Ves sighed in relief.
It turned out that there was still a potential way out. Several ways, in fact.
So far, the Terrans tried their best to keep the Woodsap Mech Design Project as in-house as possible.
Aside from collaborating with Ves, they avoided any third-party entanglements, believing that they already possessed the capabilities to bring the project to completion.
They were partially correct in that assumption.
While the other aspects of the collaborative mech design project progressed decently, Ves did not feel satisfied with the consequences to the mech pilots.
Even if there were plenty of Terrans that willingly traded away their humanity for a chance to pilot one of the most powerful standard mechs to appear on the battlefield, Ves considered this tradeoff to be a symptom of failure!
A proper mech should never force its pilot into a devil's bargain.
