The Mech Touch novel Chapter 5293

Given everything that happened as of late, the archeship had largely slipped Ves' mind.

It couldn't be helped. A whole host of revelations and life-changing decisions overtook his life like a raging tornado. Ves could do little aside from letting himself get spun around while doing everything possible to avoid falling to his death.

It was only now that much of the storm had calmed down that Ves could catch his breath and take care of less pressing matters.

The archeship captured during the Battle of Corellix needed to he dealt with one way or another. The alien vessel remained incomprehensible to the Larkinsons even after they sent hundreds of engineers and other experts to examine her systems.

If technology could be equated to language, then the archeship was a completely different language.

At least the 'languages' used by other alien races made use of more relatable linguistic elements such as sound, intonation and written litters.

The turtle-like aliens on the other hand completely eschewed most of these tools and decided to use completely different elements such as the taste of their mucus slime as their method of communication!

Suffice to say, any normal human would get completely lost if he attempted to figure out an entire language from all of these weird and completely unreliable components!

Still, different from most groups, the Larkinsons could at least count on one advantage.

They had a cat who 'accidentally' learned a bit of the language!

"Meow." Lucky arrogantly settled his recently transformed body against the shell-shaped cavity that was originally designed to act as an interface for a member of the arche race.

Right now, the minor contact between Lucky's metallic body and the archemetal that comprised the alien ship's entire structure granted the cat a small amount of control over the vessel!

This singular circumstance gave Chief Shipwright Vivian Tsai and many other interested experts a small glimpse of how the alien vessel worked.

Even if much of the information was of no practical use to them, they still became inspired by the completely alien approach to shipbuilding.

As Ves calmly stepped into the compartment that equated to the bridge of the archeship, he remained quiet as Lucky lazed about while chewing on a nugget of archemetal debris.

"Meow meow meow. Meow meow."

"Uh huh. Thank you for your input." A Larkinson engineer said as she filled out a database.

Less than a minute later, Vivian Tsai approached from the side and greeted her patriarch.

"Welcome back to the A33.1 suppose you have come to announce your final decision." _{fгee𝑤ebɳoveɭ.cøm}

"I have." Ves nodded. "lam not necessarily opposed to letting our clan play around with rhe archeship for a longer period of time, but... it's a waste of rime and resources in my opinion. We can either keep the archeship permanently inside the Small Oven, but that will prevent our only capital fleet repair ship from servicing a lot of starships. We can also opt lo transfer her to tine Davute Branch, bill the scientists and engineers over there are even less capable of studying archetech. The most effective way we can profit from this vessel is if we pass her off 10 a first-rate power."

Though Vivian understood that this was the most logical decision, she still felt disappointed. The archeship inspired her like nothing else. She often found it stimulating to roam her alien interior to imagine how the arche crewed this small but technologically advanced vessel.

"I understand. Have you decided which state or organization to send our archeship?"

Ves paused for a moment as he swept his gaze across the bridge.

"I have decided to accept the offer made by the Terrans." He eventually said. "The mechers understand archetech much more than the first-rate colonial superstates, but that means that A33 won't hold as much value to them. I am sure that they have already managed to capture dozens of intact archeships. We will have to make more concessions in exchange for lesser benefits if we want to rely on their services."

"The mechers already understand archetech to a great degree, so they can process A33 at a much faster rate." Vivian retorted. "They should also be capable of repairing and refitting our archeship to rhe best possible extent."

"I know, but that means giving them complete control over what may bo our first proper warship. I have already granted them the opportunity to do the same to the Spirit of Bentheim, and that is already enough in ray book. It's better to turn to the Terrans and the Rubarthans since we can send our own shipbuilders to supervise all of the work.. The problem with the latter is that my relationship with them is a bit... shallow and ambiguous. That might change in the near future, but even if we end up concluding a far-reaching agreement tomorrow, I still won't let them touch my archeship because the Rubarthans will be looking to gain as much leverage over me as possible."

His entire relationship witli the Rubarthans had turned into a mess. He used his strange relationship with the Destroyer of Worlds as a means to bluff the other Rubarthans Into thinking that he could bo trusted to do business with. The fact that he attempted to take advantage of this dynamic by pushing Clixic into becoming their ancestral spirit most likely caused a lot of distress!

"Is this why you have decided to go with the Terrans?"

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