The Mech Touch novel Chapter 7602

Chapter 7602: Proper Finalization

After concluding his meeting with Gloriana, Ves continued to remain busy with other obligations.

He met with Jovy Armalon, Commodore Zonrad Reze and Formation Master Andrea Vos in sequence in order to get on the same level with the Red Three.

The RA, RF and RC each developed a strong interest in the spoils taken from the death-cursed planet.

Ves and the Saint Commander were able to take advantage of their greed to negotiate a few favorable deals and exchanges with them. Suffice to say, the Red Three would do their part in strengthening the Premier Fleet and preparing it for future hardships.

He also met with the surviving soldiers and attended the burial ceremonies of the fallen.

Thousands of humans had perished in this dark and foreboding star system.

The mood among the people remained grim despite the fact that the Moloch Squadron managed to improve their defensive spell array once again in order to push back the dark miasma a little further.

Many people still remained nervous about their continued stay in the star system. The longer they stayed, the greater the chance that their alien adversaries might come back with an armada that was large enough to overrun their depleted forces!

As much as the higher ups wanted to extend their stay a few days more and use all of that additional time to sift through the massive destroyed temple complex even more, none of it would benefit anyone if the combined fleet ended up destroyed.

A good leader needs to be able to make a proper consideration between risk and reward.

The Saint Commander ultimately chose to wrap up any salvage operations by the end of the 4th day after the conclusion of the battle.

That had given the Larkinsons and their allies enough time to pick up all of the most obviously valuable loot.

While they could have spent additional time on restoring heavily damaged but not completely demolished starships and searching for other high-value loot, the risk of getting confronted by a second major alien force from the Red Cabal was too great.

"The Blackwater Summoner strikes me as an ambitious leader who has invested a great amount of social capital and other resources into the transformation of the Hypeh-Tekas System." Saint Commander Casella explained to Ves in private. "I doubt that he is truly done with collaborating with the foreign deathborn race. Given his status and importance, he is capable of rallying surrounding alien forces into a large retaliation fleet that may be inferior to ours in quality, but can still outnumber us by an order of magnitude. If we delay too much, then we will give our enemy too many chances to catch up and intercept us while we are trying to return to human-occupied space."

"Hm, I have no objections to leaving so quickly." Ves said. "It is just a shame that we won’t be able to dig up more useful scraps from the surface ruins. There are so many hidden gems buried under all of the rubble. The deathborn can teach us much about energy manipulation and E-engineering. The folks over at the Red Collective are so ecstatic about the data that we have transmitted that they don’t have enough researchers to study everything they wish." 𝒻𝘳ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝒷𝘯ℴ𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝑐ℴ𝑚

It was incredibly hard and time-consuming to decipher a completely foreign paradigm of manipulating E energy, let alone deriving practical applications that could be utilized across the new frontier.

Yet the potential payoff was so massive that the RC was willing to sink a huge amount of resources and manpower in this endeavor!

His chief of staff even passed on rumors about setting up a completely new department that was solely dedicated to deathborn sciences, but a lot of important collies objected to this measure.

The near-defection of the Phase Lord Department served as a negative example of what might happen.

Many collies concluded that it was a bad idea to put a lot of people who studied and eventually followed alien science and traditions in a self-contained department.

Although Ves himself did not think that any human researcher would be stupid enough to worship the deathborn due to researching its works, who knew what kind of hidden traps the M87 natives had built into their structures.

The lack of clarity about the risks and dangers of working directly with alien materials was one of the reasons why the scientists embedded within the combined fleet did not receive permission to handle the alien samples directly!

Out of safety reasons, the eager researchers only received permission to study the sterile recordings or in rare cases manipulate the black stone debris through highly secure bots.

The collies of the Moloch Squadron complained about these restrictions every day, but that did not stop them from discovering wonderful little insights with every passing day!

Ves had visited the avid researchers multiple times a day at first, but then he realized that he allowed this matter to occupy way too much of his schedule.

He decided to hold himself back and allow the collie scientists to do their work in peace for a while. This way, he could digest the highlights of their discoveries in a much more compressed timeslot from time to time.

The combined fleet had already departed the Hypeh-Tekas System.

Nobody wanted to look back or even contemplate the notion of turning around.

Ves had met with the Saint Commander enough times to know that she and her staff had already formulated an elaborate retreat plan.

They had abandoned all offensive objectives in order to maximize the chances of making an orderly return to friendly space.

There was no more need for them to hit alien supply centers or isolated raiding fleets.

The spoils they carried in the cargo holds or bolted onto the hulls of their overloaded starships more than made up for all of the other lost opportunities!

Multiple interested parties from the Terran Alliance and the Red Three expressed a great amount of interest in securing physical access to the unique spoils.

The Terrans even agreed to ramp up their raids and counterattacks against the native alien border systems just to make it harder for the enemy to divert enough forces to intercept the combined fleet!

As long as they held up their end of the bargain, the Terrans earned a much larger proportion of temple debris than what was appropriate for their initial contribution.

The Red Three naturally grumbled about redistributing the pie, but even they did want to see all of the effort go in vain if the lackeys of the Red Cabal successfully prevented the broken black stones from ending up in red humanity’s hands.

During these quiet but tense days of space travel, Ves continued to busy himself with multiple different priorities.

His main focus was finalizing the Arboreal Project.

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