Ves did not feel so good at the moment.
Though Irene had not given him a clear answer, he was smart enough to read between the lines.
He essentially received confirmation that the Terrans and the Rubarthans definitely provided support to the Cosmopolitan Movement. They may have cooperated with each other in secret as well!
It made a lot of sense. The current hegemons of humanity was the mechers and the fleeters.
Since the Age of Mechs, the Big Two stripped the Greater Terran United Confederation and the New Rubarth Empire of much of their military power and sovereignty.
How could the first-rate superstates possibly bear the indignity of being reduced to this point?!
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.