The clan moved extremely quickly once Ves unveiled his new plan. Although most Larkinsons were floored by his requests, they had no choice but to play along and prepare the Vivacious Wal to receive a lot of visitors.
Fortunately, preparing the ship for a symposium was well within their means. There were plenty of clansmen who possessed plenty of experience in attending and organizing such events.
These people quickly gathered together and hammered out a more complete outline for the symposium.
Many other clansmen contributed to the event as well. They performed vital actions such as shipping necessary goods, setting up the exhibition areas and heightening the security measures aboard the ship.
Thousands of Larkinsons moved back and forth. Everyone who could help with the symposium had to drop their leave or regular duties in order to ensure that the Larkinson Clan's first public event on its starship concluded in a successful manner.
The prestige and reputation of the Larkinsons was at stake this time! If they somehow botched this up, then not only would Ves fail to reach his primary goals, his clan would also receive a lot of ridicule!
That was not conducive to forming a trade consortium!
Two days came and went in a blur. The Larkinsons truly went all-out in order to clean up a portion of the Vivacious Wal and make it ready to receive visitors of all kinds.
The lack of time severely hampered their ability to hold a grand event. Dawn City remained much the same. If not for the fact that the Larkinson Clan could utilize the Spirit of Bentheim to produce a lot of props and structural components, the symposium site wouldn't have looked remarkable enough!
As it was, the architects and planners of the Larkinson Clan did a decent job in transforming the public parts of Dawn City into a themed event site.
Since the symposium was named after Vulcan, Ves ordered his subordinates to apply a unified bronze-and-red theme on all of the props.
As the first batch of guests stepped aboard the Vivacious Wal, they underwent a different experience from usual as they were led into spaces where the Larkinson Clan had put its best side forward.
Banners displaying both the Golden Cat and a stylized blacksmith hammer hung from structures or floating poles.
Since the Larkinson Clan went through so much trouble to organize this event, it had to take advantage of this situation by impressing the public with its capabilities.
"Wow! Is this what the glows of the Larkinson Clan are like?"
"These mechs are truly more than what they appear!"
"It's not just their glows that are impressive. The quality of their construction is also remarkably high. Even their mass-produced mechs are consistently good!"
A lot of mech designers couldn't hold back their curiosity and paid a visit to the Vivacious Wal. They consisted of both independent and working for different influences, and mostly consisted of low-ranking mech designers.
While a number of Journeymen and Seniors had decided to attend the Vulcan Symposium as well, their numbers were much lower.
Mech designers at this stage were a lot prouder of their own work. The only reasons why they bothered to attend at all was to get a good look at the unique masterwork mechs of the Larkinson Clan and see if they could gain inspiration from what they observed. ƒгeewebnovёl.com
Still, the Larkinsons were quite happy to attract these mech designers. The more mech designers acclaimed the mechs developed for the clan, the greater LMC's future sales potential!
As time went by, the amount of traffic continued to increase. Hundreds of shuttles and passenger transports steadily approached the expeditionary fleet.
Before any vehicle was allowed to approach, they first had to stop outside of the security perimeter and await their turn to be transferred aboard a passenger vessel operated by the Larkinsons themselves.
There was no way that the clan would allow any foreign vessel to land directly in the Vivacious Wal's hangar bay!
The security checks were quite stringent, much to people's surprise. The Larkinson guards were stern in their duties and preemptively filtered out any potential troublemakers before they were allowed to go any further.
The Larkinsons were especially afraid of bringing sleeper agents and Crown terrorists.
The Crown Uprising was still ongoing even though it wasn't a major concern in the Red Ocean.
It was hard for Crown terrorists to pass through the beyonder gate.
Even then, people and organizations were much more on guard in the new frontier. Few people who managed to enter the dwarf galaxy were incompetent. Pioneers and their followers were generally of a higher caliber than usual.
This was why the Larkinson Clan were more on guard against saboteurs and sleepers from other rivals. Organizations like ZZR Industries might try to disrupt the symposium.
For these reasons and more, the Black Cats undertook a lot of responsibilities. They not only vetted every single visitor beforehand, but also assisted with the security checks.
One of the more unusual methods they employed was using small totems of the Golden Cat to assess the intentions of the visitors.
A black-uniformed inspector approached an ordinary-looking mech designer and held out a small statuette of the Golden Cat.
"Please stand still while I press this object to your forehead."
The mech designer threw a dubious look at the statuette. "What is this?"
"You can think of it as a special scanner."
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