Loyalty followed little Sharon and quickly completed the preliminary design for Second Lieutenant Robinson, "disability insurance victim number one," and his mechanical prosthesis. In this fantasy world, these things worked not through precise neural links or chip control, but through computational orbs and the user's commands.
So there was no need to worry about compatibility. They only needed to make a mechanical arm suited to the user's build and install it.
But that didn't mean they could do whatever they wanted.
Because Countess Sharon's skills were limited, she still couldn't make high-precision mechanical prostheses. The arm she had made for Loyalty was already the best she could manage.
Honestly, prostheses of this quality couldn't offer many functions, and the ones they did have were basic.
To make further progress, they needed more than inspiration and talent. According to little Sharon, once the Black Calamity had passed, she would have to study at the Mechanical Engineering Department of Chardo Craftsman University. Only then might she learn from the halflings how to make more advanced prostheses.
In short, the only thing fantasy engineering had in common with modern engineering was the word "engineering."
At least in Loyalty's eyes, the heart of this "fantasy punk" aesthetic wasn't mechanical beauty. It was the strange technological tree the halflings had developed in this peculiar fantasy continent, one that completely defied the principles of industrial progress.
For example, they had already invented steam trains that ran on rails, yet not a single halfling engineer had tried to make something as obviously simpler as a car. Instead, the "steam walkers" running all over the streets of Chardo Port were "mechanical spiders" built on the principles of biomimicry.
You could call them backward, but their walkers could run and charge steadily in all kinds of terrain and weather.