The Mech Touch novel Chapter 7064

Chapter 7064: Free Trial

After Ves concluded his deal with the Web Mistress, a guard led him away from the center of the compound and brought him back to the shuttle.

The vehicle then brought him back to the luxury accommodations located in a highly protected location on one of the planets of Yernstall.

He remained seated while petting a disconcerted Goldie on his lap. He repeatedly went over his deal with the Web Mistress and tried to think of the implications.

One of the consequences of the agreement with the Red Association was that Ves had renewed and reasserted his commitment to partner with the mechers.

This was an important gesture and vote of confidence during a sensitive period where the Red Association suffered repeated setbacks.

The Red Split and the emergence of a shiny new rival in the form of the Cybernetic Empire had sparked a massive confidence crisis over whether the mechers were still developing in the right direction.

Change was already inevitable, but there were multiple different sides that each proposed a different future for their superorganization.

On one extreme, there were mechers that wanted to return to the previous status quo as much as possible. They not only advocated for sticking to the old rules that defined the Age of Mechs, but also sought to undermine the Terrans and the Rubarthans as much as possible in order to subjugate them again!

On the other extreme, there were extreme reformists and ideologies that argued that the mechers and the fleeters had completed their historic assignments of letting humans recover from the end of the Age of Conquest. Now that the states had become stable and populous enough, they no longer needed to abide by so many patronizing rules anymore. It was best if the Red Two withdrew from direct governance and turned into pure supervisory organizations.

Both sides cared a lot about their viewpoints, so their arguments frequently became heated.

Although the mechers stationed in Yernstall were professional enough to keep their arguing behind closed doors, Ves could still feel the underlying tension and repressed emotions across the entire planet and central star node.

It made him feel as if Yernstall had turned into a powder keg.

Ironically, it was the continued presence of Terran and Rubarthan visitors that restrained the mechers from engaging in open warfare.

They did not want to embarass themselves by airing out their internal disputes in front of their rivals.

The Web Mistress was probably the most sensitive towards all of the discord raging through the ranks.

Perhaps she sought to secure exclusivity rights for the first Polymetal mech as a means to give the mechers a distraction.

If his ambitious project worked out as expected, then the release of genuine Polymetal mechs would make a lot of mech designers ecstatic!

For the first time, they finally gained access to a Carmine mech that was especially tailored to their needs and capabilities.

Unlike the Yellow Jacket models that were specifically geared towards the lower end of the mech market, the Polymetal mechs were bound to turn into expensive luxury products no matter the edition.

Smart metal was already much more expensive than regular metal alloys, and the various features that Ves hoped to include could drive up the costs even further.

Despite that, most mech designers should be able to afford a Polymetal mech as long as they were successful enough.

They only needed to set aside a portion of their savings or go deeper into debt in order to obtain a Polymetal mech quickly.

The difficulty of learning how to pilot a Carmine mech and how to take full advantage of the smart metal aspects should consume a lot of time and energy!

Perhaps playing around with Polymetal mechs may cause the productivity of mech designers to drop, but it would be worth it as first-hand experience in piloting ‘real’ mechs would translate into much more fitting mech design work.

In any case, if the Web Mistress was willing to guarantee the Polymetal mech in her own name, then she definitely concluded that its benefits outweighed the costs.

This was not a casual move. Once it became known that a Star Designer personally invested in a mech design project started by an associate, it would inevitably attract a huge amount of attention!

Fortunately, Ves was already accustomed to the spotlight. He was not afraid of all of the attention. The support of the Web Mistress meant that he did not have to restrain himself in order to appease narrow-minded idiots who questioned every potential innovation.

Either the project would succeed or end up producing a failed product. Either way, Ves remained in control, and that was just the way he liked it. His partnership with the mechers should not drown out his voice in his own project. At least he hoped that would be the case.

“What do you think, Goldie?”

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“Nya?”

“Do you think that cooperating with the Web Mistress is the right decision? She has taught me a number of tricks to make your Larkinson Network more robust and harder to exploit.”

“Nya nya nya.”

“I guess you’re right.”