Now that Ves came around to accepting this mixed blessing of an offer, he wanted to take maximum advantage of this opportunity.
Seniors rarely accommodated Apprentices when it came to designing mechs. The differences in ability and perspective were too vast. If they showed off their prowess too much, not only would the role of the junior mech designers be diminished to grunt workers polishing the design from the side, they might also be incalculably damaged by the exposure to advantaged techniques their minds couldn't comprehend!
Ves happened to be fairly resistant to the latter problem. He was like a Journeyman in that sense as his mind was strong enough to bear the exposure with minimal effects.
At least he thought so. Well, his previous flirting with trying to understand high technology worked well enough for him, he figured, so what was the harm?
