The Mech Touch novel Chapter 7065

Chapter 7065: Reliance on Collaborations

When Gloriana returned to their temporary accommodations after her meeting with the Resonance Smith and taking the kids out to play, she still retained a lot of energy.

“Papa! Look, look! I bought a new shark plushie. He can fly and he can swim in our baths. Doesn’t he look cute?”

Ves smiled and lifted his only son in his arms.

“So what do you think of Yernstall IV?”

“It is not as busy as Yernstall V, but there is a lot more high-tech stuff.” Marvaine babbled. “There is so much stuff about mechs for sale on this planet. Not just whole mechs, but also parts and wnew technologies. They even have Mekanos box sets for sale, but mama refused to buy any for me. They were so cool!”

“We already have more than enough to keep you satisfied, young man.” Gloriana lectured him as he sorted out the new jewelry and smart clothing she bought during a visit to a shopping mall. “It is a waste to keep buying new Mekanos when you have not sufficiently explored the possibilities of your existing ones. Remember that each new set opens up new combinations and possibilities with your old sets. It is the habit of a good mech designer to look back at your old works and see if you can upgrade them with the new tech that has become available.”

She made a very valid point, but Marvaine did not look so pleased.

Ves was actually surprised that Yernstall, the stronghold and de facto capital of the Red Two, still sold Mekano products.

After all, they were invented by the Polymath, who not only disgraced herself a few years ago, but had completely turned away from the Red Association while appropriating the richest and most developed star system in the Red Ocean.

Then again, Mekano was genuinely a good product. The toys were beloved by many children in both galaxies and created an entire ecosystem of third-party kit developers.

It would be unreasonable to replace it with another toy system as it was extremely difficult to cast Mekano from its throne. Its quality and design specifications are close to perfect while the network effect was firmly on its side.

In the face of this entrenchment, the mechers would only seem desperate if they forcibly tried to replace Mekano with their own rival products. It would also offend the Cybernetic Empire during a time where she was sitting on a mountain of advanced, next-generation technology.

The mechers did not want to offend the Polymath during this tense period.

So long as that remained the case, Mekano would probably remain a fixture in the lives of many children and teenagers.

After dinner, Ves and Gloriana let the children play and run around in the living room while they moved to the side and shared what they had gained from their respective meetings.

Ves went first.

“I underestimated the Web Mistress.” He began. “You would expect a mech designer who specializes in networks and stuff to be relatively weak compared to the rest of her peers. It doesn’t help that she has always maintained a lower profile compared to the likes of the Polymath. It turns out that Zemana Ilcef is much more formidable in reality.”

His wife responded with a smug grin. “I could have told you that, but you wouldn’t have believed me. You are far too prone to making judgments in advance based on the incomplete information that you have gathered. The reality described on the galactic net and hearsay from your friends is not an accurate match to our actual reality. A Star Designer is still a Star Designer. Just because the Web Mistress does not shout all of her accomplishments is not an indication that she lacks ambition. She is likely working on a big project that is not yet ready for public consumption.”

That may be the case. Ves did not know what the Web Mistress was working on next.

It could be trying to upgrade the Red Association’s kinship network into a much more powerful version.

It could be a massive improvement to her existing support link technology applications.

It could also be a new form of support link technology that further reduced the separation between individual mechs.

“From what I gathered from the Web Mistress, she is a true mech supremacist at heart.” Ves said. “The supremacy of mechs is under threat. They fare better and better against the native aliens because we are constantly developing new and more cost-effective means to counter transphasic energy shields. The mutated voribugs don’t care about that at all because they don’t have a heavy defensive focus to begin with. Instead, their combat strategy amounts to flooding our troops with an excess of disposable insect warriors. Even shield link technology will reach a limit after a bunch of mechs have endured so many attacks for multiple hours.”

The native aliens engaged in attrition warfare on the strategic level, but liked to decide important battles with concentrated offensive pushes.

This forced red humanity to change in order to cope with both at the same time.

The mutated voribugs fought differently because their doctrines did not center around phase lords or other champion units. Their absence made it difficult for them to fight against expert pilots and ace pilots, but it was not impossible to overwhelm them after sacrificing millions if not billions of individual voribugs.

His wife understood the problem as well. “Mechs are most suited for relatively short-duration deployments. Those designed to last longer tend to allocate more capacity to energy cells and other supplies. That subsequently makes them weaker, which is exactly what you do not want in mechs assigned to fight against the mutated voribugs. A more ideal mech is one that can output strong damage over a longer period of time. Such mechs… certainly exist, but they were never designed to fight against enemies as outrageous as the voribugs.”