Ves felt as if he acted out the role of an old-school detective in dramas as he investigated Chief Technician Nyquist.
The only problem was that Ves wasn't a detective, nor could he borrow his official authority to conduct his investigation openly. He needed to be discreet and circumspect in order to hide his true intentions from the Kadar-Neyvis Group.
Above all else, he could never let them suspect that he worked on behalf of an intelligence agency!
Fortunately, the scope of Chief Technician Nyquist's work also included the restoration of military mechs.
While mech regiments possessed robust repair operations, as Ves personally witnessed when he served aboard the Wolf Mother and subsequently took on the position of temporary head designer, they only possessed a limited amount of capacity.