The proposed collaboration between the LMC and Voiken Industries affected a lot of interests. Profits involving hundreds of thousands if not millions of MTA credits were at stake!
The potential business deal also had the power to define Voiken Industries entry into the mech market.
It didn't matter whether Professor Taigen Herman Voiken achieved a lot of success in the Uplifting Note Star Sector where the Voikens were based.
Hardly few if any of his reputation and brand awareness carried over to the Red Ocean!
The vast majority of mech designers and mech companies had to start from scratch once they passed through the greater beyonder gate.
The level of competition in the new frontier was vastly greater due to the high density of people active in the small slice of the dwarf galaxy that human civilization succeeded in occupying.
