The Mech Touch novel Chapter 4805

Chapter 4805 Alien Innovation

As an experienced and talented Journeyman Mech Designer, Ves possessed a high degree of understanding towards mechs.

He had traveled far and wide and experienced many battles involving different mechs up close, perhaps too close for his liking.

No matter whether it was a third-class mech, a second-class mech, a first-class multipurpose mech or even a biomech, Ves possessed enough knowledge to comprehend how they worked in broad strokes.

He could even get a good impression of the personality and design strategy of the mech designers in question. This was a basic ability that everyone in the profession possessed, and it constantly grew more effective as he came in touch with more and more mechs.

At his level, it would be ridiculous and absurd if he saw a new mech and failed to comprehend the meaning of its existence.

Yet that was exactly what he did when he became confronted by a sight of a genuine alien 'mech'!

His first impression upon seeing this alien mechanical monstrosity was that the engineers who worked on it were not unskilled.

Whoever Great Chief Jaharon managed to drag into this pocket space possessed an excellent artistic touch as well as a thorough understanding of war machines in general.

The solid and bulky form of the alien machine reminded Ves of the alien tanks that he had previously observed in the archival footage of the conquest of the planet.

The city state of Davute was the most powerful pescan polity for good reasons, and fielding a strong military was one of them. Supported by an abundance of wealth and knowledgeable researchers, the alien city state's development of tanks, airplanes and other vehicles had reached an impressive state by local standards!

It was not inconceivable for the pescan engineers to make use of their existing expertise in conventional war machines to create an unprecedented mech.

They just had to have the right reasons to work on one. Perhaps the pescan race suffered so much trauma at the hands of human mechs that the survivors thought that only legged war machines could give them a chance to compete against their attackers.

It might also be a desperate attempt of the aliens to cope with the trauma of losing their family and home planet.

Whatever the case, the aliens invested a significant amount of resources and time into the design and construction of their first native mech.

This was an impressive feat for a race that never dealt with them before and had no experience in making.

Ves could see that the aliens had put careful thought on the design of their first mech. He could see that the aliens initially approached the project as a tank but replaced its traditional locomotion with bipedal legs.

Naturally, a mech was more than just a tank with legs. Issues such as trying to maintain the balance of the machine and slimming down the upper parts also became important, and all of that required a lot of careful thought and consideration.

The selection and placement of weapons also introduced a whole set of problems.

However, since the aliens already had a tradition of mounting weapons onto their battle suits, it was not that big of a technical leap for them to mount mech-sized armaments to their arms.

Then there was the matter of control. Ves seriously doubted that the pescans mastered the technologies involved in the creation of neural interfaces. It was impossible for them to invent this kind of tech in a short amount of time and under extreme conditions to boot.

From the stiff and robotic movements of the alien mech, Ves could already conclude that the aliens had likely resorted to the simplest and most convenient control option imaginable.

They utilized a combination of mechanical controls and a high degree of automation to make the mech pilotable.

All of these decisions ultimately caused the pescans to develop their first frontline mech, if only barely.

In truth, not even the most rookie Novice Mech Designer would design such a heap of trash!

The alien mech was abominably slow for its mass and size. Ves could easily utilize the exact same materials put into designing this mech and come up with a tougher, more optimized machine that moved at much more reasonable speeds.

The configuration of the double gun arms was unreasonably long. Most human-developed frontline mechs tended to be more sparing about their length because the tradeoff in flexibility and cost.

The alien mech possessed no neural interface. On top of that, its construction was unreasonably massive and slow. There was no need to extend the arm so long and mount a heavy laser cannon at their ends.

Not only did this make the aiming process even slower, but it also made it a lot harder to maintain the balance of the machine and keep its aim consistent.

Aiming was a serious problem, especially to engineers who were making mechs for the first time. Although the pescans had lots of experience with creating similar integrated weapons in their battle suits, there were still plenty mechanical and physical differences between infantry-sized armor and mechs that massed more than tanks.

The long-ranged accuracy of this first-generation mech was extremely dubious. It might be sufficient for it to strike a target that was a hundred meters or so away, but the hit rate should decrease by an enormous degree at a distance of a kilometer or more!

It was rather fortunate that the pescans rolled out this homebrew mech in a confining battlefield like this. The alien imitation mech would have performed a lot more poorly if it was deployed on open terrain!

In fact, the aliens shouldn't have bothered to develop a mech to begin with. There was no point in making one if the only reasonable means of controlling them was by using mechanical controls with AI assistance.

There was no flexibility or fluidity in its movements. The fine control that played such a great role in allowing human mechs to outperform conventional war machines was completely absent in its entire construction.

The alien pilot had to control way too many settings and pay attention to far too many variables in order to make the most of his cumbersome machine.

A simple tank would have been able to do the same job a lot more effectively while costing less.

The only viable reasons for the pescans to develop a mech was for psychological and research purposes.

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