ch designers communicated best when they practiced their profession.
Although it was kind of weird for a cat and a human Master to talk about ch designs, the two were imdiately able to get into sync with each other.
Part of it was because they already collaborated with each other in the past. Another part of it was that both of them had confird that their goals were at least partially aligned.
As ch designers who still stayed true to the original principles and values of their profession, there was no obvious discrepancy between the two. Their perspectives and knowledge base may differ substantially, but the beauty of designing chs together was that their contributions were often additive.
Since Veronica was the lead designer of this new Carmine ch design project, she naturally took the lead by specifying the starting paraters of her proposal.
"I have been thinking about designing a very straightforward adaptation of the Yellow Jacket design, but I do not think it is suitable here." She said. "For one, the Yellow Jacket is optimized to counter alien strike craft and warships. They can still fight decently well enough against the chs that the people of the Milky Way will most often fight against, but they are not too great at this job. I also think that it will be harder to convince all red humans to pilot a wasp ch. It is still better to stick to a humanoid ch."
The Cyborg Cat laid out her argunts while simultaneously using her claw to expertly sketch the outline of a humanoid ch in the projected interface.
Master Willix thoughtfully stared at the rudintary draft design. There were many variations of humanoid chs. The one sketched by Veronica was especially adapted for simplicity and ease of use.
"I see that you have chosen to design a modular or semi-modular ch." Veronica nodded. "I don't believe in one-size-fits-all approaches. The Milky Way is huge. Humans hailing from different states and star sectors can have vastly different preferences for chs. One state may be crazy about swordsman chs, and will prefer configurations that enhance flexibility and striking power. Another state may be filled with people who are avid marksn. They prefer to pilot machines that are agile and very precise in their movents. Instead of trying to cater to all of them with a single design, its best to add sockets to our Carmine chs so that the custor can decide what to choose."
This was not the first modular ch platform that she had designed in her career. She borrowed many lessons from the last iteration of the Bright Warrior design and readily applied them to her new project.
Naturally, Master Willix could clearly deduce from the sketches that Veronica knew what she was doing. There was no need for the older ch designer to hold a lecture on this subject.
In the interest of saving ti and reducing the cost burden, Ves tried not to go overboard on the modularity. She intended to keep the head and torso consistent, but add modularity to the arms, legs, flight system and optional backpack elents.
This was the most basic way to design a modular ch, but it was a tried and tested formula that worked particularly well for low budget options.
Her design so far imdiately told Master Willix that she wanted the base model to be fairly economical, but not as cheap as her Yellow Jacket design.
After all, original humanity was not as shabby as red humanity. The humans were the overlords of the Milky Way. They possessed abundant access to low to mid-grade exotics. Such materials were so widely available that it should be easy to churn out billions of Carmine chs.
The economic and industrial developnt of human civilization in the Milky Way was also much higher.
The occupied star systems in the galactic heartland and the galactic center were so highly developed that there was hardly any room for cost-effective expansion anymore!
There were a huge amount of ch manufacturing complexes. Many of them should easily be able to retool their production lines to fabricate Carmine chs at huge volus.
There was only one hindrance, though.
"The Carmine System of a Carmine ch is largely organic or biochanical in construction, correct?" Master Willix asked.
"That is right." Ves said. "This is another reason why I don't think the Yellow Jacket designs are suitable for this market. Back in the Red Ocean, the Red Association has the industrial capacity and the willingness to centralize the mass production of Biodos that function as oversized organic cockpit systems. We cannot expect the MTA to do the sa. We can only leave it up to the local production companies to grow the organic components of the Carmine Systems themselves. Their quality and performance may fluctuate, which can lead to danger or outright failure, but there is no other choice. I can only hope that the ch community will be able to figure out a solution that most parties can agree upon."
The Carmine System was almost just as sensitive as neural interfaces in this regard. Only trusted manufacturers should be allowed to produce them, but Ves had no way to enforce this rule.
In order to minimize the varishlar onerated by inconcictancies she tried to chrink
and minimize the footprint of the Carmine System of her new design as much as possible.
This was the exact opposite of what she attempted to do with the Yellow Jacket series. "You have made the most appropriate design choice." Master Willix opined. "Too many humans in the Milky Way have a strong rejection towards biotechnology outside the dical field. As long as the performance is not heavily impacted, shrinking the Carmine System will lead to less complications and less issues related to field repairs." The Cyborg Cat continued to sketch out her proposed vision for her Carmine chs. She did not draw out a single machine. Instead, she showcased the modularity of the new design by depicting other possible variations.
In order to account for a wide variety of ch archetypes, combat doctrines and preferred fighting approaches, Veronica tried to settle for a middle ground whenever
possible.
This caused the modular Carmine ch to lean towards a balanced but rather
diocre performance profile.
This ant that while her upcoming work could never excel in any area, it should not possess glaring weaknesses that should drag it down.
Neither Veronica nor Master Willix needed to point this out. They both understood
the implications.
The sketching continued for a while. The two only occasionally spoke as there was no
need to clarify the basics.
Once the Cyborg Cat had drawn the basic outlines and configurations for the
proposed MW Carmine chs for all 3 tech levels, that was the point where she
allowed her passion to run free.
This was the point where Veronica intended to augnt the basic foundation of her next Carmine ch design with her special sauce.
It was these unique additions that were supposed to define her next work, and not the
Carmine System!
As far as Veronica was concerned, the Carmine System should play the sa role as a
neural interface.
Carmine Systems should be treated as part of a Carmine ch's basic foundation. What truly distinguished a machine was how it fought on the battlefield. Blood Pacts did not necessarily make any difference in this regard.
"Carmine chs will be treated very differently in the Milky Way Galaxy." Veronica surmised. "In the Red Ocean Dwarf Galaxy, the Red Association is still able to exert strong control over the ch community. It is able to convince ch academies to
JJ.
RA is also able to enforce any instances of reckless piloting by Carmine ch pilots that vastly underestimated the training required to control their powerful machines. Here in the Milky Way, we cannot expect their counterparts from the ch Trade Association to do the sa."
This entire plan was clandestine and illegal to begin with. The Oblivion Plan also called for a Carmine ch that was specifically designed to spread turmoil, so the chers should definitely not be happy to see this machine proliferate through the
galaxy!
"It will be difficult to arrange systematic training for new and aspiring Carmine ch pilots in the Milky Way." Master Willix agreed. "Too many civilians here have been isolated from the danger posed by chs, so they will inevitably cause accidents as they inexpertly control their own Carmine chs. The issue is ti. It takes too much ti for Carmine ch pilots to attain a level of competence that allows them to fight. effectively in actual battles."
Veronica's artificial eyes glowed as she grew more enthused. "That is why I want to massively reduce the need for 4 or 5 years of training and education on how to pilot a Carmine ch. I would never try to pull this off in the Red Ocean where I have to abide by all of the rules of the RA, but since we don't intend to make our new ch design conform to the many rules imposed by the MTA, I might as well take advantage of the situation and pursue an extre in my design philosophy."
It was difficult to depict this intangible quality in the draft design, so Veronica settled
on writing annotations with her delicate foreclaw.
The Master ch Designer quickly figured out what the Senior cat had in mind.
"You wish to enhance the autonomy of your Carmine chs so that they can fight. more actively by themselves?"
"Yes!" Veronica grinned. "This is one of the special features of my MW Carmine chs. I call them HALM: High Autonomy Living chs. They are preloaded with a basic but
solid set of piloting and fighting skills. They are also adaptable and learn really well. They can learn all of the relevant fighting skills from their Carmine ch pilots, and they can also learn from their own combat encounters. This may produce a circumstance where the Carmine ch is actually better at controlling its ch fra than its human pilot!"
This was a pretty radical and subversive proposal!
Master Willix clearly did not like it because it broke one of the central tenets of ch design, but she clearly understood the need for this design solution in this unique
context.
"If you are doing this for the purpose of quickly enhancing the combat effectiveness of Carmine ch controlled by undertrained and unqualified pilots, then this is an
eveneable decian choice" The older mach decimr reluctantheaid "I fear the
consequences should too many of these HALM begin to grow into their power. What if these highly autonomous machines decide that there is no reason for them to be ordered around by humans?"
Veronica could only shrug at that. "I can't think or care so much. The two of us can implent nurous safeguards that should reduce this possibility from occurring or make it easier to shut them down if they go rogue. However, there is no other way to make these machines combat effective unless we convert them into outright Al-controlled battle bots."
That was unacceptable for obvious reasons. For better or worse, human ch pilots must still retain substantial control over their machines.
"If you wish to rely on the living Carmine chs to execute maneuvers and launch
attacks against actual enemies, then you do not have to simplify their designs to this degree. Giving your machines greater freedom of movent can raise their ceiling on their combat effectiveness at the cost of making the learning curve steeper." The Master ch Designer began to use her finger to draw small tweaks and
additions to the draft design.
All of her design choices were both thoughtful and elegant. Veronica just knew that
her new Carmine chs would definitely be able to make more achievents on the battlefield due to these changes.
Master Willix even proposed to add extra limbs to the Carmine ch!
"Hm, I haven't thought about that." Veronica said. "This is the first ti since the Devil Tiger that I am purposefully designing a living ch with much greater autonomy than the norm. It looks to that we can exploit that in many ways."
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