The Mech Touch novel Chapter 1628

Chapter 1628 Guided Aim

The entire design team looked dazed.

When Ves first revealed to them that he intended to design a marksman mech, they reacted with skepticism.

The current doctrine against the sandman basically amounted to deploying lots of mechs and starfighters to bombard the sandmen with as many rounds as possible!

Every defensive force relied on massed firepower and deploying lots of cannon fodder to resist the tide of sandman incursions.

Recently, the defensive forces added Dawnbreakers, Duskbreakers and Novabreakers to their mech rosters. The Dawnbreaker and Novabreaker were especially effective because they could endure a lot of hits while dishing out significant damage with their Sandbreaker rifles.

So far, no one managed to think of a more effective way to beat the sandmen. The Bright Republic and the other third-rate states being hammered by the sandmen were constrained by many limitations.

However, what was impossible for other mech designers was not necessarily impossible to Ves. he just needed to think outside the box and exploit his unique advantages.

While he already managed to convince Gloriana of the viability of his mech concept, that was only because his girlfriend had faith in his abilities.

Trying to convince his design team was much more difficult.

Though he could just skip his explanations and leave them ignorant, that would not do his project any good.

To ensure that the X-Factor of his mech remained as coherent as possible,every person involved had to share the same vision!

If each mech designer working on the project had a different idea on what the mech was supposed to be, then the spiritual foundation of the mech risked becoming too heterogeneous.

While Ves could resolve most issues resulting from a lack of direction and agreement, he would have to expend too much effort to straighten the spiritual foundation of his mech design.

It was much better to make his entire design team understand and adhere to his vision from the start!

Right now, everyone expressed confusion at the answer that Ves had given. Against the increasingly more prevalent swarm configuration, it was far too difficult to wipe them out without suffering massive casualties.

Since a sandman admiral played a critical commanding role to their fleets, a lot of people poured a lot of research into coming up with a way to identify their presence within a fleet!

As long as a sandman admiral became exposed, every mech and starfighter could flood its direction with a torrent of ballistic rounds!

The brightest minds and the most brilliant specialists of many states poured a lot of time and effort in this research, but so far they failed to achieve any results.

Ves was very well aware of the difficulties the researchers faced. While a sandman admiral typically possessed a body that consisted of higher-quality exotic, the problem was that their size ranged from a grain of sand to a small finger-sized pebble!

Even Sigrund's true body wasn't very big to begin with! The lesser sandman admirals that led the charge into human space had only recently come into existence, which meant that they were predominantly just as small as any other sandman!

The lower castes of sandmen weren't entirely uniform either. Their bodies consisted of all kinds of inorganic substances. A sandman fleet typically incorporated countless varieties of simple sand, various metals and low-grade exotics!

Each person that pointed a sensor at a sandman amalgamation only got a confusing mass of data in return!

It was practically impossible for humans or AIs to figure out which specific particle among trillions of particles led an entire fleet!

So how did Ves decide to solve this problem that confounded so many scientists and sensor specialists?

"Intuition." He repeated while tapping the side of his head. "We humans are special. Unlike machines and bots, we are creatures of both logic, emotion and instinct. Against a problem where conventional solutions aren't available, it's worth a try to resort to a more unconventional solution." _{freёwebnovel.com}

"I understand, but.. what is intuition?" Miles asked.

"Intuition is instinctive understanding." Ves patiently replied. "Think of it as a way to come up with the right answer or decision without relying on conscious thought or clear logic."

"Doesn't that make intuition no better than unfounded guesswork?"

"Essentially, yes."

The design team looked even more skeptical.

"So.. the premise of your next mech is to rely on luck and gut feeling to score a lucky hit on a sandman admiral?"

"Essentially, yes."

"I'm sorry, Mr. Larkinson, but I don't see how such a mech will succeed. There is no scientific basis for this mech!"

"That's just your limited understanding of reality talking." Ves responded with a grin. "The science you've learned at school only partially sheds a light on the mechanisms that govern the reality we live in. Take the glows of my mechs for example. Have any of you managed to come up with a grounded, scientific explanation of how they work?"

Everyone fell silent.

"From what I've seen, many mech designers haven't necessarily failed because they are dull and stupid. They can be quite the bookworms. The real issue is that they adhere so rigidly to their knowledge that they aren't willing to consider ideas that fall outside their current understanding! The boldest mech designers aren't afraid of going out on a limb. While they fail most of the time, they only have to succeed once to win big!"

"So you're basically gambling."

"You're partially correct." Ves admitted.

Miles Tovar really couldn't accept such a vague basis for a mech concept! "Have you gone mad?! How is it possible for a smart and brilliant mech designer such as you to rely on something as nebulous as intuition of all things to base your new mech design upon?"

Neither Ves nor Gloriana took any offense of his skepticism. Both of them smiled as if nothing was wrong!

"We have faith that our mech design will work." Ves replied.

Every Tovar looked dazed. Even Ketis reacted with doubt and confusion.

Most Brighters were secularists, and the Tovars were no different! They disdained superstition and didn't really believe in the concept of intuition!