The Mech Touch novel Chapter 5142

Once Ves handled his affairs at the Eden Institute, he could finally direct his attention to his affairs in the Corellix System.

One of his foremost priorities at this time was to sort out the most valuable loot obtained in this battle.

Even though the majority of yurzen warships had successfully escaped annihilation and warped out of the star system intact, the original alien raiding fleet completely lost its fighting intent and cohesion.

Nobody was worried anymore that the aliens would regroup and continue their original assault on the colony at Corellix HI.

The Golden Skull Alliance succeeded in its primary objective of preventing all of the colonists on the planet from getting wiped out en masse.

This was a significant contribution to red humanity!

The Red Two already expressed their intention to build a stronghold on Corellix III. This endeavor would proceed a lot easier if there was an existing base of population and infrastructure on the planet.

Aside from that, keeping the remote colony intact meant that humanity effectively remained in control of the nearby border. Once red humanity no longer possessed any presence in the Corellix System, the alien raiding fleets would begin to set their sights towards the colonies situated deeper into human-occupied space!

All of this meant that the strategic significance of saving the local colony from destruction was quite high. There was no way the Red Ocean would deny the Golden Skull Alliance the rewards that it deserved.

What was particularly important to Ves was that the Larkinson Clan contributed a lot more to the success of this operation than the other alliance partners!

Even now, Minister Shederin Purnesse had become preoccupied with furiously trying to convince the other envoys that the Larkinson Clan deserved a much greater share of the overall rewards!

"40 percent is the absolute minimum that we should go for." Shederin briefly reported to Ves after the latest round of negotiations and horse-trading had concluded. "It is very much possible for us to attain 50 percent of total rewards and spoils if we navigate the subsequent rounds correctly. We truly accrued a great amount of accomplishments in this operation."

That was not an exaggeration. Ves briefly listed out the highlights of the Larkinson Clan.

Venerable Zimro Belson and the Phobos detected a hidden threat in advance and crippled Stingray 1's warp drives.

Lucky successfully captured the rare and valuable archeship, though not without incident.

Venerabler Isobel Kotin and the Promethea burned a handful of yurzen warships into ruined husks.

The Spirit of Bentheim lured away Stingray 2 and a part of the yurzen raiding fleet before breaking their backs after a long and dangerous running engagement.

The Larkinson Clan's lancer mechs expended a lot of expensive blast lances to quickly break open the defenses of a handful of important yurzen warships.

Venerable Tusa Billingsley-Larkinson and the Dark Zephyr essentially took out the formidable Stingray 1 by themselves by successfully pulling off an utterly amazing new displacement technique!

Ves really saw no reason why his clan should be denied half of the total spoils of the Battle of Corellix!

That was not to say that the other alliance partners did not make any effective contributions this time. The Glory Seekers definitely earned considerable credit for dispatching a DIVA starship and assigning Saintess Ulrika Vraken and the Macharia Excelsia to the Spirit of Bentheim.

Nonetheless, the expeditionary fleet wouldn't have been able to secure any of its objectives without the heroic and exceptional contributions of the Larkinson Clan!

"Tell those negotiators that I will not accept an outcome that is anything less than 50 percent." Ves said in a forceful tone. "We deserve to take at least one entire puelmer warship for ourselves given how our actions are primarily responsible for taking down Stingray 1 as well as Stingray 2."

"I will convey your words to our partners as best as possible."

Ves was willing to personally call for an emergency meeting if his clan received less than it was due. Although he did not wish to short his allies of their fair share of the spoils, that did not mean he was okay with getting exploited!

As time passed by, the expeditionary fleet experienced slight difficulties in properly managing two separate battlefields.

The Spirit of Bentheim continued to linger next to Stingray 2 while the bulk of the fleet stuck close to Stingray 1 and the majority of other captured alien vessels.

The Golden Skull Alliance already planned to dispatch the Wild Star along with a bunch of other capital ships to tow Stingray 2 as well as any other scattered captured hulls to the main battlefield.

This would keep all of the ships and valuable loot in a single manageable location.

All of this would probably unfold in the next few days.

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