The venue slowly filled up. The enormous exhibition space of the Palace of Mechanical Marvels had been used to present all sorts of new and interesting mech products over the years.
This time was different. People held much higher expectations this time. The identity and reputation of the lead designer along with the increasingly more optimistic hints dropped by the Red Association generated far more hopes and expectations from the growing crowd than usual!
The more sensitive and farsighted people even had a sense that history could be made here today. The mechers invested way too much in this product reveal for it to unveil a relatively mundane mech design.
Ves already had a reputation for releasing good mech designs. The sales of the second-class Fey Fianna and the Ultimatum models had plateaued after months of rising momentum, but that did not take away from the fact that they had remained persistent sellers since their release!