The Ouroboros was an old ch.
Hardly any of its original parts and materials remained intact and attached to the constantly evolving ch fra of this famous Terran ace ch.
As Axelar Streon steadily grew up and matured into an increasingly more formidable ch pilot, his chosen machine could not be allowed to remain stagnant.
This was why the Streon Ancient Clan assigned nurous highly reputable and competent ch designers to repair, modify and most importantly upgrade the Ouroboros over the years.
It had been difficult for Axelar to insist on piloting the sa ch on a continuous basis over the span of an entire century!
Since the first ti he piloted it in a ch arena and won a glorious victory against a much more conventional first-class multipurpose ch, Axelar had fallen in love with the Ouroboros.
Though the talented Terran pilot had most certainly piloted other well-designed and well-constructed chs after his initial ride with the Ouroboros, he never felt satisfied with the machines designed by other ch designers.
No matter how good they were, they could never replicate the feel and responsiveness of the original Ouroboros.
In the first decades of his career as a proper soldier, his odd preference for sticking to the sa first-class hero ch that he debuted in the arena attracted a lot of ridicule.
His fellow Terrans didn't understand why he wanted to go back in ti and stick to a ch concept that had beco outdated a long ti ago.
Extre miniaturization technology enabled every first-class ch to stuff itself full with a dozen different weapon systems, each of which were not weak!
Nonetheless, after Axelar Streon defeated nurous challengers and proved his strength in many different occasions, those words of criticisms increasingly grew quiet.
It didn't matter if Axelar covered his ch in a pink coating or applied a curse word onto its chest.
As long as it remained strong enough to defeat other first-class multipurpose chs, nearly anything was permissible!
As Axelar Streon continued to demonstrate his brilliance and broke through his bottlenecks, his seemingly archaic hero ch gradually turned from an object of contempt into an iconic symbol of power!
Nowadays, no Terran dared to mock the hero ch type anymore. The Renewer of Terra had single-handedly raised the respect of this archetype in Terran space!
He even set an example for many other Terran ch pilots, particularly those with inferior genetic aptitudes.
Compared to the overly complicated first-class multipurpose ch, the much more 'simpler' loadout of hero chs allowed inferior ch pilots to still exercise a lot of control over their machines.
Unfortunately, none of the Terran-designed hero chs that erged after the rise of the Ourobros had managed to attain the sa level of success.
On one hand, these imitators were not as talented or well-trained as General Axelar Streon.
As a scion of an ancient clan, Axelar's education and training were both excellent.
His genetic aptitude barely made it into the A-grade, but that was also enough to separate himself from the much more nurous Terran pilots with B-grade aptitudes.
On the other hand, the Ouroboros was an exceptional machine from the beginning.
Even though the Streon Ancient Clan increasingly invested more in its upgrades, there were many other Terran groups that could adopt the sa approach.
Nonetheless, the Ouroboros had always stood head over shoulders over these would-be challengers because it possessed unique properties that could never be replicated by other ch designers.
It was alive!
Although this trait only made Axelar feel good and more attuned to his machine in the early years, the advantages of piloting a living machine beca increasingly more significant over ti.
After being upgraded many tis and being subjected to decades worth of willpower baptism by one of the powerful and renowned ace pilots of the Terran people, the Ouroboros had transcended the boundaries of a machine that could be made in an instant in a ch workshop.
This was why no one who was present in front of the opulent dining hall of the Eden Institute suspected that the Ouroboros was unmanned at this ti.
Even if the powerful ace ch did not radiate a characteristic domain field at this ti, most Devosans and chers assud that it was because General Axelar Streon wanted to avoid any unnecessary aggression.
The Ouroboros still exuded a strong and intimidating presence even if it was active on its own. Its aura possessed a mixed quality of concepts that harkened towards both creation and destruction.
Much of it happened to echo the presence of General Axelar Streon himself!
This was not a surprise to Ves. The living ch that had steadily grown and fed off the feedback from its powerful ace pilot. It had worked and fought together with its pilot for so long that the machine had taken after his image!
At this ti, everyone still remained nervous. The knowledge that the Ouroboros was active but unmanned did not relieve the concerns of those who had been inford.
While the Ouroboros should theoretically be a lot weaker as a result, the machine was packed with so much power that it could still do a lot of damage!
There was a clear and present difference in quality and power between the Ouroboros and the ace ch dispatched by the Devosans.
Even though both machines were exquisite masterwork chs, their power and sophistication were too far apart!
General Axelar Streon was the standard bearer of the Streon Ancient Clan. As its strongest pilot and military officer, he was able to receive much more investnt than normal.
His strength as a peak ace pilot that could initiate the ch Body rger Process at any ti also enabled him to wield and exert control over much more powerful ch systems than usual.
As such, the Ouroboros had not only received a few powerful upgrades that were usually applied to god chs, but also received the utmost care and attention of a Star Designer!
Nurous different ch designers had been put in charge of the Ouroboros over the years, but the latest and most powerful one was undoubtedly Sintha Elkron, otherwise known as the Grand nder!
The fad Terran Star Designer was a pioneer in the field of regenerating tal and repair systems.
She invented many different specialized solutions ant to make first-class chs last longer in the field by allowing them to repair their own damage with remarkable effectiveness!
Any ch design that she designed in person beca nearly as indefatigable as zombies.
Attacks that only partially penetrated the defenses of her chs only temporarily inconvenienced them as they regenerated back to peak condition in a short amount of ti!
The Ouroboros was no exception in this regard. Its defining feature aside from its living qualities was its World Serpent System.
This high-minded na stood for an extrely rapid regenerating armor system that could practically produce new armor plating even when a powerful attack had not yet ceased!
Its synergy with the creation domain of General Axelar Streon and the Ouroboros was fantastic, allowing the Grand nder to maximize the speed and efficiency of her signature technology!
There were very practical reasons why the Ouroboros put so much emphasis on the World Serpent System.
The first was because the Ouroboros needed to compensate for its lack of armant diversity.
The fact that it was a hero ch that only had access to two external weapon systems was a serious constraint. Axelar encountered too many situations where opposing chs exploited this vulnerability and entered into many destructive exchanges of attacks with the hero ch.
However, the lack of weapon systems also conveyed the Ouroboros with a powerful advantage. Its ch fra featured a lot more capacity for other purposes, allowing for the Grand nder to design a significantly more powerful and advanced defensive layout!
The World Serpent System combined with its recently upgraded transphasic multi-layered segnted energy shield generator enabled the Ouroboros to beco known as one of the harder and more damage resistant chs of its caliber!
This granted the Ouroboros a much more substantial damage buffer, enabling it to weather any kind of storm and more importantly keep its valuable pilot alive!
Perhaps other rising champions in Terran space were able to attain more success over their careers, but their chances of eting a fatal end were much higher due to the inferior defenses of their first-class multipurpose chs.
There was always a price to integrating too many weapon systems in a ch fra!
In any case, the other functions of the Ouroboros were significantly better on average as well.
The hero ch was able to dedicate more space, energy and other resources to its flight system, its minidrive, its communication systems, its ECM systems and more.
Even if few of them sounded exciting, the clear and noticeable performance gap had granted the Ouroboros quite a few advantages in different situations!
As Ves continued to observe the ch fra of the massively evolved and upgraded Ouroboros, he understood why General Axelar Streon and his ancient clan turned to the Grand nder.
The Renewer of Terra had always insisted that the Ouroboros stick to the purest interpretation of the hero ch archetype, which ant that it only ever wielded two weapons, no more, no less.
Naturally, this ant that its weapon systems had to be the best that the Terrans could make for an ace ch that was already powerful by itself!
"The Ouroboros exchanged or upgraded its older weapon systems for newer ones nurous tis as my grandfather grew stronger." Miss Alexa noted as she gazed at the familiar machine with great affection. "The current loadout consists of the Apocalypse Sword, a tier 2 Destroyer sword, and the Genesis Rifle, a Gosar antimatter rifle. In the hands of my grandfather and his machine, this is enough to defeat almost any opposition."
The Genesis Rifle was arguably the simpler of the two weapons. It wielded the 'power of creation' by firing beams of shielded antimatter particles.
Anything it impacted got annihilated, thereby generating enormous amounts of energy that usually produced extrely powerful explosions!
In fact, it was overkill for the Ouroboros to fire antimatter beams all of the ti. They were only really reserved for the strongest adversaries.
Against weaker and less resilient targets, the Genesis Rifle could switch to a secondary fire mode that enabled it to fire weaker but much more versatile laser beams in many different ways.
The Apocalypse Sword turned the Ouroboros into a close-ranged nightmare.
The tier 2 Destroyer weapon was a big deal in human space. Destroyer technology had sounded fascinating but inscrutable to Ves in the past. It wasn't until his status improved so much and gained access to much more exclusive repositories of information that he learned what this tech was all about.
Destroyer technology had long been regarded as exclusively Terran due to the inability for the Rubarthans or anyone else to replicate, imitate or substitute its characteristic weapons.
This was an amazing feat considering how many Star Designers and other powerful researchers had tried to crack this puzzle!
The reason why the Terrans had always been able to maintain perfect control over their tech was because of its principal working chanism.
Destroyer weapons weren't actually all that special aside from one core feature.
The materials used to construct the weapons were infused with so-called Destroyer particles.
These particles directly enhanced the powered weapons and granted them unparalleled destructive power!
Best of all, these particles were sohow able to discern whether the Destroyer weapons were used by Terrans or those who earned their approval.
This ant that if a Rubarthan or any other ch pilot tried to wield a stolen Destroyer weapon, the expensive object would not display its destructive potential at all! The Destroyer particles would remain absolutely inert unless the weapon had fallen back into the hands of an approved user!
This was an amazing capability and a strong reason why the Terrans continued to make widespread use of Destroyer weapons.
The main reason why these Destroyer particles possessed these reality-defying properties was because they weren't natural or ordinary.
They represented the culmination of extre high technology that exceeded mortal production capabilities.
A Destroyer particle was a synthetic product that was originally developed by a Terran Star Designer!
The only known thod of producing these highly valued particles was by relying on the material production capabilities of god pilots.
Yes, god pilots!
Every Terran god pilot who had learned this highly coveted formula was practically able to produce Destroyer particles out of thin air!
The Terrans subsequently collected these precious particles and infused them into weapons at different concentrations.
The greater the concentration, the more destructive the weapon!
User Comments
0 comments from readers