As a mech designer, Ves acquired a fascination for adapting mechs to the unique characteristics and preferences of mech pilots.
Spending lots of time with Gloriana and learning a couple of tricks of her trade deepened his appreciation for custom mechs.
High-ranking mechs were all personalized by definition. The configuration of all of their customized aspects resulted in a unique machine that was extremely unlikely to exist in any other place or time.
What further differentiated them was that their mech designers exerted a large influence on the design style and the traits of the mechs in question.
Every expert mech and every ace mech existed as a unique marker in the long history of the mech industry.
As Ves, Patriarch Reginald and Master Benedict continued to stare at the spotty image of the Neo Amadeus, they began to make all kinds of associations based on their backgrounds.