As Benny explained his analysis that led to a shocking and arguably impossible conclusion, the Larkinsons became stunned!
While Ves was aghast at how much the Streons had been able to figure out with the data that they had on hand, both Lucky and Gavin couldn't believe what they were hearing!
How could Ves design a mech a century ago when he wasn't even born at that time?!
In fact, his father hadn't been born at that time either!
When the Ouroboros first came to life, his grandfather Benjamin was probably in his diapers.
How could a mech designer who did not exist during this time possibly design a mech?
It made no sense!
Yet as Lucky and Gavin continued to listen to Benny's plain but compelling analysis, they began to entertain greater doubts.
The clues all fell into place. When they saw how the younger Axelar talk and move, even they would be forced to admit that the Terran mech pilot resembled Ves quite a bit at the time!
There were too many mannerisms and speech patterns that clearly deviated from that of a meticulously trained and educated scion of the Streon Ancient Clan. It was irrefutable that a different individual managed to take charge of his body.
The real challenge was to tie Ves to Axelar. It was not enough to make an accusation. The Streons needed to provide strong and incontrovertible proof that a mech designer had somehow done the impossible and designed a mech before he was born!
It turned out that this problem was not that difficult to solve.
"I have studied the footage of Master Axelar when he was compromised to the footage of you, professor." Benny spoke with total confidence. "The analysis that I have presented to you is only a fraction of all of the calculations and pattern matching that I have performed in my head. My brain is highly augmented and much more digitized than the norm. The evidence overwhelmingly points to the conclusion that should not be possible, yet is somehow true. Inviting you here so that I can observe you in person in closer proximity is the final proof that we have sought to finalize our judgment. If my confidence level was 95 percent before this day, then it is 99.99 percent at this moment."
Ves wanted to twitch, yet he feared that would only push that confidence level even higher.
He messed up big time!
He never really thought about it, but how could the Terrans possibly be blind enough to miss so many drastic deviations among themselves?
What was worse was that Axelar Streon was not an ordinary Terran. He was a scion of a Terran ancient clan, and that was a big deal!
The mechers weren't the only people who had a penchant for monitoring everything. The Terrans could be just as bad, and the Streons clearly kept a close eye on all of their descendants.
In fact, Axelar's chief body and assistant was the main person responsible for this duty! Benny Smit was specifically trained to spot this kind of suspicious activity!
Ves had not made it difficult for the Streons at all to detect that Axelar acted completely outside of his established pattern.
Perhaps the Streons had stationed an elite team of operatives nearby.
As long as Ves did anything that threatened Axelar's safety, Benny and the operatives would instantly move into action!
The Senechai was not finished his story.
After providing overwhelming proof that Ves' behavior matched that of Axelar during this life-changing incident, Benny proceeded to play a recording of the auto designer program.
Ves instantly recalled this old and simplistic design interface. It possessed many elements that closely resembled those of a professional design suite, but it had been horribly simplified to the point where it behaved like a building game.
The sight disgusted Ves. At least the auto designer program improved by the Polymath was much more attuned to the needs of proper mech designers.
As the recording of the auto designer program continued to run, the initial version of the Ouroboros slowly took shape before everyone's eyes.
"This is the second major piece of proof that ties you to this incident." The Senechai spoke. "The skills, style, design choices and approach towards the technology at the time are wholly inconsistent to Master Axelar's past usage of the auto designer program. Not only that, but the design approach is wholly inconsistent with that of a first-class mech designer. We have developed a strong suspicion that the true maker of the Ouroboros was either a third-class or second-class mech designer."
"There are many third and second-class mech designers." Ves retorted, though his pushback was likely in vain. "In addition, my design style and design philosophy may be rare, but you should know quite well that the mech community is too vast. It is not impossible for other mech designers to apply similar methods, especially when they are teacher and student."
"We have already considered the possibility that the designer of the Ouroboros is your teacher, but the previous evidence that we have shown has already made that unlikely." Benny shot back. "Aside from that, the design approach to the Ouroboros matches your early works disturbingly well. This is not only my conclusion, but that of a respected Master Mech Designer of our clan."
A new set of projections appeared that not only showcased direct visual comparisons between the Ouroboros and Ves' many mech designs, but also contained a lot of annotations of a highly knowledgeable expert!
Although Ves hadn't been completely stupid and designed the Ouroboros exactly according to his style, he recalled that he hadn't been as careful as he should have been at the time.
Ves never imagined that a sloppy auto designed hero mech would actually be appreciated to the extent that it had grown to become one of the most powerful and renowned mechs in Terran space!
This massive oversight was the root cause why he had not put up his guard. He worried about other problems and never thought about how the Terrans could use all of the evidence he left behind to wait an entire century just so that they could finally trace the culprit!
Ves admired the Streons for their enormous patience and their persistence.
At the same time, he would have preferred for the Ouroboros to get scrapped and the Streons to forget about what happened so that they could never arrive at this shocking conclusion!
As Ves tried to muster up a response to this highly apt analysis, Gavin and Lucky already made their own judgments. freewebnøvel.com
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