"I honestly don't know whether it can even work." Ves honestly replied.
If he wasn't in the presence of an extrely distinguished company, Ves would have scratched his head by this ti.
He always considered himself to be a creative thinker who could co up with the wildest ideas, but it turned out that he was just an amateur compared to these older and much more competent professionals!
They cast their gazes far beyond what was obvious from the surface.The way they analyzed the Carmine System from so many more angles could easily boggle the minds of less imaginative people!
Even Ves had to spend a lot of ti catching up to the latest tangents sprung by the panel mbers.
"According to your limited awareness of your own invention, do you judge it plausible enough for this scaled-down 'demich' to work?" Master Xena Wintress continued to press. "There is no need for you to provide answers with a high degree of confidence. We are more than aware of your lack of empirical data. We only wish you to provide input based on your own perspective and understanding."
Ves furrowed his brows as he tried to imagine this 'ch' in action.
"Even though it is scaled down to the point where it is as large as a suit of heavy combat armor, it should operate close to a ch more or less. The variables I am not certain about is how it is like to move a limb. Both the limbs of the 'pilot' and the servos of the chanical construct around them will have to move in unison. This is different from a more traditional ch as the body of the pilot rely has to remain seated. If you truly want my judgnt, then 1 don't think these differences will matter too much. I think the potential results will actually be quite astounding. The closer a ch resembles the human body, the easier it is for a pilot to control the machine. The difficulty of 'piloting' your reduced chs should not require nearly as much training."
Wintress nodded in agreent.
"These are insightful replies. Let present you with another scenario."
She began to weave her fingers in order to design a set of three different chs.
They were a light ch, a dium ch and a heavy ch.
While all of them looked fairly generic as far as Ves could tell, the three spontaneous ch designs happened to possess the sa diverging trait.
They did not possess traditional cockpits!
Instead, the cockpit looked like a tube that was attached to control systems, much of which Ves couldn't recognize.
What also stood out was that the chs all ca with their own facsimiles of the Carmine System.
A number of biochanical components were absent, though.
It soon beca clear why Master Wintress replaced a traditional cockpit with this reduced contraption.
The female Master waved her hand, causing the projected image of the so-called demich to enter a port and fit into the tube of the light ch!
Once the demich entered the space that was tailor-made to accommodate it, nurous different chanical parts sprung forth to lock the smaller construct in place.
That was not all.
The Carmine Systems of both the demich and the light ch began to make contact and connect with each other!
The integration between the two looked so good that it beca impossible to determine that they were originally separate if Ves ca across this combination from the beginning!
"Is this scenario plausible, Professor Larkinson?"
"Uhh... I am not sure, actually." Ves hesitantly replied. "It depends on how strictly the Blood Pact is being interpreted. Personally, I think there is enough leeway here to avoid setting off the restriction of being limited to one ch. The key here is that while the demich and the light ch have rged on a physical level, they remain separate on a taphysical level. This ans that while it is theoretically possible for the pilot to control the light ch using the demich as a connecting dium, the experience won't quite be the sa."
That caused all three panel mbers to look thoughtful. The answer was not as good as they hoped, but it was better than nothing.
Master Wintress then proceeded to manipulate the projection yet again.
This ti, the demich disengaged from the light ch, thereby turning them into separate machines again.
The demich proceeded to enter the tube of the dium ch, causing the two to rge together on a physical level.
"Is it possible to circumvent the restriction of only being able to pilot a single ch by using it as the control interface for larger and more combat capable chs?"
"1 think... it is plausible enough to work." Ves slowly answered. "If it works on one ch, there is no reason to think that it doesn't work on the other ch. The only essential constant is that the demich must remain the sa in conception. If the pilot sohow lost his demich, it is impossible for him to pilot any further chs."
"Understood."
Wintress then began to design a completely different machine altogether!
Ves started to feel a bit of deja vu as the Master rapidly drafted a juggernaut.
Although the design lacked a lot of details in order to save on ti, the overall ssage was clear.
When the demich slotted into a tiny tube embedded in the chest area of the enormous humanoid construct, Master Wintress looked pointedly at Ves.
"Is this plausible as well?"
"I... don't know." Ves repeated the sa answer yet again. "I don't even know how the Carmine System works for juggernauts in a normal capacity. This implentation of yours completely falls into my blindspot. My very loose guess is that it will probably work, but only barely as it shares the sa problem with pilots trying to grapple with conventional juggernauts. The sheer size and amount of active systems produce so much data that there simply isn't enough bandwidth and ntal processing power to exert a good degree of control over the enormous juggernaut fra."
The problem rested with the juggernaut, not necessarily with the Carmine System.
Ves briefly recalled Polak Neziri's obsession with large multi-pilot chs. Would his interpretation of juggernauts be able to solve this particular problem?
It was an idea worth exploring if he had the ti.
Master Wintress presented one more scenario before she was done. She waved away the projections of all of the chs and sketched out another design.
The scale of the machine was even larger than a juggernaut. As the loose lines beca increasingly clearer, it turned out that Wintress did not set out to create a ch this ti.
She had drafted an enormous capital ship!
The ship was roughly five kiloters long and featured enough main gun batteries to lay waste to cities in short order.
Yet what made the battleship different was that Wintress actually added an enormously scaled up version of the Carmine System within her hull structure.
A thick and branching structure of organic blood veins spread out and maintained contact with each and every single compartnt of the battleship!
A familiar tube rested in the depths of the ard warship's citadel. When Wintress inserted the familiar demich inside this cavity, the pilot beca connected to a chanical construct that was unimaginable in size!
"Please share your opinion with us, Professor Larkinson. Is this plausible?"
Ves found the projected scenario to be so absurd that he thought it was silly to ask his opinion on this matter. He lacked so much data and information that there was no way he could give an authoritative answer on whether this ridiculous concept could even work!
"Theoretically, attempting to enable a single human individual to pilot an entire warship will stumble upon the sa problems as with trying to do the sa with a juggernaut. There are too many systems that the ch pilot has to take into consideration. Even if the pilot has studied all of the required courses needed to understand the functioning of an entire battleship, this single person has to track and control so many systems that his mind simply won't be able to take it. 1 expect this experint to end in a violent and explosive fashion."
Master Wintress and Master Goldstein both nodded after hearing this answer.
The Mace of Retaliation exhibited a different reaction. He decided to interject at this ti.
"In the last two cases, you identified the pilot as the weakest link in the chain. What if you replace this hypothetical pilot with a stronger individual? Let us assu that the replacent has a much greater capacity to process large streams of data such as myself. Would I be able to effectively pilot a juggernaut or a battleship by myself through the Carmine System?"
Ves looked almost completely lost by this ti.
He had to admit that the scenarios presented by the Mace of Retaliation were much more optimistic.
"It is... slightly more plausible." Ves eventually replied. "I think that you will find it a bit more difficult to produce true resonance across all of the juggernaut or battleship. From what 1 have been able to understand, expert pilots and possibly higher-ranking pilots are unable to effectively empower and reinforce chs with true resonance once they exceed a certain size. They have to be small and compact enough to prevent this from happening. I don't know whether it makes any difference if the pilot uses a neural interface or a Carmine System."
"What if the pilot uses both?" The only ace pilot on the panel asked. "You stated in your initial presentation that the neural interface and the Carmine System are not mutually exclusive. They can operate both independently and concurrently on the sa ch. Do you believe it is possible to amplify the true resonance range of a typical expert pilot or ace pilot by employing both the neural interface and the Carmine System at once?"
The possibilities alluded by the Mace of Relation's latest question had massive implications!
Not just Ves, but also the other two Master ch Designers in the chamber couldn't remain calm anymore once they envisioned the possibilities.
Expert pilots were no longer confined to piloting standard-sized chs anymore. They could effectively pilot juggernauts or other large constructs while retaining the benefit of empowering all of their chanical structures with true resonance!
Of course, the pilots had to be strong enough to spread his power so far and wide. It may be that piloting ultra-sized constructs at full strength was only limited to ace pilots and higher.
Even so, that could already change the landscape of high-end chs as Ves knew it! Once expert chs and ace chs were no longer strictly limited by scale, it might be possible to design a juggernaut the size of a cruiser.
Such a juggernaut would not only possess all of the traditional strengths of a cruiser of this size, but also gained a lot of empowernt from true resonance, which would completely transform the combat effectiveness of this enormous machine!
It could effectively amplify the combat power of an expert pilot or an ace pilot by at least an order of magnitude!
The power amplification may even be two orders of magnitude greater if the juggernaut was as large as a sizable battleship!
Ves could not imagine this scenario. Ace pilots such as Patriarch Reginald Cross and Saintess Ulrika Vraken were already extrely powerful when paired with normal-sized ace chs.
What if the mass and volu of their ace chs multiplied by a factor of 100?
The faint presumption was that these junior ace pilots suddenly gained so much combat power at once that they could approximate the overwhelming raw strength of a god pilot!
While the ace pilots would still exhibit a lot of deficiencies compared to genuine god pilots when they piloted these large but clumsy fras, what mattered was that their defenses and firepower had the potential to enter into god ch territory!
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