The Mech Touch novel Chapter 5404

Chapter 5404 Marketing Considerations

The completion of the Lionheart and the Blood Star Mark II represented a turning point for Ves and Gloriana's stay on New Constantinople VIII.

Gloriana no longer had any heavy obligations left that held her back from going on a trip to replace her cranial implant.

The only reason why she decided to linger for a bit longer was to assist with the partial upgrade of the Macharia Excelsia.

It was a genuine ace mech after all, and the fact that it hailed from the Hex Federation made Gloriana even more enthusiastic about the machine!

Unfortunately, her inadequate qualifications prevented her from providing too much input. She was not even allowed to apply her god body solution as that would require a complete overhaul and rebuild of the ace mech.

The most she could do was to get into closer contact with the Macharia Excelsia and study the properties of an ace rifleman mech first-hand.

This was already valuable enough for a mech designer with her specialization. Combined with her modest involvement in the iterative upgrades of the Mars, her comprehension of machines that surpassed the existence of expert mechs had definitely improved by a lot. This would definitely serve her well once she was able to design her own ace mech in the future.

In any case, the minor delay also granted more time for the Survivalist-owned implant development company to optimize its augmentations for their VIP customer.

Gloriana also took the time to help Ves finalize the Fey Project. While she was not that passionate about mass production mechs, she deeply understood the importance of this new mech line.

The Fey Project had the potential to become one of the mainstays of the Larkinson Army as well as a bestseller on the second-class mech market!

"I think there is a good chance that we can persuade the Hex Army to adopt both public editions of the Fey Project." Gloriana remarked as she leaned against Ves as they studied the latest iteration of one of the fey models. "As long as the performance of the Standard Edition or the Elite Edition surpasses that of other mech models at the same price range, the Hexers will surely fall in love with its capabilities. It is just too versatile and useful."

As a new mech line that was targeted towards several different audiences, Ves had chosen to split up the development of the Fey Project into three broad variations.

The Standard Edition consisted of a cost-effective second-class non-transphasic hyper mech that was fairly expensive but still affordable for the most part.

The Design Department always had the option of designing additional variations in order to perform better under certain circumstances such as landbound combat.

The production cost fluctuated considerably due to geography and volatility in the resource markets, so it was not easy to figure out how much it cost to produce a single copy. Ves aimed to limit the cost to 2 MTA credits, though it was incredibly challenging for him to design an effective drone mech with so many limited means.

The Elite Edition was the much more powerful quasi-first-class transphasic hyper mech take on the Fey Project. Ves did not hold himself back as much and shopped around for lots of expensive tech and materials.

Its cost was much greater as a result, so much so that it was unaffordable to the vast majority of second-class forces!

With an estimated average production cost of 85 MTA credits, a lot of potential customers with enough starship capacity on their hands were better off spending that money on acquiring an entire mech company's worth of machines as opposed to a single boondoggle!

The Larkinson Edition largely resembled the Elite Edition, but it improved upon the version intended to be sold to well-heeled clients by upping the parameters that could still be raised!

Not only did the Larkinson Edition make use of significantly higher quantities of phasewater, it also incorporated the exclusive Energy Weaver Mech Ecosystem. This would give the Larkinson Army a massive edge and ensure its superiority in the middle zones!

Another factor that distinguished the three editions from each other was the use of hyper materials and hyper technology.

As more and more hyper materials continued to emerge from every part of the Red Ocean, the supply of low-grade and certain mid-grade variations had already started to become more adequate.

In order to keep the costs down, the Standard Edition predominantly made use of mid-grade hypers that were a bit more common.

The Elite Edition and Larkinson Edition utilized high-grade hypers that were not that easy to source.

It just so happened that the T Institute had already been working on expanding the production of many of the high-grade hypers that were needed to mass produce the more powerful editions of the Fey Project.

If not for the fact that internal demand of high-grade hypers was too high, Ves would have permitted the T Institute to sell a portion of its output!

The main factor that limited the supply at the moment was the difficulty of obtaining the 'precursor' materials that could transform into medium and high-grade hypers.

A lot of high-grade hypers originally came from relatively worthless materials, but that did not mean that there were trillions of tons of them lying around in a typical star system!

The current medium energy environment was not able to transform those precursor materials into hyper materials. The concentration of E energy radiation was not high enough, which meant that all of these hidden treasures had yet to show their true value!

An entirely new prospecting and mining industry had popped up that expressly hunted down these precursor materials.

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