Inside the lab of the Ubiquitous Force, two mech designers faced each other.
Despite the immense disparity in age, knowledge and accomplishments, the older of the two listened attentively to the younger mech designer.
In a complete flip of normality, the Journeyman Mech Designer was in the process of schooling the Master Mech Designer!
"The basic premise of my work is symbiosis." Ves began. "As you certainly know, I categorize my design philosophy as Metaphysical Man-Machine Symbiosis. Each and every word has meaning."
Master Willix looked intrigued. "I believe I understand the meaning of three of the four words in this description. However, the exact meaning of the first eludes me. Metaphysics encompasses many different fields. You need to be more specific."
"Ah, I don't disagree. To be honest, another word is supposed to stand in its place. Am I allowed to say the P-word here?" Ves cautiously asked.
ANNOUNCEMENT: CAPITAL SHIP DESIGN CONTEST!
The Mech Touch is over 2500 chapters long, and that means the start of another contest!
This contest centers around the capital starships that will form an integral part of the Larkinson Clan's expeditionary fleet.
STARSHIP DESIGN RULES
Suggest any ORIGINAL capital ship of at least 1 km long to be added to the fleet mentioned above (no ripoffs from other books or shows)! You can suggest any large starship to be added to the story as long as they sound plausible. Mining ship, ark ship, botanical ship, the choice is yours! The only restriction is that it cannot be armed with weapons, so no warships!
The other restriction is that you must allocate the strengths of your capital ship according to a point system. You have 10 POINTS in total which you can add to the following criteria:
-Size (?/10)
-Defense (?/10)
-Mobility (?/10)
-Productivity (?/10)
Here is a short example:
Mining Mothership
-Size: 5 - Has enough space for mining shuttles, cargo space and processing facilities.
-Defense: 0 - This ship should never be exposed to combat.
-Mobility: 1 - This ship is very slow.
-Productivity 4 - This ship can survey asteroids and can process ore at a moderate scale.
This civilian vessel is meant to add powerful mining capabilities to the Larkinson fleet. It can deploy a swarm of mining shuttles or drones and process the ore they bring back. The ore processing machines excel at processing large quantities of normal second-class materials but cannot process extremely hard or abnormal materials.
ADDITIONAL RULES
-Suggested capital ship designs must be second-class.
-Submissions must be CREATIVE and ideally be more complex than a generic ark ship or mining ship. It must have an interesting concept and design to score high.
-You can add technology that is not currently featured in the book as long as it isn't too overpowered or convoluted. Your submission will be disqualified if there is too much nerd talk or technobabble.
-DO NOT PLAGIARIZE OTHER ANIMES, BOOKS, TV SHOWS OR MOVIES! IF YOU CANNOT COME UP WITH SOMETHING ORIGINAL, THEN DON'T BOTHER PARTICIPATING IN THIS CONTEST!
SUBMISSION DETAILS
This contest will run for 3 weeks from 18:00 CET, April 4 2021 to 18:00 CET April 25 2020.
You can submit 1 unique capital ship design at the following 4 places. This means you can make UP TO 4 SUBMISSIONS IN TOTAL AS LONG AS YOU DON'T POST THEM IN THE SAME PLACE!
-The comments of Chapter 2460 on Webnovel.com
-The comments of Chapter 2502 on Webnovel.com
-The #events channel on The Mech Touch's Unofficial Discord server
-The Instagram post for this contest at my personal account account: @mlduong (Or search #themechtouch)
SELECTION
On April 25 21:00 CET I will determine the results of this contest live on TMT's Unofficial Discord Server.
-I will select 1 compelling capital ship design by quality
-I will select 1 capital ship design at random