The Mech Touch novel Chapter 4109

Chapter 4109 Combining Technologies

The ARCEUS System was quite interesting to say the least.

As the closest thing to an energy weapon specialist among the design team of the Mars Project, Ves mostly took up the responsibility of integrating the ARCEUS System.

It was not as simple as slotting in all of the integrated weapons and accompanying systems into a mech frame.

The more powerful the parts, the more demands they imposed on a mech design. From the beginning, Ves struggled with placing all of the components and subcomponents into a mech design that was still under development.

Not only did he have to prevent the powerful and sometimes volatile parts of the ARCEUS System from interfering with each other, he also had to make sure that they did not disrupt any other parts placed in their vicinity!

If not for the fact that he could regularly call for help from the developers of Immace Energy Armaments, he would have gotten lost by all of the high technology that made up this suite of integrated energy weapons!

Though Ves still struggled to make any progress with taming and harnessing the ARCEUS System, he harvested many benefits over the course of his design sessions.

Just like how Sara Voiken was able to accelerate her mastery of defensive phasewater technology by tackling advanced problems related to this subject, Ves also found himself becoming rapidly more familiar with some of the more basic principles behind this high-end tranphasic weapon system.

Combined with studying the high-level knowledge that he had exchanged from the MTA, Ves was able to combine theory and practice, thereby amplifying his gains whenever he did anything related to this field!

"It's too bad that transphasic energy weapons can't be integrated with luminar crystal weapons yet." Ves sighed in regret.

While the two shared the same base, they followed completely different technical directions.

Luminar crystal weapons were both powerful and versatile. They derived their power from advanced energy transformation processes enabled by the use of obscure and exotic alien crystalline components.

The luminar race truly developed incredibly powerful energy weapon applications by dedicating much of their research in this field. What was especially helpful was that the key theories and applications were not dependent on the use of specific materials and exotics.

Just like how Ketis could forge a sword out of many possible metallic materials, Ves could make luminar crystal weapons out of many different combinations of exotics!

This was because the essence of luminar crystal technology lay in the structure of the crystals, not in the materials it was made of. Ves could make them out of junk materials mined from worthless asteroids and still end up with serviceable weapons!

"Transphasic energy weapons are completely different in this regard."

They were basically energy weapons that have been modified to take advantage of some of the amazing properties of phasewater. Just like how adding a bit of carbon to iron could produce steel with vastly superior properties, adding just a little phasewater to energy weapons could substantially increase their effectiveness in combat!

The ARCEUS System's energy weapons were all based on incredibly high-end tech and methods. Ves would have struggled to harness them before phasewater ever came into the picture due to how convoluted their designs had become.

However, once the developers of Immace Energy Armaments forcibly tried to merge these advanced weapons with phasewater, the complexity of the entire system skyrocketed!

The fusion between energy weapons and phasewater still looked fairly crude to Ves. While he discovered that the developers of the ARCEUS System partially based their design solutions on salvaged and reverse engineered alien technology, their understanding of phasewater technology was still relatively immature compared to the engineers of the puelmer race.

All of that meant that the ARCEUS System was an experimental first-generation product that still had lots of room to improve.

"Even so, it is already stupendously powerful in this immature state."

This was not a guess, but an undisputed fact. Ves had once received an invitation from Immace Energy Armaments where he could witness a live test and demonstrations of one of the energy weapons of the ARCEUS System.

The power of that single energy gun alone had completely solidified his respect and awe for transphasic energy weapons.

Just a single laser beam succeeded in phasing through several layers of thick second-class alloys!

Not a single ordinary mech or starship could stop a mech equipped with the ARCEUS System from inflicting effective internal damage!

In fact, the integrated energy weapons of the ARCEUS System were so exaggeratingly effective at phasing through solid armor that overpenetration was a serious problem.

Mechs that were too weak suffered comparatively little damage because the laser beams and positron beam just phased right through their fragile frames without inflicting much damage!

Therefore, Patriarch Reginald or the Mars Project would have to tweak the settings of the ARCEUS System in order to make sure that they did not waste too much energy in destroying weaker targets.

"Damn, a transphasic energy weapon is incredibly useful for the Amaranto."

The Instrument of Vengeance was a powerful expert mech-grade rifle, but it was not capable of penetrating armor with as much ease as a transphasic energy rifle.

Against certain opponents, it was much more useful to possess the latter than the former!

Still, if Ves had to make a choice between the two, he would probably settle for luminar crystal weapons.

They were more accessible, more economical and more versatile. Ves already possessed a foundation in luminar crystal technology and he could gain an even greater feel and understanding of them if he enlisted the help of the Illustrious One.

There was another important reason why he preferred to stick with luminar crystal technology.

"Luminar crystal weapons interact quite well with spirituality."

The two shared a certain relationship with each other. The luminar race was definitely aware and proficient with spirituality. The luminars developed their crystal technology with the option of combining them with spiritual phenomena in order to produce even more astounding results!

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