The Mech Touch novel Chapter 4661

By the time Ketis left so that she could formally file the paperwork for her new Storm Sword Project, Ves leaned back on his chair and settled into his thoughts.

Thankfully, none of the other Journeymen requested his time so that they could fill his thoughts with even more unusual mech concepts.

The Woodpecker Project and the Storm Sword Project already occupied his imagination. That was on top of the plundering spree that Ketis had suggested as a possible means to acquire new first-class materials!

Ves didn't know whether it was safe and viable enough to go on a continuous alien warship hunt in the following years.

Before his talk with Ketis, he had already set his mind on keeping his expeditionary fleet outside of hotspots like the border region between Krakatoa and Zelmar.

The Larkinson Clan and its allies needed a lot of time to digest all of their recent gains and break in a lot of powerful net combat assets.

Therefore, it was not suitable for the expeditionary fleet to dive right back into trouble again.

"Maybe I can find a middle ground." He murmured. "We don't have to hunt down and ambush an alien warfleet every month. Once a year or twice a year is enough in my book."

This was especially the case if the Golden Skull Alliance finally expanded from three to five members!

The Adelaide Mercenary Company's Third Fleet and the Boojay Family did not go out of their way to join the party because they looked forward to mining asteroids in an out-of-the-way star system for months on end.

They expressed their intention to join because they wanted to take part in massive operations and earn a lot of loot and MTA merits on a regular basis!

"I need to talk to a lot of people." Ves concluded.

As the expeditionary fleet calmly made its way out of the border region and made its way back to the Davute System, a lot of talks indeed took place.

Ves sometimes took part in them, but he wanted to devote more time on his various design and research projects.

He devoted a considerable amount of effort on progressing all of his ongoing mech design projects.

The Dullahan Project, the Ghost Project and the Eye Project all received the bulk of his attention.

While he was also involved in other mech design projects, they could either wait or were already being worked on by other colleagues.

He regularly met and worked together with people such as Gloriana, Juliet Stameros, Miles Tovar and Cormaunt Hempkamp.

Ves especially made sure to be extra attentive when working together with the latter two mech designers. Miles, Cormaunt and Merrill had either become Journeymen somewhat recently or had only joined the clan recently. They did not have a lot of experience with leading design projects in the Design Department.

Fortunately, all three of them were coping well so far. Miles and Merrill had been with the Larkinsons for a long time while Cormaunt was a talented and clever Journeyman in his own right.

Though Cormaunt Hempkamp was clearly the least 'Larkinson' out of all of the lead designers in the Design Department, that also allowed him to look at the clan from an outsider's perspective.

The older hires such as the Voiken siblings and the Power Pair spent enough years in the clan to lose that quality. They identified themselves as Larkinsons first, which meant that they had fully accepted their separation from their old lives.

In any case, Ves always enjoyed talking with Cormaunt about what life was like outside of the clan.

"You know." Cormaunt said as he worked on designing the technical interfaces of the Geist System. "If I tried to pull any of this off at my old school and employers, the people around me would call me a degenerate war criminal before calling in the authorities to put me in chains. What we are trying to do with the Ghost Project is absolutely crazy if you think about it. I don't know what possessed you to not only come up with the idea of exploiting the decapitated head of an expert pilot to generate metaphysical covert attack spurs. Even I have to stop and try to wrap my mind around what exactly we are trying to make."

Ves glanced at his current collaboration partner. "Are you having second thoughts about the Ghost Project? I admit that it can be a little spooky, and I can't promise you that I have everything under control. All I can say for now is that our upcoming work will either become the most effective and innovative expert stealth mech of this mech generation, or it will turn into such a catastrophic failure that we cannot even guarantee Venerable Zimro Belson will be able to come out with his life intact."

The more the pair worked on the Ghost Project, the more they became cognizant of all of the ways it could go wrong. They were very much working on unfamiliar territory here. Though their respective specialties gave them a solid direction on how to go forward, whether they would be able to realize their promising ideas was another matter altogether.

"Any talk about risking the life of an expert pilot can already land you in jail in most jurisdictions. People do not take kindly to mech designers who are willing to play fast and loose with mech pilots, especially the heroes among them. Neural interface specialists such as myself must constantly check our own work in order to avoid the hint of excessive damage." Cormaunt spoke in a strained tone.

The other Journeyman Mech Designer still found it astonishing that his own boss was willing to tolerate so much risk. The professionals he worked with and spent time with before all exhibited so much caution that they were rarely willing to step outside of proscribed areas even if their ideas held more promise! _{freewebnovel.cσ๓}

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