Chapter 6218 Cockpit As A Mech

Chapter 6218 Cockpit As A Mech

"We originally sought out a Terran Senior Mech Designer that possessed a Class IV design philosophy." Jovy Armalon stated. "The Terrans tend to be fairly good in designing fast and mobile mechs. Their slight preference towards melee combat creates a large demand for mechs that can catch up to enemies. The presence of the Light of Sol also generates a large amount of pride among the Terrans for being able to design the fastest mech in existence. Many mech designers have become inspired by the Radiant god mech and chose to enter the mech industry by dedicating their work to related specializations."

Ves nodded in understanding. "That is a sensible approach. How did you guys manage to get so far off-track that you stumbled on a mech designer as eccentric as Lady Romanda Devos?"

"We came across her name when we studied another Senior Mech Designer from the Devos Ancient Clan. Master Laila Rebecca Devos has been particularly accommodating towards our search. We could not divulge the reason why we wanted to obtain detailed internal data on her ancient clan's Seniors, but she shared all of the files she was permitted to transfer without question."

"I see."

The Devos Ancient Clan had been hosting the Larkinsons in their port system for a while now. Ves had also taught at the Eden Institute of Technology & Business for a longer period of time.

The Devosans most definitely paid a lot of attention to Ves and his work. They must have gotten wind that Ves may be working on a hugely impactful project, and wanted to get in any way possible.

That must be when the pair of mechers came across Lady Romanda's name and specialization.

It was pretty obvious why Jovy and Vector came to an instant agreement about the suitability of inviting her to participate in the Swarm Project.

Professor Vector Loban changed the projection to show one of the old Carmine mechs that Ves designed for testing purposes. It was a pretty generic machine with balanced but unexceptional performance.

The Transhumanist highlighted the Carmine System.

"As a mech designer with a biotech specialization, I have been thinking about how to improve and optimize your initial implementation of your Carmine System. One of the aspects that is rather detrimental about your initial invention is how the utilization of space and volume is not optimal. It not only requires the mech design to reserve space in every part and limb to make room for blood veins, but there is also a notable lack in redundancy. If the key biological components of the Carmine System are destroyed, the Carmine pilot is unable to interface with his machine despite the fact that the rest of the mech still remains functional."

Ves furrowed his brows. He had not bothered to find out what happened if a Carmine mech's biological systems got destroyed. He supposed the mechers had already completed this particular study.

"Can the Blood Pact persist if the Carmine System gets destroyed?" He decided to ask.

"According to our studies, which are not rigorous enough to make any definite conclusions, the evidence suggests that the Blood Pact can still hold even if all of the biological components of the Carmine System have been destroyed or separated from the mech." Vector factually explained. "The Pact is sustained by the lives, or rather the spirits, of the mech and living mech. As long as one of them remains alive, the Pact can persist. The Carmine pilot only loses the ability to control his machine. This means that the Carmine mech pilot can still make a comeback and pilot his Carmine mech as before if it gains a new Carmine System."

That was good to know. Ves grew a little more reassured after hearing that the Carmine System had not turned into a giant weak point for his mechs.

The design philosophy of Lady Romanda Devos promised to give him a great way to do so if his assumptions were correct.

"Are you thinking that the ultra-large cockpits can retain enough of the living mech that as long as they survive, it doesn't matter if the rest of the mech frame gets wrecked?"

Vector smiled. "Yes. I have tried to model this approach. Let me give you a sketch that shows one of my examples."

The projection shifted to display a draft design of a first-class subordinate mech. Many details about the wasp-shaped mech were still vague and undefined, but it already looked clear that much of the upper half of the subordinate mech comprised the 'ultra-large cockpit'!

So long as the subordinate mech remained whole, the special cockpit served no meaningful purpose.

It was only when the subordinate mech incurred a lot of damage to its exterior components and lost its outer shell that the Carmine mech 'ejected' its cockpit.

In reality, it looked more as if the ultra-large cockpit purged all of the exterior components that were previously attached to it in order to free up its liberated form.

What remained after purging all of the damaged and useless mech components was a very small and compact fighter craft.

Unlike the more robust cockpits of Lady Romanda's previous works, the light mech frame of the Carmine mech did not leave much room for strengthening the enhanced cockpit. It clearly eschewed weapon systems as well as many other redundant components.

The only goal of this ultra-large cockpit was escape. Nothing else. Its small size and mass allowed it to boost away at an impressive rate.

Even if the thrusters operated on a very limited charge, as long as they were powerful enough, their efforts should be enough to separate from most battlefields and return to a friendly base of mothership relatively intact!

To facilitate the escape, the ultra-large cockpit also had the option of mounting a 1-use hyper energy shield generator. The device sacrificed repeatable activations in favor of generating a very strong hyper energy shield that could last long enough to shield the cockpit from most incidental opportunistic attacks.

"This is a pretty nice concept." Ves said. "The premise is that the ultra-large cockpit retains enough of the living mech that it can 'preserve' the Carmine mech. As long as this condition is true, then I am more than willing to take Lady Romanda onboard."

"We have conducted tests related to cockpits in the past." Vector mentioned. "Alas, the cockpits alone are usually not enough to preserve the life of the Carmine mech, and thereby allow the Carmine mech pilot to remain useful in this capacity. As far as we can tell, when the pilot ejects the cockpit from the Carmine mech, the living mech remains attached to the latter rather than the former. What we aim to accomplish is to borrow Lady Romanda's assistance in designing a Carmine mech so that its essence is anchored in her ultra-large cockpit as opposed to the rest of the mech frame. I expect that we will all have to adjust our perspectives on our work as well. We need to consider the ultra-large cockpit to serve as the core of the Carmine mech. The remaining armor plating, limbs and other modules are all 'accessories' that we have decided to attach to the core mech frame. Do you understand what I am trying to convey?"

"I get it, Vector. This is not too dissimilar to some of my previous modular mech designs. The biggest difference here is that it is taken to a different extreme. I can see how it can work, but the premise is that the ultra-large cockpit possesses enough of the features of a mech that it can preserve the Carmine mech upon ejection. We will need to conduct tests in order to confirm that it is fruitful to cooperate with her. A lot of Carmine mech pilots will be grateful for giving them a better chance of preserving their only opportunity to fight with a real mech."