Chapter 5662 Competitive Pressure
5662 Competitive Pressure
The Fey Fianna was the first product that could truly be regarded as a mainstream mech model.
In a time where the Hyper Generation had just begun, the Living Mech Corporation cleverly took advantage of a momentary gap in the market and displaced the established brands by releasing a killer drone mech line!
As copies of the Standard Edition rapidly began to fall into the hands of many second-class mech forces, they quickly started to make good use of its many excellent properties.
As a modern hyper mech that happened to be among the easiest drone mechs for mech pilots to get started with, a lot of outfits fell in love with its myriad of capabilities!
One of the greatest disadvantages of a typical mech force was their lack of unit diversity.
This used to be an advantage during the Age of Mechs. In times of peace where the Big Two heavily limited the scope of human-to-human warfare, mechs were more than sufficient to fight the battles that mattered. N♡vεlB¡n: Unleashing Imagination, One Read at a Time.
Other unit types such as infantry and tanks had their respective uses, but devoting most of the industrial and warmaking potential towards mechs yielded so many advantages that they had more than proven their worth.
However, now that red humanity had begun to fight against a foe that did not play by the rules based on mechs at all, the flaws of developing an overreliance on mechs alone became increasingly more exposed.
The Age of Mechs had come to an end. More and more people gradually realized that the time had finally come for them to graduate from the simpler times of the past.
The four centuries of uninterrupted peace and prosperity in the Milky Way had been a golden age for mechs, but also caused a lot of humans to forget about the usefulness of other unit types.
The Red Fleet experienced a resurgence as it neatly took advantage of the shortcomings exposed by the Red War.
There were good reasons why warships had long served as the dominant war weapons in the conflicts throughout the history of the Milky Way and the Red Ocean!
Their incredible sizes alone easily allowed them to overpower anything else by relying on brute force alone.
This was one of the reasons why the people of the middle zones and lower zones embraced the Auxiliary Warship Program with so much enthusiasm. They finally gained a chance to rely on the same kind of assets that their alien foes took for granted!
The comfort and reassurance provided by warships far exceeded that of mechs. The former had become a lot more mysterious to people nowadays. Every child of the Age of Mechs had grown up in a time where warships had long been removed from their daily lives.
The destruction wrought by alien raiding fleets and the difficulty of defeating enemy warships had caused these vessels to become the latest boogeymen for many red humans.
Gaining a chance to serve on locally built human warships finally gave red humans an opportunity to conquer their fears and use them against their own enemies!
As the rollout of auxiliary warships slowly started to ramp up, the mech industry did not remain idle.
Mechs enjoyed focused development for such a long period of time that their sophistication and combat effectiveness far exceeded that of any other small craft!
The depth and variety of mechs boggled the imagination. The strongest civilization of the Milky Way had poured so much time and energy into elevating all of their aspects that not even the vaunted phasefighters could fight mechs on an equal level.
The fact that many courageous mech forces not only dared to attack alien warships but actually secured a lot of victories in the process was proof that mechs had already broken through the limitations of small craft!
During the second year of the Age of Dawn, two trains of thought had gradually emerged among the populace.
One of them favored a combined arms approach. These were the people who became fed up with the limitations of mechs and favored a diversification approach.
In addition, one of the hidden advantages of using living fey was that their living personalities did not actually die.
They just went back to their base mech and waited for the machine to acquire a replacement fey before the subordinate spirit took its place again!
A lot of first-time buyers of living mechs gradually began to familiarize themselves with the true meaning of LMC products!
In any case, under the backdrop of changing times, the mech industry did not show any weakness towards the resurging warship industry.
As the vibrant mech market continued to generate a lot of buzz due to the releases of other powerful hyper mech models, many mech insiders assumed that Professor Ves Larkinson and the Living Mech Corporation had already released all of their powder.
It was difficult to imagine that a Senior Mech Designer and a fairly modest player in the mech market could support the development of another explosive bestseller.
Even the strange news that the Larkinson Clan had somehow become a big shareholder of a large Rubarthan mech manufacturer did not dispel this assumption.
They were all wrong.
On a certain day, the CEO of Isthmus Manufacturing decided to hold a product reveal event.
This was highly unusual because Isthmus Manufacturing never stood out as a producer of original designs. It had always placed itself as a convenient large-scale manufacturer of mainstream mech models from many different sources.
There was no no need for Isthmus to take risky gambles and compete directly against other mech companies for market share.
It was much more comfortable for Isthmus to leech of the success with successful mech companies instead!
This was why the mysterious announcement generated a lot of unusual buzz in the Rubarthan mech community.
There was no way the CEO would hold a high-profile event just to introduce an average second-class mech design.
A lot of journalists smelled an interesting story. This was especially the case when Isthmus Manufacturing cleverly utilized its familiarity with the Rubarthan media landscape to drop subtle hints and raise people's expectations for this product reveal.
All of these signs showed that Isthmus Manufacturing was so confident in its upcoming release that it did not hesitate to make a spectacle out of this event.
People wondered what Isthmus Manufacturing had managed to obtain that merited so much attention.
If the mech company had overestimated the appeal of its upcoming product, then its competitors would not hesitate to take advantage of the resulting flop to embarrass the mech manufacturer!
Competition within the Rubarthan Pact was intense. The profits were high, but they were only a limited number of players.
Was the confidence of Isthmus justified or had its leaders overestimated the value of its upcoming product?
Many people remained optimistic. A company as well-run as Isthmus was not led by fools. If Micky Tarukan was willing to put his name and face behind this upcoming product, then it had to be legitimate!
This was why a lot of Rubarthan journalists, mech designers, mech commanders and other related individuals attended the event at the company's massive exhibition center next to its headquarters.
The Impresario Principality had drawn the attention of a lot of second-raters in the Rubarthan Pact.
Genuine Rubarthan citizens had little interest in second-class mechs so they did not bother to tune in, but they would probably come to regret their decision by the end of the day.
As a lot of media began to cover the event, Micky Tarukan appeared in front of his massive audience in a hall that was tailor-made to showcase the mechs produced by his company.
"Welcome everybody. Today is a day that mech pilots shall rejoice. This is because this will be the first time that our valiant heroes and defenders can gain the opportunity to wield the power of a god, if only for an instant."
That certainly built up a lot of interest.