A tournant fever had befallen the Larkinson Clan!
After encountering continuous setbacks and difficulties in their attempts to procure carrier vessels and secure contracts with vital resource suppliers, it beca clear to the Larkinsons that they needed to solve their problems from a different direction.
Winning a competition would definitely help! An excellent performance in front of a large audience would not only showcase the Larkinson Clan's strength and potential to interested parties, but also yield fantastic prizes such as combat carriers and other valuable goods.
Of course, the Larkinsons weren't the only newcors to the Red Ocean who understood the benefits. There were lots of other pioneering organizations that faced similar problems and made the sa choice. This led to an unprecedented degree of competition!
There could only be a handful of winners for every competition. Most participants ca away with only greater experience and another failure to their nas. There were so many skilled ch pilots and brilliant ch designers that it was truly hard to reach the top of any given competition.
Despite that, pioneers and adventurers kept applying to them in droves. Few were resigned to diocrity and wanted to find their opportunity to greatness.
There were many different competitions the Larkinsons could participate in. Chance Bay was a hub to many of them and specifically set up contests that were geared towards transient visitors.
"That's convenient." Ves said after he read up on the rules of several different tournants. "Since it is expensive for so many people to stay in a central star node, these contests never take more than a couple of days. The majority even end on the sa day they start."
Aspiring contestants didn't have to apply too far in advance to take part in these short competitions. As long as they t the requirents, they could get in even if the occasion started the next day. The tournant organizers were quite accommodating in this regard, and the format of their contests easily adapted to any additions or removals.
Shorter competitions were also more convenient to the live spectators who visited the Vulit Central Star Node in droves but could only stay for a short period of ti.
"…Guu…waaawaaa…"
"Oh, daddy is just thinking about what design tournants he should sign up for. Would you like to help choose?"
"…Ffuuwaawaaawaaa…"
Ves' heart lted as he leaned in to kiss his little daughter which he held against his chest. Feeling her body warmth against his chest and sensing the pure and innocent joy from her mind delighted him to no end!
Pure love radiated from him as he cooed and played with his baby. Becoming a father was one of the happiest instances of his life. Though the way he went about his day hadn't changed all that much, Aurelia's appearance had made his life a lot more joyful every day.
"…Miew… miew…"
His daughter's companion spirit was also a cute bundle of joy. Just like Aurelia, Mana spent much of her ti sleeping and resting.
However, after spending so much ti inside Aurelia's little mind, she had grown more curious of what lay outside her safe and cozy ho.
Nyaaaa.
The Golden Cat hovered around the little white kitten and made sure that Mana did not do anything dangerous. She also just loved to spend ti with her newest kin.
"Miew!… Miew!…"
Mana rolled around as Goldie gave her a bath. Even though spiritual cats didn't need to be cleaned, the habit was ingrained in their species!
Ves chuckled at the amusing sight. Even Aurelia stopped reaching out towards her father's face. Since Mana was another part of herself, she was able to experience the feeling of getting licked by Goldie as well!
"Waaaa…"
"Don't think about it too much, sweetie. You are you and Mana is Mana. You're a human, not a cat."
Once he finished attending to his baby, he swept his gaze back to the projected display.
The Larkinson Clan had the ability to participate in many tournants. Ves allowed the rest of the clan to make its own decisions on which ones they should join. General Verle and the legion commanders knew their soldiers better than anyone else and could make far better judgnts on where they could achieve higher rankings.
The Larkinsons weren't arrogant enough to believe they could realistically get into first place all the ti, but the prizes for entering the top 5 usually weren't that bad. Larger and more elaborate competitions also showered generous rewards to those who ended up in the top 10.
Aside from that, individual clansn such as the expert candidates were also allowed to apply to individual tournants themselves.
There was a considerable risk to doing so as letting so many of them enter into random tournants might yield a lot of embarrassing defeats.
"It's okay. It's better to try and fail than not try and miss a potentially great opportunity."
Even if there was only a 0.1 percent chance that any of these Larkinsons beca a finalist, the possibility of bringing ho an additional combat carrier or two was worth the effort!
The tournants, specially the ones revolving around ch combat, were also fantastic opportunities for the Larkinson ch pilots to gain valuable combat experience in a safe and controlled environnt. Even if they lost, they at least learned a lot of lessons from their beatdowns.
As for the embarrassnt they would cause to themselves or their clan, Ves didn't consider this to be a big deal.
Other organizations might be a lot more sensitive towards the impact that losses would have on their reputation, but Ves knew that if he and a few other Larkinsons managed to perform brilliantly in a couple of contests, their glorious achievents would easily outshine the clan's trivial losses!
"At the end of the day, reputation is a ans to an end. We don't need to get too fixated on becoming famous. What really matters is translating these intangibles into solid resources that increase the combat strength of our fleet." Ves reminded himself.
It was for this reason that he didn't care what his other clansn were doing as long as they applied to enough tournants.
Ves just needed to focus on what he was able to do by himself. He pulled up a giant list of ch design tournants that were scheduled to start within a month.
Though ch design tournants weren't as popular as ch combat tournants, they were still attended by plenty of people.
Although there weren't as many layn in the audience, design tournants attracted a lot more industry insiders. ch technicians, salesn, ch designers and so on all liked to attend these interesting events.
Perhaps ch pilots might get bored seeing ch designers spend hours on fiddling with designs or fabricating an entire ch from scratch, but those with the relevant background in ch design and ch manufacturing found them to be incredibly fascinating!
Novice ch Designers and Apprentice ch Designers cherished these opportunities the most. Design duels and design competitions were one of the few instances where they could see other, better ch designers perform their craft in the open.
Each of them hoped that they might be able to grasp new insights, gain bursts of inspirations, learn valuable lessons and at worst widen their horizons from observing the thods of more successful ch designers.
"Hmmm, there's tournants for Seniors and Masters as well." Ves noted with a bit of surprise.
These were usually high-end affairs that attracted a more elite crowd. They weren't held as often but always attracted a large amount of dia attention. Ticket prices were much higher, but the Red Ocean wasn't short of filthy rich people who were willing to splurge.
The prize pools weren't simple either. After all, Seniors and especially Masters were already successful and capable in their own right. They often had better things to do with their ti, so the only way to convince them to perform in public was to lure them with excellent fleet carriers, exclusive entry passes and even batches of phasewater!
Ves montarily grew red when he learned that the winners of these prestigious competitions were able to receive phasewater, but he quickly shook his head.
"I'm far from becoming a Master, let alone a Senior. Even if I break through tomorrow, I won't have any accumulation that would allow to beat other ch designers at this rank."
He could only settle for the contests that centered around Journeyn. Once he applied a couple of filters to the list, the number of tournants dropped by a huge amount.
The main reason for that was because he removed all of the tournants that centered around Novices and Apprentices as well.
There were a lot of competitions for low-ranking ch designers. They attracted huge crowds because they were cheaper and their learning content was more accessible to those with shallower foundations.
As for Journeyman-level design tournants, they were highly relevant to Apprentices who already developed solid ideas for their design philosophies but sought ways to push them to the next level.
"This is also a good opportunity for to recruit additional assistant ch designers." He realized.
If he perford impressive enough, then even if he failed to win any prizes, he could still co away with a harvest by recruiting additional personnel.
Sotis, there were also other Journeyn in the audience who wanted to witness how their fellow colleagues approached their craft.
"I can also approach other contestants in these tournants!"
One of his goals was to recruit two additional Journeyn. However, even after the clan had posted a recruitnt notice at the local job market, not a single person answered back.
The Larkinson Clan was too unremarkable and obscure in the Red Ocean. Journeyn were already formidable professionals, so they could easily find employnt in larger and stronger organizations!
If Ves wanted to attract available Journeyn, then he needed to make a splash and get in touch with them in person.
He was quite confident in his persuasive abilities. As long as he could hoodwink two of them to take a gamble and join an ascending organization in its early days, the Design Departnt would be able to complete 50 percent more ch design projects in the sa amount of ti. This was a massive leap in output!
Of course, all of this was fantasy if he was not able to achieve any good results. With Journeyn who grew up in more developed places such as the galactic heartland and the galactic center taking part in these contests, Ves knew that he would have a tough ti regardless of his choices.
"I need to stack the deck in my favor as much as possible."
Many design tournants adopted different formats, durations, requirents and thes.
For example, there was one design tournant that ran for three days and centered solely around designing knight chs.
There was another design tournant that did not impose any restrictions on the ch type that contestants were allowed to design, making them a lot more diverse and chaotic.
The thod of deciding which competition ch was the winner is also different from event to event.
In so of the competitions, the ch designers were allowed to bring their own champions who piloted their new works.
In other events, the tournant organizers provided ch pilots from their own pools.
There were even tournants where the competition chs didn't fight to eliminate each other, but instead faced several challenges in order to achieve the highest scores.
So of the larger and more extravagant tournants even utilized advanced technologies to produce duplicate chs or quickly repair heavily-damaged machines!
This way, these competition chs could continue to duel each other multiple tis with minimal delay, thereby preventing the audience from having to wait hours while nothing important took place.
There were so many different options that Ves grew dizzy from it all. Since he and his clan could only stay in the Vulit Central Star Node for a limited amount of ti, he had to weigh his choices carefully in order to avoid squandering his ti!
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