5725 New Series of Hyper Gems
Tristan Wesseling was having the ti of his life.
Ever since the Age of Dawn comnced, he experienced a renaissance.
His design philosophy, which largely hinged on the use of gems to augnt the performance of chs in an unconventional manner, suddenly acted as if it received a stimulant!
The gems he used to produce in the past were curiosities more than anything. They slightly improved the performance of chs in a small but slightly distinguishable manner. Their effects were as significant as their size.
In fact, if not for the fact that his gems were so small and easy to install on a ch, nobody would have bothered with making use of his products.
Most people did not appreciate his work for that reason. What did it matter if his products was able to increase the damage output of a rifleman ch by 2 or 3 percent?
Would making the armor of a ch 5 percent more resilient truly extend its lifespan?
After all, if a ch was prone to getting crippled by receiving 3 heavy attacks in the sa armor section, a slight boost in defenses did not an that the ch was able to resist 1 heavy attack more.
This was why only the most detail-oriented custors bothered to make use of his products. His pedigree as a forr direct discipline of Master Katzenberg had given him a decent boost in credibility, but that did not help him much when he was unable to take advantage of her umbrella due to his emotional decision to cut off all of his ties to the Friday Coalition.
Though Tristan never regretted the decision to turn his back on the state that raised him and gave him the opportunity to beco a young Journeyman ch Designer, living through the Komodo War and becoming involved with its intrigues had thoroughly disgusted him to the point where he had to leave.
It was tough to stand alone. He still missed the days when he could take shelter under Master Katzenberg's umbrella and knew that many daily problems could easily be solved with a single call.
Yet it was by settling down in Davute and going through the process of leading his own ch company that Tristan truly started to mature as a ch designer.
No one held his hand anymore. He had to balance his finances, invest in expensive facilities and work hard to attract a custor base that appreciated his products.
Fortunately, his background in materials science turned out to be incredibly useful at the start of the Age of Dawn.
When hyper materials started to pop up like mushrooms, every material scientist started to get inundated with requests.
There were so many different variations of materials that beca affected by E energy radiation that Tristan had been working non-stop to identify and asure the properties of hundreds of newly discovered hyper materials.
This not only gave him a strong boost in revenue, but also allowed him to grow more familiar with hyper technology.
On top of that, Tristan Design Services built up a lot of useful relations with influential companies based in Davute. Tristan found it a lot easier to solicit further contracts from them now that he had proven his competence, trustworthiness and above all his discretion.
Yet despite all of the hard work he put into raising his reputation in the regional ch industry, Tristan could not deny that his rise had been a lot smoother than it should.
His expression briefly darkened as he thought about it. He was a known friend of Professor Larkinson.
That ant that as long as Ves Larkinson continued to make a lot of accomplishnts, more and more people were prone to giving Tristan more slack just because he happened to be acquainted with a rising star!
Suffice to say, this association did not do Tristan's pride any good.
He wanted to stand on his own two feet, but he was realistic enough to know that it was useless to deny connection.
Since people thought he was a personal friend of an impressive tier 3 galactic citizen, then he may as well accept his fate and take advantage of this favorable condition.
Though Tristan had never again betrayed his old friend's trust, he was not above using Ves' na on occasion in order to gain more leverage in a business negotiation.
He was sure that Ves would not mind, so long as Tristan did not go too far with tying everything to his friend.
For a long ti, Tristan thought that his involvent with Ves would remain limited to this. The Larkinson Patriarch had clearly moved on from Davute, and he had already relocated to the Terran Alliance so that he could assimilate into first-class society.
It was not as if Tristan needed to borrow Ves' na any further. His growing comprehension of hyper materials and hyper technology finally enabled him to develop a series of hyper gems.
Their appearance changed everything.
No longer were they subtle to the point where thorough lab testing was required to notice their effects.
The gems that he managed to synthesize by combining several exotics and hypers together under extre pressure were able to do more than slightly enhance the performance of chs.
They were able to attract certain 'attributes' of E energy.
That alone might not sound impressive enough as that was the common effect of all hyper materials.
What made his gems different was that their separate effects synergized with each other!
For example, mixing in a small quantity of fire hypers into a gem strengthened its original effect of increasing the firepower of energy weapons!
By pairing the right gem effects to compatible attributes, Tristan had quickly amassed over a hundred different formulas for his new series of hyper gems.
Not only did the introduction of hyper materials double or triple the original effect of his gems, they also facilitated the performance of other comparable hyper tech on a ch!
Tristan managed to do all of this while still keeping his gems small and light!
Of course, he could also make his gems larger in order to amplify their effect, but Tristan had found that this produced a lot of diminishing returns.
This was why he favored quality over quantity. The more precious the materials, the greater the performance boost provided by a small gem.
One year after the start of the Age of Dawn, Tristan had fleshed out his signature hyper gems into two distinct product series.
His positive hyper gems were comprised of his original blend of hypers and exotics. They provided performance enhancents through purely positive effects. They were particularly suited for mono-elental hyper chs that overwhelmingly relied on the power of a single E-energy attribute to enhance their performance.
However, when his custors started to make use of his positive hyper gems, they found that they did not work well with all hyper chs.
Tristan worked hard to develop his negative hyper gems as a response.
Different from his original hyper gems, the negative versions actually repelled specific E energy attributes!
This was an effect that was much rarer and more difficult for others to reproduce. They helped to increase the purity of ambient E energy radiation.
There were many uses for negative hyper gems. For example, they allowed a hyper ch that relied heavily on the fire attribute to avoid water-attributed E energy.
Many ch designers recklessly stuffed multiple hyper materials into their chs, thinking that combining multiple attributes would lead to stronger compound effects.
While they were not necessarily wrong, their products often perford significantly below expectation as their designers vastly underestimated the consequences of putting together two conflicting E energy attributes!
In situations like these, a negative hyper gem developed by Tristan could relieve the worst symptoms and increase the stability of the hyper ch.
It was not a proper solution, but it was better than nothing.
Tristan had even begun to design his own hyper chs that integrated the properties of his hyper gems much more intricately. His gems were already great, but it was their integration with chs that needed a lot of work. He wanted to set an example and figure out more optimal thods to rge his gems with different ch designs.
It was during this period that he had decided to tune into the product reveal of the Fey Fianna.
Tristan never missed an event where Ves showed up in public.
His old friend's product reveals were especially compelling, so much so that Tristan tried to learn from example!
"The Fey Shaper Contest?"
At first, Tristan did not have much interest in taking part in this competition. He already had plenty of work on his lap. His ch company was growing at a nice rate, so there was no need for him to leech off the work of another ch designer, much less his fellow native from the Komoodo Star Sector.
Yet… as the Fey Fianna continued to impress the entire ch community with its excellent performance and its rich feature set, Tristan gradually changed his mind.
He could not resist the attraction of boarding a bus that was much more frequented than his own!
While Tristan Design Services had gradually started to beco more known in the Davutan ch industry, it was far from becoming a household na in the region, let alone red humanity as a whole.
It was different for Ves! He and his Living ch Corporation had beco so well-known that even the first-raters knew about his amazing living chs!
The opportunity to participate and earn an opportunity for his work to get presented to a much wider audience was too tempting for Tristan to resist!
His hesitation quickly crumbled. Tristan put down his pride and earnestly diverted a lot of ti in developing a living fey that made integral use of his new hyper gems.
While it would have been easy to take one of the default fey designs and slap his hyper gem onto them, he did not think that was sufficient enough to constitute a serious work.
He had not thrown away all of his pride as a ch designer. He wanted to design a new fey that he could be proud of. It had to offer superior performance and other defined benefits to custors who were willing to make use of his work.
As such, Tristan went deeper and tried to elevate a fey far beyond its existing boundaries.
What better fey for him to reimagine than the iconic luminar crystal cannon fey?
The entire fey was built around a weapon system that primarily consisted of crystals!
Tristan had studied his friend's famous luminar crystal weapons in the past.
Although crystals was his specialty, that did not an he could decipher all of the working principles of luminar crystals. There were too many alien design elents that completely obfuscated their core chanisms.
However, Tristan still managed to deduce a few clues. This beca useful when he tried to reinvent a luminar crystal cannon fey.
His shallow insights into the alien tech gave him an opening to combine his hyper gems with luminar crystal weapons in a productive manner!
It had not been easy to turn it into a solution that was not wasteful. His hyper gems were not cheap, so if they did not enhance the performance of the luminar crystal weapon by a large enough margin, they wouldn't be cost-
effective enough for mass production!
Fortunately, Tristan managed to resolve this problem in ti for him to submit his work to the Living ch Corporation.
As he wore his most formal suit and slowly began to step up to the podium, he felt more nervous than ever now that he ca under the attention of his old friend again.
When Tristan looked up to the floating figure, he lanted the extended distance that separated the two from each other.
The taphorical distance between them had increased as well. While Ves advanced to the rank of Senior and beca involved in galaxy-wide affairs, Tristan still remained a Journeyman who struggled to expand his business operations beyond Davute.
Hopefully, his newly developed fey would prove popular enough to attract a lot of custors.
Once a lot more consurs outside of Davute started to experience the benefits of his hyper gems, they would hopefully inquire about his products!
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