Ves felt quite accomplished after he completed his work on the Valkyrie Redeer design.
The auto-enhancent function he developed was a more purposeful way of enhancing the spiritual foundations of his chs.
Even without this function, his chs would have gained a boost regardless, but the process wouldn't be as efficient.
Now, any ch that was lucky enough to be the carrier of a breakthrough would definitely be rewarded for its contribution. It was only fair for the lucky ch pilot to share so of the benefits.
Just to be sure, Ves implented a hard ceiling of 25 percent saturation of base foundation.
At 50 percent saturation, the ch in question beca capable of killing its own pilot. While the odds of this happening were very minor, the fact that the victims all consisted of ch pilots with spiritual potential would have massive repercussions.
Ves did not want to be responsible for killing off an entire population of future expert pilots!
"The MTA will definitely hunt down once it finds out!"
He set the limit at a percentage of the base foundation because he needed to account for expansions of the pool.
Considering that referring to percentages of saturation of base foundation quickly got tiring, Ves invented a new unit of asure to express the level of enhancent of any given ch.
"As the inventor of this new and unprecedented phenonon, I have the right to call it however I like. Since I'm naming a new unit of asurent, let's call it.. the Ves scale!"
Of all of the possible choices he could make, he settled for his own na! An intense wave of pride and accomplishnt burst from his mind!
"Yes! That's it! What a brilliant choice! I deserve a prize for my fantastic naming sense! Hahaha!"
As Ves erupted in laughter, Lucky woke up from his nap and studied the current state of his owner.
"ow!"
The cat recognized that type of laughter and instantly knew he needed to be sowhere else! He quickly phased his body and dove straight through the deck!
Ves took no notice of his cat. Instead, he beca engrossed with the illusion that he had joined the ranks of the greatest scientists of human civilization!
Many pioneers in science who discovered and quantified a new unit of asurent put forward their own nas. This was an ancient and long-standing custom in the scientific community.
"As long as other qualified people accept my unit of asurent, then it's settled!"
Right now, Ves was the only one who was versed in spiritual foundation enhancent. The rest of human civilization had no clue what the Ves scale actually stood for. This ant that his voice was the only one that mattered.
As Ves cast his vote on his suggestion, he won the naming competition by default. After all, he won 1 out of 1 total votes!
"I have made history today! Hahahahaha!"
In his mind, he had reasons to be proud. He formally joined the ranks of other shaless scientists such as Isaac Newton, Blaise Pascal, Anders Celcius, Jas Watt, Jas Prescott Joule, Heinrich Rudolf Hertz and many other people that often showed up in science textbooks.
Perhaps in the distant future where he finally felt secure enough to publicize his thods, every ch designer would eventually make use of the Ves scale throughout human space!
To define the unit of asurent, he arbitrarily equated 25 percent saturation of the base spiritual foundation of a fresh Bright Warrior ch to 25 Ves.
Since each ch was able to grow their spiritual foundation over ti, thereby stretching what a certain percentage of saturation actually ant, it was important for him to co up with an absolute rather than a relative unit of asurent.
After all, 25 percent of a single glass of water was a lot smaller than 25 percent of an entire swimming pool!
He made sure to record the degree of strength that corresponded to different amounts of Ves in to calibrate his internal Ves ter.
"Alright, that's done!"
Once he was done with admiring his new unit of asurent, he turned his attention back to the Valkyrie Redeer. So far, it was the only ch design that incorporated the experintal new auto-enhancent function.
"Its target audience shouldn't be weak, but just to be sure, it's best not to exceed 25 Ves for any LMC ch used by outsiders.
LMC chs with 50 Ves already beca deadly. Machines with 100 Ves beca deathtraps to every ch pilot that induced the hostility of their own machines.
The relationship between the ch and ch pilot mattered a lot! An LMC ch with 100 Ves could still offer a huge amount of help to ch pilots that truly respected it and treated it with care.
Yet because Ves couldn't account for the behavior of ch pilots outside of his clan, he needed to take the worst-case scenario into account.
"If there are any Hexer ch pilots in the Hex Army who frequently abuse their own chs, then I don't want to be responsible if their machines hit back!"
Aside from shielding him from liability, setting a hard cap of 25 Ves also ensured that his products wouldn't attract too much attention from the public.
While any ch that reached 25 Ves was still able to grow and develop a unique character remarkably quickly, only a few chs would ever be able to hit this maximum. The odds of ch pilots of the Valkyrie Redeers breaking through was miniscule, and the advancent of expert candidates did not unleash as much energy as true apotheosis.
"Even if the chances are small, I can't endanger the few winners."
For now, it was only safe to handle chs with higher Ves if Ves directly controlled their usage. He could only do so if the chs remained in his clan.
The chs piloted by the expert pilots when they broke through during the previous battle were all off-limits to others. The Quint that asured a whopping 150 Ves was the most dangerous of the surviving custom chs.
Even if the masterwork ch did not an to harm any Larkinson ch pilots, its presence alone was enough to crush a ch pilot's head!
The Quint was sacred to Ves. He did not want one of his greatest works to tarnish itself by bearing the guilt of killing one of its own users!
In order to ensure that no one developed any crooked ideas about chs such as the Quint, Ves wrote up a formal order and passed it to Major Verle. The clan needed to impose a new structure to restrict the usage of the most dangerous chs.
In addition, he also wanted to explore ways to set up a reward structure around spiritual enhancent.
ch pilots that earned a lot of Larkinson rits in battle or elsewhere should be allowed to exchange them for boosting their assigned chs.
Right now, he wasn't sure whether it was still necessary to enhance the foundations of the chs used by his clansn. With 5 expert pilots and 9 expert candidates, the Larkinson Clan could not handle any more breakthroughs.
"It will be different in the future."
When the Larkinson Clan expanded and matured, he wanted his ch forces to have a structure in place that automatically enhanced every LMC ch by a modest amount. That was the extent of the freebie that ch pilots received.
"If they want more, they have to work for it. This is the best solution."
People cherished sothing less if they did not have to sacrifice anything to obtain it. Ves wanted to keep his ch pilots motivated, so dangling this mysterious reward after so ti would definitely give them another reason to push themselves.
With that out of the way, he returned to the Valkyrie Redeer design and carefully inspected it from top to bottom several tis. Once he made sure that the ch did not contain any problematic issues, he packaged up the files and sent them to Gloriana.
Sure enough, she called him less than a minute later.
"You've finished the Valkyrie Redeer design?" She asked with a hopeful glint in her eyes.
Vs nodded. "Yes. I've updated the docuntation to describe the changes I've made to its glow and.. so other aspects. In particular, the retraction dial opens up a lot more options. The glow of the Valkyrie Redeer has definitely beco more remarkable."
The one regret he had was that the ch may score high on uniformity, it did not offer that much individuality. The auto-enhancent function helped a bit, but it was effectively limited to expert candidates.
That did not conform with his desires. Ves constantly sought new ways to improve the performance of regular ch pilots, not the privileged elites.
Gloriana quickly studied the updated design files. She stared long and hard at the design schematics. Though she couldn't see the changes that Ves had made, she could feel them, if only a little bit. Her perception of spiritual energy was still lacking.
"The ch feels.. more real. More emotional. More eager to deliver death." She spoke. "I'm quite happy with it! Compared to the Blessed Squire, the Valkyrie Redeer is more advanced in every way. We can truly prove to the Hegemony that our work is transformational."
She rambled for a few minutes how it was a great honor to help the Hegemony crush the Coalition and 'liberate' the entire star sector.
"So what will you do with the design now that it's complete?" He asked.
"Ah, as I said, I'll handle our communications with the Hegemony. I will send it to the Hex Army and so governnt institutions so that they can rigorously test and verify our work. As long as they don't spot any serious flaws, the Hex Army will soon be able to field them in battle."
"How long will that take?"
"The stakes are higher, now. While our chs are powerful, the Hexers are also apprehensive at their effects. They need to perform much more rigorous testing than we have ever perford. I would say the Valkyrie Redeer will truly make its debut in one or two months."
"That's a rather long ti."
"It would have been far longer if there wasn't a war going on. The Hex Army is usually very strict when it cos to introducing new ch models into its lineup."
"Maybe the ch will finally be able to show off its prowess at the date of our wedding. That would be a nice wedding gift."
"What a great idea!" Gloriana gushed. "I will definitely have to pass on this suggestion to the Hegemony. All of the foreign dignitaries that we've invited to the wedding will doubtlessly beco impressed when they see how easily our Valkyrie Redeers are able to crush the Fridayn!"
They chatted a bit more about the design. Ves tried his best to convey so of what improved or added without going into details. As Gloriana was already familiar with his work, she was able to figure out a lot by herself.
"The Valkyrie Redeer marks another evolution in my developnt." Ves sumd up. "The innovations I've implented have made this ch very different from our previous works. Every ch we design in the future will at least be able to reach this standard."
Both of them were happy with what they accomplished. Just like Ves, Gloriana accomplished so breakthroughs of her own. She had finally begun to digest the many insights she harvested from examining the masterwork chs and receiving instruction from Master Willix.
If she hadn't improved by such a considerable margin, then the anonymous ch designers who optimized the Valkyrie Redeer would have been able to make a greater difference.
Ves already looked forward to the next wave of ch design projects. He wanted to translate all of his gains into better chs, both for the Hex Army and the Larkinson Clan!
He wanted to design so many chs that he felt that the current limits were not enough anymore. Engaging in just 2 major design projects and 4 minor design projects ant that Ves would have to spend years to finish all of the high-priority ch designs on his agenda!
"Honey?"
"What is it, Ves?"
"Have you ever thought about expanding the Design Departnt?"
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