The Mech Touch novel Chapter 3748

Chapter 3748 - Titan-3 Project

After the completion of the Everchanger, the new masterwork mech performed above everyone's expectations.

The expert hero mech was both powerful and versatile. It could fit in any role and it could even adopt any glow of its pilot's choosing.

Although it did not perform better in any given role than the specialized mechs of the Larkinson Clan, Ves did not ask it to do so. The Everchanger's entire concept revolved around applying its versatility to always take advantage of an adversary's weaknesses.

However, there were opponents where this strategy reached its limits.

The last two battles served as good examples. Against singular, powerful opponents such as giant astral beasts and alien warships, pure firepower was much more useful than adaptation.

This was because the enemy's strengths were so pronounced that their weaknesses weren't actually exploitable!

In situations where the Larkinsons had no choice but to fight against the enemy at its strongest, the Everchanger's Vitalus rifle wouldn't be able to contribute as much as the Amaranto's Instrument of Vengeance or the Minerva's Irvan luminar crystal rifles.

This was the nature of the Everchanger as a mech that traded raw power for more balanced performance.

The lack of overwhelming power in a specific role was why Ves devised the Everchanger to serve as a base platform for larger mech-sized add-ons.

Just like how humans powered themselves up by equipping themselves with combat armor, the Everchanger was supposed to gain an immense amount of power by deploying into battle while armed with mounted wargear!

Unfortunately, the side projects related to them did not make as much progress as Ves would have liked.

The technical challenges were considerable and Ves already had his hands full with designing the more important Minerva Project and other important mech designs.

In any case, it was not as if Venerable Joshua was suffering at the moment. The Everchanger was still a strong mech in most circumstances and would never become irrelevant.

This was why the projects relating to the mounted wargear took a backseat in the past few months. There was no particular hurry in completing them and Ves wanted to make them right.

The wargear projects all underwent a lot of changes when the Larkinson fleet entered the Red Ocean.

Ves originally conceived of the Everchanger and its associated side projects when he was back in the old galaxy. Back then, he could not get a clear idea on the superior tech and materials he could gain access to when his fleet could shop around in places like Chance Bay, Pellysa III and Davute VII.

It was different now. The Golden Skull Alliance not only committed to staying in the Krakatoa Middle Zone for the time being, but also founded the Open Consortium which was slowly integrating into the regional economy.

Now that the participants in the projects knew what they had to work with, they could finally make real progress in integrating a lot of attractive Red Ocean goodies into the mounted wargear designs.

Ves paid more attention to the artillery wargear loadout than the other ones due to its immense value in the battles of today. The project related to this loadout had to overhaul its progress multiple times as the requirements changed.

Although Ves understood how damaging it could be to change the goalposts so often, he did not want the artillery wargear loadout to become marginally relevant as soon as it was finished.

Anyway, he did not come here to review the artillery wargear loadout that was under development.

He was much more interested in observing the progress that Dr. Perris and her staff had made in the so-called meat suit project.

In response to his request, Dr. Perris led him out of her personal lab and brought him to a different section of the deck. After undergoing a serious security check, they entered a restricted laboratory where a number of Lifer biotech researchers were quietly working on the many problems related to the secret project.

"Welcome to the Scarlet Garden." The female apprentice biomech designer introduced for the benefit of Ves. "The Scarlet Garden Biocombat Department is a new research group within the Larkinson Biotech Institute that is mainly focused on the direct combat applications of biotechnology. Director Ranya Wodin has appointed me as its head and this is where the 'meat suit' is being developed."

The section certainly deserved its name. The interior was predominantly coated in red in order to emphasize the theme and the inherent danger of the research being performed in these labs.

After Dr. Perris spent a bit of time introducing Ves to the researchers assigned to the Scarlet Garden, they moved on to a massive storage hall where literal mountains of frozen flesh were being stored inside specialized transparent storage compartments.

The pale white and gray flesh evoked a lot of familiarity in Ves.

"That's… astral beast flesh!"

Dr. Perris nodded. "Correct. Although our clan has sold the overwhelming majority of organic tissue taken from the enormous carcass of the Titania, we still preserve many tons of the flesh for various reasons. The Titania's flesh not only provides us with great research material, but can also serve as the ingredients for other combat-oriented biotech applications. Although it has properties that are not ideal, it is extremely resilient and fairly easy to regenerate compared to the prevailing alternatives."

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