Chapter 4026 Greater Sincerity
The birth of Gaia completely upended the Aduc Family!
When Ves returned to the Spirit of Bentheim, he found that numerous Larkinsons had also heard about the birth of a new design spirit.
The reason why his clansmen already knew so much was because there were third order mechs that had already spilled the beans!
Pretty much every mech and design spirit had felt Gaia's birth.
Despite the distance between the Larkinson fleet and the Aduc fleet, Gaia was so powerful and released so much energy in the first moments of her existence that she was like an explosion in the night!
Everyone who possessed a bit of sensitivity towards spirituality had definitely sensed that something extraordinary took place!
Not just the Larkinsons, but also certain individuals among the Glory Seekers, the Crossers and other groups in the vicinity of the Aduc fleet's orbit must have sensed the wave of power propagated by Gaia's emergence!
Fortunately, aside from making dozens of expert pilots and high-ranking mech designners suspicious, none of the third parties followed up and made any pressing inquiries. Ves became relieved when he found out that Gaia's unexpectedly powerful birth did not attract too much unwelcome attention.
He had no way of determining how long that would last. Ves already had a hunch that a spirit as powerful as Gaia would never remain unnoticed, especially when she possesed such a strong relation to Old Earth and universal life energy! ƒгeeweɓn૦vel.com
As Ves wanted to give the Aducs time to process their changes and come to grips with Gaia, he decide to spend his time on other matters.
His assistant Gavin just happened to provide him with a helpful distraction.
"Do you remember our negotiations with the Voiken Family, boss?"
"Hmm? Oh, I remember. I recall there is a significant disagreement between us and the Voiken Family about the division of earnings for a potential collaboration project centered around a line of law enforcement mechs."
Ves had not forgotten about the Pacifier Project. It was probably one of the most commercially lucrative ventures of this design round. Part of the reason why he thought it was so promising was because the Voiken Family would be laying all of the groundwork for the introduction of this revolutionary new law enforcement solution.
It was a pity that the Voikens attempted to scam him by limiting their collaboration and the proceeds from it to a single mech model. While that wasn't unusual in most cooperative ventures between different mech designers, this was a different situation!
When Ves figured out that Professor Taigen Herman Voiken intended to publish an entire mech ecosystem targeted towards law enforcement agencies, he did not get fooled.
He was not unaccustomed to situations where others exploited him for his own gains. This was merely the way that human society and many other societies worked.
If he somehow got scammed, then there was little he could do about it aside from accepting his losses.
However, now that he became aware of it in advance, there was no way Ves would make it easy for the Voiken Family to profit from his unique design solutions!
"Well, I am happy to announce that our negotiation team has managed to achieve a lot of progress in the past week."
"Oh?" Ves raised his eyebrow. "That sounds curious, Benny. There is a lot of money and interests at stake here. Shouldn't the Voikens be standing their ground and making it difficult for us to secure any concessions?"
Gavin smirked. "Ordinarily, you are right, but the situation of the Voikens is not as optimistic as ours. Time is not on their side. While our clan is set to establish itself in Davute and rise to greater heights, the detachment of Voikens sent to the Red Ocean are still strangers in a strange land. According to Minister Shederin, they have already missed the first and most crucial phase of the opening of the new frontier. If the newcomers delay any further, they will completely get suppressed by their competitors."
"Is their situation bad?"
"Don't forget what faction they are aligned to." His assistant reminded Ves. "To those who are in the know, it is not difficult to find out the MTA factions that are favoring specific pioneers. This is not too relevant for us as we are tied to factions that are able to get along with many other groups and factions."
That wasn't entirely true. The Survivalists and the Transhumanists may both be relatively harmless to other powers, but the latter had a serious conflict with the first-rate superstates!
Whether that would have any consequences to Ves and his clan remained to be seen, but for now Gavin's statement mostly held true.
The Voiken Family was apparently in a different position. Ves quickly thought about it. The Preserving Order Faction probably held the greatest sway in the more developed and stable regions of human space back in the Milky Way Galaxy.
These were the areas where humanity was at its most prosperous! A lot more people were happy with their lives and their place in society. The last thing they wanted was for chaos and disorder to disrupt their sweet arrangement!
Unfortunately for the Voikens, the Red Ocean Dwarf Galaxy was a completely different environment. This was a frontier that was filled with people who sought change!
A bit of chaos and disorder did not sound that bad to them. If every zone in the Red Ocean had completely stabilized, then there was no room for other pioneers to rise to power!
Even if the pioneers aligned to the Preservers did not intend to do anything of note in the Red Ocean, their ideological leanings already made it impossible for them to receive a warm welcome from other groups!
After Ves derived all of this from the brief amount of information provided by Gavin, he grinned and leaned back in his chair.
"I see. If this is true, then the Voikens need us even more than I thought. If they can't come up with a killer product that can establish their mech designers in the regional market, then they will not have the capital to do anything of note in this dwarf galaxy."
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