Professor Benedict Cortez had long put a lot of hopes on the Mars Project.
Every expert mech design project was of great significance to him. The ones he worked on in the first half of his life had given him his first exposure to the possibilities that expert pilots as well as resonating exotics introduced.
Though he hadn't been able to work on any further expert mechs when he was exiled beyond the reaches of civilized space, he always had them in his mind.
Now that he had become the head designer of the Cross Clan, he finally regained the chance to work on expert mech design projects once again.
His first actual work on them was when he assisted the Larkinsons in developing their new expert mechs such as the C-Man and the Blade Chaser Mark II.