3839 Instant Inspiration
Purgatory was an odd space.
Ves could imdiately tell that he was no longer in a normal place as soon as the shuttle entered the other side of the portal.
There was sothing… different to his senses that only more sensitive people such as himself would notice.
It was as if he had long lived in a realm where his body was completely aligned to a specific frequency.
Now that he had entered a different space, the frequency of the new environnt was a little… off. The difference was relatively minute and his body and mind did not beco negatively affected by this change, but it still produced a sense of discordance that was hard to describe.
Ves had no idea whether this would produce any negative side effects. For now, it was like a faint high-pitched tone in his ear that would never fade away but one that he could easily disregard as long as he did not concentrate on it. The altered frequency only beca a detrint if he considered it a bother.
He quickly set aside this odd little interaction and focused on the other changes. There wasn't much he could observe from within the armored shuttle and the projected footage of the outside environnt did not do Purgatory justice.
He resolutely issued a command.
"Halt the shuttle and open its hatch. I want to go outside and take a look in person."
Though his command disrupted his itinerary, he didn't care about that at the mont.
The pilot steered the shuttle to the side so that any subsequent chs and vehicles passing through the portal did not collide with it. Once it hovered in a safe space, the hatch slid open, allowing nurous armored figures to float outside.
Ves took a deep look at the majestic vision above his head. Throughout the mysterious gray fog that hid the boundaries of the pocket space, he could see nurous different asteroids floating in place as they had done for many years.
Naturally, these asteroids had to be fixed in place in order to remain in their exact positions without shifting the entire ti. They also received other forms of protection to make sure that the fish-whales or other other destructive influences did not shatter them into pieces.
All in all, Purgatory was indeed a remarkable pocket space. Only a peak power such as the Big Two could rival such a creation.
Ves already began to exhibit more awe towards the phase whale that created this large and private playground. Alien or not, to be able to wield science and power to such a grand degree was proof that the creator had reached the pinnacle in its field.
Even if the phase whale was long dead and gone, Purgatory served as an enduring monunt of the creature's greatness. It was a grand design that other creators like Ves would feel privileged to co in touch with. He already began to gain inspiration from this sight, and this was when he had just passed through this portal!
"I knew it was the right choice to venture inside!"
For a mont, he did nothing except to keep his gaze upwards and let his imagination run free.
He began to think about the formation of the pocket space.
He imagined what it was like when it was still operating in its original form.
He thought about the diverse kinds of tech he needed to master in order to create a similar pocket space.
He visualized how the passage of ti affected Purgatory's internal situation.
He crafted a story around the fish-whales, who originally served as test subjects for so kind of biological program but had now broken free and taken control of their own destiny.
He thought about the ergence of many different native kingdoms, only for the Swarrs to gain the upper hand and swallow up enough rivals so that only four distinctly different groups of fish-whales remained.
The entry of humans into Purgatory represented a new chapter of history to the native life forms of this pocket space. For the first ti in millions of years, outsiders had co. The status quo that had existed for many generations was about to undergo a drastic change.
Thinking about all of the gains he ca to make in this pocket space caused his imagination to take a completely different turn all of a sudden.
From the mont he thought about how he could apply his potential gains to his future ch designs, he began to generate the strangest idea that he had co up with for a while.
"What if… every living ch I design cos with its own 'pocket space'?"
It was an absurd thought and one that was clearly impossible to be realized!
A single ch that carried a whole pocket space the size of a moon was an absolute treasure that was no less expensive than a CFA battleship!
Naturally, Ves did not waste any ti on such an unrealistic fantasy. He instead interpreted the 'pocket space' attached to his chs in a more figurative sense.
"It is clearly impossible for to design a ch that can match the creation of Purgatory, but what if the pocket space is an imaginary rather than a real space?"
It was an interesting thought experint and had so much potential that Ves seriously tried to play it out. What would he do if he could impart an illusionary pocket space to his chs?
He thought about his upcoming ch design projects and honed in on his intention to design a comrcial training ch.
Ever since he developed the intention to start this ch design project, he had always felt a bit dissatisfied with its concept.
It was easy enough to take the Chiron design as a base and convert it into a more universal ch design.
However, Ves would never be satisfied with such a straightforward conversion. The potential of growth chs was more than that and his urge to innovate needed a greater challenge in order for him to feel fulfilled.
He already lined up a few ideas to enhance the value and functionality of his comrcial training ch, but none of them were groundbreaking compared to the existing functions of his Chiron design.
The potential to impart an illusionary pocket space in his training ch was different!
As long as he was able to accomplish this, he could shape this pocket space in any way he wanted.
The application that would fit a training ch the best was to create a simulated battleground.
It would function similarly to all of those virtual piloting simulators that his Larkinson ch pilots regularly used to practice their skills and build up combat experience.
Of course, Ves was well aware that those sophisticated simulation programs always possessed shortcomings.
The first biggest shortcoming was that they did not correctly interpret the less straightforward aspects about chs. The functioning of more esoteric exotics and the effects of various design philosophies such as his own translated poorly into simulators.
The ch pilots of the Larkinson Clan complained more about this fault than others. The virtual versions of the living chs they were familiar with not only felt dull and listless, their unique characters did not grow nor persist in any way.
To put it more simply, a virtual ch of his own design lost one of its greatest appeals, which was the capacity to grow and adapt to its ch pilot!
Hence, the Bright Warriors, the Ferocious Piranhas, the Valkyrie Redeers, the Transcendent Punishers and all of the other mainstays of the Larkinson Clan always remained at the start of their growth period in the virtual simulators!
Perhaps the ch pilots did not feel bothered by this in the beginning, but as their real living chs slowly developed and unlocked their hidden potential, the disparity between real and virtual chs beca more and more evident!
This was why the various ch legions conducted so many live practice sessions despite the hefty cost they incurred. The ch pilots simply didn't gain as much if they practiced their piloting skills in a simulated environnt.
The second major shortcoming of piloting simulators was their lack of real consequences. Every pilot who entered a simulator pod knew they were entering a false environnt that was completely devoid from reality.
Death in a simulator only ant that the pilots had to reset their false chs so that they could try again.
Perhaps the software program or the organization they belonged to might impose costs and penalties on their own, but these were only pale attempts to instill the consequences of losses into the ch pilots.
No matter what, those flawed simulation programs could never instill the threat of true death to those ch pilots.
Without the fear of suffering permanent consequences hanging over their heads, the ntality and attitudes of ch pilots during their simulation sessions were never as serious as they were in actual battle.
This was also one of the major reasons why ch pilots during tis of calm rarely broke through. It was too difficult for them to receive enough stimulation and spark a chain reaction in their hearts and minds that caused them to squeeze more potential out of them than they had ever done before.
"The current state of simulator programs is not good, but it isn't bad either."
Simulator programs specially developed for ch pilots existed as long as the Age of chs. The underlying tech already existed for the most part. Developers did not need to add much more in order to make them suitable for ch pilots to practice their skills by piloting virtual chs.
Yet even though it was easy to develop simulations that emulated the actual piloting experience by 80 percent or 90 percent, closing the gap any further was an extrely difficult endeavor!
Ves did not specialize in virtual reality nor possess too much knowledge in the related fields, so he only possessed a general understanding of the challenges facing piloting simulator developers.
He did know that few of them accomplished breakthroughs in the generations that followed. The simulator programs of today might be a lot more advanced and fully-featured than the ones that ca out a few centuries ago, but they were still largely the sa in essence!
"That also ans that the actual benefit that ch pilots can gain from them has also remained stagnant."
All of the iterative improvents and additions definitely improved the piloting experience, but the fundantal problems related to imperfect modeling of reality and the lack of real consequences remained.
This was where Ves believed he could make a difference with his latest idea.
12:05
"What if… virtual reality no longer holds the answer anymore?" Ves wondered as his eyes tried to As a ch designer, it was not his job to change this situation and improve the effectiveness of piloting simulator programs.
Under ordinary circumstances, ch designers like Ves had no choice but to accept that they could only go so far in representing the full charm of their ch designs in a virtual environnt.
Yet as Ves continued to gaze at the majesty of Purgatory, he began to form a different stance towards this long-standing problem in the ch industry.
"What if… I can create a better and more realistic piloting simulation environnt?"
He thought about how his first foray in ch design started with designing virtual variants of a then-popular ga called Iron Spirit.
Fantastic ch pilots such as Joshua King, now Joshua Larkinson, rose to prominence due to piloting his earliest works at the ti.
Naturally, Joshua no longer played that silly ga anymore. Iron Spirit was a ga that was marketed towards citizens of third-rate states. The simulator pods were cheap and provided an inferior virtual piloting experience compared to the more high-end models owned by his clan.
Yet even the second-class piloting simulator programs did not provide a fundantally superior practice environnt. It cost a huge amount of money to improve the realism of the piloting experience by a couple of percentage points.
Naturally, there was only so much that money could accomplish. ch pilots were only able to make gains in more technical aspects such as weapon handling, instrunt managent and other mundane aspects.
More profound aspects such as polishing their willpower and testing their courage against true threats remained absent in virtual reality.
This was where Ves believed he could make a difference with his latest idea.
"What if… virtual reality no longer holds the answer anymore?" Ves wondered as his eyes tried to roam the depths of Purgatory. "What if the answer lies in creating an entirely different reality? An illusionary reality?"
It was an idea worth exploring.
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