After hearing back from the Rim Guardians, Ves soon put the new development aside and went back to designing his mech.
Progress on the Larkinson mech design barely kept up with the schedule they set. With only three months in total to design a mech that actually consisted of four mechs, Ves could only devote a couple of weeks on each of the configurations!
This was a very brutal pace, now that Ves thought about it. Even with his enhanced productivity upon reaching Journeyman, Ves still required at least two months to design a good mech!
The only reason why their short timetable worked was because of how many aspects the configurations shared in common.
Rather than see it as designing four mechs as one, Ves was truly just designing a single mech with four light variants.
Of course, 'light' being relative here.
