The Mech Touch Chapter 5662 Competitive Pressure

5662 Competitive Pressure

The Fey Fianna was the first product that could truly be regarded as a mainstream ch model.

In a ti where the Hyper Generation had just begun, the Living ch Corporation cleverly took advantage of a montary gap in the market and displaced the established brands by releasing a killer drone ch line!

As copies of the Standard Edition rapidly began to fall into the hands of many second-class ch forces, they quickly started to make good use of its many excellent properties.

As a modern hyper ch that happened to be among the easiest drone chs for ch pilots to get started with, a lot of outfits fell in love with its myriad of capabilities!

One of the greatest disadvantages of a typical ch force was their lack of unit diversity.

This used to be an advantage during the Age of chs. In tis of peace where the Big Two heavily limited the scope of human-to-human warfare, chs were more than sufficient to fight the battles that mattered.

Other unit types such as infantry and tanks had their respective uses, but devoting most of the industrial and warmaking potential towards chs yielded so many advantages that they had more than proven their worth.

However, now that red humanity had begun to fight against a foe that did not play by the rules based on chs at all, the flaws of developing an overreliance on chs alone beca increasingly more exposed.

The Age of chs had co to an end. More and more people gradually realized that the ti had finally co for them to graduate from the simpler tis of the past.

The four centuries of uninterrupted peace and prosperity in the Milky Way had been a golden age for chs, but also caused a lot of humans to forget about the usefulness of other unit types.

The Red Fleet experienced a resurgence as it neatly took advantage of the shortcomings exposed by the Red War.

There were good reasons why warships had long served as the dominant war weapons in the conflicts throughout the history of the Milky Way and the Red Ocean!

Their incredible sizes alone easily allowed them to overpower anything else by relying on brute force alone.

This was one of the reasons why the people of the middle zones and lower zones embraced the Auxiliary Warship Program with so much enthusiasm. They finally gained a chance to rely on the sa kind of assets that their alien foes took for granted!

The comfort and reassurance provided by warships far exceeded that of chs. The forr had beco a lot more mysterious to people nowadays. Every child of the Age of chs had grown up in a ti where warships had long been removed from their daily lives.

The destruction wrought by alien raiding fleets and the difficulty of defeating enemy warships had caused these vessels to beco the latest boogeyn for many red humans.

Gaining a chance to serve on locally built human warships finally gave red humans an opportunity to conquer their fears and use them against their own enemies!

As the rollout of auxiliary warships slowly started to ramp up, the ch industry did not remain idle.

chs enjoyed focused developnt for such a long period of ti that their sophistication and combat effectiveness far exceeded that of any other small craft!

The depth and variety of chs boggled the imagination. The strongest civilization of the Milky Way had poured so much ti and energy into elevating all of their aspects that not even the vaunted phasefighters could fight chs on an equal level.

The fact that many courageous ch forces not only dared to attack alien warships but actually secured a lot of victories in the process was proof that chs had already broken through the limitations of small craft!

During the second year of the Age of Dawn, two trains of thought had gradually erged among the populace.

One of them favored a combined arms approach. These were the people who beca fed up with the limitations of chs and favored a diversification approach.

chs, warships and possibly other unit types had to work together in order to attain the best results!

The prevailing theory was that only by combining their strengths and covering for their respective weaknesses would they be able to win enough victories to avoid falling behind in the REd War.

There was no other way for red humanity to stand a chance against the imnse quantity of alien warships bearing down on human-occupied space!

However, pretty much every human alive today had grown up in a ti where the regi of chs dominated many aspects of society.

People developed blind belief in the superiority of chs. They especially worshiped ch pilots who transcended their mortal limitations and stepped onto the path of godhood!

With eight imnsely powerful god pilots as its standard bearers, the monstrously large and powerful ch community still wielded an imnse amount of influence over human society!

While the Red Fleet had to build up public support from scratch, the Red Association had already beco deeply rooted in the daily lives of a lot of people!

chs had their flaws, but their strengths could not be denied.

Unlike the crews serving aboard warships, ch pilots had a chance to break through and beco expert pilots, ace pilots and maybe even ascend to godhood and beco one of the top powerhouses of the dwarf galaxy!

The military infrastructure of much of red humanity was already geared towards chs. The imnse economies of scale, the gathering of a lot of ch supply chains into highly efficient and mature industrial hubs and the huge amount of personnel who specialized in every aspect of a ch's product life cycle granted them so many advantages that it would take forever to explain!

The point was that since human civilization was already geared towards making the best possible use of chs, people may be better off sticking to their existing strengths rather than trying to switch gears.

There were enormous risks associated with switching a lot of infrastructure towards the construction of warships as opposed to chs.

The ch industry was also fiercely protective of all of the rights and influence that it had accrued over the centuries.

With the strong support of the Red Association, the ch industry did everything in its power to maintain its dominance.

It was not used to being put on the defensive. The artificial monopoly that chs enjoyed in the Milky Way no longer held true anymore. For the first ti in centuries, chs had to prove their worth and compete against other combat platforms!

Many ch designers eagerly accepted their challenge. It was not just their personal prosperity and raison d'etre that were at stake.

No. This struggle transcended the individual and threatened the survival of the entire of their collective industry!

Every ch designer had a duty to defend their industry and prevent chs from being regarded as inferior products that needed to make way for better alternatives such as warships!

The release of the Fey Fianna helped a lot because its value proposition was so much higher than earlier products that it renewed a lot of people's confidence in chs.

More importantly than that, the Fey Fianna taught the rest of the ch industry how chs could exceed their prior limitations and employ more creative asures to et the changing needs of the market.

Fighting against a fleet of genuine warships required a different set of skills and tools than fighting against another ch force!

ch designers who were far too slow to adjust to the changing circumstances quickly saw their market positions disintegrate.

However, there were more than enough bold and creative ch designers who managed to move quickly enough to successfully address the needs of custors who still had faith in chs.

Even if chs themselves had their flaws, the use of spurs such as in the case of the Fey Fianna vastly increased their versatility and usefulness when fighting against warships.

Many ch forces managed to win difficult fights and reduce their casualty levels by a large extent by utilizing lots of fey in combat!

The disposable living spurs took on a lot of dangerous roles and regularly got destroyed in combat.

Yet because they were smaller, weaker and more compact than chs, it was easy for any decent ch force to stuff thousands of spare fey in their cargo holds.

In addition, one of the hidden advantages of using living fey was that their living personalities did not actually die.

They just went back to their base ch and waited for the machine to acquire a replacent fey before the subordinate spirit took its place again!

A lot of first-ti buyers of living chs gradually began to familiarize themselves with the true aning of LMC products!

In any case, under the backdrop of changing tis, the ch industry did not show any weakness towards the resurging warship industry.

As the vibrant ch market continued to generate a lot of buzz due to the releases of other powerful hyper ch models, many ch insiders assud that Professor Ves Larkinson and the Living ch Corporation had already released all of their powder.

It was difficult to imagine that a Senior ch Designer and a fairly modest player in the ch market could support the developnt of another explosive bestseller.

Even the strange news that the Larkinson Clan had sohow beco a big shareholder of a large Rubarthan ch manufacturer did not dispel this assumption.

They were all wrong.

On a certain day, the CEO of Isthmus Manufacturing decided to hold a product reveal event.

This was highly unusual because Isthmus Manufacturing never stood out as a producer of original designs. It had always placed itself as a convenient large-scale manufacturer of mainstream ch models from many different sources.

There was no no need for Isthmus to take risky gambles and compete directly against other ch companies for market share.

It was much more comfortable for Isthmus to leech of the success with successful ch companies instead!

This was why the mysterious announcent generated a lot of unusual buzz in the Rubarthan ch community.

There was no way the CEO would hold a high-profile event just to introduce an average second-class ch design.

A lot of journalists slled an interesting story. This was especially the case when Isthmus Manufacturing cleverly utilized its familiarity with the Rubarthan dia landscape to drop subtle hints and raise people's expectations for this product reveal.

All of these signs showed that Isthmus Manufacturing was so confident in its upcoming release that it did not hesitate to make a spectacle out of this event.

People wondered what Isthmus Manufacturing had managed to obtain that rited so much attention.

If the ch company had overestimated the appeal of its upcoming product, then its competitors would not hesitate to take advantage of the resulting flop to embarrass the ch manufacturer!

Competition within the Rubarthan Pact was intense. The profits were high, but they were only a limited number of players.

Was the confidence of Isthmus justified or had its leaders overestimated the value of its upcoming product?

Many people remained optimistic. A company as well-run as Isthmus was not led by fools. If Micky Tarukan was willing to put his na and face behind this upcoming product, then it had to be legitimate!

This was why a lot of Rubarthan journalists, ch designers, ch commanders and other related individuals attended the event at the company's massive exhibition center next to its headquarters.

The Impresario Principality had drawn the attention of a lot of second-raters in the Rubarthan Pact.

Genuine Rubarthan citizens had little interest in second-class chs so they did not bother to tune in, but they would probably co to regret their decision by the end of the day.

As a lot of dia began to cover the event, Micky Tarukan appeared in front of his massive audience in a hall that was tailor-made to showcase the chs produced by his company.

"Welco everybody. Today is a day that ch pilots shall rejoice. This is because this will be the first ti that our valiant heroes and defenders can gain the opportunity to wield the power of a god, if only for an instant."

That certainly built up a lot of interest.