The Mech Touch novel Chapter 5207

Chapter 5207 Introduction to Juggernaut Design

"The Carmine mechs all appear to be sound." Jovy reported as he studied the results of the deep scans conducted on the recently completed machines. "They show no obvious defects or other concerning signs. That does not rule out the possibility of other errors. Our scanners cannot determine whether the Carmine Systems of these three machines will even work."

"lam not too worried about that." Ves spoke as he stroked his palm across the metallic surface of the Carmine Raider. "1 have performed multiple examinations on them. The Carmine Systems show no obvious signs of mutations or deviations that I can detect. Their E energy structures are all working properly."

That caused Jovy to "My Eye of Providence has noticed that your mechs are actively absorbing a small amount of E energy radiation in the local environment. That is going to raise a lot of eyebrows, you know that? I am decently certain that you are not the only mech designer who has managed to create a mechanism where mechs can fortify their properties by themselves over time, but the group is bound to be small."

Ves already knew this, but he did not really care about what kind of signal he sent to the higher ups. It was hardly a secret considering that tens of thousands of living mechs had begun to cultivate a variation of the Larkinson Metal Guardian Mantra.

"This feature is an important part of my current design approach. These Carmine mechs may only be experimental mechs that we could only develop in haste, but they are still proper living mechs from my perspective. Three human lives will forever be bound to them. I am sure that you Survivalists will ultimately upgrade them all into proper first-class multipurpose mechs once you are done with most of your tests. I want to set these machines up for success to better serve their pilots down the line."

"That is kind of you, but 1 am not sure our superiors will appreciate the additional variables and complications."

Ves shrugged and continued to examine the spiritual foundations of all three Carmine Mechs.

It was important for him to ensure that the spiritual settings for each individual Carmine System were all in order.

Ves had yet to meet with the candidates chosen to serve as the permanent test pilots for these experimental machines.

However, he was able to prime his products for their intended users with the help of blood samples and a huge amount of recorded information.

There was no way to be absolutely certain that his Carmine mechs could safely be piloted. The tech was simply too new and Ves did not have enough existing cases to draw upon.

The only way to find out whether he and Jovy did a good job was to see them in action.

He looked at the time and saw that he roughly had four hours left before the deadline had passed.

There was one more design that he had to deliver to the Survivalist Faction. It was by far the oddest and most excessive request of the four.

Juggernauts had gone out of vogue centuries ago! The mech industry deemed them to be far too wasteful and inefficient to employ in any serious capacity.

The mech designers of old had already formed this conclusion in a time of relative abundance and optimism. The availability of resources back in the Milky Way Galaxy was much greater than in the Red Ocean, and even then people chose to set juggernauts aside for conventionally sized mechs!

Still, as ridiculous as this request may seem, the potential benefits if they worked out were massive!

"Do you think it is plausible that a juggernaut piloted by an ace pilot with the help of both a neural interface and a Carmine System will be able to approximate the power of god mech?"

Ves frowned in thought. "I seriously don't know. It is you guys who came up with this notion, not me. I suppose there is a thin basis to this hypothesis that makes it plausible, but... there are too many uncertainties to know for certain. I think it is way too premature for any of us to think that far ahead. This juggernaut request isn't meant to be paired with a high-ranking mech pilot, right?"

"No." Jovy shook his head. "The candidate chosen to test pilot the juggernaut once we have fabricated it in a different facility will only be a standard mech pilot. Don't worry about his qualifications. He has received special training and served as the test pilots of numerous experimental juggernauts of different sizes. Just because our industry has condemned this extreme mech variation doesn't mean we have forgotten about it entirely. There are always a few curious mech designers within our Association that developed the ambition to revive these giant machines for one reason or another."

Only the mechers had the enormous amount of resources and facilities to spare on frivolous experiments at this scale.

Ves crossed his arms. "You guys don't happen to have a few textbooks or manuals lying around that can give me a crash course on how to design a juggernaut mech, do you? I am pretty confident in my ability to design super-heavy mechs as they are not too far removed from what I am usually working on. I do not share the same degree of confidence anymore if the machine has to be as tall as dozens of mechs stacked on top of each other."

Jovy nodded in agreement. "I am in the same position. 1 have already taken the liberty to search and pull up several articles and textbooks related to this subject. They are all written by reputed Masters who have personally designed and produced juggernauts over their careers."

Once Ves received a package of virtual documents, he quickly skimmed through their initial pages and roughly understood the gist of juggernaut design.

"Some of these texts are really old. Centuries old."

"Many of the references may be out of date, but the overall theory should still be sound."

"Mmhmm. We'U see. I have already spotted a couple of helpful tips."

There was no time for Ves and Jovy to thoroughly read and internalize all of the theories contained within all of this academic literature.

The best they could do was to skim over the minutiae and take note of the most relevant and salient points.

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