Ves felt confident that his speech had successfully countered his opponent's previous argument.
This was because he cleverly exploited a flaw in his target audience's psychology.
Did mech pilots wanted to wrap themselves in the strongest layer of armor, energy shielding and more exotic forms of protection?
No!
At least that was not their ultimate ambition.
What mech pilots truly wanted was to exceed their mortal limitations, undergo apotheosis and dominate the battlefield as expert pilots or greater!
If Ves asked any ordinary mech pilot if they wanted to break through, they would say yes more than 99 percent of the time!
No serious self-respecting mech pilot would ever refuse the opportunity of a lifetime!
Though only a fraction of all of the mech pilots in existence had managed to overcome this hurdle in the end, that did not stop the remainder from keeping this dream alive.
