While Gloriana still did not agree with sending Maikel to the Red Association, the deed had already been done, so her opinion was irrelevant.
After Ves endured her admonishments, they moved on and went back to work.
In the next few days, nothing particularly noteworthy happened.
The most interesting event that happened was Ves briefly meeting with Commodore Zonrad Reze in order to secure the RF's cooperation in the development of the Instrument of Doom.
"Your request is not that easy to meet, Ves." The fleeter told Ves during a brief personal meeting. "It is 10 times easier to arrange a collaboration between our weapon engineers and your Design Department if you did not set any demands regarding the selection of materials. Insisting that we use EE-343F-00334R as a core material for the luminar crystal cannon of your high-ranking ranged mech completely changes the nature of your demand."
"How so?" Ves curiously asked.