5200 Testing the Boundaries

The panel grilled Ves intensely about the Carmine System and its enormous implications.

When Ves realized the Carmine System for the first time when he completed the Bastion, he mainly fixated on two specific functions.

First, the Carmine System enabled an existing mech pilot to increase their effective control and synergy with a bonded mech. The comprehensive combat effectiveness of the combination was bound to increase, especially when the pilot and mech were already strong by themselves.

Second, the Carmine System could be used as a standalone control mechanism. This could theoretically enable norms who did not possess the right aptitude to pilot mechs, if only barely.