Not a single Larkinson remained unaffected by Ves Larkinson's meteoric rise to prominence.
Now that he designed an incredibly popular mech and earned an immense amount of money, the Larkinson Family no longer resembled the Larkinson Family of the past.
While the changes provoked a lot of discussion among the Larkinsons, the sandman crisis occupied most of their time.
Whatever Ghanso and his faction of like-minded Larkinsons thought, defending the Bright Republic came first.
Many other fortified star systems came under threat. While the sandmen dispersed their forces along the entire length of the border, their numbers seemed inexhaustible.
If not for the first and second line of defense slowing down the sandman offensive, the Bright Republic wouldn't have been able to bolster the defenses of the border system.
