The Mech Touch novel Chapter 3571

Chapter 3571 Negotiating With A Mech

The Enlightened Warrior was one of the first variant mech design projects that Ves had embarked upon in quite a while.

Normally, he looked down on it as most mechs were better off if they were designed according to a specific vision from the ground up. Trying to adapt a similar but ultimately different mech design to a different vision was like forcibly changing the personality of an individual. Though the transformation might succeed, the repercussions were enormous.

"I really do want to design you from the ground up, but I have to be practical about it as well." Ves sighed as he began to work on his new variant mech design project.

Before he committed months of his valuable design time on pursuing this idea even further, he felt it was better to start on a smaller scale and produce a trial balloon first.

He could make a much more informed decision once he studied the results of his initial attempt.

His demands weren't too high for that reason. He just wanted to observe whether the Quint could act as a design spirit to another mech design, whether the spiritual feedback process worked properly for living mechs and whether the end users of his new mech model actually benefited from piloting it instead of a regular Bright Warrior model.

Still, in order to make sure that his new creation was sufficiently differentiated from the base model and adapted to its new purpose, Ves invested 3 weeks into designing his new variant.

This was a rather generous time schedule that would allow him to adjust the design to his satisfaction and override much of its original purpose with a new and different mission.

That last one was of great importance to Ves. The Bright Warrior line was centered completely around serving general Larkinson mech pilots. With the Golden Cat as its design spirit, the Bright Warrior was partially meant to serve as a way to assimilate new members and increase their sense of belonging to the clan.

That obviously couldn't remain if he wanted to make the mech design more universal. Although Ves still had his own people in mind when he wanted to perform this experiment, the need to avoid using Larkinsons as test subjects meant he had little choice but to turn to outsiders to validate his proof of concept.

"It's not a big problem."

He had altered the original identities of his existing mech designs before. He had made mechs that were previously exclusive to one group of people more compatible with other groups of people.

"This is my own work, after all. I know them like the back of the hand. I can easily unmake my own solutions and put new ones in their place."

The real challenge was performing these steps while minimizing any potential damage. This was much harder to do if he was working on someone else's mech design. There were so many intricacies in design choices that a single mistake could easily cascade into many other problems in other parts of a mech design.

He didn't have to worry about that here because he knew about almost all of the rationale behind every design choice. Though he had to refresh his memories multiple times, he still recalled why he set it up the way he did at the time.

"Gloriana probably won't be happy with me ruining one of our collaborative mech designs."

Ves chuckled. While there was indeed a chance that he might screw up her arrangements, the drop in performance shouldn't be that big.

In fact, he had improved quite a bit since he first completed the Bright Warrior Mark I Version B design. He had deepened his knowledge base and gained a lot more experience. He developed many new techniques and expanded his theoretical framework.

It was not difficult for him to apply his new gains onto the original Bright Warrior design and come up with a major revision.

"That will take too much time, though."

Ves set a time limit of 3 weeks because he did not want to get lost in all of the improvements he could make on the base model. He had a narrow goal in mind and was set on completing it within the deadline.

This was important because he would be finishing his Enlightened Warrior design shortly after arriving in the Pellysa System.

There was a bustling marketplace over there that provided Ves with plenty of opportunities to enlist more test subjects.

He smirked. "It'll be easy enough to get them to buy my new mech. I just have to sell them at a discount."

Many people loved to buy bargains! If his customers grew suspicious why he sold his products so cheaply, Ves could just state that he wanted to grow his brand and generate more word of mouth about his living mechs.

Of course, the effect would be rather marginal unless he sold them by the thousands, which was far too wasteful and time-consuming.

"I'll just stick to a couple of hundred or so. That won't take too long to produce."

The only problem with doing this was that Ves would not be able to disclose that his new Enlightened Warrior design was an experimental product that could potentially lead to unexpected mental changes or another case of exploding head syndrome!

"The benefits outweigh the risks. I am confident I can control the latter this time!"

He did not intend to push the envelope with the Enlightened Warrior design. That could come later when he had a more suitable audience in mind.

As Ves continued to work on his variant, he slowly morphed its character and identity into one that conformed with its new purpose.

The Enlightened Warrior revolved around several themes.

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