After Ves and Gloriana put their children to bed, they retired to their own bedroom and got ready for a short rest.
"ow-" Lucky yawned as he rested on one of the pillows.
While Ves had changed into his pajamas, his mind was not on sleep, but on what chs he should design next.
Carmine chs were in extrely high demand right now. Ves knew that there was little use in designing other mass production models at the mont because the demand for them was not as high.
The market clamored for more Carmine chs. Even his fellow Larkinsons wanted to get their hands on Carmine chs that were qualitatively superior to the Yellow Jacket
models.
There was nothing wrong with the Yellow Jackets, but everyone could imdiately tell that they were clearly budget models designed for the lower end of the market.
The Larkinsons had grown spoiled ever since Ves first showered them with one premium ch model after another.
The clan had never been particularly short of money. The success it had attained in the ch industry and over its various expeditions had enriched the clan's coffers and allowed it to take better care of its ch forces than many other private organizations. This was why the Larkinsons had the luxury to look down on the Yellow Jacket models. Few if any of them wanted to shackle their futures to what may possibly be the cheapest and weakest Carmine chs in existence.
This was why Ves urgently needed to design a more powerful and advanced Carmine ch that catered to the upper end of the market.
However, that was not the only priority on his mind.
Aurelia's request caused Ves to turn his attention to another potential market.
Now that ch piloting had beco available to 96,5 percent of the population, a huge amount of norms wanted to get into ch piloting, possibly from scratch.
They all required at least 5 years of training to achieve minimal combat effectiveness with a simple Yellow Jacket ch, but that was far too little to match the skill level of a typical professional ch pilot.
Perhaps the practice of auxiliary qi cultivation thods might allow the inexperienced Carmine ch pilots to accelerate their learning ability and master their skills considerably faster than before. Ves was not sure how effective this could be, but he did not think the effects would be too exaggerated.
It was safer to let a young Carmine ch cadet undergo 8 to 10 years of schooling as was standard. Teenagers tended to undergo a rapid growth period during their academy
years. They were highly responsive to focused training and improved extrely rapidly if the conditions were right.
What Ves wanted to do was to cater to these future talents and heroes by designing a highly versatile Carmine starter ch that could grow alongside their young bonded partners and mature into a powerful combat ch after applying continuous adaptive upgrades!
This was not a simple ch to realize.
"It's like designing a training ch that is designed to be easily transford into a fully capable combat ch, one that must also be modular and highly adaptable to other ch archetypes!"
It was already difficult to design a good training ch or modular ch platform in isolation.
Trying to fit both roles in a single comprehensive modular ch design exceeded the limit of what normal ch designers could accomplish!
Sure, if they tried hard enough, they could probably cobble up a shabby solution together, but it would absolutely underperform as both a training ch for ch cadets and a combat ch for professional soldiers!
What Ves aid to realize was a Carmine ch that could remain sowhat competitive with the prevailing training chs on the market at the start, but also transition into a decent modular ch platform after undergoing a really easy overhaul!
"This is crazy... yet can it be done?"
Ves grew more and more excited at the prospect of undertaking such a challenge. It would test his skills and force him to develop all kinds of creative new solutions. The technical demands of this project would exceed every other ch he had designed in the past!
Much could go wrong if he attempted to design such a ch. The sheer amount of moving and adjustable parts needed to design such a monstrosity exceeded the normal limits.
This was dangerous because more parts translated into more failure points. There was always a risk of components breaking down or malfunctioning due to one reason or another. It beca a lot more difficult for maintenance crews to inspect the conditions of every individual component and replace them before they broke during the worst possible ti.
Ves had never been particularly gifted in this fine and intricate technical design work. He knew his own strengths and weaknesses. His approach towards ch design had often been described as sloppy. He was willing to tolerate small errors and shortcomings so long as the holistic package aligned with his vision.
That was an approach that worked particularly well for simple ch designs with high tolerance for errors such as the brand-new Yellow Jackets or the highly robust.
Ultimatums.
However, this training and combat Carmine ch concept would be anything but simple. Ves was not making his job easy by trying to do too much with a single ch
fra.
Was he up to the task? He was not too sure, but he was willing to give it a try.
The choice of collaborators was crucial. He needed to cooperate with ch designers that could help make up for his shortcomings but also believed in his vision.
He soon turned to his wife, who was sitting in front of her vanity doing... woman stuff.
"Gloriana."
"What is it, Ves? Did you co up with a new ch concept?"
"I did. Our first daughter has given quite a bit of inspiration. Let explain what is on my mind at the mont."
Ves quickly summarized his train of thought to his wife, skipping a lot of explanations because he knew she was knowledgeable enough to fill in the gaps herself.
After he conveyed his idea, his wife furrowed her brows while putting down her
hairbrush.
"That is... an ambitious idea. Normally, I would never allow you to design such a greedy Carmine ch. You are trying to fuse two kinds of chs that diverge far too much from each other. Training chs are designed with safety, longevity and economy in mind. They need to be easy to pilot from the beginning, which clearly reduces many advanced operations that can only be implented in more high-end machines. However, by demanding that the owners of this training ch be able to convert it into a fully capable combat ch, you need to develop a conversion plan that retains as many parts of the forr as possible, but also offer far superior performance from those very sa starter components!"
His wife clearly understood the heavy challenges that Ves needed to tackle if he tried to design such an ambitious Carmine ch.
That last description was the most crucial challenge that Ves needed to overco in order to turn this project into a success.
What Gloriana said was correct.
To put it in a different way, Ves needed to design a training Carmine ch that was not
only safe and harmless to pilot for Carmine ch cadets in their teens, but also perform like a powerful premium Carmine ch when their bonded pilots had grown up and graduated from the ch academies!
It may just be possible to realize such a complicated ch if Ves stuck to a single ch type such as a rifleman ch, but that did not satisfy all of his demands.
Ves wanted to take this a step further and design a Bright Warrior Mark III-like modular ch platform that could easily be transford into any common ch archetype! "I know it is difficult, honey, but it can et the demands of so many people that I don't need to design any other Carmine chs for a ti." Ves explained his reasoning. "I know it is taboo to attempt to et the demands of far too many people at once, but I am not. necessarily looking for excellence. What I want is to design a 'good enough' training Carmine ch and a 'good enough' modular Carmine ch platform. As long as it can perform adequately well in all fronts, my goal has succeeded. Third-party ch designers are free to license the design and develop their own specialized variants that perform significantly better at their narrowly defined roles."
His wife still disapproved of his ambition. "You are letting your past successes inflate your confidence. Just because you have been able to break the genetic aptitude tyranny does not necessarily an you are skilled and experienced enough to solve this technical puzzle. You need to rely on a completely different set of knowledge than what you are usually good at to design such a solution. If you were a Star Designer or a renowned Master, then I would have wished you good luck, but you are still short of reaching that standard. This ch proposal of yours is the product of your own hubris. I know you want to save ti and design one ch that can fulfill the roles of two different machines, but there are good reasons why very ch designers have tackled
this challenge."
She raised a couple of good points. Not even older and more seasoned ch designers dared to tackle such a complicated project. It was far too easy to produce a diocre ch design that barely made any ripples in the ch market. It was too much of a risk to commit to this sort of project.
The ch market strictly divided training chs and combat chs for good reasons. One should never be used to fulfill the functions of the other, or else a lot of accidents
could occur!
"I have only heard rejections from you. Do you have any more constructive feedback for , or is telling my ch proposal sucks all you can share, Gloriana? You know I cannot design a training Carmine ch or an advanced combat Carmine ch in isolation. Aside from disabled veteran ch pilots, every Carmine ch pilot starts out as a completely blank slate. He has to practice with a genuine training ch for at least a few years before he can graduate to piloting a real combat ch. Unlike potentates, a norm cannot switch from one machine to the other. He is stuck with the first Carmine ch that he is bonded. That is why I cannot easily simplify this ch concept." Ves was being limited by the greatest weakness of the Carmine System.
If Miss Alexa Streon had already begun to make attainnts in the developnt of her revolutionary living legacy chs, then he could push aside such a convoluted solution. A Carmine ch pilot should be able to pilot a training Carmine ch during his
academy days before transferring to a combat Carmine ch belonging to the sa ch dynasty!
However, Alexa was still at the early stages of fleshing out her design philosophy. There was still a lot more room for growth and optimization. Ves did not dare to incorporate her experintal work too soon on a project as important as the second comrcially available Carmine ch of the Red Ocean!
While Ves lanted that his direct disciple had not yet been able to co out with her first proper living legacy chs, his wife offered an alternative solution. "Hmph! You accuse of overlooking the need to provide constructive feedback, but that is because you are too short-sighted to recognize the obvious response to my criticism. As far as I am concerned, you must rein in your greed by simplifying what is not essential. In my opinion, the demand for high modularity must go. Why must you design a training and combat Carmine ch that can fight as a swordsman ch, a knight ch or a rifleman ch depending on the configuration? It is much more realistic if you limit yourself to designing a rifleman Carmine ch that can fulfill the roles of both a training ch and a combat ch. This way, you can perfectly et
Aurelia's demand for a suitable machine to enable her part-ti Carmine ch pilot
career!"
"That... actually doesn't sound so bad."
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