The Mech Touch Chapter 7082: New Design Plans

Chapter 7082: New Design Plans

After the conclusion of the banquet, the EdNet graduates needed to find their places in the clan.

The ch designers among them conveniently joined their colleagues over at the Tarrasque.

The Design Departnt beca a lot more crowded due to their addition. The returnees still needed a lot of ti to recover and catch up to all of the current events that they failed to appreciate while they were still isolated from reality.

Not everything proceeded smoothly. The EdNet graduates gained a lot of theoretical knowledge, but their practical skills were inconsistent. They lacked a lot of experience when it ca to working with hyper materials and more recently superdinsional materials.

They also spent a lot of ti forming their own cliques within the accelerated virtual reality environnt. It was as if they spent more than a decade forging deep friendships and mutual understanding with each other.

The result of all of this was that the barriers between the returnees and the Larkinsons that remained anchored in the real universe did not go down.

It might never co down.

Ves grew a little concerned about this issue, but Gloriana did not think it was a big deal.

“The EdNet graduates have indeed lived in a world apart from us.” She said. “This is a fact. It is natural for them to be more close to each other than the clansn that they have not seen in 15 years or so. Give it ti. I will make sure to group different ch designers together so that they can steadily familiarize themselves with each other again. The barriers will not go away, but as long as frequent contact has ward the two groups up to each other, they will automatically diminish until it becos harmless.”

Her argunt made a lot of sense. They were all Larkinsons in their end. Their connections to the Golden Cat marked them out as kin to each other. The Larkinson Network ensured that they would never see each other as enemies unless one of them committed outright betrayal.

“Just make sure that elitism must not take root.” Ves said. “It is important to maintain a ritocracy, but if the EdNet graduates think they deserve a greater say on matters due to their vastly improved design capabilities, then we need to prevent that from happening. Relations between the two groups will definitely sour if that happens. Every mber of the Design Departnt has a place.”

If that was not the case, then Gloriana could always fire them in order to make room for more deserving workers.

Whatever the case, the Design Departnt needed to maintain a positive, cooperative and productive atmosphere.

Ves and Gloriana both depended heavily on a well-run departnt to facilitate their own design work. This was why they were quite sensitive towards potential problems. Their work directly suffered if they started to neglect potential problems.

The pair continued their discussion. The newcors predominantly consisted of Journeyman ch Designer who had acquired a lot of high-end expertise and were eager to prove their worth, both to understand their new place in the hierarchy and to prove that they had not wasted their EdNet training.

Gloriana made a proposal. “We shouldn’t delay any further. We need to start our first-class ch design projects sooner rather than later. We need to put our rejoined ch designers to good use, and I cannot think of a better way to do so than to work together on first-class multipurpose chs for our clan.”

“Isn’t that too soon, honey? Sure, our clan has gained valuable first-hand experience with the Dracoloids, the Oga Threshers and the E-MULES, but we have yet to test how our people will fare after wear and tear starts to take its toll. Besides, the EdNet graduates have very little personal experience with hyper materials and all of the other new tech that has co out as of late. We need to give them ti to get up to date with the latest trends in the ch industry.”

“The situation is not perfect, but we should move forward anyway.” His wife calmly argued. “What you have just said regarding their lack of readiness is an advantage rather than a detrint in my eyes. The EdNet graduates have superior theoretical knowledge in many fields, but possess a critical gap in hyper technology and E-technology. The ch designers who stayed behind or got recruited after we sent our people off to EdNet training have much greater knowledge and hands-on experience in these fields.”

Ves understood her cleverness. “I see what you are trying to do. Both groups of ch designers have opposing strengths and weaknesses. They will benefit greatly if they cooperate with each other.”

“Exactly! The dynamic will be similar to ours. We are highly divergent ch designers, but that allows us to complent each other well.”

He had to admit that her setup sounded promising. He was more than willing to let her experint with this approach.

Of course, if her idea did not work out, then she would bear all of the responsibility. Ves would not carry any of the bla.

The two talked a bit more on how they thought the Design Departnt should proceed.

It beca clear to the both of them that their focus should remain on the Premier Fleet for the most part.

They would not stop the other lead designers from proposing to design new second-class chs or upgrade any of the existing second-class ch lines. It was actually good if they did so because the expeditionary fleet was still making use of far too many outdated ch models.

In order to bring them into the Hyper Generation, individual Larkinson ch designers manually upgraded and modified many of the older machines.

This was good as the clan did not have to rely solely on the Design Departnt to update its existing ch models.

This was also bad because the increased divergence of older chs due to an absence of standardized updates ant that these individual products steadily strayed further and further from their roots.

If the divergence had grown too much, then the changes beca irreversible.

For example, a highly modified Transcendent Punisher Mark III may no longer be able to upgrade to the Mark IV in the future because the forr had changed beyond recognition!

While Ves did not disapprove of allowing living chs to develop into increasingly more unique and individualistic products, too much chaos was not necessarily a benefit to everyone.

It was best to constrain the divergence rates of all of the ordinary living chs. Exceeding it ant that a ch designer manually had to design an individualized upgrade for the unique machine.

This was a cumberso and labor-intensive task. Unless the ch pilot was so good that he or she deserved special treatnt, it was not worth it to provide this special treatnt.

In any case, the addition of many ch designers who were able to handle much heavier and more advanced workloads granted many boons to the Design Departnt.

Gloriana was already plotting to figure out how to best exploit the returning labor, preferably without letting them realize that they were getting taken advantage of by their own superior.

“You should be able to allocate enough manpower to work on several first-class ch design projects at a ti.” Ves remarked. “Which sort of first-class chs do you think the Design Departnt should tackle first? Do you want to dive straight into designing multipurpose chs, or do you think it is better to extend our existing ch lines to first-class territory?”

His wife frowned as she considered this difficult matter.

“The ch pilots of the Premier Fleet have all fallen in love with the Dracoloids and the Oga Threshers. They are genuinely good first-class multipurpose ch models that are packed with interesting technologies. More than that, their configurations are excellent. Not everyone is able to appreciate them, but our soldiers believe that those models are underappreciated. Given this circumstance, it is logical for us to develop in-house solutions that seek to fulfill the sa roles as those third-party models but better.”

“You do not sound particularly convinced.” Ves comnted.

His wife sighed and moved closer to lean against Ves’ body. The two shared their body warmth with each other, though Ves did so far more than Gloriana due to the enormous disparity in the sizes of their true bodies.

Oh well. It was the thought that counted.

Gloriana’s expression grew more conflicted as he tried to balance her private interest with public interests.

“I will not be participating in any of these standard ch design projects by myself, but if I was in the shoes of the ch designers, I would want to express my own skills instead of reproducing and adapting old and relatively feature-poor configurations. So what if we upgraded a Redlance to a first-class spearman lancer ch? It will turn out as a very expensive suicide weapon if such a machine ends up in a situation where its lee combat and charging capabilities will only lead it into getting surrounded by thousands of voribugs. I am beginning to see why the first-raters like multipurpose chs so much.”

“What about the first-class multipurpose chs then?” Ves asked. “It is already pretty clear that we are trying to design our own living ch versions of the three aforentioned mainstays.”

His wife continued to lean against his side.

“We should not try to design first-class multipurpose chs that end up as straightforward substitutes of the Dracoloid, the Oga Thresher and the E-MULE. It is best if we sit down with ch pilots, ch designers and other relevant personnel so that we can decide as a collective what sort of specializations and synergies we should pursue when designing our first-class multipurpose chs.”

“That may take more than a single session.” Ves warned. “This is almost the sa as starting from scratch.”

“We shall see, Ves. I will schedule this eting later this week if possible. That should give the EdNet graduates enough ti to recover and provide suggestions from a fresh perspective. I will not formally start the ch design projects until we have concluded Aurelia’s birthday party and leave Yernstall behind.”

Ves agreed with this choice. He needed to spend more ti on preparing for their daughter’s pivotal 10th birthday. He also needed to further the design of the Arboreal Project, cooperate with the chers to define his ambition Polytal ch and finish the Riot Mark III Project.”

At least that last part should be dealt with pretty soon.

Despite the minor delays imposed by Dulo Voiken, the spearman ch specialist suggested genuine improvents and optimizations.

He had kept Gloriana’s words in mind and made sure not to impose any radical requests that required a complete overhaul.

This ant that as long as Gloriana was willing to dial back on family ti and sleep, it should not take longer for the two of them to upgrade the broken Riot Mark II into his much more superior Mark III configuration!

The significance of this job was great, and Ves did not want to compromise on quality and other factors.

“We won’t be able to complete the Riot Mark III before our daughter’s birthday, is that correct?” Ves asked even though he already knew the answer.

His wife nodded. “That is right. It is too unrealistic to expect us to complete the entire ch design and fabricate it in the days that we have left. There is only one circumstance that I can think of where this is possible, but…”

Both Ves and his wife had privately discussed the rits of fabricating the Riot Mark III entirely within the Workshop of Creation.

Doing so would enable them to make use of top-notch production facilities. It would also make it much more convenient for Ves to convert the Riot Mark III into a D-ch at a later stage.

However, there were several disadvantages to this approach. It also forced Ves and Gloriana to spend their precious Ascension Points.

“Let’s just keep it simple.” He said. “If I feel the need to do anything special, I will take care of it myself once the ch fra is almost complete.”

“Hm, I suppose this is the best approach.” Gloriana reluctantly said.

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