The Mech Touch novel Chapter 3843

Chapter 3843 Blinking Organ

Ves talked extensively to the research supervisor about the potential of implanting the red fish-whale's important blinking organs in his mechs.

It was not far from easy to accomplish this feat. Ves and his staff had to solve at least two different problems.

First, the blinking organs were designed and attuned to the bodies of red fish-whales. Randomly transplanting them in other machines would go as poorly as putting the Shield of Samar's shield generator inside the frame of a Rigid Wall mech!

In order to make them work with entirely different shells, the Larkinson biotech experts needed to apply many different processes onto the organs. It took a lot of research and effort to figure out the right way to transform the alien organs into a more usable form!

Only this way would they become compatible with human mechs!

The second challenge was to design a mech around these organs. Converting them into usable organic modules was not enough. The mech had to implement special accommodations in order to integrate this weird and demanding organ!

Ves thought about what it would take to design a suitable mech.

He first took a look at the size of the blinking organ. As a key element of the assassin fish subspecies, the organ was not small. It was a lot larger and heavier than a human body!

However, the body of a red fish-whale was no bigger than a mech. Most of its organs were no larger than the parts of a mech.

The blinking organ was roughly the size of a typical mech-grade shield generator.

This meant that it would take a lot of effort and compromises to integrate it on the frame of a light mech. Given how much light mechs need to make the most out of their limited capacities, Ves didn't think it was worthwhile to allocate a precious strategic resource to machines with limited combat power.

Medium mechs were much more suitable. They were inherently more powerful. A medium melee mech such as the new Second Sword model could become twice or thrice as deadly in battle if they gained the ability to blink behind the defensive lines of enemy mechs and wreak havoc on the enemy's rear!

As for heavy mechs… one one hand, they had plenty of internal capacity to accommodate a blinking organ. Assuming the organ was powerful enough to teleport a machine of this size and mass, such a powerhouse could deal a lot of damage if it was able to overcome its mobility disadvantage and show up in an extremely favorable position!

On the other hand, heavy mechs possessed far too many limitations when employed in an offensive capacity. Just the amount of time it took for them to even get close enough to an enemy position to perform an effective blinking maneuver was too long!

There were good reasons why most heavy mechs tended to be artillery mechs and knight mechs. These were mech types that didn't necessarily have to move a lot in order to play a useful role on the battlefield.

Ves turned his thoughts back to medium mechs. When he tried to imagine what kind of mech could make the best use of this blinking capability, he couldn't help but consider the Swordmaidens.

Out of all of the mech legions in the Larkinson Clan, the Swordmaidens were the most oriented to melee offensive combat.

Their training, culture and mech doctrines all emphasized attack and nothing else. While this left obvious shortcomings in their ability to respond to different situations, they were absolutely lethal when they fought under favorable circumstances!

However, Ves knew quite well that the moments where the Swordmaidens could attack unscrupulously without worrying about getting attacked in return were quite minor.

Unlike the Avatars of Myth, the Swordmaidens weren't suitable in meeting toughness with toughness. The former had no qualms about attacking defensive mech formations up front. The latter vastly preferred to assail enemy formation from the flanks.

Depending on the battlefield, it was quite tricky for Swordmaiden mech units to outmaneuver their enemy counterparts and hit them from the sides or rear.

If the opponent possessed enough numbers, it could simply dispatch mechs to block and stall the Swordmaiden mechs.

In this situation, the Swordmaiden units faced a difficult dilemma. They could either risk incurring lots of losses by attacking enemy mechs upfront or continue to procrastinate and maintain their distance.

All of that could be changed if the Swordmaiden mechs possessed a third option!

Ves envisioned an elite group of Swordmaiden mechs. These powerful crack troops were larger, more powerful and more expensive swordsman mechs than the recent Second Sword mechs. ꜰʀᴇᴇwᴇʙɴovᴇʟ.coᴍ

When the elite Swordmaiden mechs approached a hardy mech formation and stopped a short distance away, they only paused long enough for their blinking organs to charge its ability and calculate their displacement.

Once their blinking organs completed their preparations, the swordsman mechs all disappeared from sight, only to appear right behind the enemy mech formation, where they subsequently chopped dozens of mechs apart in quick succession!

When the enemy machines finally reacted by turning around, the elite Swordmaiden mechs blinked a second time and returned to their original positions.

At that time, the teleported mechs could opt to attack the disarrayed enemy unit once again or retreat in order to wait for a better opportunity.

This was one of the most promising uses of the newly-discovered blinking organ.

"What about integrating them in expert mechs?"

The ability to teleport could be a game changer in high-end mech combat!

In duels between expert mechs, the ability to appear at a different spot and attack an enemy expert mech at a vulnerable angle with minimal delay could instantly spell the defeat of powerful enemies!

The blinking organ could also serve as a life saver. Key expert mechs like the Minerva would always be a priority target to intelligent opponents.

If an enemy expert mech expended a lot of effort into getting close, the ability to blink away before a fatal attack was able to take effect could save Commander Casella's life one day!

While Ves believed that every expert mech in the Larkinson Army's lineup could benefit from incorporating usable blinking organs, the problem was that none of them were designed with this feature in mind.

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