The Mech Touch novel Chapter 5107

Ves felt tempted to swallow the archeship and all of the spoils contained within alone.

The value of the vessel that was almost entirely made out of archemetal was obvious to everyone. Despite the relatively low-key and elusive conduct of the arche race, archetech had proven to be both powerful and ingenious due to how it developed technology in a substantially different direction than normal.

Most technological races such as humans and puelmers regraded their sophisticated products as collections of lots of little building blocks that fit quite well together.

The goal of most developers was to create a whole that was greater than the sum of its parts.

The arche approached their technological development from a substantially different angle. They took their own remarkable shells as the principal example of how their technology should work and tried to make everything into artificial adaptations of archeshells.

Their weapons were extensions of their own archeshells.

Their stealthy homeships were basically giant archeshells that could be 'worn' by multiple arche crew members at the same time.

From an engineering perspective, archetech possessed a lot of parallels to organic structures. It was as if it was originally supposed to be biotech, but somehow got transformed into metallic tech down the line.

Whenever Ves studied any part of the archeship, he had the feeling that he was studying a giant and multifunctional turtleshell that had been converted into a mechanical form.

It was beautiful and exotic in a way that Ves had never encountered from human tech or other forms of alien tech.

His mind bloomed with inspiration as he barely managed to decipher the intricate brilliance of how the arche put together their own tech.

The research and reference value of the archeship was enormous to a mech designer like Ves!

He became especially interested in the phenomenon called electronic resonance. It was a more advanced way of powering different energy-hungry parts. It was a lot more stable and provided a lot of redundancy, which was exactly what mechs and starships needed the most when operating under dangerous circumstances!

The distinct lack of moving parts as well as fragile circuitry reminded Ves a lot of luminar crystal technology.

Though archetech and luminar crystal technology were definitely distinct from each other, Ves noticed multiple parallels between the two. It was as if they were distant cousins from each other who learned from the same teacher!

This had considerable implications for Ves. If he managed to figure out an important working principle of archetech, he may be able to adapt the ingenious solutions he learned into improving his luminar crystals!

The same dynamic could also apply in reverse. His extensive expertise in luminar crystal technology might give him a powerful head-start in figuring out how to adapt archetech into his own mechs!

"In fact, it's not me who will benefit the most from reverse engineering archetech." Ves guessed.

Compared to Ves who preferred to tinker with the spiritual design of his mechs, other mech designers who focused on the physical design of their mechs would benefit a lot more from learning the working principles of archetech!

Ves could easily foresee that mechs made out of archemetal parts were great at making heavier, solid and more reliable mechs in combat.

The high average density of archetech components made it a bit less suitable for light mechs, but they offered fantastic value for heavier and more defense-oriented mechs!

Leaving aside defense, archetech also offered more efficient ways to pack all kinds of functions inside a mech without taking too much capacity. This was because the use of highly efficient electronic resonance as an alternate means of powering mechs reduced the demands for energy transmission systems and heat management solutions.

On the top of his head, Ves could already foresee that his wife, Sara Voiken, Merrill O'Brian and Beatrice Hendrix could produce a lot of breakthroughs in their work once they have properly studied and mastered the principles of archetech!

Master Benedict Cortez should also be able to gain a lot, though the downside for an older and much more experienced mech designer like him was that his existing work was not compatible with archetech.

He would have to make a lot of trade offs if he wanted to integrate archetech or a derivative of it into his fixed design style.

Hours after the Phobos made contact with the archeship again and called in the Hidden Smile to covertly secure this wonderful prize, the leaders of the Golden Skull Alliance held another virtual meeting.

Several people provided the high-ranking leaders with an extensive update on the situation.

The topic of the archeship that unexpectedly lurked in the star system dominated the first half of the discussion.

As much as Ves wanted to keep this vessel for himself, he realized that it was impossible to hide it from others.

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