The Mech Touch Chapter 3716 - lrvan Rifle

Chapter 3716 - lrvan Rifle

After a fruitful visit to the Dragon's Den, Ves returned to the Spirit of Bentheim and put the matters concerning the pakklatons and the T Institute aside.

It took a lot of work to get everything up and running and he could not possibly perform all of the work alone. This was why he was patiently awaiting a response from the MTA.

"For now, it's ti to finish the remaining ch design projects."

With all of the matters relating to the Battle of Orange Tulip behind them, the Larkinson ch designers could fully devote themselves to completing the final sprint of the current design round.

While Journeyn such as Ketis and Tifi Coslone had already begun to fabricate the first production copies of their completed ch designs, Ves and a handful of other ch designers directed their attention to a more important ch design.

After a huge amount of work and effort, the Minerva Project was finally complete!

Ves, Gloriana, Juliet Staros, Sara Voiken and Professor Benedict were all satisfied with the latest iteration of the expert command ch that they had especially designed for Commander Casella Ingvar.

As far as expert ch design projects went, the Minerva Project turned out to be a fairly easy one to design. This was primarily because it was not that difficult to incorporate the various command and communication modules into the ch design.

Each of them were based on high-quality component designs that were already compatible with the ch design to begin with. Gloriana and Professor Benedict both possessed a lot of finesse and excelled at puzzling all of these powerful and demanding parts into a cohesive internal design.

Of course, the two also clashed quite a lot. Both of their specialties overlapped to a degree. Even though Gloriana was only a Journeyman, she was not afraid of voicing her opinions at all, especially towards a man.

For his part, Professor Benedict tried to keep an open mind, but when the discussion turned to subjects related to his design philosophy, he was unwilling to compromise!

Fortunately, the Senior did not apply too many solutions to the Minerva Project. If he beca more involved, then his design philosophy would have crowded out the other ones. This was not desirable as the Minerva Project was supposed to be a Larkinson ch rather than a Crosser ch.

When the four Larkinson Journeyn who participated in the project gathered together, they briefly studied their completed ch design one last ti before they were ready to fabricate the crucial expert ch.

"It looks better than I imagined. I never imagined that designing a powerful expert ch would go so smoothly." Sara Voiken said.

Ves smiled towards the defensive specialist of his team. "We owe a lot to Professor Benedict for designing all of the complicated elents that are related to the most powerful traits of expert chs. With his help, we were free to apply our own solutions without too many burdens."

"It's a pity that an expert command ch is not the best platform to showcase my talent."

Sara Voiken was exceptionally lucky to be able to contribute to an expert ch design project at her current stage. The circumstances in the Larkinson Clan wouldn't last forever. Once Ves and a few others advanced to Senior and beyond, the role that Journeyn could play in future expert ch design projects would definitely diminish.

Right now, the clan was too new and its team of core ch designers were still in the early stages of their careers. This created an opening where Journeyn who had just entered the clan could also take part in the design of important chs!

Although Sara was correct that a ch that did not possess a lot of armor was not a good place for her to maximize her unique abilities, she definitely played a useful role.

As Ves studied the armor system and inner structure of the Minerva Project, he could clearly recognize that the expert ch definitely gained a boost in its defensive capabilities.

Perhaps the difference was not as much as he hoped, but even a modest increase in damage resistance could allow Commander Casella to survive an engagent against a dedicated kill team of enemy expert chs!

In addition, due to Sara Voiken's specialty in physical negation, the armor system designed for the Minerva Project excelled at repelling physical projects and lee weapons!

Due to the Minerva Project's high strategic value, Sara paid extra attention in raising its resistance against powerful piercing blows.

Anyone who thought that a command ch would crumble instantly when attacked by an expert light skirmisher would receive an unexpected surprise!

Though the defenses of the Minerva Project couldn't keep up with most expert chs, the true value in having a defensive specialist around was her ability to raise a ch design's defensive coefficient while maintaining the sa mass and volu.

Therefore, even if Sara Voiken felt as if one of her hands were tied behind her back, she definitely made a positive contribution to the ch design. Ves was fully satisfied with her performance in her first collaboration on such a complicated project.

"I am looking forward to how fast the Minerva Project can fly." Juliet comnted. "This ch carries a considerable amount of mass, but her mobility is not weak."

The Minerva Project's acceleration and maneuverability characteristics were nowhere comparable to that of the Dark Zephyr or the Star Dancer Mark II. It carried too much baggage around to dance ballet.

However, Juliet managed to squeeze in a fairly powerful flight system with the help of their external consultant. Professor Benedict specialized in energy transmission systems, which essentially ant that the Minerva Project could provide considerably more juice to its systems.

One of the consequences of that was that the Minerva Project's flight system was able to provide more thrust power than usual for an expert ch of its size and budget.

Did this turn the Minerva Project into a capable duelist? Not really. What Juliet was able to accomplish was boosting the expert command ch's straight-line acceleration.

They all decided that this was the best course of action for the Minerva Project because it allowed Commander Casella to reach the places of the battlefield where she was most needed in a tily manner.

Being able to move faster also allowed it to outrun many more expert lee chs that might attempt to kill one of the leaders of the Larkinson Army.

No matter what, a lee ch that couldn't keep up with the pace of its target was hardly a threat!

Even if certain expert chs possessed the ability to damage enemies from a distance, as long as they didn't carry any powerful ranged weapons, the Minerva Project was more than capable of firing back!

"I'm pretty happy with how my new Irvan transformable luminar crystal rifle turned out." Ves smiled with pride.

It had been challenging for him to design a luminar crystal weapon that possessed substantially different weapon modes.

He not only needed to design both a long-ranged rifle and a short-ranged submachine gun, but also co up with additional components to combine the two together in a single weapon fra!

Suffice to say, Ves had to put in a lot of hours to make this weapon concept viable. He studied a lot of models of existing transformable guns, but blindly copying their solutions didn't work due to the peculiarities of luminar crystals.

Ves had to put on his innovator hat and invent a lot of specific solutions to co up with this formidable and flexible energy gun.

Considering all of the ti and effort he put into it, he decided to give it a na of its own. There was no particular reason why he called it the Irvan. Maybe he thought it sounded similar enough to Casella's family na while still being unique enough to prevent confusion.

Whatever the case, the Irvan was a distinctly powerful luminar crystal weapon that strongly distinguished itself from the other comparable weapons that Ves had designed for his other expert chs.

Of all of the expert ch-grade weapons that he had designed, the Amaranto was unquestionably the most high-profile one. It was hard not to beco impressed by its supre firepower and long-ranged suppression.

Since Ves had not bothered to bestow it with a na, Venerable Stark had taken to calling it the Instrunt of Vengeance. It did not take a lot of thought to figure out why she settled for this na.

The Everchanger's luminar crystal rifle was a bit more standard and balanced in attributes. It was not as special as the other weapons of its level, but if Venerable Joshua resonated with it, the gun would definitely acquire special traits over ti!

Joshua hadn't nad the weapon yet so Ves had taken the liberty of calling it the Vitalus.

The only other existing expert ch-grade luminar crystal weapon in the expeditionary fleet was the one wielded by the Star Dancer Mark II.

Venerable Brutus had a slightly more powerful weapon at his disposal. Due to its size and mass limitations, the rifle was remarkably compact and suited a mobile expert ch extrely well.

Funnily enough, when Ves inquired whether Brutus had nad the weapon, the expert pilot responded that he had taken to calling it the Hexacris.

Ves scratched his head when he heard this na.

In any case, each of these high-end weapons possessed their own advantages and disadvantages.

In terms of power level, the Minerva Project's Irvan probably ranked second when it was in its rifle mode.

The weapon looked fairly impressive in this state. Not only was it almost as big as the Amaranto's Instrunt of Vengeance, it also shared many of the sa features.

This enabled Commander Casella to contribute in a similar fashion, though not as drastic as Venerable Stark.

No matter what, the Amaranto was completely optimized for long-range marksmanship. Its accuracy and ranged power output in combination with its expert pilot was unparalleled in the Larkinson Army!

Against closer-ranged opponents, it was no longer suitable for the Minerva Project to wield such a large and unwieldy rifle. Its muzzle was excessively long and could lead to plenty of problems in close-ranged combat!

This was why the Commander Casella could choose to detach the forward muzzle as well as a part of the chassis.

Once the Minerva Project stowed away these parts, what was left transford into a submachine gun that was considerably lighter and possessed a completely different firing mode.

Its high firing-rate but low power per shot did not look impressive, but it was enough to threaten light chs while posing enough threat to other lee chs.

Was the Irvan in its submachine gun mode an impressive weapon? Definitely not. Was it better than many other options? Likely yes.

Ves felt it was worth it to put in the extra effort to bestow the ch design with a submachine gun mode. Although the complicated weapon perford well in many of the simulation tests, he needed to see the finished product in action to be certain of the results.

He had a good feeling, though. The Irvan might not be the most powerful or even the most flexible ranged weapon, but it was just right for the Minerva Project and its expert pilot.

All in all, the Minerva Project was not a simple expert ch.

Compared to the more common ch archetypes such as light skirmishers and dium knight chs, a command ch was a weird beast that ca in many different forms.

To so states, a command ch should look like a bloated beast that contained as many command and control modules as possible!

Other people believed that command chs should essentially be the ch version of a mobile command center. The machines that conford to this vision were essentially the ch version of buses that housed battlefield commanders and their staff!

The Larkinson Clan did not support any radical ideas about command chs. The Minerva Project possessed fairly normal traits for a ch of its role. The only truly peculiar elent aside from its Irvan rifle was its special properties that ca from being both an expert ch and living ch.

The Minerva Project had a lot of extra tricks up its sleeve!