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I get that this is just a plot point, but it's so stupid. This ore that is important to a master level designer is just treated as junk because he doesn't understand it immediately...
Lucky eagerly gobbled up the tiny chunks before beginning to slice again. Ves could tell his cat could take a while to digest the entire rock, so he left his cat to enjoy his buffet in peace and went back to work.
The Mech Touch
Sci-fi · Exlor
mid 20s is far from too young for a good beard... though I have some buddies in their 30s that can't get a good beard going still...
"Hm, I'm too young. People will think I'm trying too hard."
The Mech Touch
Sci-fi · Exlor
to be fair, the cat did likely save his life during the pirate attack...
Lucky had accompanied him for several months without receiving much in return. Ves thought it was about time he indulged his pet for once.
The Mech Touch
Sci-fi · Exlor
Yup, thanks for the cat food.
"This is a treasure. You will thank me if you ever find out its use."
The Mech Touch
Sci-fi · Exlor
this is finally showing a bit more on where the MC is ahead of the curve with his higher mechanics skill
The intermittent power output was a sign of further trouble. Lovejoy quickly read the damage report and knew his mech was on a time limit. The railgun practically ripped through half the Executioner's chest. Only its well-designed internals and abundant redundancies allowed the mech to maintain a modicum of functionality.
The Mech Touch
Sci-fi · Exlor
this is super interesting, I had no idea!
Still, Lovejoy did not dare divert too much power. In this near-vacuum environment, mechs suffered a reduction in their ability to disperse heat.
The Mech Touch
Sci-fi · Exlor
I mean, if the knife is still hot from whatever melted it, then yes, the butter doesn't stand a chance.
Like a melted knife through butter, the sword impaled the Brandmark with ease and severed many essential components. The rest of the Executioner frame collided against the Brandmark, causing both mechs to sustain heavy impact damage. Nevertheless, a lot of the force had been channeled into the sword, causing its tip to emerge from the back of the Brandmark.
The Mech Touch
Sci-fi · Exlor
As today's program came to an end, everyone slowly left the parade ground. As Ves tried to keep an eye out on Dietrich and his cat, he reconsidered the matter of upgrading his attributes. Now that he developed some decent skills, perhaps it was time to upgrade his intelligence.
The Mech Touch
Sci-fi · Exlor
if my own clothes could abduct me, I think I'd have to choose being a walker...
The poor fellow got shot by a stun projectile, shutting him up pretty quickly. A handful of his type joined him in his unconscious bliss. Fortunately for all of them, their antigrav clothes kept them aloft. Through some override, the clothes automatically floated them off the fields.
The Mech Touch
Sci-fi · Exlor
you mean too much awesome to process
"Okay. Okay. So my pet is a killer assassin. Okay. That's too much crazy for me to process."
The Mech Touch
Sci-fi · Exlor
"Considering my next destination, I can use all the DP I can get."
The Mech Touch
Sci-fi · Exlor
I'm pretty sure the family kind of offered its direct support, but he turned them down as he wanted to do it completely on his own.
He lacked too many things. Though he had a tenuous connection to the Larkinson family, they wouldn't go out on a limb to subsidize his business nor purchase his first mech. While they saved up a sizeable amount of credits over the years, most of them were reserved for emergencies. Using them to save a failed business was not in the family's collective interests.
The Mech Touch
Sci-fi · Exlor
At least the excessive time is acknowledged by the author. Some authors have a challenge with math and somehow something that should take way more than a single day is crammed into less than one day.
After about half the contestant's work had gone on stage, the presenter announced the end of the testing. "Due to a shortage in time, we will pause the testing and resume it later tomorrow morning. Don't worry, Hans will continue familiarizing with the rest of the mechs tomorrow in order to allow him to run the gauntlet without interruption."
The Mech Touch
Sci-fi · Exlor
If 1/3 of the 150 contestants were disqualified, that leaves 100 mechs for one person to test. The acclimation time of 5 minutes per mech is a little over 8 hours. That's on top of the 12 hours the contestants have already spent. That is a long day...
"First up is a creation by Natalie Montag. Hans will put the Lance Star to the test after five minutes of acclimatization. This preparation period applies to all other mechs tested today."
The Mech Touch
Sci-fi · Exlor
Not exactly a healthy mindset if this was on an actual battlefield
"That's it. Keep firing on me. My mech can take the punishment."
The Mech Touch
Sci-fi · Exlor
Is the average life span of people longer after the apocalypse? The MC mentions that his grandparents didn't complete their quests, which could work out if just 100 years (though would still be a solid stretch). However, he'd need to be a lot further along than the 3rd generation since the apocalypse began if it's been the equivalent of 200 years instead.
The length of a single day would be elongated by double. Many disasters would befall the planet as it would merge with other worlds in the process.
I Only Wanted A Class In The Apocalypse
Fantasy · ranmaro
... didn't he want to do it on his own and chose to not leverage his family?
The older generation still looked down on Ves. They disapproved of his foray into the highly competitive mech industry. None of them lent him a hand when he founded his mech workshop. Only his father believed in his dream.
The Mech Touch
Sci-fi · Exlor