The Mech Touch novel Chapter 4358

As the expeditionary fleet continued to advance towards Davute, the mech designers of the Larkinson Clan engaged in plenty of work.

The assistant mech designers who normally worked in the design labs had all been sent to the production halls and workshop to gain a lot of much-needed practical experience.

The Apprentice Mech Designers were the primary people responsible for drafting and executing the individual repair plans for each damaged mech.

The Journeymen Mech Designers mostly spent their time on repairing the damaged expert mechs as best as possible.

Mechs such as the Dark Zephyr, the Riot, the First Sword, the Everchanger and the Promethea all spent a lot of time in the workshops.

The Larkinson Journeymen not only focused on restoring their battle effectiveness, but also improving it whenever possible.

They had all studied the footage and data from the previous battle and came up with many small suggestions that could slightly make the expert mechs handle similar situations smoother next time.

Though people such as Gloriana also developed more ambitious upgrades, all of this had to wait for later.

Ves himself spent a moderate amount of time in the workshops as well. Though his contributions weren't impressive, his close contact with the expert mechs allowed them to assess their physical and spiritual states in great detail.

He was especially interested in observing how much the living mechs had grown.

The Battle of Pima Prime had sparked a lot of growth for both the expert pilots and their expert mechs.

For example, the Dark Zephyr gained a more aggressive character while the Riot and the First Sword became more tightly integrated with Qilanxo.

To Ves, these were all signs that the living mechs learned from their previous experiences. They were actively evolving in directions that should allow them to perform better if used in the same ways as last time.

Aside from studying his existing expert mechs, Ves also spent a lot of time on preparing for the Dullahan Project.

Though he was still obliged to spend time on numerous other design projects, the significance of this new expert mech design project was much greater to him as far as he was concerned.

Ves diligently worked alongside Gloriana and Sara Voiken to lay the groundwork for this crucial design project.

They looked for new and powerful technologies to add to the reborn expert mech.

They contacted Professor Benedict in order to borrow his expertise on expert mechs and energy transmission systems.

They consulted with numerous development companies such as Melmen Advanced Systems to help the Larkinsons develop custom transphasic parts and systems needed to ensure that the Dullahan Project could keep up with the rapid advances in the mech industry.

Ves even had a talk with Gloriana about how they became increasingly more dependent on external help.

"Why are we still forced to approach companies like Melmen Advanced Systems and Morton Tech to obtain decent transphasic products?" She confronted him while he had just settled down in the design lab.

"Because we don't have the expertise to design all of this stuff ourselves." He replied to her. "Many of us have studied phasewater technology for multiple years, but all that allows us to do is serve as interns in these high tech development companies. It will probably take at least a decade before any of us can reluctantly catch up to the lead developers of these powerful institutions, but by then the phasewater experts have already made even greater progress. In short, our clan simply isn't strong in this area. It is not a mistake to turn to outsiders for help."

Gloriana crossed her arms. "It's been years since we started doing this, but we have come no closer to including this competence into our clan. Why haven't we bought out Melmen Advanced Systems as of yet? We have lots of money and phasewater at our disposal! Years ago, our clan was only able to enter into a trade agreement that allowed our clan to gain 7.75 percent ownership of Melmen. Today, the LMC is not only earning record sums of profit, but our recent victory in Pima Prime has also tripled our reputation and prestige. Don't you think it is time we finish what we started and become the majority owner of Melmen?"

"It's not that simple, honey." Ves let out a tired breath. "I've been wanting to take over Melmen as well, but Professor Neihy Almar isn't stupid. She's an independent entrepreneur just like us and never wants to work under a boss. She cleverly tied multiple different large organizations and power blocs into her company by trading minority stakes to them as well. Melmen has therefore become something akin to a semi-public institution that exists to serve the leading powers of Davute. Do you think that the rival shareholders will agree to let one of their own call all of the shots?"

The Larkinson Clan initially managed to enter this exclusive club due to its willingness to offer a lot of phasewater.

Though the situation in the Krakatoa Middle Zone changed significantly in the years that followed, the Larkinson Clan was always able to hang onto that 7.75 percent stake without issue.

However, expanding it any further was out of the question! None of the shareholders of the successful and productive development company was stupid enough to trade short-term financial gain for a long-term loss in access to cutting-edge research and technological development!

"How do you propose to fix our situation, then?" His wife pressed. "Don't tell me we have no solution in the works. I don't want to end up in a situation where I have to approach you and ask the same question thirty years later. I swear I will divorce you and force our children to disown you if you still haven't done anything to remedy this problem!"

Ves quickly raised his palm. "Don't be so hasty, Gloriana! We are working on it! The thing is that it will still take a lot of time for our plans to bear fruit."

The Larkinson Clan did not attract that much people despite its rising popularity because of one key reason. _{freeweɓnovel.cøm}

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