The Mech Touch novel Chapter 7614

Chapter 7614: Cybernetic Prisoners

This was not the first time that Ves learned that his clan lacked the research capabilities to decipher the secrets of exotic spoils of alien nature.

That was very problematic considering the Larkinson Clan’s forces regularly came into contact with powerful alien adversaries.

Due to controlling the only human source of superdimensional matter, the Larkinsons enjoyed the unique advantage of fielding some of the strongest mechs short of god mechs!

Such powerful machines needed to be used on the right battlefields.

It was a waste to dispatch them onto less intensive battlefields where they could mindlessly bully alien cannon fodder without a single threat to their safety.

Not all of the native aliens were weak. Their encounter against the Blackwater Summoner and his well-equipped vassals under his command had given the combined fleet a bloody nose.

These were the enemies that the champions of the Larkinson Clan were destined to overcome!

It also helped a lot that fighting these enemies was highly rewarding.

Acquiring all of those deathborn artifacts greatly enriched the clan.

Salvaging the abandoned Saint Piercers and Saint Armors also gave the Design Department much more leeway in developing future superdimensional mechs.

The Dark Apostle and his Ascended Giants also drooled over the acquisition of new high-end phasewater organs!

If not for all of the casualties, Ves would have considered his half-finished campaign to be a resounding success!

"Perhaps my forces will return none too soon." Ves idly muttered.

He had a premonition that this would not be the last time the Larkinsons tangled with the deathborn and their native alien collaborators.

The acquisition of the mysterious Large Mother Crystal Fragment alone made him believe in this possible future.

After all, even if the Larkinsons failed to get anything useful out of it, just its most superficial function alone was an incredibly useful tool to pin down the locations of deathborn across the stars!

Red humanity did not need to rely on painstaking reconnaissance and infiltration to find out where the deathborn converged. They could just fly close enough before activating the crystal fragment for a few seconds to discover the precise coordinates of their nests.

If the sampling of valuable goods and debris from the previous battle was an indication of what humans could attain, he believed that future raids would still yield plenty of gains.

However, that brought Ves back to the original pain point.

The research institutions of the Larkinson Clan were unable to keep up with the growing demands of their services.

The matriarch of his clan along with many of the executives had done their best to address this shortcoming, but this was far from the only priority on their list.

The clan was still relatively young and grew larger with each passing day. Every administrative branch was swamped with work. The recruiting offices did their best to scale up their operations, but their efforts became increasingly more strained as they struggled to lure in the right kind of manpower.

Red humanity did not lack for ordinary job seekers. There were certainly enough third-raters, second-raters and even first-raters with average qualifications that dreamed of working for an up-and-coming group like the Larkinson Clan.

Yet the truly high-end talents remained frustratingly elusive.

Many of them were spoken for at birth or at a relatively early stage of their education.

Many major players had played this game for so many years that they had long planted recruiters or talent scouts at any upstanding school, academy and university!

These professionals could also rely on the huge reputations of their parent organizations to open doors and sign on promising prospects without encountering too many barriers.

While Ves believed that the men and women from the Larkinson Clan would one day be able to throw their weight around, he did not foresee this happening within a single generation.

That also meant that trying to scale up his research institutions could be done any faster.

The alternative solution was to buy up other research institutions, but even there the Larkinson Clan faced many barriers.

The most affordable ones could engage in ordinary R&D tasks without too many issues, but they completely lacked the high-end talent and experience to decipher anything truly challenging.

The more valuable institutions were already claimed by others for the most part. Many of them had been founded by states, superorganizations and other formidable players. They would never exchange such a strategic asset to their rivals unless they were truly desperate.

When Ves read the reports on how much the Larkinsons tried and failed to expand their effective research capacity, all he saw was a hundred ways to fail.

"Is it really that bad?" He asked his closest assistant.

Gavin Neumann did not need to employ the full capabilities of his digitized mind to respond.

"Every human knows that the ability to conduct research is an essential advantage at the beginning of the new age. New methods and technologies have become available. Any power that wants to retain their current strength and expand it in the future must innovate their way to success. The demand for scientists and engineers has become so great that every student that has proven to be a talent is being fought for by at least 20 employers!"

This pattern already created a considerable distortion in the employment sector.

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