An hour before the start of the ceremony, Eliza led Ves and Lucky to a grand reception chamber where thousands of councilors and other high officials had gathered.
Each of them were expected to lead the relatively small but highly promising superorganization that may one day gain parity with the Red Association and the Red Fleet.
They had to do a lot of work before they could turn this dream into a reality, and Ves certainly did not make their jobs easier by introducing the most groundbreaking mechs since the start of the Age of Mechs!
This resulted in a rather ambivalent response towards his arrival.
On the one hand, Ves single-handedly made it possible for the Red Collective to come into existence.
Nobody forgot that Ves had castigated the mechers and the fleeters for their failure to address the needs of the common folk and created a political opening for the rise of a third superorganization.
