The Mech Touch novel Chapter 5077

The upcoming interception mission was of great importance to the Golden Skull Alliance.

The previous victory against the wheednar raiding fleet demonstrated that the expanded pioneering alliance possessed the capacity to fight against alien forces and earn a considerable amount of profit in the process.

While Ves and numerous other leaders yearned to hunt down a phase lord and get their hands on a Warship Token, there was no way for them to track down an elusive alien warlord like the Eminence of Torment for the time being.

Targeting the yurzen raiding fleet was a step up as it was accompanied by a pair of puelmer heavy cruisers.

Every major alien race of the Red Ocean possessed their own strong points. Even a relatively mediocre alien race like the orvens managed to climb on top of many others and carve a solid place in their own dwarf galaxy.

The puelmers were perhaps the most secularist among the thirteen major races. These odd-looking ball-like aliens possessed drastically different mindsets and behavioral patterns than many other races.

Their lack of culture, their high propensity towards resentment and their strong preference to rely on strong technology to overcome their physical weaknesses caused them to embrace pure technology a lot more than other races.

The puelmers not only had a reputation for mastering the most advanced conventional technologies among the major alien races, but also took charge of assimilating stolen human tech!

The Red Cabal and its growing coalition could never have resisted the MTA and CFA's warfleets so well if not for the abnormally high learning ability of the puelmer race!

The high technological aptitude of the puelmers stood out so much that it did not really matter that few of them even showed deference to the native gods.

Their relatively small, weak and unconventional physiques made it almost impossible for them to become phase lords.

Their rejection and disdain towards biotechnology did not help matters either!

In fact, red humanity could not even find out whether the puelmers had any phase lords among them. Perhaps a few hidden deviants might exist in a different corner of the dwarf galaxy, but the puelmers clearly did not like to publicize their existences.

Almost every puelmer of decent status was a scientist or an engineer. Not many puelmers chose to become anything else, but it did not matter that much as they relied on a high degree of automation to take care of menial and repetitive work.

A puelmer homeship was pretty much a warship, an engineering workshop and a scientific laboratory all rolled up in a single package!

It reminded Ves of the multipurpose MTA research battlecarriers like the Antazella de Osiris. Each of these vessels accommodated so many different purposes that they did not excel in any single area.

In most combat scenarios, this was a disadvantage. How could allocating space and resources to R&D activities help a warship out in battle?

The puelmers were clever enough to understand the pros and cons, but proceeded to turn their homeships into mixed vessels anyway.

This was because they made it work. Every crew of puelmers possessed a lot of R&D capabilities, so every puelmer homeship could not only serve as a warship, but also a testbed for new and experimental technologies!

The puelmers built a lot of vessels like this. With so many homeships conducting their own research and development projects, it was logical for their race to master so many different technologies.

Now, two of those puelmer 'science vessels' suddenly came within reach of the Golden Skull Alliance.

Even if these alien ships did not contain any truly valuable research, its databases and successful research applications were bound to possess a lot of value!

As long as the Phobos succeeded in his mission of immobilizing one or both puelmer heavy cruisers, Ves might potentially get his hands on exotic alien technologies or more advanced transphasic technological applications.

Shortly before the Phobos was about to board a modern superdrive-equipped stealth frigate that was built and crewed by DIVA operatives, Ves prepared a series of extra measures in order to increase the success rate of this latest gamble.

"Venerable Zimro." Ves greeted as he and Lucky approached the expert pilot.

The Phobos looked as impressive as ever as he was undergoing a final inspection before being shipped over to the Hidden Smile.

"Sir." The expert bowed his head and respectfully greeted the patriarch.

Ves felt gratified at Zimro's display of deference.

Expert pilots had a tendency to get a little too full of themselves as they grew stronger. It happened to lots of people such as Venerable Jannzi, Patriarch Reginald Cross and even his uncle Ark.

This was a common human weakness. Expert pilots were known to be the most stubborn people around, so trying to restrain them was mostly an exercise in futility.

Ves developed a greater appreciation for more obedient and deferential expert pilots for that reason.

He knew that he could count on more mellow expert pilots such as Venerable Tusa, Venerable Joshua and Venerable Zimro to stick with him for the long haul. These pilots felt a lot of personal gratitude to him and appreciated the structure that their friend and patriarch had built.

Zimro especially did not hesitate to show that he was willing to obey Ves above everyone else in the clan.

"Your upcoming mission is important to me." Ves softly spoke. "In order to help you along, I've prepared a few additional measures to increase your success rate."

He did not like the low odds given by General Verle and Director Calabast. If he wanted to get his hands on at least puelmer homeship, then he needed to manipulate odds and stack the deck in his favor as much as possible!

"What have you prepared, sir?" The expert pilot asked in response.

Ves smirked and held up a certain gem cat. "First, Lucky will be going on a trip with you. It has been a long time since his last excursion. Since we're dealing with two fairly powerful alien vessels this time, I think it is a good idea to let Lucky infiltrate one of them and wreak havoc over there while you terrorize the other one. That way, if the puelmers happen to respond quickly and quickly activate their transphasic shields, the two of you should still be able to disable the warp drives of both vessels."

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