The Mech Touch novel Chapter 5031

5031 Recontextualizing Mech Models

As the expeditionary fleet approached the territories beset by alien raids, the Golden Skull Alliance started to form more plans and coordinate their actions.

It was not enough for them to defeat a bunch of mediocre raiding fleets. Their combat strength was far too great to waste on cleaning up the riff raff.

What they truly had their eyes on were the staging areas where many of the smaller alien raiding fleets resupplied and started their missions!

Destroying crucial alien infrastructure would disrupt a lot of arrangements and award a lot more MTA merits.

Not only that, but there was bound to be a lot more phasewater and other valuable resources in these places!

The opposition was significantly greater, however. The defenses of these staging heavily depended on how many raiding fleets were present in the star system.

This was why it became extremely important to track the condition and movements of the more powerful alien raiding fleets.

It would not be good if one of the more powerful fleets that had at least one formidable battleship in their lineup came back all of a sudden!

What was even worse was the possibility that warships hailing from the Red Cabal or the major alien races might drop by as well!

This was why the plan to attack an alien stage area had yet to be decided. The various alliance partners wanted to collect more intelligence and gain more assurances that they would not get ambushed by a superior alien warfleet.

While all of this took place, Ves continued to split up his time on many different priorities.

From working on previously stalled mech designs such as the Eye Project to forming the complete syllabi of his upcoming courses at the Eden University of Business & Technology, he felt happy with returning to a productive routine.

Of course, he also had to spare a bit of time each day to raise his children.

Venerable Benjamin's surprise recovery helped a lot with ensuring that Aurelia, Andraste and Marvaine grew up with the correct values. He was able to cover for the times when Ves could not be present himself.

As Ves continued to accomplish a lot in the Red Ocean, Veronica also experienced busy days.

The cyborg cat not only acted as a substitute mech designer for all of Ves' ongoing mech projects, but also became exposed to an entirely different world.

Cynthia Larkinson set a lot of new plans in motion now that she regained her body and stole a portion of the authority of the Water Scroll.

Though she declined to share her full plans to her son, it was clear that she was planning to launch a massive offensive against the Abyss Empire and the Compact cultists that caused so much trouble!

Ryncol Larkinson had to fulfill his own responsibilities, so Ves did not have many chances of getting a glimpse of his highly evolved Devil Tiger.

It had grown far beyond its initial form, and his mother had induced massive changes to it that somehow bound it closer to his father!

Fortunately, Ves was able to examine it extensively enough to develop a lot of ideas on how to upgrade and enhance its performance despite all of its weirdness.

"What is mother up to?" Veronica asked Helena as the young design spirit held the cat in her arms. "She promised to tutor me on different stuff, but I hardly see her nowadays."

"That is because time is of the essence, brother. Our mother has gained a lot of power, and now is the time to strike. If we wait too long, our enemies will adapt and make it much harder for us to attain our goals. We are not just trying to defeat them. My mother is attempting to take full control over the Nyxian Gap. This is a much greater goal. Once we are able to claim complete sovereignty over this region, we can truly establish our empire in this galaxy."

Veronica's expression started to scrunch in concern. "Why do I have the feeling that I won't like what my mother has planned? I'm family, you know. Why are you still keeping me in the dark?"

Helena patronizingly patted the cyborg cat on the head. "It is true that we are trying to keep you away from our plans, but it is for your own protection. You aren't able to defend yourself against our strongest enemies. We prefer it if you stay out of the limelight. There will be many more opportunities for you to assist us after we have resolved the immediate dangers within and around the Nyxian Gap."

Ves did not like it at all. A lot of changes were already taking place in the Red Ocean. Now he discovered that his mother was not content to remain still in the Milky Way!

As events continued to unfold in both galaxies, Ves made a lot of progress in completing the Eye Project.

Despite his persistent neglect of the design project, Ves still spared a bit of thought on it from time to time.

Now that he accumulated a lot of possible ideas and design implementations, he was able to employ them in quick succession now that he focused on completing them as fast as possible!

It helped that the Eye Project was a simple mech by nature. Ves just had to design a relatively straightforward second-class marksman mech without too many bells and whistles.

There were three distinct traits that set it apart from the competition.

First, it was a living mech. Though many of his latest advancements did not apply to a mass production model, his recent advancement to Senior meant that he could still ensure that every copy of the Eye Project would start out a little stronger in this aspect!

Second, it was armed with a fairly powerful luminar crystal rifle. Ves tried his best to make it as precise and hard-hitting as possible at a fairly modest budget. He restricted it to a laser weapon in order to cut down on a lot of redundant elements.

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