The Mech Touch novel Chapter 1804

Chapter 1804 Compartment G-13

Ves took a rare excursion to orbit. A hefty guard force consisting of both Avatar and Kronon mechs surrounded his heavily-armored shuttle as it climbed from the surface.

Neither the Avatars nor the Ylvainans were complacent when it came to the safety of Ves! Past events had already shown that his life was far from secure.

With over a hundred mechs acting as an honor guard, every other traffic automatically made way as they received new instruction from traffic control.

The shuttle eventually docked with an orbital shipyard. Though it wasn't particularly large or impressive, it was the best that Ves could hire in the Kesseling System.

After Ves, Lucky, Nitaa and a lot of other guards emerged from the shuttle, they moved to the heart of the shipyard.

A director met them on their way.

"How long will it take to complete the overhauls to the Scarlet Rose?" Ves asked.

"Four months at the very least."

"That's too long." Ves frowned. "From the size of your shipyard and the amount of people who work here, a typical overhaul shouldn't take more than two months."

"The proposals offered by your men are very difficult to work with, Your Excellency." The director nervously admitted. "Our engineers and shipwrights have never worked on a ship so advanced. Just the issue of shipping the rare exotics and other materials to us is a significant burden. Both the Sand War and Komodo War have disrupted the supply and transportation of many critical materials."

Ves remained unmoved. "I didn't come all the way up here to listen to your excuses. Trade may have disrupted, but it hasn't stopped entirely. I think there should definitely be a way for your shipyard to obtain the materials you need. Perhaps you can correspond with the Curins, starting with Madame Cecily Curin. I'm sure they'll be able to expedite the necessary procurements."

"Thank you, Bright Martyr!"

"Please don't call me that."

They finally entered the massive drydock hall where the Scarlet Rose rested in the very center.

The hall was designed to accommodate much larger ships up to massive freighters and cargo haulers. The Scarlet Rose looked fairly compact for this reason, but only from afar. Once they came close, the grandness of the mobile supply frigate became evident.

Though a frigate was a fairly small class of starship, the Scarlet Rose still towered over humans as well as mechs!

The tonnage of the starfaring vessel was astounding, and the materials that made up her structure and armor layers could all be used to produce enough second-class mechs to form a full mech company!

The value of the Scarlet Rose was inestimable to Ves. She became an essential asset to him ever since he managed to steal her from the Fridaymen.

The sheer utility and prestige he gained from owning such a potent vessel was enough to make Ves ecstatic.

The potentially-infinite Breyer alloy production loop skyrocketed the Scarlet Rose's value by at least a hundred times, if not more!

There was no way Ves could afford to neglect the Scarlet Rose! The constantly-renewing mysterious escape pod had become an absolute point of focus for his future plans!

Due to the extremely sensitive nature of the mysterious escape pod, only his most trusted subordinates were allowed to approach the mech workshop and the surrounding compartments.

The shipyard engineers and technicians were only allowed to work on the periphery of the ship! Everything else that Ves and his underlings deemed sensitive could only be accessed by the Battle Criers!

While this slowed down much of the work, Ves would rather be safe than sorry. Perhaps it wasn't unreasonable that it would take at least four month to complete the renovation of the ship.

She was worth the wait, Ves thought as he looked up and admired the half-exposed ship. Plenty of workers and bots crawled over the Scarlet Rose's surface in order to remove the damaged armor plating.

If the damage was light, then the holes and other damage could still be reversed to some extent. If the damage was too deep, then the shipyard had no choice but to send the broken parts to a recycling plant in order to recover some of the materials needed to build replacement parts.

As Ves was technically literate, he understood most of the processes that had to take place to renovate the Scarlet Rose.

The main goals of these overhauls was to increase the security of the ship and to remove as many Fridaymen systems as possible that possessed a high risk of containing backdoors.

Michael Crindon played an essential role in reforming the security systems of the ship. He also became the main person in charge of cordoning off and increasing the security of the production loop.

Ves met with his Kinner security expert near the original compartment which held all of the escape pods.

The structure already looked much different from here. New bulkheads had been erected where there was previously empty space. Access to the site where Cassandra Breyer's escape pod appeared over and over again became a lot more difficult.

"I'm glad to see at least some work has already been done." Ves commented with satisfaction.

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"Go ahead." Ves sighed.

Lucky instantly raced off and phased through the bulkhead in order to access the small stockpile of Breyer alloy in the next compartment.

"Tell me what you've managed to accomplish."

"We directed most of our Kinner technicians to rearrange the layout of this deck." Crindon explained and swept his arms towards the newly-added structural components. "We have cut off almost every path between the site of importance and the rest of the ship, including the mech workshop. In order to maintain and increase the 'loop', we've cleared out all of the escape pods in the original compartment. This provides us with enough space to add the forging machine as well as an independent power supply to keep the machine going without drawing a suspicious amount of power elsewhere."