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The Mech Touch novel Chapter 4107

Chapter 4107 Disruptive Technology

The Mars Project was so advanced and ahead of its time that it presented the Larkinson mech designers with a vision of what future expert mechs would be like.

Ves and the others were clever enough to understand that the transphasic trend was unstoppable. There was no way to prevent different people and organizations from stuffing phasewater into mechs in order to grant them a massive boost in performance.

While it was unlikely for most expert mechs to be infused with several kilograms of phasewater, less exaggerated phasewater products that only integrated a hundred grams of phasewater were already considerably powerful!

It was difficult to predict how long it would take for every decent expert mech to possess transphasic parts. It heavily depended on how much phasewater would become available in the coming decades and to what extent phasewater technology had advanced.

Personally, Ves believed it would only take two mech generations at most for the Red Ocean to be completely dominated by transphasic expert mechs!

Compared to regular expert mechs, their transphasic counterparts were much faster, much tougher and much more capable of penetrating through armor.

They might even be able to compete against warships because of those advantages!

Ves also made another important realization about this new branch of technology.

"What is even better about transphasic technology is that it is only practical at the smaller scale!"

He estimated that the cost required to equip even the smallest armed frigate with phasewater systems was already multiple times greater than the cost to make the Mars Project!

This was because warships were inherently larger and relied on larger weapon systems, much greater and thicker armor coverage and much more sizable thrusters to overpower weaker weapon platforms such as mechs!

For a long time, the seemingly limitless size and scale of warships was like an undaunted obstacle to mechs.

Since the mech industry rejected the use of juggernauts as an alternative to mechs, it was hard for mech designers to come up with a product that could fairly compete against warships.

It was only now that Ves realized that the competition between the two weapon platforms was not as skewed against mechs as he initially thought!

"Transphasic products have the potential to equalize the gap between the two. You can dump tens of kilograms of phasewater on a typical warship and only selectively improve a few parameters. As for expert mechs, it can take as little as a couple of hundred grams to amplify their performance by three or four times, and that is just when phasewater technology is still in its infancy!"

Even if a single transphasic expert mech wasn't able to compete against a warship, what about two?

If two wasn't enough, what about four?

Even if a force deployed multiple transphasic expert mechs against a single warship, the former would still be cheaper and more cost-effective to deploy due to how little phasewater it took to make them powerful enough!

"The smaller scale of mechs actually plays to their benefit this time!"

Ves found this to be a profoundly ironic notion. Mechs were often regarded as weak because they weren't as big as the war weapons employed by the big boys.

Yet with a rare, precious and powerful material like phasewater in the mix, this paradigm suddenly became less true!

The reason why phasewater could play such a critical role in altering the balance between mechs and warships was because it lowered the requirements for the former to compete against the latter!

Many industry insiders generally believed that ace mechs possessed the capital to compete against warships by themselves.

This was all well and good, but the biggest problem with ace mechs was that they needed to be piloted by ace pilots.

Ace pilots were extremely scarce in human space!

It was far easier for a state like the Friday Coalition to construct hundreds of warships than to accumulate a dozen ace mechs.

This was such an enormous disparity that ace mechs simply wouldn't have a chance to tip the scales of a war!

Quantity mattered. Perhaps an ace mech might be able to overpower a single warship, but if it happened to bump into a dozen enemy warships, then even a Saint needed to make a tactical retreat!

Expert pilots were much more numerous than ace pilots, but the problem was that their expert mechs traditionally weren't strong enough to compete against a warship in open combat.

Yet what if all of those expert mechs became transphasic? What if each of them were supplied with phasewater harvested by the colonial states that controlled a number of phasewater-rich star systems in the Red Ocean? ƒrēewebnoѵёl.cσm

The balance would completely change as the smaller and much more economic expert mechs suddenly possessed the capital to threaten warships to a much greater degree!

It took less time for them to cross the deadly zone where they would have to withstand withering firepower with the help of their transphasic flight systems.

The expert mechs were able to resist heavy caliber shots much more easily due to their transphasic armor systems.

Once the machines came into effective range, the mechs could easily pierce and inflict crippling internal damage to the warships with the help of their transphasic weapon systems.

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