Though the months-long isolation affected every mech designer, they still soldiered on in their work.
Mission after Mission, they steeled their hearts and locked down their focus on the immediate tasks at hand.
Every challenge tested the four Larkinsons in different ways. They could never solve a problem by resorting to old solutions. Due to the strange and harsh requirements imposed by the Mission Hall, they had no choice but to reinvent the concept of mechs several times.
For example, one crazy Mission demanded that Ves (and by extension his assistants) design a complete mech that was 100 percent edible by baseline humans!
Yes, edible by ordinary people!
It had to be edible to the point where a random person could walk up and literally take a bite out of the exterior without breaking his teeth!
That very same individual should theoretically be able to eat and digest any part of the mech, including the power reactor and energy cells!
