?Chapter 6402 Career Savers


    Ves had spoken for a long time.


    The Yellow Jacket was his brainchild after all. He hade up with the concept and contributed the most crucial technologies that made it work. Without his input, the Yellow Jacket designs would not be able to attract the attention of the Red Association, let alone capture the imagination of all of human society!


    Still, when it came to introducing other specific features, Ves eagerly left this job to the respective specialists who worked on these parts and systems.


    He was not egoistical enough to hog all of the attention for himself. In fact, he felt a little guilty for iming a disproportionate amount of the limelight for himself.


    The Yellow Jacket was a cooperative effort. The other 4 Senior Mech Designers not only provided valuable design solutions that made the mech designsprehensively stronger, but also served as a sounding board that helped Ves refine his own implementations.n/?/vel/b//in dot c//om


    Ves was therefore d to take a break and stand in the background while allowing his coborators to enjoy their moment at the forefront of humanity''stest obsession. "Meow."


    Lucky floated over and jumped into Ves'' arms.


    The gem cat rxed as Ves gently stroked the oiled metal exterior.


    [How is the reaction so far, Gavin?] Ves discretely inquired over amunication channel.


    [You can''t believe how many messages we have received! The LMC and our n has received a deluge of purchase requests for the new Carmine mechs.]


    [As expected. Have there been any groups that have exhibited significantly less demand?]


    [As expected, the Red Fleet has shown very little interest, and the states that are heavily invested in the Auxiliary Fleet Program are also not as enthused.] Gavin replied. [Even so, it is impossible for them to remainpletely unmoved. Mechs, not warships, are popr among the people. It is easy to fire people up by introducing a good mech, but it is much harder to build up passion for warships after centuries of cultural and legal suppression.]


    As Ves continued to collect more information from Gavin, two of his coborators had begun to introduce what could arguably be regarded as the most controversial aspect of the Yellow Jacket designs.


    When Vector Loban and Romanda Devos attracted everyone''s attention, the former spoke first.


    "As the honorable Professor Larkinson has shared before, the Carmine System is biomechanical in nature. Every Carmine mech is a cybeic mech by definition. This is an inescapable reality due to the limitations of the current generation of this tech. In more concrete terms, a Carmine mech must always contain at least a small proportion of organic matter. This can be quite minimal as the demand to create blood cirction throughout a mech frame is not difficult to meet. However, our design team has chosen a bolder approach and decided to apply a far greater proportion of organic systems rtive to the mech frame for specific reasons. I shall disy the actual proportions of metallic and organicponents in the three versions of the Yellow Jacket."


    A projected ovey appeared on the exteriors of the three Yellow Jackets.


    These oveid images seemed to erase the exterior ting and expose the guts inside the machines.


    Every ovey disyed a realistic andplete representation of theponents stuffed inside the Yellow Jackets.


    It didn''t matter if no one understood what the individual parts andponents did. What mattered was that exposing the guts of the machines immediately revealed the proliferation of organic matter inside the Yellow Jackets!


    Beneath their metallic exteriors, the slender upper torso section of the Carmine mechs. consisted almost entirely of organic matter!


    Abination of flesh and bone upied the positions traditionally taken up by the cockpit and many other important systems.


    Although they already heard from Jacob Abbott that the Yellow Jacket at least partially contained organicponents, this was much different from what most people expected!


    The vast majority of organicponents concentrated on the upper chest, so much so that it dominated this entire section.


    This had many implications!


    Many mech designers and industrialists frowned at this sight. The production chain for organicponents waspletely different from the production chain of metallicponents. To grow a single,rge organic mass like this requiredrge and dedicated growing facilities.


    It was not particrly difficult to set up these organic production facilities, but it took arge amount of upfront investment to construct them all. A lot of people needed to be trained and educated in biotechnology-rted subjects in order to know how to handle the production and maintenance of these weird organic masses.


    Not many people weed the additional burdens brought by this organic chest section. They would rather buy a Carmine mech that possessed only the bare minimum of organicponents.


    Both Vector and Romanda already expected to receive this response.


    Neither of them felt worried because they firmly believed in their design solutions. "Many of you have begun to ask why we have made the unusual decision to implement arge organic mass inside the upper chest of the Yellow Jackets." Lady Romanda addresses the puzzled crowd. "This is because it represents the living core of a Carmine mech. I havebined my specialization in Ultra-Large Enhanced Cockpit Systems with Professor Vector Loban''s specialization in Furnace Mitochondria Systems to develop an oversized organic ''cockpit'' that has seamlessly merged with the Carmine System." This exnation already overwhelmed a lot of people. They still did not understand why this entire section had to be all-organic.


    The Terran mech designer continued her lecture as she was far from finished.


    "This design approach has many implications. When we started to design the Carmine mechs of the Swarm Project, we all became aware of the limitation that a Carmine mech pilot can only form a single Blood Pact for the rest of his or her life. In order to prevent many hopeful norms from returning to their old selves ahead of time, we sought to increase the survival rates of the pilots as well as their bonded Carmine mechs. After arge amount of trial and error, Vector Loban and I have finally developed a cockpit that carries enough metaphorical weight to form the bare minimum of a living machine." Professor Vector Loban exined why this mattered. "The most important implication of this special condition is that when you form a Blood Pact with a Carmine mech, you will not necessarily form a pact with theserge yellow-and-ck metallic-looking constructs, but the significantly morepact organic masses buried in their upper torsos. This means that the organic ultrarge enhanced cockpit is essentially the Carmine mech in truth. The rest of the machine that is predominantly made out of metal alloys can be treated as an borate, highly functional suit of armor." Many people grew silent when they processed this crucial information. A lot of people understood the implications right away, while others needed more help to understand


    the benefits.


    "Simr to an infantry soldier, if you destroy the suit, the person wearing it may still be able to survive." Lady Romanda exined with a smile. "Only when an attack kills the human is the soldier actually dead. The Carmine mech will always be able to remain alive even when it is reduced to just this organic ultrarge enhanced cockpit, and it does not even need to be whole. The less organic matter is left, the more heavily injured the Carmine mech bes, but as long as it is rtively intact, it can still be restored in full. This will give any Carmine mech pilot who lost their ''mech'' in battle a second chance to fight as before. As long as the pilot is able to evacuate from the battlefield with a functional cockpit, the Blood Pact will remain healthy and operational." Now that the two Seniors had made it clear enough, a lot of people suddenly changed their evaluations on these weird organic masses.


    They previously regarded them as unwanted and undesirableplications. Now, they


    literally embraced the organic cockpits as saviors!


    They wished their cockpits were evenrger and stronger than now, because that would give them an even greater chance of making aeback after suffering a personal


    defeat in battle!


    No one was able to win a battle every time. No mech pilot could guarantee that he and his mech would remain in one shape after the end of every battle. Losing one''s mech was amon urrence in battle. The more informed individuals knew that the probability of losing a mech rose when the machine was cheap. Other factors that increased this rate was when the pilot wascking in both skill and


    experience.


    All of this meant that many early Carmine mech pilots had a high chance of losing their bonded Carmine mechs in their first battles!


    It would be extremely painful to many of them to enter the battlefield in high spirits, only to get thrashed by the ruthless aliens and eventually crawl back from the front without a Carmine mech to continue their short-lived piloting careers.


    Lady Romanda Devos activated a new projection that disyed a cross-section of the three different varieties of cockpits.


    To call them ''cockpits'' was actually a misnomer. They gained so many additional systems and features that they had be vehicles in themselves!


    "As you can see in these images, my organic ultrarge enhanced cockpits incorporate arge variety of elements that enhance their survival ability. If a Carmine mech falls in battle, the ultrarge cockpit will detach from the alloy shell and rocket back to the rear or nearest designated safe zone unless otherwise specified. The cockpit isrge enough to mount fairlypact but powerful short-duration boosters. The damage resisting capabilities of these cockpits are fairly modest due to the need for cost savings, but their mobility is good. They contain a range of other damage control and damage mitigation systems to further enhance their survival,"


    "The ultrarge cockpits possess an additional feature that can help with preserving the Carmine mechs as well as the pilots sheltering inside." Professor Vector Loban added. "I have applied a version of my Furnace Mitochondria into the organic cells. This will enable the ultrarge cockpit to overload its systems at the cost of rapidly extracting the high density of stored energies contained within the cells. This will cause the organic cells to rapidly burn out and die, but the released energies will be so great that


    the ultrarge cockpit may briefly double or triple its eleration as it flees the


    battlefield."


    This was quite a nifty feature!


    The ultrarge cockpit was like a fast shuttle that could speed up even faster for a brief interval as long as it burned up parts of its organic mass!


    This was a self-sacrificial feature that would rapidly degrade the size, the protection and


    the functionality of the ultrarge cockpits.


    However, the power boost gained from this sacrifice was more than worth it in the right.


    moments!


    The sooner the ultrarge cockpits escaped the range of enemy firepower, the greater


    the probability that they would live to get rebuilt intoplete Carmine mechs again. "The ultrarge cockpit functions quite simr to an escape shuttle for all intents and purposes." Lady Romanda said. "It isrger, more robust and just as maneuverable than a shuttle. When the aliens learn that the best way to handle Carmine mechs is to relentlessly eliminate the cockpits, then they will target them specifically. The burden of defeating your ultrarge cockpits will increase, and sessful interception attempts will drastically drop."


    It was not quite certain whether that would be the case, but many people had a lot of


    confidence in these ims.


    As the two Senior Mech Designers continued to exin the nuances of the organic


    ultrarge cockpits, they gradually found their own rhythms and smoothly introduced the possible uses and constraints of the ultrarge cockpits.


    "Do not forget. The organic core is the living mech. The alloy parts built around the


    ultrarge cockpits are all optional and redundant. Losing them will not threaten the survival of the Carmine mech,"


    Now that more and more people gradually understood how much this could save their lives and careers, they finally expressed overwhelming support for this wonderful


    implementation!