There was no way to stop the Golden Skull Alliance's rise after receiving enough MTA merits to exchange four separate second-class fleet beyonder tickets!
MTA merits might not be as versatile as MTA credits, but they could be spent to obtain many more exclusive, high-quality goods and services from one of the Big Two!
Even if the Larkinson Clan only obtained half of the total award, this was still enough for Ves to comprehensively empower his entire power base!
If Ves wanted to, he could bring his Larkinson fleet back to the Milky Way Galaxy and still have enough MTA merits left to buy passage to the Red Ocean!
Of course, only a fool would squander so much MTA merits on a useless vacation back to his home galaxy.
Calabast herself would probably whack Ves over the head with a stick and put him in a torture chamber deep inside the Blinding Banshee until he finally came to his senses!
