The Mech Touch novel Chapter 5044

Ves continued to expand upon his vision of the Fey Project for twenty more minutes.

The fey offered a lot of versatility to the table.

They could be made to be large and tough enough to form a physical wall that could block anything short of attacks launched by warships.

They could be mounted with sharp blades and serve as an additional source of offensive pressure in close quarters combat.

They could be mounted with transphasic shield generators and spread out so that they could protect the lives of innocent civilians in a city under siege.

Under every circumstance, the fey always had the option of disguising themselves as authentic mechs, which could always throw off the adversary's estimates.

"Information is power. Misinformation is a weapon." Ves succinctly stated. "We can use the fey in a lot of brilliant tactical ruses. For example, they can pretend to be cheap mechs developed by an ordinary mech company. They can pretend to be high-end military mechs. They can even pretend to be mechs belonging to the allies of our enemies. As long as the deception holds, they can produce results that are unattainable by other means!"

Many of his fellow Journeymen understood the potential of the Fey Project and all of its versatile fey, but that did not mean they had lost their capacity for critical thinking.

Each of these mech designers had managed to break through the extraordinary threshold by propelling their design philosophy and design skills beyond mortal constraints!

Ketis stated the obvious.

"I can see how the fey can be useful, but each of these special spurs take up space. Is it truly wise to fill up the mech capacity and cargo capacity of our ships with so many spurs as opposed to more mechs and more supplies? I mean, how much space does the Fey Project even occupy on a carrier?"

"I have already thought about that." Ves calmly responded. "The fey can be designed in many different ways. They can be as large as actual mechs or be shrunken and flattened so that they can be stacked on top of each other like crates. The ideal way to store them is to design the fey so that they can be attached to their mech platforms and remain physically and spiritually connected to each other when not being put to better use. Look at this draft image."

He transmitted a command that caused the center projection to display the image of the Fey Project with its spurs attacked to the front and back of its frame.

The extra additions added a lot of bulk to the mech, but the fey were designed in such a way that they seamlessly linked up with each other while also molding themselves perfectly to the mech frame.

"The mech stables and other permanent storage spaces for mechs on a starship or in a military base are designed to barely accommodate most reasonable versions of heavy mechs." Ves explained. "The Fey Project's mech frame falls under the medium weight class. Attaching four to six fey will roughly turn the combined package into the equivalent of a heavy mech in terms of mass and volume. This is the most efficient storage arrangement of the fey. If necessary, the fey can also be stored into standard cargo containers and be placed in the cargo holds of different starships, though I do not recommend it as the mech platform and the fey are meant to form a social communion."

Though Ves provided an adequate solution regarding the storage of different fey, his last sentence exposed another odd situation.

Sara Voiken raised her arm. "I don't quite understand the positioning of these fey. At one point, you stated that you want to treat them as expendable decoys that can attract enemy fire. At another point, you claimed that they are alive and that they can grow more powerful over time. Wouldn't it be counterproductive to deliberately shove them forward and treat them as cannon fodder?"

This indeed sounded rather incomprehensible to the mech designers who were familiar with Ves. They all knew how much he valued his living mechs. Their potential rested in their ability to grow, adapt and become stronger over time.

This meant that his design philosophy shared an antithetical relationship with expendability. The less people valued a living mech, the more Ves could not tolerate such behavior!

Why did he suddenly change his mind concerning the fey. Was it because they were not full living mechs and could therefore be treated as slaves or commodities as opposed to valued children?

It did not surprise Ves too much that his subordinates expressed confusion about this contradiction.

This situation highlighted the differences in perspectives between the two. The Journeymen of the Design Department judged the Fey Project according to an interpretation of the design capabilities that Ves had demonstrated up to the present.

The problem was that Ves was not a static figure that remained the same all of the time.

He was a mech designer who not only developed rapidly compared to his peers, but also made shocking and revolutionary advancements from time to time!

"I have recently been working on figuring out a solution to preserving the essence of living mechs after their frames have fallen in battle." Ves said as he crossed his arms. "You can treat the relationship between the mech platform and its fey as a trial balloon in this context. I am trying to experiment with a way to preserve at least a part of the lives of the fey after they have been fallen into battle."

"How?"

"Well, I can design them in a way that they are not completely independent. Just as how we all have companion spirits that are extensions of our own selves, the fey can be treated as extensions of the living mech that they are paired with. The mech platform is the root for all of the living fey. As long as the bare machine itself is able to survive the battle, it should effectively be able to resurrect all of its fey."

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