The Mech Touch novel Chapter 3601

Chapter 3601 Before We Leave

The Golden Skull Alliance slowly concluded its business in the Pellysa System.

After several weeks of conducting trades and concluding numerous new business deals, the partners of the alliance were finally ready to resume their journey to the interior of the Red Ocean.

Ves was rather happy with what he and his clan accomplished in the trading system.

The tentative new deal the Larkinson Clan managed to forge with Zachren Bilitsa might not be as big as he liked, but it had the potential to become a lot more lucrative if the initial signs were good.

Naturally, the Living Mech Corporation wasn't quite ready to enter the local scene as of yet. The Enlightened Warrior and Ferocious Piranha designs both suffered from inadequacies that made it difficult for them to compete against the most prevalent mech models in the market.

If the Larkinsons wanted to remedy this, then the Design Department needed to invest a lot of time and effort into designing mechs that were truly adapted to the Red Ocean.

For now, only the Monster Slayer had the potential to be a new cash cow, but it would still take a couple of months before Ketis finalized this project.

"At least our clan is on its way to profitability now." He whispered.

The income from the Yeina Star Cluster still provided the clan with a stable financial foundation, but expenditures had skyrocketed because of the inflated prices of every good and service in the Red Ocean.

Ves and his people no longer raised their eyebrows if they were forced to pay thrice as much for reactor fuel and five times as much for medical supplies. Even though everything was more expensive, the tech and quality of most of these goods were usually a lot better as well. _{freёwebnoѵel.com}

Aside from stocking up on goods, the Larkinsons also collected a lot of intelligence about the frontier zones up ahead. The Black Cats went out in full force and hung out in a lot of bars and other places in order to collect snippets of useful information that were not as well-known.

Calabast and her analysts collected all of this information and developed a more detailed and up-to-date overview of what was taking place in the surrounding regions.

They knew the locations of several hazardous regions.

They tracked the possible trajectories of dangerous alien fleets.

They located the most valuable frontier planets that were actively being fought over by numerous pioneering organizations.

They also heard about pioneers getting their hands on phasewater. Many of them proceeded to sell them to the Big Two for big payouts.

While not all of the information was reliable, the Black Cats nonetheless provided the Golden Skull Alliance with a much more thorough impression of what lay ahead.

After a quick discussion between Ves and the other leaders, they decided to head to the Davute System that was located in the Krakatoa Middle Zone.

Krakatoa used to be in alien hands until relatively recently. The MTA and CFA warfleets had swept through all of the major planets and neutralized all of the obvious major threats.

Nonetheless, a lot of fish still managed to slip through the net. It was up to the pioneers to finish the clean-up jobs and prepare all of the new locales for exploitation.

The Davute System started off as a base camp but evolved into a central meeting place just like the Pellysa System.

It was a lot smaller and less developed, though. Security was a much greater concern as rivals and enemies regularly generated a lot of friction when they came together.

Nonetheless, the Davute System was also the site of a so-called MTA colonization bureau. This was where local MTA personnel handed out missions that rewarded pioneers with a lot of MTA merits as long as they performed specific jobs.

Considering how few MTA merits Ves had left, he figured that it would be a great idea if he went on a couple of missions and built up a healthy reserve.

Although credits were still vital to funding the daily operations of the Larkinson Clan, Ves had never dismissed the value of merits. They were the high-level currency of the Mech Trade Association and could provide him with a lot of convenience that was normally inaccessible.

His lack of MTA merits made him feel quite constrained. If he had more of it, he would be able to gain more exemptions and get his hands on more exclusive goods.

"Those mechers don't do anything for free!"

With their new destination set, the people on the ground prepared for departure. Shuttles and transports bearing passengers and personnel constantly flew back and forth between Pejana and the fleet in orbit.

Before Ves departed Pellysa III himself, he decided to make an additional visit to Zachren Bilitsa's manufacturing complex located in the outskirts of the capital city.

Chief Fabricator J.R. Denner greeted Ves and his entourage of bodyguards once again.

"Patriarch Larkinson! I must say that you have caught us all off-guard with your unscheduled visit. If you announced your intention to stop by our complex in advance, we would have been able to prepare a much more formal greeting party for you. As it is, our personnel are all working on a tight schedule at the moment. We have just activated our first production lines and we still need to monitor the operations to see whether they are being performed correctly."

Ves did not look bothered. "I understand, Denner. I am not here to judge your people. I just want to take a look at how my first Enlightened Warriors are being produced. My living mechs need to be produced with a specific approach in order to maximize their potential."

"We are aware of your instructions. We have all studied the instruction manuals you have provided to us. While I cannot overhaul every process in the production halls, I have tried my best to tweak the operations to fall more in line with your recommendations."

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