Chapter 6475 Partial Convergence Blood Pact

Chapter 6475 Partial Convergence Blood Pact

High Autonomy Living Mechs violated a taboo of the mech industry.

Veronica knew more than well that humans must always be in control of the technology they commanded.

This was why they never dared to let AI automate everything and allow humans to sit back and relax. Every artificial system is vulnerable and prone to subversion. It would be incredibly idiotic to automate an entire society, only for a hostile alien force or a rival human power to hack the master control system and hijack everything!

Even though there were countless examples throughout human history that emphasized the harm of relying too much on automation, Veronica still chose to rely on her new HALM concept to develop her MW Carmine mechs. n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

It couldn't be helped. The training and education of a potentate into a competent and professional mech pilot took at least 10 years. It was possible to add or subtract 5 years to that duration, but that would substantially affect the quality of the pilot in question.

The Oblivion Gate Consortium couldn't wait for 5 or more years for most brand-new Carmine mech pilots to become skilled enough to wreck stuff with their new machines.

Veronica could probably shave a few years off that training period if she chose to simplify the Carmine mechs like she did with the Yellow Jackets, but this was not a good choice.

Many people believed that the most ideal mech was a humanoid machine. Such mechs held greater attraction to people than a frontline mech that lacked articulating arms.

While there should still be enough people who would be glad to pilot a frontline mech, such machines were limited in other ways that were detrimental to her overall purpose.

Therefore, even if she knew that it would make the process of mastering the Carmine mech a lot harder for their bonded pilots, Veronica still decided to adopt the shape that held the broadest appeal.

Besides, the Cyborg Cat already compensated for the added difficulty of piloting a humanoid mech by letting the living mech itself take charge of its own movements!

"Carmine mechs are not normal mechs." The silvery cat explained her reasoning to Master Willix. "There are two important traits that distinguish the former from the latter. The presence of the Carmine System and the fact that every Carmine mech is alive can be used as the foundation of a new paradigm in mech piloting. Instead of relying on the old model where a mech pilot is taught to control every large and significant process of a mech, we instead turn the pilot into a commander that delegates the fine control of his machine to his bonded partner."

Master Willix immediately understood the underlying implications of this reasoning.

"You are advocating an abolishment of traditional mech pilot training for this new class of warriors. You place so much faith in the reliability and trustworthiness of your living mechs that you believe that it is acceptable to allow them to retain this role. The Carmine mech pilots will play a role that is equivalent to a tank commander where he oversees the battlefield and relays instructions that his living partner must follow."

The Cyborg Cat smiled. "I have put a lot of thought behind this alternate model. I know it is flawed. This approach is extremely unlikely to produce high-ranking mech pilots. The pilots must take the effort to learn and master the art of controlling his own weapons. Relying too much on others to do the actual fighting will put too much distance between himself and the critical decision making process. Despite this major flaw, I think it is completely acceptable in the short term if a beginner Carmine mech pilot relies a lot on his HALM to do much of the actual fighting. I fear that many pilots will grow overly dependent on their HALM. In order to prevent this from happening, I plan to develop an additional measure to make sure the Carmine mech pilots will actually learn how to fight by themselves if necessary."

"What do you have in mind?"

Veronica did not explain directly, but instead began to add new lines to the draft design.

She sketched the model of a mech pilot and began to connect it to one of the Carmine mechs.

Master Willix fell silent for half a minute. She began to think about all of the potential consequences and ripple effects of releasing a Carmine mech model that brought its own transcendence glow.

She suddenly managed to unravel Veronica's true intentions.

Although Willix did not possess the complete picture yet, the pieces that she managed to fit together already allowed her to deduce the essence of the Senior Mech Designer's greater plan!

She looked deeply at the Cyborg Cat. Neither of them mentioned anything out loud. The Oblivion Empress would definitely be able to learn what Veronica actually had in mind and take steps to stop the plan in its tracks.

This was Veronica's counterattack.

The Oblivion Gate Consortium looked down on the masses. The conspirators only used the human population of the old galaxy as tools to further their own ambitions. This was why the former was eager to grant Carmine mechs to the latter.

While it was inevitable for all of these humans to use their new machines in petty conflicts, these battles could hone a lot of Carmine mech pilots.

Normally, it would take a long time for these amateurs to develop genuine piloting skills and strengthen their willpower to the point where they might break through.

The combination of HALM, the Partial Convergence Blood Pact and the transcendence glow could massively cut down the time it took for Carmine mech pilots to ascend to the next rank!

While there were serious dangers and side effects to employing both controversial measures, Veronica was confident that the potential outcomes would be more than worth all of the risks!

However, Master Willix still observed a significant gap in this layout.

Veronica's plan for this Carmine mech was unlikely to produce the critical success that she was truly trying to attain.

The Cyborg Cat wanted nothing more than to spread her Carmine mechs far and wide, thereby allowing many hidden talents to bloom and break through at a much more accelerated rate than normal!

Even though it sounded impossible, who knew whether there was a talent akin to the Chosen Human among the stupendously huge population base of original humanity?

With all of the enhancements to the Carmine mechs, their progression was bound to speed up, perhaps to the point where they might become expert pilots in a year, ace pilots within 5 years and god pilots within one or two decades!

As long as the Carmine mechs produced god pilots fast enough and in significant quantities, the 'space peasants' of the Milky Way that every major player had disregarded for so long may eventually be able to rise up and rebel against the tyrants and hegemons that exploited the common people for so long!

This was the ultimate ideal and expression of Veronica's design philosophy towards the crisis that was about to engulf original humanity!

This was the most beautiful layout of Mutual Growth in Adversity that the Cyborg Cat could gift to all of the oppressed humans!

There were only one or two big gaps that needed to be filled for Veronica to allow her ambitious and deviant plan to come to fruition!