The auxiliary qi cultivation thods devised by the Red Collective ignited a new storm within the ch community.
All of the excitent surrounding Carmine chs seed to have little to do with existing ch pilots.
ch pilots had heard that chs equipped with both a neural interface and a Carmine System could raise the effective genetic aptitude of their bonded pilots. Unfortunately, the lack of suitable machines that possessed this configuration prevented curious and eager ch pilots to verify this exciting claim in person.
It was therefore the Red Collective that increasingly occupied their attention. Unlike the Red Association that mainly focused on improving their machines, the Red Collective had worked hard to develop thods that could improve the ch pilots directly.
This alone caused almost every ch pilot to develop an imdiate good impression of the Red Collective!
It helped a lot that all of the beginner cultivation thods were free to practice by anyone.
In order to speed up the progress of ch pilots that bravely fought in the frontlines, the RC made sure to invest in enough instructors that provided both virtual and in-person lessons to get them all up to speed.
A lot of ch pilots hated the idea of going back to school, but the attraction of these fancy new auxiliary qi cultivation thods was so strong that they endured the indignity of returning to their school benches.
Fortunately, learning the first chapters of the free cultivation thods was not that difficult. The Red Collective understood what ch pilots were like and deliberately limited the scope and ambition of the beginner thods in order to prioritize tangible results.
Over the course of a single week, the more talented and diligent ch pilots had already begun to notice the results of their cultivation practice.
"I feel stronger and more alive than ever!"
"This is impressive, Mr. Reyre. According to the latest physical examination, you have largely recovered from your disease. Your body cells have shown signs of rejuvenation. They are beginning to divide again. You will be feeling and looking as if you are a decade or two younger if this pattern continues for a number of months. You have made the right decision by practicing the RC's Healthy Controller Auxiliary Qi Cultivation thod. Would you consent to allowing us to utilize your anonymized
data for a study? I hope to publish a paper faster than other doctors on the de-aging effect of cultivation thods."
Many old ch pilots that chose to immigrate to the Red Ocean in order to live out their retirent and spend their remaining lifespan in a different galaxy never imagined that they could beco spry and healthy enough by practicing a weird form of ditation.
The Healthy Controller thod may be the simplest of the Controller Series due to lacking any components that offered a direct improvent in combat capabilities, but just the fact that people could absorb E energy to extend their lifespan and rejuvenate their cells was amazing, especially when they did not spend anything to harvest this gain!
Life-prolonging treatnts no longer received any attention anymore as cultivation provided everyone with a much more convenient substitute.
The older the individual, the more concerned he was about their health and longevity.
This was why the health-oriented exercises had imdiately beco the most popular cultivation thods since the opening of the Repository.
It may take months or years for the practitioners to be able to extend their lifespans by just a handful of decades, but that was more than enough for people who otherwise had no alternatives!
Of course, the ch pilots that still had plenty of years left in them had little interest in wasting their ti on extending their natural lifespans.
They were more liable to die on the battlefield at the hands of the native aliens!
What they needed was imdiate combat power. The Repository offered nurous easily available options.
One talent that happened to make noticeable progress was a third-class light skirmisher specialist. The middle-aged ch pilot had already begun to lose his edge.
Third-raters tended to have the shortest careers as their lack of augntations ant that they did not receive any bonuses to their lifespans.
Yet when this pilot had begun to practice the Fast Controller Auxiliary Qi Cultivation thod, everything had begun to change.
The pilot along with other colleagues who practiced the sa thod began to experience a small boost in reaction speed and pattern recognition. Their intuition also beca better at detecting lethal threats.
All in all, the ch pilots who had begun to practice the Fast Controller thod already began to enjoy the fruits of their efforts as they had managed to lower their loss rate by 15 percent!
It was amazing to see how extensive a small improvent in cultivation could
produce such a drastic result!
"Hahahah! It actually works! I knew I should have put more stock in the claims made by the RA. These cultivation thods are completely legit! My reaction speed has returned to its best state. Did I just make myself younger again by practicing this thod?"
Pilots that practiced the Fast Controller thod gained more benefits than that. Their pattern recognition and instincts had already improved by a considerable margin, both of which were vital to keeping light ch pilots alive.
The native aliens fighting on the battlefield were the first to suffer from these spontaneous improvents!
Whenever the two sides began to wrestle for control over fortified star systems, the light skirmishers roaming around the flanks of the battlefield had beco a lot more active than before.
Previously, these light skirmishers focused on harassing and exploitation. Their role was not to stand in the frontlines and take hits like other chs, but instead beca responsible for annoying the native aliens and persuading them to split their forces. This was a dangerous responsibility as the light chs had to fight far away from friendly support. If they ever got in trouble, their ability to get out of it was much lower than other ch pilots.
Yet after more and more ch pilots began to practice the Fast Controller thod, their ability to swoop in and get out before the enemy phasefighters caught up to them had beco a lot better.
The light skirmishers managed to make a lot of small ti savings by optimizing their movents, achieving their objectives in less ti and recognizing when they had overstayed their welco.
In dogfights against alien phasefighters, the light skirmishers managed to pull off tighter maneuvers and improve their coordination with each other.
It was as if every ordinary ch pilot had beco elite, and those that already perford at this level fought as if they were expert candidates
anwhile, other ch pilots began to show improvents in different aspects.
Those that piloted rifleman chs and heavy artillery chs preferred to practice the
Precise Controller thod.
This product of the Controller series mainly strengthened the pilot's precision, situational awareness and pattern recognition traits.
There were a lot of elents that were identical to the Fast Controller thod. This was not a surprise as all of the thods of the Controller System were derived from the sa base. They just incorporated different combinations of 'modules' to form a
coherent nookana that directed limited recources to accential areas of impratamant
Precise Controllers gradually beca slightly more accurate when they launched their attacks.
The improvents may only amount to a 5 or 6 percent increase in hit rate, but that was already a remarkable result in the early stages of systematic cultivation. The small increase in landing shots caused a lot of ripple effects. Alien phasefighters
got shot down faster, which ant that chs got rid of the hindrances faster, thereby enabling them to tackle enemy warships a little sooner.
If the increase in hit rates doubled or tripled in the coming months, then the ranged chs would be able to make much more drastic contributions in every battle.
It would be as if every ch force fielded twice as many ranged chs!
Of course, there were ch pilots that did not have any use for an auxiliary qi cultivation thod that increased their ranged combat prowess.
There were many different specialists who all prioritized different strengths.
The Skilled Controller thod happened to be highly favored by offensive lee ch
specialists.
They were able to learn sophisticated weapon handling skills faster and also improved
their instincts that could help them make the right moves before they put any
conscious thought behind their actions.
The Intelligent Controller thod primarily boosted a pilot's intelligence, theoretical comprehension and data processing capabilities.
These were particularly helpful for ch pilots who got promoted up a tech class and needed to absorb a lot of knowledge related to piloting more complicated
second-class or first-class chs.
The Intelligent Controller thod was also helpful for ch pilots who made use of support chs that required a lot of calculations and judgnt calls. This was particularly relevant for ch pilots that utilized scout chs, ECM chs, combat repair chs, external shield chs, stealth chs and many more.
The Commanding Controller thod on the other hand focused on improving the practitioner's ability to command on the battlefield. While it provided a small boost to intelligence, it placed much more emphasis on multitasking, battlefield analysis and
leadership.
The ch officers who practiced this thod did not notice any differences, but it had only been one week. They trusted the Red Collective quite a lot and were committed to persisting in their cultivation in the hopes of becoming better leaders.
Aside from these basic thods that were widely compatible with every pilot, there was also a special collection of free cultivation thods in the sa series that provided more esoteric benefits.
The Elental Controller Auxiliary Qi Cultivation thods enabled the practitioners
to improve their comprehension and increase their affinity to a specific elental E energy attribute.
Split into fire, water, earth, tal and wood, the instructors of the Red Collective dissuaded ch pilots from practicing these exotic thods unless they already possessed a strong preference for one of the aforentioned elents.
However, ch pilots found that they could easily check whether they possessed a talent biased towards one of the 5 'classical' elents.
The small group of ch pilots who were lucky enough to discover that they had a lot
of talent in fire or tal were able to make much faster progress in these basic
elental cultivation thods.
While their practice did not help them shoot fireballs out of their hands or promote
the growth of trees, they discovered that they were slightly able to increase the performance of the hyper technology of their chs!
"These auxiliary cultivation thods are aweso! It's like using E energy to obtain
the power of an expert candidate or expert pilot in advance! We won't be able to catch up to high-ranking ch pilots entirely, but we can close the gap and beco a lot. more useful on the battlefield. Praise the Red Collective!"
This description was not hyperbole.
Most ch pilots had very little idea what traditional qi cultivators were capable of, but they possessed a better understanding of high-ranking ch pilots.
Their fra of reference was therefore oriented towards the champions of their
professions.
By practicing their chosen variations of the Controller Series, every ordinary ch
pilot had an opportunity to master the power that used to be reserved for the greatest of their kind.
This greatly motivated the ch pilots! The allure of breaking the human limit and mastering strange reality-defying powers at their current stage was so strong that more and more ch pilots practiced their cultivation thods with greater fervor! Although the widespread adoption of systematic cultivation had yet to affect their breakthrough rate, the ch pilots still gained a lot more confidence in the future. Even if they never developed the extraordinary willpower needed to trigger their apotheosis, this 'qi cultivation' business gave many ch pilots a lot of ideas. Was it possible to excel in piloting chs in a different way? What if they ditched
their 'auxiliary' qi cultivation thods and committed fully to a proper qi cultivation thod instead? Was it possible for them to beco 'cultivator pilots' that combined the power of
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