The Mech Touch novel Chapter 6424

Chapter 6424 The First Living Biomechs

Ves long harbored an ambiguous relationship towards biomechs.

As a mech designer who was born and raised in a fairly ordinary third-rate state in the galactic rim of the Milky Way, he never had much contact with biotechnology throughout his life.

Unlike the citizens of the rare states that committed to biotechnology such as the Life Research Association, Ves did not receive years of exposure to biomechanical products. This meant that he regarded it as akin to alien technology. Every biomech and product of biomechanical engineering came across as inhuman to Ves. There was just something about all of the icky flesh and bloody fluids that disturbed both his conscious and conscious parts of his mind.

This rejection reaction gradually lightened up as Ves grew older and gained more understanding of biotechnology.

After Ves managed to gain a more systematic grasp of the science of biotechnology, he became a lot more tolerant towards it. The acquisition of relevant knowledge dispelled much of the mystery surrounding biotech products. Now that he was able to figure out their basic functions and working principles, they functioned just like any other piece of technology.

They just came in a more disgusting form.

Still, Ves may have gone as far as incorporating biotechnology in his design philosophy, but that did not mean he was completely comfortable with working on this organic tech base!

This was one of the two main reasons why he always felt reluctant to take the next step and design a true biomech.

The other reason that held him back from designing such a mech was because he strongly felt that he would be crossing a line that could never be undone.

Ves had gathered plenty of clues that indicated that his design philosophy possessed excellent synergy with biomechs.

Perhaps far too well.

It frankly made Ves both afraid and suspicious of what he might create from his own hands.

His prior trials involving an experimental piece of organic mounted wargear produced a savage monstrosity that constantly sought to fight and rebel against Venerable Joshua Larkinson and the Everchanger.

The Titan-5 Project had been his first foray into discovering the interactions between living mechs and biomechs.

He discovered that biomechs or any form of biotissue could serve as an excellent carrier

for the spiritual foundation of a living mech.

It was so much easier that the biomass behaved as if it was meant to carry a living spirit. While all of this sounded great, the problem was that there was an awful lot of bleedthrough!

Certain properties of the organic tissue transferred to the spiritual foundation, causing the latter to become contaminated to the point of mutating into a monster!

This sounded awful to Ves as the unpredictable behavior and increased resistance from the savage and degenerated living entity led to a severe loss of control!

The problem became so bad in his opinion that he saw no choice to suspend the use of the Titan-5 Project. The large 'meat suit' as he affectionately called it had just become too violent to bother.

Venerable Joshua already mentioned that he had to spend more time and energy on fighting against his own meat suit than the enemy during those final days!

Ves was not a mad scientist who liked to push the envelope just because he could. He knew his limits.

There was no reason for him to play with fire and risk a catastrophic accident with the Titan-5 Project when there was no prospect of a huge payoff.

He had already decided to suspend all studies related to the Titan-5 Project. He also instructed the Larkinson Biotech Institute to freeze the meat suit in a block of ice and lock it inside the deepest and most secure vault of the Dragon's Den.

He could have ordered the meat suit to be destroyed, but he felt reluctant to do so. It was still a fairly powerful and unique living object. Ves had not extracted all of the value out of it. He was very reluctant to throw it all away when he could still mine more secrets out of this bizarre creation.

In any case, if his biomechs ended up similar to the Titan-5 Project, then Ves did not want to birth a much more potent and complete monstrosity into the universe.

Every time Ves came up with a new biomech concept, he would think back on the meat suit and consider whether his idea had any chance of solving or handling the problems that he could foresee.

In all of those cases, the answer was always no. His knowledge base and his concept. lacked enough countermeasures and safeguards that could keep the biomechs under control.

Ves did not want to invest 6 to 12 months worth of design time onto a biomech design project that only ended up in catastrophe.

Sure, the failures might be able to teach him a lot of harsh lessons about the perils of combining his design philosophy with biomechs, but he would rather wait until he gained enough confidence to do it right the first time.

This long-awaited moment had finally come.

wider as he continued to flesh out his idea. "In my imagination, this biomech will start off as bland and aligned to the human race as possible. While I intend for it to become a living mech, I do not want it to develop its own personality at this stage. I will take special measures to prevent the birth of a conscious personality in order to minimize the risk of accidents. When a person enters the cockpit and forms a Blood Pact with the biomech, it will hopefully develop the first vestiges of a personality that is based on the Carmine mech pilot."

"I imagine that this will not remain this way." The Hunter guessed. "It will embody the idea that you have mentioned earlier. Once the biomech begins to hunt, it will begin to absorb the superior flesh and organs of the exobeasts that it has felled. This will not only result in grotesque physical mutations, but even more terrible transformations to the personality of the living mech. Perhaps... the biomech may even revive portions of the slain exobeast's personality and consciousness!"

Whereas other mech designers considered this to be an immensely dangerous idea that needed to be rejected, Ves saw a huge amount of promise in this idea!

Ves became so enamored with his latest vision that inspiration struck him yet again!

It was not enough to design a quaint little Carmine biomechs oriented towards the Hunting Association.

He increasingly felt inclined to base his water-attributed elemental Carmine mech around this concept!

He already came up with a fitting name for this type of advanced Carmine mech!

"The greatest strength of my future Mergewater Carmine biomechs is that they can reflect the strength of the prey a Hunter pilot has defeated." Ves boasted with an increasingly more maniacal smirk! "Just think how glorious that would be! Every Mergewater biomech will evolve into a unique trophy and combat machine. The Hunter

pilot has earned every powerful upgrade."

"What about the potential backlash from these Carmine biomechs, Ves? Can you truly promise us that your products will be stable or manageable enough for us to pilot?" "You are right to ask this question. The greatest risk factor to these special biomechs may serve as an incredible disadvantage to other mech pilots, but I believe in the strength of the members of the Hunting Association. They have already defeated the exobeasts in their hunts. How can they ever give in to the savage remnants of their personality that the Mergewater biomechs have absorbed? A true Hunter will master his own machine no matter how violent and unruly its personality has become! A competent Hunter will know how to control and direct all of that potent aggression towards his real enemies, thereby allowing them to defeat much more opponents than normal!"

All of that sounded great, but the vice director wondered what would happen to Hunters

that did not meet these high standards.

"The danger cannot be eliminated." Talas Redmond concluded. "This means that only the strong and capable deserve to pilot this special Carmine biomech of yours. Those who overestimate their abilities and succumb to their dangerous biomechs considered themselves to be predators, only to find out far too late that they are prey to their own _{ƒrēewebnoѵёl.cσm}

machines. I... do not object to this as much as I should. As long as the risks are known and predictable enough, these strange Carmine biomechs still hold value. However, these interesting machines must also be significantly stronger than conventionals that lack these additional complications. Your words alone are not enough to convince us. We need proof that you can realize this ambitious mech design."

Ves' eyes glinted. "Does that mean you are finally willing to form an agreement between our two organizations?"