Opportunist
Professor Benedict Cortez hooked up with the Unbound Humanity Faction.
The truth should have been obvious to Ves. Out of the twelve major factions of the Mech Trade Association, only two of them advocated for the removal of the rules and taboos that heavily constrained the behavior of mech designers and other humans for that matter.
On the whole, many of those restrictions such as the prohibition against using warships had been a godsend to a human population that had almost made itself extinct by recklessly employing weapons of mass destruction.
Many humans had proven with their deeds that they lacked too much restraint and responsibility to govern their own conduct. When people turned bad, the amount of destruction they could unleash with an armed battleship in their control was apocalyptic!
Yet… as human society recovered and people sobered up over the centuries, certain voices began to voice doubts whether these restrictions were still needed.