Birth Of The Crafts-God

"You see, at such 'high levels' of heat, while conducting stellar energy, Purple Iridium would begin to exude a very faint purple aura. Usually, this purple aura is harmless and simply a mixture of free floating Purple Iridium electrons and stellar energy. This phenomenon doesn't happen or is barely noticeable with high amounts of Purple Iridium. But when used as a conductor, the Purple Iridium content is very low allowing this phenomenon to occur.

"This purple aura created a stellar energy field around the conductors, which could be troublesome. But this won't be a problem since the Ivoric gold layer for the stellar energy components is a good insulator of stellar energy. The sapphire substrate layer for the electrical components is also a good protector against radiation, so there is nothing to be afraid of. I designed this in mind after all.

"But you used Silicon Dioxide layers. When it comes to radiation protection Silicon Dioxide can't compare to a sapphire substrate." Lucas stared at the duo.

Once again, they were frozen with shock. Needless to say, they now understood the rest. Even Maessen who wasn't as skilled as the duo could now figure out how the issue came to be.

The purple aura radiation, which also contained stellar energy, infiltrated through the bottom of the Silicon Dioxide layers that hung above the Ivoric gold layer, and influenced the electrical fields within the conductors of this layer. This caused the feared counter-reacting field that infected not just the electrical components, but backlogged into the source stellar (Ivoric gold) layer at the bottom of the electrical (Silicon Dioxide) component layer.

Since after every Ivoric gold layer is a Silicon Dioxide layer, for up to seven times to form a major core, every single layer in every major core of the processor was affected.

"That is the first problem." Lucas said, drawing the group from their speechless state.

"First problem?" Maessen was surprised.

Originally, the problem discovered by the research team was the issue of corruption, and that was the only fault found out. According to the research team, when the Qin stellar processor they developed was operated at peak performance for a long time, it began to break down due to corruption. Lucas had now solved this problem and explained why it happened in the first place. But the fact that there was another design flaw which the research team didn't even figure out was shocking.

"Indeed. Otherwise why would I bring up the Poly-dicroyl gantiuum alloy and Vanadium Oxide?"

Lucas gave Maessen a strange look. It was almost as if he was asking 'aren't you paying attention? Why are you so slow?'.

"Uhm, go ahead." Maessen awkwardly coughed as he tried to maintain his composure.

"When the corruption occurred, the fourteen layers of Silicon Dioxide and Ivoric gold in each major core became basically useless due to corruption; and the control cores didn't go unharmed either. The layers get short-circuited and can experience overheating, resulting in irreparable damage. As a result, the control cores would also be affected.

"In the worst case scenario, the physical structure of the bottommost major core will be destroyed and this would create a leakage. Electrical current could potentially come in contact with the Vanadium Oxide, which at this point would already have been heated up to the required temperature for conductivity. The Chromium layer would also be affected as Chromium is an innate conductor.

"Even if there's no electrical leakage, as I said earlier, the temperature of 52°C is enough to cause a reaction between the Purple Iridium aura and the Vanadium Oxide. If you're unlucky, it could cause an explosive reaction and destroy the processor, once the two come in contact.

"I understand that you intended to defend against heat radiation and the likes using a Vanadium doped Chromium layer. But you went about it the wrong way." Lucas explained.

"Even if we suppose that corruption doesn't occur within any of the major cores, it's still not advised to have a Vanadium-doped Chromium layer at the bottom due to the radiative properties of Purple Iridium in low content."

At this point, neither Professor Cayman nor Weston could refute Lucas' statement. He was entirely right and he proved his point with a sound logic.

"Thank you for the explanation." Weston bowed as a form of apology.

Lucas nodded.

"No problem. You would have figured it out to be honest."

Truthfully, he wasn't being nice or comforting. The problem wasn't entirely big and it only existed because the vestige-smiths working on the project didn't have enough time.

Processor vestige-smithing was science, and science was a research-intensive study that utilised a lot of experiments, observations and conjectures. What this meant was that it was a very time-consuming process. This was why even with the advanced technology, it still took vestige-smiths a significant amount of time to design a stellar processor from scratch. Even producing an already designed processor was still time-consuming as well. The Qin processor for instance, should have normally taken one month to complete production from scratch, but under the pressure from management, they had to do so within half a month.

In this same period, the team was expected to make adjustments to the original blueprint for a finalised product that would be pushed into production the following month. Because of that, there was no room for failure.

Under such a tight deadline, it was inevitable that mistakes would happen. One would not be able to focus properly due to the pressure.

There was also the fact that the vestige-smiths weren't familiar with the properties of Purple Iridium. Not only was it quite expensive —10,000 FeC per ingot— but it was rarely used in the semiconductor industry. One should recall that Purple Iridium wasn't a local product in Eretre and usually had to be imported from foreign planets. Hence, there were other preferred and cheaper options which the industry was familiar with and could be bought in bulk quantity.

Even if they were Tier 1 Master vestige-smiths, it was impossible for them to be able to know about every single element and material, as well as their qualities and performances under all sorts of conditions. No one could be that diligent in their studies and knowledgeable —well, except maybe Lucas.

In summary, if the team was given more time to experiment and research on the blueprint, they were unlikely to have encountered such issues. Even if they did, they would eventually figure out the solution.

Professor Cayman knew this which was why he didn't behave like Weston and thank Lucas, much less apologize. He was still prideful and choked up the situation to the fact that the 'human' was more knowledgeable and experienced when dealing with the rare Purple Iridium.

However, it still didn't erase the fact that Lucas was the one who solved it for them, and some people knew this.

"Thank you for your help." Masssen smiled as he shook Lucas' hands.

"No problem. We are partners after all."

"Yes, that's true. We're partners." Maessen's smile stretched from one side of his face to the other.

"Do you mind joining the team for the second production batch? That way, we can ensure that no such problems are encountered later on." Maessen looked at Lucas hopefully.

"Hmph. There's no need to behave like that, Mr. CEO. We can handle the rest from here ourselves." Cayman snorted before he turned around and left.

"He's right. As long as they follow the blueprint, nothing will go wrong." Lucas shrugged.

Maessen still wasn't satisfied but he understood that he couldn't keep Lucas here. The contract only stated that the Seven Sparks Forge would aid the Silverine Factory in mastering production by upgrading their equipment for mass production. There was no direct stipulation for Lucas to assist with production in-person. If the Silverine Factory still couldn't do this much all on their own, then they couldn't be helped.

"I have a question." Weston, who had yet to depart, interrupted the duo.

"Go on." Lucas stared at him.

"What would you suggest as the perfect base material for the Qin?"

Lucas didn't answer right away as he stared at Weston.

Truthfully, Lucas was quite impressed by Weston. While he originally didn't think much about the latter earlier, Weston's ability to understand where he was lacking and take a step back was laudable. It was even more impressive that he was also interested in learning.

"Since the Qin's first component is the Ivoric gold layer, the base components would have to built with this in mind. You can also repeat the same on top as well. As for a suitable base material, plexiglass is a good option if you're interested in something fancy. However, do make sure to have one side of it covered in a radiation protection coating. If you still want to maintain the transparent view, then go for Ternon Methylene-silver coating.

"If you intend on tossing away the aesthetics for more practicality, Gretac-Titanium alloy is a good pick. It's a good conductor of heat, a very terrible conductor of electricity, and it has notable physical characteristics like good durability and strength.

"The Vanadium-doped Chromium layer is also good; just make sure that the Chromium is 100% pure or at least, 99.999999%.

"The word 'perfect' doesn't exist in my dictionary, so I'll say these are the most optimal choices." Lucas blasted off a ton of sentences, but Weston managed to get them all.

"Thank you very much." Weston expressed his gratitude.

"No problem." Lucas nodded.

After that, Weston didn't leave but looked at him.

Lucas understood what he meant. Since he was done here, it was indeed time to go home.

Maessen spoke up at this moment.

"Why don't we go have lunch?"