After several hours of contemplation, Ves developed a tentative series of steps he should take in order to mitigate the damage and make his move plausible.
First, he needed to have a reason to move to a different star cluster. No normal mech designer would leave behind his company, his connections and his other endeavors in order to start anew in a completely different region of space!
He would have to come up with a good excuse for him to do so, and for now the only one he came up with was to expand the reach of the LMC.
It sounded premature. Expanding a company's reach to a neighbor star clusters made sense to someone like Master Olson.
It did not make sense for a lowly Journeyman. The general rule was that Journeymen ought to focus on growing their presence in their home markets. If they specialized in niche mechs, then expanding to the rest of the star sector was an acceptable strategy to pursue.
