Chapter 6478 Mech Designers Represent
After presenting her MW Carmine mech proposal to Master Willix and receiving her covert feedback, Veronica had set her mind to design the most unrestrained machine of her career up to date.
The new Carmine mech design project had a profound impact on her psyche.
The Cyborg Cat felt that the project broke so many taboos at the same time that she had taken a decisive step towards an unforgivable direction!
If Veronica hadn't committed other professional violations in the past, then she would scarcely be able to bring herself past this mental threshold!
While the cat believed she was doing the right thing in the end, it was still difficult for her to bear this feeble justification.
The incarnation shook her head. There was not much point in procrastinating over her decision. Her motivations were righteous and her logic was sound. She believed in her vision, and as long as that was the cause, she would still hold on to her creed as a mech designer.
Mech designers existed to serve mech pilots.
Veronica's work would still abide by this commandment, even though her work put them in much greater peril than before.
With at least 4 huge risk factors, she could not prevent her upcoming Carmine mechs from endangering her future customers as well as the people around them. Even if the probability of anything going wrong was less than 1 percent, the popularity and attraction of Carmine mechs was so high that they would undoubtedly take the Milky Way by storm!
When a huge number of Carmine mechs quickly got produced and sold to gullible norms that did not fully understand the risks, then a lot of people were bound to experience both joy and suffering.
Veronica had little control over what people would do with her machines. Perhaps she could program additional restrictions and refine the incentive structure of her MW Carmine mechs to a much greater degree, but it was not a good idea to overcomplicate the matter.
She even thought about constructing a more precise and well-defined incentive and punishment structure modeled after the Mech Designer System.
This new System would give both the Carmine mech pilots and their living partners clear rules and guidance on what they needed to do to maximize their growth. However, an overly complicated System might cause these pilots and their living mechs to become too dependent on guidance from a third party. If they ceased to
think by themselves, then the mech pilot would ultimately fail to develop the extraordinary willpower that was necessary for them to accomplish great deeds.
It was best to keep her design as simple as possible, especially when the Cyborg Cat already planned to incorporate a lot of new and experimental features.
Before Veronica concluded her initial discussion on her ambitious mech proposal, Master Willix asked an important question.
"What codename will you choose for this project of yours?"
The silvery cat paused in thought. "This mech... breaks almost every boundary set by the MTA and the mech industry of this galaxy. It allows norms to pilot mechs. It grants unprecedented autonomy to mechs. It partially merges the man and machine ahead of schedule. It encourages breakthroughs by forcing mech pilots to be more decisive. It also answers to the Red Kingdom as opposed to the Kingdom of Mechs. Since this singular project is associated with so many egregious violations... I'll just call it the Rule Breaker Project."
The name granted a definite 'bad boy vibe' to the mech design project. Anyone who heard this label would definitely make the assumption that the mech design implied nothing good!
This was exactly what Veronica wanted to achieve. She did not want to treat this mech design project as a routine job, but rather a massive deviation from her normal design process.
The mech designs that she would prepare for this highly illegal project ignored all of the laws and taboos of the Mech Trade Association.
The very existence of the Rule Breaker Project was nothing less than a giant middle finger towards the MTA!
Veronica briefly felt rather guilty about it. She had her complaints about the MTA, but that did not change the fact that she benefited a lot from its regime.
From providing a stable market and industry environment for destructive war machines, to keeping the peace in human civilization for over 4 centuries, the power superinstitution had undoubtedly done a lot of good for everyone.
The MTA's overall policies were highly slanted towards the weak and ordinary citizens of the human race.
Sure, the mechers also looked down on space peasants, but the former never egregiously mistreated the latter.
Now that she had concluded most of her immediate business in the Milky Way, the Cyborg Cat turned back to her desk terminal and began to look up academic literature relevant to her Rule Breaker Project.
She came up with a lot of new and subversive features for her upcoming Carmine
mechs.
While she was confident she could design all of them from scratch, who knew if there were other mech designers who conducted research into comparable mech systems.
It was always faster to get stuff done if she copied someone else's homework.
At the very least, referencing the work of others should at least strengthen the theoretical basis for her upcoming design applications.
Meanwhile, back in the Red Ocean, Ves began to wrap up his business trip to the Yernstall Central Star Node.
Ves had fulfilled most of the goals he set for this visit. While he could stay in his office
at the Astral Octagon for another week and exercise his duties as the chief councilor
of the Upper Council of the Red Collective, he saw little value in doing stuff in person. The only advantage of doing all of this work himself was that he would get to know the officials working for the Red Collective on a personal level.
While it was important for Ves to expand his network within the Red Collective if he
wanted to strengthen his influence over it, he had too many other priorities to attend to. Politicking did not come naturally to him. It was better to delegate this responsibility to his chief of staff, who appeared to be more than capable of forging new connections with her new colleagues.
Of course, letting Eliza Mo Ragadan do all of this work would make Ves overly
dependent on her continued service to him, but he was not too worried. Eliza's authority originated from himself. She would never be able to borrow his clout and authority without his sanction. She had also joined the Larkinson Clan, so Ves did not have too many concerns about her loyalty.
If it turned out that he had misjudged her, then Ves would just treat this as another life
lesson.
Just a day after the Evolution Witch's shocking announcement, Ves boarded the Tarrasque once more.
Freshly repaired and upgraded, the slightly expanded Bluejay Fleet slowly departed from the orbit of La Reine in full view of the public.
Ves was sure that a lot of enthusiastic ship owners would have commanded their
vessels to form an honor guard or just create a lane in respect for his latest and most significant contribution to red humanity.
Already, so many people had begun to take their brand-new Yellow Jackets for a spin
and already fell in love with their machines... as well as the mech designer that made it
all possible.
Unfortunately, the security risks were too high to approve a bombastic sendoff, Not a single starship or other vessel hovered anywhere close to the flight trajectory submitted by the Bluejay Fleet.
It was only after the entire fleet transitioned into FTL travel that Yernstall gradually
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