The Mech Touch novel Chapter 4228

After a three-day reprieve, the main fleet of the Golden Skull Alliance finally resumed its journey again.

In order to avoid alarming the Gauge Dynasty, the Wodin Warriors did not accompany the expeditionary fleet.

The Hexers already planned out their own movements. Every mech regiment and mech division assigned to Operation Saturday Market were scheduled to go on 'routine patrols' or fulfill other missions.

To be honest, the Fridaymen weren't stupid. When a lot of mech units from a lot of different parts of the Hex Federation departed in quick succession, the enemy would surely notice that something was wrong!

The mood in the fleet became more tense. In order to keep the offensive operation as secret as possible, the Golden Skull Alliance had to restrict people's access to the galactic net and curb many forms of communication.

While Ves and the other leaders did not doubt the loyalties of their own people, it was better to be safe than sorry. They were not traveling to Pima Prime in order to see the sights.

Many Larkinsons did not take the restrictions well at first. They had grown accustomed to living in an idyllic environment. The clan usually did not impose too many rules on its clansmen. As long as everyone applied a bit of common sense, then nothing would go wrong.

However, this time was different. No matter whether they were about to fight human or alien forces, information was a weapon that could easily save or doom thousands of lives!

The Black Cats took charge of this matter and implemented plenty of precautions in order to curb the outflow of information. It became increasingly more common to see clansmen in black uniforms throughout every ship.

While all of this was happening, the Larkinsons continued to prepare for the upcoming assault.

With the help of the MSTS, the mech pilots had all grown so familiar with Pima Prime and its defenses that they had grown sick of this place!

General Verle wanted to add more variation to the rotation of training scenarios.

"We can't allow our mech pilots to become so used to the current scenarios that they are unable to adapt to new scenarios that they have never practiced before. We need to shake everything up and increase their ability to react to unexpected surprises."

Ves therefore agreed to inject more chaos into the MSTS. He altered the parameters so that the Larkinsons bumped into situations that exercised their fault tolerance and crisis management.

For example, there were situations where 20 additional enemy expert mechs showed up out of the blue.

There were situations where reinforcements dispatched by the Konsu Clan or the other coalition partners arrived much earlier than expected.

There were situations where an overpowering nunser warfleet dropped out of warp travel and began to bombard both sides with crushing attacks.

Though the loss rate drastically shot up due to subjecting the mech pilots to so many difficult problems, they became more fired up as a result!

Many of them saw the added difficulties as challenges to be overcome!

As long as they adapted well to the changes and as long as they fought well enough, there was always a way to squeeze out a win or at least minimize the losses suffered by the Larkinson Clan.

Sometimes, the MSTS even threw the mech pilots into completely different battle scenarios.

Since there was a possibility that the Gauge Dynasty might learn about Operation Saturday Market in advance and increase the defenses of the Pima Prime System ahead of time, the Hex Federation might opt to change course to the Rotes Cewna System or the New Rammes System instead!

What was even more remarkable was that the Larkinsons even started to train with their counterparts in the Hex Army in the last few weeks before the start of the operation!

Usually, there were massive security concerns about holding joint simulation sessions across different star systems. The galactic net was one of the least secure communication networks in human space and nobody had any confidence that the confidential training sessions would escape the attention of the Fridaymen.

However, the MSTS was different. Since it was based on a completely different tech base, most hackers and virtual security specialists didn't even know how to gain access in the first place!

All of their fancy hacking tools and algorithms seemed to disappear into the void whenever they tried to access it from an LMC mech like the War Squire.

The Golden Skull Alliance and the Hex Army put so much faith in the security of the MSTS that Ves even received requests to expand its scope.

General Verle came with a clear demand. "We have found that the MSTS is not only a secure place to hold joint training sessions, but can also be used to conduct confidential meetings between us and the Hexers. It would be even better if we can upload information into a common database that can be accessed by both of our groups. If you can do this, we can plan out our actions to a considerably greater degree than before."

Ves thought this was a good suggestion. He never saw the need for all of these additional features before, but now that the Larkinsons had to coordinate a complex assault operation with the Hexers, it became a lot more important to communicate securely with external allies!

"I will see what I can do, general. It shouldn't be too difficult or time-consuming to program all of these additional amenities."

"Thank you, sir. It is up to you to decide how much access you want to give to the Hex Army, but so far the MSTS has most definitely proven to be a game changer for all of us. The training opportunities it provides are so effective that I would even choose it over any powerful living mech model that you can provide to our troops." _{freewebnøvel.coɱ}

"Really?" Ves raised his eyebrow. "The mechs that I have designed for the Larkinson Army have grown increasingly more impactful over time. For example, there's the new Nullifier model that have given the Battle Criers a lot more teeth against powerful opponents."

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