In the past few months, as he worked to bring his vision into fruition, Ves constantly thought about the appropriate name for his rifleman mech. His heart told him that his second original design required a lofty name to do it justice.
Since he constantly channeled the spirit of the crystal golem when he designed this mech, he came up with a simple but succinct name for his design. It was one which he had been weighing over together with the crystal golem. Eventually, the spirit gave out its stamp of approval.
"From now on, you will be known as the Crystal Lord."
The name not only described the mech, it also harkened back to the roots of the crystal golem which would soon inhabit the design. Ves did not forget about the crystal garden and the corpse of the alien leader which he retrieved from that magical but fallen place.
Something seemed to have changed when he uttered the name. Speaking it out loud somehow infused it with some weight, as if it had gained a life on its own. Ves felt as if he was at the cusp of making history in the field of mech design.
He certainly looked forward to the end product. He had a very good feeling about his second original design. Working with a spirit derived from a powerful being of the past was a very novel experience, and one that would certainly impact the X-Factor in a powerful way.
"Will I finally break into the B grade with the X-Factor?"
He was about to find out. Ves looked around in a conspicuous manner, even though nobody else was present on his private workshop floor.
After scanning his surroundings, he turned to his comm and activated his Privacy Shield before engaging the Superpublish option.
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[Design Evaluation: Crystal Lord CL-A-01]
Model name: Crystal Lord CL-A-01
Original Manufacturer: Ves Larkinson
Weight Classification: Medium-Light
Recommended Role: Mobile Rifleman Mech
Armor: B-
Carrying Capacity: D
Aesthetics: C+
Endurance: B
Energy Efficiency: C+
Flexibility: B
Firepower: B
Integrity: B+
Mobility: B
Spotting: C+
X-Factor: B-
Cost efficiency: D
Project involvement: 100%
Original component composition: 18%
Overall evaluation: The Crystal Lord is a speed-oriented third-class rifleman mech design that, like its knight mech predecessor, excels in lengthy conflicts. The crystal technology embedded into the frame and the rifle of this design is novel and can be an asset to the design in certain circumstances.
[You have received 1,000 Design Points for completing an original design that has no other equivalent.]
[You have received 1,000 Design Points for designing a mech with a substantial presence of X-Factor.]