Chapter 762 Magic Mecha
The huge humanoid mechanical creature stood in front of me. It was fixed with a special bracket on the back. The proportions of its body did not look bloated, but even very slender.
Pieces of bright silver armor plates shone with a charming mechanical brilliance under the light, and some tiny exposed cables and mechanical structures made people want to delve deeper into how it worked.
It is visually estimated to be about 18 meters tall. The head looks like an exquisite helmet, and the face part is V-shaped, blocking the viewfinder hidden inside.
The place where people can sit should be on the chest. Fang Lanyin saw a rotating handle on the side, which should be the place to open the hatch.
The reason why this thing is shocking is not because it is big.
Although it's not mentioned much, the Manta is actually twenty meters long, making it a bit bigger than this thing when standing up.
The shocking thing is that its complex and precise mechanical structure can perfectly replicate the functions of the hands and feet, and most importantly, it can stand stably.
This is the most troublesome part of humanoid machines. Golems, for example, usually have very solid body proportions, making them stand firm at first glance. The larger the humanoid machine, the more difficult it is to maintain balance.
This is why there is an unwritten rule that golems cannot exceed 5 meters in height.
"This is my Silver Tornado. To be precise, it is the property of the school. Our school has been allocated twenty magic mechas, so there are twenty places. I spent a lot of effort to get it."
"It's called Silver Tornado just because it's silver?"
"No, what you see is the core machine. It has not yet been equipped with outer armor and weapons. It is called Silver Cyclone because in the legend of our Storm Kingdom, there once was a knight who was invincible on the battlefield. He was invincible. Block, like a silver whirlwind."
To put it bluntly, it is now in a bare metal state, just the skeleton.
"Are they all using the same magic mecha in the competition?"
"Well, this is the first-generation mass-produced model. There may be better ones in the army."
It turned out to be a military aircraft. Li Chengqi thought it was a test aircraft.
But as for the test machine, someone should come out to grab the Gundam at 80%.
Fang Lanyin pointed at the legs of the magic mecha and said, "How does it stand? Can you tell me the principle?"
"A special mass transfer system, which allows the magic mecha to perform actions such as running and jumping like a living person. Simply put, it can be understood as automatically adjusting its center of gravity."
The most critical part of a person's ability to stand is the cochlea, which can adjust the center of gravity at any time to maintain balance. This is why some people become unsteady after their ears are injured.
But the system used by humans is too sensitive, too precise and too difficult to reproduce. If you want to automatically adjust the center of gravity on a machine, you have to use other methods.
"Actually, this is not a new invention. The main body of the magic mecha has been perfected in the ancient elves. We have made almost no changes. The main problem is the operating system. We studied it for a long time before completely abandoning the elves. The system has rebuilt an operating model.”
"Why? Isn't it better to just use the elves?"
Fang Lanyin was very clever when playing with machines, but he obviously had no military common sense.
Li Chengqi thought for a while and said:
"Are you afraid of being used by the enemy?"
"That's right."
The magic mecha is essentially an antique, and it is an antique with a history of tens of thousands of years.
Since the elves had colonized everywhere in the past, magic mechas were everywhere, so it was not difficult to find information or finished products.
In other words, this isn't something unique to Storm Kingdom.
If you want to weaponize it, the first thing to solve is localization, especially the underlying operating system.
If the Elf system is still used, if the enemy cracks this aspect, it will cause major damage to the magic mechas in the Storm Kingdom.
It's roughly equivalent to using America's win system for weapons from China. Isn't this appropriate? Kingdom of Storms completely recompiled the operating system and made it completely localized, and only then began to use it as a weapon.
"Can I get a closer look? I won't touch any secrets, right?"
"It doesn't matter. You can even find the design drawings of the magic mecha on the market of neutral space stations. It itself is not a secret, only the operating system is."
Fang Lanyin cheered and hurried over, almost lying on the armor plate of the magic mecha's thigh, trying to see clearly the mechanical structure inside. She felt that if she got closer, she wanted to stuff her head directly into it.
At this time Villania approached and said:
"The mass transfer system allows the magic mecha to have flexibility and maneuverability that far exceeds that of a space fighter. The weapons can be directly used by the magic mecha with only minor modifications."
The maneuverability and flexibility are higher than those of space fighters, mainly due to turning.
If a space fighter wants to turn around, it can only rely on attitude to control the nozzle, and the turning speed is actually not very fast, and UFO maneuvers are extremely difficult to make.
Unless, like Li Chengqi, he shut down one engine and forced a turn against the huge G force, if he did this, it would be hard to say whether the pilot's life was safe.
If the magic mecha wants to turn around, all it has to do is turn around.
The mass transfer system can allow the magic mecha to freely flip its body in the cosmic environment without relying on the attitude control nozzle. However, relying on this system, its rotation speed is far faster than the speed at which a space fighter can turn around. If the attitude control nozzle is added, it will be completed. The speed of turning around is faster, and the body feeling is not much slower than a normal person turning around.
What's more, the magic mecha has flexible arms.
The weapons of space fighters all have a fixed firing angle. If the firing angle is freely rotated, the reaction force will directly break the weapon from the fixed bolt.
This means that the space fighter can only attack enemies directly in front. Even if a turret is placed on it to solve the problem of omnidirectional attack, one more person will be required to control it, which will also increase the size and production cost of the space fighter.
The magic mecha does not need it. After all, it has hands and can turn around quickly. This allows it to freely aim at any target within the field of view, regardless of the state of the machine.
That's all well and good, but there's a key problem.
"This thing isn't cheap, is it?"
Anyway, the position of space fighter is cannon fodder, which is mainly responsible for interfering with enemy warships. We do not expect to rely on space fighter to win the war. In this case, the main requirement of cannon fodder is that it is cheap and has sufficient performance.
"I don't know much about the details, but I heard from classmates who work in relevant departments that the cost and labor hours of a magic mecha are only 20% higher than that of a space fighter, and the logistics and maintenance are quite convenient."
Villania pointed at the silver whirlwind and said: "Except for the core cabin on the chest, all parts can be replaced at any time. Even the magic mecha can complete the replacement by itself. The wartime attendance rate is far higher. Higher than a space fighter."
If the limbs were broken, they would be removed and replaced with new ones. Then they would go back to the war, leaving the broken parts for the ground crew to slowly repair.
As for space fighters, if something goes wrong, they have to be left for repairs until the fault is corrected before they can take off.
To put it simply, it is modular and can be replaced at will.
Because of this feature, it is easy to switch to specific equipment for different tasks.
"Would you like to take a look at the cockpit? Since you can fly a shuttle, maybe you can fly a magic mecha too."
Li Chengqi nodded without hesitation:
"think!"
That was really too much to think about, and I wished Li Chengqi could get in there himself.
(End of chapter)