It went without saying that the composition of the main design team could have an enormous influence on the outcome of a design project.
Right now, Ves and Gloriana were more than cognizant about the fact that the current design team of the Dark Zephyr III was a bit… unorthodox to say the least.
Ves and Gloriana's design philosophies both improved the expert mech in unusual and holistic ways. Neither of them focused on improving any basic properties, so there was a lot of room for mech designers with Class II-IV design philosophies.
They already chose to keep Ketis in the mix in order to upgrade the familiar double knives of the expert light skirmisher.
They thought about equipping the Dark Zephyr with an axe in order to help the machine break through obstacles faster, but they eventually chose to improve its original armaments instead.
