The Mech Touch novel Chapter 3130

Chapter 3130: Educational Opportunities

The new mech designers all looked eager and ready to go, but there was no way that Ves would allow them to work on the expert mech design projects straight away.

Putting them to work this way would just mess up the design teams and cause a lot of disruptions. No matter what prior work experience they held, the Design Department of the LMC developed its own system where mech designers teamed up into fixed groups and dedicated themselves to working on specific aspects of a mech design for long periods of time.

What mattered most to Ves was that every assistant gained an emotional attachment to the mech they were contributing. It was a lot easier to manage how other people affected a given mech design as long as it was the same group of people working on the same mechs.

Changing the teams while they were in the middle of working on an expert mech design project would cause a fair amount of disruption. Ves preferred to wait until the current round of expert mech design projects was over before making use of the new recruits. By then, the newcomers would have acclimatized to their new jobs and acquired the necessary know-how in order to slot into the existing structure.

The lead designers didn't have to take charge over the new recruits. Ves and every Journeyman was too busy with their primary responsibilities to waste their time on management duties.

Though certain individuals like Miles Tovar and Oscar DiMartin were relatively uninspired mech designers, they possessed decent management and leadership capabilities. The other design team leaders were also capable of taking charge of groups of new recruits.

After splitting up the hundred recent entrants and assigning them to different assistants with greater seniority, everyone went back to work.

Whether any of the new assistants would stand out and showcase their talent remained to be seen. Ves didn't dare to judge any of them prematurely. They were all young and had plenty of time to bloom in their new jobs.

The LMC and the Larkinson Clan offered many chances for hard-working mech designers to promote their capabilities. From offering high-quality second-class augments to allowing them to borrow a lot of valuable textbooks for free or for a modest Larkinson merit fee, the mech designers received more than enough chances to climb to a greater height.

The only issue was that they needed to do most of the work themselves. Ves had increased the cost of receiving a personal tutoring and advice session with any of the Journeyman from 1 Larkinson merit to 5 Larkinson merits.

This increase reflected the increased value of receiving the full and undivided attention of a mech designer who overcame the first major hurdle of their careers.

To be honest, he wanted to remove these interview sessions entirely, but thought that was a bit too harsh. Though a proper mech designer should be able to develop their design philosophies and figure everything out on their own, anyone who encountered a bottleneck often needed a little push to get ahead.

In those circumstances, let alone 5 merits, even 50 merits was worth the answer an Apprentice Mech Designer needed to find a way to advance to Journeyman!

Of course, no one took up the offer to exchange 5 merits to receive the full attention of Ves and Gloriana. The same amount could be redeemed for several high-quality textbooks. At their stage, it was much more useful for them to expand their knowledge base and deepen their technical skills.

Shortly after the new batch of mech designers joined the Larkinson Clan, the expeditionary fleet finally completed its extensive expansion and resupply and reluctantly departed from the Pelsa Ryndover System.

During the Larkinson Clan's stay in the port system, the recruiters managed to pick up a whopping 25,000 people who managed to pass through all of the checks.

The majority of the new clansmen consisted of essential spacers needed to crew the four new capital ships. Their qualifications were fairly solid as the Larkinson Clan wasn't picky about the age of the new recruits this time.

Though these solid former merchant mariners brought a wealth of competence and experience to the table, they also brought their families along. This was not necessarily a downside as those who brought over their spouses and children would definitely be committed to the clan for life.

One of the reasons why the Larkinson Clan was able to attract these married spacers was because of the excellent living conditions of the Larkinson fleet.

Unlike ordinary trade fleets and trade vessels, the Larkinson fleet possessed a dedicated entertainment ship that could also serve as a decent ark ship. Dawn City was already heralded as a utopia and the amount of family units requesting to be reassigned to the Vivacious Wal was insane.

In fact, every other capital ship offered plenty of facilities and amenities for families to live as if they were residing on land. Ves didn't think there was anything wrong with Dorum, the simulated city environment on the 8th deck of the Spirit of Bentheim.

Good living space wasn't the only factor that convinced many spacers to join the Larkinson Clan. The growing educational opportunities for students of all stripes turned out to be a surprisingly effective attraction.

One of the downsides to raising a family on a ship was the lack of access to crucial facilities such as good and prestigious schools. The only way for parents to give their children a decent education was to enroll them into virtual schools and universities.

Yet no matter how good these study programs were, attending a virtual institution was incomparable to attending the real deal. There were so many factors that were different that it would take an entire library to explain all of the details.

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