Chapter 6410 Blood Is Thicker Than Water

Chapter 6410 Blood Is Thicker Than Water

As Tristan Wesseling continued to listen to Ves answer all sorts of questions from the podium, his expression grew increasingly more complex.

His emotions had long turned into a jumbled mess. His friend had truly taken the entire mech community, no, all of red humanity by storm!

As a mech designer, Tristan understood the implications of Carmine mechs a little better than most people. He had already grown fearful for the huge storm that the Yellow Jacket designs was about to unleash!

Everything was about to change!

A huge new market had opened up now that 96.5 percent of the population finally gained the ability to pilot mechs!

Even if the initial Carmine mechs only catered to the bottom end of the market, this shrewd design choice would ensure that the maximum number of people would soon become invested in this new craze.

The entire mech mech industry was already beginning to tip into a frenzy because of this! Many mech designers and mech companies were frantically trying to license the revolutionary Yellow Jacket designs and try to make sense of them as soon as possible. The faster they worked out a way to design their own Carmine mechs, the sooner they could capture market share in a vast new market that possessed unlimited possibilities! The introduction of Carmine mechs would definitely cause massive shifts in the economy. A lot of factories devoted to producing other war materiel would soon be retooled to produce as many Carmine mechs as possible. This would subsequently cause the supply of other goods to drop, thereby causing their prices to rise by a significant degree.

That was bound to have a negative impact on the war effort!

However, Tristan had already listened to Ves' response to this problem. The Red Association, or at least parts of it, had already known about the Yellow Jacket designs beforehand, so the mechers should have made the corresponding preparations. They should already be prepared to impose regulations to restrict the production of Carmine mechs.

While that was good development, it would definitely exacerbate the problem of meeting the insane demand of all of the norms that had the money and willingness to purchase a Carmine mech for themselves.

So many people would become obsessed with them that they would definitely want to pay huge premiums just to get their hands on a Carmine mech early.

Under all of this ongoing frenzy, other mechs would no longer be able to occupy people's attention as before.

Prior to the Carmine Revolution, only potentates possessed the gift of piloting mechs. Many mech insiders actually consisted of norms, but still paid a lot of attention to mechs because they possessed relations with mech pilots who could make use of these products.

Tristan foresaw a lot of upheaval in the coming years. A lot of mech companies were able to scramble for market dominance in this huge new market. Only the lack of skilled and trained Carmine mech pilots would restrain their commitment to this brand new sector, but that would only last for so long.

Where did that leave relatively ordinary mech designers like Tristan? Did he have to license a Yellow Jacket design as well and figure out how to design a Carmine mech in his own style just to keep up with the crowd?

Personally, Tristan did not see the point in it. His design philosophy did not possess any special synergies with living mechs, and he was not confident that his designs would win over a lot of customers.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

He was more comfortable with sticking to his current direction and put most of his focus on developing better hyper gems.

The good news was that Carmine mechs should still be compatible with his gems. He just had to market his solution to other mech companies and hope that they were willing

to incorporate his signature products in their own designs.

Elsewhere, a certain Star Designer quietly corresponded with a number of other

Venerable Benjamin Larkinson nodded in agreement. "The readiness of the new volunteers are also questionable. I like to believe that the norms of the Larkinson Clan

are braver than average, but that does not turn them into good soldiers. It takes time to train them to a standard that we can rely upon. Until then, their chances of dying on the battlefield will remain unacceptably high. Our patriarch will never permit our clansmen to die at an excessive rate."

"Benjamin, you have been piloting the Blood Star Mark II with the help of a Carmine System for many months. How is it compared to using a conventional neural interface?" "I cannot describe the differences to you." The oldest man in the room stated. "What is

new to me is not only the Blood Pact, but also the fact that I am fighting together with an intelligent and living machine. The experience is much different from what I used back when I was in my old prime. The Carmine System has proven to be more generous. If I have to make more concrete observations, then I can say that my ability to exert direct control over the systems of my Blood Star Mark II has slightly decreased. However, my closeness to the living mech is helping me impose more control over the

mech frame."

"That sounds as if you are slowly beginning to merge with your living mechs. Are you not afraid of suffering accidents?"

Benjamin crossed his arms and smiled. "I have already reached the verge of death before my grandson pulled me back. I do not mind returning to that point if I fail to win a bet. I enjoy life, but I have also lived long enough that I do not have any regrets if I die overnight. It is true that it is becoming more natural for me to become closer to the Blood Star Mark II. Both of us desire this. It is strange, but it feels natural to us. Where

this will lead, I cannot say. I should ask my grandson, but we do not speak on a daily

basis."

Benjamin actually corresponded more with Gloriana and her children over the galactic net than talk to Ves himself.

It was not because they were avoiding each other. They simply did not really have much

to talk about. They were also busy with their own priorities, so they rarely had any excuses to talk to each other in person.

Now that Ves finally pulled the veil of secrecy from the Carmine System, Venerable Benjamin now felt a greater urge to contact his grandson.

He had been thinking about why he had failed to break through despite all of the good

conditions. Speaking to the likes of Saint Tusa and Saint Commander Casella had given him a few more clues.

The Blood Star Mark II was a good expert mech, but there was always room for improvement. Benjamin Larkinson had hunch that he could benefit from having a more powerful version of the Carmine System at his disposal.

The brief mention about the so-called 'elemental Carmine System' may just be the

solution he had been waiting for! Benjamin just needed to pick an element that fit him

best.

The name of his expert mech already gave him a hint.

"Blood is thicker than water."