The Mech Touch novel Chapter 7409

Chapter 7409: The Potency of Woodsap

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The Arboreal Project already promised to become a line of groundbreaking products due to the combination of the Woodsap System and the Hibiscus System.

The former eliminated the need for a compatible genetic aptitude.

The latter removed the need to learn a large amount of specialized piloting skills.

This effectively turned the Arboreal Project into the right solution at the right time.

As long as the Terran Alliance could afford to produce enough Woodsap mechs, they could easily mobilize hundreds of thousands if not millions of biomechs whose performance came quite close to matching that of regular first-class mechs!

Although early testing already revealed that norms that lacked formal mech piloting training could never match the rigor and precision of real mech pilots, the gap between the two was not as big as everyone feared.

Even if Woodsap mech pilots could only be half as effective as proper academy-graduated first-class mech pilots, that was still a positive outcome from the perspective of a large star empire!

Let alone converting elite infantry soldiers into Woodsap mech pilots, the Terran Alliance also thought about turning low-aptitude mech pilots into the same!

Though few people liked to talk about it in the open, the truth was that many potentates actually possessed disappointing genetic aptitudes.

Once they learned that they lacked the talent to flourish on the battlefield, most young potentates painfully gave up on attending a mech academy and chose to pursue more mundane careers.

However, there was always a small but stubborn group of stubborn mules that persisted in becoming mech pilots.

Even if they had no choice but to attend inferior mech academies, their willpower and determination often attracted admiration.

Not that it made much of a difference in the end.

Their theoretical scores may be high, but so long as their practical scores hit a low ceiling, no one felt eager enough to entrust them with responsibility in a real engagement.

Such mech pilots rarely got hired as a consequence.

While many of them tried their best to make themselves useful by specializing in mech command or choosing to pilot industrial mechs, it was very difficult for them to gain a chance to fulfill their dreams of becoming proper fighters.

Carmine mechs and the upcoming Woodsap mechs offered a brand new opportunity to them. For the first time in their lives, they gained the ability to pilot real combat mechs without getting held back by their disappointing genetic aptitudes!

This not only meant that they could make proper use of their decade-long academy training, but also put their superior willpower and discipline to good use!

Pilots forged from adversity always had a higher chance of breaking through!

While many members of the mech community understood this simple truth, few people wanted to invest in low-aptitude mech pilots.

Their superior mentality made them desirable, but if they could never unleash more than 20 percent of their potential due to being held back by their inability to smoothly control their own mechs, then what was the point?

Many parties had experimented with trying to promote the breakthroughs of low-aptitude mech pilots over the centuries.

The effort never paid off.

In practically each and every case, the low performance of these low-aptitude mech pilots served as an enormous drag for any mech unit.

There were rare cases when these low-aptitude mech pilots successfully broke through and overcame the limitation of their low genetic aptitudes by transcending their mortality.

Yet the probability of this happening was so low that the payoff could never make up for the investment. The math simply did not make sense.

This time was different.

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