The Mech Touch novel Chapter 7368

Chapter 7368: Principled Matriarch

Ves contacted the necessary people in order to get the ball rolling.

Just as he predicted, the Larkinson Clan did not object to his proposal.

"This is a radical switch in strategy." The physical projection of Saint Commander Casella Ingvar warned. "Recalling our ace pilots early will incur certain costs. We will disappoint multiple parties if we attempt to transfer our saints away on short notice. I advise that we take our time on consolidation. It is not necessary for us to gather together at the fastest possible speed. If we extend our timeline by several months, there will be much less friction and hard feelings."

Ves thought for a moment before nodding. "That sounds reasonable. Let us do that, then. I am not in a hurry to get into action again. We can use the additional time to deepen our preparations and wait for other developments to fall into place."

"Outside of having your Ascended Giants fight against more suitable opponents, are there any other reasons why you are insistent on campaigning over here?" The Saint Commander asked.

He nodded. "There are multiple reasons, of which two of them are particularly relevant. The first is that the development of Woodsap mechs will soon reach a stage where they conduct trials of workable prototypes. The complexity of my elemental Carmine mechs surpass that of any mass production models that I have worked on in the past. Biotech is inherently more dangerous, especially when it directly interfaces with the human body. It is for this reason that my latest Carmine mech design project demands a more thorough and extensive testing process. Compared to managing the prototypes by remote, I would much rather test them right under my nose."

While Ves had been occupied by many affairs as of late, he had never forgotten about the development of Woodsap mechs.

Due to the immense amount of technical support from the Terrans, Ves did not have to invest a lot of design work on the highly complicated biomech.

He adopted the role of a distant project manager. He mainly set targets while sparing what little time he could spare on the more essential features such as the Carmine System and the spiritual foundation of the Woodsap mech.

He could leave the very complicated bioengineering and other design tasks to the R&D teams that the Terrans had mobilized for this secret but highly anticipated national project.

Although not all of the Terran ancient clans participated in its development, enough of them had seen value in his upcoming Woodsap mechs to give their blessing as well as more concrete forms of support.

As such, even if Ves wanted to increase his involvement, it would have been quite difficult to do so as most of his skills could not surpass that of Terran specialists who dedicated at least a century in their respective fields.

It didn’t matter too much to Ves. While his ownership in his first elemental Carmine mech design project was not as high as it would like, he considered it to be a worthwhile tradeoff.

However, now that the development of his Woodsap mechs approached the prototype testing phase, he no longer wanted to be as hands-off as before.

No matter how little Ves invested in this collaborative design project, it would still bear his name first and foremost.

Its impact on his reputation and prestige would be massive, second only to the release of the Yellow Jacket series, the very first Carmine mechs available to the public.

While the Yellow Jackets granted norms the ability to pilot mechs for the first time, the cheap and accessible nature of these Carmine mechs heavily limited their value on the battlefield.

Pairing poorly-trained Carmine mech pilots with mechs that were easy to mass produce made sense from an industrial perspective, but military strategists barely had any use for them. The Yellow Jackets could only serve as cannon fodder for the time being.

While the mech industry tried to compensate for this by designing ever more elaborate variants of the base model, there were clear limits to how far they could deviate from the initial template.

This was due to Ves’ limitation as a Senior Mech Designer.

Unless he broke through, only he could develop a truly elite version of the Carmine mech.

The demand was overwhelming. Not a day passed by without thousands of virtual letters arriving at his public inbox that begged him to design a Carmine mech that could keep up with the more powerful machines on the battlefield.

Ves had no time to read any of them in person, but Gavin had let him know that those messages never stopped arriving.

As a mech designer, he felt an obligation to meet the needs of the public.

In the past, the uncompromising limits of existing neural interface technology at least gave people like Ves an excuse to ignore the complaints of helpless norms.

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