Ves called up the design of the Blood Knight Project and studied it carefully.
Unlike all of his other serious works up to this date, the Blood Knight Project almost looked unrecognizable at first.
The reason why the Blood Knight Project looked so out of place was because its entire mech frame consisted of organic components!
The latest iteration of the Blood Knight Project consisted of a second-class spaceborn hybrid biomech.
Although Ves ideally wanted to design a quasi-first-class biomech so that it could match the latest standards of the main fleet of the Larkinson Clan, he did not want to bite more than he could chew.
This was his first true biomech design project. Compared to designing a conventional mech, Ves had to overcome brand-new difficulties and complications for the first time.
The biomech design-related skills that he acquired from the System could only support him up to this point. He lacked way too much experience to exploit these meager skills any further.
What was worse was that Ves couldn't apply much of the proficiencies related to conventional mech design to this troublesome project.
While there were definitely a lot of parallels between conventional mechs and organic mechs, they also differed in so many different ways!
Designing a mech comprised of metal was like assembling a clockwork machine. Each component was discreet and could be slotted into place with relative ease.
Designing a biomech was like shaping a holistic organic life form. Every organic part was interconnected to other organic stuff. Removing an organic component was not simple at all because it supported countless other biological systems.
Just like how blindly adding a second heart to a random human body would lead to a cascade of health problems, Ves needed to make a host of adjustments for each organic addition or removal to the Blood Knight Project!
Many limes, Ves even had the illusion thal he had become a beast designer as opposed lo a mech designer!
The development of the Blood Knight Project had become very uneven as a result. There were periods where he breezed through the design problems, but there were also times where he got stuck on a single problem for days on end.
It didn't help that Ves became preoccupied with many other matters In the last few weeks and months!
His incarnations were somewhat capable of picking up the slack, but he had mostly prioritized other mech design projects during this period.
The Blood Knight Project was too special to Ves. It deserved his full attention. Only then would he be able to complete a Carmine biomech that introduced a lot of new refinements to the Carmine System.
'This machine is a lot different from the ones I've designed before." He rubbed his hairless chin in thought. "Not even the Carmine mechs commissioned by the Survivalists in a hurry can compare to the Blood Knight Project in terms of scope and integration."
The Carmine System implemented in conventional mechs had always seemed awkward to Ves. As a fully biomechanical system, it looked out of place inside the frame of a conventional mech.
Even the Bastion, which he considered his best Carmine mech to date, still possessed a fair amount of suboptimal solutions and unnecessary burdens due to the relatively crude addition of the very first Carmine System to exist.
This had been one of the contributing reasons why the Bastion failed to become a masterwork mech.
The Blood Knight Project might possess a lot more flaws and inadequacies compared to his conventional mechs, but one of its strongest advantages was the fact that its 'Carmine System' encompassed every single piece of organic tissue sustained by blood!
"In fact, the Carmine System doesn't really exist as a discreet system anymore. The ordinary cardiovascular system of the biomech essentially fulfills its purpose without doing anything special."
The original Carmine System was an attempt to introduce a blood circulatory system to a mech frame that did not have anything to do with blood in the first place!
Ves did not need to go through all of that effort this time because a biomech already incorporated this to a much more extensive degree!
The real challenge to incorporating the essential elements of the Carmine System into a biomech was to make its blood safe for the human body.
This was not technically possible unless a mech pilot subjected himself to extreme genetic modification and implantation.
The 'blood' utilized by a biomech was much denser and filled with all kinds of toxic substances that could quickly poison any human body from the inside!
In order lo safely merge (he cardiovascular system of the biomech and mech pilot, Ves had lo design a miration system in the cockpil.
This new addition was responsible for removing all of the toxic and dangerous elements in the enriched blood of the Blood Knight Project.
Only purified and diluted blood should be able to get into the body of the mech pilot.
Theoretically, everything should be safe. There was little reason to suspect that the filtered blood would pose a health risk to the mech pilot after undergoing a lot of processing.
Ves did not assume 11 was completely safe, though. He needed lo test this new technological implementation to make sure that he did not overlook a few variables.
In any case, as long as those measures worked, the outcome should be quite considerable.
"The Carmine Systems integrated in conventional mechs such as the Bastion and the Blood Star function more like add-ons rather than a core system of those machines. They only comprise up to 5 percent of the volume of rhe mech frame. While they are working as intended, 1 always feel that much of their potential remains untapped."
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