Ves gained a lot of confidence in the viability of his demich.
The draft for the Carmine Raider looked like a fairly compact but capable demich that should easily be able to crush most second-class infantry forces.
Its height was only a bit shorter than the height of the torso of a typical dium ch.
Shrinking the machine to such an extent demanded a massive amount of adjustnts that Ves never grappled with before.
For example, the substantial reduction in size ant that the ch lost a lot of mass, chanical strength and leverage. Its limbs were shorter, its ch engine beca a lot weaker and it needed to squeeze all of its parts in a much tinier fra.
While it sounded easy enough to simply substitute larger parts with miniaturized ones, Ves had to make far more adjustnts as the dynamics of a demich were completely different from that of a full-sized ch.
Ves did not feel too concerned about these problems. He might not have any actual experience with designing this kind of machine, but he possessed enough knowledge and experience to cope with the challenges imposed by this atypical design.
He did not really stick to a fixed ch archetype this ti. The role of a demich of this scale was much different from a traditional ch. He did not feel like turning his Carmine Raider into a straightforward knight ch or rifleman ch.
"I think you can get away with designing it as a hybrid ch." Jovy said. "It would also help a lot if it has at least so flight capabilities. You don't have to make it as fast as an actual light ch, but it should possess enough maneuverability for the pilot to pull off complex maneuvers. This will help a lot with testing the properties of the Carmine System at this scale."
Ves rubbed his hairless chin in contemplation.
The demich shared many aspects of chs, but had also shrunken down to the point where he could apply the design principles of ultra-heavy combat armor.
It just so happened that Ves was not entirely unfamiliar with working on suits of combat armor.
He had spent a significant amount of ti on designing and upgrading his Unending Regalia over the years.
Even though his personal suit of protective armor did not co with any significant integrated weapons, it still allowed him to figure out how to handle considerably smaller and more limited armor systems, chanical servos, energy supply systems and more.
Ves ultimately ca to a decision.
"We can do that, provided that you help out with selecting and integrating all of the miniaturized weapon systems. That is a bit of a blindspot to . I am much more accustod to handling larger and more generous weapon systems."
"I can take this responsibility." Jovy imdiately responded. "You should focus on the big picture for this design. I can solve all of the ti-consuming technical problems that are not worth your attention."
"Great! If that is the case, then we can go a little wild for this design."
Ves had tried to err on the side of caution for the first two ch designs, but he wanted to be a little more adventurous with the demich design.
Ironically, he had more room to play this ti. The Carmine Trooper and the Carmine Knight both had to be fairly basic and foolproof in order to reduce their complications as much as possible.
The Carmine Raider was an unprecedented work as far as Ves was concerned. There were no standard templates of demichs that he should follow.
The stupendous availability of miniaturized parts ant that Ves could slot in as many of them into his design as he wanted. As long as Ves and Jovy did not select anything too weird or abnormal, they should be able to treat them as modular components that they could readily slot into the fra of the demich.
By the ti the pair completed the draft design of the Carmine Raider, they ended up with a scrappy and fairly maneuverable urban combat machine that was ard to the teeth.
The demich's fra integrated a combination of miniaturized plasma and laser weapon modules. It also featured a pair of shoulder-mounted missile launchers that could easily be replaced by other weapon systems.
Its handheld weapon loadout consisted of a plasma sword and a machine gun, but the machine could easily employ a different set of weapons.
Ves truly felt that this demich was highly suited for urban combat. It possessed a lower profile, it was a lot more surgical in its offensive options and its capacity for producing collateral damage dropped by a considerable margin.
He grew particularly happy with the array of small boosters spread across its compact fra.
These boosters significantly increased the demich's short-ranged maneuverability and turned it into an even trickier combat machine!
Of course, a single demich was no match to an actual ch in raw power. The difference in scale was too substantial.
The demich's reduced capacity also ca with other downsides. Its range and staying power were not good. Its defenses were predictably poor. Its lee combat capabilities were far inferior to its ranged combat capabilities.
Ves was unable to fit a cockpit that could safely eject its pilot. He was sure he could cobble together an improvised solution that could serve as a decent substitute, but there was too little ti to work out such an ejection system.
"It is not strictly necessary so long as we test this ch under heavy supervision." Jovy reassured Ves. "We will have our teleporters locked to the test pilot at all tis. He will be whisked away before the demich is able to cause any actual harm."
"I guess that works."
The demich was his favorite ch design thus far. The completely different circumstances caused Ves and Jovy to co up with original design elents that they had yet to work on before.
They could afford to do this because the individual parts weren't as large as that of a regular ch. It took a lot less ti to get everything right as a consequence.
"Do you want to tackle the design of the juggernaut while we are at this stage?"
Ves shook his head. "Let's flesh out these three designs and fabricate them first. Who knows what insights and lessons we will gain over the next hours. The delay will also give us more ti to think about how we should tackle this troubleso juggernaut design."
"Very well. We will do it your way, Ves."
Ves and Jovy proceeded to design the Carmine Trooper first.
Their design speed was impressive. Ves was already highly productive due to his mysterious spiritual sublimation. His performance comfortably exceeded that of any other second-class Senior ch Designer.
That said, Jovy turned out to be more than capable of carrying his own weight!
The RA Senior possessed a few shortcomings in more practical areas that spoke of lack of experience in designing and fabricating chs for actual use. His intuition and instinctive understanding of chs were not as developed either. This was understandable as Jovy mostly practiced his craft within the confines of the Design World. He also did not have any masterwork certificates to his na.
Jovy's grasp of scientific theories and the Red Association's vast array of technologies were much more impressive in comparison. He possessed an excellent first-class cranial implant that provided him with an astounding boost in analytical ability.
These differences beca evident once they started to design the Carmine Trooper side by side.
Ves adopted a more spontaneous design approach where he skipped a lot of calculations and made a lot of gut decisions. He allowed his intuition to play an outsized role in his design process.
There were plenty of cases where Ves did not even put much thought in the theory and the numbers of specific design elents!
Instead, he approached his design work as if he was sitting in front of an incomplete canvas and only needed to make a few loose brush strokes in order to complete a painting to his satisfaction!
Jovy on the other hand possessed a much more proper and data-oriented design approach. His weaker intuition did not pose a hindrance to him as he relied on his cranial implant as well as the generous quota of the Khamatar Reign's processing power to calculate much of his solutions!
What Ves particularly found impressive about Jovy's design approach was the use of a lot of different formulas.
Instead of trying to puzzle out solutions on an ad-hoc basis, Jovy seed to possess an appropriate formula for nearly any situation. This not only allowed him to formulate his solutions faster and with greater consistency, but it also prevented him from getting stuck!
The design of the Carmine Trooper quickly took shape under their combined efforts.
It was ultimately a basic spaceborn hero ch without any other bells and whistles aside from its Carmine System.
Fitting in the Carmine System was not that difficult as the design of the Carmine Trooper offered enough room to accommodate the extra organic parts.
Ves had to spend a bit of ti learning what sort of organic products he could produce inside the ch workshop.
Many of the bioproduction machines were astoundingly complex and incredibly overkill for what he required.
Fortunately, Ves managed to find a number of simpler equipnt that could rapidly grow the organic components of the Carmine System without requiring a lot of handholding.
At this stage of the developnt of the Carmine System, Ves was unable to design a universal version that could safely bond with any possible human.
Every human body was different and unique. This was especially the case in the upper levels of society.
Practically every single first-class individual was a separate species in biological terms!
They received so much genetic tinkering and biological modifications throughout their lifetis that they beca reproductively isolated from each other.
If their genes diverged to such an extent that they couldn't produce offspring with each other in a natural manner, then it was exceedingly dangerous for them to exchange blood with a Carmine System that was attuned to baseline human physiques!
Perhaps in ti, Ves could develop an upgraded version of the Carmine System that automatically adjusted its DNA and blood composition based on the biological properties of the ch pilot during their initial contact.
This was a necessary step in order to enable mass production!
Unfortunately, Ves was not there yet, so he had little choice but to adapt the Carmine System for the Carmine Trooper to a single ch pilot selected in advance.
"Okay, we're done with this." Ves said once he put the finishing touches to the Carmine System.
Jovy had taken care of the rest of the details during this ti.
It only took a short ti for them to develop a close and tacit form of cooperation with each other.
Ves found it quite handy that Jovy's design approached possessed a lot of parallels with that of his wife.
Both of them had received excellent education. Their elite schools had imparted them with much more structural design techniques that allowed them to make greater use of their cranial implants and any external sources of processing power.
Of course, Jovy was a lot faster and more efficient at this than Gloriana!
This was the first ti that Ves seriously collaborated on a ch design with a genuine first-class ch designer.
He never knew that possessing a first-class cranial implant that was entirely geared towards ch design could make such an enormous difference in design efficiency!
It was no wonder that Gloriana nagged about this subject all of the ti. She understood a lot better how much a first-class cranial implant could accelerate her work and how much additional attention she could invest in refining her solutions.
If Jovy was a woman or agreed to undergo a sex change operation, then there was a faint possibility that Ves would have thought about divorcing Gloriana.
The temptation to 'upgrade' to a better wife and collaborator was too irresistible!
"You're getting distracted. What are you thinking about, Ves?"
"Huh? Oh, nothing. Let's wrap up this design so that we can move on to designing the Carmine Knight."
Ves inwardly shook his head to clear his head of any distracting or irrelevant thoughts.
What was he thinking? There was no way he would turn his back wife! He could not go against his own principles, and he did not want his children to grow sad!
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