is very arrogant for you to design a heavy ch of this caliber for the very first ti. You also have no experience in designing artillery chs. The rifleman chs you have designed in the past are completely different from what you are trying to tackle."

Ves grew a little hot. "My partner has helped shore up my shortcomings."

"Miss Wodin is not a heavy ch designer. Just because she has been involved in so heavy ch design projects as an assistant in the past does not an she understands the essence of heavy chs. The two of you lack too much comprehension to design a competent heavy ch."

It hurt a bit when she told him that his work was inadequate, but Master Willix’s judgent was probably correct. As a maturing ch designer, Ves understood the earnestness of her admonishnt. She did not criticize him in order to step on his face. She pointed out his mistakes in order to set him onto a correct path.

"Please guide , ma’am." Ves slightly bowed. "I have tried my best to apply what I have learned, and so did my partner. In our eyes, our Cat’s Paw Project should have conford to what we have learned."

Ves had studied several Clarion University textbooks that related heavy chs. Gloriana possessed her own Hexer learning resources.

While the Friday Coalition and the Hexadric Hegemony possessed slightly different interpretations of heavy chs, there were a lot of universal principles.

"There is not much wrong with the design principles that you have learned. The issue is that you may know how to implent a solution, but do not entirely understand why you should choose a specific solution. The small errors that you and your partner are making is a problem of vision, not science."

Well that sounded clarifying. Not. Ves tried his best to keep his frown off his face.

"Uhm... could you elaborate?"

"Let ask you this. Your experience with heavy chs is limited, correct?"

He reluctantly nodded. "That is correct. Heavy chs are not ubiquitous in my daily life. My design activities mostly intersect with the private sector. On so rare occasions, I accept commissions from governnt entities, but even then I rarely get in touch with heavy chs."

There were very few heavy chs in the Larkinson Clan. The Flagrant Vandals had brought over their Akkara heavy artillery chs, but there weren’t many of them. Ves never visited the Princely Jackal or other Vandal sh.i.p.s, so he had never studied those impressive chs up close.

"You need to develop a better feel towards heavy chs, Mr. Larkinson. Therefore, the first step you need to make is to see and study them up close. You need to understand the raw power they possess, the enormous amount of mass that make them solid and the many limitations they possess that make them vulnerable to certain attacks. While I am certain that you already possess a good amount of understanding of the theory, this is slightly different."

He understood what she was trying to convey. His perspective towards heavy chs was too distant and too heavily based on theory. This caused him to develop a skewed and shallow understanding towards these majestic machines that was very flawed in the eyes of a high authority in ch design!

Normally, Ves would have sought to undergo a Mastery in heavy chs, but this was not the ti for him to ntally wander off for a week.

As long as Task Force Predator remained in the Nyxian Gap, Ves had to assu that a crisis could burst out at any mont!

"I will take the ti to get up close to heavy chs. Thank you for the advice. Do you have any other advice, ma’am?"

The physical projection of Master Willix began pacing around the isolated chamber. She wasn’t in a hurry to open her mouth.

For a mont, Ves developed a strange thought. Since she projected herself in this chamber in this fashion, wouldn’t it be possible for him to..

What was he thinking?! Ves imdiately scrubbed his mind of irrelevant thought. This was not the ti for him to think about the activities he perford with Gloriana’s physical projection in this chamber!

Fortunately, Master Willix didn’t seem to notice his impure thoughts.

"The basic rationale for heavy chs are simple. They are large, heavy machines that possess so much mass that they are incapable of relying on their mobility to dodge or evade attacks. They are also slow to move, which is a disadvantage in many battles. Retreating becos impossible, and so does advancing quickly. This is also why they are mostly fielded by state ch militaries. Heavy chs are very potent in both large-scale battles and battles of attrition."

Ves nodded. "Another reason why heavy chs are used by states is because they provide much more value relative to how much capacity they occupy on a carrier vessel."

"That is an important reason for their use, yes. With the various advantages and disadvantages of heavy chs, it is rare for smaller private organizations to make use of them. Naturally, this rule applies less to larger organisations such as your Larkinson Clan. Tell , what is the reason for you to design the Cat’s Paw?"

"Our Larkinson Clan will soon acquire a factory ship and a fleet of combat carriers. Each of them are very valuable and require a lot of protection. Since they co with bunkers, we can make use of them by slotting in the Cat’s Paw."

"Why design the Cat’s Paw as a landbound heavy artillery ch?" She asked. "Why did you not design a spaceborn heavy artillery ch instead?"

"The mobility of the latter will never be good. Adding a functioning flight system onto a heavy ch is an enormous building and will take up way too much capacity. A lot of the energy that the ch can draw upon will have to be diverted to the flight system as well, thereby reducing the firepower of such a ch even further. I would rather design a flightless heavy artillery ch that I can fully devote towards maximizing firepower."

She nodded. "This is a logical reason. Spaceborn chs have to devote a considerable amount of capacity to accommodate flight systems. This is a major burden that you must have already experienced in your previous ch designs. However, you are missing the point. There are many differences between spaceborn and landbound heavy artillery chs, but why do they truly exist? Why has the ch community settled on defining heavy chs within specific boundaries?"

Ves paused a mont. He dug up a lesson he learned long ago. "Heavy chs should be big enough to fulfill their roles in a cost, resource and ti-efficient manner. They should not exceed a certain mass or volu because doing so makes them less efficient in the areas that I have ntioned."

"That is a good answer, Mr. Larkinson, but it does not address the point I am trying to make. ch designers develop heavy chs along a substantially different paradigm from light and dium chs. There are good reasons why most ch designers who choose to specialize in heavy chs belong to a different category. It is not easy to span all three standard weight classes."

She provided another vague answer. Ves felt increasingly more irritated at her lack of clarity. Master Willix probably didn’t want him to obtain answers from others. She believed it was best if he ca up with the answer on his own!"

"Every ch designer develops a slightly different perspective towards heavy chs." Master Willix noted. "Depending on how you view them, your heavy ch designs will take on different characters. This is sothing you must explore on your own. This is a deeply personal process."

"Understood. Thank you again for your guidance." Ves respectfully bowed yet again.

The guidance of a genuine Master ch Designer neatly made up so of his weaknesses that he had developed as he rose up into prominence.

Despite his various thoughts towards Master Willix and the MTA, he earnestly appreciated her teachings.

As a ch designer, he could set aside everything else in order to learn so valuable lessons!