Badges 9
Moments 156
It made Ves reflect on how he should shape his own company's policies regarding any mech designers he intended to hire.
The Mech Touch
Sci-fi · Exlor
This sounded completely incongruent to Ves! Even if many of the graduates from Ansel might not be able to succeed in their startups, they should still be able to work for the Mech Corps or the various mech companies like the KNG. How could they even contemplate working for the most notorious terrorist organization in the Republic?
The Mech Touch
Sci-fi · Exlor
"Uh-huh!" Leife proudly extended the plushy version of a spaceborn mech. "This is my mommy's latest model! The Kadar-Neyvis Group Havikon Executor AXA-2000! It's fast and its got lasers and pew pew pew!"
The Mech Touch
Sci-fi · Exlor
Marcella showed some misgivings, however. "I don't disagree with you Ves, but don't think you are capitalizing on your elevated status a bit too blatantly? Earning those distinctions is a personal honor. I don't think the Mech Corps intended to give them to you just so you can profiteer off the good associations those medals carry. All the other honorable bearers of the Darkness Eater will resent you for being so shameless."
The Mech Touch
Sci-fi · Exlor
In other words, Ves should count his luck. The problem was that he didn't feel so fortunate.
The Mech Touch
Sci-fi · Exlor
Ves smiled at them. They happened to be cute female mech designers. "I am not at liberty to say. You know how it goes. Classified and all."
The Mech Touch
Sci-fi · Exlor
"Not without receiving your commitment to participate in this mission." The professor shook his head. He reached down from his desk and placed a secure data pad before Ves. "The mission we have in mind for you is fairly sensitive, so we first need to bring you aboard before we can reveal the details to you. Please sign the documents in the pad."
The Mech Touch
Sci-fi · Exlor
"I admit, our policy regarding mech designers sounds rather harsh, but it is only through hardship that we can raise strong mech pilots and strong mech designers. It is no coincidence that many mech designers are placed far closer to the battlefield than they ought to! Without some way of reducing their numbers, our economy would be flooded again with a deluge of useless mech designers after the war. The Mech Corps actually has to meet a secret quota in this regard, which is a policy I helped pioneer. We are really doing you mech designers favor by allowing the capable among you a chance to distinguish yourselves, of which you are the best exemplar in this generation."
The Mech Touch
Sci-fi · Exlor
Damn, did Tovar intend to invest in his company or something?!
The Mech Touch
Sci-fi · Exlor
She smiled at Ves. "You are so very different from the straight-laced Larkinson mech pilots. Compared to Colonel Ark Larkinson who is always as straight as a rod, Major Verle has described you as the most crooked mech designer he ever had the pleasure of working with. Do you agree with that assessment?"
The Mech Touch
Sci-fi · Exlor
After the obligatory salutes and other trivial ceremonies, Captain Orfan personally stepped forward and handed over the lockbox to a security captain, who immediately placed it into an even larger and sturdier lockbox.
The Mech Touch
Sci-fi · Exlor
In any case, Ves felt leery about associating himself with a pirate gang that literally called themselves the Omen of Misfortune.
The Mech Touch
Sci-fi · Exlor
He eventually reasoned that he put his full passion into his speech. He inadvertently concentrated his whole mind into his spontaneous actions and channeled his fury in an even more single-minded focus than when he designed a mech!
The Mech Touch
Sci-fi · Exlor
Everyone couldn't help but throw a numb, worshipful or impressed glance at Ves.
The Mech Touch
Sci-fi · Exlor
"Why are you running! Come back here pirate! I can talk all day about your faulty mechs!"
The Mech Touch
Sci-fi · Exlor
Konkey_Dongg
[10. You passed by the intersection of Jiefang Road and Development Road in North City District today and obtained relevant intelligence—Li Xiaoru's dog is trapped under a manhole cover at that location.]
Awakening the Daily Intelligence System
Urban · Dark eye mask