Ves long held the opinion that bigger was not always better.
As a mech designer, he knew that he could scale up his mech designs and use the extra capacity to improve their performance.
Yet as mechs grew larger, they also bore greater burdens. The machines became increasingly more expensive while the improvements began to slow down.
The goal of mech designers had always been to strive for efficiency, not maximum performance.
This was why mechs reached their current proportions and stuck with them for centuries. Multiple generations of trial and error had caused the mech industry to come to a consensus on the ideal size and mass of mechs.
