The Mech Touch

Chapter 6878  Tristan’s Answer

Tristan Wesseling felt ambivalent towards the offer made by the patriarch of the Larkinson Clan.

As a Journeyman Mech Designer, he possessed his own pride.

He defected from the Friday Coalition because he became disillusioned by its division and dysfunction.

That did not mean he lost faith in all states in general.

He chose to become a citizen of the Colonial Federation of Davute by choice.

Although it was not the best colonial state in the Red Ocean, Tristan still agreed with the vision that the founders were trying to carve out in the new frontier.

He had done decently well since he started up his own mech company on Davute. Wesseling Design Services remained relatively modest until the Great Severing caused a lot of hyper materials to emerge.

Tristan dusted off his original specializations in materials science. He worked together with the state institutions of Davute to decipher the properties of hyper materials and develop effective alloys with them. His contributions were not particularly big or revolutionary, but he still derived a lot of satisfaction in developing new hyper alloys that the Davutans used in a few of their military mech designs.

He also made strides in progressing his design philosophy. His crystals became even more powerful after incorporating the effects of different hyper materials.

The development of positive and negative hyper gems presented a breakthrough in both his research and business success.

It was much easier to convince others that his tiny gems could boost the performance of an entire mech by using 'hyper materials' and 'hyper technology' as buzzwords.

Even though his pre-hyper gems also possessed the capacity to enhance the performance of mechs to a lesser degree, too many people found it far too esoteric to believe they worked.

It did not help that the gems only improved the performance of mechs by single digits in most cases. This was hardly a noticeable performance boost, though true connosseurs appreciated how it could give them an edge in the most critical of battles.

The Hyper Generation demystified a lot of phenomena that people previously regarded as magic or superstition.