He finished it. While it took some time, he completed an entire plan for the task force's mech roster that took every major factor into account.
He took into account the skills and capabilities of every mech company, the inclinations of their commanding officers, the available resources that logistics agreed to release for repair work, the likely opposition they faced at various points of time and a projection of what kind of resources they would be able to obtain.
The latter two variables introduced an incredible amount of complexity to his work. Ves had been forced to make assumptions and use his own judgement to fill in the gaps. His increasingly more intricate plan became more flexible as Ves added options in case his assumptions turned out to be wrong.
