"I know what you all are thinking!" Ves addressed the stunned crowd. "We third-raters will never be able to reach Master. It's pointless to set unattainable goals for ourselves. Fridayman and Hexer mech designers enjoy too much of an advantage on this front. All. Of. This. Is. Correct. Yet even if that is true, so what?!"
His amplified words echoed across the entire auditorium. Whatever the attending students expected to hear, this was like nothing like they had ever heard before! Not a single guest lecturer ever approached their presentation from this direction!
"Mech designers are capable of achieving the impossible." Ves spoke. "It is the reason for our existence. When have we ever given up and surrendered to the prevailing odds?!"
A sense of rebellion grew in the hearts of the Rawlings students.
