The Mech Touch novel Chapter 5208

Chapter 5208 The Power of the Association

It was impossible for Ves and Jovy to properly design a complete juggernaut mech in less than 4 hours.

They were working so far outside of their comfort zone that they couldn't directly reuse any of their old design solutions.

Juggernauts were just too different. The 300-meter long mechanical monstrosity possessed a volume that was comparable to a starship.

The quantity of parts that made up a juggernaut was an order of magnitude greater than that of a conventional mech at the very least!

While Ves and Jovy were able to skip a lot of additional work by multiplying the size of parts by a lot, they weren't able to apply this approach on every single part.

There were still a lot of functions that couldn't be solved in this manner. The pair of Seniors had to tackle a lot of design problems the hard way.

In order to shave away a lot of time, the two mech designers resorted to several expedient solutions that they normally eschewed because it would put their professionalism under question.

Jovy spent a lot of time browsing the expansive library of existing mech designs in the Red Association's internal database.

The database was one of the most precious assets of the Mech Trade Association and its Red Ocean off-shoot. It contained hundreds of years worth of accumulation from a huge amount of mech designers.

Although the database was understandably lacking in juggernaut designs, Jovy received special permission to access the full design schematics of almost every relevant entry.

This gave Jovy a lot to work with. He could easily borrow ready-made parts and design elements from thousands of unique landbound humanoid juggernaut designs.

While it was never proper to straightforwardly copy parts of an existing design and paste them into your own design, nobody was complaining at the moment.

If the Survivalists were willing to exhibit more patience and give Ves a few months of time, then he and Jovy would have been able to whip up a much more acceptable juggernaut design based on their own efforts!

"Are you doing alright, Jovy?" Ves asked with a touch of concern.

"lam not experiencing any issues worth mentioning for the time being." The other Senior replied from his own station. "The borrowed design elements that I am reworking will not be pretty, but they will do the job. The juggernaut will be substantially slower and less resistant to damage, but it will function without losing its balance or misaligning any of its movements."

"Good."

While Jovy was busy with reworking bits and pieces from other juggernaut designs, Ves ended up using a tool that he had used only once.

He never expected that he would end up utilizing the auto designer once again. Just the thought of depending on this highly automated design tool caused him to question his principles as a mech designer!

Still, whatever objections he held towards the auto designer program were irrelevant in the face of the demands from the higher ups of the Survivalist Faction.

At least Ves was able to work on his juggernaut design in his own name. He could employ his own design style with its usual flair and quirks without needing to hold himself back.

The auto designer program developed by the mechers was a lot more elaborate and tailored for professional use compared to the one utilized by Alexar Streon a long time ago.

The older and outdated program that Ves used to design the Ouroboros in a rush could aptly be described as a toy. It was designed with laymen in mind and presented a user-friendly design interface that was simple enough to be used by teenagers.

The Red Association developed a much more robust and advanced automation tool for its own mech designers. Although it was capable of automating almost every design task, Ves was able to access a seemingly endless list of settings that he could use to finetune the behavior of the powerful AIs.

He could tell them to selectively automate specific design tasks while making sure to leave other design tasks for himself.

The degree of specificity and granularity could be as low or high as he wished. If he was feeling really lazy, then he could automate almost every aspect aside from a few settings. That would allow him to input a few data points before pressing a button that resulted in a nearly complete and usable mech design!

However, this was the most shallow application of the Association's version of the auto designer program.

The auto designer program could turn into a powerful tool in the hands of a real mech designer. Apprentices, Journeymen and even Masters could easily shave days, weeks or even months worth of design work while still preserving much of their unique characteristics in the final output!

This was not just due to the extreme degree of customization and specification of the auto designer program.

It turned out that the auto designer had access to the very same database that contained all of the mech designs that the Red Association had on record!

This included mechs designed by Ves over the course of his career!

Ves actually grew quite annoyed when he saw that the database contained more than just the design schematics of the commercial mechs that Ves had designed for the mech market.

He did not mind the fact that the database contained the designs of commissioned mechs such as the Valkyrie mech line that were never formally submitted to the Association in order to get validated.

Those mechs were so widely used and produced throughout different parts of human space that the mechers had to be incompetent if they couldn't get their greedy hands on those designs.

What really pissed Ves off was that the mechers had actually intruded into the core of his clan and obtained copies of the full designs of all of his Larkinson-exclusive mechs!

His expression grew more and more cross as he browsed through the extensive list that had no right to exist.

The Bright Warrior. The Rigid Wall. The Rigid Spine. The Stingripper. The Signal Bearer. The Transcendent Punisher. The Transcendent Charger. The Redlance.

All of his standard mechs for the Larkinson Clan were on the list, including the ones he barely contributed to.

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