The Mech Touch novel Chapter 3411

Chapter 3411: Mech Slaughterhouse

Before the expeditionary fleet moved on to the gate system, it had to complete one necessary chore.

"We need to dump our excess ships and goods."

This was why the Golden Skull Alliance stopped at an extremely busy port system that was filled with starships.

At least half of the hulls were recently sold and had not yet gained a new crew that could bring them away.

Thousands and sometimes tens of thousands of sub-capital ships passed hands every day as a constant influx of pioneering fleets sought to trim down their ship counts before passing through the gate system.

The restrictive limitations imposed by the Big Two left the pioneers with no choice but to offload all of their smaller vessels!

Fortunately, the Larkinsons as well as the Glory Seekers and the Cross Clan made preparations in advance. The expeditionary fleet calmly obeyed the instructions transmitted by traffic control and reached a moon orbiting a gas giant.

There, the alliance partners all pulled out their remaining personnel from their sub-capital ships. Ships such as the Scarlet Rose, the Barracuda and the Mother's Wrath that had served the Larkinson Clan well now became unwanted goods due to the inability to bring them into the Red Ocean.

Ves grew a bit melancholic as he witnessed the large-scale handover. Hundreds of combat carriers that used to carry at least forty mechs each soon fell into the hands of savvy ship vendors.

While the supply of sub-capital ships was excessive in Tarnished Crown, many other star sectors and star clusters desperately needed more of them. The second-hand starship traders earned insane profits by transporting ships to places like the Komodo Star Sector where the ongoing war produced an insane demand for vessels that could be used to evacuate a dynasty or group!

If Ves was a bit greedier, he would have attempted to do the same. It was folly to do so, though. The majority of ship thefts and hijacking incidents arose when opportunistic pirates tracked down and raided the empty carriers.

Without mechs or mech pilots, there was no way these valuable ships were able to fend off attackers!

The reasons why the established ship vendors succeeded where others failed was because they were able to invest more resources into protection and likely made implicit deals with the pirates in advance.

Although it was shady business, the ship vendors had plenty of reasons to collude with pirates.

All of this was why the Larkinson Clan never thought to transport their unwanted sub-capital ships to a distant star sector in order to earn a princely sum. The Larkinson Clan may be in debt but it didn't need to take so many risks to obtain a bit of relief.

Aside from risking pirate attacks, the Larkinsons also couldn't mobilize any trusted manpower to perform the trade.

If the Larkinsons really wanted to maximize the profits from the sale of their sub-capital ships, then they needed to fill them with their own personnel. They also had to retain all of their excess mechs and make sure that they were paired with mech pilots. _{freёweɓnovel.com}

Yet which clansman was stupid enough to stay in the old galaxy when all of the excitement took place in the Red Ocean? The entire clan had come so far to reach this point. There was no way that any Larkinson wanted to get off this ride at this point!

Ves was also highly disinclined to leave any proper member of the Larkinson Clan behind.

As for leaving their former mechs and starships in the hands of so-called retainers or external members, no one in the clan seriously entertained this notion. The clan had to hire too much personnel to do a relatively thankless job. It just wasn't worth the hassle.

The consequence of all of this was that Ves and many other Larkinsons watched on as they said goodbye to all of their former assets.

It wasn't just the ships that they were losing. They also had to dispose of thousands of mechs, ranging from Bright Warriors to Transcendent Punishers. The nine capital ships in the hands of the Larkinsons simply couldn't fit all of the machines!

What was worse was that Ves couldn't allow the Larkinson-exclusive mechs to find new homes. They not only performed poorly when they were piloted by non-clansmen, but also contained numerous trade secrets and exclusive technology that he didn't want to spread.

Of course, Ves doubted whether models such as the Bright Warrior still retained any secrets after his fleet abandoned a lot of wrecks after the Battle of Fordilla Zentra.

"It doesn't matter. Larkinson mechs can't fall into the hands of others."

The Larkinsons had to make a painful choice. They had to put a premature end to the majority of their mechs. All of these living mechs had gone through numerous battles and developed slight but notable bonds with their assigned mech pilots. They didn't do anything to deserve this fate, but Ves did not budge from his stance.

"Even if it goes against my principles, I cannot needlessly expose my private work."

Ves moved to the production halls where the crews began to disassemble the mechs instead of assembling them. Though he immediately felt uncomfortable after seeing so many living mechs meeting their ends, he needed to own up to his decision.

The experienced production personnel not only dismantled the Larkinson mechs, but also destroyed or deformed all of the components. Otherwise, anyone who bought all of the salvage could easily piece the valuable mechs back together!

"Hopefully, this won't happen again."

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