The Mech Touch novel Chapter 3974

Chapter 3974 Upgraded Design Facilities

Ves immediately acted once he and his fellow Journeymen came to an agreement on how to allocate the new responsibilities.

He activated his comm and logged onto the MTA's internal portal. He accessed their restricted library and picked out the relevant items on the list.

With the cooperation of all of the mech designers, Ves configured each knowledge package to contain the most relevant and useful data and learning resources.

Depending on what Ves wanted to redeem from the MTA, he could spend as little as 7 or 8 million MTA merits.

That would only grant the Larkinsons the core knowledge of a specific aspect of phasewater technology. Journeymen such as Sara and Dulo wouldn't be able to figure it out because they needed to understand a lot of prerequisite subjects first!

This was why Ves threw in enough additional textbooks, articles, tutorials, recorded lectures, experimental logs and so on to reach a target sum of roughly 20 million MTA merits for each knowledge package.

After confirming the composition of packages multiple times, Ves pressed a single projected button, thereby confirming the exchange of MTA merits!

"It's done." Ves declared in a heavy tone. "That is 58,346,713 MTA merits down the drain. I hope you guys don't waste this chance. The sooner you are able to incorporate phasewater technology into your designs, the sooner we can strengthen our expert mechs and elite mechs."

This was an important priority to him. He and his clan depended on the fighting forces of the Larkinson Clan so many times that they would never feel safe unless the Larkinson Army was equipped with the powerful mechs!

Though Ves also harbored ambitions to fulfill commissions centered around designing highly desirable phasewater-empowered mechs, this was secondary to increasing his own security!

He already looked forward to upgrading the latest iterations of mechs such as the Everchanger with phasewater technology.

The masterwork expert mech was already powerful in many ways, but it could not outperform other comparable machines in any area.

The story would be a lot different if the Everchanger was equipped with a combat drive and a sword that could pierce through the chest armor of any opposing expert mech!

It would become such a terror on the battlefield that only other phasewater-empowered expert mechs were able to contend with the new and improved Everchanger!

This example also illustrated one of Ves' greatest concerns.

The Larkinsons weren't the only people with the opportunity to learn phasewater technology.

There were a lot of first-raters and a fair number of second-raters who were also trying to leverage phasewater in their own work!

Sooner or later, a number of these hard-working researchers would begin to release their own improved products. More and more forces would get their hands on phasewater mechs, thereby making life a lot more difficult for rivals that weren't able to acquire these precious machines!

This was why Ves did not regret the decision to spend so much MTA merits so soon. He believed in his fellow mech designers. Each of them were among the more talented and competent cohort of Journeymen in their generation.

Even Dulo Voiken wasn't that bad of a mech designer. The only reason why he had to lower his head in the Larkinson Clan was because he was overshadowed by Ketis. Without her dazzling presence, he would have been able to earn more recognition for his work!

"Now that we're done with this, can we move on to discussing other necessary investments?" Gloriana impatiently asked.

Just because she declined to study phasewater technology didn't mean she had become frugal all of a sudden!

She already set her eyes on other ways to spend the clan's hard-won MTA merits!

"We might as well." Ves slowly nodded. "We still have to reserve a lot of MTA merits to strengthen our core starships. Our fleet is the home and the foundation of our clan. We cannot neglect it. I think I will allow up to 60 million MTA merits to be spent on design-related upgrades."

Gloriana grinned. "That's great! I already formulated a list. Take a look and tell me your thoughts."

She shared a document to every mech designer.

It turned out that Gloriana already put a lot of thought on this. Although Ves initially became a bit overwhelmed by the sheer amount of details in her wish list, he quickly recognized that she did not make any thoughtless purchase decisions.

When it came to her work, Gloriana was utterly serious!

Her greatest obsession was designing good mechs. She would never squander this precious opportunity to upgrade the equipment and facilities that she relied upon to develop her various works!

Her wish list was separated into several different categories. Ves focused on the first and arguably most significant purchase the Larkinson Clan could make.

"You want to upgrade the Spirit of Bentheim's data processing capabilities?" Ves asked.

"Yes. Out of all of the improvements we can obtain, none can make a greater difference than speeding up the calculations we can perform. The ASTERA AI core that you obtained years ago was good at the time, but aside from its deep learning capabilities, its raw processing power has fallen far behind. This is especially the case now that we are joined by more lead designers and work on more design projects per round."

Ves grimaced a bit. Gloriana raised an excellent point. Every serious design project relied on a lot of math and simulations to optimize many different design solutions. _{free𝑤ebnovel.com}

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