Chapter 3712 - T lnstitute
Though she aspired to be the best swordsman mech designer in existence, she was far from reaching that level at the moment!
As a Journeyman, her right to speak in front of the MTA was practically nil. Even her peculiarities that set her apart were merely curiosities that did not trante into any real power.
Just like Joshua, Ketis experienced the helplessness of trying to oppose one of the most powerful organizations of humanity. Not even a sword god could cut an enormous trans-gctic organization in half!
She eventually sighed in defeat. "Okay, then. Have it your way. What do you suggest?"n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om
"As I''ve mentioned earlier, the paktons are obstacles that provide no meaningful benefit to humanity. The only way to change that is by making them valuable enough to humanity that keeping them alive is more beneficial than killing them off right away. Our options are limited, but I think we can make a good case to the MTA if we propose to use them as our test subjects for our breakthrough and advancement-rted research projects. They are not human, but possess enoughmonalities with our race to make this viable."
"This… how will you treat them, Ves?"
This was the difficult part of this proposal. Ves leaned forward on his chair and adopted a serious expression.
"If we leave the paktons be, then they will be regarded as burdens at best andtent threats at worst. If we want to change this evaluation, we need to convert them into assets, and the only way I can think of that qualifies is to turn them into test subjects. The good news is that we don''t have to experiment on all of them. We can leave at least half of their poption alone so that we can use them as a control group to makeparisons and as a reserve pool if we ever need to draw upon more test subjects."
Ves essentially guaranteed to Ketis that half of the paktons under their control wouldn''t be subjected to depraved experiments. That was already a great development that made Ketis feel more relieved.
Saving half of a poption of harmless alien refugees was not as good as saving all of them, but at this point she would take what she could get. Just like Joshua, she could not possibly push the boundaries set by the MTA in an open manner.
Ves hadn''t even detailed his experiments as of yet. As a mech designer and researcher herself, Ketis was aware that there was a huge leeway in how dangerous experiments could be. If haste was no concern, then they could easily drag out the studies across many decades, thereby reducing the potential dangers to a minimum.
Ves activated a projection that disyed a document that outlined his preliminary n.
"I have been working on this ever since you ''requested'' that we preserve as many paktons as we can. I already figured out from the beginning that we need to make them more useful alive than dead to humanity. Although there is no time for us to form anyplete research proposals, I often daydream about exploring new phenomena by conducting different experiments."
This was one of his past times whenever he had an idle moment. He never stopped thinking about ways to improve his design philosophy and the strength of his n.
If he ceased to do all of this, he would inevitably stagnate as a mech designer!
Ves turned his head and nced at his document.
"Ah, it''s a little outdated. The stuff we talked about has given me a lot of new ideas. Let me revise this n."
He utilized his imnt to directly transcribe his thoughts into additional text which he added to the document. It only took a dozen seconds for his research outline to look a lot more ambitious andprehensive!
"The… T Institute?" Ketis raised her eyebrow.
"Yes. That''s the name that I have chosen for the special research group that I have just mentioned." Ves answered. "It''s a nd name that doesn''t convey much meaning, but that''s deliberate. I originally wanted to call it the ''Transcendence Institute'' but that is too revealing. Once I have set it up, it will be the umbre organization that is responsible for conducting all of the ongoing research rted to facilitating human breakthroughs and improvements. RIght now, I havee up with four broad research divisions that each attempt to discover new and better ways of facilitating human development."
The revised document mentioned four research divisions in total.
The Mech Guidance Research Division epassed any research project rted to providing guidance through living mechs. Mechs such as the Chiron model, the Quint, the Enlightened Warrior model and even the uing Monster yer model fell into this category.
This was currently the most advanced and practical research direction. The Chiron and the Quint had already yielded good results while the Enlightened Warrior mechs were already starting to work on their mech pilots.
With the addition of the Monster yer, the Mech Guidance Research Division would be able to make a lot moreparisons since the mech was designed by Ketis as opposed to Ves!
The Enlightenment Research Division epassed any non-mech means of gradual improvement and achieving minor breakthroughs.
What Ketis had recently done and suggested to Ves fell into the scope of this research division.
Although Ves had not yet performed any studies in this area, he already possessed enough clues to believe that this was a promising research direction!
The process of human development always required a lot of umtion. The road to advancing to the next rank was long and torturous. The aim of the Enlightenment Research Division was to make this journey as straight and smooth as possible so that people did not waste their time on detours and dead ends.
This was especially relevant to mech pilots because they were like athletes whose conditions only allowed them topete in a limited age range.
Due to the inherent nature of their careers, mech pilots needed to advance to expert pilot before they reached 80 years old if they wanted to obtain hope of going any further.
The sooner they broke through, the better! This was why it was so crucial for mech pilots to ovee their hurdles quickly and gain strength as fast as possible. They were literally working against their biological clocks!
"Why set up this Enlightenment Research Division when you already have the Mech Guidance Research Division?" Ketis asked. "They both attempt to improve people through simr means."
"That''s true, but one research direction is exclusive to mech pilots while the other is open to people of other professions. You and I can''t benefit from any advancements rted to mech piloting."
"Ah. That makes sense."
Aside from the two divisions, there was also the Breakthrough Research Division. It epassed all of the research rted to triggering apotheosis and achieving major breakthroughs.
This was where Ves put much of his effort into the past. Though it was by far the most dangerous and extreme research division that he came up with, he still had confidence that it could yield incredible results.
Ultimately, Ves hoped that the Breakthrough Research Division could help him figure out how to artificially induce breakthroughs of every rank!
Mech pilot to expert candidate. Expert candidate to expert pilot. Expert pilot to ace pilot.
If Ves was able to grasp the secrets of each of these transitions, he would never have to worry about running out of high-ranking pilots again!
The Companion Research Division was the fourth and final one under the T Institute. It centered around the propagation and improvement ofpanion spirits.
Having created a bunch of them and seeing them flourish under different circumstances had given Ves a lot of confidence in their value and potential.
He no longer wanted to work on them on his own but form an entire research division that could perform dedicated studies on every conceivable aspect ofpanion spirits!
Unfortunately, this was also by far the most demanding research division because the requirements to create, manipte and studypanion spirits were extremely strict!
Ves did not want to give up on it, though. The more he thought about it, the more he saw potential in howpanion spirits granted new capabilities to people who did not possess them before!
Alexandria formally introduced Gloriana to spiritual engineering. Since herpanion spirit was made out of spiritual energy, she was able to manipte it to a limited degree as well by borrowing the help of the Queen Cat!
Sharpie allowed Ketis to adopt a second profession. Without herpanion spirit, Ketis would have little choice but to be an average Journeyman with a rtively boring specialty.
These were just two of the examples that proved to Ves that hispanion spirits could improve human development in another manner. Whether it was improving one''s existing capabilities or giving them entirely new capabilities, humans could always aplish a lot more as long as they enjoyed this benefit!
Still, there were way too many problems withpanion spirits. Not only did Ves barely know what he was doing, he also found it tedious to invest a lot of time and effort to grantpanion spirits to individual people.
It was the same as how Gloriana was only able to provide a handful of mech pilots with custom mechs. There was no way she could equip thousands of soldiers with mechs in a timely manner!
This was why setting up the Companion Research Division was so important to Ves. He needed help to understandpanion spirits better and find a way to ''mass produce'' them without requiring his personal input.
It did not matter if the quality, capabilities and potential of the mass-producedpanion spirits fell behind. As long as he was able to bestowpanion spirits to thousands of people at a time, the sheer quantity of them would overwhelm any other group of people!
His ultimate ambition was to find a way to bestow apanion spirit to every nsman!
With this additional source of strength, his Larkinsons would be a lot more productive, thereby enabling them to contribute a lot more to the n!
There was also an even greater reason why Ves ced so much emphasis onpanion spirits.
If his assumptions were correct, the concept ofpanion spirits might provide him with the key to bestowing spiritual potential to norms who did not possess this quality!
Ves theorized that this could potentially be aplished through two possible methods.
The first one was to activate a person''s spiritual potential. Someone who''s potential was dim and dull like Melkor could be activated through special means.
The second one was to transnt someone else''s spiritual potential in the target''s mind. This was a much more precarious and dangerous procedure, but Ves recalled he had already produced a partial sess when he helped Silent William advance.
If Ves was able to follow up on this aplishment and perform follow-up experiments, perhaps he would have been able to crack the secret by now. It would have been easy for him to turn Melkor into someone who had hope of bing an expert pilot in his lifetime!
He silently shook his head. He was ultimately a mech designer. His passion always centered around mechs. His research on mech pilots was merely incidental due to his increasing proficiency in spiritual engineering, but he could never allow it to consume all of his attention.
Hence the need to set up the T Institute and delegate much of the research to other people.
That ultimately brought Ves and Ketis back to the most important requirement to setting up this new research institution.
"All of this sounds nice, Ves, but it is useless if you can''t find the personnel to staff this institute." Ketis seriously pointed out. "You and I are the most qualified to lead it, but we don''t have the time to babysit research projects that don''t improve our ability to design mechs in the slightest."
Ves grimaced. "I know, I know. I don''t intend to give up on the T Institute, though. I am done with performing all of this research on my own. I havee far enough that I am ready to shift this responsibility to a dedicated organization. Give me a few minutes. Let me think about who I can appoint to lead my new institute."