How could a man like Barrow Rakovshchik willingly diminish the worth of all of his accomplishments in the business sector for a dream that was not only unobtainable, but also false?
A successful first-class chief executive that had managed to climb high enough on the corporate ladder to understand the truths of many matters should have known better.
Mech piloting may have become a glamorous profession in this day and age, but a significant part of that was due to the unceasing propaganda efforts of the Mech Trade Association.
The MTA had successfully reshaped human culture and much of its institutions to revolve around mechs.
The mechers worked so hard to elevate their favored war platforms that they worked hard to suppress everything else.
Infantry? Too small and weak.
Warships? Too big and destructive.
Tanks? Too inflexible and easy to defeat by mechs.
Aeroplanes? Too one-dimensional and not cool enough.
