The Mech Touch novel Chapter 3552

Chapter 3552: Titania

The presence of a large derelict alien capital ship in what should have been a quiet stopover point completely took the Golden Skull Alliance by surprise!

The distant alien bioship was massive in human terms. She was roughly 5 kilometers long and around 3 kilometers thick at her widest section.

Her overall shape was comparable to a rather slender beehive with flat ends. Her surface was either scarred with heavy battle damage or featured numerous strange cavities whose purpose remained unclear.

The bioship looked as if she had been drifting for at least a week based on the small trail of biotissue leaking from her hull. The vessel was already dead, but she continued to bleed as her orbit kept spiraling around the local yellow dwarf as if she was a satellite.

More details kept pouring in as the alien starship received more and more scrutiny. Although most forms of observation remained passive as it took hours for active scanning signals to travel back and forth across such immense distances, the analysts still figured out plenty of new information.

The mass of the alien derelict, the probable material composition of her enormous exterior and the likely weapons that had been used to disable her all became known as the minutes passed.

A few clever minds also came up with a probable reason why the alien derelict appeared in this star system out of the blue.

Ves invited General Verle and the leaders of the other members of the Golden Skull Alliance in order to discuss this major development.

Several familiar people appeared within the virtual meeting room in turn. Marshal Ariadne Wodin, Patriarch Reginald Cross and Professor Benedict Cortez all took their seats as usual.

A new figure had appeared, though. In place of Venerable Brutus, the Glory Seekers dispatched an unfamiliar woman in his place.

The woman directed an appreciative look at Ves. "Patriarch Ves Larkinson! I've been waiting to meet you, but you haven't visited the Glory Seekers once since you entered the Red Ocean."

"Uh, sorry?"

"It is of no consequence. Oh, let me introduce myself. I am Galina Rovon-Hartul, a recent member of the Glory Seekers! Currently, I am in charge of all of our mechs. This has allowed me to study one of your works for an extensive amount of time. Despite pouring hundreds of hours into examining your Valkyrie mechs, I still don't understand how they perform the way they do. You are a genius for designing such an amazing line of mechs!"

Ves had heard of Galina Rovon-Hartul. She was a former citizen of the Empire of the Lost that had been hanging around the Opalis System in the hopes of catching a ride to the Red Ocean.

Due to the fact the Golden Skull Alliance was still short a couple of million MTA merits, the Glory Seekers eventually decided to take in Miss Rovon-Hartul because she could conveniently make up for this shortfall!

Although Ves always wanted to examine this sudden arrival, all of the priorities that came after entering the Red Ocean had taken up all of his time. He left all matters of diplomacy to Minister Shederin Purnesse and his staff, who had doubtlessly met with the prominent new member of the Glory Seekers.

However, this was a rather inadequate response towards Miss Rovon-Hartul. She was not only a young Journeyman, but also capable of earning at least several million MTA merits by herself. That immediately marked her out as an excellent mech designer with better potential than most of her peers.

Ves nodded towards the woman. "I'd love to chat with you further, but we have more important matters to talk about today. Please take a seat so that we can begin our discussion."

Once the new Glory Seeker sat at the table, Ves quickly briefed the others on what the Larkinson Clan had discovered.

Of course, the Glory Seekers and the Crossers weren't blind. They must have certainly employed their own sensor suites to scan the alien shipwreck and the surrounding environment for any useful details.

The problem was that neither of them possessed powerful sensor systems. Their starships were predominantly fleet carriers that were mostly geared towards carrying and supporting mechs in battle. How could they accommodate enough capacity for powerful detection and scanning modules?

The Larkinson Clan was better off in that regard. Although many of its vessels weren't directly useful in battle, the Blinding Banshee was an exception.

Her powerful sensor arrays were mainly geared towards detecting human forces and stealth units, but they could also be utilized to investigate unknown and unfamiliar phenomena as long as they weren't too weird.

Since the alien vessel happened to be a bioship, the Dragon's Den also became useful at this time. Her sensor systems were much more geared to detect biological phenomena, and the Lifer research teams that had taken up residence inside were passionately trying to decipher as much of the data as possible.

It was because of those excellent biotech experts that General Verle was able to convey so much interesting information to everyone.

"The probability that the derelict biocapital ship codenamed the 'Titania' is of alien origin has reached 97 percent. All of our specialists in biotechnology state that there are simply too few signs of human elements in the distant vessel."

"That doesn't necessarily preclude human intervention." Professor Benedict remarked. "The ship may be alien, but humans might have attacked her in order to use it as bait for unwitting forces such as us. Are you certain that the battle damage she suffered is not caused by humans?"

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