Ves realized that Ketis spent most of her time in his office when she first boarded the Shield of Hispania. He hadn't taken her down the workshops and the hangar bays even once. Due to that, her true opinion on mech technicians never had the chance to come up. Ves simply took for granted that the Swordmaidens ran their maintenance departments like every other outfit he had seen.
He should have known better. The frontier lived in primitive times. Humans living in the Faris Star Region devolved into simpler, brutal means of survival.
Whispers of slavery always surrounded the frontier. Ves didn't expect for it to hit closer to home.
Even Walter's Whalers, the presiding gang on Cloudy Curtain, didn't treat their mech technicians that badly!
