The Mech Touch novel Chapter 5043

"You already know about the Storm Sword that I am working on." Ketis began first as she nonchalantly polished the blade of her large and intimidating Bloodsinger. "The design project is still in its early stages as I spent most of my time on completing the Stormblade Samurai. I wanted to see my latest work in action in order to confirm that stormblade technology lives up to its promises and can provide our swordsman mechs with a more effective way to drain transphasic shields."

As the recent battle clearly showed, the dozen or so Stormblade Samurais amply met her expectations for this new tech!

"I noticed." Ves responded as he leaned forward as he showed greater interest. "Those stormblades are indeed capable of destabilizing transphasic energy shields more effectively than normal weapons. I also noticed that the Stormblade Samurais drained their energy reserves a lot faster in order to keep their weapons electrified."

Ketis sighed. "That is an unavoidable downside to using stormblade technology. To be honest, I tuned up the power of the stormblade in order to help them break through energy shields faster, but that has caused their operational times to drop by half."

"So how do you propose to deal with this problem with the Storm Sword?" _{freewebnσvel.cѳm}

"I have been thinking about asking Master Benedict to contribute to the design."

That caused the other mech designers to look a bit surprised.

"His help doesn't come for free, Ketis." Ves seriously told her. "While we are friends with him, he will expect us to reciprocate In exchange for his services. Are you sure it is worthwhile to call upon his help for this specific project?"

Ketis nodded. "I am. The Storm Sword has the potential to become one of the potent and effective melee shield breaker model in our mech roster. Don't forget that the Stormblade Samurai doesn't make use of any phasewater. It is able to damage energy shields with increased effectiveness by relying solely on electrifying its blades in a special manner. Once we incorporate this tech in a transphasic sword, I think it is not a dream for the Storm Sword to become a bane of all warships."

While Ves was not certain whether stormblade technology could effectively be combined with phasewater technology, Ketis sounded confident enough that it was probably feasible.

The synergy would actually be great if her ambition worked out! Stormblades were highly effective against energy-based defenses while solid phasewater blades were most effective against physical defenses.

Ves eventually bought into the proposal. "I will allow you to bring Master Benedict as long as you can win him over. Who else do you want to contribute to this project? Mind you that I must be involved as well."

"Why?" Ketis frowned.

"Because of the mech ecosystem that we just talked about, remember? I am not kidding when I say that I plan to implement a much more expanded version of a living mech to all of the mechs that are part of the same ecosystem. I can't explain what I have in mind right now because I still need time to complete the framework, but it will be better and more comprehensive than anything you have seen me make before."

The swordmaster looked dubiously at Ves. "Okay... anyway, if this is the case, then I would like to bring Tifi and Sara onboard as well. Both of them have worked on the design of the Stormblade Samurai so they are already highly familiar with the sort of mech that I have in mind next. I originally wanted to include Juliet as well, but if you insist in meddling with my design, then I suppose I will have to settle for less than stellar mobility."

Compared to other possible mechs of the upcoming mech ecosystem, the Storm Sword would likely possess the greatest lethality at close range while also possessing respective staying power courtesy of Master Benedict Cortez.

However, the Storm Sword would likely feature adequate defenses and uninspiring mobility.

All of this was relative, of course. The heightened standards meant that the Storm Sword would still be a lot tougher and faster than the Second Sword in every way!

Ves was satisfied with this modified proposal. He had high hopes for this mech as it was set up to become the ideal flanking mech model.

So long as the enemy did not have any chance of focusing the bulk of their firepower at the Storm Swords, the new Swordmaiden-exclusive mechs would chop everything apart!

Once the discussion on the Storm Sword concluded, Ves decided to introduce his own mech proposal.

He first activated a projection that showed a recording of the previous battle. It focused entirely on the 15,000 mechs that had spread out and tried to close in on the distant fleet of alien warships.

"You should all be familiar with this sight." He said. "While it is true that we have won this battle with 'minimal' casualties, the lives of our mech pilots are too precious to squander on the native alien version of cannon fodder. It is not worth it to sacrifice hundreds of highly trained Larkinson mech pilots to defeat scores of lesser alien warships. While I have many ideas on how we can reduce the loss rate in future battles, I have an idea that is highly flexible and can be utilized against many different types of adversaries."

The projection changed to show a rudimentary draft design of a thin and unarmored mech frame.

"This is only the basic platform. Look at what comes next." Ves grinned and waved his hand.

The mech suddenly gained a lot of additional mass. Six bulbous constructs had been attached to the frame on all sides, which added a lot of protection on each side.

However, these constructs weren't meant to remain attached to the mech frame.

The projected image shifted as the constructs separated from the mech platform and started to hover around it in different formations!

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