The Mech Touch novel Chapter 3798

Chapter 3798 Why Voiken?

A combat mech was designed according to vastly different criteria from a true law enforcement mech.

The former was designed to end a fight in the most overwhelming means possible.

The latter was designed to end a fight in the least violent way possible.

The difference in goals already produced a divergence in the requirements, development and outcome of a law enforcement mech.

A machine that possessed no subtlety at all and could only solve problems in the most blunt and destructive means possible would fit right at home in most battlefields!

Collateral damage was a secondary concern to beating the snot out of the enemy!

Naturally, such combat engines were completely unsuited to be employed in peacekeeping jobs. The governments and organizations hired and funded the Planetary Guard organizations in order to preserve the order and safety of their planets.

It would be a cruel irony if the Planetary Guard mechs were so incapable of showing restraint that they wrecked the cities that they patrolled!

This was why this sector demanded a substantially different approach towards mechs!

More specifically, law enforcement mechs were primarily designed to subdue out-of-control combat mechs in the fastest way possible without causing mass damage themselves.

This was quite difficult to accomplish to be honest. The most effective and widespread method to disable mechs without blowing them up was to encase them in hardening substances.

However, if it was so easy to disable hostile mechs by bathing them in slimes and slurries, such a means should have been ubiquitous on the battlefield!

The actual reality of trying to subdue mechs was that it was always challenging to suppress a violent incident with equal numbers.

The Planetary Guard organizations needed to deploy twice, quadruple or even more law enforcement mechs in order to stop a single criminal mech under ideal conditions!

This was also why many planets that allowed for the entry of foreign machines insisted on limitations in the amount of mechs that organizations could parade on the surface.

Although the ideal solution was to prohibit anyone from bringing in mechs, this was not always a realistic solution.

Many traders, visitors, businessmen and so on only trusted their own guard mechs. While they might not be as extreme as Ves when it came to demanding that mechs should follow them on each foreign visit, many people tended to show their preferences through their actions.

Planets with more permissible rules tended to attract more visitors who subsequently engaged in trade and commerce activities.

Planets that restricted the entry of mechs actually invited less visitors in many cases. The main exception were highly developed population centers that had reached such a scale that they naturally invited a lot of traffic.

Even then, these places were so large and bustling that it was hard to prevent mechs from emerging!

Both Sara and Dulo Voiken had never participated in the design of a mech that could effectively handle these difficult situations. They roughly knew the theory behind them and also understood a thing or two about law enforcement mechs.

When they thought about the cooperative venture that their ancestor had proposed, they hardly came up with reasons to reject it. Both sides stood to gain a lot of profit if they worked together on a law enforcement mech.

The only serious question was why the Larkinson Clan should cooperate with the Voiken Family in particular.

If Sara was still a member of the family, she would not have considered this matter.

However, she was a Larkinson now. The interests of the clan trumped over the interests of her former relatives.

As a professional, she was expected to stand up for her current comrades. She believed that the Voiken Ancestor would not begrudge her skepticism.

"Master, our clan will surely appreciate your offer to cooperate, but… as far we are concerned, we hold the key to designing a transformative law enforcement mech. You already stated that the competition is fierce. We could approach many other mech companies and mech designers that are involved or have ambitions in the law enforcement sector. You will need to provide us with a good reason to convince us to cooperate with Professor Taigen Herman Voiken rather than one of his many rivals."

"That is a valid argument." Master Barnard nodded respectively towards the two kids. "Let me explain a rationale that should be sufficient to catch your patriarch's interests. First, he and his clan are so new and poorly-established that the Larkinsons should not have many dependable friends in the Red Ocean mech industry. There are bound to be trust and commitment concerns if you Larkinsons rashly decide to cooperate with an unfamiliar third party."

"The Voiken Family claims to be a superior alternative?"

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