The Mech Touch novel Chapter 5288

Chapter 5288 The Leader of the Pack

The synergy between luminar crystal technology and hyper materials was insane.

Hyper materials or more specifically sympathetic materials interacted extensively with E energy radiation.

They basically acted like physical interfaces that could directly draw in the power of exotic radiation and infuse it into a controllable luminar crystal weapon!

Before the Age of Dawn, Ves had no special thoughts about developing more products like the Gray Lotus in the short term.

As powerful and useful as this relic weapon may be, the lack of suitable materials made it impossible for him to develop this technological direction any further!

That was no longer the case. The Age of Dawn had changed the rules. Hyper materials that were previously so rare that they only showed up in weird places like the Nyxian Gap and the spaces controlled by the Five Scrolls Compact were about to become a lot more ubiquitous.

Even if the emergence of higher grades of hypers were a lot more demanding, that did not stop the fact that they would probably become a lot more common in the Red Ocean in the near future!

However, just because a lot more odd and peculiar sympathetic materials comparable to Black Demon Steel became available did not mean that it was easy to make use of their properties!

While it was possible to use them as the base materials for simple products such as swords and armor plating, this was only the most shallow application of their unique properties.

Using them as a core material of an energy weapon system was much more difficult. Constructing a laser weapon by substituting ordinary exotics with more interesting hypers did not necessarily lead to a transformation in performance.

Mech designers and engineers needed to be a lot more clever than that in order to successfully channel the power of exotic radiation through an energy weapon.

Luminar crystal technology happened to offer a ready-made template to make this happen. The attack phase crystal that converted electrical energy into various different energy beam types was a sophisticated weapon component that performed radically differently depending on its material composition!

Luminar crystals actually resembled archemetal a lot in this area. Both were composite materials that were practically designed to offer wide compatibility to different materials and produce dramatically different results based on endless combinations.

Before the Age of Dawn, Ves had casually managed to develop 6 conventional attack phase crystals.

Laser beams, positron beams, light beams, slicer beams, kinetic beams and disruptor beams all produced extremely useful results in the right situations.

Much of the power of the ranged mechs of the Larkinson Clan was based on their ability to employ the right attack phase crystals at the right time.

The funny part about all of this was that Ves didn't even specialize in crystallography or energy weapon systems!

However, by borrowing the alien insights and intuition of the Illustrious One, he had been able to make far more progress in this field than he should. His advancements in luminar crystal technology essentially allowed the Design Department to operate without a lead designer who specialized in ranged weapon systems.

Yet for all of the progress that Ves had made in developing stronger and better luminar crystal weapons, he only recently made the realization that he had been playing with a neutered version of this alien tech all this time.

He long speculated that the original luminar race had lived in ancient times where the power of heaven was abundant in the Milky Way.

It made a lot of sense that luminar crystal technology was more suited for a medium or high energy environment.

The way that luminar crystal technology easily enabled Ves to make effective use of hyper materials showed him that it was practically made for this purpose!

The Gray Lotus and more recently the Ignitron rifle equipped by the Promethea both possessed special properties that enabled them to exceed the overall performance of conventional luminar crystal weapons!

Their existence made every other luminar crystal weapon obsolete!

This included the powerful Instrument of Doom wielded by the Amaranto and the Irvan rifle wielded by the Minerva!

All of the Transcendent Punishers Mark II that were equipped with luminar crystal cannons were even more out of date!

It became imperative for Ves to upgrade these weapons into newer variants that made effective use of hyper materials.

The difference in effective combat power between a current generation luminar weapon and a next generation luminar crystal weapon was massive!

This was one of the reasons why he had managed to earn so much respect while he served in both the Bright Republic and the Garlen Empire! _{fгeewёbnoѵel.cσm}

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