The Mech Touch novel Chapter 5162

As Jovy continued to talk about the upcoming conference, Ves no longer felt as in the dark as before.

He had a much more complete understanding about the context, purpose and significance of this gathering.

Although the Survivalists did not hold the greatest amount of voting power in the Red Association, their influence reached further than was apparent on the surface.

For one, the Survivalists were by far the most prepared mechers to cope with the current circumstances. They had a lot of contingency plans that they could immediately implement by virtue of all of the stockpile of strategic materials and assets that they transferred over in advance.

Additionally, both the Polymath and the Xenotechnician were among the most useful technological leaders in the new reality.

The former was brilliant with rapidly inventing all manner of technologies that could quickly help red humanity increase its tech superiority against the aliens.

The latter had been busy with assimilating a lot of phasewater technology, making it so that people were able to steal more advantages that were previously exclusive to the aliens.

The two of them were already brilliant enough on their own, but they could accomplish great synergy if they pooled their efforts together!

Ves was not entirely certain about their political stances, though. The two Star Designers belonged to vastly different generations and likely disagreed on a lot of matters.

Then there was the Fist of Defiance. It was no secret that high-ranking mech pilots were muleheads, and enough publications had described this supremely powerful fighter as an uncompromising figure who desired to wipe out aliens preemptively before they ever posed a serious threat!

Before the Great Severing, the Big Two likely hadn't put all of their effort into wiping out the indigenous aliens of the Red Ocean.

That restraint came to bite the red humans in the rear as the disparity in numbers between the two sides had grown too lopsided!

From this perspective, the worst nightmare of the Fist of Defiance had essentially come true.

The humans in this corner of the cosmos were all at risk of getting wiped out en masse, and there was no way for the people of the Milky Way to bail them out anymore!

Given these circumstances, the Fist of Defiance must definitely feel pissed that nobody took him seriously enough before the Great Severing. He must have become even more uncompromising for that reason.

All of these political undercurrents painted the conference in a different light. Ves figured out why Jovy did not dare to say too much and cross too many boundaries.

This was because the three leaders of the Survivalist Faction had likely entered into a power struggle!

None of the Survivalists would admit to outsiders, but Ves could infer the truth easily enough now that he had collected enough clues.

It was not advantageous for the Survivalist Faction to broadcast its internal divisions to the public. That would undermine its authority and weaken its voice during high-level discussions.

Ves speculated that the primary purpose of the conference had changed since the Survivalists initially planned this event.

They used to assume the conference would mainly center around sharing ideas, meeting with more like-minded people and form a new consensus on a couple of important but relatively mundane policy proposals.

Now, the conference gained a huge amount of significance due to transitioning to a new age.

Ves already knew that much of the conference would center around presenting possible solutions to combat the rising alien threat.

What was not as obvious was that it also served as a competition for the three faction leaders to present their own visions to their shared following!

As long as a majority of Survivalists threw their weight behind one of them, then the winner would be able to effectively be able to implement his or her own plans with the full backing of the faction!

This might not be the most ideal way to run a faction, but the Survivalists understood the importance of sacrificing their individual priorities in order to do whatever was necessary to preserve the human race!

Ves was able to piece all of this together by combining his existing knowledge of the Survivalist Faction with all of the vague and indirect hints that his friend was dropping.

All of this fascinated and frightened Ves. He had a feeling that the conference was destined to become a turning point in red humanity's history.

Once the Survivalist Faction began to put its full weight behind a single plan, it would begin to solicit support from other friendly factions.

If enough of them supported this initiative, then the Red Association would adopt it as their central policy!

After that, the mechers would try their best to win the support of the other major human groups such as the Red Fleet and the first-rate colonial superstates.

So long as enough of them played along, much of red humanity would move according to the plan and ideals of a single visionary leader!

Though Ves was not certain whether the Survivalists would succeed in this grand and ambitious endeavor, the possibility of it was enough to turn the conference into an epoch-changing event!

Ves needed no more instructions on how he needed to keep his head down and avoid any missteps.

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