Ves had not spent too much thought on the consequences of making his Carmine mechs available to the public.
His primary target audience had always been professional mech pilots. He knew that Carmine mechs would fulfill the long-held dreams of many norms with regrets about their awful genetic aptitudes, but that did not change the fact that they were amateurs.
Even if they could pilot a Carmine mech tomorrow, how could they possibly match up against alien phasefighters, let alone conventional mechs piloted by actual professionals?
It was unlikely that these Carmine mech pilots could match the performance of potentates who trained and studied in the mech academies for 10 to 15 years!
Sure, virtual reality games did a pretty good job at simulating the experience of piloting a mech, but the degree of realism was terrible.
