Ves found that it was much harder to deepen the application of hyper technology than he initially expected.
Certainly, there were a lot of different ideas that he could apply to energy shield generators and armor systems, but it was not as simple for Ves to figure out anything worthwhile.
His standards were high. The problem was not that his ideas were bad, but he was almost certain that other ch designers could do a better job than himself.
"I am not the only person who is working on deepening the application of hyper technology." He frowned.
Anyone who took a look at it would notice that the five classical elents occupied a very prominent position on the list.
This was because everyone could see that they had the potential to form a cycle!
Of course, trying to make it happen was way easier said than done. It turned out that Ves was hardly the only ch designer who dared to design a ch that attempted to form a complete cycle of the five elents.
Unlike the initially successful creation of the Elental Lord, all of the other attempts to fabricate comparable machines had failed before they could even be completed!
No matter whether they were conventionally fabricated or materialized into existence, they almost certainly broke down due to the violent and uncontrolled interactions between opposing elents!
Ves couldn't help but smirk when he found this out. "It is not so easy to build a five elent ch that can stably control all of these forces."
After a lot of ch designers had learned their lesson, they reined in their ambitions and fell back to designing mono-elental or duo-elental chs.
Only the more daring ones attempted to tackle triple-elental chs, but they usually relied on special advantages to moderate the inevitable conflict that could arise.
When Ves read through the articles that highlighted the few triple-elental ch designs revealed to the public, his expression shifted for a ti.
Reading between the lines, he could easily tell that these ch designers either learned a thing or two about cultivation science or had access to a consultant with the respective expertise.
They all treated their chs as artifacts that sought to leverage the power of heaven to amplify their performance.
The triple-elental chs even showed more obvious traces of mysticism that alluded to a deeper understanding of a special interpretation of the five elents.
After the Hyper Generation kicked off, the common consensus in the ch industry was that E energy ca in many different variations. They were akin to different flavors that were wholly separate and discrete from each other.
However, according to a particularly dominant interpretation in ancient tis, the five elents were a lot more interconnected to each other. They described different phases of a universal cycle. They were like the seasons of an axial tilted planet that repeated endlessly.
According to this mystical interpretation of the five elents, qi or E energy was naturally able to undergo transformations like the cycling between yin and yang.
One interpretation of the transformation between the phases sounded a bit interesting to him because it was tied into the concept of life and growth.
Water represented the formation of new plant life under the cover of winter snow.
Wood stood for the growth of new shoots of plants at the onset of spring.
Fire stood for the warming and feeding of solar radiation in the heat of sumr.
Earth represented the ripening of grains and other plants that took place next.
tal was associated with the harvesting of the ripened crops and the storage of seeds to prepare for the following cycles during autumn.
All of it sounded nice, but Ves personally thought it was a hamfisted way to tie the five elents to the seasons.
Ves did not put too much stock in the superstitions of old. He was a man of science and preferred to use a combination between his own observations as well as knowledge based on modern empirical research to build his own theoretical fraworks.
His mother taught him that anything related to spirituality was psychoactive and psychoreactive.
That essentially ant that superstitions and subjective beliefs actually had the power to change the behavior of spiritual phenona.
"This must be why the five phases of transformation theory must have been so popular in ancient tis." Ves speculated. "It is a convenient self-hypnotizing tool that enables many cultivators to easily combine and transform these classical elents."
It explained why ch designers who did not get exposed to this theory found it a lot harder to design multi-elental chs that produced greater synergies. Their own ntal models lacked sufficient explanations that could help them ta the E energy attributes they sought to combine.
Though the existence of this harmonious cycle suggested that the five phases of transformation described a fundantal and objective truth about this reality, Ves did not put as much stock to this interpretation.
One of the objections he had was that the cultivators of ancient tis dressed up the mysticism and used the five elents to make all kinds of nonsensical excuses and beliefs about stuff.
For example, people associated the five elents with five different tastes, five different sounds and so on. Ves really couldn't take this seriously because he was a modern scientist and engineer who possessed critical thinking.
In his mind, the five phases of transformation were not even that absolute.
For example, wood could clearly turn into fire, but Ves believed he could also find a way to turn fire into wood if he worked hard enough!
Sure, it was probably a lot harder to recreate this counterintuitive transformation, but Ves was convinced he could do it if he desired!
However, it was a thankless and highly inefficient approach to utilizing E energy. Ves might not like the mysticism surrounding the five elents, but he could not deny that it provided ch designers with an easy ntal model to incorporate ready-made transformations in their work.
As much as he wanted to design multi-elental chs like all of these adventurous ch designers, Ves forcibly had to hold himself back from following suit.
"Many of these ch designers are too impatient." He shook his head in disapproval.
The vast majority of applications of hyper technology so far were relatively shallow. At most, ch designers utilized their design philosophies to apply E energy in slightly more inventive fashions.
For example, Ves had already learned that there were plenty of ch designers who specialized in energy defenses had already applied the idea he thought about before.
Energy shields that utilized the water elents to form whirlpools or currents that could better spread or divert incoming attacks had already erged.
The sa went for other relatively simple applications.
"It is a waste of ti for to develop ch systems like these." Ves concluded. "I'm not even a defensive specialist. If I want to design a more interesting space knight, then I should try and form a connection between hyper technology and my specialty."
He beca stuck at this junction. There weren't any obvious ways for him to apply hyper technology to a space knight in a way that tied into living chs.
Even though his head was full of ideas, none of them were relevant to the matter at hand.
"Oh well." He shrugged. "I am not in a hurry to start another design project. I can take my ti and wait for further inspiration."
He was still determined to design a new defensive ch in the future, but it had to make enough sense. There was no point in starting up a new project when he hadn't even figured out a solid direction.
Ves put this potential new ch design project aside and returned to handling all of the affairs that had co up since he concluded his most recent fabrication run.
"Many new groups of people want to cooperate with us." Gavin Neumann reported when Ves had returned to his main office in Diandi Base. "Many of them are first-raters such as Terrans. This has made it a lot more difficult to greet them and handle our communications with them. Our Premier Branch is too short-handed to manage these relationships, and our needs in the upper zones are not too great at the mont."
That did not surprise Ves that much. "You don't sound too worried."
"That is because your assistant Alexa has stepped in on our behalf. She was a lifesaver. She possesses the right training, background and status to respond to all of these powerful parties. She has even taken action that has drastically reduced the amount of unsolicited inquiries that we are receiving."
Ves looked impressed. "She is really too useful. I am really glad that I recruited her into my clan."
Although it was not fair to make this comparison, he thought that Alexa was much more useful to him than Ketis at this point.
It was the separation that was making it difficult for Ves to remain connected to Ketis. He knew that the ambitious swordmaster and Journeyman had chosen to stick with the Swordmaidens in order to design more effective swordsman chs that could pose a greater threat to alien warships.
Ves thought back on all of the other ch legions of the clan and found it hard to relate to them after he started to spend ti among the Terrans.
He missed all of the familiar clansn.
Ves couldn't wait until the first batch of Larkinson ch pilots graduated from EdNet training and joined the Premier Branch.
A few more minutes passed before Gavin addressed the most important item on the agenda.
"By the way, we have already finalized the planning of the upcoming product reveal." Gavin said. "If there are no unexpected delays or complications, we can hold the event a month from today. We have already rented a large enough venue in the Bortele System, and we can guarantee that a large amount of press and invited guests will co and listen to your presentation."
"A month is doable." Ves had no objections to this schedule. "The Bluejay Fleet is so damn fast that the travel ti should not be an issue. Will the Warborn or the expeditionary fleet be present?"
"Probably not. Both forces are already on their way to the conflict regions. General Ark Larkinson and Master Benedict Cortez are adamant about looking for fights and gain more opportunities to earn war rits. It may take months for them to turn away from the front."
"I see. Well, it is not necessary for us to rely on their assistance. We can rely on the Bluejay Fleet for high-level protection and private sector forces for other services. The Fey Project is partially comrcial, so it should not be a problem to hire a bunch of excellent rcenaries to pilot them in our public exhibitions. Using them can better highlight how easy it is to get started with the Fey Project as opposed to other drone chs."
Gavin nodded in agreent. "An abundance of security companies and rcenary organizations has descended onto Bortele. We will not be lacking in manpower. There are two issues that you need to address. First, given that your previous attempt to make a ch has ended up in disaster, are you in the mood to fabricate another ch? If you are able to present a masterwork ch during the product reveal, you can win over a lot more custors. Second, have you decided on a proper na for the Fey Project?"
"Hmm..."
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