Gloriana hated the verdict.
She strongly opposed the decision to offload her from the First Sword Mark III Project.
Ves kind of understood why she fought so hard to remain involved.
There was way more than her partial ownership of the First Sword at stake.
Gloriana had also begun to fear whether the sa line of arguntation could be used to kick her from subsequent high-ranking ch design projects, especially the ones centered around lee chs!
It was too late to start over with the Riot Mark III Project, but what about other high-ranking lee ch design projects?
Other machines such as the Everchanger, the C-Man, the Greenaxe and the Lionheart were also expected to duel against hostile phase lords in the future.
As long as their pilots broke through and beca qualified to fight directly against the enemy champions, they would inevitably encounter foes equipped with Saint Piercer arms.
It was not reasonable to command the ace lee chs to avoid these high-priority threats and rely entirely on ranged suppression to take them down.
The nature of spatial barriers made them incredibly resistant against every form of attack that was not sufficiently able to overco transphasic defensive enhancents. This ant that such a phase lord could easily tank a huge amount of ranged attacks and wreak havoc on the human battle line!
It took way too much ti and effort for lots of chs, powerful battleships or threatening ace ranged chs to whittle down the spatial barrier and other defenses of such a phase lord.
The chances of killing them from a distance was also far too small unless the humans possessed a special trump card.
This ant that an exhausted phase lord could calmly retreat from the battlefield and co back a few days later to terrorize the human defenders yet again after he fully restored his condition!
This was why it was necessary to deploy powerful lee champions against any phase lord, but especially the ones ard with Saint Piercer arms.
A good ace lee ch might not be able to kill a phase lord by itself, but should at least pose enough of a threat to stall the native god's advance and lock him into place.
Another important role of the lee ch was to maintain an active space suppression field in the proximity of the enemy phase lord.
The more powerful the space suppressor module and the closer the distance, the
stronger the weakening effect on the enemy's spatial barrier and other spatial abilities! This synergized extrely well with ranged support, making the attacks from all of the chs, warships and individual champion units multiple tis more effective.
This had also beco the established doctrine on the battlefield.
Human High Command, a joint military command organization of the Red Three and the first-rate superstates, had collected all of the data and conducted a lot of theorycrafting before setting a guideline that team of ace chs should always comprise of at least one ranged and one lee unit.
While the theory was sound, I was a lot more difficult to implent in practice. Most ace lee chs fared decently when pitted against typical lesser phase lords. However, they usually lasted a lot shorter when confronting greater phase lords. What was worse was that they fared especially poorly against greater phase lords that were well-connected enough to get their hands on a Saint Piercer weapon!
If not for the fact that the production of these arms were bottlenecked, the native aliens would have been able to collapse the 4th defensive band by now!
This raised the importance of developing counterasures against the insane lethality of Saint Piercer arms.
As a mber of the ch Supremacist Faction, the competence of Master Lilian Recins was never in doubt.
She had access to the best resources and infrastructure a ch designer could desire, so she was one of the first to develop a reasonably effective form of defense against Saint Piercer arms.
Many other ch designers, particularly defensive specialists, must be working hard to develop their own counters against Saint Piercer arms.
This was one of the greatest strengths of the ch industry. As long as it identified an urgent need, a huge number of ch designers and supporting R&D institutions would work hard to develop an appropriate and cost-effective solution!
As far as transphasic energized vibrotal alloy was concerned, it was not yet qualified to serve as a proper response to the threat posed by Saint Piercer arms.
The underlying tech still underperford and it was way too expensive to ever think about applying it onto mass production ch products.
However, it was already effective enough when used to clad first-class ace chs!
Their design budgets were so high that they could easily afford to equip such an expensive defensive solution.
The diocre performance of transphasic energized vibrotal alloy against superdinsional weapons was a deceptive statent.
It was true that armor plating made out of transphasic energized vibrotal alloy or TEVA Armor could not resist attacks from Saint Piercer weapons entirely, but it did this job a lot better than 99.999999999 percent of other materials!
The sa could be said for transphasic energized vibrotal alloy applied to weapons! TEVA Weapons could block sharp and powerful strikes from Saint Piercer weapons without fear of getting shattered into pieces!
It was for these reasons and more that Ketis had already decided that it was absolutely essential for the First Sword Mark III Project to include Master Lilian Recins.
Since the RA Master ch Designer's design philosophy was fundantally incompatible with Gloriana's design philosophy, it beca clear that one of them had to be kicked off the project.
"Honey." Ves assud an impassive expression while turning to his wife. "Just give it up. Ketis has made a good point. Archetech is powerful, but it is not yet capable of solving this problem yet. Switching it with other tech makes complete sense."
Though his wife wanted to continue to fight for her right to maintain her partial ownership in the First Sword Mark III Project, she was not that stupid.
Now that Ves had heard Ketis out, he had decisively taken her side. The chain of logic between their choice was far too strong for Gloriana to break with her own feeble
argunts.
Since that was the case, Gloriana might as well give up this losing battle and concede while they still retained a bit of dignity.
"Very well." She said as all of the tension left her body. "Since the two of you are committed to this direction, it is clear that I do not have a voice in the project anymore.
It is just..."
"I know what you are concerned about." Ves gently consoled his wife. "Archetech is still useful, especially for smaller and lighter chs where space is at a premium. It has worked out great for an ace light skirmisher like the Dark Zephyr Mark III, and I am sure it will do wonders for ace ranged chs such as the recently completed Amarranto Mark III and the Prothea Mark II. However, the situation is more complex when we consider ace lee chs such as the upcoming Riot Mark III."
"It is impossible for us to waste months worth of developnt ti and reset the Riot Mark III Project by replacing archetal with TEVA Armor." Gloriana growled. "Venerable Rosa Orphan has been waiting for an upgrade to her outdated machine for multiple
years."
Ves raised his palm in innocence. "I am not about to do that, Gloriana. What I wanted to say is that the entire ch industry is looking to counter the threat posed by superdinsional weapons. You happen to have forged a few connections with the ch Supremacist Faction as well, right? It just so happens that the ch Supremacists encompass a large number of highly resourceful and capable ch designers. The faction is also known for making a lot of attainnts in materials science. After all, chs rely on good tallic alloys to remain competitive with warships and other combat assets."
His wife soon understood his train of thought. Her expression grew less morose when she saw a possibility of making a counterattack in the future.
"Your idea has rit. I have not been in close contact with the ch Supremacists as of
late, but that was a mistake. If I reach out to them... I may be able to find a specialist or team of specialists in tallurgy and materials science to develop a new experintal alloy that can mitigate archetal's vulnerability against superdinsional weapons!" Ves smiled. He was happy to lead Gloriana to a more productive line of thought. It was no fun trying to live alongside a woman who was depressed and frequently prone to
outbursts.
Every faction of the MTA and the RA was good in different areas.
The Survivalist Faction was good at binding different parties to a common cause. On a technological level, the Survivalists tended to be pragmatic and did not favor specific
solutions.
They instead invested their research far and wide, hoping to create new synergies by combining multiple different fields together. The Survivalists also liked to create new solutions in advance and keep them in reserve until they were needed. Finally, the paranoid bastards also invested a lot in the developnt of super weapons. The RA Transhumanist Faction's interests were relatively more focused on biotechnology, human genetics, exobiology and so on. That did not an their attainnts in other fields were poor, but they were rely up to standard in areas outside of their core interests.
The RA ch Supremacist Faction generally possessed the strongest overall R&D
capabilities. It was literally what the faction was all about, so its mbers always invested a huge amount of money and resources into all kinds of research and developnt initiatives.
The ch Supremacists were particularly keen on pushing the boundaries of hard sciences such as tallurgy, materials science, computing, theoretical and applied physics, energy science and more.
In the past, Gloriana was aware of all of this, but she did not have the clout to gain the cooperation of the top ch designers and researchers of the ch Supremacist
Faction.
The situation was different now. Gloriana had gradually realized her high potential, and
while she still hadn't entered the big leagues yet, her greatest advantage was that she was married to Ves!
Even if Gloriana did not deserve it, she would definitely be able to gain much more
favored treatnt from the ch Supremacist Faction due to this positive factor!
In a way, Ketis had taken advantage of her own connection to Ves. There was no way that a ch designer as busy and successful as Master Lilian Recins would have agreed to spend her ti on the First Sword Mark III Project if not for this relation. Gloriana needed no more guidance and encouragent at this ti. Her eyes glowed with a competitive spirit!
"You are completely right, Ves! The ch Supremacist Faction is so large that there must be many research teams working to develop a counter against superdinsional weapons. These teams must all be rivals or competitors towards each other. Master Lilian Recins is hardly the only one who is working to counter Saint Piercer arms. If I want to improve my archetech and make it more resistant against the new threat, then I should contact the faction and try to cooperate with one of the rivals of Master Recins! There has to be at least one tallurgist among the ch Supremacists that are working to develop experintal alloys that can not only resist superdinsional weapons, but can also be used to make archetal! If the developnt of this experintal product can be completed in ti, then I might just be able to use it to improve the Riot Mark III
Project!"
Competition was one of the strongest motivators of a ch designer.
Now that Gloriana sought to outdo Ketis and Master Lilian Recins, she would definitely put her full effort into this informal contest!
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