Ves questioned himself whether he had made the right choice during his talk with the Polymath.
The compensation that he managed to extract from her was considerably valuable. He had managed to secure a powerful benefit that the Association ordinarily reserved for its own troops.
The EdNet could be used to quickly transform random third-raters and second-raters into reasonably competent first-raters. It could turn an average first-rater into a highly knowledgeable expert in his own area of expertise.
All it would take was to spend a few years in a long-term simulator pod in order to undergo up to 20 years worth of virtual classes and training!
The Polymath could not overstate how much of an advantage this conveyed to a lot of people.