The Mech Touch novel Chapter 3533

Chapter 3533: Unclear Explanations

Janassa Pellier and Tifi Colsone weren't the only ones undergoing culture shock at the moment.

The Voiken siblings were also introduced to the variety of different subcultures that had settled into the Larkinson Clan!

"Are you being serious, commander?"

Commander Valerie Chancy of the Penitent Sisters gave them a rueful smile. "Oh, we are completely serious about this matter. We do not expect you to embrace our words, but that does not make them any less true. The Superior Mother is real. The Superior Mother is a Supreme that is more powerful than any god. The Superior Mother is also the mother of our patriarch and the grandmother of his child. If you don't believe us, then ask Patriarch Ves. If he is in the mood, he may be willing to call down his mother to you. The sooner you get acquainted with the Superior Mother, the sooner you can start with designing our new mechs. Our Valkyrie Redeemer model could use an update."

The legion commander began to recite a whole list of issues that the Penitent Sisters wanted the mech designers to address for the next iteration of this famed model.

Many of the issues mentioned by the Penitent Sister Commander sounded reasonable to Sara and Dulo Voiken. They pertained to ordinary technical specifications such as the range of motion of the Valkyrie Redeemer's arms or the inadequate defensive properties of its round shield.

The two Voiken mech designers both possessed specialties that could offer a lot of potential improvements to the Valkyrie Redeemer design.

Sara couldn't do too much as the Valkyrie Redeemer was an offensive mech model that was on the lighter side of its weight class.

Nonetheless, she could overhaul its armor system and implement a new solution that offered more damage resistance without substantially increasing the mass of the mech.

Dulo Voiken could do a lot more. As a spearman mech specialist, there was much about the Valkyrie Redeemer that he could improve. While he found the mech design to be good in many ways, he could still tell that its designers did not possess a deep understanding of spear-wielding mechs.

If he had free reign over the Valkyrie Redeemer design, he would turn it into a much more formidable combat machine that did not have to rely on charge attacks in order to slaughter its foes!

Yet as Sara and Dulo continued to learn more about the properties of this mech models and its users, it became more difficult for them to accept everything they heard.

They did not try to refute the Penitent Sisters, though. They grew up in a family that was filled with many different mech designers, each of which developed their own unique perspectives on reality. The two Voiken mech designers were a little more accustomed to abnormal behavior.

"Can we examine one of these Valkyrie Redeemers, commander?" Dulo requested.

"Why certainly." Commander Chancy said. "I'll lead you over to our workshop. If you wish to disassemble it, make sure not to strip it down completely."

"For whatever reason?"

"Our Valkyrie Redeemers are living mechs. We have found that they can only truly remain alive if there is a bit of them left intact. Our mech technicians can tell you more about this. Just make sure to never pull our mechs apart completely. Think of them as living bodies. They can only sustain life if there is enough of a basis to do so. This is why we must always care for them and why we do not easily mix and match parts from different mechs together."

That is certainly weird to mech designers such as Sara and Dulo. Of all of the mechs they worked with, they never encountered a situation where they needed to treat mechs as if they were living, breathing organic bodies!

Though the Penitent Sisters generously allowed the Voikens to peek inside one of their Valkyrie Redeemers, there were always mech technicians hovering nearby.

"These Penitent Sisters are too protective of their mechs." Sara frowned as she studied the programming code of the Valkyrie Redeemer's operating system. "They're more than machines to them. They truly buy into Patriarch Ves Larkinson's vision."

"Well, you know what design philosophies are like, sister. They have a way of creating new possibilities."

"I understand that, but there has to be a limit to what is possible with mech designs! How can a mech designer grant life to what is supposed to be a lifeless machine? Where do these glows come from and how can these mechs induce so much fear in enemy mech pilots?"

The Voikens had done their homework so they knew that this mech model and its variants were successfully being employed in a distant war that consumed an entire star sector.

The fact that the two leading mech designers of the Larkinson Clan managed to design a mech that was able to compete against other military mechs was a great accomplishment!

Yet now that they finally got to tinker with a Valkyrie Redeemer, they came no closer to a satisfying answer!

"I can understand what Madame Gloriana Wodin has brought to this mech design. Her design approach is easier to follow." Sara frowned. "What is less clear is what Patriarch Ves Larkinson added to this mech design. I can clearly feel its glow, but there is no obvious source of this effect!"

"Have you tried asking the Penitent Sisters?"

"They all say that we're basking in the presence of the Superior Mother."

There was no way the Voikens could embrace this claim at face value.

"What about their so-called battle formations?" Dulo asked. "Is there a reasonable explanation for their ability to unleash giant combination attacks that can bypass every form of defense and snuff out the lives of hundreds of people?"

Sara grimaced. "Their answer is the same. The Penitent Sisters don't attribute this capability to their mechs or themselves. They all believe it's the Superior Mother at work!"

Suffice to say, Sara and Dulo Voiken did not gain as much as they wanted. The Penitent Sisters were some of the strongest and most effective soldiers of the Larkinson Clan, but the source of much of their impressive combat strength sounded like fantasy rather than a serious design solution!

As the Voikens spent time among the other mech legions, they couldn't get used to the other quirks of the Larkinson Clan.

One of the cultural aspects that they were not accustomed to was how close and casual everyone behaved around each other.

Though the clansmen serving in the Larkinson Army behaved with decorum whenever they needed to, many times they just threw aside all formality and joked around with each other as if they were buddies drinking in a bar!

This sort of behavior wasn't only confined to the lower ranks.

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