The creation process of the Four Aspects of Lufa revealed a couple of highly impactful truths about Ves.
He spent hours mulling over all of the implications.
It seed so obvious in hindsight.
According to his existing approach to ch design, he aspired to develop chs that combined the best of man and machine. Ves believed with all his heart that increasing the synergy between the two was key to achieving a greater level of performance than what chs could currently achieve!
In order to work towards this ambition, Ves invested his focus beyond the narrow confines of the machine.
Whereas most ch designers mainly paid attention to their chs in isolation, Ves looked at them as one half of a greater system. Without the explicit inclusion of the ch pilot as a core component, a ch design would never be complete in his eyes!
Ves wondered whether this caused him to develop spiritual attributes that revolved around life over the course of his early career. The more he believed that chs were alive, the more his spiritual developnt adjusted to his conviction!
It could also be the case that he already possessed these attributes from the start. The decisions he made in his first years as a ch designer unconsciously steered him into dedicating himself to a design philosophy that made good use of his spiritual inclinations.
"It doesn’t really matter whether the chicken or the egg ca first."
What truly mattered was that his spiritual attributes and his choice of specialization both contributed to a rather special circ.u.mstance.
Despite paying no regard to biochs throughout his entire career, it turned out that Ves may have a talent in working with them! Better yet, any bioch he might possibly design may very well exceed his work on classical chs!
Ves could hardly believe that such a coincidence ca into being, but the logic behind this theory was sound.
"Man and machine. Organic and inorganic."
What Ves understood as life was mainly centered around its spiritual aspects. To him, life did not necessarily have to co in an organic form.
Incorporeal entities like Qilanxo were very much alive to him despite the passing of her lizard body.
Yet that did not an that the LRA’s bioch designers were all wrong. Each of them assud that life was intricately tied to organic matter.
Strictly speaking, neither Ves nor people like Dr. Navarro held a monopoly on life and how it tied to chs. They simply approached the sa broad concepts from different directions.
"It’s due to this that my affinity with working with organic products is so great!"
He had been working under a handicap all this ti. From the mont he began to infuse his ch designs with life, he started a ga that was set to an astonishing difficulty level!
If not for the aptitude he inherited from his mother, he should have never been able to make any of his chs alive!
Yet because he was able to overco this initial hurdle with unnatural ease, Ves never asked himself whether classical chs were the best choice for his specialty.
They were all he knew and all he beca exposed to. Biochs were too distant for him. He never encountered a suitable opportunity to dabble with biochs for much of his career until now.
Though he still hadn’t touched a bioch, his forays into making organic totems already provided him with a preview of what might co.
If Ves assud that the amplification on organic totems remained constant on biochs, then Ves might possibly be able to design chs that were at least thrice as strong in the spiritual departnt!
In fact, the Four Living Aspects of Lufa were supposed to be very crude products. If Ves designed a proper bioch, then the amplification factor could easily reach ten or more!
How much more unbearable would it be to remain in the presence of an organic version of the Ferocious Piranha? How many more battles would the Fridayman lose if Ves designed an organic variant of the Valkyrie Redeer?
If Ves began to publish bioch designs based on new and existing ch concepts, the entire galactic rim might break! He would definitely attract a dangerous amount of attention from the MTA if it learned about the abnormally high effectiveness of his organic products!
"Biochs aren’t even the most suitable form of chs to ! There is another form that resonates even greater with my inclinations!"
That was cyborg chs. With a domain that revolved around both life and chs, the most appropriate form of machine was one that incorporated both organic and inorganic parts!
chanical components appealed to his traditional impression on chs. Organic components granted full play to his life orientation!
Cyborg chs beca more and more compelling to him. He felt an increasing attraction to them. Unlike other forms, cyborg ch straddled the line that separated both worlds.
While it was much more difficult to work with a ch that was neither purely tallic nor purely organic, the potential promise it conveyed to him caused his imagination to go wild!
Dozens of innovative and powerful cyborg ch ideas flowed through his mind. From a small but surprisingly untouchable stealth ch to a large and solid heavy knight, Ves beca inundated with fantastic designs that he may be capable of realizing!
For so reason, his thoughts strayed back to his Devil Tiger design.
"Compared to my other chs, it embodies the concept of a living ch to a much greater degree."
While his Devil Tiger did not incorporate any flesh and bone, it utilized a material that was pretty much the tallic substitute to them. ASMAS mimicked so of the traits of organic materials and granted considerably more possibilities for him to express his design philosophy.
Yet no matter how much nanomaterials were capable of mimicking organic materials, it was still chanical and tallic in nature. If Ves began to work with actual flesh, then his Life-based applications would be able to find much more fertile ground!
As Ves beca entranced by the power he could unleash in the form of cyborg chs, he ca very close to making a life-changing decision for himself.
However, just as Ves was about to whip out his System comm and invest all of his recently-earned DP on a collection of bioch-related Skills, his thoughts in this direction suddenly crashed into a wall.
"No! What am I thinking?! I can’t go down this rabbit hole!"
The cause of this interruption was a violent impulse surged from the depths of his mind. His nightmarish entanglent with Dr. Jutland along with all of the other threats he faced that was related to the Five Scrolls Compact ca forward again.
The horrible mories culminated in a recollection of that desperate mont when the Temple Protector of the Five Scrolls Compact almost ca close to killing Ves, his fellow clan mbers and his parents!
After learning about all of the atrocities committed by the Compact, Ves constantly resolved to apply his talents in life in a different direction!
The more Ves thought about shifting his research direction towards cyborg chs, the more resistance he encountered.
The trauma that Ves acc.u.mulated over the course of his encounters with the Compact had never gone away. They rely faded to an acceptable level.
It was only now that Ves contemplated a shift towards biotechnology that he encountered a ntal block.
Though biotechnology held a lot of promise to Ves, he had witnessed plenty of cases where both Compact and LRA researchers went crazy with the possibilities their knowledge opened up. The secrets of life were so tempting to people that they couldn’t help but pursue insane experints in the na of altering their species or attaining immortality!
Although Ves was attracted by these benefits, he did not wish to descend into total insanity to attain them. He just knew that he wouldn’t be able to hold himself back considering his prior track record in exercising restraint.
He knew that he already wasn’t exactly very rational most of the ti. If he began to transition into a cyborg ch designer, then he had a hunch that he might lose what little rationality that he still managed to retain!
"I can’t lose my sanity in the pursuit of greater power!"
Control was much more crucial than raw power. Ketis had always told him that. Even the longest and heaviest greatswords stopped becoming useful if their wielders were unable to swing them anymore.
While Ves recognized that applying his design philosophy to tallic chs was not a great fit, his current approach was not all bad.
Although the price that Ves had to pay was steep, he never had to worry about any of his chs turning into monsters.
There was also another reason why he valued classical chs over the alternatives.
"Trying to infuse life into products that are not supposed to bear it is a challenge. The difficulty of succeeding is greater.. but once I do, I will never be limited by the form of chs or devices!"
Ves felt that if he began to get used to designing biochs or cyborg chs, he might grow lazy. He would innovate less and beco more dependent on coasting on the power of flesh to make his products strong.
Of course, this was not exactly a valid argunt. As long as Ves remained disciplined and adopted the right mindset, his future accomplishnts with organic chs may very well be greater!
Ves beca more and more troubled by the dilemma he faced. Should he try to maximize the utilization of his aptitude and his design philosophy, or should he stay true to his current course and pursue his original ambition?
There were good reasons to go with either choice.
At so point, Ves began to recall a fundantal principle.
"ch designers exist to serve ch pilots."
Reciting these words dispelled much of the entanglent in his mind. His thoughts beca clear as ever as he began to look at his choices from a ch designer who wanted to accommodate ch pilots as best as possible.
As a ch designer, obsessing over biotechnology might derail him from trying to provide the best solutions for his custors.
Most ch pilots in the galaxy either abhorred or didn’t know what to do with biochs.
Yet Ves could not ignore the fact that ch pilots also wanted to pilot the strongest and highest-performing chs. So might argue that he would be doing his custors a disservice by clinging to his current handicap.
Though this dilemma still existed, Ves felt he had found a way to resolve it to his satisfaction.
"I can still design a cyborg ch even if I don’t know anything about biotechnology."
His collaboration with Dr. Swindell already proved that. During the creation process of the living aspects, the bioch technician was responsible for all of the biological work and manipulation. Ves didn’t do much, yet he was still able to make use of his specialty to make the organic totems alive!
Perhaps the Four Living Aspects of Lufa could have beco even more powerful if he manipulated all of the flesh himself, but working as a supervisor was already enough!
"I don’t need to risk my sanity to design a bioch or cyborg ch. I can just collaborate with soone who specializes in them!" Ves grinned!
This way, he got to keep the best of both worlds. His design philosophy would remain pure, but he still had the option of designing organic chs with exceptional power and capabilities!
"I’ll have to pick so up before I leave the LRA. I wonder if I’ll be able to gain the services of Master Brixton’s protégé..."
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