The Mech Touch

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This is uncharted territory for both of our forces.
Why do you think it ’s necessary for your Vandals to work together with my Swordmaidens? Alone, we don ’t stand a single chance against the perils we might encounter on our journey. ”

”That sounds… as if our leaders have no idea what they are doing. ”

”That is more correct than you believe.
Yet despite our fears, we have no choice but to advance into the unknown.
You ’ll find out soon enough. ”

Ves nodded.
”After our fleet enters FTL, we ’ll quickly cross the border demarcating the Komodo Star Sector from the Faris Star Region.
Major Verle promised us that we ’d hear the full truth by then.
Heh, it ’s easy for them to do so after they cut of all but one of our communication lines to the rest of the galaxy. ”

Restricting the quantum entanglement nodes meant that the Vandal fleet would also lose access to the central database of the Mech Corps.
Only a lesser internal database remained, but it didn ’t store as much designs, intelligence and other precious data that Ves occasionally referenced.

They would be isolated for real in an area of space where the law of the jungle prevailed.
Even a reckless mech designer like Ves shook in his boots at the thought.

The call soon ended after running out of topics to discuss.
Even as allies, the Swordmaidens and the Vandals operated their own fleets.
Their relationship hadn ’t grown close enough to share resources, personnel or technology with each other.

Ves soon stared at the lockbox containing his promised goodies.
It had been difficult to bring it out of the space station intact, but he succeeded in bringing the expensive exotics back to his ship, where he could employ them in any way he could.
The Vandal workshops were at his disposal.

”First, I need to figure out how to build it.
That ’s not going to be easy. ”

Just because he got his hands on the key materials didn ’t mean they comprised of the entire battery.
He still needed to go over the research material and figure out a way to turn theories and diagrams into a complete blueprint of an ultracompact battery.
One that worked with the materials he had on hand aboard the Shield of Hispania.

Besides that, he also had to spend some time on tinkering with the long-disused stealth shuttle fragments.
Letting them rot in some storage box down in the cargo hold was a waste of their potential.
Ves figured that the barebones stealth tech primer that the Skull Architect had passed on would be difficult to understand without something practical in his hands.

Lastly, he hadn ’t forgotten about Ketis nor his regular mech designer duties.
Even though it seemed the maintenance department of the fleet pretty much ran on autopilot at this stage, the system that held it together was exceedingly fragile and could easily topple over if they came across a problem that they couldn ’t solve.

Such situations allowed Ves to show Ketis the value of a mech designer in solving these matters for any outfit.

If Ves couldn ’t find any problems, then he would instruct her in a more traditional way.
He could always tip something over and have Ketis fix the issue if needed, though that would be mean to the mech technicians that worked hard to get everything right.

The feeling of manipulating Ketis and molding her into shape as his ideal form of mech designer enticed him like nothing else.
Only designing his original mech designs felt better than this!

”It truly feels as if I am designing a mech designer. ”

The absurd thought had gained traction in his mind.
It sounded weird but oddly fitting for a mech designer in a leading position like him.
Ves owned his own mech company, but he failed to expand his design team beyond himself.
Sooner or later, he would establish a team of mech designers that could help lighten the design burden for him.
Perhaps they might also lend their own brand of expertise to his design!

”The good ones are already hired out even before they graduate.
I ’ll have to settle on the dregs. ”

Besides attempting to win over his colleagues in the design teams of the Flagrant Vandals, Ves would likely have to pick up some failed mech designers from the street as well.

Metaphorically, of course.
A mech designer was still an overqualified mech technician, so it wasn ’t as if they ever starved on the streets.

Still, these mech designers who had gone bankrupt or who failed to start their own businesses would come with a host of issues.
Ves needed to learn how to deal with different personalities, attitudes and aptitude for mech design.

Ketis served as the perfect prototype in his attempt to find out if he had what it took to be a master manipulator.

”That sounds way too nefarious.
It ’s an inaccurate description as well to boot.
What can I call myself instead? Mech designer designer? Designer of mech designers? ”

Designing mech designers sounded like a paradox to Ves.
Humans weren ’t designed.
They were nurtured.
Yet his design philosophy centered around the premise that mechs possessed life equivalent to humans.

Therefore, if Ves could design mechs, then it should have been possible to design humans as well.

”That sounds dumb. ”

A human grew over time, while a mech was static.
A human birthed from an embryo in an organic fashion, while mechs needed to be fabricated by assembling mechanical parts.

Just because Ves drew them on the same height in terms of intrinsic value didn ’t mean that humans should literally be treated like mechs.

A better analogy would be to equate the teaching and nurturing of a mech designer to the modification of an existing mech.
No matter if it was a cheap mech, an expensive mech, a tall mech, or a short mech, as long as the mech designer possessed some skill, he could reshape it in any other form he wanted, to a certain degree.Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.

”Hm, maybe calling myself a teacher will do. ”