Acolyte Evie won!
Ves turned towards Mayra and bowed his head. "Congratulations on your mech pilot's win. Your Redemption Rose has vanquished my Evaporating Spear."
"The duel was too close to call." She said graciously. Still, she couldn't help but smile at her victory. "The quality of our mechs are roughly at the same level. We chose to emphasize different aspects of our mechs, and the only reason why the Redemption Rose took the advantage is because we dealt with the neural interface issue in different ways."
"That's true." He nodded. "I've chosen to limit the amount of input, while you've opted to rely on AIs to maximize the output. I should have gone for this solution as well, but I guess I was too prideful in my own methods."
Besides his ingrained bias towards relying on artificial intelligences, Ves also opted against them because they didn't fit with his design philosophy.
