The Scotara Armor's so-called luck factor generated a lot of controversy.
Many ch designers and layn found its value to be questionable.
Why couldn't the ch designers of the Swarm Project include a proper defensive specialist and design more robust armor systems?
Although Jovy Armalon definitely shouldn't be a weak ch designer due to his origins and his participation in the Swarm Project, that did not necessarily an he was the best man for the job!
Jovy could have explained himself more, but he declined to do so for whatever reason. Instead, he calmly completed his obligatory presentation about the Scotara Armor before addressing a few other aspects of the Yellow Jacket designs.
He briefly explained the performance characteristics of the flight systems of all three versions of the Yellow Jackets. The persistent goal was to make all three Carmine chs fairly fast and maneuverable, and the flight systems successfully t this standard for every tech level.
Of course, the limited design budgets also constrained how fast and agile they could beco.
There were limits to how fast they could fly or how quickly they could change directions.
This was not necessarily a detrint, as excessively fast and mobile chs tended to be much harder to pilot and control.
Beginner and less experienced Carmine ch pilots could never be as skilled and acute as Saint Tusa Billingsley-Larkinson, so pairing them with chs that featured exceptionally high mobility was just asking for collisions!
Jovy also moved on to explain other relatively boring aspects of the Yellow Jackets such as the performance of their sensor systems, the properties of their power reactors and the efficiency of their heat managent systems.
More and more people started to get distracted and pay less attention to this lecture, but there were still enough ch insiders who paid careful attention to this mundane information.
This was because those who intended to make actual use of the Yellow Jackets needed to master all of the information regarding the new products.
Oftentis, Jovy not only recited data that could easily be retrieved from the docuntation of the Carmine chs, but also added his personal insights and recomndations.
This was all valuable information to the right parties. No one knew the Yellow Jacket models better than one of the contributing ch designers!
Once Jovy had finally supplied the public the necessary information about most of the remaining systems of the Yellow Jacket, he finally stepped back.
[Jovy.] Ves communicated with his friend over a private channel. [Why didn't you ntion to the public that the luck factor of the Scotara Armor has a theoretically high upper limit? It can potentially save the Yellow Jackets from getting wiped out in an instant after suffering a direct hit from a warship-grade cannon strike!]
Yes, according to the theories and calculations made by Jovy, such an unlikely outco could actually happen in reality!
Jovy's design philosophy was so unreasonable in this aspect. As long as the probability of surviving an overwhelming attack was non-zero, then he could magnify this tiny probability and make it a little more likely to occur!
Of course, the actual probability that this would happen would not be as high as 2 percent, but substantially less.
[Seeing is believing.] Jovy nonchalantly responded. [I am not as famous and familiar to the public as you, Ves. You have beco an increasingly more known quantity to the ch community and wider population. I am an unfamiliar na to both groups. They do not understand my design philosophy or know any of the chs that I have designed. The chanics of my design philosophy are also difficult to test in this product reveal. I prefer to keep it simple and let the masses discover the value of my contribution through their own efforts. It is not as if my luck factor is a core feature of your ch design.]
That was true. Jovy was perhaps the poorest fit to the Swarm Project. He only took part because Ves trusted him and because he was able to represent the interests of the Survivalist Faction.
Still, Ves did not believe that many other ch designers could design such a sound and comprehensive armor system that took both cost savings and regional resource availability into account.
Even if Jovy outsourced a lot of the hard work onto the various R&D institutions of the Red Association, he had proven to be excellent at contacting and coordinating these efforts.
Collaborating with him was like collaborating with the entire R&D support structure of the Red Association!
Now that Jovy Armalon had concluded his presentation on the defenses and other properties of the Yellow Jacket, there were a few more key features that had yet to be introduced.
Ves slowly strode forward again. The noise in the massive exhibition hall quickly subsided again now that he attracted everyone's attention.
His ability to command the attention of the people had risen to a higher level. His pivotal work on the Carmine System had earned him this privilege!
"Ladies and gentlen." Ves spoke with a naturally composed speaking voice. "I hope that you have gained a thorough impression of the capabilities of the three editions of the Yellow Jacket. Before we conclude this presentation of 3 of the 6 designs of the Swarm Project, I still need to introduce a few more special features that you cannot find on other chs."
That attracted a lot more interest. People had already beco thoroughly convinced of the value of the Yellow Jackets. Even if it did not score full points in every category, the priceless utility of the Carmine System alone was enough for them to place as many orders as possible!
Now that the Yellow Jackets ostensibly possessed even more nifty features, people began to develop even higher expectations for the budget chs!
"Earlier, I have ntioned that the Yellow Jackets are sixth generation living chs. That ans that they incorporate nurous design applications that I have added on top of the more basic and familiar frawork of living chs that you are familiar with. Let show you a brief overview of what every generation has added to my living ch
paradigm."
[First generation living chs: X-Factor
Second generation living chs: Design Spirits
Third generation living chs: Orders of Life
Fourth generation living chs: Ascension Runes.
Fifth generation living chs: Active and Passive Living ch Cultivation
Sixth generation living chs: Ultimate Modules, Strong Living ch Cognition, Active Cultivation Techniques]
Few people possessed a systematic understanding of living chs, so this brief summary held a lot of value to ch designers and other interested groups!
"In the first generation, my living chs exhibited slight responsiveness and warmth towards their ch pilots through a phenonon that used to be known as the
X-Factor"
The X-Factor was an obscure phenonon that did not ring a lot of bells.
"In the second generation, I discovered design spirits and learned how to attach them to
my ch designs so that they can bestow glows and other useful properties to my
products."
Design spirits had beco a known if poorly understood feature of Ves' products. Most people had given up on trying to understand how they worked.
"In the third generation, I discovered that living chs can 'break through' and reach a new order of sapience, intelligence and responsiveness. Most of my products start off as second order living chs and can naturally grow into third order living chs over
ti."
This had also beco a known phenonon. People understood it much better because a lot of third order living chs had erged by this ti. They still alienated certain groups, but had beco so common that most ch pilots had gotten used to piloting a ch that possessed so many human traits.
"In the fourth generation, I discovered the existence of Ascension Runes and managed to learn how they could structurally be organized in my products."
Only the ch pilots of third order living chs ca into contact with these mysterious Ascension Runes. They did not seem to do much aside from slightly improving the performance of a living ch.
"In the fifth generation, the Great Severing occurred. I discovered that living chs
could not only grow by absorbing E energy radiation, but that I can also improve the direction and efficiency of the absorption process by imparting my living chs with their own cultivation techniques."
This explanation generated a bit more controversy than the other descriptions! Many authorities had already labeled the process of cultivation to be dangerous. For Ves
to develop chs that were smart enough to cultivate by themselves sounded rather
frightening!
Fortunately, so many third order living chs had engaged in their own forms of
cultivation for a while now, yet none of them ever misbehaved. This successfully lowered
the vigilance of a lot of concerned parties.
There was a lot more depth into living ch cultivation that Ves could talk about, but
none of that was relevant to the product reveal.
"Now, the sixth and latest generation of living chs ca relatively shortly after the fifth generation. The advancents that I have made after discovering E energy radiation are myriad. The subjects related to strong living ch cognition and active cultivation techniques are too advanced for to elaborate today, I shall only talk about the main benefit of sixth generation living chs."
Ves waved his arm. The angular bottom sections of three display chs began to glow, drawing many people's attention towards this section.
"The Yellow Jackets are deliberately designed to resemble wasps for multiple reasons. Real wasps co with stingers, and these Carmine chs are no exceptions in this
regard. It is just that I have applied a more abstract aning of a stinger to my works. Instead of turning this section into a 7th modular hardpoint or simply mounting a very sharp spike on it, I have incorporated what I have taken to calling an Ultimate Module inside this section."
Another series of overlays beca active at the bottoms of the Yellow Jackets. They gave the audience images of the Ultimate Modules that were squished inside these sections. "There are many situations in the battles of the Red War where a ch is outmatched
and on course to suffer defeat. Under normal circumstances, the ch gets destroyed while the winner suffers relatively little consequences. The Sacrifice Ultimate Modules that I have integrated in all three editions of the Yellow Jacket is my attempt to mobilize all of the remaining power of the Carmine ch before unleashing the potent energies as a form of payback!"
Was this just a fancy and more harmful version of scuttling your own Carmine ch?!
"Before you ask, there is nothing to be concerned about." Ves reassured his listeners. "After activating the Superpurge Ultimate Ability, the Biodo of a Carmine ch will first eject ahead of any other actions. After that, the Ultimate Module will forcibly induce the remaining tallic components of the Yellow Jacket to overload every component that is capable of doing so and attempt to engulf as many nearby assets in an attempt to take them down. Even if the resulting detonation cannot take down the enemies of the Carmine ch pilots, the violent explosion should at least distract the enemies enough to give the ejected Biodo a better chance of returning to the rear intact." That sounded rather impressive, but not exceptional. So far, nobody had heard anything that deserved the description of 'ultimate!
"I understand your doubts and skepticisms." Ves smiled at everyone. "You must be thinking why I am attempting to dress up what may simply be a self-destruct option. You are not entirely wrong, but you are vastly underestimating the damage that the Ultimate Module can do. Every Ultimate Module derives a large amount of power from E energy radiation. It also gains more advanced direction from an aspect of the living ch. There are also several other factors that I cannot ntion that make my Ultimate Modules more potent. Perhaps a demonstration is in order."
The only way to convince his audience that the Yellow Jacket could achieve amazing results by sacrificing its tallic shell was to witness this phenonon in reality!
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