The Mech Touch novel Chapter 5201

"I honestly don't know whether it can even work." Ves honestly replied.

If he wasn't in the presence of an extremely distinguished company, Ves would have scratched his head by this time.

He always considered himself to be a creative thinker who could come up with the wildest ideas, but it turned out that he was just an amateur compared to these older and much more competent professionals!

They cast their gazes far beyond what was obvious from the surface.The way they analyzed the Carmine System from so many more angles could easily boggle the minds of less imaginative people!

Even Ves had to spend a lot of time catching up to the latest tangents sprung by the panel members.

"According to your limited awareness of your own invention, do you judge it plausible enough for this scaled-down 'demimech' to work?" Master Xena Wintress continued to press. "There is no need for you to provide answers with a high degree of confidence. We are more than aware of your lack of empirical data. We only wish you to provide input based on your own perspective and understanding."

Ves furrowed his brows as he tried to imagine this 'mech' in action.

"Even though it is scaled down to the point where it is as large as a suit of heavy combat armor, it should operate close to a mech more or less. The variables I am not certain about is how it is like to move a limb. Both the limbs of the 'pilot' and the servos of the mechanical construct around them will have to move in unison. This is different from a more traditional mech as the body of the pilot merely has to remain seated. If you truly want my judgment, then 1 don't think these differences will matter too much. I think the potential results will actually be quite astounding. The closer a mech resembles the human body, the easier it is for a pilot to control the machine. The difficulty of 'piloting' your reduced mechs should not require nearly as much training."

Wintress nodded in agreement.

"These are insightful replies. Let me present you with another scenario."

She began to weave her fingers in order to design a set of three different mechs.

They were a light mech, a medium mech and a heavy mech.

While all of them looked fairly generic as far as Ves could tell, the three spontaneous mech designs happened to possess the same diverging trait.

They did not possess traditional cockpits!

Instead, the cockpit looked like a tube that was attached to control systems, much of which Ves couldn't recognize.

What also stood out was that the mechs all came with their own facsimiles of the Carmine System.

A number of biomechanical components were absent, though.

It soon became clear why Master Wintress replaced a traditional cockpit with this reduced contraption.

The female Master waved her hand, causing the projected image of the so-called demimech to enter a port and fit into the tube of the light mech!

Once the demimech entered the space that was tailor-made to accommodate it, numerous different mechanical parts sprung forth to lock the smaller construct in place.

That was not all.

The Carmine Systems of both the demimech and the light mech began to make contact and connect with each other!

The integration between the two looked so good that it became impossible to determine that they were originally separate if Ves came across this combination from the beginning!

"Is this scenario plausible, Professor Larkinson?"

"Uhh... I am not sure, actually." Ves hesitantly replied. "It depends on how strictly the Blood Pact is being interpreted. Personally, I think there is enough leeway here to avoid setting off the restriction of being limited to one mech. The key here is that while the demimech and the light mech have merged on a physical level, they remain separate on a metaphysical level. This means that while it is theoretically possible for the pilot to control the light mech using the demimech as a connecting medium, the experience won't quite be the same."

That caused all three panel members to look thoughtful. The answer was not as good as they hoped, but it was better than nothing.

Master Wintress then proceeded to manipulate the projection yet again.

This time, the demimech disengaged from the light mech, thereby turning them into separate machines again.

The demimech proceeded to enter the tube of the medium mech, causing the two to merge together on a physical level.

"Is it possible to circumvent the restriction of only being able to pilot a single mech by using it as the control interface for larger and more combat capable mechs?"

"1 think... it is plausible enough to work." Ves slowly answered. "If it works on one mech, there is no reason to think that it doesn't work on the other mech. The only essential constant is that the demimech must remain the same in conception. If the pilot somehow lost his demimech, it is impossible for him to pilot any further mechs."

"Understood."

Wintress then began to design a completely different machine altogether!

Ves started to feel a bit of deja vu as the Master rapidly drafted a juggernaut.

Although the design lacked a lot of details in order to save on time, the overall message was clear.

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