A Costly War Strategy
The Elegant Rage's most recent performance significantly increased people's attention towards Ves' next big research project.
As a young Senior who already established a solid track record for radical innovations, people were readily willing to believe that a wood-based mech like the Elegant Rage possessed a huge amount of potential!
People weren't stupid. Those who reigned at the top of human society were often first-raters who managed to stand out from the rest of their highly augmented and well-educated rivals.
Given the available data points, it was safe to assume that Ves' secret project could significantly disrupt the entire mech market and mech industry.
While the benefits of living mechs had always been hard to quantify and compare with products developed by other mech designers, the benefits of fielding a partially wooden mech that could transform into a juggernaut-like tree were clearly recognizable to the most ignorant laymen!