The Mech Touch novel Chapter 7520

Chapter 7520: Mapping the Distortions

The Saint Commander claimed to have read their enemy’s intentions.

She refused to split her core assets, fearing that doing so would play into the opposing commander’s machinations.

Yet keeping all of her units close at hand vastly limited her options.

Despite these conditions, she still had faith in the combined fleet’s ability to resolve its current predicament.

Many people began to pay close attention to the Amaranto Mark III.

The ace marksman mech had fought in enough battles after her most recent upgrade that she had built up an impressive track record.

Saint Davia Stark had cemented herself as one of the most accurate and dependable snipers of her rank!

Although there were a number of senior ace pilots of different major powers that managed to achieve comparable hit rates at even greater ranges, nobody in her generation had managed to become her equal.

When it came to quick or instant takedowns at longer ranges, she and her battle partner were by far the best choice!

However, the Amaranto Mark III was not effective in every situation.

The current environment could easily be regarded as suboptimal for an ace marksman mech.

Visibility was extremely poor outside of the perimeter of the enemy fleet.

The fabric of reality had become distorted due to the abundance of destabilizing exotic energies.

The enemy spell array produced a range of effects, and the human analysts did not dare to claim they had mapped them out in full.

Other powerful enemy units with unfathomable abilities most definitely lurked within the darkness.

All of these conditions and more made it unfeasible for a marksman mech to successfully land a straight shot at a fairly distant target.

"Will this even work?" Gloriana skeptically felt the need to ask. "The spacetime distortions outside of the protective bubble of Casella’s Command Field and the defensive spell array are not too strong, but they are not weak either. What matters more is the distance between the Amaranto and the target. The greater the range, the greater the distortions. It is already difficult to calculate a precise and accurate targeting solution on a relatively static object that is obscured by so much dark miasma."

"Davia’s Stark willpower is strong. The Amaranto’s full-powered shot will not bend easily in the face of all of the distortions that you have mentioned." Ves had a little more faith in the Saint Commander’s decision.

His wife did not accept this argument. "That may be true, but this will not help much with target acquisition. In order to land her shot, she will need to pinpoint the enemy formation anchor under very poor conditions. All of the Amaranto’s firepower will go to waste if her aim is off by a fraction of a degree. I do not believe that Davia’s intuition and her other qualities as a saint can compensate for all of these variables. That is asking for too much. Even miracles have to be grounded in reality in order to occur."

She raised a good point. Extraordinary willpower could help keep the energy beam straight, but it did not offer as much assistance when it came to trying to home in on the target.

Ves already figured out how to solve this particular issue.

"The Amaranto Mark III is not alone. Have you noticed how the smart AIs of the Tortuous Scream along with the processing banks of other starships are being tasked to help with the calculations?"

"Hm?"

Under the coordination of the Minerva Mark II, the Tortuous Scream and several other larger warships such as the Tarrasque and the Babylon Excavator all pooled their processing power together to perform extremely intensive calculations!

All of the processors allocated to this priority task began to construct an extremely large and complex mathematical model of the distortions produced by the activated energy fields controlled by the opposition!

This was not a simple endeavor in the slightest.

The model had to be constructed based on a huge amount of raw data input.

These primarily came from the many sensor systems of the mechs and ships of the combined fleet.

Much of it was limited in value. They only provided a limited perspective of all of the distortions and energy currents in the local environment.

What truly enriched the database was the input provided by the surviving Woodsap mechs!

Even if only a handful of them had made it back, they at least managed to deliver a lot of new data on the behavior of the hostile energy field and many other relevant variables well outside of the range of familiar territory.

Of course, all of this data put together did not come close to providing the red humans with a complete picture of the surrounding space.

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