The Mech Touch novel Chapter 5615

Chapter 5615 Viktor MacMillan

It did not take much time for Ves to understand the gist of Viktor MacMillan's strengths as a mech designer.

The man studied at an elite mech design university and managed to demonstrate enough talent and other qualities to become apprenticed to a Master Mech Designer.

Once he started to receive special tutelage, his progress took off. He rapidly increased his understanding of all of the necessary fields related to energy shield systems.

More than that, Viktor MacMillan also learned many of the well-established design solutions of his Master, thereby enabling him to immediately design mechs with a mature set of defenses!

However, just because he inherited the design philosophy of his Master did not mean he was resting on the laurels of his elders. Years after he set out on his own and emigrated to the Red Ocean, he had been working to increase the efficiency of his master's signature invention even further.

MacMillan did not have the scientific and technological accumulation to substantially improve the core mechanisms of close-surface energy shield systems.

This was why he diverted to improving the control systems instead.

Most mechs with energy shield generators tended to activate them whenever they were about to enter into a dangerous situation where attacks could come at any time.

While energy shields tended to expend energy a lot more rapidly when resisting incoming attacks, they also strained the power reactor even when they were running idle.

That was a considerable waste, especially if a battle dragged out over time.

Keeping an energy shield generator running even when they weren't necessary at the time also wore out a lot of components and increased the heat buildup of a machine.

All in all, if there was a way to keep them inactive during all of the times when the mech did not actively face any dangerous pressure, then that would do much to extend their presence in the field!

"Let me get this straight." Ves said as he analyzed what he heard. "The close-surface energy shield system is your Master's work, while the dynamic energy shield activation system is your own solution. Is this correct?"

Viktor curtly nodded. "That is so, but I have not dedicated all of my later years to developing the latter. I am still dedicated to improving my Master's work in my own way. I have mainly been doing this by adapting phasewater technology and more recently hyper technology to close-surface energy shield systems. Once I have grasped both new fields to a strong degree, I hope to develop a new category of energy defense that can offer comparable protection to azure energy shields but at a much greater efficiency."

Ves asked a few more questions related to Viktor's most recent mech designs and design solutions. It quickly became clear that the candidate was primarily focused on increasing efficiency and reducing waste.

These were good goals to strive for, because energy shield systems generally imposed a heavy burden on a mech, particularly second-class and third class ones.

The value of his design philosophy was a bit lower when applied to first-class mechs because they no longer struggled to sustain the operation of a hungry energy shield generator.

Even so, efficiency never lost its usefulness.

"How is the performance of the dynamic energy shield activation system that you have developed in extreme situations and edge cases? Can it maintain the same 95 percent block rate when the mech is targeted by energy weapons?"

"My proprietary software cannot achieve this success rate when it is being attacked by energy weapons." Viktor MacMillan plainly admitted. "My activation system is most effective at efficiently blocking physical projectiles. Their velocities are much slower than the speed of light, so there is always enough lead time for my energy shield to rise to full power from a special standby state. Laser beams travel at the speed of light, so it is impossible to react after the energy weapons have opened fire. My system heavily depends on sensor input or external data feeds to carefully monitor the actions of opposing mechs and warships. There are usually indications when they are about to open fire. Even exotic alien weapons with strange operation rules can be deciphered by the adaptive learning component of my software after gathering enough observation data."

That sounded fairly useful, but Ves still felt this was a gimmick that any decent high-ranking mech designer could come up with. They just didn't bother to do so because they had better things to do with their time.

So far, Ves' impression of Viktor MacMillan was not entirely good. The man had yet to develop any truly strong or original design solutions by himself.

However, his foundation was strong and he still had plenty of time to refine his specialization in the future.

"How large are your energy shield generators?" Ves questioned. "Can they be small enough to fit inside a light mech?"

"The efficiency of my energy shield systems has made them much more suitable to be mounted into smaller and lighter mechs. Their energy shields can last up to three times longer due to all of the energy saving measures that I have implemented." Viktor proudly answered.

That meant that Viktor MacMillan was an efficiency-oriented mech designer. He mainly sought to improve his mechs by making his systems cheaper, less demanding and more long-lasting.

This did not mean he ignored the need to improve the hard defensive parameters of his energy shield systems, but he did not obsess over it like other specialists.

This made Viktor a lot more suited to work on lighter and more limited mech designs. Larger and heavier mechs possessed a lot of capacity for everything. Efficiency was not that big of a deal. Instead, they pursued greater power even if they generated more waste!

All in all, Viktor was a good addition to the Design Department. His work was already relevant to the LMC's many second-class mech models, which meant he could be put to work almost right away.

"Before we proceed, do you have any questions about the job that you are applying for? I am sure that Miss Streon here has already given you plenty of answers, but she is a fairly recent hire so she doesn't know everything."

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