While Ves had recently realized he no longer needed to march in lockstep with the MTA's principles, brainwashing an expert pilot carried same severity as outright murdering an expert pilot under his care!
In fact, if Ves completely gave in, then he would in effect be guilty of committing two capital crimes in the eyes of the mech industry!
Even getting caught by one of them was enough to ruin the career of the Skull Architect and exile him to the frontier!
Ever since the Farund Affair took place, the Mech Trade Association became extremely paranoid about tampered neural interfaces.
