The Mech Touch novel Chapter 3753

Chapter 3753 - Blue Supergiant

A week went by as the Golden Skull Alliance neared its destination.

Only a few days were left until they reached the Garimel Sytem where the Larkinson Clan intended to perform its mining mission.

Garimel was an odd star system in the Krakatoa Middle Zone. It centered around a blue supergiant star that was incredibly large and burned hotter than many other stars.

Just like how flames turned from orange to blue if they became hotter, stars behaved in a similar fashion. The light energy emitted from blue stars contained more energy and were therefore compressed in smaller waves.

White stars were even hotter than blue stars!

Ves did not dare to bring his fleet into a star system centered around a white dwarf star. Even the blue supergiant that sat in the center of the Garimel system posed a lot of danger due to how much heat and radiation it emitted.

Blue supergiants were usually seen as the more violent and self-destructing cousins in the star family.

They tended to burn bright but short and went out with a bang when they reached the end of their lifespans.

The big stars could potentially go supernova and flood any neighboring star systems with a destructive wave of energy and star matter!

After that, whatever was left in the middle would converge into an increasingly more dense point until all of the compressed matter created a new black hole!

Suffice to say, it was not enjoyable to live inside a blue supergiant star system. Fortunately, they were fairly rare because they only lived around a couple of dozen million years on average before they could no longer sustain their forms.

While there weren't many humans or aliens that liked to live so close to a blue supergiant, they had interesting properties that made them a lot more worthy of consideration!

Blue supergiants were known as the heavy metal factories of the cosmos. More heavy metals formed through the compression of matter than in many other stars!

Not only that, the extreme heat and other energies generated by these hot stars also affected the formation of these metals, giving birth to large quantities of exotics that possessed additional properties that weren't fully understood!

Although it was extremely unlikely that any of these heavy metals would become available before a blue supergiant went supernova, the more violent and unstables ones tended to 'fart' a few of the heavy metals out every once in a while.

The stellar winds produced by blue supergiants such as Garimel were one of the most popular sources of harvesting a semi-continuous stream of new exotics.

Right now, the MTA only had a vague idea on how much heavy metals Garimel ejected from its body in the form of stellar winds.

The MTA was also unclear about the exact metals and exotic variations the blue supergiant produced.

Long-ranged sensors that could infer the properties of star systems from many light-years away didn't work correctly for the Garimel System due to interfering factors. Not only was it located in a fairly dense nebula, it also released a lot of radiation that crowded out other signals.

The only way to understand what was going on in the star system was for a ship to visit it in person.

Although the MTA possessed a lot of survey ships that could learn everything it wanted to know about the Garimel System, the mechers didn't have the hulls to spare at the moment.

The vast majority of survey ships fielded by the Big Two were tasked with scouting territories claimed by intact alien star nations!

Discovering strategic enemy infrastructure and scouting the way ahead of a future offensive were much more crucial missions than surveying humanity's new backyard. _{ƒreewebηoveℓ.com}

The Big Two simply didn't bother with surveying the massive amount of star systems inside the territories taken from their former alien owners.

It was better to leave this thankless job to pioneers who were often willing to do anything for MTA merits.

Now, Ves and his fleet had accepted a number missions that essentially amounted to surveying the star system and mining a lot of heavy metal exotics to figure out what was available in Garimel.

In fact, Ves didn't think it was strictly necessary to bother with all of that work because the Simile Halifax could do this job at least ten times better!

"Jovy shouldn't be petty enough to take away my merits." He hoped.

From what he had read in the mission briefing, the reason why the MTA wanted to send pioneers to the Garimel System was because its long-ranged sensors captured anomalous signals from this location.

The mechers weren't forthcoming about what they meant by 'anomalous signals', but they did not assign a high danger factor to the missions centered around the Garimel System, so it was probably fine.

Before the expeditionary fleet was ready to explore the novelties that this blue supergiant system had to offer, Ves and his fellow Journeymen were finally ready to embrace the fruits of their labor and evaluate the final batch of mechs designs of the current design project!

Ves eagerly stepped inside Gloriana's workshop where a row of brand-new mechs were standing in a column.

Each of the mechs were based on recently-completed designs!

From the much-awaited Monster Slayer to the more utilitarian Sliver Project, the new mechs were all characterized by their living qualities and their diverse roles.

The other mech designers had already arrived beforehand.

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