Master Ginevra Hubert-Colmain was a severe-looking woman with middle-length gray hair. She wore a neutral gray suit and coat that hugged her slim build but did not add much color to her appearance.
Despite the fact that she was 'only' 180 years old, she carried herself as a mech designer who was a century older. Ves gained the impression that the female Master had spent many hours on quiet studying, experimentation and other boring-sounding stuff.
Her mech company reflected her focus on design over the other spheres of the mech industry.
According to the galactic net, the GHC Mech Consulting Bureau did not produce a lot of mechs in-house, but designed a lot of mechs on commission to many different clients.
Based in the more distant Greenwich Middle Zone, GHC had managed to carve out a good niche in the competitive mech market. It designed complete mechs if needed, but also did a lot of business by providing consulting services to any mech designer or department that was struggling with a difficult project.
There was one particular reason why Master Ginevra Hubert-Colmain became such a valued consultant and adviser in the mech industry.
She originally came from the galactic center of the Milky Way!
Even if she only grew up as a relatively unassuming second-class mech designer in one of the numerous marginal buffer states in the prosperous region, she gained access to many benefits that were practically unattainable in the galactic heartland and the galactic rim.
She had access to significantly more advanced augmentations. There were even cases where redundant or used stocks of first-class augmentations got dumped in whatever second-rate state could afford these dubious goods.
She was able to study at a mech design university that taught a lot more high technologies that were usually present in first-class mech designs.
She had access to many relationship networks that enabled her to forge connections with first-raters.
She also started her business in a region where average customers had so much more money at their disposal that it wasn't even funny!
It did not surprise Ves that second-class mech designers from the galactic center found it much easier to promote to first-class mech designers.
Anyone who grew up under those circumstances could soar into the heavens!
However, Master Ginevra did not enjoy a powerful start. She insisted on starting her own business and experienced slow growth throughout her first century of life.
It was only after she became a Master Mech Designer and started over in the Red Ocean that she started to build up momentum.
The new frontier was a much more suitable place for her to do business. Not only was the market a lot more fluid, but the rise of new technologies enabled her to leverage her intellectual prowess to the fullest.
Master Ginevra Hubert-Colmain had earned a reputation for understanding phasewater technology and hyper technology quickly. She increased her proficiency in these new and exciting fields so quickly that she purportedly managed to construct her own unique comprehension that better utilized their properties.
This was why she became a successful consultant. Many other mech designers with busy schedules simply did not have the time to study phasewater technology or hyper technology to the same extent.
It was much better to hire a consultant that could solve specific design problems that were intimately related to the new technologies that introduced a lot of new and unfamiliar paradigms.
In any case, it was not just her learning ability that enabled her to stand out in this day and age.
Her design philosophy also became a lot more relevant during the last two mech generations.
It was rather interesting to Ves that Master Ginevra originally settled on a Class VIII design philosophy that was not too relevant when she started out roughly 150 years in the past.
She chose to dedicate her entire career to exploring the field of Exotic Energy Conversion.
Exotic energy was not an unknown concept during the Age of Mechs. Humanity had already developed an extensive degree of familiarity with the basic and fundamental types of energy.
Many different human technologies made ingenious use of thermal energy, kinetic energy, gravitic energy, electrical energy, sound energy, radiant energy and mechanical energy.
Yet that did not encompass every energy type in existence.
The universe was far more amazing than many humans could ever imagine from their limited perspectives.
Many different aliens managed to harness the power of more exotic and unusual energy types.
One of the more iconic examples in the previous age happened to be Worclaw energy. The powerful Alshyr race was known to eschew a lot of technology because it was mostly redundant to these powerful beings.
This large and potent avian race could fight and travel faster-than-light by relying on their own bodies alone!
They could accomplish so many more feats that they were practically the opposite of a tool-using race.
The Alshyr were probably the closest equivalent to body cultivators in the modern era of the Milky Way Galaxy!
The Alshyr constantly underestimated the power of technology, and that ended up being one of the root causes of their defeat at the hands of humanity. freёweɓnovel.com
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