The Mech Touch novel Chapter 4475

Ves tried to figure out to what extent he could transplant the biology of a Scarlet Oak Tree into the frame of a biomech.

It was not that simple.

"All of the other organic parts I've added to the Blood Knight Project share a common human root."

They were like human organs and body parts that all happened to have mutated in different directions. Although the bioparts all possessed radically different genes, it was still possible for them to get along with each other as they used to belong to the same human body in a sense.

What Ves wanted to do at this junction was a break from this pattern.

Instead of transplanting another highly mutated human organ inside a body, he wanted to integrate parts of a tree into his biomech design!

Naturally, trees normally didn't get along with human bodies.

Although biomechs were not as sensitive in comparison, there was still a limit to how much foreign matter they could integrate!

Ves was not accustomed to dealing with this problem. Conventional mechs were normally able to integrate all kinds of weird and unusual parts.

For example, many of his ranged mechs were largely based on conventional human tech, but they were also armed with luminar crystal weapons that were based on a completely different tech base!

If he wanted to, he could equip his mechs with all kinds of alien and inhuman equipment. As long as all of the different parts could communicate with each other and such, who cared about their origin?

It was a completely different story when it came to biomechs, though. Rejection and even death was a real possibility when attempting to integrate bioparts derived from radically different organic species into a biomech frame!

"It's still possible, though."

This was not an old problem. From the moment when biotech researchers first started to develop more sophisticated bioproducts, they already attempted to mix and match bioparts from different species together.

Much of these early attempts crashed and burned, but they all paved the way for solutions that eventually worked.

Nowadays, it was relatively common for biomechs to mix and match the best traits of different alien species. The biomech industry undoubtedly developed a lot of standardized solutions that addressed the compatibility problem.

Ves accessed his library and pulled out a few books that thoroughly expounded on this common problem.

"Hm, so it's like this. That makes sense."

A large part of why modern biomechs have become more tolerant towards foreign biocomponents was because all of them were based on adapted genes that were inherently more tolerant towards differences.

Unlike typical biological organisms that violently rejected any foreign organs as if they were hostile invaders, the biomechs of today were all a lot more tolerant and welcoming towards alien biocomponents.

Not only that, but even if the differences were rather big, the biomechs prevented this from becoming an issue due to the way they were produced.

"The alternative production process of biomechs helps a lot with preventing compatibility problems."

Conventional mechs were produced by fabricating their parts before assembling them together in a single whole.

While it was possible to produce biomechs with the same approach, in practice it was never done because of how much more complicated it was to graft so many different biocomponents together.

"It's like trying to create a new human being by producing all of his organs beforehand before putting them all together. You can't just expand the human population through this manner."

This was why the industry favored the production of small biomech seeds. Once they were planted in special nutrient pools, they rapidly absorbed the materials around them to grow into their 'adult' forms.

By growing and nurturing all of their biocomponents from the ground up, it was a lot easier for the foreign biocomponents to integrate into the rest of the biomech frame.

If any possible rejection phenomena occurred, then the bioengineers who supervised the growth pools would take action in order to solve the problems while the growth process was still in an early stage, thereby preventing a lot of future ailments.

That didn't mean that Ves could stuff any foreign biocomponents in a biomech design. There were still limits to everything, and he needed to make a lot of adaptations in order to ensure that the biomech would grow smoothly without producing too many complications.

"If this is what biomech designers have to deal with all the time, then it is no wonder that organic machines have never been too popular."

The requirements were simply too great. Biomech designers not only needed to study biotechnology, which was a full discipline on its own, but also had to do a lot more work than ordinary mech designers to develop their own products.

Ves would have been able to move forward and smoothly integrated any alien technology into a mech if he was working on a normal project.

"Oh well. At least the payoff should be worth it." He consoled himself.

The potential of the Blood Pact more than compensated for all of the additional difficulties and complications!

The blood sharing system that he envisioned wouldn't be as good if he attempted to realize it in a half-hearted cyborg mech. The blood that circulated in the frame of a metallic mech simply had no purpose and would never form a close connection to the machine in question.

The Blood Knight Project was different. Blood ran throughout every part of its body, from the top of its two heads down to the bottom of its feet.

"I can't fail at this point!"

Ves had approximately 12 days left before he hit his self-imposed deadline.

Though he originally planned to dedicate half of his remaining time on optimization and refinement, he was afraid that he may need to spend all of it on the blood sharing system alone!

He no longer delayed any further and proceeded to tackle the most difficult challenge of this biomech design project.

It immediately became clear that he was entering brand new territory. He could no longer follow a simple multi-step plan to resolve a familiar problem.

Instead, he had to formulate his own plan based on his analysis of different sources.

Ves spent days on consulting and cross-referencing the textbooks that specifically dealt with the compatibility problem.

He also consulted several biology and medical textbooks that specifically explained the science of blood and any related organs.

Finally, he analyzed and extrapolated the relevant information about Scarlet Oak Trees and the more metaphysical properties of blood.

He took a lot of notes and made his own conclusions based on the inferences he made.

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