Chapter 3909 Linking Technology
Ves felt as if he had gotten a glimpse of ch heaven.
Of all of the chs developed by humanity, the ones designed and built by the MTA were unquestionably strong!
Although the first-class superstates could give the MTA a run for its money, the differences between the two were too big.
If the Greater Terran United Confederation and the New Rubarth Empire were back in their pri, then it may very well be possible for them to develop chs that could compete against the ones fielded by the MTA.
However, this was the Age of chs, not the Age of Conquest. The glory days of the two super empires had long passed.
Not only did the Terrans and Rubarthans lose access to a lot of high-end resources, they also weren't allowed to utilize every form of technology mastered by the human race anymore.
The Big Two prohibited the use of a lot of powerful tech and taboo weapons, which ant that the first-class superstates could only develop chs that were powerful up to a point.
As one of the two creators and enforcers of this rule, the MTA naturally gave itself an exemption. It could put anything it wanted in its own chs!
The result was the appearance of chs that better showcased the greater potential of this weapon platform.
The ones deployed against the super whale that had appeared from the fleshy egg showed a whole variety of tech and thods that Ves had never seen before except in highly-edited footage of battles that took place a long ti ago.
Different from archival footage, the current live feed portrayed all of the powerful chs in the open without any editing or censoring!
The fact that this battle was taking place at the sa ti and star system also made it a lot more exciting to Ves. He was directly involved in the events leading up to this collision!
"Damn, the MTA chs are really giving the super whale a hard ti!"
There were chs that were ard with large positron cannons that unleashed a continuous stream of deadly particles that slowly burned and annihilated the enormous scales, hide and flesh of the super whale.
There were also chs that fired deadly projectiles that not only caved in a decent amount of whale flesh, but also broke down into corrosive particles that poisoned and degraded the surrounding flesh!
There were also chs that launched strange payloads that anchored into the open wounds of the super whale.
While these devices apparently did not deal any damage to the enormous beast, they generated a strong, localized energy field that disrupted the phasewater and spatial fluctuations in the vicinity!
These inhibitors visibly weakened the various ans the super whale tried to employ in order to fend off its human attackers.
Just because the Paracelsus Optimus and her ch contingent were in the process of beating up the super whale did not an the creature was defenseless.
As a possible clean whale that was larger and possibly more advanced than any other living phase whale, it had already started to activate a large number of powerful abilities!
Their power was so great that many of them could easily defeat the expeditionary fleet!
"This battle is on an entirely different scale from the Battle of Purgatory!"
The earlier engagent was relatively constrained. The fish-whales were not that powerful and the chs fielded by the Golden Skull Alliance were way too weak compared to the machines of the MTA.
This was different. The super whale was no re fish-whale. By virtue of its imnse body and powerful organs, all of its abilities possessed the power to wipe out armies and cities!
For example, one of the deadlier ans of attack was breaking space to the point where an enormous spatial tear appeared that could split anything in half.
The spatial barriers summoned by the super whale were also as tough if not tougher than the energy shield deployed by the Paracelsus Optimus!
It was a pity that the super whale didn't even have an opportunity to show its full strength.
The harpoons along with the spatial inhibition devices that the MTA chs sunk into the whale monster's massive body already crippled much of the super whale's spatial abilities!
It didn't matter how much phasewater it stored in its body or how much energy it was able to channel through its organs.
Any ability related to spatial manipulation automatically weakened before it took effect!
Even if a warp effect or spatial storm struck the chs circling around the giant whale, the energy shields and inhibition fields provided by nurous auxiliary chs negated the deadliness of these attacks even further!
If the spatial attacks had any power left after all of these rounds of weakening, then the extraordinarily resilient first-class multipurpose chs could easily withstand the damage!
For a mont, Ves felt sorry for the creature that only had a short mont to enjoy its entry into the main reality.
"This super whale must feel incredibly miserable for fighting against the wrong opponent."
It was hard for the super whale to deal any effective damage against all of the MTA chs. With the Interstellar Harpooners continuing to anchor and pin the enormous body down, the creature could not even leave without destroying these annoying first, but how could it do so when its main forms of attack were all weakened by successive asures?
The coordination and the various ans utilized against the super whale already told Ves that this wasn't the first ti the Paracelsus Optimus hunted down a phase whale!
Granted, the battlecarrier and her ch contingent probably never fought against a whale that was this big and powerful, but their specs were so high that not even a resurrected whale tyrant could overco their resistance!
The only upside was that the 3000 MTA chs still weren't strong enough to quickly go through all of the flesh that covered the more crucial parts of its body. It would take a long ti for the machines to overco all of this natural protection even if they concentrated their efforts.
Seeing that the chs had already crippled its vaunted spatial attacks, the super whale eventually put down its pride and gave up on relying on them to free itself from its predicant.
"The whale is beginning to get serious!"
The super whale slowly opened up its enormous mouth and began to unleash an energy spray that looked highly familiar to Ves and the rest.
The energy spray unleashed by the super whale was powerful enough to burn an entire continent!
It was so energetic that it blinded the sensors of the scout ship in an instant, forcing the crew to make adjustnts.
When the live feed went back to normal, Ves was able to see the aftermath of this powerful outburst.
"The chs… are still intact!"
None of the MTA chs suffered any damage from the super whale's attack!
The sa shield link technology that was responsible for extending the energy shields of the Paracelsus Optimus to the various ch units had kept them all safe and sound!
Although the battlecarrier incurred a moderate hit to her reserves, this level of consumption was well within her tolerance.
The super whale did not give up, though. The creature's body was so huge that it possessed a lot of different attack thods.
In one instance, it grew out a kiloters-long bone spike from its spine and launched it at a cluster of chs!
The gigantic kinetic projectile launched forth with the power to trigger an extinction on a life-bearing planet, yet the sa energy shields generated with the help of shield link technology kept all of the MTA chs undamaged!
The sa happened when the super whale tried to be more creative. Its enormous surface shook and bubbled as fish-whale after fish-whale spontaneously ford from its flesh and subsequently launched themselves at the surrounding chs!
Since the fish-whales had separated themselves from the main body, their spatial abilities were no longer inhibited to the sa degree.
This allowed them to accelerate forward by warping the space around their own bodies and launching all kinds of attacks on the chs.
However, not even this clever asure was able to shake the defenses provided by the battlecarrier.
The fish-whales were nowhere near as strong as their source, so the chs quickly shredded them down before they could do anymore damage.
As the super whale continued to launch different forms of attack, the chs began to get more serious as well!
The most obvious sign of this was when the chers took their linking capabilities to the next level!
Ves beca amazed when he saw that the chs and battlecarrier began to form multiple different kinds of linkages.
They ford data links that completely pooled the data and the processing power of the chs and battlecarrier.
chs were no longer limited in their ability to analyze their opponents and the environnt by relying on their own software, sensor systems and processing capabilities.
By pooling these capabilities together with other chs as well as borrowing a portion of the enormous capabilities of their mothership, the MTA chs gained a huge boost in analysis and threat assessnt!
As a consequence, the ch pilots knew exactly where to attack, which weapons they should employ and so on. The support provided by abundant data allowed each of the affected chs to fight a lot more effectively than before!
"What's even more perverse is the energy link technology."
The MTA used this function a bit more sparingly because the demands on the chs were higher.
Nonetheless, Ves noted that specific first-class multipurpose chs with high demand for energy all possessed receiver arrays that could directly receive the energy streams bead by the Paracelsus Optimus.
With such an abundant power source available to them, the chs in question did not have to worry about running out of juice at all as they fired their power-hungry weapons!
Although these chs were slightly constrained by the huge amount of waste heat generated by their systems, the MTA had done their best to mitigate this by making use of dinsional heatsinks as well as highly efficient parts.
The use of data link, shield link and energy link technologies essentially endowed all of the compatible and affected chs with the powerful performance paraters of the Paracelsus Optimus.
The super whale wasn't necessarily fighting against a lot of chs.
It was actually fighting against the Paracelsus Optimus! The 3000 chs deployed by the battlecarrier were an extension of herself rather than independent weapon platforms.
Ves was absolutely fascinated by this combined approach to ch combat!
Although it was not as effective and efficient as relying on ordinary warship-grade weapons to defeat powerful opponents, it was still a thod that solved many of the shortcomings of chs!
The most prevalent criticisms of chs as a weapon system was that their limited size and scale made them too weak and too fragile to fight against the most formidable enemies of human civilization.
Given that a single battlecarrier succeeded in suppressing a powerful alien entity that was possibly the Flesh Conqueror reborn, Ves could readily conclude that the MTA had already made great strides in addressing these long-standing weaknesses!
"It's still a form of cheating, though."
Though the kid inside Ves was really enthusiastic about the effectiveness of linking technology, his ch designer side was more skeptical.
"The tech is too advanced for second-class chs."
The high technology was not only too complicated and expensive for the current Larkinson Clan, it also happened to be taboo!
When Ves quickly searched for more information about linking technology on the galactic net, he imdiately learned that most forms of linking technology were prohibited by the MTA.
His face quickly turned sour.
"Data linking is still okay, but shield linking and energy linking is apparently a step too far for space peasants."
The reason why this was the case was that the latter forms of linking essentially allowed chs to possess destructive potential that far exceeded what they should possess.
Linking a ranged ch with the energy output of a starship was no different from plugging it into the power network of the sa vessel!
If these asures beca widespread, then ranged chs would quickly obtain the power to inflict mass destruction!
Since this was what the MTA expressly tried to prevent, the organization prohibited both forms of linking, which ant that Ves and the Larkinsons wouldn't be able to use these handy features anyti soon.
"A pity…"
It was so painful to see the MTA making great use of linking technology in front of his eyes but not being able to use the sa ans himself!
As Ves lanted the MTA's restrictive regulations once again, he suddenly paused.
"Wait a minute… haven't I developed my own forms of linking technology already?"
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