Mech Galaxy Wars was known as the largest and most popular massive multiplayer game played across many star systems. Here the majority of people who had no talent to pilot mechs were given a chance to experience what it felt like to be in a mech. Even beginner mech pilots played the game for experience but it was far from the real thing but was closest to realism in a normal battle.
While it did not benefit real mech pilots, it did have a designer account where private mech designers could enter the game and try to sharpen their skills and perhaps earn a living.
But managing an account cost credits that could was the in game currency. Alto activated the memory chip withing his wrist comm device after he had returned to his room.
It brought up a start up page, after confirming his identity the application still required him to create a name for his profile. Alto was never big on names but he knew he had to choose something distinct and vague.
After a lot of delegation the name he typed in was "The Disciple". It was nothing special and not too boring. After all the confirmation process had been done, he logged into his designer account. The holographic projection from his wrist comm grew and covered the entire room, it looked similar to a workshop but with very little space.
Before him was a graphical representation of a mech blueprint. It was his first time seeing a complete blueprint before him, he loved how the game tried to replicate something similar to the real thing as much as possible.
The name on the mech was.
FANWICK-720, DESIGNER- REDSHOT ENTERPRISE.
There was still more information displayed but Alto quickly skimmed throught it. The mech he knew to be a second generation mech, this was the first era of stable Mechs. The first generation of mechs were degradable and lacking if a basic system model, circuitry and power source.
A beep sounded from his wrist comm and the icon of the mech designer protocol appeared over it. He activated it to see what the problem was or if there was a problem.
The system brought up a mission screen immediately.
[A mission has been given to the user]
Alto was a bit surprised but he payed attention to the screen.
[Mission: disassemble and reassemble the mech design "FANWICK-720, GENERATION 2 MECH, DESIGNER- REDSHOT ENTERPRISE." The task should be completed within 24 earth hours. Reward for completion is 1056 creation points]
Alto raised an eyebrow in shock. The professor had tasked him with the same but she never said he was on a time limit. Alto had only ever gone through mech assembly on theory so he never expected this to be anything but easy for him.
"Hey mecha, why did you offer me a task like this?" Alto asked the mech designer protocol.
It responded shortly after.
[The mech designer protocol will assign tasks to the user, if the conditions are met the user will received the reward]
[It is the goal of the system to create the most capable mech designer]
Alto did not say anything against that, he took it upon himself as a challenge to become better than he could be now. The first thing he did was observe all the angles of the mech design for an hour, when he felt confident enough he announced it to the system to begin the test.
The wrist comm brought up another image next the original this one was a massive of disassemble metal parts. Alto went over it all, he first decided on where to start with first, after a long time he decided to choose with the head of the mech, he felt this would be the best part to start with, the. He proceeded to the spine of the mech.
The mech designer protocol had only broken down the original design to a considerable extent that he was becoming confused each time he selected some parts that did not agree with each other. It felt like working on an expensive jigsaw puzzle.
Alto found himself repeating the same errors, he constantly put things together and took them apart multiple times. When things went worse he would even start all over, continuous pangs headaches attacked him.
By the time Alto was finally getting a hang of it more than twelve hours had passed and he had come to enjoy the exercise. Taking putting together the parts of the mech was becoming easier with each and every try, since he had worked with parts of a mech before, he could tell where some parts belonged.
What saved him even more time was the fact that there was no external weapon part added to the weapon. It was basically a simplistic design.
By the fifteenth hour Alto could say he had become able to put the external pieces of the mech together, then came the hard work being the internal circuitry which had to do with the wiring.
Alto never had any luck when it came to working with wires but he continued either way, he became more absorbed with the mech than he had with any other thing. From time to time he would steal some quick glances at the original blue print but it only offered a little help.
By the twenty third hour Alto had finished reassembling the mech blueprint. He took his time to compare it to the original and despite being happy at what he had done, he could not hide the exhaustion he felt from working for so long on the piece of work.
Still when comparing both blueprints he could not help but feel that he had only managed to replicate the a copy of the original. During his time working on the model he felt like a true mech designer and he hated for that feeling to leave him so quickly.
As the timer for the task reached completion Alto collapsed down on the ground, his face covered in sweat. He was beyond exhaustion but he was pleased by what he had acquired.
Alto was oblivious to what had been happening outside of his room all the time he had been working on the mech blueprint. Aside from that the professor had expected him to finish understanding how the mech worked in a week and to reassemble it would take another week but Alto challenged by the mech designer protocol had finished the task within a day.