Hearing that the Lord of Thermodynamics was such an old-fashioned geezer that he could not accept the existence of living mechs was already bad enough.
Hearing that the Web Mistress wanted the Red Association to regulate living mechs by imposing restrictions on which living mechs were allowed to evolve into third order living mechs was not much better!
The two Star Designers and their support base might have different reasons and motivations to go after living mechs, but they all amounted to different forms of meddling.
Why couldn't the mechers leave his living mechs alone? Why did they feel the need to impose regulations of different severity onto products that were doing just fine?
Ves had been publishing living mech designs for plenty of years now. They were not exactly new anymore. They had rarely if ever produced any incidents that resulted in deliberate harm to their mech pilots.
