The Mech Touch novel Chapter 7497

Chapter 7497: Fragile Vanity

Unlike metallic mechs, biomechs could never achieve perfect or near-perfect consistency among copies.

Biomechs were grown, not built, so variations tended to occur much more frequently.

However, once biomechs had completed their relatively rapid growth process, their organic forms largely became fixed.

Even if they incurred large amounts of damage and subsequently regenerated back to ’full health’, biomechs always tended to return to their initial mature templates as best as possible.

Perhaps older biomechs may still show changes and evolutions over time due to the natural aging of their organic components, deviations from feedstock or receiving particularly serious damage.

In most cases, the biomech pilots and the people that maintained the organic machines tended to view such changes as undesirable.

Maintenance and restoration became more expensive and troublesome. Biomech technicians with lower qualifications could not do their work properly when faced with complex changes and mutations that did not match the templates in their manuals.

The greater the deviation between an existing biomech and the original design, the more the biomech technicians needed to use their brains to properly administer the organic machine.

Not all changes and mutations were entirely benign. They could slow down the biomech, open up additional weak points or cause them to drain their energy reserves faster.

The maintenance crews all needed to use their judgment or the judgment of their superiors in order to determine which mutations could be retained and which ones had to be removed.

What complicated this matter further was that not every change could be removed in a quick and convenient fashion.

Organic mech parts were much more intricately connected with each other than with metallic mechs.

Removing or altering one organic system could negatively affect the rest of the biomech, thereby crippling it outright!

These reasons and more made it impossible to keep any single biomech exactly the same as it aged.

The older a biomech became, the more deviations it accumulated. This caused its value to degrade in the eyes of most people as its maintenance costs rose while its performance remained flat or began to show decline.

Ves found this to be a very terrible circumstance!

Even the Terrans, who possessed a more open-minded perspective towards biotechnology than other groups, had never accepted the notion that aging was a positive attribute for a biomech.

This caused them to value fresh biomechs over aged ones, which was completely upside down as far as he was concerned!

In fact, it was not unheard of for the Terrans to trash their older biomechs because they felt it was not worth the effort to maintain them anymore!

Even if the aged biomechs still retained much of their original strength and developed minor advantages due to their unique quirks, they still could not escape death sentences due to the crime of deviating from the norm.

How awful.

Ves wanted to change this horrible mindset towards older biomechs. He had invested a considerable amount of time to write extra Chapters in the manuals. He wanted to convince every Terran that they should treat growth as an asset rather than a liability!

Fortunately, the Terrans had been remarkably quick to accept his arguments.

His prior works had all proven the validity of his arguments. His Woodsap mechs also brought so many new innovations that the people involved in the Arboreal Project had already been predisposed to treat them as completely new products that bore little resemblance to the mechs they worked with in the past.

It also helped that the Terrans carefully selected the biomech technicians for their competence as well as their adaptability.

Each of them took Ves and his design philosophy seriously. They did not blindly employ their usual solutions to remove any mutations that they managed to find. The biomech technicians instead recorded their findings and allowed the Woodsap mechs to retain their individual characteristics.

Though not every Terran could be convinced to value older living mechs over newer ones, these ones at least knew their business. Ves found it delightful to talk shop with them about the differences between his Woodsap mechs and more generic biomechs.

As Ves gazed admiringly at the Rosenstorm, he paid particular attention to the small but highly noticeable rose flowers growing from the front.

Though only two-dozen of these small roses had emerged in recent days, they drastically changed the look and feel of the Woodsap mechs.

Every Woodsap mech came in ebony brown at the beginning. Their bare TE Wood exterior possessed a distinctive bark-like texture, evoking the image of a resilient tree trunk.

Caracalla looked contrite. "I understand. I shall... correct my approach towards combat. I just find it regretful to let my beautiful roses burn into ash before they could properly bloom. Is there a way for you to adjust my Rosenstorm so that he can better preserve these flowers?"

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