The Mech Touch novel Chapter 4090

Chapter 4090 Transcending the Physical

As Ves and his family ended their vacation on Makairo IV and returned to Davute without incident, both he and his wife came away with a lot of new ideas.

Seeing how different creatures evolve and adapt to environmental pressures generated a lot of philosophical discussions and formed the inspiration of numerous new design concepts.

In addition to the immediate benefits, the entire vacation had also put the two Journeymen into a different mood and state of mind.

By removing themselves from their familiar environment and placing them in a completely different one, they could look back at their work from a distance.

This new and detached perspective allowed them to evaluate their work and judge what they were doing from a different and less involved angle. Both Ves and Gloriana benefited a lot from this as it was akin to developing a second opinion on everything they had done up to this point.

Gloriana obtained a lot of new ideas and insights through all of this introspection. By the time she returned to their Royal Mansion and put her satisfied daughter to bed, she almost couldn't wait to revise and reorient her contributions to her ongoing expert mech design projects!

Though she developed ambitious plans for expert mechs such as the Blade Claser Mark II and the much-anticipated Mars Project, she decided that the C-Man would be the first to bear her radical new design solution!

It was not easy for her to describe her new and potentially revolutionary design solution. The details were still fuzzy to her, but she felt she had found a lighthouse in the dark.

"This is a potential evolution of my design philosophy." Gloriana's eyes lit up with fire! "I have developed so many new design solutions and absorbed so much knowledge that my design capabilities are several times better than when I initially advanced, but I haven't been able to tie it all together. It's different now. The new design doctrine that I just came up with has the potential to evolve my theoretical framework to a new height!"

Her new idea was not so much a specific design solution but rather an improvement of the original premise of her design philosophy.

For years and years, Gloriana invested herself in her work and passion in order to realize her ultimate ambition, which was to be able to design the perfect vessel for any specific mech pilot!

She had always believed that mech pilots were always being hampered in their ability to fight by piloting imperfect mechs that were flawed and limited in too many ways to count.

Previously, she focused on the physical aspects of a mech design. She believed that the perfect vessel solely entailed an optimal and flawless configuration of physical components that perfectly complemented and synergized with each other.

"This is too simple of an approach." Gloriana frowned.

Now that she looked back on her initial ideas, she felt that her old self was too narrow-minded and limited in perspective.

It wasn't until she started to collaborate with Ves that she had expanded her vision of what was possible in mech design!

The biggest reason why mechs stood out compared to other combat platforms such as warships was because the former exceeded the boundaries of conventional science!

When mech pilots broke through to expert pilots, their willpower transformed on a metaphysical level to become a force that could interfere with reality.

However, expert pilots had difficulty achieving this effect without a medium for them to leverage their strength.

Expert mechs were the most appropriate vessels for them to do so, yet to Gloriana, most of these machines were still inadequate for the purpose!

She thought back on the expert mechs she had worked on. Machines such as the Dark Zephyr and the Riot were adequate, but she knew she could have served Venerable Tusa and Venerable Orfan much better if she reached more of her targets.

The masterwork mechs she was proud of such as the Amaranto and the Shield of Samar were much better. Their physical qualities were on another level and they were amazing creations on a conceptual level.

"However, they are still far from reaching the ultimate state that can maximize the performance of a pilot."

Many mech designers thought that being able to fabricate a masterwork mech was the ultimate achievement and validation of their careers.

Yet to someone who already collected a heap of mastework certificates, Gloriana was no longer completely satisfied with producing mechs that met this difficult standard.

Sure, she would be happy if she was able to receive another masterwork certificate, but how could she relax and rest on her laurels when she knew when there were higher rungs of Senfovon's Ladder of Craftsmanship?

Gloriana had not even come close to designing a grand work and whatever came afterwards!

"I have no capital to be arrogant just because I managed to get a step ahead. I am far from reaching the end of the ladder!"

Though she did not know what a grand work was like and how it was stronger than a masterwork, she knew for certain that being able to make one was an essential step to getting closer to realizing her ambition.

There were good reasons for her to focus on improving her work along this aspect.

"A normal mech that is merely designed and produced according to their physical properties will never come close to the perfect vessel that I have envisioned. If I want to do this properly, I need to take their intangible properties into account as well!"

The most valuable and helpful gifts that her husband bestowed on her was the realization that there was another side to mechs that she previously neglected. Becoming exposed to his unique insights on spirituality, obtaining his spiritual fragment and receiving a companion spirit had all opened her vision to the more esoteric properties of mechs and mech designs.

She knew that if she wanted to create a work that was beyond the norm, it was essential for her to master this aspect of mech design as well!

Gloriana had made a bit of progress so far by adapting a few of the techniques that Ves had come up with. By applying her own interpretation of living mechs on her personal projects, she had been able to make custom mechs such as the B-Man and the Blade Chaser into machines that more closely acted as the second skins to their respective pilots.

However, this was a rather half-hearted attempt at developing a new and original design solution. The second skin approach was too closely related to Ves' signature living mechs to stand out as a separate solution.

It was also incomplete in that it did not substantially move a mech closer to becoming the perfect vessel she envisioned.

All of that had changed now that she had returned from Makairo IV.

One of the more important observations she made during the holiday tours was how there were so many different exobeasts who struggled to survive every day.

Each of them had evolved their bodies in ways that were meant to cope with both predation and environmental pressures.

Some were more successful than others, allowing the species to become the dominant organisms in their respective habitats.

Others were not as successful at first glance, but their versatility and adaptability allowed them to cope with ecological shifts much better, thereby causing their species to survive much longer across different eras.

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