The Mech Touch novel Chapter 5461

Chapter 5461 Multi-Spirit Living Mechs

The Bluejay Fleet cut through space like a sharp knife. The vessels of the Red Association had become much more visible and active throughout human-occupied space, so they did not attract too much attention.

Nonetheless, many parties had developed a strong interest in tracking the movements of Professor Ves Larkinson.

It was not difficult to find out that he was scheduled to hold a product reveal in the Bortele System in less than a month.

The 9 ships of the Bluejay Fleet followed the right trajectory for the most part. Their powerful superdrives made the journey much shorter than what was possible just a decade or so before.

This gave Ves less time to practice his flute playing skills, not that he was able to devote much time on this activity to begin with, just because he set out on a vacation did not mean he could drop his other obligations so easily.

Though he had made sure to clear his schedule for an entire week upon the moment he arrived at Ocanon VI, he had to make up for that by putting in extra work.

Fortunately, his productivity had increased by another degree after his second lightning baptism. It did not bring any notable qualitative improvements to his cognitive capabilities, but the quantitative improvements were quite notable!

Ves utilized this boost to quickly revise and expand the spiritual designs of the Supremo Project and the Transcendent Punisher Mark III Project.

It was not easy for him to convert them from mono-spirit living mechs into multi-spirit living mechs.

He not only had to figure out a lot of new solutions in order to cram multiple living entities in a single cohesive mech frame, but he also had to build up the theoretical framework that systemized this novel approach.

According to his latest theoretical model, living mechs could be divided into two different categories.

Almost all of his previous works could be categorized as mono-spirit living mechs. Leaving out the variable of design spirits, living mechs always embodied just a single living spirit.

It was only after Ves designed the Fey Fianna that he broke this pattern. Though he had confined the additional spiritual entities into the fey, they were still subordinate and connected to the main body.

From this result, Ves derived two variations that he could pursue in order to develop additional variations of his central living mech concept.

The first variation was the one he was trying to realize with his two heavy artillery mech design projects.

Asymmetrical multi-spirit living mechs encompassed any of his products that contained a hierarchy of multiple spirits.

The Fey Fianna was actually the first mech model of this kind. Ves currently sought to determine whether he could also apply this approach to mechs without any external equipment or spurs.

The word 'asymmetrical' denoted the existence of an unequal relationship between the different spirits. A hierarchy had to exist where there was at least one master spirit and multiple slave spirits.

"Hm, maybe that is the wrong terminology to use. It's better to use the terms dominant spirit and subordinate spirits instead."

In any case, no matter how much the different spirits got along, when it came down to it, only one of them had the greatest say.

A battlefield was no place to engage in any quarrels. Efficiency and quick decision-making mattered more than debating over the most effective solutions.

Ves believed it was always better to leave one spirit in charge of any of the other ones he put inside his works.

"Of course, the mech pilot has the ultimate say over everything. His will supersedes everything."

He intended to pay close attention to the actual performance of the Fey Fianna, the Supremo Project and the Transcendent Punisher Mark III in reality.

So long as the asymmetrical multi-spirit arrangement applied by Ves worked out well in three different cases, he planned to make it the standard of all of his living mech designs going forward!

So long as it did not introduce any serious shortcomings, Ves saw little reason why he should stick to mono-spirit living mechs.

This could be considered a generational evolution of living mechs.

"Thinking about asymmetrical living mechs also caused Ves to wonder what would happen if he designed a living mech that was not asymmetrical."

It was an interesting thought experiment. What if he stuffed multiple equal spirits into a single mech frame and did not establish an explicit hierarchy?

Would the two spirits work out their own responsibilities and split their duties in a harmonious fashion?

Or would the two spirits try to fight and devour each other in an attempt to 'monopolize' the mech they inhabited?

Ves truly did not know what would happen, and that made him excited. He just needed to come up with the right mech concept in order to develop such an interesting mech.

That was not all. Since Ves was able to design a living mech that contained multiple interconnected spirits inside its mech frame, what if he went into the other direction and spread them out over multiple mech bodies instead?

This could be regarded as an extrapolation of the Fey Fianna.

Instead of designing a single living mech that was accompanied by several living spurs, Ves wondered what would happen if he replaced the latter with complete living mechs instead.

"If this works out the way I think it will, I can effectively create a superorganism among mechs!"

This would be another radical new application of living mechs!

Instead of designing living mechs that all took on the role of independent machines that could be combined and separated without any issue, he wanted to form permanent spiritual bonds between them all that discouraged any separation.

"It would be like designing a Fey Fianna while replacing its living fey with dependent mechs."

The dominant mech would serve as the hive queen or pack leader of a larger number of subordinate mechs.

The former was able to exist on its own, but was designed to perform much better if it actively led a squad or a company of permanently bonded low-ranked units.

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