The Mech Touch novel Chapter 2710

Chapter 2710: Rushing to Completion

After several weeks of intensive design effort, the Bright Warrior Mark I Version B Project almost reached completion.

It had not been easy. In order to rush the design work, Ves deliberately diverted additional design resources into the project in order to brute force its completion as fast as possible.

Optimization work that most often required both design ingenuity and raw processing power.

The former could be increased by allocating more manpower to the project, which he did. Not just Gloriana and Juliet, but many more assistants took part in performing the tedious work of solving all of the little faults and inefficiencies in the multiple configurations of the second-class modular mech platform.

The latter was even simpler to solve, but that made it even harder for Ves. The Spirit of Bentheim's powerful ASTERA AI core was capable of performing a huge amount of calculations every moment of the day. Additional processors took on this burden as well and served as backups in case the AI core became unavailable.

The issue was that the factory ship also needed to draw on these capabilities in order to run billions of major and minor systems that kept the entire vessel running.

On top of that, the other five design projects also needed to perform an immense amount of calculations to come up with better solutions to the myriad of problems they faced.

Ves decided that finishing the next incarnation of the Bright Warrior design was more important than anything else, so he straightforwardly doubled its allocation of computing power at the expense of other priorities.

Not everyone felt comfortable with this decision. Gloriana had a lot of words to say to him when he announced the change.

"You're delaying the completion of our Hexer mech designs!" She accused when they were just starting their session at the design lab. "Don't you care about the Komodo War anymore?!"

To be honest, the war did not occupy his thoughts as much as before. While he still wanted the Friday Coalition to lose, his own needs came first.

Ves crossed his arms. "Gloriana, before we help anyone else, we have to help ourselves first. The Battle of Reckoning almost squashed us, you know. Think about what would happen if the Fridaymen succeed. Not only would we all die, but the Komodo War won't be getting our upcoming Hexer mechs at all. So if you truly care about the plight of the Hexadric Hegemony, you should help me finish this important design project once and for all so that we can get back to finishing our other projects with minimal delay."

"I'm not blind to the circumstances we're facing, but we're not allocating our design resources efficiently anymore. Piling twice as much mech designers on the Bright Warrior Project won't double its progress. On the other hand, taking a few of them away from our other projects will slow their progress considerably enough that it will take at least several more weeks to finalize them even if we put back what we took."

"The Hex Army can hold out for a few more weeks. The war is not a conflict that is decided in a matter of weeks or months. Besides, the Hegemony is big and is probably working on other solutions. We're hardly the only ones who are trying to save it. Our next batch of Hexer designs are all auxiliary in nature so their effect on the war effort will likely be subtle."

It was difficult for Ves to placate Gloriana, but their safety was truly at risk this time. The only other way to solve their lack of powerful mechs was to purchase a huge batch of premium mechs from their upcoming destination.

Neither Ves nor Gloriana liked this solution. The Larkinson Clan should be making use of internally-developed LMC mechs. Otherwise, what was the point of running its own mech company?

Ves knew that his mechs possessed great advantages that could give his mech forces a decisive edge. He was so confident in his own work that he truly intended to replace any third-party mech in their roster with one of his own products over time.

As for Gloriana, she simply wanted to control everything. She had no involvement in the design of third-party mechs, so they possessed plenty of glaring traits that scarred her eyes whenever she looked at them. The Princess Jeckas, the Vima Suns and the Tamris Stellars had already sickened her to the point where she didn't visit the hangar bay on her own accord anymore.

The Bright Warrior concept may be bland and full of compromises, but it was much less objectionable than mechs designed by other competitors. She craved control, and being able to put her mark on the Larkinson Clan in this fashion was the best way to soothe her urges.

In the end, Ves managed to persuade Gloriana to play along. She didn't have to agree with him, but she shouldn't get in the way either.

"I'm the principal designer in this department." He reminded his wife. "It doesn't make much sense to give every project equal attention at this moment, so I've decided to shift resources around. That's all you need to know. I'm not deliberately delaying our Hexer mech design projects. They'll just have to sit in the back for now. If you want to remedy this situation, then do your utmost to complete our priority project."

She did just that. Due to how much time, effort and affection she invested in the Cherub, Blinding Mech and Devious Projects, she worked on the Bright Warrior IB Project as if her life depended on it! The energy she displayed helped a lot in hastening its progress!

All of their hard work eventually bore fruit. With the wealth of data provided by the logs and footage of the previous battle, their working conditions couldn't be better.

Mech designers always worked best with enough supporting data at their disposal. The entire point about fabricating prototypes and putting them through their paces was to verify what worked, what didn't, and what needed to be fixed.

Even though they only had a single battle to go on, the experiences the prototypes went through were so thorough and all-encompassing that none of the lead designers felt lost.

Gloriana pounced on every irregularity in the data and obsessively tried to solve or mitigate them no matter the difficulty!

There was no doubt that she contributed the most to the project at this stage.

She even tolerated the necessity of working together with Juliet in order to accelerate the project by a couple of days.

Now that she no longer behaved catty in the presence of the other Hexer mech designer, it turned out that the two women worked quite well together.

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