The Mech Touch novel Chapter 1099

Having an experienced Senior Mech Designer provide some guiding advice on the side helped Ves a lot.

They didn’t cause him to change the fundamental nature of the Aurora Titan design. However, the insights he developed after thinking over Professor Ventag’s leading questions led him to refine the decisions he already made into more optimal implementations.

In general, the assistance enhanced the qualities that the Aurora Titan already possessed.

At this stage of the design process, the professor also went to work himself. Ves hadn’t designed much more than an outline of the internal architecture, but this was arguably the most important part of the mech since it had to support so many active systems. Without a robust enough architecture, Ves could forget about getting the polarizing module and the alien crystals to work!

Slowly but sure, the Aurora Titan transitioned from a fanciful concept into a very real mech design! Countless technical problems arose during the design process, but with Professor Ventag’s mastery of internal design, the Aurora Titan never got close to becoming overloaded with all the systems it needed to support!

"The Aurora Titan design won’t be a repeat of the Caesar Augustus design." Ves muttered to himself during his focused design spurts.

It helped that its larger size afforded the mech significantly more internal volume. This added room made a lot of difference in maximizing redundancy and compartmentalization, which defensive mechs needed a lot of in order to remain combat capable in the event of an armor breach!

"Still, with all the stuff I’ve added to the mech such as extra energy cells, the Aurora Titan isn’t as good in these factors as other space knights."

However, as a specialist in damage control, Professor Ventag did wonders with the space he had at his disposal. He put his full expertise into play, to the point of adding certain strange abstruse methods into play!

Through the use of some technical wizardry, the sophistication of the internal architecture quickly exceeded the point where Ves could still follow the Senior’s train of thought!

At certain points, Ves even felt as if achieved a condition where it felt as if Professor Ventag managed to make 1 plus 1 equal 2.01!

Ordinarily, this should have been an impossibility, but no matter how much Ves rubbed his eyes, the design somehow achieved synergies beyond what should have been technically possible!

Ves wasn’t entirely unfamiliar with this phenomenon. Through various methods, a high-ranking mech designer was able to bend reality by employing their design philosophy!

"This is why Journeymen Mech Designers and upwards really differentiate their mechs with! Their design philosophies have grown to the point where they have gained a real competitive advantage in their area of specialty!"

Due to the incredibly advanced nature of these special features, Ves always came under significant mental strain whenever he attempted to study the implementations.

He knew better than to pry too deeply into Ventag’s wondrous methods. The professor’s design philosophy focused very much on the internals of mech. Their design philosophies overlapped very little, so further study would prove detrimental to Ves. It was not his intention to shift his own design philosophy in the direction of the professor’s own beliefs!

"Each of us are following different paths. We are like artists collaborating on a single art piece. Rather than looking over my shoulder to emulate what my co-artist is doing so well, I should instead stick to my own area of expertise."

This was a lot harder than it sounded like someone like Ves. He hungered for improvement like a dwarf hungered for godling meat.

Any mech designer would be tempted, really. Yet such behavior would be detrimental at best and outright ruinous in other cases. Anyone below the rank of Journeymen still possessed a malleable design philosophy, and in most cases it didn’t benefit them at all to see them shift in the direction of an entirely different philosophy!

While Ves mostly considered himself beyond these concerns, he still made the prudent choice of sticking to his own guns. Other mech designers may be able to perform grand feats of technical wizardry, but Ves already has his spiritual wizardry to keep him satisfied!

"In the end, this is why collaboration is so impactful. As long as the mech designers involved in the project aren’t overlapping their specialties, each of them can enhance the design in their own way!"

Ves knew that this was a lot harder for some than for others. Working with Professor Ventag made him realize that certain specialties lent itself better to collaboration than others. For example, Professor Ventag’s domain encompassed pretty much the entirety of a mech’s internal architecture.

Any other mech designer who specialized in a certain aspect of internal design would have to think twice before getting in bed with someone like Ventag.

For his part, the professor worked best if he collaborated with someone who specialized in specific parts, such as mech engines, or external features, such as weapon systems!

Ves realized a critical rule in mech design. "Not only is there no point to overlapping specialties in a single design, but it can even lead to disaster if they are forced together!"

In addition to this rule, Ves also learned something incredibly valuable about himself!

"My design philosophy is compatible with nearly every mech designer! There are hardly any mech designer who possesses a design philosophy as whack as mine!"

He was careful not to rule out the possibility entirely. The galaxy was huge and countless mech designers existed through the galaxy. With the Five Scrolls Compact messing about with spirituality in their sporadic research, there might be some madman out there who believed that mechs could be inhabited by ghosts or something!

"Isn’t that what the Skull Architect wanted to do in his own warped way?" Ves mused.

It sounded strange that extremely smart and knowledgeable mech designers would develop esoteric theories with little foundation in reality, but metaphysics existed. The phenomenon of design philosophy itself was an expression of metaphysics!

The most important takeaway from this collaboration was that Ves developed such an esoteric design specialty that he could work together with almost any mech designer in the galaxy!

"Yet even if that is so, will any mech designer actually choose to work with someone with a specialty like mine?"