The most senior old man - General Lazarev, who had plotted to overthrow the "gangsters in the military" alongside Admiral Ushakov and survived the corrupt backfire, did not involve himself in the hectic discussion. The old man certainly wasn't a fan of the arrogant posturing, still, he believed it was critical not to let the humans think that without them, the Duchy Navy could not survive. Otherwise, these arrogant upstarts would in the future negotiations, keep raising increasingly outrageous demands, posing a threat to the interests of the Duchy's Navy.
Indeed, they had already shamelessly proposed to purchase the designs and blueprints of the ships.
Such shameless bastards!
The old general's molars ground together, how dare they try to obtain the painstaking efforts of several generations of shipbuilders with just a bit of dirty money!? Unacceptable!
