The Mech Touch novel Chapter 1868

Chapter 1868 Expensive Payload

Slowly but surely, a clear line of division emerged within Ves' enterprise.

The 'old guard' consisting of the original Brighters and Larkinsons mostly concerned themselves with the mechs.

The newcomers in the form of Ylvainans disproportionately consisted of spacers. They were crawling all over his ships!

Did Ves like his division? No. Was Ves forced to accept it? Yes.

It was not as if complete segregation had occurred. There were still enough Brighters in the fleet to add some diversity to the crews.

Ves had no interest in managing this situation any further. He passed on his instructions to the fleet coordinator and other people and left them to address his concerns.

In the meantime, he completed his analysis of the test results. The new Deliverer performed admirably with the new neural interface. Though the test only showed the positive sides of the high-capacity model, it was enough to show that there was definitely a reason for its existence!

When Ves went back to Gloriana and showed her the benefits of the new model, she glanced at him with an expression of distaste.

"This only shows the potential of a high-capacity model. All you have shown me is that there is some merit to employing it to our top mech pilots. Most of your mech pilots are not up to that standard yet. They won't be able to derive enough benefits to compensate for the higher likelihood of suffering permanent brain damage."

Ves sighed. "I already told you, Gloriana, it's not just that. A less restricted neural interface will always increase the bond between mech and design spirit."

The two already discussed this topic, so they didn't bother to rehash it any further. Suffice to say, Gloriana remained skeptical, while Ves insisted on doubling down on this new neural interface.

At the very least, it didn't appear to be some sort of trap from the MTA! Ves had already used his exalted status in the Ylvaine Protectorate to his advantage by consulting some of the local neural interface specialists.

The ones who answered back in time had all studied the high-capacity model in detail and judged it to be exactly what it said on the tin. Just like any other neural interface license offered by the MTA, it was devoid of backdoors and secret programming!

With that reassurance, Ves felt completely at ease with its use. He even wanted to make it a standard addition to all of his future mechs! This included both commercial designs, commissioned designs and private designs!

"I doubt the mech markets will appreciate a mech that incorporates such a dangerous neural interface."

Ves grinned. "I don't mind. I'm always pursuing quality over quantity. Even if my products become less attractive, it is still worthwhile to impart them with high-capacity neural interfaces unless I absolutely have to make a lot of sales!"

That shouldn't be necessary, he believed.

"I suspect that many of your customers will rip out its stock neural interface and install a safer version in its place." Gloriana retorted. "You might as well develop a 'safe' variant and a 'performance' variant or something. You can derive most of your sales from the safe variant while satisfying your need for accomplishment with the performance variant!"

"That.. sounds interesting. I'll think about it, though I don't favor it. I don't want any product confusion to occur."

He didn't want to deal with all of the whining and buyer's remorse that would inevitably take place when customers ordered the wrong edition of his designs.

At a certain level, Ves wanted to keep his sales volume low. The Desolate Soldier attracted way too much attention, and not always for the right reasons. Even now, a lot of Soldier mechs were being sold in various parts of the Komodo Star Sector. Most customers sought to abuse their glows to their own ends!

Wary of attracting too much MTA attention, Ves wanted to limit the application of his mechs. Focusing on the high-end market and targeting skilled and elite mech pilots would allow him to continue his passion while at the same time prevent his mechs from proliferating out of his control.

When Ves went back to trying to empower his Larkinson mech, he worked the high-capacity neural interface into the design.

After that, he attempted to explore how he could facilitate the spiritual aspect of the man-machine connection.

This was a rather nebulous area as Ves didn't have an actual mech to output telemetry.

"This data can't be simulated."

In truth, a lot of models existed that could simulate the performance of a neural interface, but only specialists were able to make the most of them! Laymen in this field like Ves would probably do more harm than good.

The results weren't accurate enough. Human brains were simply too complex to model completely. Aside from the conventional reasons that skewed the results, the models didn't include anything related to spirituality!

With such an influential variable missing, how could Ves put his faith in any of these models?

If Ves wanted to make headway into integrating Ancestral Possession into his Larkinson mech, then he needed to wait for two events.

First, he needed the cooperation of the Golden Cat. Ves glanced at the Larkinson Mandate, which appeared a lot more hollow than before.

Everyone felt the Golden Cat's absence. Clixie and Lucky yowled mournfully at the book.

Ever since Ves introduced the Golden Cat to Qilanxo, the Sacred God took the newborn spiritual product under her wing!

Ves had no idea how the teachings proceeded, but everytime the Golden Cat returned to the book to take a nap, she seemed more and more aware and confident of herself.

It was as if the Golden Cat was rapidly growing wiser every day!

The more they worked, the more they fell back into tune with each other. Ves and Gloriana had become very adept at preventing their differences from affecting their cooperation! _{freёweɓnovel.com}

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