The Mech Touch Chapter 6974 6974: In His Image

At first, Ves did not want to hand over his dical data on his physical state.

Many people could figure out a lot of uncomfortable insights depending on the level of detail and completeness of the physiological data.

Nobody wanted to expose themselves to other people so readily. People could abuse this data in all kinds of nefarious ways, from devising viruses that specifically targeted his physique to creating a very convincing clone that could fake his identity.

Yet as Ves thought about this situation a little more, his mind started to drift.

What would happen if his Woodsap chs were made in his image?

This would be far more than a simple vanity project.

It would have greater significance, especially now that red humanity had entered the Age of Dawn!

Ves began to imagine a future where the Terrans deployed the Arboreal Project biochs in great numbers.

Although the configurations of the bioch design had not been finalized yet, that did not stop him from imagining the organic machines assaulting the native aliens with a combination of ranged and lee armants.

The weapon loadouts were not too important. What truly made the Arboreal Project special aside from its Woodsap System was the amazing properties of TE Wood.

This alien biomaterial enabled the organic machines that were made by it to evade detection until they entered visual range.

Even after they had been detected, enemy sensors and targeting systems would still experience trouble with trying to lock onto their targets due to the interference produced by wood impregnated with Solus Gas.

As the Arboreal Project chs inevitably incurred damage from their adversaries, the machines could quickly regenerate and patch up holes in their wooden exteriors while still remaining in the field.

The Emperor Tree once demonstrated excellent regenerative properties, and the chs made by an enhanced version of the sa Ebony Wood would also be able to do the sa.

In fact, according to the original plan, the Arboreal Project might also be able to absorb TE Wood from other biochs to conduct ergency repairs and restore a significant asure of their combat effectiveness!

A more advanced application of this capability was to enable the Arboreal Project biochs to absorb debris and other materials in the field. Perhaps their quality and other properties may be substandard, but they could still be used to produce inferior varieties of wood that were suitable to conduct makeshift repairs.

Regardless of whether the Arboreal Project gained all of these amazing features, enemies would struggle to kill the biochs if they failed to strike these wooden machines with overwhelming attacks.

Just like the Everchanger, the Arboreal Project might not appear too tough and resilient on the surface, but so long as they remained functional on the battlefield, they could continue to regenerate their damaged and broken parts so long as they had access to enough energy and materials.

This not only enabled the Arboreal Project to sustain their presence on the battlefield considerably more than other first-class chs, but also made it difficult to weaken a unit comprised of these biochs by whittling down their numbers.

Unlike most other ch units that steadily grew weaker and less threatening after losing their machines for one reason or another, the ch units based on the Arboreal Project woud be able to preserve their numbers much longer!

The importance of this could not be overstated. It took far longer and much greater effort for the enemy to degrade the combat effectiveness of a Terran bioch unit.

By relying on their ridiculous regeneration and self-repair capabilities, the Arboreal Project biochs would be able to keep going while keeping their numbers up for a far longer period.

This ant that it was not only more difficult to outnumber them, but the Woodsap chs would also have a far greater chance of gaining an escalating numbers advantage as the battle continued to unfold.

Unlike many other chs that grew weaker and more exhausted as the battle dragged on, the Woodsap chs should remain vigorous and healthy as the initial phases of the fighting had passed.

These biochs excelled at attrition warfare!

So long as they retained enough TE Wood and did not completely deplete their energy reserves, they beca effectively unkillable and unremovable.

They would remain stubborn and were as difficult to remove as cockroaches.

"This is not the extent of their remarkable nature."

The Terrans also planned to forge a deep connection between the Arboreal Project and Gaia.

Ever since Ves first granted life to Gaia, she had never served as a proper design spirit for a living bioch.

That was mostly his fault as he remained very reluctant to turn any bioch into a living ch.

Now that he had decided to do this, Gaia finally had an opportunity to demonstrate her usefulness when tied to a bioch and more precisely a wooden ch.

Ves expected this relationship to produce strong synergies, possibly surpassing the benefits attained by typical bonds between living chs and design spirits.

The Terrans had actually taken charge on this matter. Many of them already worshiped Gaia and could call upon her power to produce extraordinary outcos. They definitely had a big ploy in mind for the Arboreal Project.

Ves was glad to let them work their magic. He hadn't really done anything too remarkable with design spirits as of late. This was a waste as the Age of Dawn opened up many more opportunities for spiritual entities to intervene in the material realm.

Hopefully, the Terrans would succeed in surprising him. Their long heritage enabled them to preserve a lot of legacies. Ves never underestimated the thods that these proud but cautious people hid up their sleeves.

All of these promised features already elevated the first Woodsap ch design beyond any normal limitations, but Ves still did not think it was enough.

His Elental Carmine ch designs were supposed to be the works that exemplified his design philosophy and granted his custors powerful new ways to beco a lot stronger.

They were supposed to be epochal inventions that redefined the ch industry once they beca available and set a new standard that every other serious competitor had to match.

His Carmine chs had already created an opening that Ves could take advantage of, but they were not enough as far he was concerned.

The Yellow Jacket models only targeted norms. The main goal of this innovative ch line was to grant ordinary people the chance to pilot a real ch. Ves specifically made the Yellow Jacket line as affordable as possible in order to increase its reach to the greatest possible extent.

It clearly succeeded in this goal.

The Elental Carmine ch concept was not ant to be a direct follow-up to the Yellow Jacket line.

Instead, Ves explicitly targeted them towards existing ch pilots, though he also expected his next work to gain the interest of well-funded and highly enthusiastic norms.

The point was that the Arboreal Project was ant to occupy a very different position in the ch market.

This was a Carmine ch that was squarely aid towards Terran ch pilots that sought a machine that could bring them to the next level in more ways than one.

The complexity of the Arboreal Project should at least match that of an existing first-class multipurpose ch like the Oga Thresher model.

While this demand normally made the Woodsap ch so demanding to pilot that only potentates with A and B-grade genetic aptitudes could keep up with all of the variables, the Woodsap System should do wonders in enabling less talented ch pilots to control the expanded features of the Arboreal Project.

This was also one of the reasons why he had been caught off-guard by the latest initiative from the Terrans.

Letting norms 'pilot' the Arboreal Project as if it was their own bodies did not really align with Ves' original goals for his first Woodsap ch.

While Ves was willing to believe that the elite infantry soldiers tapped by the Terran Alliance would be able to familiarize themselves with their complex new Woodsap chs a lot faster than usual, that did not change the fact that they were norms.

These norms lacked a lot of basic knowledge and common sense about ch piloting, especially in relation to first-class multipurpose chs.

Their combat effectiveness when piloting the Arboreal Project would be poor at first. Even if they could already control the bioch fras almost as effectively as they controlled their own human bodies, the new Woodsap ch pilots would only be able to make good use of external armants.

They could still rely on the existing skills they possessed with rifles, swords and other handheld weapons to fight with the Arboreal Project chs.

Perhaps they could also rely on their existing expertise to operate additional weapon systems such as shoulder-mounted rocket launchers.

However, the story would beco a lot more complicated if the Arboreal Project ended up being loaded with a dozen different weapon systems and half-a-dozen other special modules.

The new Woodsap ch pilots could not rely on any existing muscle mory or prior training to operate these integrated systems with the sa degree of proficiency as proper ch pilots.

First-class ch pilots at least possessed a foundation to effectively employ these integrated systems.

What about norms that had ford a Woodsap Pact with the Arboreal Project chs?

Unless the Terran Alliance was willing to hold them back for a ti and put them through a condensed training course, the only other way to solve this problem was to simplify the ch design.

"Are the Terrans planning to design multiple variants, or will they make it modular instead?" Ves wondered.

He needed to have a good discussion with Master Laila Devos in order to find out the answer.

Regardless of what the Terrans had in mind, Ves refused to compromise on his original idea.

The Arboreal Project was primarily ant to enable existing ch pilots that yearned for more.

It was due to this priority that Ves actually thought about letting the Terrans take inspiration from his phase lord physique.

What could be more symbolic than a ch designer developing a bioch that was made in his own image?

Although Ves could not deduce all of the consequences of this design choice, he had a strong hunch that the effects would be significant!

He could already think of several ways to take advantage of this connection.

Perhaps he would be able to form a secret kinship network between himself and all of the Woodsap chs. They could act like his eyes and ears and enable him to keep track of what the Terran forces were doing.

Maybe he could descend upon a specific Woodsap ch and control it as if it was his own surrogate body.

Perhaps he could even force the Arboreal Project chs to acknowledge him as their progenitor and force them into following his orders!

Of course, these were all montary fantasies.

As a ch designer, Ves shouldn't be too greedy for power. He needed to think of how he could benefit his custors instead.

Ves believed that if the Arboreal Project chs were made with his phase lord physique as a reference, it was not impossible for them to take after their creator.

Was it possible for biochs to transcend into phase lords?

The fact that Ves could not imdiately rule out this possibility ant that there was a chance that it could happen!

This alone was an imnse developnt!

It would definitely give the Terrans a much more powerful weapon to fend off the native aliens!

As long as they could channel enough phasewater into the Woodsap chs, there was a possibility that the Terrans could foster an entire ch army of 'phase biochs' or whatever!

Ves could scarcely imagine how powerful they could beco.

By combining the advantages of both biochs and phase lords in a single package, Ves would definitely be able to ensure that his Arboreal Project would earn an unforgettable place in the history of chs!