Selecting Lady Romanda Devos as the Terran collaborator on the Swarm Project was a bold and unusual choice.
As much as Ves prized her design philosophy and its fantastic synergy with the Carmine System, he still had a few reasons to remain skeptical about this choice.
The criticism that other mech pilots and mech designers levied against Lady Romanda was not entirely baseless.
The woman obsessed so much about what happened when mechs got defeated in battle that she centered her design philosophy around that scenario.
She designed her mechs with defeat as the starting point.
Ves did not know how to feel about that. He personally felt repulsed by the very idea, even though his mind could understand the logic behind this approach.
