The Mech Touch novel Chapter 5135

Despite the transition to the Age of Dawn, it was still hard for most Terrans to feel too much urgency in their own situations.

Sure, the Devos Ancient Clan invested more in the defense of the New Constantinople System by building more overt defensive facilities across the planet, but much of this ongoing war preparation effort did not make the students feel overly threatened.

They were all highly skilled and highly educated talents. No matter whether they possessed civilian or clan backgrounds, each of them had already risen above the vast majority of ordinary colonists by virtue of getting accepted in a good educational institution.

In a society where the learning capabilities and the teaching effectiveness of an entire society was incredibly developed, the difficulty ol getting into a serious university was exceedingly high!

If the Eden Institute of Business & Technology did not raise its educational standards to such a ridiculously high level, then pretty much any average Terran high school graduate would have been able to get accepted!

This was obviously not conducive to selecting the most competent and capable elites to form the next generation of leaders and other figures that could prop up the Terran Alliance.

It was due to their recognition of their own elevated status that the students all possessed the confidence that they would be able to get to safety before the 'common people'.

Even if a large fleet of alien warships appeared in the New Constantinople System without warning all of a sudden, the students and the professors of the Eden Institute should be among the first batches to get evacuated from the danger region!

What Ves tried to do was to pop this illusionary bubble. He wanted them to recognize that their importance might not be as great as they assumed.

Whether it was true or not, it was always a good idea for people to start thinking more proactively about their own agency rather than put their blind trust on their respective organizations!

"I rebelled against my own family." Ves plainly stated even as his ship was continuing to endure attacks from all sides. "I would have done decently if I just did what my family told me, but I would have never been able to uplift myself and my clan to this height in record time if I allowed myself to be constrained by people whose interests are too far apart from mine and does not sufficiently support my endeavors. While I am not saying that you should learn from my example, my message to you all is that you should not put blind trust in the institutions that you depend upon. Each of them are fallible in their own ways. The best way to ensure that your own interests are being met is to build a group or organization that answers to you. That is what I have done."

The Terrans did not appear so receptive to his latest point.

Few if any of the people in the audience seriously entertained the idea of breaking off from the families or organizations that raised them and granted them so many conveniences in their lives.

Almost no one was able to attain success in the Terran Confederation by relying on themselves. Some form of backing was always essential for anyone to get ahead in a society that was far too intricately intertwined with ancient and highly established power blocs.

Ves understood this dynamic well enough. It was not his intention to make enemies with a lot of powerful Terran family organizations by turning their descendants into rebels.

He just wanted to shake up their mentalities and question whether it was in their best interest to remain on autopilot. It was not necessarily wrong for them to dedicate their lives to serving other people and organizations. Loyalty was a virtue and family was important.

What he did have a problem with was people who mindlessly allowed themselves to get exploited without receiving their due in return. Ves had already witnessed far too many individuals get screwed by the selfish or foolish decisions made by the leaders they trusted far too much.

After a brief moment, Ves moved on with his lecture.

"I won't go any further on this specific topic for today. It deserves a more in-depth discussion. Let's get back to the heart of this course. The Eden Institute agreed to let me teach you Frontier Wisdom because it recognizes that it is useful for you to learn to be more proactive in an age where a lot of new possibilities have opened up and where your safety can no longer be guaranteed as before. My course is particularly relevant to students who aspire to become a pioneer like myself and take their fates in their own hands."

The majority of students who enrolled in this course had no plans at all to become a pioneer and subject themselves to the risk of death like this daredevil of a professor!

After all, they were all studying to become mech designers or business executives. Once they graduated, they would go on to work in well-protected design labs or office buildings that were ideally far away from any battlefields.

Not everyone was necessarily like this. There were always dreamers among them who yearned for a better future than the trajectories they were supposed to follow.

The new professor had made a sufficiently powerful impression on at least a few students for them to consider this more dangerous but exciting alternative.

"At the start of this class, I mentioned the dire state of red humanity in the new frontier." Ves spoke. "My course is not designed to solve all of these difficult high-level problems. It is centered around helping you navigate this dangerous frontier environment. In ordei to do that, we must begin with a basic model that ties all of my lessons together."

A new projection appeared that displayed numerous different keywords that all related to each other in one fashion or another. Each concept conveyed a lot of advantages and could form the basis of power of any organization.

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