The Mech Touch novel Chapter 7390

Chapter 7390: Favor Ideas

After thirty seconds of contemplation, the Saint Commander finally conveyed her policy on the matter at hand.

"The Larkinson Clan is not in the business of political advocacy." She said. "Our primary concern is to ensure the safety and welfare of our members. We are only a small group of humans who are trying to survive and navigate the dangerous waters of the Red Ocean. That said..."

Her gaze swept across the people in the virtual conference room. Everyone who met her eyes could feel a subtle but unmistakable sense of will and focus.

"Just because our clan does not like to take sides does not mean that I forbid our clansmen from pursuing their personal causes. I know for a fact that there is a significant proportion of clansmen who support the views espoused by the Voice of Liberty. They may not like that he has inflicted grievous harm onto Saint Orfan and the Riot, but they respect his conviction and his advocacy. Do not forget that our clan consists of many mech pilots, many of whom have received orthodox training and accrued at least several years of experience in various private or military organizations. They all bear the pride of their profession. Their opinions towards stolen resonance technology are all mixed, to say the least."

Ves and several other Larkinsons furrowed their brows.

She raised an important point. The Larkinson Clan was defined by both its mech designers and mech pilots.

While Ves was its original founder, he had long relied on the strength of the mech pilots under his banner to secure victory on the battlefield and safeguard his interests.

The rise of heroes such as Saint Tusa and Saint Dise had caused mech pilots to become just as prominent as mech designers such as Ves and Ketis.

If the clan had to decide whether to embrace or suppress stolen resonance technology, then Ves could not be assured that every clansman would vote in favor of his own choice.

There were a lot of mech pilots who found the very notion of getting converted into a willpower source to be reprehensible!

Even if only a minority of mech pilots would ever get the opportunity to get started into willpower cultivation, the entire body still considered its champions as their aspirational goals.

Many mech pilots idolized their high-ranking equivalents!

This hero worship vastly complicated the debate on the matter and prevented the Larkinson Clan from putting its full support behind stolen resonance technology.

Ves grimaced as he realized that he could not fully engage in stolen resonance technology.

As long as he remained a member of the Larkinson Clan, he would remain bound by most of its rules.

While he had become powerful enough to bend or break the rules on occasion, that was very difficult to do when the spotlight had firmly shone on the latest tech that had entered the scene.

There was no way he could casually install a stolen resonance generator into a starship without explaining where he obtained the source of its willpower!

He risked the loss of much of the prestige and goodwill that he built up if he recklessly violated the dignity of the mech piloting profession!

"So what does that mean for the clan?" Ves took a deep breath and asked the Saint Commander.

"In practice, I will not stop my own members from associating with the Pilot Humanist Society, the same as I am not stopping them from befriending other organizations such as the Transhumanist Faction, the Mech Supremacy Faction or the Red Fleet. Our clan has never demanded full exclusivity in terms of loyalty or association. Our only hard requirement is that every Larkinson must put their loyalty to our clan and their fellow kin above any external entanglements. So long as that remains the case, there is no need to meddle too much in such relations."

That was practically the only rule to adopt given Ves’ deep personal ties with several of those aforementioned groups.

Ketis and Gloriana looked thoughtful while nodding in agreement.

They had their own entanglements as well.

Though it would be a lie to state that there were no conflicts of interests, they rarely if ever allowed them to rise to a level where it could seriously pose a threat to the core interests of the Larkinson Clan.

They were not that stupid or selfish.

Still, the latest organization to gain prominence in the current age clearly couldn’t escape controversy.

The very fact that it was opposed to the use and proliferation of stolen resonance technology definitely put it in opposition of other groups that were very much in favor of its adoption such as the Red Fleet and the Rubarthan Pact!

"I guess it is... reasonable to allow our clansmen to associate with the Pilot Humanist Society." Ves eventually said. "However, our clan has much to gain from this tech. We cannot afford to abandon it given the dire circumstances of our civilization. I do not want our clansmen to develop absolute opposition towards a solution that can make our warships and other assets a lot more effective against high-powered enemies."

"Many of us understand your perspective." The Saint Commander responded. "The main point of contention is where you gain your source of willpower. As long as you or anyone else is able to find adequate substitutes, much of the opposition will disappear. There will still be purists who believe that resonance is the exclusive preserve of high-ranking mech pilots, but they will be much easier to deflect when they are alone."

"Agree."

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