Alto returned to his room shortly after departing from Marie and Kendall. He ca back with a small bit of provisions and with a new insight of where he was heading with his ch design.
He hurriedly booted up the ga and waited for it to initiate. He pondered on his experience with the two young ch pilots. He wanted to build a ch that would carry its pilot as best as it could. While this ideology did not seem unique at all, he felt it right to build a ch with the thought of its pilot in mind. Thinking like this stressed Alto’s thinking capacity a bit, but he managed to push through.
The ga had finished initiating, and he could now see the ch design hovering in the virtual workshop. It still looked rather unfinished. Alto addressed the matter of the weapons imdiately. He wanted to build a light ch that was swift and capable as an assassin. He thought about what a pilot would want from the ch for a bit.
"Light chs run fast, but as an assassin it might need an extra kick to its boost." Alto went into the designer’s shop to purchase two low-level thrusters, which he would attach to the back of the ch’s legs, right under where the knee was. The weight it added to the ch was not much, which still let it retain its initial speed. The thrusters could only function twice before they would burn out. This ant it had two chances at surprising its enemy with two bursts of speed.
Alto browsed through an array of weapons, wondering which one he could use. After a couple of hours, he chose to equip a laser pistol like Marie had said, and there were a lot of laser pistols on display. Ranging from small to big, their magazine sizes and range of fire, Alto chose to work within a certain budget.
He chose to equip two small laser pistols which cost him 5000 credits each. Alto did not want to dive into the world of weapons now. The best he could do was take it easy and then learn in detail about them later. After he was done, he looked at the list of lee weapons, and there were also a wide variety to choose from.
Alto did not fully understand why a ch should have lee weapons. He felt that this was rather a way of paying tribute to the far ancient tis when humans were still barbaric and ill-mannered. Alto knew he had a lot to learn when it ca to chs.
He decided that his lee weapon of choice would be a pair of curved daggers. He created small slots like pockets on the sides of the ch where he would store the weapons. Alto did not change the design of the original head; he did not think there was anything to be done about it.
Now Alto was done with the design, what remained was the fabrication process. When it ca to fabricating a ch, there were certain processes. First, the ch plates would have to be broken down in a splicing machine to a paste-like form and then transferred to the machine referred to as the 3D printer. The 3D printer was a machine that would rebuild the broken-down ch plate into the form they would be used for.
Alto was yet to know how much work this would take. He hopped into the process excited with what he presud as adequate knowledge on his part. He started with the splicing machine by putting each ch plate he had acquired one at a ti. At first, when operating the virtual splicing machine in the virtual machine, he inserted the first ch plate into it and started the machine. It started up fine, and the ch plate ca out the other end in a form existing between solid matters and semi-solid form. It looked powdery despite being paste.
Happily, Alto went to the 3D printer to begin fabricating the chest piece of the ch. At first, Alto was confident in his skill, but that all changed when he saw the display of multiple paraters on the screen. It looked like a network of threads he would have to weave into what he wanted it to. Alto panicked and ended up ruining his first batch of work. The paste hardened and lost its luster. It had taken a form that was unfit for using. Alto groaned at 5000 credits lost down the drain in an instant.
His next few tries went the sa way. As he worked more, he started to beco more agitated and moved the thread nodes at their junction. His movent was anything but deliberate. They forced the piece of tal into shapes that he did not want for his work. Alto ended up expending all of his resources, causing him to buy another batch. The result was closely the sa as the first batch.
Alto had not realized it yet, but becoming proficient in the use of a 3D printer would be his biggest hurdle yet. With each failure, Alto beca more and more frustrated, but he persisted. Each loss tasted more bitter than the last. After losing one million credits’ worth of tal plates, Alto beca furious.
He pulled his hair and bit his lips and nails repeatedly. He did not understand how just one device beca a chaotic process every ti he touched it. He felt the urge to abandon the project and take a nice long nap. Out of frustration, Alto did abandon the project. It was still his third day, and he was heavily sleep-deprived. He did not think he could conquer the problem of the 3D printer any ti soon.
Alto curled himself into a ball and fell asleep, his heavy brain letting go of all the load it had been carrying for days. For soone who was known for failing at almost everything he did, this was the most frustrated he had ever felt. Alto did not know, but he had already co farther than his peers to so extent. He had achieved a balance between the theoretical and the practical, which they seed to lack. Yet while he slept, trouble brewed in the training room.
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