The Mech Touch novel Chapter 4237

4237 Unprecedented Weapon Project

Ves found a new project to occupy himself with after his talk with Helena.

Though Operation Saturday Market loomed closer than ever, he no longer spent as much time on worrying about the Sundered Phalanx mech divisions his troops had to fight against or whether the Neo Amadeus carried any nasty surprises.

Instead of worrying about matters that he had no control over and could not meaningfully affect with his intervention, Ves instead returned to what he was originally good at, which was creating ground-breaking new innovations!

Of course, given the time constraints, Ves knew he had to work extremely quickly in order to design a functional product and fabricate it before the decisive battle commenced.

Ves quietly drafted up a list of requirements as he carried his cute little daughter to the design studio. He put her down a floating kiddy chair and quickly began to draft a concept of what he had in mind.

"What are you doing, papa?" Andraste curiously asked as she grew fascinated by how Ves drew glowing lines in the air with his mind and fingers.

"I'm making a flower. A deathly flower. Kind of like the one I made for Helena, but at a far bigger scale."

His little girl looked impressed. "Wooooo."

Naturally, Helena appeared as well. Ves carried a totem of his 'eldest sister' on his person most of the time so that she could manifest in his presence whenever she wanted.

As the principal design spirit who would be lending her death energy to this hypothetical new product, Helena gained a huge personal interest in the outcome of this project.

She exhibited a similar interest in the work of her brother when he had tackled the Valkyrie Redeemer Mark II Project in the past.

That had been a fun time. While Ves and Gloriana had mostly focused on updating the older rim-level marauder mech design up to heartland-level specifications, Helena provided numerous suggestions on how to better allow her to channel her death energy through the mech line that she had 'inherited' from her mother.

She also insisted on cosmetic changes that better reflected her personality!

For example, each copy of the Valkyrie Redeemer Mark II and its variants carried a decorative black lotus on their upper torsos!

Now, Helena looked to repeat that experience. Any weapon based around herself or her Death Lotus needed to be pleasing to her eyes before she was willing to extend her blessing!

"What are you making, exactly?" She asked.

"A mech pistol." Ves answered. "One that will vaguely resemble your Death Lotus when it is in its weapon mode but scaled to the proportions of a mech. Of course, its internal design will be a lot different because it is not a spiritual construct like your personal weapon. It has to be a real luminar crystal weapon that is especially attuned to channel your specific energy."

This was not an easy task. Ves had never developed a weapon that was completely centered around the idea of channeling the energy of a spiritual entity.

He never developed the need to create such a weapon because his mechs already possessed all of the weapon solutions they needed to defeat their opponents.

However, considering the formidable reputation of the Sundered Phalanx and the many dangers of fighting against so many veteran, battle-tested military mech divisions, Ves felt ill at ease with the current situation.

Though there weren't any obvious indicators that showed that their predictions were off, Ves couldn't help but worry about the amount of casualties his clan would suffer in the ensuing combat.

There were plenty of possibilities where Operation Saturday Market succeeded but only after the Larkinson Clan lost over half of its mech pilots!

Ves also considered possibilities where the Sundered Phalanx gave up all pretense of defending the Pima Prime System and went all-out to destroy the Spirit of Bentheim and the other vulnerable starships of the Larkinson Clan in an act of retribution!

The Gaugers might even do their best to aim at his life and the lives of his immediate family. In the past few weeks, he had spent a considerable amount of his time bolstering the stealth detection measures of his flagship and all of the other capital ships.

The Senior-level Stealth and Cloaking Skill that he had acquired from the System 2.0 came in extremely handy during that time. Ves became a lot more assured that his fleet would be able to detect any sneaky bastards approaching his flagship while most of his clansmen were preoccupied with the enemies in the open.

He never got over that instance where a whole bunch of Haatumak cultists were crowded in the same compartment but somehow pulled off a trick that caused him to overlook their presence.

With all of the additional precautions he made, he was certain that this would never happen again, especially on the Spirit of Bentheim!

After a few minutes of hasty sketching, Ves completed his initial draft of his proposed weapon design.

It looked like an elegant black pistol at first. It shared obvious resemblances to the Death Lotus, which in turn was inspired by the Amastendira.

Unlike Helena's favorite flower, the mech pistol he drafted did not come in an alternate lotus form.

He didn't think it was necessary to add a transformation function. Mechs carried weapons all the time. They only looked more awesome when they carried an additional gun.

Besides, it was much easier to add a transformation function to a spiritual construct than on a solid object.

Unless the latter was made of smart metal, it was incredibly troublesome to design a pistol that could transform into a flower shape. The amount of mechanisms he needed to add was excessive, and he would be forced to make so many compromises that the firepower of the weapon would definitely suffer.

The last reason why he skipped the transformation function was that it added way too much time to the design process.

An energy pistol was one of the simplest weapons that he could design. Ves was extremely familiar with luminar crystal weapons of all kinds.

His last significant mech design project where he had to explore and push the limits of what he could do with luminar crystal technology was the one that resulted in the Nullifier model.

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