Ketis was no longer the inexperienced Journeyman Mech Designer who barely had any completed mech designs under her belt.
She had designed dozens of different swordsman mechs in the last five years or so. Some of them are more significant than others, but each of them provided her with a lot of experience.
What impressed Ves about Ketis was that she never ran out of ways to come up with new swordsman mech concepts that were distinctly different from her prior work.
Perhaps other mech designers might run out of ideas on how to design a swordsman mech that wasn't derivative of a previous work, but Ketis could come up with endless variations that all possessed different combinations of traits.
The Stormblade Samurai was an even bigger departure from her previous body of work than normal.
